anti-is yn is videos we want to serve up, anti-propaganda, how do we make them go viral? they asked the youtube ceo how to make them go viral. people have to want to make them go viral. but when you re with a good group of tech folks, it s the best people to ask. what one person from facebook said is what we do is we identify people who might be suicidal and serve up ads, we serve up ads that send positive messaging toward them or suicide hotlines. we tell friends to check in on them. what if we tried to apply that technique to folks who might be radicalized online? interesting. this was during the brainstorming session. another interesting point was can you monitor online how radicalized someone is becoming? they had this discussion around the table. also can you do that without questioning your first amendment rights? silicon valley the government also asked silicon valley to open up the roll dex, saying we can t do this align. hire the best and brightest people. then you
freak flag anymore. maybe it s not their fault, but do you think tech entrepreneurs are doing enough to contribute to the culture? it s not their fault. you can t blame them for homelessness in san francisco obviously. that s oversimplifying it. the question is what do they see? we want to make sure some don t get left behind. did you have trouble getting tech folks to come on and talk to you? if so, why do you think that is? i didn t have any luck getting through to the top of the big name companies. that was disheartening. it s hard to make a real honest portrait of what s going on the the whole community doesn t talk. we all love our iphones. are the locals benefiting at all from the massive amount of success the city is having? absolutely. all that money is great for the
tomorrow, but it s about, you know, looking at these prototypes and having these conversations about technology and saying, hey, this is here. this is, austin is right now full of entrepreneurs showing what s next and what other conversations we are going to have in the future. read? all right. and then a conversation that is going to happen tomorrow involves ed snowden. he is the man who leaked u.s. intelligence, and in what way is he speaking? and what is he expected to say? you know, this is a big deal, because it s the first time edward snowden has really talked to an audience full of tech folks since the nsa revelations. julian assange spoke today. i ve been coming here years. the one thing that s different, there s a conversation about privacy, about government overstepping. a lot of folks are here in the tech room that obviously have their concerns. so, you know, snowden will be taking live q&a. it will be interesting to see what he has to say and a big dheel he s actually a
then it s expected to have twice as many sales next year as it has this year. it s pretty clear that within two or three years they ll be making money. the question is just how much money. but it is a good thing there are investors who are playing the long game here. in 2006 when twitter started, it wasn t at all clear how they could be profitable, but people thought this was a good idea that customers would want, then you d be able to figure out a revenue model for it and they have. let s dig into why and how twitter is going to be profitable because a lot of people, especially twitter users, are like, how does this thing make money? it s not like google where there s ads all over the place. advertising, of course, will be the main reason why they re going to be super profitable. some of the major tech folks are saying twitter is the most interesting company in advertising right now because of their recent acquisition of mo-pub, which is the world s largest mobile ad exchange. it s
problems? yes. could you describe that a little bit. yes, as of last week when jeff zeints joined us for this short-term project we asked him to lead a sort of management team. we have pulled in all of our contractors as well as additional talent that they may have available. we have talked to tech folks in and out of the private sector and insurance, some of their tech experts, to get all eyes and ears, made a full assessment, developed a plan for fixes along the way. have a punch list for going after those fixes and we are doing a daily tech briefing and blog to tell people what we have found, what we have fixed, what is coming next, what the functionality is, and we intend to do that until it is fully functional.