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benparr

  1. I propose we officially change "a billion dollars" to "one instagram". As in, "The U.S. National Debt is now 15,727 Instagrams."
  2. "HOW TO PARTY LIKE MILLIONAIRES FOR FREE: San Francisco Startup Hustlers (@tracksby) Show The Way" - read.bi/KQ9AhG #Dominate
  3. @ebertchicago Bit.ly forgot to take the needs of its core userbase first and design around that. It's the same mistake that took Digg down.
  4. Guess the floor and ceiling of Facebook's stock price for the next 30 days. The people who guess the closest for each gets a present from me
  5. @laureni How low can it go?
  6. @semil Totally agreed. If anybody can figure it out, it's Zuck and Sheryl. If they can't, it's a bad sign for the whole industry.
  7. @semil Facebook needs to prove it can do either an off-site advertising network or monetize Facebook Credits off-site.
  8. @semil I'm not as confident as you are on that. Google had the revenue model figured out before it IPO'd.
  9. @semil It's nothing short of jaw dropping. It proves you have to have the revenues to justify the valuations.
  10. @nelamee !
  11. @ebertchicago Not a fan, huh?
  12. @emilychangtv Ouch.
  13. @mattlanger @laureni That... is an interesting switcharoo.
  14. #CarpeDiem #Dominate #Startuping (at Nook) — path.com/p/3rwAZk
  15. That's one hell of a headline, Henry. RT @SAI: Why Do People Hate Jews? by @hblodget read.bi/KqiEue
  16. Bit.ly relaunches as a social bookmarking site. Interesting... but content curation is a crowded space: dthin.gs/JSo2lc
  17. With Krystyl at Sugar Café — path.com/p/WrYAa
  18. New trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. If the movie is half as good as the book, it's gonna be epic: youtu.be/MyGIlUnX5yI