News Roundtable with David Young & Marshall Kirkpatrick – TWiST #166

1:00-3:00 Welcome to the TWiST News Roundtable. 3:00-5:00 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. 5:00-6:30 Welcome to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb and David Young of Joyent. 6:30-8:30 The National Sheriffs’ Association says it will support the enforcement of a law mandating ISPs to store logs about their customers for 18 months. Do you think this legislation is inevitable? 12:15-13:30 Twitter is poised to close a split 0M round that will value the company at around B. If you held some of this early Twitter stock, would you hold on or cash out now? 21:30-22:30 Google says that its Google+ social network is only for individual users, not companies or brands. See more in the recent LAUNCH post: Google Suspends LAUNCH Google+ Account – But Not Profiles of Other Media Properties (launch.is 30:00-32:00 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show. Go to Carbonite.com and use the offer code ‘TWiST’ for two bonus months free with your subscription. 32:00-33:45 Tuesday saw the release of a significant amendment to Zynga’s IPO filing. They disclosed that nearly all of their revenue comes in from Facebook and that they (FB) holds exclusive rights to games including “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars.” How significant is this going to be for the future of Zynga? 40:30-44:00 David: A 5 series BMW has a processor in it and we’re having conversations that basically make the car a moving data center. 44:00-46:00 The new Mac OSx Lion debuted in the App Store on Wednesday

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- Startups – News Roundtable with Peter Pham and Marshall Kirkpatrick – TWiST #221

0:00-3:00 Welcome everyone to the first News Roundtable Panel of 2012. We’re here today with Peter Pham, now at the incubator Science. 3:00-4:00 Marshall Kirkpatrick, formerly of ReadWriteWeb, is also joining us today. Marshall, tell us a little bit about your new venture, Plexus Enginge. 4:00-6:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the program. Everyone check them out at MailChimp.com and thank them @mailchimp! 6:30-8:00 Megan reads the first story: the incubator debate. Is there a glut of them today and do they offer any real value to startups? 8:00-11:15 Peter, are there too many or too few incubators? 11:15-13:15 Marshall: If there’s management and training being made available from a wide variety of sources, there’s value in that. 14:30-15:45 Next story: Scott Thompson accepted the position of Yahoo! CEO. Did anyone know him before this? Marshall, what do you know about him? 18:15-20:00 Next story: Google+ recently had its strongest month ever and now has approximately has 62M members. Will they surpass Facebook? 20:00-23:15 Marshall: I think there are signs that Google+ isn’t looking fantastic. 23:15-24:45 Jason: Google is desperate to be Microsoft and they’re looking more like them every day. 24:45-27:00 Insight from Tyler: It’s like trading with yen. 27:00-29:15 Welcome to our newest sponsor Sourcebits. Thank you for sponsoring the show! Everyone be sure to thank them @sourcebits. 29:15-30:45 Next story: Walmart Labs has acquired Small Society, a mobile agency
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