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Workplace Eye Contact Etiquette: How Much is Too Much?

Ladies’ blog The Gloss is conducting an interesting experiment: Editor-in-chief Jennifer Wright has decreed that for the entire day she and deputy editor Ashley Cardiff will not make eye contact with each other.

“It’s just an experiment in trying to live like a movie star,” Ms. Wright tells us over Gchat, which is how most normal people communicate while sharing office space. Right? Read More

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Meet Hashable’s Hit Squad For SXSW

Imagine the A-Team, but for tech-savvy networking, and you’ve got a good picture of the Hashable Evangelists headed down to SXSW Interactive this year.

The festival has been the launching pad for some of the biggest mobile/social apps in the game, helping to put Twitter and Foursquare on the national stage. The deluge of parties Read More

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Chatting With the Chatroulette Boy

Today, the The Times interviews Andrey Ternovskiy, the Russian 17-year-old who founded Chatroulette.

According to The Times, he is “effervescent,” “inquisitive,” “polite, excited, and eager.”

He is anti-naked-person (“I want a clean site”), pro-Chatroulette-map (“I enjoy it”), and anti-selling-the-site, despite numerous offers (“I think that some of them are not serious, they Read More