January 2011
3 posts
Less can be more in online networks
Sam Lessin (founder of drop.io; now with Facebook) described traditional social media sites as “uploading something and then pushing it across a network or making it searchable.” With drop.io, Lessin created a service that did the opposite; instead of making things public, individuals and businesses used drop.io to pull information online, secure it in a private place, and share that “exact...
Hiring a Virtual Assistant
Everyone I know is busy. Whether it’s work or school or an overbooked personal life, no one has the time to accomplish everything that he or she wants to.
I spent the long weekend in NYC and got back to Chapel Hill last night. As I unpacked, I realized I had no idea what was going on this week. I hate not being organized, but I also hate wasting time leafing through class syllabi and...