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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

mashable.com

Heart-Stopping Photos of Attempted Hijacking in China Go Viral. There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. As businesses ask “What’s our mobile strategy?” Today in Mobile. Like Tweet. How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud. June 29, 2012 by David Schoenbach.

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