Twitter Vision

Idea: Show visitor count on each tweet.
Vision: Your real time world in snippets.
Top priority: Making it possible for users to search through tweets, and display them in small and large numbers.



Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Struggles to Define Vision

issues with users not being able to easily search for tweets. He said Twitter has “a lot of potential” if it can address that

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Internet Satellites? Now You Have My Attention, Elon

Mars is esoteric to me. I already know what's on Mars. Earth is way more exciting. Glad to have you back on earth, Elon.



$100 Billion Plan To Save The World
Elon Musk’s Next Mission: Internet Satellites

Elon Musk shook up the automotive and aerospace industries with electric cars and cheap rockets. Now, he’s focused on satellites, looking at ways to make smaller, less-expensive models that can deliver Internet access across the globe ..... launching around 700 satellites, each weighing less than 250 pounds ...... it would cost $1 billion or more ..... hopes to bring the cost of manufacturing smaller models under $1 million

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Amir Tataloo: Agha Komak Kon

How Stuff Works

Boss And Goddess

When you have a job, you have a boss. When you have a startup, you have a goddess: the market.

Celebrating Laziness

Prince Kofi Amoabeng On Entrepreneurship

People Freaking Out

Not me, I'd love this, but I can see how some, or more than some, people might freak out.

The windowless plane set for take-off in a decade

replacing heavy aircraft windows with uber-light smartscreen panels to cut fuel consumption and slash air fares ..... a windowless plane that nonetheless allows passengers to see what’s going on outside, as well as checking their email and surfing the net.

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Global Quantum Internet

Who could have thought? Container ships carrying around the Internet.

Why Quantum "Clippers" Will Distribute Entanglement Across The Oceans
The best way to build a global quantum internet will use containerships to carry qubits across the oceans, say physicists.

a quantum version of the internet that will have the ability, among other things, to send information with perfect security ...... there is a very real possibility that the quantum Internet might only ever consist of isolated quantum islands on different continents. ..... it will be possible to send information at bandwidths measured in teraahertz ..... “Bandwidth in excess of one terahertz is feasible under realistic physical assumptions, exceeding even the fastest proposals for traditional repeater networks” .... diamond crystals in which one carbon atom has been replaced with a nitrogen atom. This creates an electron vacancy that can absorb a photon and store its quantum state ..... ocean-going quantum Clippers carrying the cargo necessary to enable a new kind of entanglement-based information economy.

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Genetically Modified Crops

Not be discarded in knee jerk fashion. There has got to be a right way to gradually introduce them into the food chain.

China’s Growing Bets on GMOs

Sundar Pichai: Google CEO In Waiting

Google CEO Larry Page just put Sundar Pichai in charge of almost everything

Water: The Best Thing You Can Do To Your Face

Drinking three litres of water a day took TEN YEARS off my face

A Tweet And Replies For Massive Entertainment

Fred Wilson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

People on the teams of Uber and the like might think it is infotainment. There is information in there. This is the most entertaining tweet I have seen in a long time! Don't tell me there is not a human angle to technology! This is the most I have ever replied to any tweet. Click here for the full show.

More and more drivers in NYC (cabs, lyfts, ubers) have no idea where they are going. I just leapt out of a taxi after four missed turns
— Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) October 18, 2014

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