Tag Archives: technology

Women Who Tech / Lead

Posted on 8 February 2009 by Samir

FastCompany published a “Most Influential Women in Technology” list a few weeks back, with categories as fun as The Entrepreneurs, The Activists and The Bloggers and The Executives. Speaking of women executives, USA Today (of all newspapers!) ran a story … Continue reading →

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Twitter: I’m (Reluctantly) Sold

Posted on 22 December 2008 by Samir

After using Twitter for the better part of December, I’m sad to say that I’m already sold. Sad because I don’t want another social network to maintain (side note: Twitter just joined up with Google Friend Connect — but my … Continue reading →

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EveryBlock

Posted on 2 October 2008 by Samir

I went to the NetSquaredDC (www.net2dc.com) event last night at the Google DC headquarters — nice officespace, but it was even niftier in the conference area we used. They were serving fruit and fondue (as well as the more standard … Continue reading →

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Musical Chairs / I Support the WGA

Posted on 15 January 2008 by Samir

Given the WGA strike which has brought television to a halt (which, admittedly, I secretly enjoy and am hoping has some marginal effect of getting people off their couches…), I found David Byrne’s two-part piece in this month’s Wired magazine … Continue reading →

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Open Document Format … in the bag!

Posted on 6 July 2006 by Samir

Responding to government requests for interoperability, Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it will offer free software that will allow Word, Excel and PowerPoint to handle documents in rival technology formats. What does this mean for you and everyone else? As … Continue reading →

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