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5 years of Twitter

By Nistha | Published: March 16, 2011

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, is posting interesting tweets on initial development days of Twitter. What an amazing feeling it must be to see their experiment rocket like this. If this doesn’t inspire you to start working on your crazy idea, what will? [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48076297083158529"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48074436380856320"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48066896033091585"] 0   Liked this article? Follow me [...]

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In search of a [perfect] business [model]

By Nistha | Published: March 15, 2011

Third-party Twitter applications under threat Soon the only way to get at Twitter might be through “official” software produced by the company itself. And that’s why building a castle on top of another building is a bad idea because you always remain at mercy of the landlord. Should the owner decide to pull back her [...]

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Foursquare is to location what Facebook was to social

By Nistha | Published: October 14, 2010

I love Foursquare – not as a social media app but as an innovative company. It’s growth has been tremendous but that is not where it scores. It scored in sustaining the user’s initial interest and doubling, tripling and quadrupling it. Just when everyone was predicting its demise, its awesome business partnerships kept it well-ahead [...]

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Still figuring the big Q of ‘monetization’

By Nistha | Published: April 29, 2010

The Media and Information industry has been struggling over monetization for long now. It is obviously a high time companies started trying stuff out. So in 2010, we saw some bold attempts. I will take a shot on 2 major headlines in this space: 0   Liked this article? Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe by [...]

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Technology behind Twitter

By Nistha | Published: March 24, 2010

I was interested in the actual Web Technologies used to develop some of the big social media sites. So, I looked at Twitter and found some interesting information. It was built using Ruby on Rails and did face certain scaling issues which led to beliefs that Twitter would move off RoR or Rails in mid [...]

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