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Twitter Founder Biz Stone on Foursquare, Ron Howard, and Dressing Like Steve Jobs

At the World Innovation Forum Tuesday, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone took the stage to talk about life at Twitter. Stone began by redefining his company for the audience. "We're not a social network--that's been a myth since ...READ»

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Exclusive Video: New Stoli Ads Feature Twitter Co-Founder in Hot Biz-on-Biz Action

Biz Stone is the star of the latest Stolichnaya vodka campaign. Here's a first-look.READ»

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Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine

What is your search engine of choice? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Try Twitter. According to cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day. That's over 24 ...READ»

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New Media Stars Dominate Fortune’s 40 Under 40

Recently, Fortune magazine released its annual list of 40 rising business stars under the age of 40. While there was sure to be a few media gurus in the mix, given today’s focus on social and digital media networks, 16 major players from areas of digital media and online technology are featured – making up 40 percent of the list. From Google and Hulu to Facebook and Twitter, some of business’ most...READ»

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Twitter's Ad-Free Future: Paid Tools and Services Instead

Twitter's management cleared up some of the mystery surrounding how the life-casting social networking site will make money. And it's a novel idea: instead of chasing down advertising revenues, Twitter will sell itself through tools ...READ»

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Martha Stewart & KFC

Biz Stone's news below is great and a sure sign Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is moving ahead by moving away from Martha as the visible center of its brand. I'm curious to see how much further this trend goes. Time will tell, hard ...READ»

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Hobo 3.0: A Convention for the New, New, New Economy!

Don't miss the premier tech-biz-media convention for the new, new, new economy!READ»

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Twitter to Politicians: Your Money Is No Good Here

Campaign ads may be all over TV and Google this election season, but the microblogging site isn't accepting them. READ»

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Ads Coming to Google Maps

Google embraces location-based ads. Twitter promises not to, but is it inevitable?READ»

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Twitter's New Wine Gets You Drunk on Social Causes

Twitter founder Biz Stone is launching a wineREAD»

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Twitter Gut Checks Foursquare With "Points of Interest," Adds "Places," Introduces Will.i.am, and Reveals Promoted Tweets

UPDATE 5: Now onto Q&A with Twitter's COO, Dick Costolo, whose talk you can read about in the previous update. People have a lot of questions about how "resonance" will work and be tracked--looks like Twitter will have to work ...READ»

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Twitter Redesign Sneak Peek: Tracks Time Spent Tweeting, Looks Apple-y

Ahead of next week's Chirp, Doug Bowman has given us a hint of what Twitter's forthcoming redesign might look like. The creative nabob of Twitter has posted a corner of the redesign up on his Dribble page, with the message "Working on ...READ»

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Ad-supported Content, Out: Paid Content, In?

According to a new survey published by private equity company Veronis Suhler Stevenson, consumers are getting wise to advertising and are choosing to avoid it. In 2008, for the first time, people used more paid content than ...READ»

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iFive: Google Buys Twitter?, IBM and Sun Get Hitched, Pink-Slip Vacations, and More in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation killed on The Colbert Report. Here's today's innovation news: 1. Google is reportedly in negotiations to buy Twitter. At last check, the earth is still on its axis. "We're going to ...READ»

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Bit.ly to Turn Its Diced-Up URLs Into a Real-Time News Feed

The real-time push in online systems has attracted a new fan: Bit.ly. The URL shortening service has unveiled plans to turn its torrent of Twitter shortened URLs into a refined flow of news. Clever. And it'll make money too. Bit.ly ...READ»

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Twitter's Success: Tweeting 600 Times Per Second, but How to Monetize This? [Updated]

Twitter has released some analytical stats that reveal how much of a rocketing success story it is: Forget rumors Twitter has plateaued--Tweeps are now Tweeting over 600 times every second. The sheer volume of that data is ...READ»

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Rumor: Google In Talks to Buy Twitter. [Update] Or Possibly Not

Just last year, Twitter's management turned down a buy-out form social networking giant, Facebook. Now rumors are swirling that Google wants to buy the increasingly popular microblogging service.READ»

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Russia Hires Cisco to Build a Silicon Forest, Easier Said Than Done

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up his whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley yesterday, and while it’s fun to imagine Steve Jobs giving him the five-cent tour of One Infinite Loop or Ev Williams and Biz Stone teaching him how ...READ»

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Re-Confirmed Again! Majority of Internet Users Not Willing to Pay for Online Services

This past October, Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, was purchased for $650 million, and its Web site, newsday.com, was put behind a pay wall. For just $5 a week, users could gain access to the site, but after three months on the market, how many had subscribed? Thirty-five people.READ»

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Let's Get Physical: Facebook's Got Traffic, but Twitter's Got Foot Traffic

First Twitter outgrew its nest, the one made popular by a flock of tech savants who, themselves, had outgrown their blogs. Only now, though, have the social media site's founders finally figured out how to shake the money from their ...READ»

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Twitter Considers Aping Google's Ad Words

There's long been speculation about how Twitter is going to make money. And although it landed $100 million in funding last summer, we're still no clearer as to how this is going to come about. But, as AllThingsD is reporting, there ...READ»

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The Most Influential Celebrities on Twitter

Social media guru Dan Zarrella analyzes the celebrities who hold the most influence online.READ»

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Twitter Starts to Sing For its Supper, Targets Businesses for Cash

"News: Popular social networking novelty Twitter is to try to earn some revenue by aiming at businesses with expanded feature set that costs." That's essentially the news today about Twitter, squeezed into a 140-character ...READ»

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Could Apple Be Interested in Twitter for Its Halo Effect?

Apple and Twitter sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I... well, you know the rest of that rhyme. There's a fascinating little rumor that recently surfaced on the Internet: Apple is interested in acquiring the hot little social ...READ»

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Will Twitter Become The Next Friendster In 2009?

Remember when Friendster was the bee’s knees? Then it was beaten out of the market by MySpace. Facebook and YouTube fever came next. Now it’s Twitter - the micro-blogging platform has revolutionized the way over 3 million monthly ...READ»