Phil Gyford (
mefi's own!) realized last year that after he and his friends spent much of their professional lives freelancing, they were missing out on a key part of business life:
Office Culture. So he invented his own, launching a synergizing solutioneering company site called
Pretend Office complete with stock art. The key component that made the ruse complete was the inter-office @everyone mailing list,
which is also online. Through the mailing list, they create the story of the most painful fictitious office on earth. A personal favorite of mine was
the Christmas Dinner thread, do step through the conversation.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 6, 2010 -
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(close-up on my face, quickly zooming out to an overhead shot as I yell)
Noooooooooo!!!!! TicketWeb, one of the last places you could buy a ticket to a concert that wasn't Ticketmaster, just got
bought out by Ticketmaster. TicketWeb's slogan is "The Online Ticketing Alternative." Not anymore....hello, monopoly anyone?
posted by mathowie
on May 30, 2000 -
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The delay in adding new top level domains drags on, and there seems to be no solution in sight. ICANN can't agree on whether or not to add new TLDs like .biz, .cars, or .corp., but they are discussing it at an upcoming meeting in March. I would hope they add enough domains to make domain squatting difficult, but I bet large corporations will just buy everything with their name it anyway, and fight over others' use of their name with a different TLD. What a mess.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 28, 2000 -
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