Word: facebooked
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...invests small sums of money in LILO-style start-ups and advises them during their ramen days. The difference between a start-up and a small business, by the way, is that a "start-up is designed to grow - it's scalable," said Graham. Compare a hair salon with Facebook. "Hair salons scale linearly," he explained. "You have to do twice as much work to get twice as much revenue." But once Facebook was built? It grew exponentially...
Will it be the next Facebook? The next Blogger, Digg or Twitter? Who knows? It almost goes without saying that many more start-ups fail than succeed. Reid Hoffman, founder and CEO of the job-networking site LinkedIn and an angel investor in many start-ups (including Facebook), says, "The biggest problem facing any website is distribution." In a world where it's so easy to start a company, how will anyone find yours...
...sort of intimidating. Graduate students whip out their dusted hardcovers with the Greek original--and only the Greek original--of Homer, Herodotus, and Plato. The Loeb editions--with Greek on one side and English on the other--are too childish for them. Don't plan on looking at Facebook photos in this library...
FlyBy was browsing the Web and found this. Ahoy, there. Facebook has created a new quiz to test what Ivy League school we should go to? Sort of like the sorting hat in facebook form, eh? FlyBy was intrigued...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...