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Twitter Must Follow: Matt Cutts (@mattcutts)

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:56:34 +0000

Name: Matt Cutts
Twitter User Name: mattcutts
Location: Bay Area, California

Twitter Bio:
Head of webspam team at Google.

More About Matt:
“Hi, my name is Matt Cutts and I joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. I’m currently the head of Google’s Webspam team. I sometimes blog about things, but please bear in mind my disclaimer. Before Google, I worked on my Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky. I wrote the first version of SafeSearch, which is Google’s family filter, and I’ve worked on search quality and webspam at Google for the last several years.”

Why You Should Follow Matt:
Matt is the face of SEO for Google and someone that provides deep insight into search engines and technology.

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Twitter Must Follow: Jason Calacanis (@jasoncalacanis)

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:13:33 +0000

Name: Jason Calacanis
Twitter User Name: JasonCalacanis
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Twitter Bio:
Founder of Weblogs, Inc., TechCrunch50 and Mahalo. Entrepreneur

More about Jason:
Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health. Prior to Mahalo.com’s launch in alpha in May, 2007, he was an “Entrepreneur in Action” at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firm, a position he held since December 2006. Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site. Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Calacanis was the founder of Rising Tide Studios, a media company that published the magazines Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. The flagship publication later became Venture Reporter, a venture capital database, and was sold to Dow Jones.

Why you should follow Jason:
Jason has been a leading entrepreneur in the digital space since the late 90’s. He has had some great success and some brilliant failures – all of which he is not afraid to share. Jason’s Twitter stream is a combination of business insight and personal information that revolves around the L.A. Tech scene.

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Twitter Must Follow: Matthew Knell (@mknell)

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:05:22 +0000

Name: Matthew Knell
Twitter User Name: mknell
Location: NYC

Twitter Bio
Working for the collective good. Curator of awesome. Work @ MTV, give @ SM4SC, teach @ NYU.

More about Matthew
(From tagsmith.org) “I am a technologist, someone who can take the building blocks of the Internet, and the social experience that the web is continuing to provide, and put them together to build dynamic, exciting and profitable products for forward-looking corporations. My passion is innovation, and the web provides the perfect avenue with an ever-changing landscape of new trends and technologies.”

Why you should follow Matthew
Technologist, Social Media proponent, Co-Founder & Web Marketing and Technology (Volunteer, Part-Time) at Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC)

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