I like this quote from Ron Conway mentioned in @nichcarlson’s article about Facebook becoming cash flow positive, and IPO-able:
“The next big thing is Twitter-like “persistent data,” which is “real-time data as its happening.” It’ll be a multi-billion economy.”
He predicts a huge market opening up over the next few years around recent data.
Apple buying Twitter is not such the uninteresting proposition it’s been called, for instance by Dan Frommer’s piece yesterday Why Apple Won’t Buy Twitter. With $29b in cash, they have a pile of cash which could be deployed over several strategic acquisitions to morph themselves to into a tech giant that could become the [...]
I’ve been commenting on other people’s blogs for long enough on this subject, so I’m going to try to formulate my thoughts more concisely with some blogs about it. Twitter and Facebook have long been dubbed the social internet, but their true value is really that they are the pioneers of the now internet.
I [...]