Believe it or not, spam has been around for 30 years, and two years past the deadline Bill Gates set on eradicating its existence. More surprisingly, a recent survey conducted by Sophos revealed that 11% of people admit to having bought goods in response to spam messages. Well, if nobody responded to spam, the tactic… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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
Start living in a store, like Mark Malkoff did.
Second life? No thanks, I believe many people have enough troubles with their first. Related post:Why Second Life will fail