Development by Davis: Development by Davis: “Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on success, failure, and the future of social” plus 1 more

jueves, 23 de febrero de 2012

Development by Davis: “Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on success, failure, and the future of social” plus 1 more

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on success, failure, and the future of social

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST

Twitter (as well as Xanga, Odeo, and Blogger) co-founder Biz Stone keynoted this week's 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference with the history of Twitter alongside advice on the future of the social web and what it means to be successful.

"The story of Twitter... this is a weird story," he began. Stone left Google "at a time when it was silly to leave," as he put it, and with Evan Williams started Odeo, which used RSS to aggregate and publish podcasts. Then Apple created iTunes, and the Odeo founders started looking for the next project.

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Open innovation--the passion behind the Civic Commons community

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST

From the beginning, Civic Commons has been a dynamic community initiative. What began in January 2010 as a simple wiki of open government policies and practices (originally called "OpenMuni", domains for which were simultaneously and independently obtained by Code for America and OpenPlans), grew into a partnership between the two organizations to support the growing open government technology movement, and is now an open community of civic hackers, government technologists, entrepreneurs and many others.