Do You Avoid Shaking Hands? [Ask The Readers]
A firm handshake is a solid building block in a business relationship and also a fantastic way to share in whatever germ-laden trip the owner has recently taken it on. Do you abhor the handshake? Over at the Boston Globe, Neil Swidey poses the question: will we ever get rid of the handshake? It’s a [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
