Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

When Twitter make an announcement its time to wake up and examine the space even more closely but this weeks post of Location Location Location by twitter will change the LBS game. With twitter now over 20 million users location services become the absolute honeypot. I wrote about the value of location based services recently [...]

You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting. In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is [...]

Every time I leave San Francisco I swear I will be back for a longer period next time, it hasn’t happened yet but hopefully one day. Today was a day of dreams I met with Patrick Collison, Salim Ismail, Brad Garlinghouse, Craig Walker and finally the boss man himself Michael Arrington Mike invited me to [...]

Twitterfone was born yesterday. With no advertising budget it was up to myself, David Marcus, Florian Seroussi, Ivan MacDonald and Sean O Sullivan to use our individual networks to get it out the door. First port of call was the amazing powerhouse Michael Arrington of Techcrunch. Mike’s post got us of to a positive start [...]

This post from Jason Calacanis should be standard reading for any newly funded company. I think it makes really interesting reading and contain gems which should be of use to any start-up. My favourites were 3.Buy everyone lunch four days a week and establish a no-meetings policy. Going out for food or ordering in takes [...]