links for 2009-04-30

• IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations
  what a nice story. great service, good opportunities and innovation ahead. Great iPhone app.
  (tags: startup food)
• Twouble with Twitters // Current
  (tags: twitter)
• Colbert Says "Twat" On The Today Show; Makes Meredith Vieira Squirm (VIDEO)
  the unbleeped version
  (tags: twitter)
• If You Tweet It, They Will Come - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
  Pogue, in need of a cast for a video, sends out a tweet in Fairfield CT. People show up.
  (tags: twitter)
• Is Twitter a Fad? Nielsen Says It Just Might Be - InternetNews.com
  (tags: twitter)
• Let Them Eat Tweets - The Medium Blog - NYTimes.com
  I have only lately begun to wonder whether I’d use Twitter if I were fully at liberty to do what I liked...I’m not sure I’d use Twitter if I were rich....“Connectivity is poverty” was how a friend of mine summarized Sterling’s bold theme. Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections....Nice, right? The implications of Sterling’s idea are painful for Twitter types. The connections that feel like wealth to many of us — call us the impoverished, we who treasure our smartphones and tally our Facebook friends - are in fact meager, more meager even than inflated dollars. What’s worse, these connections are liabilities that we pretend are assets. We live on the Web in these hideous conditions of overcrowding only because — it suddenly seems so obvious - we can’t afford privacy. And then, lest we confront our horror, we call this cramped ghetto our happy home!"
  (tags: twitter)
• All Twittered Out? - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
  (tags: twitter)