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Why You'll Continue To Need Twitter And Google+ (And Even Facebook, Too) (GOOG)

I read the results over on +Marshall Kirkpatrick's poll: about why Twitter users aren't using Google+. Even at my most evangelistic Google+ moments, I have NOT left Twitter or Facebook. Why not?Well,...

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Exclusive: Twitter looks at ex-Googler, others for board

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microblogging service Twitter is looking for a director to bolster its board's business credentials and diversity, and candidates include a former Google Inc executive, a...

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Why Are So Many Tech Titans Ignoring Google Plus?

Congratulations, Larry Page. You are officially the most popular person on Google Plus, the social network your company launched four months. As accomplishments go, that’s a little like winning the...

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Twitter marketer Pam Kramer departs

Twitter's top marketer Pam Kramer has left the company after less than four months in the job, according to reports.

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Tech Bigwigs: New Law Would Make The U.S. Like "China, Malaysia, and Iran"

A group of bigshots in the tech industry, including Marc Andreessen, Sergey Brin, Jack Dorsey, and Arianna Huffington, say that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would let the US government use...

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Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy

(Reuters) - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation,...

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Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy

(Reuters) - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation,...

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Tweeting too much is unhealthy, says Twitter’s Biz Stone

The Daily Mail has described it as Twitter’s Gerard Ratner moment. You remember him, the cheap jewellry guy who stood up and said his products were crap, and then watched his business gone the toilet.

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Michael Young: Getting the News -- Evan Williams

(This post is part ofNews. me’s ongoing series,“Getting the News. ”In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get...

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“When the going gets weird, the weird get professional” at SXSW

Ever wondered where Foursquare was launched, where Twitter hit the big time or where you can hear keynotes from the likes of Jimmy Wales, Guy Kawasaki, Craig Newmark, Evan Williams or even Mr Facebook,...

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Twitter co-founders back new 'conversation site' Branch

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have backed a new website called Branch, which provides a platform 'for curated discussion' among experts.

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The Creator Of Iran's 'Daily Show' Talks Internet Censorship

Heard of Saman Arbabi? The creator of the satirical Iranian TV and radio show "Parazit" was the sole panelist at the SXSW talk, "Iranian Outlaws: Satire Vs. Censorship. " From the start, Arbabi...

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Coming soon: the Twitter story penned by the Times’ Nick Bilton

I am in New York, and obviously meeting a lot people in the publishing business. Word on the street is that Nick Bilton, the technology columnist at The New York Times, has just agreed to a deal with...

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Twitter co-founder to publish life lessons in "old media"

(Reuters) - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is planning to dish up some life lessons that will need more than 140-character bursts.

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Is 'Medium' really the future of publishing?

Evan Williams and Biz Stone have launched a new web-publishing platform called Medium, which they hope will be part of a reinvention of digital content — but apart from founders with a great pedigree,...

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What happens to advertising in a world of streams?

It’s no secret that more and more of the content we consume is coming in the form of constantly updated real-time streams, never-ending rivers that pour through Twitter and Facebook and aggregation...

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Twitter at the crossroads — growing up is hard to do

It used to be so easy being Twitter. No one expected much from the company when it was a plucky young startup in a brand new market; even when its servers repeatedly failed and the network went down,...

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The one big thing that newspaper visionaries didn’t foresee

It’s easy to forget sometimes that the world wide web has been around for more than two decades now, or that it has caused massive and ongoing disruption of almost every form of content from books and...

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20 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week

C4 Paralympics, iTunes Festival, Ladybird: I'm Ready for Phonics, Lift, Kodiak PHP, Shuffler. fm and more.

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Why I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter

We’ve been writing a lot at GigaOM lately about different aspects of Twitter’s ongoing evolution — including the way the company is trying to control more and more of its network and the content that...

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Where does new arrival Branch fit in the social-media landscape?

Although the public-invite launch of Branch was met with much excitement in tech-land a few weeks ago, thanks to the involvement of Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the platform faces an...

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Evan Williams on Twitter and its ecosystem

As we’ve described in a number of recent posts — including one about my ongoing “love-hate” relationship with the service — Twitter has been going through a transformation of sorts recently, closing...

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So…is Twitter a social network, or not?

No, apparently not.  Kevin Thau, Twitter’s Vice President of business and corporate development, made this point during a presentation at Nokia World way back in 2010.

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Insiders say Twitter will seek an IPO in 2014

An illuminating profile of Twitter CEO Dick  Costolo in the New York Times looking at his stewardship of Twitter since the three founders either left to focus on other projects, Biz Stone and Evan...

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Twitter valued at $11bn as it begins preparation for a possible 2014 IPO

After a rocky 2012 for technology companies coming to the market, which left Groupon, Zynga and Facebook bruised, no one wants to rush towards an IPO in 2013 and particularly not Twitter, which...

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