Category Archives: Business

Facebook grabs FriendFeed: a speculation festival

With just about everyone weighing in on the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, I thought I’d add to the noise and toss in my riveting insight (or lack thereof). First of all, I’ve no idea what it means. But then, no … Continue reading

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Teens and Twitter and the upside

I’ve been seeing all kinds of stories and posts and tweets and whatever about the alarming revelation that teens don’t use Twitter. (The link is arbitrary – there are loads of stories out there; it’s just one of many.) The … Continue reading

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What you save in dollars you spend in time

For my headline to be complete it should read, “What you save in dollars you spend in time because, as you probably know, time is money.” In other words, saving dollars doesn’t always save dollars. I’m thinking about businesses and … Continue reading

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Blogs aren’t dead because they didn’t exist to begin with

I had an interesting back-and-forth on Twitter with Andrew Keen (@ajkeen) after he posted a tweet that roughly read, “Blogs aren’t dying – they’re dead.” I tweeted back something about them not being dead and included a link to an … Continue reading

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Pause before you post

I’ve got a fistful of posts in the hopper (the “drafts” section) that I haven’t posted because a) they’re unfinished, b) they strike me as stupid ranting in their present form and/or, c) I’m not entirely sure they reflect what … Continue reading

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