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
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 [...]
Continue reading »Every week on AMC TV’s Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad men and women to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today.
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