The LinkedIn – Twitter agreement to share data seemed to be the biggest news today, being covered by MarketingPilgrim’s  The Tweets Are Coming — To LinkedIn and TechCrunch‘s Social Networks Continue To Rally Around Twitter As LinkedIn Goes Tweet Crazy Too though I don’t think it will make much of a difference – at any rate, the connection from LinkedIn to Twitter wasn’t working tonight, when I last tried it.

Why won’t it make a difference?  Status Updates aren’t the main reason people use LinkedIn – in fact, many of the people who use LinkedIn aren’t into Twitter at all, and I doubt they’ll suddenly learn to use Twitter more often.  On the other hand, from Twitter’s point of view, every little bit of extra usage, helps.

Every day, there’s something new and amazing that happens, but often, within a day or two, it’s like it never happened, or, was always there.

I was at The Brandhacker “Who ‘Owns’ Social Media Strategy” Meetup: PR or Digital Creative?

There’s a good post on it here – and I just want to add my two cents on it here.

I don’t think Advertising, Marketing or Public Relations own Social Media – Good Teams, do.   Here’s what I mean.

The value of any company, to me, is the people who are there – when it comes to executing Social Media – it’s the team you work with, are part of, that really makes the most difference.

I’m at Clickable’s Interesting Cafe tonight to hear Fred Wilson speak about what makes the NewYork Venture Capital Startup scene special.

The presentation is up at AVC blog.

New York is a great place to do a startup, and the genesis came from a talk he did at Web 2.0 last year.

New York has 150 Technology startups vs. 336 in Silicon Valley this year. Why?

– Diversity of Industry (different ideas)
– NYC is Application Focused
– NYC is media obsessed (access to media)
– NYC is creative minded (and artists interact)
– entrepreneurs abound here
– Life style is more social, walk alot, and easier than many other places.
– Density
– International Trade Hub (non stop flight)
– People want to come here, NYC is the Mecca for many
– commercial mindset
– Immigrants
– world’s biggest stage

New York school of web design – where are we leading the way?

– Commence
– Job Search
– Advertising Tech
– SEO/SEM
– Meetup – get people off the web
– Publishing 2.0 with HuffPo and Gawker
– Email ( Daily Candy)
– Payments?

People build companies to make money.

Continue the discussion at AVC.

Jack Dorsy, cofounder of Twitter, speaks next. Twitter was founded, in a way, to connect people, off the web.

Next Chris speaks, co founder of Flickr, makes a point we need a critical mass that leads most companies to want to start / build here.

Questions:
A. With all the pressure to produce revenue, will many west coast companies move here? Fred thinks not, but NYC is coming into it’s own.

B. How much has Google done (by having it’s 2nd largest office here) to change perception that NYC is a great place to build a large business.

My take is this is the best Clickable Cafe yet and, packed.

An interesting point came up with New York’s lack of talent in Product Management. Fred Wilson said VC’s look for Product Development first, in the founder’s of the companies they invest in.