Sunday, 22 November 2009

Social media – Twitter – Fry, Stone & Hoffman

At NESTA event, Fry, Stone and Hoffman discussed the future impact of social media on the 19th November 2009.

www.nesta.org.uk

The panellists were Biz Stone, Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter, Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn and Stephen Fry.

Discussed the many aspects of Twitter, in particular. Fascinating interchange of ideas. Fry talks about losing his faith after being bombarded by critical comments. Biz talks about a start-up philosophies of web 2.0 companies having an open usage policy and then building a business plan out of the patterns that emerge.

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