Posts Tagged with ‘Guy-Kawasaki’

Girl Tech

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I generally don't consider myself a raging feminist, but I have had days, like today, where the gender divide seems so wide as to to be insurmountable.
Let's take the past month, for example. Within just the past few weeks, we've seen the launch of WoWoWoW, or however you want to attempt to type that, a “Huffington Post” just for women. Now, let's forget that The HuffPo is one of the biggest political (and just about anything else now) sites out [...]

Cult of Personality: What Has Web 2.0 Done to Journalism?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]

Spokeo: I’m Almost Certain They Meant Spooky-o

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I've heard dribs and drabs of news about Spokeo over the past year, but it took a push from Guy Kawasaki's blog over the holidays to actually get me to log in and check it out.
Spokeo, if you haven't heard about it, is an all-in-one aggregator for all your social networking sites, from Amazon wishlists to YouTube videos. In all, 33 sites are currently supported in Spokeo, allowing you to keep tabs on every site in one place.
Here's what's [...]

Venture Capitalist Wannabes Read This

colbertlow

You want to be a venture capitalist? You should definitely pass the Venture Capital Aptitude Test laid out by Guy Kawasaki. Is it difficult to answer his question “Who doesn’t want to have an easy job that pays half a million annually and in the same time owning a private jet?” It’s obvious, no one would say no to this kind of job.
He divided the test into 3 main sections. The first important aspect to put into consideration is your working [...]