Saturday, April 18, 2009

Seeing Is Believing

The previous post should be read twice..Perhaps only because Google technology confounds some of us..

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Monetizing Tweeting Tips

Yesterday, the NYT chirped in with their own article profiling the rapid trajectory of Twitter--and this a.m, Claire Miller pontificated in NYT Technology section with a "how is this going to be monetized?.."

What do I think?

1. Aside from the information overload that Twitter is contributing to, the pollutive impact on the intellectual environment, and the fact that I still can't figure out how to have tweets directed to my email, its obvious that everyone should be buying stock in cell phone carriers.

The additional txt messaging charges that are showing up on everyone's bills is going to provide plenty of cash for companies like Verizon and others--probably enough to subsidze the TARP and TALF bail out plans.

2. Sure, advertising is the obvious next layer that Twitter will embrace.

3. Applications? Just like Facebook opened up their architecture for innovative software companies to develop 'plug-in' and add-on apps that they can monetize, I'm betting on the guy that develops a micro-chip that will be imbedded into the brain--the one that transmits and displays to the brain all of the tweets and all of the Facebook 'updates' posted by the hundreds of 'social connects' that are stored in our cell phones.

Tune in.