October 23rd, 2009 by admin
SAN FRANCISCO–Google Vice President Marissa Mayer made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday: “Social Search,” a new Google Labs experiment that will bring in search results from a member’s social-network contact circle.
It’ll be launching as an opt-in project in the next few weeks. Then, you’ll need to have [...]
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September 2nd, 2009 by admin
Whether you’re creating the next Facebook or you have a patent on three-tiered umbrellas, you’re an entrepreneur. But finding funding for your idea, getting some advice, or even just talking to people in your same situation can be difficult. Social networks designed specifically for entrepreneurs aim to help you achieve your goals. [...]
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November 2nd, 2008 by admin
If you’re contemplating liquidating some of your assets, eBay, Craigslist and others are probably looking pretty attractive right now. Don’t forget about the garage sale though!
A good way to dress one up, or turn those old pizza boxes into holiday gift baskets is to head over to iStockPack. It’s an Instructables-like community that’s filled with [...]
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October 30th, 2008 by admin
Social aggregator FriendFeed has just rolled out a new option for its users to post some or all of their FriendFeed activity over to Twitter.
Earlier on in the start-up’s life the functionality was introduced to send replies (via FriendFeed) to other people’s Twitter messages. This worked as long as you had plugged in your Twitter [...]
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October 25th, 2008 by admin
The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure. Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works. Actually leveraging those [...]
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