links for 2009-07-14

The debates around how Twitter should make money continue to focus on Advertising.. and completely from the wrong angle. Twitter is about escalating conversation. Twitter doesn't do this well right now although breaking news sure pops out fast. While I've written at length on this before and offered up escalation models I must admit I'm tired of the closed minded thinking I see in articles like this. I'm not convinced Twitter gets it yet either. Yet I remain hopeful that we will get location enabled Tweets before long. Then as a service it can become many times more interesting and more effectively P2P

Some of these quotes may make you squirm. They're the just another signal that "business as usual" will never return. In fact WSJ had an article this morning that highlights just how much real-time / short term trading Goldman Sachs does. They dominate stock trading today and are about to report larger profits.