I’ve always been a little dubious of the famous Goldman Sachs forecast about the future importance of the “BRICs” economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China. Steve Pearlstein’s column on high-tech business in Russia in yesterday’s WaPo made me a little more dubious. India and China I get. Barring disaster, they’re going to be the dominant forces [...]
Reader Tara Lazar writes: I enjoyed your recent article regarding Facebook and the social networking phenomenom. In your article you state the first of such sites was Friendster in 2002, but another service called Six Degrees was active in the mid and late 90′s. Named after the John Guare play (and subsequent movie), the site [...]
