Unbundling

Unbundling The Blockchain Promise @frantzfries @saraledterman https://t.co/Es4KE0oi76 #cryptotrading #cryptocurrecy #Crypto @Navin_MD @PeterDiamandis @elonmusk @craignewmark @dens @Jennifer8Lee @chelsa @cz_binance @CryptoDonAlt @VitalikButerin

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2022

Unbundling The Blockchain Promise https://t.co/Es4KE0oi76 @gokulr @real_vijay @TheCryptoLark @Olivia07710 @APompliano @muneeb @aweissman @mattturck @cz_binance @josh55j5 @Flynnjamm @raypaxful @mich261213 @divine_economy #cryptotrading #cryptocurrecy #Bitcoin #cryptocurrencies

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2022

Unbundling The Blockchain Promise https://t.co/Es4KE0oi76

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2022

The best marketing video you’ll see all year pic.twitter.com/TTQetmgJmW

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) April 3, 2022

Russians broke into my family's house. Went through all of our stuff. Took mom's computer, all her shoes, her camera – a gift from dad, who died in 2017. God knows what else they took. Imagine a place where you grew up and lived your best moments violated in this manner

— Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) April 3, 2022

Great piece ⁦@hkbeech⁩ : “Formal name of the capital of Thailand runs 168 letters, so long that it has entered the Guinness World Records: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom” 1/2 https://t.co/nqoUQUGZNR

— Kevin J Doyle (@doyle_kevin) April 3, 2022

Being a VC isn’t easy

But it’s somewhere between 66% and 95% easier than being a successful founder

That’s why the lack of empathy can be especially galling sometimes

— Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin #ДобісаПутіна (@jasonlk) April 3, 2022

The world leaders are calling for an investigation of the #BuchaMassacre. I support this with my whole heart.

Yet, I also want everyone to remember that #russians still control large territories in #Ukraine. I am afraid the same massacres are happening there right now.

— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) April 3, 2022

Unbundling Craigslist – $8.87 Billion Raised to Date by Startups

Facebook Trouble For Craig's List

English: Photo of Craig Newmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you can bring the Craig's List flea market feel and to that add the Facebook social graph, you could eat Craig's List's lunch. And that would be sad. Because a lot of us have long used Craig's List for many odd purposes.

Craig Newmark probably wishes Facebook had had a better IPO.

But I don't see Craig's List going away. Wordpress beats Blogger. Disqus beats Facebook Comments. Craig's List has not innovated in a long time. Now there might be some incentive.

Facebook may take on Craigslist with a new Marketplace section

all the classified listings would have the ability to target people based on your own social circle and geography

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Shit Birds Say

Via Craig Newmark

Great To Meet Craig Newmark

Tweet from Craig
Another tweet from Craig
Tweet to Craig

When you meet Craig Newmark, the guy never forgets.
Be There, Or Be Square: The FourSquare Day Party At Sidebar

You Have To Be A Little Wild

Image via WikipediaYou have to be a little wild to be doing the tech entrepreneur thing.

For one, the risks are high. All else equal you will more likely fail than succeed. The success stories make it to the press. The sob stories? There's not enough newsprint on the planet. And it is not one risk, one hump you get over. There are risks after risks after risks. Every step of the way. It is roller coaster. If you are not going to enjoy the ride, the solace of some day reaching the destination might be false. You might never get there. The journey is where it is at. The journey itself is the reward. If you don't think so, get into another line of work.

You have to be able to look at the establishment and look the other way. You have to be able to look at the status quo and sneer. You have to jolt. You have to give them the finger.

Craig Newmark, Dennis Crowley, Jennifer 8 Lee: Koreatown

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/technology/12craig.html

Around noon I came across a Facebook update from Jennifer (@jenny8lee). It was a Twitter update, but since she has her Twitter integrated with Facebook. The update was from yesterday. Does anyone want to have Korean fried chicken with Craig Newmark? (@craignewmark) And I am like, shoot, I missed that one. That must have been a Friday evening thing. But another update said Saturday. So I promptly shot her an email. Any spots left? She said yes, come on over.

Jennifer is one of the very top journalists on Twitter (her account of the evening). Her guy Craig Silverstein (@csilvers) was Google's employee number one. It is like the founders of Google got together, and then when they looked around, Craig was the first person they spotted, something like that.

New York Times: Craig (of the list) Looks Beyond The Web

I was the first person to show. (@badenchicken) So I went upstairs. I saw one spot taken. I am thinking, that has got be 8's spot. So Craig will probably be sitting near there. I took a nice spot a few seats from them. But when Craig finally showed he walked right past my table on to some back table.

But guess who else showed up? Dennis Crowley, (@dens) the FourSquare guy, and he decided to sit right next to me. He was with his girlfriend (@chelsa, @pnizzle) who moved to New York City from Indiana a few years ago. "Me too!" I exclaimed.

Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him

Once we were squarely sitted, I told Dennis that I was at his demo at the New York Tech MeetUp last spring, "Sorry, but I did not see the FourSquare potential at that time. Now people are saying FourSquare is the next Twitter and I can see why."

Image via CrunchBase

"I did not either," he said rather disarmingly.

I asked him a bunch of questions. One of my final questions was, "Let me ask you a stupid question. Why are you in New York? Why are you not in California?"

He said New York is a better location, it is more diverse. When a white guy like Dennis says diverse, he means people from different sectors like tech, media, finance, advertising, design. When I say diverse, I mean the rainbow coalition.

Towards the end Craig went from table to table. He and Dennis talked at some length.

"You helped me find my place when I moved to NYC a few years ago," I said to Craig.

"I appreciate that," he said. (@yunapark)

About 40 people showed up for the dinner.

http://twitter.com/craignewmark/status/7594771078
http://twitter.com/Jason/status/7597851825

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The Depth Of Your Friendships At Twitter

Sex and the City

Image by hawaii via Flickr

I must admit there have been times when I have struggled with doing a Guy Kawasaki on Twitter: follow everyone who follows you. Should I? Should I not? I decided against the idea. For Guy Twitter is a broadcast medium. Noone else does that part better than him. His tweets get retweeted more times than that of any other. He is numero uno.

And there is Bhupendra Khanal, the top tweet in Bangalore, as in the one with the most followers:

Business Analytics: Twitter : Why unfollow who dont follow you?

He is a software guy, a CEO, who has come up with this program that allows you to follow or unfollow people about 50 at a time. He is brutal. He sees no point in following those who don't follow him. His following shot up to over 20,000 in a matter of months.



I decided I am biased towards an organic growth of my following, so I did not go down the Bhupendra route either, although we were and are good friends.

I found at Twitter what I did not find at Facebook. After I signed up at Facebook I realized my number one urge was to say hello to people I had never met before. Next thing you know I had about 1500 friends there. Then I signed up for this Facebook group that shall stay unnamed, and started emailing people in that group. Facebook deleted my account. 1500 friends gone. That was unfollow Facebook style.

I got another account, and now I have 500 friends, almost all of whom I personally know. Some are online friends I have never met in person, but we have interacted online enough that it feels like friendship. And I have over 40 friend requests and counting that I have decided to not accept, not decline either. If I end up chatting some of those and becoming online friends, I might still accept some of them.

At Twitter not only do you get to follow absolutely anyone you wish to follow, my number one dig has been this idea of being able to follow luminaries in the tech industry. Once in a while you come across this blog post or that which has recommendations of the people you get tempted to follow.

And clicking on the follow button is not enough. How well do you know them? Could you recognize them in your stream two months later? Could you name the company they might be associated with? Can you remember at least one blog post of theirs you have read?

How do you do all that? You spend some time on the profile pages of the people you follow. You read their intro. You reply to some of their tweets. You go read a few posts on their blog. You get to know them well enough that the next time they show up in your stream, their tweets look extra interesting to you. Each tweet by that person helps you know them a little better.

If you do that well enough, you just might strike a two way friendship, or rather followship, with a person who until recently was a distant celebrity to you. Like Craig Newmark, or Darren Rowse.

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