Om Malik blesses our humble startup

Betaworks, a New York-based seed-stage investment/development company started by John Borthwick (a former AOL executive who recently sold photo-sharing service Fotolog to Hi Media of France for $90 million), is about to launch its first project, SwitchAbit.

The project, described by Borthwick as a content routing platform, will become a standalone company and will merge with Twittergram, a service created by Dave Winer. This is a no-cash deal. Dave will join SwitchAbit as an advisor.

The full article.

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Ahem cough *tease* cough ahem

http://mp3.twittergram.com/davewiner/gram06342.mp3

An example of a blog post routed from Twitter

Here’s a twit I just posted that will (Murphy-willing) be cross-posted to scripting.com.

http://twitter.com/davewiner/statuses/789744782

It worked. Here’s where it got routed to.

Note that the ! at the beginning causes the post to be routed.

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