Sometimes the best ideas are the result of upsetting your significant other.
Kulveer Taggar, a serial entrepreneur, was at an event when his phone died. His girlfriend tried to reach him, but since he had no way to tell her that he'd run out of battery, she just assumed Taggar was ignoring her. That incident, combined with friends calling him during meetings, clued Taggar in to an unmet need: better status updates for mobile.
The status update has taken many forms over the years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Internet users posted away messages on services like AOL Instant Messenger that ranged from the basic "I am away from my computer right now" to personal confessions. As smartphones took off in the mid-2000s, services like Twitter and later WhatsApp initially focused mostly on sharing status updates in the traditional sense. Both have since expanded far beyond that, perhaps leaving a void as a result. Read more...
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