RECESSION LESSON: Screw Starbucks! We're Ridin' With 7-Eleven!

Life is good but times are hard, so when we find a way to cut corners without compromising, we go for it! Which leads us to our Recession Lesson of the week: 7-Eleven coffee bar beats Starbucks everyday of he week when it comes to hot java. Seriously! You fix your coffee to your liking, and pay half the cost of Starbucks and everyother designer coffee house. Screw that!

We were up all night reading, researching, writing...basically engrossed in our creative processes when a 3am distress call came from a good friend. After drawing straws, I (the loser) put my cape on and flew to the rescue (a 30 minute drive across town) but halfway there realized my inner-fuel was low. Mind you, 3am in the streets of Los Angeles is like starring in a 1 man show on Broadway with no audience. It's that desolate!

Anyhoo, of course NOTHING was open and suddenly I'm starting to get verrry sleeeepy. I thought I was going to have to pull over for a little nappy-poo, which would have caused me to totally burn my friend, but low and behold I spot that big beautful Red 7 with the green Eleven across the middle. Yes! 7-Eleven to the rescue!

Without hesitation I beelined over, headed straight to the coffee bar, poured, mixed and stirred to my liking, and after dropping down $1.49(!) (and taking a few desparate sips) I continued on my mission. Ok, that was at 3:00am and I'm STILL up, 6 hours later! All I have to say is that 7-Eleven coffee saved me AND my friend...and for only $1.49! Did I mention that?

Oh yea-- Thank You @7ElevenSoCal for the Retweet this morning. You could have sent a coupon, or something like it but Retweets will do!

Pic via BlazeAdams247's Blackberry Bold 9700 (Hey, you never know, maybe Blackberry will chip in on a bill!)

TWITTER UPDATE

Hey Peeps! As an update to a previous Twitter post, we have found the true stats on the company. AND, You Tube has gone TwitterNuts like the rest of the globe and has added a Twitter button to their share links. Just and FYI for all of you Tweet-Happy Twitterers... and eggheads like moi. :D Also, there is an article in today's NY Times, which discusses how may celebrity twitterers are actually using ghost twitterers, but we could have guessed that. Some of them are soooo obvious. Company stats are below. Now, TwitterOn...

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks. The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

Milestones
6/23/08 — Hires Rudy Winnacker and John Adams, two new Operation Engineers 6
6/9/08 — Survives iPhone 3G Stevenote 7
6/9/08 — Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. 8
5/28/08 — Launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. 9
5/7/08 — Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers 10
4/24/08 — VP Lee Mighdoll Leaves Twitter 11
4/23/08 — Chief Architect Blaine Cook Leaves Twitter 12
4/22/08 — Twitter Japan Launches 13
4/16/08 — Twitter helps bust American man out of Egyptian jail 14
7/15/06 — Twitter Launches 15
3/21/06 — First Twitter 16

Article in the trunk: (or click title post)
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter