Category: culture


Inspiring quotes about recent trends

From Chris Shipley:
“The Web 2.0 Cycle Has Come to a Close. For much of the last three years, technology industry pundits have hyped Web 2.0 as the Big Thing that fundamentally changes the business of the Web. We think it’s pretty clear now that Web 2.0 has been more of a hype cycle than a […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Glassdoor - gives new meaning to corporate transparency?

A new company fresh out of the gate with $3M venture capital just launched glassdoor: a site where employees can anonymously rate their company CEO and share their salary data as well as general reviews of the company they work for. Neato.
This is not an entirely new idea, of course – sites like ‘the vault’ […]

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Posted by Jim Amos on Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Good old claptrap

How much longer can ‘marketers’ throw bushels of bs around before the ‘experts’ start calling them on it? One of The New York Times’ crack business writers has an article about the explosion in boutique hotels, and the fact that large ‘brands’ read - chains - are jumping on the bandwagon.
Hyatt introduced its […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

In on the joke

Weezer has a new video, which features a bunch of references to famous Youtube videos (Chocolate Rain, Mentos & Diet Coke, etc). It has over 5 million hits and 34,000 (!) comments. So what? Show it to your boss at work and see if he or she ‘gets’ it. It’s a quick way to […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Monday, June 2nd, 2008

10 Facts About the Future of Online Video

Disagree with the Ninja on these 10 facts and he’s liable to kill you. Ah, who am I kidding? He’s liable to kill you regardless of your stance on the issue… or any issue whatsoever. Uh-oh.
High-larious:
in the spirit of “you’re gonna screw this up regardless…”
Ask a Ninja

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Posted by Chris on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008