Branch, the new social network funded by Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, has today stepped out of private Beta, and into public view. The idea of it is to simplify online conversation, and cut out some of the internet noise.

In a blogpost the founders says that they “want sharing your ideas on Branch to feel just like sharing your ideas around a table with friends,” and with the clean, simplified nature of Branch they seem to have achieved that. Read More »

An illuminating profile of Twitter CEO Dick  Costolo in the New York Times looking at his stewardship of Twitter since the three founders either left to focus on other projects, Biz Stone and Evan Williams now run incubator start-up incubator Obvious, or took more strategic roles as Jack Dorsey has done.

In amongst the background insights into Costolo, who is a former stand-up comedian, is a mention of a possible date when Twitter might seek an initial public offering and follow Facebook and LinkedIn to the markets.

The date for the IPO is said to be sometime in 2014 giving Twitter more time to grow and develop revenue streams. Read More »

Although the public-invite launch of Branch was met with much excitement in tech-land a few weeks ago, thanks to the involvement of Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the platform faces an uphill battle for adoption and has unclear implications for brands.

Described as a means for “high quality public discourse”, Branch allows users to invite curated groups of people to discuss issues in which they are knowledgeable. The aim of the service is both to provide a new platform for dialogue on the web and to organize conversation threads on platforms like Twitter. Read More »

Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone have a new venture that is targeting the publishing industry.

Callled Medium it brings together blogging, Stone and Williams both worked at Blogger, with community and curation.

The founders say they “felt compelled to build a content network for the technology age we’re living in now, and we have a vision for what publishing should be”. Read More »

Ever wondered where Foursquare was launched, where Twitter hit the big time or where you can hear keynotes from the likes of Jimmy Wales, Guy Kawasaki, Craig Newmark, Evan Williams or even Mr Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, himself – well Austin, Texas is where it is at in March as SXSW comes to town.

And next week we will throwing ourselves into the madness of SXSW Interactive as part of the UKTI Trade Mission along with 39 other companies from the UK and over 25,000 others from round the Globe. We will endeavour to bring you daily updates as to themes, new ideas and creative technologies on show along with the weird and wonderful from Austin. Read More »

Lift: reward-based self-improvement system

Some information about the next venture by Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have emerged, and although detail is scant, it is very intriguing.

Dubbed ‘Lift’, at the moment we are being told that it is a prototype relating to how ‘technology can help unlock human potential, especially through the use of positive reinforcement’.

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Business Insider has been featuring a story that tells the history behind the founding of Twitter. It has echoes of Facebook and ‘The Social Network’ in that some might have ended up with less credit than you might think they deserve. Read More »

Twitter: senior mangement changes

Evan Williams, one of the co-founders of Twitter and its erstwhile chief executive, is taking another step back from the company to work on something completely new, the details of which remain under wraps.

Williams’ announcement comes amid rumours that Jack Dorsey, another Twitter co-founder (and the sender of the first tweet), is planning a return to the social network, either as chief product officer or CEO. The CEO role is currently filled by Dick Costolo, who took over from Williams last October.

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Senior management changes could be afoot at Twitter. It is reported to be in talks with co-founder, Jack Dorsey (he who sent the first public tweet five years ago this week) about making a full-time return to the company in a senior role. Read More »

A couple of good pieces around on Twitter. A piece in the New York Times on why Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams demoted himself and its early problems and a piece that serves as a timely reminder that Twitter, unlike say Facebook, is a social network truly defined by its users. And how that pretty much saved its bacon. Read More »