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JohnRourke

Facebook hit with $15 billion class action user tracking lawsuit zdnet.com/blog/facebook/… 9:28 AM May 18th via Tweet Button
KirstenLendyke Props to Alec Baldwin and @Peta for bringing to light the horrible treatment of circus elephants. via @elephantjournal elephantjournal.com/2012/03/you-ca… 7:09 PM May 14th via web Retweeted by JohnRourke
iowahawkblog The federal govt wants to investigate JPMorgan for losing $2B. The federal govt loses $2B before lunch every single day. 4:24 PM May 15th via web Retweeted by JohnRourke and 352 others
guardian Is choice overrated? @GuardianFood looks at the rise of the single dish restaurant gu.com/p/37hnz/tw 7:05 AM May 15th via HootSuite Retweeted by JohnRourke and 19 others
iowahawkblog Thanks to our universities, America no longer has to fear our chronic shortage of sociologists. 8:24 AM May 14th via web Retweeted by JohnRourke and 49 others
Has LED lighting supplanted everything else? blog.groomenergy.com/2012/05/lightf… via @groomenergy 8:27 AM May 12th via Tweet Button
@richdo Hey Rich. ...Yes I do. You trying to reach him? I can DM his email to you... 10:45 AM May 9th via web in reply to richdo
Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker newyorker.com/reporting/2012… via @NewYorker 8:57 AM May 5th via Tweet Button
Apple: Sleeping Giant Within The Mobile Payment Industry - Seeking Alpha seekingalpha.com/article/551091… via @seekingalpha 5:24 AM May 3rd via Tweet Button
Nice design, @SigFigInsights. And a cool app, just tried it. Your pig looks like it came from the same zoo as the @MailChimp. 9:52 AM May 1st via web
@ReformedBroker Great post, amazing slides... 7:53 AM Apr 29th via web in reply to ReformedBroker
@37signals Suggestion: "Your open to-dos" should be at the top of the "Me" page. My "latest activity" log with date entries at top is noise 1:50 PM Apr 27th via web in reply to 37signals
@37signals Ok thx. ...Another question: Is there an iPhone app coming? Native or web? Thx... 1:31 PM Apr 27th via web in reply to 37signals
@37signals Testing the new Basecamp (vs. @flowapp). Is there a single page list-view that displays all to-do's aggregated from all projects? 12:55 PM Apr 27th via web
artsy "Art is what you can get away with." -Andy Warhol 9:14 AM Apr 25th via HootSuite Retweeted by JohnRourke and 3 others
Slate Should we be worried about the new law that requires all cars to be equipped with data-recording devices? slate.me/IdhPD8 6:32 PM Apr 21st via SocialFlow Retweeted by JohnRourke and 50 others
@RichMulholland Hey Rich. I'm out of the loop on product dev there, not sure. Have you checked out Podio? (just got acquired by Citrix) 6:19 AM Apr 18th via web in reply to RichMulholland
Taking A Different Path wp.me/p2fDq4-14 via @techstreamz 5:55 PM Apr 17th via Tweet Button
Enterprise Smart Grid Research published blog.groomenergy.com/2012/03/enterp… via @groomenergy 6:52 AM Apr 15th via Tweet Button
Microsoft Word Is Cumbersome, Inefficient, and Obsolete. It’s Time for It To Die. slate.com/articles/techn… via @slate 10:42 AM Apr 12th via Tweet Button

Name John Rourke
Location Tribeca || NYC
Bio Co-founder of @PortFortune (investor network) and @Hummingbird (mobile payments). Co-founder/CEO of @BantamLive (social CRM - sold to @ConstantContact)