Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Visits Israel, Talks Acquisitions and Monetization

Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter, held a press conference in Tel Aviv today to discuss the company’s plans going forward. This trip comes hot off the heels of his visit trip to the UK where, among other things, Biz appeared at NESTA with Reid Hoffman (Co-Founder of LinkedIn) and Steven Fry.

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Twitter Apps Bug Battle: uTest Uncovers 317 Bugs On Twitter Desktop Apps

Real-Time Bugs? uTest, the world’s largest QA marketplace, announced the results of its “Twitter Apps Bug Battle”, a week long contest for 600 of its 17,000 crowdsourced QA professionals

Twitter Prepares for Monetization, Adds Marketing Messages

I noticed that Twitter started adding self-marketing messages under the profile stats.  The messages are written as dictionary definitions and somewhat remind me of what you used to get when searching for the name of a Google service.
twitter marketing messages?
Some fresh examples from Twitter:

Twit·ter Searchn. a service for discovering what’s happening right now. 
Twit·ter Searchn. a service for discovering what’s [...]

10 Links I Caught on Twitter This Week

Google’s Schmidt: Twitter is poor man’s email http://cli.gs/vdD3bS

‘Digital Discoverability’ Among Top Trends for 2009 – http://tinyurl.com/d4yb32
Social media trends report. This is a PDF.  http://netpopresearch.com/node/prdownload/26574
Twitter thoughts motion chart: http://yvoschaap.com/twitte…
10 Fortune 500 companies that started with nothing http://adjix.com/mpxt
The New York Times Article Skimmer in Beta: http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/
Brad Feldman’s collection of thoughts about term sheets: http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/term_sheet/index.html
Social Networking Attracts 75% [...]

10 Links I caught on Twitter

Twitter is becoming the new content recommendation engine. More and more, I discover posts, tools and people through recommendations from users I’m connected with, including top tier VCs, serial entrepreneurs as well as Lance Armstrong, Shaq, the Dalai Lama and more. 
 Without further ado, let’s get started with the links for Feb 16 2009:
1) TwittURLs shows you [...]

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