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… [Read more…]
February 24, 2009
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… [Read more…]
February 23, 2009
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.
February 22, 2009
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… [Read more…]
February 18, 2009
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.
February 6, 2009
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. When you name your startup zlignob, you’re playing a dangerous game. Some people try to compensate for the meaningless signifier… [Read more…]
February 26, 2009
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