Rose Cantine

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 [...]

Om Malik posted an article today about Skype on the iPhone: “It took me less than two minutes to get up and running. Sending messages was as simple as typing SMS messages.” A German company has figured out a way to let iPhone owners use Skype via the browser on the iPhone (since you can’t [...]

I am on a roll. This week I weeded out time-wasting activities such as Twitter and Jaiku. I closed my account at Linked In, stopped responding to stupid emails, and deleted 75% of my RSS feeds. To get organized and save even more time, I decided to try Backpack, an online application from the [...]

Om Malik wrote in this blog about a number of people are turning away from Facebook because it wastes a lot of time (and by implication, does not yield the appropriate return):
We are not using the privacy settings of Facebook, and are too polite to say no to invitations from people who want to friend [...]

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. [...]

I have joined many social networking sites over the years and I have found all of them to be a waste of time, but in varying degrees, with MySpace being the most useless, followed by Tribe, Friendster and Orkut. I recently joined Facebook because my San Francisco tech buddies are all piling into it. But [...]

I downloaded ScribeFire, a Firefox plugin that allows you to post and edit articles on your blog. It’s a full featured editor that lets you easily mark text in bold, italics, etc. You can add Technorati tags as well. I find it much easier to use that MarsEdit, which I have utilized occasionally. Better, ScribeFire [...]