Twitter $twit just passed 140 employees (any new employee will have to be shrunk by Bit.ly to fit in…sorry). It looks like they are hiring some web video folks . I am not sure how they will attack web video, but as you know I am very bullish on web video and it is not …

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We like Trade-Ideas over at Stocktwits. We are also friends with the team. Trade-Ideas platform does exactly what it’s name suggests. Our goal together is to integrate them with the community and add context. I believe that the ‘Tape’ tells all. It is the heartbeat of the markets. The tape has gotten more difficult to …

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There are thousands of books written on leadership. I don’t read them. I don’t trust books and long form videos about leadership. A good leader should not need books in the twenty first century. I understand why they do it, I just won’t participate. Blogs and Twitter I do trust. I can filter them, get …

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The hottest thing in web video in the 5 years since Youtube was launched is a site I am too scared to log into… I am not sure if that is good or bad. It seems longer, but YouTube is now 5 years old . The Russian YOOT who started today’s hottest site – ChatRoulette …

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The New York Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs helped Greece pull the old ‘sheist and stall’ made famous by American Bankers. As worries over Greece rattle world markets, records and interviews show that with Wall Street’s help, the nation engaged in a decade-long effort to skirt European debt limits. One deal created by Goldman …

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I am not a huge fan of e-mail. E-mail is where I do work. E-mail causes me stress. If I have e-mail open, I am not in the MOOD to be social. I don’t want to try any products in my E-mail program that do not help me find past emails faster or organize my …

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Two posts about this damn Roger Ehrenberg in just two weeks! While boring to 99.9 percent of you, Roger and I have shit to talk about. Two good looking 44 year old men should be heard on subjects like managing $6 billion, ‘Too Big To Succeed’, Worst and Bet Trades, and John Paulson. Please chime …

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Chatter about Greece bailout rumors, a stronger dollar and $GOOG dominated the StockTwits stream this morning.  Here’s a taste:

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I sat down with Barry Ritholtz recently to chat about “Too Big To Fail”, interviewing with no socks, and his market data product Fusion IQ. I have a horrible habit of interrupting people when they talk and when Barry is with me, I regress further, but we had fun and Barry is never boring.

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Recently, I sat down with John Borthwick , co founder of Betaworks (wicked cool real-time companies). John and his partner Andy Weissman build things, buy things and they invest in things….bitly and chartbeat , Summize (Twitter $twit search). We chat about all of the above, managing a fast growing business, chaos, disruption, the early web …

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