Meeting Peter Vesterbacka

Met Peter Vesterbacka Of Rovio Of Angry Birds Monday Evening
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Met Peter Vesterbacka Of Rovio Of Angry Birds Monday Evening

Met Peter Vesterbacka Of Rovio Of Angry Birds Monday Evening

That is why you want to show up for events. I had no idea he was going to be there. I guess I did not read up the details on the event before I showed up. But it was awesome. It has to have been one of the best MeetUps I ever went to. There was Peter, the biggest name in mobile games, and there was live music, and there was free food - I ate a whole bunch of baby tomatoes.

Events: Week Of October 3

Peter said Angry Birds was "an overnight success in that" they had 51 flop games before they came up with Anngry Birds. Or maybe it was 52 flop games, one of the above.

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Events: Week Of October 3

Monday, October 3
5:30pm Battle of the Brand Apps!
Drom, 85 Avenue A
F to 2nd Ave

Tuesday, October 4
7:00pm - 9:00pm Making Startups Work: Scaling Survival Stories
Refinery29 Offices, 30 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
4/6 Astor Place

6:45pm Cisco VXI meetup!
Cisco New York Office
One Penn Plaza 34th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues 9th floor

Wednesday, October 5
7:00pm - 10:00pm "Worst Day in Advertising" Moth StorySLAM
Lucille's Grill, 237 West 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues)

Thursday, October 6
6:00pm TechAviv NY Oct 2011 - Founder Stories: Jeff Pulver
Nixon Peabody LLP, 437 Madison Avenue

5:30pm - 8:00pm Media and Advertising Meet Finnish Mobile [ Private Event]
Duane Morris Offices, (Heart of Times Square- Enter Building at 45th accross from Bond45), 1540 Broadway

Friday, October 7
8:30am DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street

8:30am - 10:00am CreativeMornings/NewYork with Albert Wenger
Galapagos Art Space DUMBO, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn

2:00pm - 3:00pm Japan's Role in Managing the Global Economy
William and June Warren Hall, Room 208, 1125 Amsterdam Avenue

Saturday, October 8
10:30 AM NYC Startup and Dim Sum Enthusiasts Meetup
Jing Fong Restaurant, 20 Elizabeth St

Sunday, October 9
3:00pm New to Robotics
Alpha One Labs, 231 Norman Ave #312, Brooklyn
G to Nassau Ave, TR on Norman

Yahoo Still Strong

Image via CrunchBaseYahoo is never - never say never, but I am saying it - going to overtake Google in search. Yahoo was number one, king of the hill, not that far back in time. The Google founders' first exit strategy was to get bought by Yahoo. But Yahoo has maintained a strong number two position this entire time, Mike Arrington's relentless harassments of Carol Bartz not withstanding. And Yahoo just made a move that Google could not have made, not even AOL could have. Only Yahoo could have made this content/media move.

ABCnews.com: ABC News, Yahoo! News Announce Online Alliance: more Americans get their news from ABC News than any other source ..... Under the agreement, ABC News becomes the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with editorial teams from both organizations collaborating on original coverage to appear on both the Yahoo! News and ABC News sites. Teams will co-produce coverage for major news events and will have integrated bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. ABC News content will be integrated throughout the Yahoo! News network, including the Yahoo! front page. ABC News will maintain editorial control over ABCNews.com and GoodMorningAmerica.com, and Yahoo! News will maintain editorial control of all its sites.

Yahoo has the internet in its DNA that ABC News simply does not. And it has mainstream users, people who are not looking for the latest fads in tech on TechCrunch, people who can't tell the difference between Yahoo Mail and Gmail. An email is an email is an email.

"A tree is a tree, how many do you need to look at?"
- Ronald Reagan

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By the way, I do know that Bartz was ousted. And looks like this ABC News move has been Jerry Yang's first move after taking back control.

Instagram Now Bigger Than FourSquare

Image by ThePitcher via FlickrI think I made the prediction at this blog late last year, that Instagram is going to get bigger than FourSquare, and now it has.

The Next Web: Instagram: Now adding 25 photos and capturing 90 likes every second: Instagram is growing like a weed; the app has already blown past 10 million users ...... 25 photo uploads and 90 likes every second ...... while making sure to introduce “as few moving parts as possible” to ensure the team can continue to grow with the small number of engineers the company currently has ...... At the end of the September, the service was seeing a signup rate of over one new user a second — roughly 75 per minute, pushing the service past the 10 million user milestone.

Kevin Shitstorm Of Instagram
Path + Instagram + Color
Twitter ---> Instagram ---> FoodSpotting
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Google Images, Facebook Photos, Twitpic, Instagram, FoodSpotting
Scaling Instagram Out Of A Coworking Space
Instagram Magic
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What's Up With Pictures?

It should not take Instagram more than two years from now to hit a hundred million users. Give me an Android version, will you? And a web version.

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