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http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/04/there-is-a-difference-between-evil-and-just-absurdly-profitable/ Lots of negative feedback from our post the other day on Cash4Gold’s amazing growth and profitability . This year, their third year of operations, they are on track to make $160 million in revenue and $50 million or so in profits.

There Is A Difference Between Evil And Just Absurdly Profitable

More Investors Pile Into Twitter’s Funding Round, Now Reportedly

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/24/more-investors-pile-into-twitters-funding-round-now-reportedly-close-to-100-million/
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Twitter profitable

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Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter/

Why Google and Bing's Twitter Announcement is Big News - O'Reill

Lurking innocently on Google's blog this afternoon , like many of their big announcements, was the bombshell that they have reached an agreement with Twitter to make all tweets searchable. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/why-google-and-bings-twitter-a.html
http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/22/the-biggest-loser-in-the-twitter-search-deals/

The biggest loser in the Twitter search deals

No, it’s not FriendFeed, although yesterday didn’t provide any good news to users there who really would love to hear that their community still matters. Google and Microsoft said “no.”
Sean Parker , a managing partner at Founder’s Fund , gave an interesting talk today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The key to it is simple: Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and eBay will dominate the web going forward. One company of note that won’t? http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/22/sean-parker-twitterfacebook-will-soon-dominate-the-web-not-google/

Sean Parker: Twitter/Facebook Will Soon Dominate The Web — Not G

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/23/sean-parkers-rise-of-facebook-and-twitter-fall-of-google-full-slide-deck/

Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Prese

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009.

The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/ I’ve been doing online communities for more than 20 years, starting in 1985 when a friend had a BBS. One thing I’ve noticed over and over again is that chat rooms and forums start out fun and then devolve over time for various reasons. See, in a chat room no one is in control.
http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/20/twitter-to-turn-on-advertising-you-will-love-heres-how-supertweet/

Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: Supe

Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43 , there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is , indeed, going to turn on an advertising model. Well, yesterday, I talked with Likaholix co-founder Bindu Reddy about just that.
I believe that people who produce content should be able to make a living for producing that content.

More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising

Yo @chrisbrogan you’re doing Twitter wrong

It started as a little joke that I said on stage at the BlogWorld Expo. One of my fellow panelists said she didn’t like people who told other people that they were doing Twitter wrong.
The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up.

The Case for In-Stream Advertising

Twitter Flatlining?

Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’.

Twitter’s New “At Anywhere” Platform Allows For Deeper Integrati

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City.

TweetDeck Taps TwitVid For Video Sharing, Replacing 12seconds

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