Trouble@twitter

In a Fortune magazine cover story written by Jessi Hempe, the company’s history is tracked through its many, short-lived CEOs: “Trouble@Twitter”paints a grim picture of the Twitter leadership as lacking a unifying vision. It says the company is floundering as new users drop off.

The article exposes Twitter's lack of revenues, its management discord, its relatively small user-base, and its refusal to accept huge multi-billion dollar offers from media players like Google and Facebook.

“What took so long for somebody to write the article that says we are falling apart?” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote Thursday in a blog post. “The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.”

Winklevoss twins lose Facebook appeal

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who claimed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea, cannot get out of the settlement they reached with Facebook, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The twins had alleged they were misled about Facebook's value when they agreed to settle their lawsuit that claimed Zuckerberg stole their idea to launch the social network.

The twins agreed two years ago to a settlement that netted them US$20 million in cash and US$45 million worth of stock valued at US$36 per share.

In a statement Monday, Facebook's deputy general counsel, Colin Stretch, said: "We appreciate the 9th Circuit's careful consideration of this case and are pleased the court has ruled in Facebook's favor."

Twit Happens!

Here's a very entertaining article regarding legal issues with using twitter for business purposes. I really don't see most mommiebloggers running into this kind of circumstance, but you just never know!

the twitterer joins ask2link

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Think About Webhosting...

If you run a small or medium business or plan to set up a business online, you are going to need a computer permanently connected to the web so you can send email, files, etc. to other sites and to your customers. You need hosting! The scope of hosting services varies widely. A customer needs to evaluate the requirements of an application to choose what kind of hosting to use.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

Managed Hosting solutions give you the flexibility to focus on your business while someone else manages your servers. You manage and control your own data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.

Most importantly, if you are concerned about the safety and security of your data, the buzzword is COLOCATION: Your server hardware is stored in a secure, climate-controlled environment. This alternative is similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server.

Now that you know more about hosting, make it a point to investigate and make hosting an integral part of your business plan!

The New Entrecard MarketPlace

Entrecard is retiring its current marketplace and will be replacing it with a new one. The new market place entitled EC Market works similar to craigslist and it’s a standalone site, meaning it’s not deeply integrated with Entrecard.

The new marketplace should make it easier for users to manage their ads. Buyers and sellers will communicate with each other via email. If a transaction is made, the buyer would need to manually pay the seller from their entrecard account.

I currently posted two ads on the site. The first one is the Post Digger and the other one is entitled 1,000 EC Credits for $1.50 Only!

Wanna check out the new marketplace? Here's the link: EC Market.