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Real Time News (& Opinion) Distribution - Twitter beats Google

By Brij ⋅ July 29, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

It hard to qualify initial Twitter Tweets related to serious topics as 'news'. Like for example this very first tweet announcing SoCal earthquake was made by Nicholas Hawkins. (Though there is bit of confusion on who actually broke the news).
holy shit earthquake in so cal
Now if you were reading this from public timeline on Twitter, [...]

Google has introduced Knol. Let’s bitch about it.

By Brij ⋅ July 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Google has introduced Knol. At a high level this is a great initiative.  I hope this eventually becomes a better avenue for authority discovery and a repository for trusted content.
On the other hand.
Google is big,  they are making tons of money and crushing new companies faster than any other company out there. So let's [...]

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more

By Brij ⋅ July 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As if we are watching movie in slow motion.
Last couple of days I saw lot of bloggers turning sour on the state of Silicon Valley (by extension start-up ecosystem). Lot of this is credited to muddy macro picture. Yesterday's rare gasp by GOOG made some people go home early as well.
Om Malik has great [...]

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