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Flavors.me and About.me are both platforms for creating “personal splash pages.” I decided to compare the two services, in order to see how splash pages can be used as online business cards, and whether they might be useful for web workers. Read more »

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I’ve had the chance to speak with a number of online innovators. Every day, step by step, these people have proceeded into the unknown. The web has possibilities for innovation that takes us from the warm shallows into the uncharted depths beyond what we know now. Read more »

Former Twitter CEO Evan Williams

Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time. From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the accidental launch of Twitter — to me, he has been pretty much […] Read more »

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Foursquare is tiny compared to emerging location giants Google or Facebook. But when it comes to location-based services, Dennis Crowley is viewed as one of the few people who can look into the future and see the redefinition of Internet and web services based on location. Read more »

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ETacts, one of the many social CRM companies, is shutting down, according to an email sent out to its users. ETacts competes with the likes of Rapportive and Gist. The company, which was incubated by YCombinator had raised $650,000 from angel investors earlier this year. Read more »

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There was a time when venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was the first money in hot, new start-ups. These days, it seems the best KPCB can do is edge its way into hot start-ups at a massive premium like with the funding for Twitter. Read more »

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Facebook can be a great tool for web workers, but you need to be careful about how much information you’re sharing. To stop inappropriate photos being displayed on your profile page, you may want to change who can see photos of you that others have tagged. Read more »

We’ve written extensively about how tweets seriously lack context, due, at least in part, to the inherently disjointed nature of the Twitter network. To read a conversation in its entirety, it requires a lot of clicking back and forth between people’s Twitter pages to follow the […] Read more »

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