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Twitter-CEO: We want to move away from companies that “build off of Twitter, to a world where people build into Twitter.”

Posted on 25. July 2012 Written by Marcel Weiss

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in an interview on WSJ.com: In its events push, Mr. Costolo said Twitter is vying to “more closely tie the shared experience on Twitter to the actual event that is happening.” As Twitter burnishes its platform, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: platforms, Twitter

Iceland could become the center of data centers for the west

Posted on 18. July 2012 Written by Marcel Weiss

Iceland could at least for the west become the main place for data centers. Dan Frommer for ReadWriteWeb: The biggest costs of running data centers are electricity and electricity. Running the servers and keeping them from overheating consumes a lot … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: data centers, Iceland

It’s free!

Posted on 16. July 2012 Written by Marcel Weiss

Fred Wilson (with Union Square Ventures investor in Twitter, Delicious before its sale to Yahoo, Tumblr, Zynga, Etsy and others) on free main components in business models: Wikipedia, Craigslist, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: freeconomics

Define web platform

Posted on 16. July 2012 Written by Marcel Weiss

What is a web platform? The term that is being used by lots of people to describe web services new and old is actually not understood by many. A portal like Yahoo is not a platform. eBay is a platform. Amazons core business as an online retailer … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: platforms, two-sided markets

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