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San Diego Twitter Conference

I'm excited that I will be a guest speaker at "Cool Twitter Conference" in San Diego, CA on July 15, 2009. The event is part of The Twitter Conference World Tour Series and is meant to teach marketing professionals how to connect with audiences through Twitter. I will be sharing how nonprofits and individuals can use Twitter to engage constituents and raise funds online. Follow me on Twitter: @seantiner

And You Thought Gasoline Is Expensive?!?!

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( Big Brother , Portrait by Tiner). Yes, gasoline will probably reach $5 USD a gallon this summer. Shocking? Yes, considering it was only around $1 USD a gallon six years ago. Ah, the good old days, when $20 would fill up your SUV and you would still have change for a Double Double, lotto ticket or a cold one. If you think gasoline prices are overvalued, then you will be shocked by the value of Web 2.0 entities, in particular Facebook applications. According to Adonomics , a website that assigns monetary value to Facebook applications, the most popular and expensive application is Super Wall . The application has over 2.2 million active users and is valued at over $30 million USD. In fact, the majority of the top ten applications are valued at over $8 million. Yes, this makes the price of gasoline seem trivial in comparison. Today marks the start of The Supernova Conference , a symposium that "brings together business, government, and technology thought leaders to understand h...