February 26, 2009 • 7:08 pm 0
It was Seedcamp week in Paris, with the first Paris Mini Seedcamp on the 24th. I went to the special Seedcamp edition of the OpenCoffee Club meeting the next day, as well as the first Paris TechCrunch Talk in the afternoon. The subject of the latter was the state of entrepreneurship in France, and there was a lot of discussion about what French startups need to do to go global. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: tech events , startuppity, words
February 24, 2009 • 10:09 pm 0
A geekette acquaintance of mine recently said that when she was away from her computer for too long, she started to jones for it, the way you do for a cigarette. I knew exactly what she meant. But every now and then you have to go out and play. Read my post on the benefits of IRL socializing on Web Worker Daily and Salon.com.
February 23, 2009 • 7:29 am 0
Is the secret to Twitter’s success a generation’s need for constant validation? Read my post Aspartame for the brain on frogblog, and Owen Thomas’s I Tweet, Therefore I Am on Valleywag Gawker.
Filed under: apps, web life, web trends , toys
February 22, 2009 • 5:27 pm 0
Web 2.0 was all about social and free, kind of like the Haight in the 60s. We tossed our inhibitions to the wind and let it all hang out. Alas, groovy people, the pendulum is swinging, as it inevitably must do. A sure sign: I had to pay WordPress money to change the CSS of this blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: social media, web trends , startuppity, tips
February 18, 2009 • 1:18 pm 0
Thinking of freelancing? You can read my post about the importance of having mentors before striking out on your own. On Web Worker Daily and Salon.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized , mentors, tips
February 6, 2009 • 1:41 pm 0
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, right? Maybe not so much on the Web, where our olfactory senses don’t do us much good. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: language, tech events , logos, startuppity, tips, words
