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The Five People You Meet in Web 2.0 Hell

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

38-year-old Eddie is convinced his digital life would be better upon meeting five types of people and showing them the unexpected negative impact they have on others:
The Under-Tagger – This guy would spend a week going through old video cassettes, finding the amazing CNN footage from 1983 he was looking for, but upon uploading it [...]

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Worst Facebook profile ever*: Dana Avraham with 199 applications†

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

Meet Dana Avraham, a 26 years old Israeli woman, who cannot say no to Facebook applications.

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Did adding Facebook applications become the digital equivalent of collecting pogs?

* worst Facebook profile - that I had encountered
† 199 applications - as of today, February 28, 2008

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Library of Progress

February 17th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

I often criticize the Israeli Internet for being stuck in the 1990’s and not getting the jist of the net’s knowledge sharing nature. So much so, that I started thinking that maybe I come off as a crazed reprover in the gate, drooling and mumbling incoherently something about Web 2.0. Could it be that everyone [...]

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Blogging: The Tipping Point

February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 100% vent free

Most bloggers and small content-providers do not expect to earn money that way. They do it for the fun of it, writing about things close to their heart. But everyone needs to feel the love, and so bloggers take comfort in the rising number of visitors, the search terms that led visitors to the website, [...]

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