It was in san francisco. The company was failing. Noah and jack had been out drinking. Jack had this idea that you could build something that would what you to tell people you were doing in real time. , his cofounders company, he had the idea that they would be able to share with their friends. You could connect with your friends. He was going through a difficult private time. They thought that twitter would make you feel less alone. That was the genesis of the idea. Everyone had a different concept of what it was. How did the name twitter come about . A lot of people probably do not know the counter who was pushed out early on. He was one of the most influential people. They came up with this idea, and they had a lot of other peoples ideas from the Podcast Company. They were essentially building what would become twitter. There were different iterations of it. They could not come up with a name. There were several names thrown around. Friends status and stalker and one that was based
Host the author, the New York Times tech reporter nick bilton who joins us from San Francisco. Mr. Bilton, what was twitter supposed to be . Guest oh, thats the billion dollar question. Actually, the 25 billion question if you look at the ipo. You know, twitter was something that was different for everyone, you know . This was something that was started by four people that collectively were trying to build something that would, you know, communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. But they all had different ideas of what it was. It was, the genesis of it, the real moment that it actually started was with who gentlemen, one was jack dorsey, and the other was noah glass, and they were two very Close Friends, and they worked at a Podcasting Company in early 2005, 2006. It was in San Francisco. And the pod Podcasting Company was failing, and noah and jack had been out drinking one night, and jack had had this idea that you could build something that would allow you to
Hilary clinton was wesley educated and Ivy League Grad that worked in washington, d. C. At the nixon impeachment campaign. First Lady Hilary Clinton tonight at 9 eastern live on cspan and on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Hatching twitter a true story of money, power, friendship and betrayal is the name of the book. The author, the New York Times tech report nick bilton who is joining us from San Francisco. What was twitter supposed to be . That is the billion dollar question. Or the 25 billion actually if you look at the ipo. Twitter was different for everyone. It was started by four people that collectively were trying to build something that would, you know, communicate with each other and connect to friends. But they had different ideas of what it was. The genesis of it, the real moment, was with jack dosey and noah glass. They were two Close Friends and worked at a Podcasting Company in 20052006 and the company was faili
Big changes coming to your cable tv. Comcast is set to buy its rival Time Warner Cable in a 45 billion megadeal. Now if it is approved the merger would combine two of biggest and frankly most disliked Cable Companies in the entire country. What does it mean for your bottom line and your monthly bill . Lets bring in the Vice President and principal analyst the forrester research. We have merrill brown, director of Montclair State University director of communications and Business Media and former Business Writer for the washington post. Welcome to you both. James i will start with you. The biggest question everybody is asking, what will this cost me . Will my prices go up . Short run they will not cost awe thing. They were not competing with each other and not overlapping markets. Theyre competing with satellite and telcos like verizon and at t. It will not really have Material Impact certainly not during yea3 one on your bill. Gerri merrill, i take a look at history of cable pricing an
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