Rose Cantine

Stylefeeder.com is the latest personal online shopping site that allows you to bookmark items you like (an iPhone, Gucci shoes, Dior bag), find “style twins” (people who share your taste), get product recommendations specific to your taste and solicit advice from others in the community about items you are thinking of buying. It’s a social [...]

Mashable has just created a Web 2.o marketplace for entrepreneurs who want to find software developers, sell or buy companies, provide development services, etc. Mashable was inspired by the recent trend of companies listing themselves for sale on eBay but apparently, they claim they got more leads from Mashable. Among the categories are websites for [...]

Add Plaxo to my list of totally useless time-wasting online applications filed under Web 2.0 and social networking. I signed up a few weeks ago for Plaxo’s online beta service just to see what it’s like. I was not impressed with what I saw and promptly forgot about it. In the meantime, I canceled my [...]

iPhone hacked, takes European SIM card: “The Sim-Clone hack enables people to use all the functionality of an iPhone in Europe, with both incoming and outgoing calls, as well as SMS and edge internet.” Everyone knows it was just a matter of time before someone hacked the iPhone to allow consumer choice.
Real businesses make money: [...]

China bashing is very popular these days and the mainstream media know it. Yesterday, I read an article about California banning ginger imported from China because they use illegal pesticides. Today the toy industry gets its turn in the spotlight with an article on shoddy Chinese toys but at least this one focuses the blame [...]

I had just finished writing my post “Why Linked In does not work” where I explain why I left the business networking site (decluttering my life, stop wasting time), when I saw this post by Om Malik entitled “Can privacy be a premium service” about whether there is a business in providing people more privacy. [...]

Om Malik, founder of GigaOm (a blog that should be on your news reader), talks about his days at Business 2.0 which is in danger of being shut down by parent company, Time Inc.:
It still doesn’t take away from the fact that I did some of my best work for Business 2.0, working hard, not [...]