Christine

Pimping the Chumby Bling

...OK, I couldn't resist sharing this one. Chumby is now selling the vintage-style tees that they handed out to us at FOO Camp. For twenty bucks, you can have one too:

The Freeloader's Guide to Web 2.0 Expo

So, you want to go to Web 2.0 Expo, but your startup can't afford the $1,895 registration fee? Never fear. This year, conference organizers O'Reilly Media and TechWeb have embraced the proudly (or needfully) scrappy, and lobbycon energy is no longer restricted to the hallway salmon swim. Here's how to register for free, and a schedule of options accessible to free registration.

Goodbye Google Reader, Hello NetVibes

Something strange crept up on me over the last several months: I slowly stopped reading blogs. Part of this was due to spending more of my limited social media budget on Seesmic, Twitter, and Facebook, which sites tend to expose a certain amount of blog content. (e.g., clicking through to new posts shared in Twitter streams.) And part of this behavioral change was driven by the incredible failings of Google Reader.

Do Women Care More About Social Networks?

Interesting snippet of the day: Auren Hoffman recently blogged about the growing imbalance between male and female participation in social networks. To boil it down, the most popular social networking sites - Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 - are roughly 60:40 female:male. Auren theorizes that the sole exception, LinkedIn (61% male) has the reverse skew because it is highly transactional, unlike the other networks. I can see his point.