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We Just Tested Twitter’s @anywhere Platform (Screenshots)

During his keynote at SXSW last month, Twitter CEO Evan Wiliams announced an upcoming new platform called @anywhere, which would allow third party sites to integrate Twitter features (he also showed off some of the partners who would be featuring the platform, which you can see in the image at right). Twitter didn’t give [...]

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Fri, April 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

A Recap Of The Daniel Ek SXSW Spotify Keynote — In Rap Form

Whenever there’s a big event, like SXSW, we usually have people there to live-blog the important keynotes and/or write recaps of it afterwards. I’m not gonna lie, sometimes those are boring. You know what’s better? Rap songs that recap keynotes.
Hip-hop artist SaulPaul has released a video on YouTube which recaps the keynote Spotify CEO Daniel [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Live Blog: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Says Music Service Now Has 320,000 Paid Subscribers

I’m here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is being interviewed by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk. Ek will likely be revealing some new announcements about Spotify during this interview. I’ll be live blogging my notes below.
Van Buskirk kicked off the keynote by asking how many people in the audience [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Wait, Did Ev Williams Just Interview Umair Haque? Weird.

When SXSW sets up its festival, you have to assume they want the best and most engaging keynotes possible. If the public reaction to Umair Haque’s interview of Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is any indication, they failed. Badly.
I wish I could take credit for the title here, but it is all Mike Monteiro, appropriately, by [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Twitter’s New “At Anywhere” Platform Allows For Deeper Integration Into Third Party Sites

During his keynote at SXSW this afternoon (live blog here), Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced a new “At Anywhere” platform, which allows websites to more deeply integrate the service into their sites. The idea is to offer a more seamless experience to Twitter users navigating third party sites like the Huffington Post and [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Ev Williams: Twitter’s First Principle, “Be A Force For Good”

We’re here at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas where Twitter co-founder Evan Williams doing a keynote Q&A with Umair Haque. Williams may use the time to talk a bit about Twitter’s upcoming ad platform. Update: It’s actually an “At Platform” called At Anywhere — more here.
Interestingly enough, Twitter saw its first burst of popularity [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments