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We Listen to Robert Scoble So Cisco Employees Don't Have To
No one told Cisco employees Scoble was talking to them
Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, embracer of new technologies and young women, has informed Twitter users everywhere that he is "talking to all Cisco employees this morning ... about the latest Web collaboration stuff." Whom he has not informed: Cisco employees everywhere. "My inbox and trash have no mention of 'scoble' anywhere," a Cisco worker bee tells us. Well, duh — the announcement must have gone out on FriendFeed.
we read twitter so you don't have to
Death by Twitter for HTC smartphone's U.S. release
The gadget obessives at Gizmodo were both stoked and wary about Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC's widescreen Windows mobile phone, which packs an 800x480-pixel screen compared to the iPhone's 480-by-320 display. There have been rumors that HTC wasn't going to sell the HD in America, following its intro to Europe and Asia. The bad news is now Twitter official: "sad news, US. we looked into it- by the time we could bring Touch HD to the states, it would be old news." So much easier than a press release.
we read twitter so you don't have to
Obviously fake Tina Fey Twitter account annoys Internet
This can't be real, can it? Since last week, a sporadically updated Tina Fey account on Twitter has seen more action, with more-frequent messages emanating from the supposed 30 Rock star and Saturday Night Live veteran. But whoever's updating it is far from clever enough to imitate Tina Fey. Unless this is actually Fey doing a bad impression of herself, thereby demonstrating how moronic most Twitter's users seem in the 140-character format the microblogging service limits them to. That's an idea actually funny enough to come from the mind of Tina Fey.
We Read Fred Wilson's Blog So You Don't Have To
Fred Wilson hacked, BFF takes opportunity to push product
New York VC Fred Wilson is the victim of an identity theft, he's told Twitter. "Just found out someone hacked my AmEx card. 27 fraudulent transactions in the past 2 weeks: McDonalds, Toys 'R' S, and gas stations." Fellow New York investor and Wilson's shake shack BFF Howard Lindzon immediately chimed in with something less than overwhelming empathy. More »
we read twitter so you don't have to
Twitter debate traffic says Iraq, Iran, Russia are top issues
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone posted a chart showing the frequency of political keywords during Friday night's McCain/Obama debate. "Iraq" hit the highest rate of tweeting at a given moment during the event, followed by "tax" and then "Korean" after John McCain deemed North Korea "a huge gulag" that stunts its citizens' growth by three inches. But the trick to reading a chart like this is to look not at the height of the lines, but the surface area under them — that's how you measure the total number of tweets for that keyword. Iraq and taxes look to be the biggest. But Stone's chart shows Iran and Russia, not Koreans, are what everyone's tweeting about.
we read twitter so you don't have to
John McCain will debate, Twitter's new site tells us over and over
The Twitter people have created a new site that aggregates user messages about the election. We think we had this before: It was called Twitter. Like cable news, it's a very useful way to learn the same thing over and over again. In this 40-second clip, for example, 10 users inform us that John McCain will debate Barack Obama tonight. Exactly what politics needs: more echo, less chamber.
we read twitter so you don't have to
Robert Scoble hugs the hate from his blog nemesis
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — As Fake Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons obsessed over Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why won't he shut up? Why won't people in Silicon Valley shut up about him? All those questions melted away when Scoble and Lyons pressed the flesh at MIT's EmTech conference.
we read twitter so you don't have to
Guy Kawasaki is kind of long-winded, but good with the perks
Serial list-maker Guy Kawasaki's latest attempt at a hit startup is Alltop, an "online magazine rack." Kawasaki has promised Popurls creator Thomas Marban a $109,000 Audi R8 if Alltop takes off. Alas, twenty minutes of cruising the site — yet another techie's attempt to aggregate media sites by stripping their headlines into a bland common format, rather than creating a new rollup brand like Drudge or Huffington — makes me think Marban should ask for a new MacBook and call it a day.
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