Alex de Carvalho

Twitter updates for 2008-10-07

by Alex. Average Reading Time: about 2 minutes.

  • State leg­is­la­tor and ex-Yahoo! exec Jeremy Ring talks about boost­ing the devel­op­ing tech indus­try in Florida. Val­u­a­tions here are best. #
  • “In Florida, a sin­gle investor can own the entire deal flow” –Jeremy Ring http://twitpic.com/exrl #
  • Sen­a­tor Bill Nel­son addresses ITFlorida Gala “We remain com­pet­i­tive in global mar­ket­place through Yan­kee inge­nu­ity” http://twitpic.com/exs1 #
  • Nel­son, 66, recalls start of NASA mis­sion to the moon: “The space pro­gram is vital to Florida’s future. We can­not afford cuts in edu­ca­tion.” #
  • Nel­son: “Rural areas of Florida lack broad­band con­nec­tiv­ity. We are leg­is­lat­ing for increased access.” #
  • Nel­son talks about online pri­vacy con­cerns and also of fraud. Leg­is­la­tion is under­way. #
  • Bill Nel­son voted against the bailout b/c it does noth­ing to fix the root prob­lem of bad mort­gages and under reg­u­lated deriv­a­tive secu­ri­ties #
  • Nel­son: “The money should have gone to buy up and rene­go­ti­ate the mort­gages, to keep peo­ple in their homes.” #
  • Nel­son: “The CRAs did not do their job when they rated these secu­ri­ties as AAA” #
  • Wish Bill Nel­son had described a stronger vision for sup­port­ing the growth of IT in Florida. Econ­omy is pri­mary con­cern now, though. #
  • @tomob Take it up with the Sen­a­tor #
  • Say­fie Review wins Excel­lence in Web 2.0 award; Refresh­Mi­ami is final­ist #
  • Myxer was in the run­ning http://twitpic.com/exzl for High Growth Com­pany of the Year; Advanced Mar­ket­Place was awarded. #
  • A green IT busi­ness wins Florida IT Leader of the Year award http://twitpic.com/ey1e #
  • View of the Magic King­dom and Space Moun­tain from the top of the Con­tem­po­rary http://twitpic.com/ey4x #
  • Radio music in Osce­ola and Orange coun­ties is so much bet­ter than in Miami-Dade, for sure #
  • @foodmomiac Appar­ently that’s one of the top ten restau­rants in the world !?!? #
  • @markkrupinski hav­ing dri­ven to Orlando twice in a week, I don’t think I’ll make it out to Bar­Camp­Tampa #
  • @BonzoESC funny enough, that’s one of the rea­sons the sta­tions are bet­ter fur­ther North. That Miami beat wears thin after a while … #
  • Oh wow, Juan Pablo Mon­toya is here http://twitpic.com/ez9i #
  • @markkrupinski Thanks, I’m dri­ving back this after­noon for a guest lec­ture to jour­nal­ism stu­dents #
  • A non-SSL credit card sub­mis­sion page for wire­less access signup? Uh … no thanks … Doh #
  • @Felipelobon JP’s car is awe­some #
  • @stevenbristol you’d think they could make the effort … Heh #
  • Attend­ing an ITFlorida work­ing group meet­ing for the “Florida 2.0 Ini­tia­tive” #
  • @zelenayafeya at the Con­tem­po­rary Resort in Dis­ney #
  • @markkrupinski sounds great, Mark, I’ll look for that once it’s posted #
  • Pre­sented Refresh­Mi­ami and Miami tech scene to ITFlorida board and FL2i work­ing group; Jud­son French talked about Doterati and Orlando #
  • @ScrapNancy Montoya’s car does not look easy or com­fort­able to drive, seen from the inside. It’s really a souped-up go-cart … Must be fun #
  • Drove back from Orlando, now get­ting ready to lec­ture a jour­nal­ism class #
  • I’m lec­tur­ing right now on Twit­ter to a senior class … tough going! #
  • @deswalsh Thanks, I’ll do that next time … #
  • @digitalfemme Cre­at­ing a pub­lic per­sona takes jour­nal­ism stu­dents out of their com­fort zone; they don’t want to become “a part of the story” #