Patty Ryan

@anywhere launch by Evan Williams and disastrous interview by Umar Haque.

• @anywhere is the new twitter “app platform” – basically an API that allows someone to call to and display specific twitter data from their site, and take specific actions like follow that person.

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  • Solves the problem of discovery within context.
  • Slashes my discovery cost as a user.
  • As a site, it gives you a connection back to users you didn’t have before.
  • create community or subcommunity
  • this isn’t an ad platform, this is an @platform
  • lowers the barrier to twitter, puts it in a stronger context

• experimentation is what leads you to create value.
• process of creating a business is discovering how you’re wrong and iterating. 
• increasing the signal to noise ratio, getting better information to those who want it. 
• experimentation is about iteration.  
• openness is a survival mechanism.
• Why did they open us search?  how do you increase the value of the network and the value to the user?  by making it more searchable. 
• 3rd party developer focus has been around creating core experiences that are holes in teh UX - like sharing photos.
• cotweet got acquired - just doing customer support through twitter

information network - hard to narrow that down.

• increasing the signal to noise ratio, getting better information to those who want it. 
• experimentation is about iteration. 
• openness is a survival mechanism.
• how do you increase the value of the network and the value to the user?  by making it more searchable. 
• 3rd party developer focus has been around creating core experiences that are holes in teh UX - like sharing photos.
• cotweet got acquired - just doing customer support through twitter
• hardware device for bakers to tweet