Interesting video. Does anything in the list sound familiar?
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Ten signs your organization is dysfunctional
Quote from NYT: ‘It’s not your Facebook profile. It’s Facebook’s profile about you’
The New York Times has an article that expresses much of the sentiment I’ve been forming about Facebook over the last several months. It says there is a small but growing group of people who are leaving the site after putting some thought into its implications. To summarize this sentiment in one sentence: commercializing the [...]
Latest Facebook lawsuit alleges site exists only to snoop on you and sell the information
Five users of Facebook recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the true purpose of the site is to collect information about consumers “in the most innocuous way possible” and sell it to third parties. While it’s doubtful that the suit will gain much traction, the litigants’ analysis of the Facebook business model is [...]
Why we’re seeing a social media gold rush
We are in the middle of a gold rush. A full-tilt, get out of my way or I’ll trample you gold rush. Possibly the biggest gold rush in technology since Y2K.
I’m referring to the flood of people competing in a noisy, rapidly shifting environment to gain quick recognition as the vaunted SME: Social Media Expert. In 2008, Facebook and [...]
Backlash against travel web sites (well deserved)
I’d long felt that travel web sites are not all they’re cracked up to be. I’ve never once felt, when searching for fares on one of them, that I was getting one of the vaunted great deals they promise. A skilled travel agent or the concierge at your company, if it has one, will do [...]
Are recommendations on Linked In worth anything?
There’s a lot to like about Linked In. For one thing, it’s a social networking site with a specific purpose beyond time wasting: finding a better job. For another, it has so far avoided the clutter and chaos of MySpace and Facebook (though I’m not sure how long that will last.)
But there’s one feature on [...]
Makers of role-playing games on Facebook accused of stealing copyrighted artwork
Hmmm. A whole week has passed and there have been no controversies involving Facebook! Excellent.
Wait…
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/08/04/another-facebook-rpg-controversy/
Smooth career moves by Twitter users
Enjoy this survey of career-enhancing information helpfully shared with the world on Twitter. On Resume Bear.
CNN.com T-shirts: A good idea floundering on the wrong web site
Several months back, CNN.com started displaying a little T-shirt icon next to selected headlines. Click on the icon and you can buy a T-shirt with that headline. For a brief moment, seeing this for the first time, I thought, “Cool!” Then I started reading the headlines. Oh. Not cool.
This is actually a very good marketing [...]
Just when I thought my opinion of the entertainment industry couldn’t get any lower…
Rich, successful, fortunate people bitching about how hard they have it is so off-putting. I stopped watching X-Files in the second to last season because I got tired of reading about David Duchovny being unhappy because the show’s success was so inconvenient for him.
The music industry, and now the television industry, are like that. They [...]