Tech4Him - Technology with Integrity » twitter http://blog.tech4him.com A Christian technology chaos wrangler and his thoughts Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:15:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SSWUG Business Intelligence Virtual Conference – Day 1 http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/04/sswug-business-intelligence-virtual-conference-day-1/ http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/04/sswug-business-intelligence-virtual-conference-day-1/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:29:17 +0000 Tom http://blog.tech4him.com/?p=450 sswugvconfHappy Earth Day everyone! I write to you from the lobby of the SSWUG Business Intelligence Virtual Conference, my home office. hehe.. Yup, that’s right, no travel, no hassle, no shoes required.

SSWUG.org is starting their spring 2009 virtual conferences this morning. There are four conference running concurrently:

New to this conference:

  • Some LIVE pieces – Keynotes and some sessions
  • DVD sets of the sessions are available for purchase
  • Twitter feed for the #sswugvc tag.
  • Broadcasting in HD. (Great improvement here!)

Day 1 I plan to hit the following sessions

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Too funny.  As is so true and can be so terrible with rumor mills, we have the converse of the earlier post. According to both Scobleizer and Kara Swisher, Google is not trying to by Twitter. ;) (Thanks to @paulmorriss for the initial link.)

So…only time will tell, but even if Google and Twitter are only in talks about how to form a partnership, alliance or such. Please, please, please… don’t ruin Twitter with ads.

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According to a report in PCWorld (and others), Google is working on a deal to purchase Twitter.  As it usually goes with the “rumor mill” many different reports along these lines are emerging. Regardless of how it might happen or why Google would purchase Twitter, one common thread is emerging, Google wants Twitter.

Personally I really hope this does not mean Google Adsense units in Tweets or something similar. I htink that monetizing Twitter feeds ruins the simplistic concept and usefulness of Twitter. Already we see the commercialization of tweets, automated direct responses, et al. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time before Twitter is just another “old” thing and the new un-monetized “thing” will gain momentum.

Please Google, if you acquire Twitter, don’t kill it!

Rumor: Google to acquire Twitter in the near future

Why would Google buy the Twitter open source project? | Open Source | ZDNet.com

Twitter Google AdSense Ad Units?

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According to a report in PCWorld (and others), Google is working on a deal to purchase Twitter.  As it usual goes with the “rumor mill” many different rumors along these lines are emerging. Regardless of how it might happen or why Google would purchase Twitter, one common thread is emerging, Google wants Twitter.

Personally I really hope this does not mean Google Adsense units in Tweets or something similar. I htink that monetizing Twitter feeds ruins the simplistic concept and usefulness of Twitter. Already we see the commercialization of tweets, automated direct responses, et al. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time before Twitter is just another “old” thing and the new un-monetized “thing” will gain momentum.

Please Google, if you acquire Twitter, don’t kill it!

Rumor: Google to acquire Twitter in the near future

Why would Google buy the Twitter open source project? | Open Source | ZDNet.com

Twitter Google AdSense Ad Units?

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