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Six weeks ago I wrote a piece for one of South Africa's Sunday papers, the Sunday Times, on the role that Twitter plays in the lives of those who use it. “This collective stream of consciousness can be both disarmingly intimate and disconcertingly public,” I wrote. “For those who tweet, ...

Projecting a brave and blissful face to the world when your wife has left you and you’ve been retrenched is nothing new. People have been “keeping up appearances” for hundreds of years.But in the social media age, this has taken on whole new proportions and become a daily pressure ...

This presentation from famous Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm, Sequoia Capital, is a must-see. It explains the effects of the economic downturn on venture capital and internet startups. The news obviously isn't good, as investors will shun typically risky online startups, unless they are entities that can turn faster, if ...