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Biz Stone is keynote speaker at 140: Twitter Conference LA
August 26th, 2009 | 
Author: The Twitter conference is coming to Los Angeles September 22 -23, 2009. With an amazing number of A-List people speaking and attending, this conference is sure to be THE social media conference to attend this year.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, Inc. will be the keynote speaker at 140: Twitter Conference LA, “Tapping into the Real Time Web”.
This conference is a two day event with two tracks; a main track and a developers track. Celebrities and Geeks tweet up to discuss all things Twitter. If you are new to Twitter or not there is something for everyone including celebrity panels, business sessions and the latest killer apps.
Who will be speaking at this must-attend conference? To list just a few: Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tony Hawk, LeVar Burton, Guy Kawasaki, Veronica Belmont, Peter Shankman, Justine Ezarik, and many more.
A sample of the sessions:
Twitter and Celebrity: A Match Made in Heaven? Featuring Dr. Drew Pinsky, LeVarBurton, Guy Kawasaki, Olivia Munn, and Mark Geragos.
Lunch panel: The Comedy Session featuring Tom Arnold and Jamie Kennedy
Developer Showcase:
There will also be a dedicated space at The Twitter Conference to showcase some of the cool stuff being developed. If you’re going to be attending the conference, then you’ve got a room of cool developers showing off new applications to look forward to. If you’re promoting a launch or looking to generate buzz for an existing Twitter application, you should consider joining the Developer Showcase.
Tweetup
The Official 140tc Tweetup party will be held from 5:30-7:30 on September 22
To learn more about the conference or to buy tickets: The Twitter Conference
Tickets are just $299 until September 6th. They will increase to $429 until sold out.
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Tags: Biz Stone, Olivia Munn, Twitter | 
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Why Twitter isn’t pointless babble
Have you ever sat in a bar or a coffee shop, just watching what people do, examining the expressions on their faces, or just desperately trying to overhear the endearing nonsense that emerges from their mouths?
That’s how I think of Twitter.
Except there is one small difference with this peculiar little microblogging site: you can control who is in the bar or the coffee shop.
Some extremely clever people at Pear Analytics declared last week that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble”. However, might their analysis be, as the English enjoy saying, just a little pear-shaped?
Some people might view, say, reality television as pointless. Yet for others it reveals aspects of humanity that can enlighten far more than many a drama.
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Here come the ‘Twitter, we did it first’ lawsuits
One of the issues when you create something simple, easy to use, and phenomenally popular is that there will invariably be some folks who come along and say that it was their idea first.
Naturally, that’s started to happen to Twitter. Earlier this month, a patent lawsuit was filed against Twitter on behalf of a Texas-based company called TechRadium, which has a patent to “allow a group administrator or ‘message author’ to originate a single message that will be delivered simultaneously via multiple communication gateways to members of a group of ‘message subscribers’ over e-mail, text message, or another platform.
More specifically, TechRadium’s technology has been applied to a product called Iris, which is designed to be able to send out mass messages for emergency response purposes. The lawsuit claims that Twitter’s service amounts to “offering for sale or use, or selling or using these products without license or authority from TechRadium.”
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Twitter going after buy-more-followers services?
Twitter may be working to stop companies that partake in the controversial practice of selling higher follower counts, according to one Australian company that claims Twitter is trying to shut it down over allegations of spamming.
On Monday morning, a marketing company called uSocial sent out a press release to say that a brand-management firm hired by Twitter (according to some Australian news outlets, the firm in question is called Melbourne IT, whom we have contacted to confirm but not heard back from yet) had contacted it to express concern over spam messages it was supposedly sending through Twitter.
uSocial offers deals like 1,000 new Twitter followers for $87, and made headlines when it claimed that the family of late pop star Michael Jackson had used it to purchase over 25,000 new Twitter followers.
Services that let you buy more followers on Twitter or friends on a social network are controversial, to put it lightly. But uSocial says it isn’t spamming.
“The definition of spam is using electronic messaging to send unsolicited communication and as we don’t use Twitter for this, the claims are false,” uSocial CEO Leon Hill said in the press release.
Twitter could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Facebook gets Twitter-like search
New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting Monday. The new interface for search makes it possible to see all public results from Facebook users (the Everyone filter), or just results from your friends. Or, as before, only Events, Groups, or Applications.
The Everyone filter is the key new feature. It lets Facebook users monitor the entire network for news and updates on big topics, the same way Twitter was consumed for information coming from Iran after the recent election.
Like Twitter Search, the Facebook search result page alerts you when new results come in that match your query, but it doesn’t update the whole page until you ask. This is arguably the best way to keep people up to date without overwhelming them.
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