Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.

Watch this great and serious presentation by Gates on 2 world wide issues.

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Meet a bunch of people that I talked with during trip. Actually there were a lot more but this is my selection for this recap.

• Bought the Kodak Zi6 – HD.
• Stacy DeBroff – CEO of  MOM Central http://www.momcentral.com
• SOBConBiz organised by Liz Strauss – school for blogger – http://www.sobevent.com
• WordCampLV – http://lasvegaswordcamp.com
• Ben Grossman – http://www.ben-grossman.com
• Christine Lu – http://christinelu.com
• Rebecca Fannin – http://www.rebeccafannin.com
• Trident Design – inventor – http://www.trident-design.com – PowerSquid
• Rohit Bhargava – Personality Not Included – http://www.personalitynotincluded.com
• Liz Strauss – Successful Blog – http://www.successful-blog.com
• Chris Brogan – http://www.crisbrogan.com
• Lorelle VanFossen – Lorelle on WP – http://lorelle.wordpress.com
• Anita Campbell – Small Business Trends – http://smallbiztrends.com
  

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OK, this is little bit a cry for help. I need your help to get some attention from Twitter. Why?
I am at the following limit of 2,000 people. Why am I at the following limit, I love to follow interesting people.

At this moment I am blocked at 2,000 following because that is the rule as explained here by Twitter.

We do not limit the number of people who can follow you, but we have put limits in place to stop people from aggressively following others. Everyone is allowed to follow 2000 people. After that, follow limits are based on the number of people who are following you.

Of course I can change this by dropping a lot of people that I follow. However I do not want to do that. For me, it is more about who I am following than who is following me. The people that I follow on twitter give me interesting information, links, tips…. When they want to follow me back that is really nice, because than we can have a conversation, I like that too.

Some people that I follow are very popular and receive lots of followers. However they do not want to follow back all these requests. I see a number of people that have a couple of 1,000 followers and only follow a few 100 themselves. These are not people that I want to stop following!

I always check the people that start following me. Are they people, are there conversations in their timeline or is it just links from their site/blog. Is their profile complete, name, bio, URL to site. If it looks like a spammer I always block the profile. If it is like a news twitter, just sending links from their site, I useally do not follow back (I use a RSS reader for that).

My follow rules are similar as explained in these 10 points: FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter

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