Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less than professional—or even (if the frolleague happens to be a frupervisor) grounds for dismissal.
—Jonathon Keats jargon@wired.com
The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on. Being new is a great advantage on this front. Would you go tell a friend about Pepsi? No, because they’ve been around too long. That’s the advantage of being David in the David and Goliath story.
—Mark Hughes, author of “Buzzmarketing”
Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFIX USA changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple.
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Major leadership changes Twitter renewed questions about its business prospects — was the replacement of CEO Jack Dorsey by fellow co-founder Evan Williams a shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic? But VC backers of the microblogging service interviewed by wired.com insisted they remain bullish, and Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Twitter backer Spark [...]
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