Ongoing tracking of the real time web …

The last post that I did about real time web data mixed data with a commentary and a fake headline about how data is sometimes misunderstood in regards to the real time web.    This post repeats some of that data but the focus of the post is the data.   I will update the post periodically [...]

Posted at 2pm on 1/17/10 | Comments | Filed Under: betaworks, bit.ly, data, essays, mobile, think | read on

charting the real time web


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the curious tale of how TechCrunch traffic inexplicably fell off a cliff in December

For a while now I have been thinking about doing a post about some of the data we track at betaworks.   Over the past few months people have written about Twitter’s traffic being up, down or sideways — the core question that people are asking is the real time web growing or not, is [...]

Posted at 10pm on 1/7/10 | Comments | Filed Under: betaworks, bit.ly, data, think | read on

About

This is a blog with occasional postings from John Borthwick.    I work in the technology, communications and media space — as an entrepreneur, a builder and an investor.    My interests are in building great companies — and in the process understanding about how media evolves as it collides with real time conversations.     This blog contains occasional thoughts, it is not a high frequency blog.    I like to write to organize my thinking on a particular issue.   This blog is often a repository for that thinking.   Thus the name and the sporadic attention.    My twitter or tumblr stream are more reflective of day to day thinking.

The companies I am working with are listed on the betaworks site.     Prior to launching betaworks I was CEO of Fotolog, and prior to that I was Snr. VP of Technology and Alliances at Time Warner.      I arrived at Time Warner — AOL — in early 1997 when they acquired the company I had started back in 1994.    The company was WP Studio, producer of three sites: Total New York (one of the first local city guides, now gone), äda ‘web and spanker (a pre blog, daily journal of the occasionally twisted mind of Carter Adamson).

I also sit on the board and/or act as an adviser to: Center for Independent Media, Coburn Ventures, Rhizome and HRW.

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