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Jun
8th

Wed

Much of the bubble talk surrounds five companies: Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Facebook and Twitter. Mr. Thiel estimates that those five companies account for three-quarters of the value of new Web companies and, he said, five companies do not make a bubble. If they did, we have bigger problems, he said. “We need technology for our society to get better in the decades ahead,” Mr. Thiel said. “So if you say there are not even five good companies, that even those five companies are fake, that is saying that our society is completely stagnant and that nothing is happening at all.

— Thiel: Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? - NYTimes.com

Tags: peter thiel bubble groupon twitter zynga facebook linkedin internet entrepreneurship venture capital

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Feb
10th

Thu

You need to see something 4-5 times before it clicks and you act on it … That’s why in order to get virality (i.e. get people to act on those invitations) you are better off starting from closely-knit existing communities and create some “local momentum”

Source: #repetition #repetition #repetition – Twitter Media

Tags: social network internet entrepreneurship twitter

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Jan
31st

Mon

Ron Conway | jacquesmattheij.com

Ron Conway talks about behind the scenes facts at Google, Facebook, Twitter. Must read.

Tags: entrepreneurship ron conway ycombinator google facebook twitter

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Jan
27th

Thu

The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

Tags: internet social network social media facebook twitter friendster myspace

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Oct
12th

Tue

Jack Dorsey’s original sketch for Twitter (“stat.us”) via Deeplinking » The Paper Version of the Web

Tags: twitter jack dorsey sketch balsamiq mock

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Sep
29th

Wed

Tweet This Milestone: Twitter Passes MySpace - Digits - WSJ

Things change quickly.

Tags: internet entrepreneurship twitter myspace social networks

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Sep
3rd

Fri

m.twitter.com Vs Mobile Apps

On the unfortunate “Web is dead” meme, interesting stats from twitter.

Tags: twitter online internet web apps

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Jun
4th

Fri

iA » Cosmic 140—The Best Gift for Geeks

The cosmic map of the most influential people on Twitter.

Tags: twitter entrepreneurship internet media

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Apr
22nd

Thu

Revenues And Revenues Per Employee Of Leading Internet Companies

From Ranking tech companies by revenue per employee - (37signals):

efficiency

Rank	Site	Employees	Revenue
1	google	19,835	$23,650,000,000
2	facebook	1,200	$1,100,000,000
4	yahoo	13,900	$6,460,000,000
11	twitter	175	$25,000,000
21	amazon	24,300	$24,510,000,000
25	ebay	16,400	$8,730,000,000
36	craigslist	30	$100,000,000

(Revenue figures via Yahoo! Finance except where otherwise linked.)

Tags: internet entrepreneurship craigslist google amazon facebook ebay yahoio twitter

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Apr
18th

Sun

So Twitter does 18 billion searches a month, working off the 600 million per day figure? Williams said the monthly figure is closer to 19 billion.

How’s that compare against the major search engines? Working off comScore figures from December 2009 for worldwide search queries, we have:

Google: 88 billion per month
Twitter: 19 billion per month
Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month
Bing: 4.1 billion per month

Those are “property” figures, so any searches run on a Google property (Google web search, image search, YouTube) gets rolled up into the overall figure. Google was ranked tops in the world; Yahoo second, so that puts Twitter into the new number two spot.

— Twitter Does 19 Billion Searches Per Month, Beating Yahoo & Bing (Sort Of)

Tags: twitter google internet entrepreneurship bing yahoo search

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