I have been tweeting on Twitter (my call sign is addedvalueth)
for the last two weeks, wondering why a grown-up would share mundane
parts of his personal life ("heading to sleep") with complete strangers
on the other end of a computer or handheld. And why anyone would want
to read aforementioned drivel.
The most substantive discussion I had on this social networking site
centered on the merits of Chicago-style deep dish pizza versus the
flat, greasy New York pizza.
I wondered what the possible business applications of Twitter could be. While I was wondering, I got a pitch from entrepreneur Scott Beale, who used Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist and a bunch of other Web sites to win $100,000 from online contests to fund his District startup.
The start-up is a non-profit. Don't press the snooze button yet. Beale approached the project as if he were building the next Google.
The 33-year-old Georgetown graduate and former U.S. State Department
employee quit his $42,000-a-year Foggy Bottom career three years ago
and, using the same Web skills that President Obama used to raise campaign funds, built what he calls a "Peace Corps in reverse."
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