Barry Diller Still Doesn’t Like Twitter, Still Can’t Stop Talking About It

A couple of weeks ago IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller was telling the elite crowd at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference that he was “pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money.” A couple of weeks later and he’s singing the same tune, this time to the elite crowd at the Fortune Brainstorm [...]

OneRiot Real-Time Search API Now Open To All

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For some, it’s useful to go to OneRiot to search for links being tweeted or dugg in real-time. But for a lot of people it’s better if the sites and services they’re already using have the functionality built-in. That’s OneRiot’s intention in opening up its API to the public today.
The site’s API, which has been [...]

I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter

The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin, reporting from the prestigious Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference for the media and business elite, says “Sun Valley: Diller and Malone Pessimistic on Twitter.”
She adds “Diller was pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money,” and:
Malone said he didn’t think that an advertising model made sense on Twitter, [...]