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Twitter CEO Evan Williams Speaks at SXSW [LIVE COVERAGE]
This afternoon at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Twitter CEO Evan Williams is expected to end months of speculation by revealing his company’s plans for an advertising platform. Williams — whose company pulled in an estimated $25 million revenue last year through search partnerships with Google and Microsoft — will be taking the stage momentarily (3pm ET) for an interview with Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab . We’ll be updating below with live coverage. Live Coverage and Video [via @waynesutton ] Hugh Forrest, event director for SXSW is talking on stage. Thanking sponsors, plugging Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter panel, and holding up a t-shirt he got from Williams 4 years ago.
The Internet Is Up for the Nobel Peace Prize [Internet]
The internet is one of 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. From the BBC: "The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte. It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win." [ BBC via Wired ] More
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Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today
Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We’ll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage, but we expect that at least part of the keynote address will be centered around the company’s advertising platform . Twitter made a memorable splash at SXSW three years ago, and will likely have opted for the conference as the right place to detail its digital advertising plans, which it hopes will become a major source of revenue in addition to its realtime search outsourcing deals with major Internet players like Google , Microsoft and Yahoo , which are said to have already turned the company profitable on an operational basis. Just for reference: the company also switched the flip on the geolocation feature for its website in time for SXSW. Nobody knows for sure whether Twitter will effectively be launching its proprietary ad platform today, but there’s a good chance it will, at least to a subset of advertisers.
Posted in Technology Also tagged Advertising, conference, evan-williams, Facebook, media, realtime, stated-as-much, sxsw, Technology, time, Twitter Leave a comment
First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday
Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc, registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how websites looked back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it’s quite decent , although a bit short on content. However, its content and even the (now defunct) company that registered it are far less important than the boom it ignited: In 1997, one million .com web domains were registered, and in 2000 the .com bubble peaked , resulting in an inevitable meltdown. And while the .com crash proved that a well-chosen name isn’t enough for a successful company, .coms still play a very important part of our online lives. Despite many other top-level domains available, .com is still the most coveted TLD — the one that many people still associate with the world wide web in general.
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KIT digital Buys Rival Multicast For Approx. $18 Million
Didn’t I just write that the online video publishing market is heating up quickly? Here’s another testament to that notion: KIT digital this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire privately-held competitor Multicast Media for net consideration of approximately $18 million. The acquisition sum is comprised of $4.9 million in cash and 1.3 million shares of KIT digital common stock, plus the assumption of approximately $4.6 million in long-term liabilities.
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Today Is The 25th Anniversary of The First Dotcom URL Registered [Internet]
On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com . There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More
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Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook
In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and other scams were the center of the controversy. The industry did a lot of talking in the wake of those posts and some long term changes have been made. For the most part, for example, Fake quizzes and the Video Professor scam are off Facebook (but see below on what’s still there). But now we’re seeing the same old scams hit the iPhone
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Eko: Mobile Banking for India’s “Dial-Up” Internet
I mentioned in my last post that mobile is bridging the digital—not to mention analog— divide in India, with almost half as many new mobile accounts being opened just last January as there are Internet users in the entire country. And there are a host of interesting companies seeking to leverage that network as some kind of rudimentary, literally “dial-up,” Internet that extends far beyond the country’s 50 million or so Web users. One of the most ambitious companies I met with during my last trip to India in November was Eko, a mobile banking company. There are a few SMS-based bank applications in India, but Eko differs because the phone isn’t just another channel for the account—it is the account. You make payments and transfer money simply by dialing numbers
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Spain: Non-Commercial File Sharing Is Legal