Technically Speaking

I assume by the end of the weekend, the 1138 (I was 1139) followers will be in the neighborhood of 10 times more. Have you followed @finkd yet? What am I talking about? Well if you somehow just woke up, @finkd is the real Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently this so called secret account is no longer a secret after VentureBeat broke the news this morning.

While VB maintains, like other people do that search is going to make them money …

Which is funny, because Twitter’s real-time, open search capability is one of the features that Facebook seems intent on redesigning its site around. Twitter search could be a key way for the microblogging service to make money, because it helps you find current information that you care about based on what others are saying. As with Google, some fraction of such services involve a user’s intent to buy something, which is where advertisers want to be.

… and it’s a damn good guess. I’m going to back the position of old school business meets new school and utilizes a tried and tested formula as I blabbered on about in this morning’s siliconANGLE post I wrote ….

Think about it. All the parts are there. The VC’s are looking for a cash cow with a high user adoption rate. They are looking for something that will provide a consistent flow of money like an open water spigot. The music business has a high adoption rate of listeners. At one time, they controlled the water spigot. Right now twitter controls the water spigot with the same high and growing usage rate. They are the only game in town, your basic monopoly of the API. Understand now?

…. and Eric was lucky to be number 45 …

Right now, a range of current and former Facebook executives and associated tech types are some of the 44 people already following him (I just made myself number 45). Perhaps Zuckerberg will go cold as more people follow him? Or perhaps he’ll enjoy public sharing.

… as I just made 1139 as stated above!

Technically Speaking, what do you think the number of followers will be by Monday morning? I’m sure it will easily be 10 times the number now, maybe more!

It’s late on a Friday afternoon, and while siliconANGLE is a new blogging venture that John Furrier invited me in on, it’s certainly not lacking for content! Currently we are growing, and as we grow we should have even more content for you to read.

Here is a look at what has been happening just over the past couple of days:

It’s Almost Too Late to Save Print Media – Rizzn digs in here with a great post that of course was spurred on by the closing of the newspaper today – The Rocky Mountain News.

MicroPlaza Organizes URL’s That Tweet Past You – Yes as one of our readers pointed out – it’s not a twitter based company, but more like a company that has been created once again based on the twitter API!

iPhoneMania Only in Certain Locations – iPhone seems to be a no go in Japan.

DEMO 09 Class of Demonstrators! – John was given a schedule for DEMO09 last week, and we posted it. Later we did find out that it was under embargo, so while that looks bad on us, we as siliconANGLE the blog was never officially given this item with someone saying to John “Yo, it’s under embargo until such and such time!”

Facebook Decides To Be A Commune – After writing this one, I was sort of thinking, “That’s pretty damn good!” – and when I was linked later, I was quite pleased others had a similar line of thinking. Although as I watched Mark Zuckerberg this morning on Today, I was hoping, “Man, I hope he didn’t see that and make some rude comment about communes and hippies!” And if he did, well – that would have been even cooler!

Yahoo Re-Org Round-Up – Rizzn masterfully sorted out the mess known as the Yahoo re-organization memo(s) or rather, we found out that the new CEO likes to memo out the employees! Another skillful surgery through the massive amounts of Yahoo coverage, Rizzn’fied.

Will Michael Sit Become Web 2.0’s Kevin Mitnick? – Rizzn once again cuts through the noise, and this time pulls something to to the surface that is being buried. Yes, Michael Sit – the media ignores it, but Rizzn rips through the slime of cover up to pull the facts to the surface for the readers.

Twitterfied Yet? – Do we need more twitter coverage? Google coverage? Well maybe not, but we covered it anyways.

DEMO Changing Hands – Kara Swisher Interview with Matt Marshall and Chris Shipley – John has total respect for DEMO and the changes and posted the Kara Swisher interview with Matt and Chris.

Forget InterWebs Think InterClouds – John talks about the InterClouds.

Panther Express and CDNetworks Merger – Making sure we also try to keep up with the infrastructure.

Social Media Lessons Learned – What To Do – John talks about social media and what he has learned. This seemed to be a popular subject this week, and John addressed it well.

Technically Speaking that was just the past two days over at siliconANGLE and hopefully you had a chance to check in and read a few of those posts, and if not, well there is the weekend to catch up on the angles we presented over the past couple of days, and there is more if you want to dig back a little bit.