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The Next Web Conference 2011 is now behind us. We’ve had a great time and met a lot of interesting people. Behind the scenes we are already hard at work organizing TNW2012. More on that later. Check out all the blogposts we wrote at The Next Web blog or check out our backchannel. Want...
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Infographic above by data viz pro Michael J. Rubillo. Graphs below by stats wonk Dimitry Lukashov. Thanks, guys! Three weeks ago we did some data extraction from the official Twitter List of employees to see how much the people who work there use lists. My conclusion: Twitter staff does use Lists, but not very...
Coursekit cofounder Joseph Cohen and lead developer Dan Getelman. Image: Coursekit See Also: The Secret Power Brokers Of Silicon Valley The Ten Most Bizarre College Courses Two Charts For Anyone Who Thinks Skipping College Is A Good Idea Peter Theil is paying kids $100,000 over two years to ditch college. Three UPenn students, Joseph...
Earlier this month, Apple announced a deep integration of Twitter into the next version of iOS, Apple’s operating system for iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Boy did this announcement burn some biscuits at Facebook. We’ve learned from a source involved in the matter that, at one point not so long ago, Apple was going to...
Formspring CEO Ade Olonoh Formspring.me has hit a major milestone in its relatively short lifespan. The 18-month-old San Francisco-based startup, which allows users to create profile pages on which anonymous people can ask them questions, now has 25 million registered users. Although he declined to specify how many of those users are active on...
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