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Pierre Omidyar Is Getting His Ginx On (Co-founder Status Confirmed).
techcrunch.com - 1/16/2009
Pierre Omidyar Is Getting His Ginx On (Co-founder Status Confirmed).
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Pierre Omidyar left eBay long ago to become a billionaire philanthropist and angel investor, but he is taking on an operational role in a new startup called Peer News. It operates a Twitter app called Ginx currently in “private pre-alpha.” That means nobody but Pierre and a few ...

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John Battelle's Searchblog:  Omidyar and Twitter

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Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model
readwriteweb.com - 1/16/2009
Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model
— readwriteweb.com — Twitter ...what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who've never really tried it. Even among true believers, though, it's been hard to figure out how this much ... (more) Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model

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Omidyar and Twitter
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... in 2009 was that Twitter is going to continue to take off. When I read on TC that Pierre Omidyar is fascinated with the service to the point of investing in a related company and even acting as an exec, I have to feel a tad bit validated. A caveat - Omidyar Networks is an investor in my company FM. ...

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