March 5th, 2010 by admin
To access a fundamental source of income through the internet is available from several categories of work and services. This might involve services to be completed personally, or otherwise done by an automated system of your choice. Internet advertising and referrals to websites is a new way to gain money. Freelance writing is contemporarily the [...]
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November 30th, 2009 by admin
It would not take a genius to guess you know what Twitter is. While the state of the economy is, at last, showing signs of recovering; driving new business and retaining customers continues to be a battle. Subsequently, marketers are working overtime with a host of strategies. Key amongst these, Twitter is winning a lot [...]
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September 15th, 2009 by admin
(Credit: CNET / Josh Lowensohn)
SAN FRANCISCO–The world of Web 2.0 has been criticized for being too much about the nifty ideas and not enough about raking in the dough. So there were likely more than a few sets of ears in the audience on Monday at TechCrunch50 that perked up at the start of the [...]
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August 31st, 2009 by admin
Want to feel old? Sixteen years ago today, 30 August 1993, The Late Show with David Letterman premiered on CBS. Where has the time gone?
Letterman, for most people, is synonymous with his ‘Top Ten List.’ It’s such a part of our culture that The Top Ten List even has its own Wikipedia entry. [...]
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August 23rd, 2009 by admin
More proof that blogging is smart business. Just make sure that whoever is blogging is a good writer and is committed to being consistent.
Otherwise, it will be a waste of time. You can either have your developers include a blog in your web experience or use free tools like Wordpress to link to [...]
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March 13th, 2009 by admin
Normally, PR firms are pitching us start-ups, not creating them. That’s not the case with Twendz, a new Twitter tool from the folks at Waggener Edstrom. It pulls in the latest tweets on any given topic, and shows you what the overall user sentiment is, be it positive or negative.
This is cleverly wrapped up into [...]
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March 11th, 2009 by admin
The meeting scheduling service Timebridge, which we first covered in 2006, has been upgraded recently with a somewhat better e-mail user interface and some important related services. And according to CEO Yori Nelken, the business model he set out to execute is actually working, even in this awful economy.
The thing that I didn’t get at [...]
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February 24th, 2009 by admin
As part of an overall package of regulations, European leaders pledged to crack down on tax havens over the weekend. “We want
results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of
consequences,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who’s had tax havens in her crosshairs for a while, stressed the [...]
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February 19th, 2009 by admin
It’s hard to be a Russian billionaire these days:
The number of Russian billionaires has halved since last year,
according to an annual ranking by Finans magazine, and the missing
names read like a brief history of the financial turmoil over the past
six months.
The ranking of Russia’s 400 wealthiest individuals
puts the number of dollar billionaires at 49, down [...]
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February 19th, 2009 by admin
Great rant from blogger David Galbraith via Boing Boing:
Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a
place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema. This is
effectively the proposition that created [...]
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