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Microblog

Are You Following Us On Twitter?

May 8, 2009

Are you following us on Twitter? Get all you daily up to the minute TinyComb stories by following @tinycomb.

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Twitter Needs A Search Model To Succeed, Not Facebok

March 4, 2009

Twitter and it’s army of investors are getting a little too big for their britches. The micro-blogging phenomenon that has taken on a life of it’s own, says that that they will eventually be able to compete with Google in a different kind of search model. It’s because of this potential it sees in search [...]

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eBay Founder Moves Into Micro-Blogging

January 14, 2009

Private Equity blogger, Dan Primack has discovered something interesting in an SEC filing names eBay founder Pierre Omidyar as an executive of a new stealth startup called Ginx. The service, which is currently available for invite-only participants is said to be a micro-blog management service that recomends news, images, and other items to users based [...]

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No Business Model? Dell Has Made $1 Million from Twitter

December 16, 2008

A post by InternetNews reveals that Dell has made $1 million in sales directly from sending product alerts to people following Dell’s Twitter account.
This news comes at the same time that Twitter is in the process of hiring a product manager to head up the task of monetizing the micro-blogging service.
We reported earlier on Twitter [...]

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tinycomb @ TECHSET Event In LA Tonight, Thanks LaLaWag

December 10, 2008

Via Sean Percival’s recently launched  LaLaWag:

BizSpark, a program designed to help support startups in their early stages, is having their Los Angeles launch party Wednesday, Dec. 10 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Beso in Hollywood. Partnering Microsoft Startup Zone with Stephanie Agresta and Brian Solis of The TechSet, BizSpark is hosting local startups to [...]

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