This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
I finally signed up for Twitter yesterday, its addictive, and it made me think a lot about why it has become popular so quickly, I think there are three big things.
1. Its mindless. “What are you doing?” Twitter doesn’t make its users think hard to interact.
2. Its ubiquitous. Easily available everywhere: IM, Mobile, Web
3. Barrier […]
LinkedIn claims to let you “stay in touch with your network”, but what does that mean? If keeping lists of names and numbers is staying in touch with your network I’d say most people do an excellent job, but lists of names and numbers are meaningless. Valuable personal networks are built on meaningful relationships. You […]
I’ve already talked about the film and music industry doing this, but now it seems that phone companies want to jump on the bandwagon too. TracPhone has claimed that by unlocking your cell phone for use on any compatible carrier you are a criminal who is hurting the poor and subsidizing terrorism. They claim that […]