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Twitter CEO Says “No” to Acquisition in Next Two Years

A few hours ago, Twitter CEO Evan Williams keynoted SXSW in an on-stage interview with Umair Haque of Havs Media Lab. During it, Mr. Williams announced the @Anywhere platform and answered Mr. Haque’s questions.

While Mr. Haque did ask a lot of questions, some thought that he did not ask enough tough questions about the future of Twitter. Perhaps that’s why Twitter’s CEO decided to answer more questions via the microblogging site:

“I heard on the backchannel that people want me to answer tougher questions. What’ya want to know? Will answer 10. Go.”

The result was a flood of questions — and a flood of answers, including a few gems, including a definitive answer to: “Will Twitter be sold or merged in the next 2 years?”

The Questions

Before I dive into analysis, what I’m going to do is actually repost the first 12 questions and the answers Evan Williams gave in chronological order. Most of the questions he answered were superfluous or humorous, but I’ve bolded some very interesting questions and answers:

Q1: @ev why is location an after-thought?

A1: @bitcollector we didn’t start with location but are making serious in roads with it right now. It will be a major part of Twitter soon.

Q2: @ev when will you expand your capacity? The whale is cute and all but I see him way too often! Thank you!

A2: @MadysonsMallows we expand it every day. But we can do better.

Q3: @ev Here’s one: why is your api team so unresponsive?

A3: @mickhagen they’ve been really flooded and are getting more resources (2 new developer advocates this month). Also: come to Chirp

Q4: @ev OK, not a profit question. Soccer. Who will win the World Cup this year?

A4: @MatthewLumby sounds like you’re conflicted.

Q5: @ev What do you think is your next Aha! idea?

A5: @vivekunc always hard to know that ahead of time

Q6: @ev How do you see things settling out among Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Am interested because our daughter now works at Facebook.

A6: @BobMetcalfe she should probably apply at Twitter.

Q7: @ev What am I thinking right now?

A7: @TMDavenport @ladygaga

Q8: @ev Will @anywhere put API developers out of work?

A8: @steyblind only if they can’t think of what o do on top of it. It should allow them to create more value.

Q9: @ev what is your favorite bourbon?

A9: @thewebdawg now THAT’s a good question. I like Evan Williams Single Barrel, but that’s probably too obvious.

Q10: @ev Why would I ever, ever want a newspaper to @anywhere link to @anildash instead of using HTML to link to anildash.com?

A10: @anildash It’s not an either/or. It’s a hover action. Link still exists. Will result in more followers and ultimately traffic

Q11: @ev Why hasn’t Twitter named me as their Spirit Promoter since I made a Substancial Entity for Dialogue and Connection out of just tweeting

A11: @RoseProphecy um… Yeah. Have to think about that one.

Q12: @ev will Twitter be sold or merged in the next 2 years?

A12: @ds5384 No.

The Big Question Still Remains…

We’re still looking through the questions people asked and answers Mr. Williams gave, but we can say a few things:

- We like this transparent step by Twitter’s CEO with his very interested audience. He was perceptive of the audience reaction to his keynote and essentially opened up the floor to questions.

- With that said, he did not reveal all that much. Questions like the one below dominated his answers:

- The biggest piece was something we already suspected: That Twitter is not selling anytime soon.

- Another piece of news: Twitter will be revealing more details about how it will fight Facebook Connect at the Chirp conference. He provided this answer to GigaOm’s Om Malik.

- Twitter lists could be much better, and the team is working on making them a stronger feature.

Still, there are a lot of questions we have, including one we had hoped he would answer during his keynote today: Is there a Twitter advertising platform, and if so, when will it launch?

Hopefully we’ll get our answer soon. If not today directly from @Ev, then most likely at the Chirp conference next month.

Reviews: Facebook, Google, Twitter

Tags: evan williams, facebook, social media, sxsw-2010, twitter

Fake Steve Jobs and “Seinfeld” Writer to Satirize Silicon Valley in Online TV Series

Web-enabled film and TV network EPIX has signed Emmy award-winning comedy writer Larry Charles to make an original, single-camera, half-hour comedy series called iCON. The series will take place in and poke fun at the Silicon Valley tech culture. Dan Lyons will also write for the series.

Dan Lyons is the author of the satirical blog“The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” so he seems a strong match for the Silicon Valley satire genre. Larry Charles is best known as a writer for Seinfeld, Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He describes iCON as “nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane” (way to manage expectations!). The show will air on all of EPIX’s distribution channels — the cable TV channel, the streaming video site and the video-on-demand service. Judging from the title of the show and Dan Lyons’s background, it’s easy to guess what this new series will be about. Stay tuned — there’s been no announcement about iCON’s premiere date, but we’ll report it when we hear it.

Tags: cable, curb your enthusiasm, dan lyons, entourage, Epix, icon, larry charles, Seinfeld, television, the secret diary of steve jobs, tv, web series

Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 Shed Beta Tag

If you’re a user of Opera Mini, chances are you’ve already switched from Opera Mini 4.2 to Opera Mini 5, beta tag be damned. The new version brought many improvements (tabs and speed dial probably being the most important) that made its predecessor pale in comparison.

Same goes for Opera Mobile 10, and since both these browsers have been available as betas for several months now, it’s no surprise that Opera decided to promote them to stable versions.

Compared to the betas, Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 don’t bring new features, only minor bug fixes. You can download them both here.

Check out a video introducing Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 below.

Reviews: Opera, Opera Mini

Tags: mobile browsers, opera mini, opera mobile, web browsers

Spencer Pratt Quits The Hills To Battle Cyberterrorism
Remember that episode of 24 where Jack Bauer grew a manky beard and married a woman who looked like a ropey sex doll?
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“Earth Days” PBS Documentary to Premiere on Facebook

Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 p.m. EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 p.m. EST on April 19.

The film chronicles the history of Earth Day in the United States and investigates issues related to the today’s American environmentalism movement. It has been playing the festival circuit and in select theaters for months, leading up to its PBS American Experience premiere. Earth Days has pulled a 70 rating on Metacritic — “generally favorable reviews.”

The Facebook event will use a new social-streaming platform provided by a company called Brand Networks. The entire documentary will play (its producers claim this will be the first feature-length documentary to stream on Facebook) alongside a social stream of updates that can either be restricted to folks watching the event or made available to other Facebook friends.

Director Robert Stone will be joined by American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels to interact with the community watching the film, though nobody’s said what that interaction will entail.

You can RSVP to the Facebook event page. It currently has 543 confirmed guests, 398 maybes and 2,344 from which it’s awaiting reply. That’s just the event page, though; there’s no telling how many will show up without RSVPing. In case you’re on the fence, here’s the trailer.

Reviews: Facebook

Tags: american experience, brand ntworks, documentary, earth days, facebook, live video, mark samels, pbs, robert stone, television, tv

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Spain: Non-Commercial File Sharing Is Legal

When we talk about file-sharing, there’s a whole spectrum of issues that usually get mixed up or treated as one when they’re really very different things.

Is it OK to borrow an audio CD I just bought? Is it OK to play it to some friends at a party? Can I convert it into MP3 files or make a copy? Is it fine if I put it in a shared folder of a P2P application such as eMule?

At the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got creators of P2P apps, owners of link sites (sites that generally don’t actually host any content, they just link to content that resides elsewhere) and torrent trackers.

Sometimes, you’ll hear that all of the above are illegal. Often, extreme examples such as “listening a CD with a friend” will be laughed at (well of course you can do that) but when it comes to creating a simple backup copy, it’ll be called a gray zone or even declared illegal.

Very rarely you’ll hear a court decide that linking to copyrighted material is OK, but this is exactly how Spanish judge Raul N. García Orejudo ruled in a case of Spanish music collector society SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) vs. Jesus Guerra, owner of link site www.elrincondejesus.com.

Do judge Raul’s arguments make sense? You bet they do. First, he denied SGAE’s request to shut down Guerra’s site in June, saying that “P2P networks, as a mere transmission of data between Internet users, do not violate, in principle, any right protected by Intellectual Property Law.”

Now, he decided that “offering an index of links and/or linking to copyright material is not the same as distribution.” His decision was largely based on the fact that Guerra doesn’t make any direct or indirect profits off the site.

Without going into the moral side of the story, it’s obvious that there’s not a very big difference between a site like www.elrincondejesus.com and Google. And if you start going that road, you end up with weird legal precedents, such as the recent decision by an Italian court, which found Google Italy execs guilty over an offensive video Google had failed to remove from its index.

There’s no doubt that SGAE will appeal the decision. But this ruling onceagain shows that not everything is as black and white in the world of file-sharing as the recording industry would have you believe.

Reviews: Google

Tags: file sharing, link sites, p2p, Spain

Twitter Will Be Available in China…Someday

While most of the world happily enjoys the Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.

And, as shown by Google’s recent squabble with the Chinese government, it can be very hard to operate in the world’s most populous country. But Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has faith that Twitter will be able to operate in China, although it’s currently blocked by the government.

At a New York panel discussion on social media and digital activism, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei asked Dorsey whether he can promise availability of Twitter in China. Dorsey said: “I would say yes. It’s just a matter of time.” Weiwei called this answer “very philosophical”; knowing that a giant like Google has trouble securing its presence in China, a cautious answer like this by a much smaller Twitter instills little confidence.

Weiwei also pointed out a very interesting fact that westerners probably don’t think about: Twitter is a very different tool in Chinese and in English. “At 140 words, in Chinese, you can really write a novel. You can discuss most profound ideas really to democracy, freedom, poetry,” he said. Unfortunately, it seems that this fact didn’t escape Chinese censors, which have been blocking Twitter for nearly a year now.

Reviews: Google, Twitter

Tags: china, social media, twitter

Lost Episode 7 ‘Dr. Linus’: A Deconstruction

Benjamin Linus: manipulative, Other, Black Smoke lover. There isn’t much the pupil-bulging puppet master won’t do for a slice of Island power; whether it be a spot of baby pinching, murdering omnipresent entities or just plain old blackmail. That Ben, eh? He’s a crazy coconut!

While Lost continues to drip feed us to the point of malnutrition, we have juxtaposed from last weeks stab-a-thon to reflect with Dr. Linus in the alt-verse and Ben’s Island undoing in the present. Indeed, handy ghost-whisperer Miles got his lines out of the way early this week, informing everyone that Ben took a note out of Sayid’s book and…

Former Anti-Celebrity Guest-Star Celebrity Neil Patrick Harris Guest-Stars In Glee

Glee! If you’re one type of person, it’s ohmigodsqueeawesome validation for your inner Barbara Streisand, secretly memorised High School Musical dance routines and total lack of self-respect to come pirouetting out of the closet.

Or it’s that unbearable jazz-hands crap your partner makes you watch.

Anyway, hold onto your earplugs (sane people) and your pants (ladies), and buy Journey’s back catalogue wholesale (karaoke establishments), because the Glee torture/ecstasy is set to continue. How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris is joining the cast, and it looks like he’s bringing a bunch of celebrities with him.

Haven’t times changed? We remember when Neil Patrick…

Top 10 Paranormal Videos

If, like us, your life-long dream of turning Ghostbusting into a viable profession has you worried that searching graveyards at night for a spectral anomalies may make you seem like a weird old perv, then fear not. We’ve compiled some of the scariest videos around for you to peruse at the scariest time of year: March!

To celebrate the upcoming Paranomal Entity coming to DVD, join us now as we do our best to make this unbelievable crap make you unbelievably crap yourself, after the jump..

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“Titanic” to Return to Theaters in 3D

Jeffrey Katzenberg was right: 3D is the future of movies. USA Today interviewed Avatar director James Cameron about this new era of filmmaking, and the director revealed plans to bring a certain unsinkable hit back to theaters in 2012, this time in 3D: Titanic.

Because of the success of Avatar— and now Alice in Wonderland— studios are scrambling to release as many big titles in 3D as possible. Thanks to computer technology, 3D effects can be added to films shot without the use of 3D-specific cameras like Cameron used for Avatar. This includes Warner Bros.’s upcoming Clash of the Titans, a film that was not shot in 3D, but is being converted to 3D over an eight-week period in hopes of capturing more attention (and higher ticket sales) at the box office.

While Cameron was critical of how little time some of these conversions were taking, he wasn’t opposed to the idea that old titles be converted — as long as the original director is the one who oversees the process.

From the interview:

“They’re converting Clash of the Titans in eight weeks. But I’m guessing six months to a year to do it right. We’re targeting spring of 2012 for the release (of a 3D version of Titanic), which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing of the ship.”

Titanic, for its time, was actually a quite technically advanced film. Many of the interior and exterior shots were completely computer-generated, as was much of the water in the film. That offers up some better options when re-processing the film for 3D because artists are working with digital imagery — not to mention the improvements in visual effects and CGI that have taken place in the ensuing 13 years.

Cameron also discusses 3D television sets and plans for Avatar in Blu-ray and in 3D.

What do you think about technology retrofitting classic films into 3D — or 2.8D as Cameron calls it? Let us know!

Reviews: Blu

Tags: 3D, 3D TV, Film, james cameron, Movies, titanic

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