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The Trouble with Twitter

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MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 3 months ago; via businessweek.com/technolo...

Twitter's business model is starting to show. An early sign came in April, when the popular microblogging service launched in Japan and the home page for every Japanese user included a big banner ad in the top right corner.

Then, on Aug. 7, Twitter made another change, this time in the U.S., by limiting the number of people a single user could connect with, or "follow," to about 2,000. Most recently, on Aug. 14, Twitter made the biggest move yet to slash costs. It killed outbound message delivery to mobile phones via short message, or SMS,...

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Adieu Odeo RIP

Tags: Odeo + Evan Williams + Twitter + Charles River Ventures + Obvious

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 3 years 28 days ago; via evhead.com/2006/10/birth-...

Odeo, a San Francisco-based podcasting site started by Evan Williams is buying back the share owned by investment firm Charles River Ventures.

Odeo had raised millions in funding from Charles River Ventures, Mitch Capor, Josh Kopelman and Ron Conway amongst others in August 2005. Obvious Corp is full funded by Williams, and now owns the assets of Odeo and Twitter.com.
Everyone I know in the web world either works for one of the Internet giants and wants to be in a startup or is in a startup that wants to be bought by an Internet giant. The...

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