Alan’s Tweets from this week…

  • Yoda wisdom: “Not TRY – DO – or DO NOT – there is no TRY” #
  • RT JHalley:Bilbo wisdom:”I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like and like less than half of you half as well as you deserve” #
  • GO PITT! Georgia Tech system consistently predicts NCAA rankings: http://tinyurl.com/cn3prg via @ShareThis #
  • RT @hotpads: Article is shocking/terrifying. DC’s HIV #
  • RT @alMoo: RT @MelanieTilley A day hemmed in prayer seldom unravels #
  • RT @pauldawalibi: RT @simon_baptist: RT @Hitwise_UK: Twitter overtakes Google News in the UK http://twurl.nl/qhghu0 #
  • RT @Figliuolo: Wait… #SxSW is over? Did you guys fix the economy while you were there? I hope so. #
  • RT @atcal Today in history. 1950: Scientists at UC Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, “californium.” #
  • A new word I have fallen in love with, synonym of my other fav, ginormous – NANOSCOPIC #
  • Ebay, here I come – need a sofa? RT @TribTotalMedia: PITTSBURGH: City council bans outdoor couches, mattresses: http://tinyurl.com/df44kz #
  • How to recognise a good programmer http://tinyurl.com/296cv7 via @ShareThis #
  • RT @eengler Great article on InnovationWorks – one of the best government-funded VCs in the country: http://tiny.cc/uPOzb #
  • Listening to my pal, Mike @woycheck on the radio right now: http://www.prrradio.com/ #
  • RT @alMoo: Great job on Pittsburgh Business Radio, @woycheck ! Nice AlphaLab plugs! #
  • WAVECAM – one of our portfolio companies – on WMNY radio http://www.prrradio.com/live_stream.html (please RT!) #
  • RT AMEN! Johnny Tarr going now… @hotpads: I held off for a long time, but now it’s time for some Gaelic Storm #
  • Very opinionated – LOVE IT! Twitter sucks, so change your friends. http://tinyurl.com/c556pl via @ShareThis #
  • RT @johnhcook IP firm Intellectual Ventures inks deal to license inventions from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay http://bit.ly/17WrE8 #
  • Old Media RT – ROUGH!: @TribTotalMedia: NEWS: Natasha Richardson is ‘brain dead’; Dylan’s toilet odor blowin’ in the wind #
  • WOW RT: @greenbubble: Shell Gets Out of Wind & Solar Power, Backs Biofuels and CCS Instead (Treehugger) http://tinyurl.com/dgul55 #
  • GReader Share FLEPia: Fujitsu’s “Kindle killer” gets a release date and high price in Japan:
    Pictu.. http://tinyurl.com/cxg6bd #
  • At lunch with Eben Adams, old FMKT paly – talking abt TWT, fb, RSS, and the new business he wants to start. #
  • Project Olympus – Tom Mitchell using machine learning to understand brain imaging of object recognition…EARLY promising answers… #
  • Project Olympus #projo Maxine Eskenazi of Carnegie Learning talking about speech learning products of all types – pinpointing phenomes #
  • Project Olympus #projo Alberto Gandini talking about conquering malaria via med device at Tropical Health Systems – like dialysis. #
  • Project Olympus #projo David Chen, jr at CMU, intros Fooala – provides online svcs for restaurants – has been entrep since 11 yo. #
  • Hey new user @ebenadams! Welcome to TWT – everyone give him a follow and “hi”! Esp #fmkt pals… #
  • Project Olympus #projo Anne Swift, a friendly neighbor to the north, talking about the BrainBuzz from YII – @atainter will be speaking! #
  • Project Olympus #projo @woycheck talking about AlphaLab session #3 BRING US YOUR STARTUPS! woot #
  • Just met with another CMU spinout, YnzCam; anyone out there used their mobile video tech at Pens games? VERY INTERESTING… #
  • GReader Share Entrepreneurs vs. VCs: I caught the tail end of SXSWi (showed up yesterday and gave a.. http://tinyurl.com/dhjmvk #
  • peHUB » VC Zombies: Oxford Bioscience Partners http://tinyurl.com/dcy84k via @ShareThis #
  • Marriott Plans to Buy Bankrupt Greenbrier Resort – NYTimes.com http://tinyurl.com/d55lrj via @ShareThis #
  • Anyone else heading for Interim Demo Day at AlphaLab? #alab #
  • AJAX Design presenting at #alab – only 49% of small businesses in US have their own website… #
  • #alab AJAX Design all about repurposing marketing assets and est consistent branding – like what Zemanta does for blogs, but for websites. #
  • #alab Great job, AJAX Design – you have made great headway on initial product in 10 weeks (!!) – now put some meat on business bones… #
  • #alab Bueda – use the word “ontology” one more time and I will have to go to the Wiktionary… #
  • #alab Innominet – like proxy server to provide anonymity to internet users – “Internet Traffic Mixing” #
  • #alab Innominet is a couple good developers out of Pitt – good to see deep tech coming out of Pitt as well as CMU…come on PITT, give more #
  • Great Awakening? RT: @greenbubble: Shell Cuts Alternative Energy Spending http://tinyurl.com/djpl39 #
  • Right on… where are you? RT: @atainter: @aveeck and @eengler – you guys at the same place? #alphalab #alab #
  • #alab #alphalab Needed elements of startup presos: Team, Product/Service, Market, Competition, Business Economics, Stage, Deal/Ask, Exit #
  • iTwixie – looking to establish a clean social network for tween girls – in the face of StarDolz who are rushing teenhood #alab #
  • StockPickr – American Idol for stock pickers… everyone can be Jim Cramer now, with some rich tools for UGC #alab #
  • RT: @pauldawalibi: Wow. Not only did August close on $650M in the toughest of times, but with a 30% carried interest structure. #
  • TheResumator – a widget based platform to take the pain out of managing resumes; good founder with deep design experience – it shows #alab #
  • My daughter, Emily, made it into the elimination “Open” round at the All-Stars Tournament for Forensics! PD = Proud Dad #