Facebook Privacy Changes Aren’t Evil
By chrissaad
I give Facebook a lot of crap. But I don’t think their latest privacy changes are nefarious in any way. It’s pretty obvious what they are doing. They want search inventory to sell to…
By chrissaad
Teen Workers Expect Facebook Access
A new survey conducted by Junior Achievement and Deloitte finds that teens fully expect to access social networking sites on-the-job. According to the Deloitte survey, 70% of teens surveyed use say they participate in…
Establishing Social Media Friending Etiquette on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
By Mark Suster
I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at…
ComMetrics Crowdsourcing #FailBucket
ComMetrics is a social media analytics company, a division of CyTRAP Labs GmbH. ComMetrics is well-known in the industry, including its FT ComMetrics Blog Index. The company published a useful piece, Crowd-wisdom fails businesses.…
Enterprise 2.0 and the Real Time Web with Jive
The enterprise software industry was shaken recently by a Salesforce announcement that it was going to include a component in its customer relationship management software that functions in ways similar to Twitter and Facebook.…
Developing the Next Gen of iPhone Apps Programmers
By David Strom
I had an opportunity to audit a computer science class this week at Washington University, a class that was teaching students how to write iPhone apps. It was their final presentation, and I got…
Tis the season for mergers and acquisiti…
Tis the season for mergers and acquisitions, apparently: Sanyo has just been acquired by Panasonic for a staggering $4.6 billion for a 50.2% stake in the company, according to a post from TheStreet a…
The Inevitable Singularity and the Haunting Words of Bruce Schneier
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of noodling on the concept of convergence and singularity. Many years ago, I read Ray Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines, and it had such a re-wiring effect on…
Mastering the Art of Everyday Negotiations
By Tina Seelig
Most of our interactions with others are essentially a series of negotiations, and we do ourselves a huge disservice by not knowing the basic tenets. We negotiate with our friends about what to do…
Why Big Cable and Big Telecom Should Love Net Neutrality Regulations
Every time my friend Michael Sean Wright and I have recorded a conversation (for a podcast, testing purposes, or any other reason), he’s taken to tagging it out with “Go Net Neutrality,” as a…