London - Tweet capital of the world. Oh, the shame, the shame!
Not sure if any of you caught Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams on Newsnight last night (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8186747.stm - includes embedded video clip) but, even though the interview had been pre-recorded, the production team just couldn't resist including a shot of him frantically clicking away on his Blackberry during the show's story intro round-up. It was like a cliché made flesh. ("I'm on the BBC!!! OMG!!!WTF?!?BBQ!!!" Just a guess.) Nevertheless, his answer to Kirsty Wark's somewhat impertinent question about whether or not Twitter was "just a fad" proved enlightening, since he admitted that every successful modern Web venture builds upon, and owes a debt to, pre-existing technologies. (No, he wasn't misquoting Oasis, nor paraphrasing what's inscribed around the edge of the £2 coin, when he quipped the line about standing on the shoulders of giants. *Rolls eyes.* Look it up...)
Call it a hunch, but I suspect that such an argument might just form the basis of some of the company's defence in the Hell's Kitchen condo libel case, filed last week in New York:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=111156
Probably not such a good defence when it comes to this case, however:
"Notification systems firm TechRadium has filed a lawsuit in a US district court against Twitter for infringing three of its patents. TechRadium's IRIS system is designed to broadcast alerts about emergency situations and lets organizations broadcast a single message to multiple recipients who can then receive it on a variety of devices including landline phones, cellphones and faxes."
More here: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43532/118/
Call it a hunch, but I suspect that such an argument might just form the basis of some of the company's defence in the Hell's Kitchen condo libel case, filed last week in New York:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=111156
Probably not such a good defence when it comes to this case, however:
"Notification systems firm TechRadium has filed a lawsuit in a US district court against Twitter for infringing three of its patents. TechRadium's IRIS system is designed to broadcast alerts about emergency situations and lets organizations broadcast a single message to multiple recipients who can then receive it on a variety of devices including landline phones, cellphones and faxes."
More here: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43532/118/