Posts Tagged with ‘robert-scoble’

FriendFeed Officially a Time Waster as Companies Begin to Block it in the Offices

Svetlana Gladkova

The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for - and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may not really [...]

Do You Remember What We Did On Our Computers When We Had No Internet?

Svetlana Gladkova

This week we have seen Robert Scoble accused of playing Solitaire on his computer while sitting as a judge in the startup competition during LeWeb conference in Paris. Later on Robert explained that he only played two games during the session where he was not even a judge of himself but I don’t really care [...]

Survey Will Show If Western Web 2.0 Has Opportunities in Asia

Svetlana Gladkova

I often find it depressing how little we know about the web as it is in Asia - their projects and web celebrities or trends maybe. Most often we hear from Asia is when some of the western internet companies (Google anyone?) buys a local company or a startup in Asia - otherwise Asia seems [...]

Robert Scoble Thinks There Are Only Two Great Tech Blogs – and I am Understandably Happy

Svetlana Gladkova

On Friday Robert Scoble published a list of 160+ people worth subscribing to on FriendFeed for everyone interested in technology news. Quite understandably, this list have become one of the most discussed things over the weekend with people either criticizing Robert for this list or thanking him for compiling it.
I think that I have the [...]

A Day in the Life of the Tech Middle Class

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

My initial reaction to Steven Hodson's post about the digital divide between the haves and the have nots has stuck with me, but apparently, 10 days is too long for it to have remained in the attention-deficit world of the Twitterati. The gap between the designers and the intended users is growing ever wider, and [...]

Why Your Start-Up Needs a PR Person

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I watched the bitchmeme today float over the blogs and Techmeme with a wry grin and a shake of my head. Twitter has had a horrible week: the downtime and missing features continue. The users are revolting, posting blog posts and FriendFeed items threatening defection at every new development. The first complaints were that the [...]

Conversing on a Global Web

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Here at Profy, we have a true multi-national environment. We authors all live in the United States, although scattered about. The development team is located in Novosibirsk, Russia. And Profy's CTO moved from Germany. Until recently, I'd never had a big language issue (as you can tell from her posts, Svetlana speaks and writes excellent [...]

Take the Red Pill: We Have No True Web 2.0

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The other night, my husband asked me a question I had no answer for: when we've moved on to whatever Web 3.0 is going to be, what will be left of Web 2.0? There are carryovers from the 1.0 Bubble, but when you think about it, the Web itself is 1.0. And Tim Berners-Lee himself [...]

If Robert Scoble Is Right, Then Web 2.0 Is Dead

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I was determined to remain out of this weekend's bitchmeme. I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl who comments on the blog where the author knows I said something, reads my feeds offline half the time, and doesn't jump on the latest bandwagon when it comes to "conversation."
However, when the headline crossed my radar saying "Era [...]

Toluu and Twubble: Forget Searching and Look for Suggestions

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

With all the social media tools out there, the second most time-consuming activity after actually reading everyone you are following is figuring out who you should be reading. Most Twitter users and blog readers spend a significant amount of time trying to find the most relevant information. Aggregators like FriendFeed (our coverage) and Socialthing (our [...]