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The Shallows at SXSW
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 09-03-2010
I will be reading from my forthcoming book, The Shallows, a week from today at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. The reading is scheduled to take place on March 16 at 11:30 am on the Day Stage. If you are in the neighborhood, and are properly badged, please stop by….
Lori Ann LaRocco: Thriving In The New Economy – Blog Business Success Radio
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 09-03-2010
Lonely No More on Thread
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 09-03-2010
Thread.com in less than a minute from Thread.com on Vimeo.
Iconoculture: Lonely hearts looking for love online, but tired of registration-heavy dating sites and wary of total strangers, can tug on Thread for a Facebook-friend-vetted flame-finding alternative.Launched in September 2009 and currently in beta, the currently free Facebook Connect-powered service only requires users to fill out a bare-bones questionnaire to get started. Once up and running, users can easily browse other Threadsters sorted by degrees of separation from themselves.If someone looks appealing, users can ask a mutual friend for an intro or be gutsy and send the possible paramour a Facebook message directly.
Thriving In The New Economy by Lori Ann LaRocco – Book review
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 08-03-2010
Healthy Seaweed Chips
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 08-03-2010
TrendCentral: These seaweed chips from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables have become a popular mid-afternoon snack in our office. Although it does involve another pricey trip to Whole Foods, we think these chips may be worth fighting the lines and extending our budgets for. Unlike most savory snack foods, they have no added salt, yet still have a distinct sodium flavor thanks to the sea veggies’ natural mineral salts. They’re no substitute for a hijiki salad, but at least the guilt factor is far lower than that experienced after polishing off an entire canister of Pringles.
Nowness
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 07-03-2010
This post appeared originally, in a slightly different form, at Edge.org. Ripeness, Shakespeare told us, is all. The Bard did not anticipate the realtime web. On the New Net, ripeness is nothing. Nowness is all, as David Gelernter tells us in his essay “Time to Start Taking the Web Seriously.” Web 2.0 was supposed to bring us a creative outpouring of social production. Instead it’s tossed us into the rapids of instant communication. The Web has become a vast multimedia telephone system, where everyone is on the same party line, exchanging millions of bite-sized updates and alerts with every tick…
