Take a look at GoodMorning!, a Twitter visualization tool that shows “good morning” tweets around the world.

Leo Laporte is probably best known now as the host of This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast. When iTunes introduced the podcast feature, TWiT was the first podcast I added and it’s still the podcast I never fail to catch. It’s always funny and insightful, and Leo brings great guests to the show. I’ve been following Leo Laporte since his days at Tech TV, an obscure cable TV channel (I was living in the United States then, during the internet boom of late 90’s). In the list of web personalities I will follow anywhere, Leo is at the top. He is my favorite person on the internet.

The video is from the Online News Association conference earlier this month (October 2009). It’s about 40-minute long, but I couldn’t stop watching it until the end. It’s a really must-see for journalists and anybody interested in internet and technology. My favorite part of the presentation is when Leo shares his revelation that network TV does not want to sell ads to smart people. Smart people do their research and largely ignore ads. Thus, network TV does not want their audience to be smart. It really makes a lot of sense now to see the kind of programmings shown on TV (Indonesian sinetron, anybody?).

Like it or not, Twitter has become the standard for short communication. For the many of us who liked our own favorite service which we believed did more and had more flexibility or options, we were vastly outnumbered by the masses who are drinking the bright blue Kool-aid. Even as I, and others, may drag our feet reluctantly, we know we don’t have a choice. Businesses who scoff at the usefulness of “The Big T” now recognize it is just another marketplace, and everybody is selling something - be it a real product, or a personal brand. Spammers love it. And that’s a sure sign that you’re on to something big.

About six months ago, critics pummeled Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

He’d made questionable management decisions, or so it appeared from the outside. He’d fumbled the site’s redesign and botched the company’s terms of service agreement — moves that whipped up negative publicity and user backlash. Some people asked whether it was time for Zuckerberg to go.

Six months later, those critics have gone. The company is enjoying astounding momentum — blowing through user growth forecasts and becoming cash-flow positive earlier than expected. Recent management hires make the company look more impressive than ever. Zuckerberg remains firmly in charge.

An interesting piece on the Facebook CEO by VentureBeat. It goes well with the Zuckerberg interview (http://www.businessinsider.com/zuckerberg-facebook-staying-competitive-2009-9) that I linked to yesterday.

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 mali – the natomo family

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