I’m Reading…Just in case you aren’t one of the 225 million Facebook users who received a notification, tonight at 12:01 AM EST (9:01 PM local time), Facebook decided to launch a massive “first-come, first serve” claim on usernames (or handles) on Facebook.
You might be wondering why this is big deal, since these have existed on every [...]
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If you have not been following the latest Twitter drama, I thought I’d share it briefly here on this blog.
Meet Connor Riley. She seems like a nice enough young woman, going to UC Berkeley. Her personal student website is online, including her resume. After all, she is looking for a job.
Good news! She landed an [...]
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This is a note I meant to post over a week ago, but didn’t get around to it.
The question is, would you pay $12.99 for 5 hours of Facebook?
The reason I ask is, until a couple weeks ago, I would have assumed the answer was no. Facebook has become the latest in a line of [...]
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Had to share this small gem of a find. It’s not one of my normal RSS feeds, but my wife forwarded me this article from Mom Gadget:
Mom Gadget: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin – Double U – Tee – H
(Turns out, the reason she asked me to look at it was to translate the “Double U [...]
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If you missed the 39 articles currently on Google News on the topic, Mike Schroepfer announced today that he has accepted an engineering leadership position at Facebook. Mike is the current VP of Engineering at Mozilla, and has been there for about three years.
Here are Mike’s comments, direct from his Mozilla blog.
In my opinion, of [...]
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This is a fun story, courtesy of the Boston Herald. Reminds me a bit of my mother’s conversion last year to a true LinkedIn fan:
Boston Herald: Antisocial Critic Now Web Phanatic
I finally caved to peer pressure last week, convinced that the “best time to look for a job is when you’re not looking” cliche is [...]
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Hits a little too close to home… especially on the housing prices in the Bay Area.
So clever I watched it twice. Plus, I feel like being a fan boy because when they say “hire an engineer”, I’m pretty sure I know that engineer!
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eBay launched Neighborhoods today, part of their big push to re-invigorate activity and excitement around the core of the auction platform. eBay was built over people connecting about the products and categories that they collect and sell, and this effort definitely attempts to recapture more of that original community feel.
What are Neighborhoods?
Think of [...]
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I thought I’d post a quick follow-up to the Office 2.0 conference, especially since I mentioned the appearance on this blog earlier this week.
The Office 2.0 conference is dedicated to exploring the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise, and I was a bit surprised by the dedication and passion that many of the [...]
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Sorry, I know I’m just providing blog-chamber echo here, but I had to post.
I had read a while ago about the video, “Valleyfreude” that was made by Randi Jayne, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Every article about it highlighted the line:
“F*ck you Yahoo, they’re going IPO“
Given the recent buzz around Facebook, it wasn’t surprising [...]
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