Rose Cantine

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 [...]

It’s been a week since the launch of the iPhone. Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and David Pogue (New York Times) have posted their very positive reviews. A lot of people in San Francisco rushed out to buy it including my friends. At dinner the other night, I had a chance to play with the [...]

Here I am again, this time on Facebook, typing in the same details I had typed in at Friendster, Orkut, Tribe and MySpace. I could have done it my sleep, answering the same inane questions about my favorite TV shows, movies, books, hobbies, and interests. So I have to tell yet another social network that [...]

Farhad Manjoo has posted a good article in Salon on why online review sites for restaurants, hotels, books, and cafes disappoint. On a recent visit to a cafe in Sausalito, California, he found the food so-so, even though the reviews promised the best breakfast in town.
There’s nothing new about this. A lot of people who [...]

I was having breakfast yesterday with Alexander Casassovici, a young entrepreneur from Paris, who was in Amsterdam for the Nextweb conference. Alexander’s startup Wavestorm develops technology for the “Internet of Things” — machine to machine communications via Wi-Fi. We were talking about how this tech “bubble” is different from the first one in the late [...]

If you work freelance or have small business with no staff, you need to organize everything yourself and work efficiently. Fortunately, there are a lot of online tools for time tracking, invoicing, project management, shared workspaces, customer relationship management, etc. available from Freelanceswitch.com.

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