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Worcester, MA: Becker College, May 14, 2012. Candidates for the Class of 2012, it is a distinct honor for me to address you all today. I grew up not far from here in a little town called Lynnfield just north of Boston, so this is very much home to me and your welcome means a […]

@Errand — Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 22, 2006 — Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 22, 2006 On Twitter’s first day, pretty much all you could do was send messages and receive them. There were no username links to the @ sign then. For my tenth tweet (#83), I used “@” as a contraction to say “at […]

I sat (and skateboarded) for the British Broadcasting Company at my house in San Francisco. We talked about Odeo, Twitter, my company DollarApp, and our community iOSDevCamp. See a brief excerpt here: “I discovered that you can be a new type of writer in this tiny space.” See the interview in full at BBC News.

What you’re holding in your hands is a set of guidelines. A collection of protocols which describe an approach to another protocol, something we call Twitter. The amazing thing about this particular protocol is that it’s being defined daily. By you. Twitter was inspired by the concepts of immediacy, transparency, and approachability, and created by […]

Yahoo! was generous enough to donate their venue for last Summer’s iPhone Developer Camp. During the event, I was finishing the last chapters of 140 Characters. To follow up on that experience, Yahoo! visited my office for a Developer Spotlight on the history of iPhoneDevCamp, Twitter, my book, and the iPhone App.

I’m excited to travel to Park City, Utah for my first visit to the Sundance Festival. Location: Tweet House Friday, January 22nd Reception I’ll be signing copies of 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form, and demonstrating Square, the revolutionary new payments system from the inventor of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Saturday, January 23rd […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Co-creator of Twitter Dom Sagolla releases 140 Characters for iPhone and iPod touch, a new form of hypertext book continuously updated with fresh content. SAN FRANCISCO, CA: 140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form has been released worldwide via the iTunes App Store. Distinctly different from the Kindle edition, the […]

I enjoyed speaking with Henry Tenenbaum on Sunday morning. I see the future following the model of the past, which is: we started out with this SMS application. Thank you, @HenryTen and @KRON4News for a great experience!

[Note: I actually wrote this 2 years ago, but here it is reprinted almost word for word.] Getting overwhelmed with junk on Facebook? Annoyed by random spam targeting you? Tried Twitter for a while and now you think it’s about to Jump the Shark already? Ease back on the throttle there, Fonzie. Twitter is no […]

I visited Portland this weekend, and had the pleasure of being interviewed on the infamous Strange Love Live podcast during BarCamp. Queue up to 53:30 to hear some History of Twitter and Odeo: Thanks to Toonlet for inviting me on, and to Small Society for sponsoring my trip!