News roundtable with Rob Tercek, Marshall Kirkpatrick and Lon Harris

www.facebook.com On this Friday’s News Roundtable Panel, we welcome Rob Tercek, Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb) and Lon Harris (Ranker.com). Hot topics on the docket include Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetdeck, the M round raised by social commenting startup Disqus, and the level of privacy you should–or shouldn’t–expect to have on the Web. Plus, the panel offers their picks for documentaries you should watch right now. Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining our new Producer Program at twistlist.co! To read more about the stories making headlines this week, visit bit.ly/TWISTNews139. 2:00-6:00 Welcome of guests. 6:00-9:15 Discussion of the benefits of joining the TWiST List (got to TwistList.co) and reading of new members’ names. 9:15-10:30 Ad for Trada. 10:30-12:30 Tweetdeck has been purchased by Twitter. Will this acquisition dumb down the product? 12:30-15:30 Tyler: The monetization piece will come from building tools for the marketers. 15:30-16:30 Has Twitter lost credibility among the developer community? 16:30-18:30 Disqus announces a million raise. Is it overly optimistic to say that Facebook isn’t a threat to their business model? 18:30-19:30 What’s the internal ReadWriteWeb discussion? Do you think you need to move to be more competitive with other tech sites? 19:30-21:30 Would Facebook ever add a checkbox that says “make anonymous”? 21:30-24:00 Tyler: Disqus has done a bang-up job of getting you to realize another layer of …
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