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• The Twitter Credit Card…Don’t Surf the web without it!
  Howard Lindzon, September 9th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

  I would like a social media credit card.
  Faceboook $fbook should have one, Twitter $twit should have one and maybe Stocktwits $stwit should have one too. There is one company I know working around the edges of this named Klout, but there will be many more.
  There should be rewards for great messaging (Follows, Retweets) because [...]

  

• The Game of Twitter…The Attention Exchange
  Howard Lindzon, September 8th, 2010 at 2:53 pm

  Twitter $twit is a game.
  There is a LOT of money at stake.
  Twitter would get a lot more respect if the had more Customers, but they are not in the same rush as you or me. Twitter for now has chosen the biggest game of all, the media game. Lot’s of money [...]

  

• Being a CEO…
  Howard Lindzon, September 7th, 2010 at 5:40 am

  Amazing insights and riffs in the blogosphere right now about being a CEO.
  Fred Wilson got it started and I think from a 10,000 foot perspective he nails it:

  A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best [...]

  

• Hey American Express…You suck balls
  Howard Lindzon, September 6th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

  I have blogged of my love for AMEX $AXP pre 2007 and my hate for them since.
  They suck. Case closed.
  Here is the wording from their new ZYNC launch:
  ‘There has never been a another card like it’
  Hmmmm. In fact, it’s so good, they have kept their green card, optima, platinum, gold, [...]

  

• Customers or Users…Give me CUSTOMERS
  Howard Lindzon, September 5th, 2010 at 10:32 pm

  The whole concept of ‘OPEN’ is a nice one.
  For example, American Express $AXP has the nerve to use ‘OPEN’ in their latest bullshit ‘TARP” backed ad campaign to get new customers for the ones they pissed off and kicked out. They are as ‘OPEN’ when it comes to selling your data and ‘Closed’ [...]

  

• If The Web is Dead, Nobody Told Akamai $AKAM
  Howard Lindzon, September 3rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm

  One look at Akamai $AKAM is all I need to know the web is not dead.
  This morning the stock is at 8 year highs.  Akamai will sell you stuff if you are closed, open, web, mobile, woman, man.
  The people have spoken, and they want their bandwith, no matter what the economic signals are.  Akamai is [...]

  

• Mother of God…The Web is Dead…Episode One with Chris Dixon
  Howard Lindzon, August 31st, 2010 at 6:18 am

  Is the Web Dead?
  As Billy Crystal says in one of my Top FIVE Favorite Comedy’s…’It’s only Mostly Dead’ (which means it’s slightly alive…and you should look for loose change):

  Here is what the talented, banjo playing Chris Dixon has to say:

  

• My “Web is Dead” Interview Series on StockTwits TV
  Howard Lindzon, August 30th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

  Earlier this month, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff put out an article on Wired, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet.  In this piece, an obituary of sorts for the world wide web as we know (or knew) it, they argued that simpler apps are quickly replacing the web browsers that [...]

  

• The Internet Makes me Pee LESS
  Howard Lindzon, August 30th, 2010 at 5:25 am

  There is a useless debate on Le Web over Le Years whether the internet makes you smarter or dumber . Let me chine in on that:
  COULD. CARE. LESS
  I know what Le Web does for me. I hold my pee in longer. It could be my age and gynormous prostate but [...]

  

• Introducing our Partnership with SecondMarket and Private Company Streams
  Howard Lindzon, August 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm

  I love stocks and I LOVE investing in startups.  About 8 months ago I started calling Facebook $fbook and Twitter $twit when I tweeted.  I felt the IPO market was struggling and it would be cool if Private Companies had a lightweight exchange or center of conversation to point people too to learn about them [...]