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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. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.

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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. Network Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and others are getting in the game with APIs exposing network resources, including SMS and carrier-billing for in-app purchase. viral video. viral videos. Global Syndication Partners. Like Tweet.

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