Is it time to write an Epitaph for Twitter? Obviously the investment community doesn’t think so. They just invested 100 million as they see Twitter as being the next innovation on the Internet. “This investment is happening because it represents a shift” Mr Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks and an investor, stated in the New York Times. He likens the investment strategy similar to those made in Google and Facebook.

When you want to teach a dog a new trick you need lots of wieners in your pocket. At the Kelsey Group’s 30th Yellow Pages Conference in Orlando industry masters of the Yellow Pages Industry gathered to lick their wounds.

They know only a wireless, hyper-linked, user generated world where any piece of knowledge is only a few clicks away. Worldly, brand aware, these “digital natives” are sophisticated in marketing and control what content is delivered to them. Media surrounds them and is neither time nor location-based. Advertisers had better learn how to engage them or be left in the dark. These consumers are very brand aware.

A smile, a touch, a gentle laugh remembered. Memories keep those we love close to us forever.

We live in an increasingly noisy, over exposed world, drenched in data where information is spread in real-time and our freedom is being compromised. Privacy has become a precious commodity as social structures like Facebook are so pervasive in our lives there appears little hope of a refuge.