Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone will be profiled on Bloomberg Game Changers Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.
The episode will also feature interviews with Twitter chairman Dorsey, Floodgate founder and managing partner Mike Maples, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly, GigaOM founder Om Malik, Blogger.com co-founder Meg Hourihan, Wired.com writer Ryan Singel, and Wedbush Securities vice president of equity research, social media and e-commerce Lou Kerner.
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10: CNBC.com Offers Marijuana & Money, April 20: a CNBC.com special report examining the marijuana industry in the United States from a business standpoint.
9: Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Twitter Guys’ Profile Actually About Ashton Kutcher, April 30, 2009: This oldie but goodie showed staying power, reporting that Twitter legend Ashton Kutcher profiled The Twitter Guys — Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and himself — for The 2009 Time 100.
8: Full Episodes of Conan O’Brien’s TBS Show to Stream Online, Nov. 4: Conan O’Brien‘s TeamCoco.com announced that full episodes of TBS’ Conan would be available online the day after they air on the cable channel.
7: Mythbusters‘ Kari Byron Talks New Media on the Morning Media Menu, Oct. 27: Kari Byron, one of the co-hosts of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, was the guest on Morning Media Menu, discussing her new show for The Science Channel, Head Rush.
6: ESPN Taking Time Warner Cable Carriage Negotiations Online, July 20: Disney and ESPN launched a Web site and pages on social-networking sites to call attention to the carriage dispute between the sports network and the cable operator.
Bloggers were focused on the upcoming midterm elections during the week of Oct. 4-8, while Twitter users used Twitter to talk about Twitter, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was A fake news video from the Onion News Network saying that Justin Bieber is a pedophile, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The most-shared news links by bloggers were tied to two items from The Washington Post, one about interest groups spending far more during this election cycle than in 2008, and the other on how the political landscape remains strongly tilted toward Republicans. They were followed by: a story from the Los Angeles Times on how more than $69 million in California welfare money was spent outside the state in recent years, at 12 percent; an op-ed in USA Today by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) saying that tea party populism is driven by anger at the government and divides the country, at 11 percent; another USA Today story about $162 million in stimulus spending not disclosed by the government, also at 11 percent; and a column in The Washington Post by Steven Pearlstein in which he argued that Republicans ignore the idea that income inequality exists in the country in their “Pledge to America,” at 10 percent.
Fortune released its 2010 40 Under 40 rankings Thursday, and technology and media are well-represented, with Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and Netscape Communications founder Marc Andreessen occupying the top spot, followed by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a third-place tie between Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tied for fifth; News Corp. chairman and CEO, Europe and Asia James Murdoch was No. 8; Univision Networks president César Conde No. 12; Aol chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong No. 18; there was a three-way tie at No. 27 between Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, and chief technology officer Bret Taylor; foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley was at No. 29; Slide founder Max Levchin and Vevo president and CEO Rio Caraeff tied at No. 31; Google head of location and mobile services Marissa Mayer at No. 34; Hulu CEO Jason Kilar at No. 37; and Microsoft global head of advertising Carolyn Everson at No. 39.
The 2010 40 Under 40 rankings will appear in the Nov. 1 issue of Fortune, which will be on newsstands Monday. The full list appears after the jump:
Bloomberg Television is continuing to boost its coverage of the technology sector, following up Tuesday’s announcement of the addition of Cory Johnson and last month’s hiring of former CNN China correspondent Emily Chang with a profile of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs on this week’s installment of Bloomberg Game Changers.
Airing Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, the Jobs episode of Bloomberg Game Changers will feature interviews with fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned venture capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple “Mac Evangelist” and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, and technology journalist and former Apple employee Robert X. Cringely.
Bloomberg Game Changers will profile Jobs from Apple’s start in his garage through the success of the iPad, touching on his departure from Apple, the failure of NeXT, his bounce-back at Pixar, and his return to Apple.
As for its recent hires, Bloomberg TV said Johnson and Chang will work on a yet-to-be-announced new show based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Johnson had been a hedge fund manager and private investor, with media roots as a founding reporter for TheStreet.com, a writer-reporter at Time, a senior editor at Vibe, and CNBC’s first Silicon Valley reporter back in 2001.
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams appeared at an INFORUM event at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, where they discussed, among other things, the possible launch of Twitter Events and a specific Twitter event they’re aiming for: member No. 1 billion.
“Twitter will get to 1 billion members,” former CEO Williams said, as reported by ReadWriteWeb, which added that the microblogging service currently boasts more than 145 million members, so reaching that milestone will still take some doing. And Mashable pointed out that Williams stressed that Twitter users are different from Facebook users, emphasizing Twitter’s role as an “information service.”
In talking about the potential launch of Twitter Events, Stone said it was something Twitter brass has “been talking about forever” internally, adding, “I think that’s something that’s going to be coming up soon. Twitter electrifies events. You’re connected to it in this matrix. You want to be connected to it, if you’re there. If you’re not there, you don’t want to hear about it,” according to ReadWriteWeb.
Twitter execs said their main motivation for doing a redesign of Twitter.com, which they unveiled Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, was to improve the user experience – to make Twitter “faster, easier, richer, more efficient to use,” as Biz Stone (right) put it. Monetization was so low on the list of design objectives that execs said they hadn’t even shown the new site to advertisers before yesterday’s launch. But, in an interview with WebNewser, Stone said he thinks the new design does offer the possibility for “new revenue-generating opportunities.” “The fact that you can click on any tweet that interests you and see even more information lends itself to advertising and revenue opportunities of promoted tweets and and so forth,” he told us.
After the jump, Stone tells us more about those monetization opportunities, why he’d prefer people not spend all that much time on Twitter, and why he thinks the redesign will nevertheless produce more users. Also: Complete screenshots of the new design.
While Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone were introducing the redesigned Twitter.com at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, vice president for business and corporate development Kevin Thau was at Nokia World 2010 in London touting Twitter as a news source, and not a social network, ReadWriteWeb reported.
Thau said Twitter is not a social network, adding that it is for news, content, and information, according to ReadWriteWeb, and saying Twitter is changing the news industry because journalists are Tweeting stories, which is even allowing non-journalists to break into the arena.
Two examples given by Thau, according to ReadWriteWeb: Kanye West‘s apology to Taylor Swift was one of the most retweeted Tweets of all time, and, “The guy who saw a plane land on the Hudson River right in front of him didn’t think to send an email: He tweeted it.”
Twitter introduced a redesigned Twitter.com at its San Francisco headquarters Tuesday, adding a details pane that allows users to mine more information out of individual Tweets, including mini-profiles of users, as well as offering easier access to embedded photos and videos thanks to a host of partnerships.
The screenshot after the jump is from TechCrunch, which offers several more here.
Co-founder Evan Williams wrote in the Twitter Blog:
On the site, you’ll see the familiar timeline, yet underneath each Tweet is a handful of information, deeper context, and even embedded media. Simply click on an individual Tweet and a details pane slides out on the right and reveals this content.
You can find out more about the enhancements on this information page. Here are some highlights:
New design: The site has a cleaner timeline and a rich details pane that instantly adds more impact to individual Tweets, while still maintaining the simplicity of the timeline. And, experience infinite scroll — you no longer have to click “more” to view additional Tweets.
Media: Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with DailyBooth, DeviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, and YouTube.
Beet.TV, covering All Things D, caught up with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams (I know, who hasn’t?). But in talking about new media, Biz made an interesting comment about the media of old.
“Would we start a company today that prints news on paper, and gas up a fleet of lot of trucks and drop it off at everyone’s house? No, because that’s not scalable.”
