Former Current TV strategist Sloan jumps to Twitter

January 31
Former Current TV strategist Sloan jumps to Twitter

Robin Sloan , a former strategist and executive at Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media orga­nizations that want to do cool, transformative things with tweets.” He was recruited by a former colleague Chloe Sladden , who experimented with one of the earliest of uses of Twitter against a live broadcast. During the first presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, Sloan built an application that would overlay curated tweets over the bottom of the screen (see the video below)

E-reader comparison chart: 6 readers, 19 features

January 31
E-reader comparison chart: 6 readers, 19 features

PaidContent.org has put together a thorough, helpful chart that compares the six most popular e-readers: Amazon.com’s Kindle 2 and Kindle DX, Sony’s Daily Edition, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Plastic Logic’s Que proReader, and of course Apple’s iPad. The chart compares 19 features ranging from hardware to software to content.

First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity

January 30
First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity

First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, launched an exchange yesterday allowing their funded entrepreneurs to trade small amounts of equity in each others’ companies. It’s a pretty unusual move that would allow founders to diversify their holdings earlier on in the life cycle of their companies. It could also provide an extra carrot for prospective investment candidates to step up and pick First Round over other venture firms




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