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I know what you did last minute

BusinessWeek recently ran an article, “One Place for Your Many Online Lives“, about FriendFeed, a new Web service that aggregates together feeds from different social networking services such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. The beauty of FriendFeed, according to the article, is that it allows you to keep track of your friends and colleagues without… Read More »

If clichés can kill, these probably will

If you have sat through a technology-related PPT presentation lately, you’ll probably remember these well-flogged clichés: Pushing the envelope Paradigm shift 2.0 Ecosystem Solutions provider Step function Basis (e.g. on a daily ‘basis’). Disruptive Evangelise Leading edge Related posts:Now you know why PowerPoint is uselessTo be honest with you Technorati Tags: clichés PowerPoint presentation

Death to social networking

Face it, social networking is a silly idea. The countless social networking sites may be fun and novel at first, but once you’ve established contact with your long-lost “friend” (loosely defined here to include everyone that you’ve come across, no matter how brief the encounter), you’ll get bored quickly with these online procrastination services. That’s… Read More »

How not do conduct an interview

In case you haven’t already heard, the keynote interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW Interactive was ruined by an annoying and disrespectful BusinessWeek journalist named Sarah Lacy, who did a Tyra Banks and made herself the story. Update: Additional bits of the Zuckerberg/Lacy interview from 236.com