Dick Costolo Was A Standup Comedian

But you knew that.

A Master of Improv, Writing Twitter’s Script

Mr. Dorsey’s role has since been reduced after employees complained that he was difficult to work with and repeatedly changed his mind about product directions. He no longer has anyone directly reporting to him, although he is still involved in strategic decisions.

Mr. Dorsey declined to comment on how people feel about working with him. But, in a statement, he said he considered Mr. Costolo to be one of Twitter’s founders. “He’s had a dramatic impact on the company and the culture,” Mr. Dorsey said. “He’s questioned everything we started with and made it better.”

Mr. Costolo says he looks to Mr. Dorsey for ideas and sometimes has to pull them out of him. Although Mr. Dorsey is a regular on the media circuit, appearing on CNN, as well as “Charlie Rose” and other programs, he tends to be quiet in meetings.

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Mike Arrington, Race, And HTML5

Image via WikipediaTalking about race is not negativity any more than talking about HTML5 is positivity. It is just plain objectivity. Group dynamics is more cutting edge a thing than anything we have seen in tech so far. (My Web Diagram) And race and gender are some of the most cutting edge topics in group dynamics, gender even more so.

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But right now the controversy is race. Months back it was gender, thanks to the same character Mike Arrington.

Mike Arrington: Idiot

Is Mike Arrington a racist? He is a character, that's for sure. As for if he is a racist, that question assumes the label racist is an easy one to pin. I don't think Mike Arrington is capable of hate crimes. But that does not mean he is not a racist. Racist behavior is a spectrum. Racist thinking is a spectrum. There is a relationship between the seemingly benign racist joke and hate crimes. And race is not a matter of individual opinion any more than medical research is a matter of individual opinion. Mitch Kapor touches upon that.

In this debate Mike Arrington comes across as clueless and defensive.

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And then there is this old media, new media tension in this debate, but there Mike Arrington is no holy cow. As a former blogger he has been guilty of all that he now accuses of: sensationalism, playing gotcha, etc.

Mike Arrington: Idiot

Mike Arrington: "I don't know a single black entrepreneur ... There aren't any .... Silicon Valley is a meritocracy. Success here depends solely on your brain size and how you use it."

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Mike Arrington is an absolute, total motherfucker. There is no other adjective for this guy. This guy is like, okay, noone is talking about me anymore. The AOL thing, well, people have already moved past that. I no long write for TechCrunch. So I don't have any comments to read. What do people think? That I have disappeared? I have not. Here, let me make a blatantly racist comment and get back in the news. And so it goes.



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Me In The New York Times

"Robin Hood Im Internet"
BBC Calls
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I Have Been Quoted In Fast Company
Me @ CNN

When I read this article when it came out and blogged about it, I did not realize I was in the picture. I saw a Facebook status from someone else in the picture that made me realize I was in the picture. I looked. There I was. (Two Upheavals Already)

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Murdoch's MySpace, Cisco's Flip

Image via WikipediaWhen Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace, that was hot property. And he looked like a genius when he paid $500 million for the service, and promptly got Google to pay him $900 million to run ads on the property. And that was the pinnacle. It was downhill after that for MySpace. Murdoch's corporate machine killed the whole operation with the usual jujitsu.

How you do it is you put a corporate guy on top of the whole thing, and that big shot starts thinking he is some kind of a big shot, he fires a few key people, he reorganizes a little bit. After all he has to cast the impression he is actually doing something. And that messes things up. There is no one in charge. The emphasis is no longer on innovation. It is on pleasing the corporate guy who, by the way, wants yet more ads shown on the property, because there are numbers to be met. They don't realize that might take away from the experience because they don't use MySpace in the first place, they just want to be the boss of it.

And now what do we have here? Cisco is flipping Flip. Flip was also hot when it got bought. That is why it got bought in the first place. Flip was supposed to be Cisco's own little iPod, that signature device that everyone but everyone carries and makes Cisco look cool.

Me @ CNN

This is from a while back in December. Notice how I pay homage to Charlie in my quote. It's an inside joke. You will get it if you read his blog.

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Google's Failure To Purchase GroupOn Shows Google Is No Monopoly

Image via WikipediaFacebook is the most serious competition Google ever faced, and Facebook is not your classic search engine, it is not a ten blue links company. Although it is blue!

Look at how Facebook has gone after Google by not going after Google like one bull after another. The web as a whole is too fluid a place, too open to innovation for any company to manage to pull a monopoly on there.

Tens Of Billions Of Hours Available

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Say there are seven billion people on the planet. Of those one billion are online. Each human being has only 24 hours in each day. So there are 24 billion hours available on any one day. But maybe not. People also like to sleep, eat, work, do other offline things. Considering Microsoft continues to make a ton of money through Windows and Office, we might have to lump screen time with online time.

24 billion hours - (eight billion hours for sleeping + eight billion hours for working + four billion hours for other) = four billion hours

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But then there are hundreds of millions who partly or fully work in front of a computer. And there are other things that compete: TV, movie theaters, walks in the park.

But even with the screen time space, you are probably going for your niche. You are not competing with Microsoft for word processing probably, or Google for search, or CNN for news, or Facebook for social networking, or Twitter for, well, twittering.

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There are only so many human beings with only so much time for your particular niche.

How to stretch what is available?

The most obvious are two. One, get more people online. A billion times 24 hours is a billion hours. Seven billion times 24 hours is 168 billion hours. And you try and turn more and more of those people into part or full knowledge workers.

Those two would be an ongoing process.

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There is far saturation. What if everybody possible is already online, and most are knowlegdge workers already? You would have hit a finity. There is a near saturation. What if it will take too long to bring everyone online, too long to eradicate poverty and turn most people into being knowledge workers? Then for all practical purposes you have hit a finity already in the immediate term.

People will gravitate to services that better organize their information for less time and money, preferably little time and no money.

The way we serve ads will evolve with such shifts in attention. Attention is p

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rime currency.

The number of hours might be finite, but there is a certain infinity to the human mind and its possibilities. There will be a constant churn of content creation, search and organization, presentation. We will keep finding ever more new ways to perform those basic functions.

The web will keep trying to approach the human mind.

From The Google Blogs

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Special Site for President Obama's visit to Ghana
Language: a lens for experiencing culture & technology
Google SMS to serve needs of poor in Uganda
University Outreach in Kenya
New in Gmail: Inbox preview
New African countries live on Google Maps
Launching Google Suggest in Swahili
Launching Google in the Benin and Central African Republic
Making Google Map Maker more Accessible and Useful
Google University Research Awards for Africa
Google Maps launches in Kenya
Launching Google in Madagascar
New Maps for Senegal, Zimbabwe, Mauritius and Seychelles
Making information more accessible in Kenya
The Literacy Project speaks French too!
Local Search for Maps of Nairobi
Search in new African languages
Trophy giving time!
Ethiopic Transliteration in Google suggest
Mapping Barack Obama's hometown of Kogelo
Making information more accessible in Ghana and Nigeria
Power to the People or Power from the People?
Technical Internship Opportunities at Google EMEA
Learn more about Google's Education Resources
Working towards "One Africa, One Health"
Launching Google in Sierra Leone
Introducing Google.org Geo Challenge Grants
YouTube Users Responds to Crisis in the DR Congo
Why Local Content Matters
One Water Africa trip
Running the Nairobi Marathon
Personalized gadgets for South Africa
Information Poverty
BarCamp Africa
Let's Map Africa!
South Africa's rubik's cube comes together
New Mozambique page live
Congratulations to the gadget competition winners!
Goog - al - Jazaer!
Google invests in O3b Networks
Looking for a few good men and women
New Google homepage for Tanzania in Swahili
A conversation in Kisii
Google News launches in 9 African countries
Announcing a new investment in Kenya
Bravo Vega! Winners of Global Online Marketing Challenge
Teaching iGoogle at East African universities
Partnership with the Zawadi Africa Education Fund
South African student wins open source prize, visits Googleplex
Google Johannesburg celebrates World Environment Week
Programmers, get ready, get set
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My Relationship With Ashton Kutcher

Kristi Fundu Intro on Facebook: "For all the long lost friends, a brief synopsis of the last decade: graduated from BC in 2000, returned to Macedonia in 2002, started my own business in 2004, one brief marriage 2006."

https://twitter.com/paramendra/status/1546305581

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Ashton Kutcher just became the first Tweetizen - Twitter citizen - to have more than a million followers. He was in a race with CNN, and he won. And I think in the interest of full disclosure it is kind of important that I come out making it clear to the world as to my relationship with Ashton Kutcher which is that Demi Moore and I signed up on Twitter the same day: I Get Twitter.

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