How to find out if your boss doesn’t like you — and what to do about it They’re micromanaging you Micromanaging isn’t all that uncommon — in fact, most of us are guilty of doing it — but if your boss is checking up on you (andonlyyou) all the time, it could be a sign that they don’t really like or trust you. Are they asking to check to be CC’ed on all your external emails before they’re sent out?...

Over the last few months, we’ve had a number of questions from people wondering how to check which tab or extension is causing Chrome to slow down. If you’re a Chrome user you’ve undoubtedly had moments were you’ve tried to figure this out yourself. For the most part, Chrome’s pretty good: in this particular job I have countless tabs open all the time and it often doesn’t bat an eye. But some pages with too much Flash, JavaScript or what have you chew up the CPU or memory more than all the others combined and it seems more noticeable in Chrome than in other browsers....

Last month, without warning, Facebook and Twitterkilled-off access to RSS feeds. With the launch of the new Twitter interface, you could only access RSS feeds on Twitter if you were logged out of your account. Now, it seems you can’t access them at all. Whether intentional or not, this is not a surprising move on Twitter’s part. It has been hard at work ensuring that any interaction with its services adheres to a particular vision....

The Next Web has been atThe Future of Web Appsconference in London over the past couple of days, speaking with some great folk from across the tech world, such as SoundCloud Co-founderEric Wahlforss, and Mozilla’s Developer EvangelistChristian Heilmann. A common theme that permeated many of the discussions we’ve had has been how to build the best products, looking at things like browser barriers and APIs. But it’s worth looking at the bit before the product building stage – the finding, hiring and retaining of top technical people....

Many early adopter Xoom customers are voicing issues with their tablets not offering the popular YouTube app. Motorola’s Owner Forumsandvariousothersourcesshow that the issue has been reported since the Xoom launched. Today, I ran into it, too. Watching YouTube videos via the Android 3.0 browser works even without the application. Motorola and Google have showcased the native YouTube app many times to demo how polished and stylish their new tablet OS really is....