<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488978.post3288389015460208597..comments</id><updated>2009-04-21T09:09:10.909-07:00</updated><category term='Stock'/><category term='Social Media'/><category term='Twestival'/><category term='Interpersonal relationship'/><category term='Research In Motion'/><category term='Zemanta'/><category term='Mozilla Firefox'/><category term='Apple'/><category term='Citibank'/><category term='Consumer Electronics Show'/><category term='RSS'/><category term='Phoenix Arizona'/><category term='Web browser'/><category term='Comment'/><category term='LinkedIn'/><category term='POS terminal'/><category term='Safari'/><category term='Union Square Venture'/><category term='Venture capital'/><category term='Strategic management'/><category term='Blogosphere'/><category term='Exchange-traded fund'/><category term='Financial Services'/><category term='Facebook Platform'/><category term='Business development'/><category term='Fair trade'/><category term='Negotiating'/><category term='Wallstrip edge'/><category term='New York'/><category term='Mass media'/><category term='Starbucks'/><category term='Business plan'/><category term='Brad Burnham'/><category term='Board of directors'/><category term='Opera'/><category term='Weblogs'/><category term='United States'/><category term='NASDAQ'/><category term='Gross domestic product'/><category term='Investing'/><category term='Fred Wilson'/><category term='iPhone'/><category term='Firefox'/><category term='Mobile computing'/><category term='Ten Commandments'/><category term='Wallstrip'/><category term='Smartphones'/><category term='Internet Explorer'/><category term='Online Communities'/><category term='Blog'/><category term='Handhelds'/><category term='Cisco Systems'/><category term='Media'/><category term='Credit card'/><category term='Twitter'/><category term='Fast forward'/><category term='Microsoft'/><category term='On the Web'/><category term='Technology'/><category term='Jack Dorsey'/><category term='Cash register'/><category term='Investment'/><category term='Consumer Electronics Association'/><category term='Consulting'/><category term='Stock market'/><category term='Toolbar'/><category term='Application programming interface'/><category term='Disqus'/><category term='Purevolume'/><category term='Real estate'/><category term='Coffee'/><category term='developers'/><category term='Bank'/><category term='Evan Williams'/><category term='Wall Street Journal'/><category term='Subject Matter Expert'/><category term='Smartphone'/><category term='Negotiation'/><category term='Dunkin Donuts'/><category term='Digg'/><category term='Apple Tablet'/><category term='Wired'/><category term='Facebook'/><category term='Corporate America'/><category term='Social Networking'/><category term='Partnership'/><category term='Phoenix'/><category term='Wi-Fi'/><category term='Jason Calacanis'/><category term='Vice president'/><category term='Harvard University'/><category term='21st century'/><category term='Shopping list'/><category term='Motorola'/><category term='BlackBerry'/><category term='Search'/><category term='Web 2.0'/><category term='Banking Services'/><category term='Google'/><category term='Blogging'/><category term='Business'/><category term='Wilson of Union Square Ventures'/><category term='Banks and Institutions'/><category term='Mind map'/><category term='Google Chrome'/><category term='Point of sale'/><category term='Debit card'/><category term='Health care'/><category term='Software Engineer'/><category term='Small business'/><category term='Howard Lindzon'/><category term='Mobile phone'/><category term='Union Square'/><category term='Verizon'/><category term='Social network'/><category term='Union Square Ventures'/><category term='Meetup.com'/><category term='Great Depression'/><category term='Stocktwits'/><category term='Managing director'/><title type='text'>Comments on Random Thoughts in Marketing: Twitter - Congratulations on your STARS (Here's Wh...</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.afpr.com/feeds/3288389015460208597/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/3288389015460208597/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.afpr.com/2009/04/twitter-congratulations-on-your-stars.html'/><author><name>Andrew Finkle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05975892946327775341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_QHEfXdhXPOk/R6x6taBIysI/AAAAAAAADTc/QWDSXXrU7sQ/S220/me.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488978.post-6609412910690126603</id><published>2009-04-20T10:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T10:27:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>good post! i was talking with my sister this weeke...</title><content type='html'>good post! i was talking with my sister this weekend about the value of twitter and i think that it is the immediacy of the conversation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sure google can index blogs but there is so much noise. with twitter its immediate and easily filtered cause its limited to 140 chars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a lot of people like to deride twitter and say that its 'just' people talking about themselves, which makes me laugh. especially when fellow salespeople tell me the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i laugh because the reason that they deride twitter is the reason i find so much value in it. sure there are posts on twitter that are not relevant to me, but this is just the age old issue of acquiring signal to noise. tools like tweetdeck and twirl are essential for finding twitters value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more stars on twitter means more people on twitter and as a salesperson that is good stuff!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/3288389015460208597/comments/default/6609412910690126603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/3288389015460208597/comments/default/6609412910690126603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.afpr.com/2009/04/twitter-congratulations-on-your-stars.html?showComment=1240248420000#c6609412910690126603' title=''/><author><name>Roger</name><uri>http://twitter.com/halfacat</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.afpr.com/2009/04/twitter-congratulations-on-your-stars.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488978.post-3288389015460208597' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/posts/default/3288389015460208597' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-249577801'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488978.post-1030530730439794833</id><published>2009-04-20T07:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T07:06:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the "early adopters" care passionately bec...</title><content type='html'>I think the "early adopters" care passionately because this is a sign that the product known as "Twitter" is moving into the next phase - "early majority".</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/3288389015460208597/comments/default/1030530730439794833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/3288389015460208597/comments/default/1030530730439794833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.afpr.com/2009/04/twitter-congratulations-on-your-stars.html?showComment=1240236360000#c1030530730439794833' title=''/><author><name>Kathy | Virtual Impax</name><uri>http://virtualimpax.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.afpr.com/2009/04/twitter-congratulations-on-your-stars.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488978.post-3288389015460208597' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11488978/posts/default/3288389015460208597' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-2009943495'/></entry></feed>
