Archive for July 5th, 2006
 CultureBy Some say blogging is still an answer looking for a question. Not bloggers, of course. We know it’s a chance to shoot our mouths off. But the rest of the world wonders. What is blogging good for? Today, notice of that eBay may have found a way to make us useful. Ebay wants to [...]
Springwise: The idea behind an all dessert restaurant was something that we’d been thinking of for quite a while. Here in New York City, if you want a really fine dessert that’s taken seriously, you have to go to one of those fine restaurants. We wanted to create a place that would allow you to [...]
Skype Technology Makes Calls Easier
Global Sources Zero One Technology Co. Ltd has released the EzSKY-200, a VoIP adapter that can be used with basic corded or cordless phones for making regular or Skype phone calls. The EzSKY-200 enables PSTN-to-Skype call forwarding and vice-versa. It features PSTN voice mail and realtime recording. It also supports 3-way conference calls. The EzSKY-200 [...]
Jeffery Strain in his Personal Finance Advice blog relates a great story about a ‘found’ opportunity: I was at a gathering today when I struck up a conversation with a man who described his job as a “commute helper.â€? “OK, what exactly is a commute helper?â€? I asked “I help people have a smooth and [...]
The American Enterprise: Is it reasonable to vilify major American companies in this way? In any given week, 140 million people shop in a Wal-Mart store. Wal-Mart is our nation’s leading employer. (There are 30 percent more people working under its roof than are serving in our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, and Coast Guard [...]
Gab Goldberg did a site SEO review of the Business Opportunities Weblog: B+: Dane’s obviously got a lock on his top keyphrase, but he could do much better and move to dominate other phrases. Look up ‘Small Business Opportunities’ on Google, and B-O.biz isn’t even top 10! Home business opportunities: Neither, though he is #12 [...]
Free Downloadable Business Forms from Office Depot
Office Depot is now offering free downloadable business forms. Here’s a sampling from the Starting Your Business category: Business Selection Checklist Cash Flow Sensitivity Analysis Cost Assessment Checklist Equipment Lease Checklist Family Monthly Budget Form Franchise Agreement Checklist Projected Staffing Schedule Real Property Lease Checklist Start-up Checklist Strengths/Weaknesses Assessment Checklist via LifeHacker, who adds: The [...]
Seth Godin: And at work, where does your list come from? Do you answer emails by date received, by urgency, by sender? Who decides that? Which blogs do you read, which tasks do you do It’s fascinating to watch someone who has made a shift from a big company to solo work, or the other [...]
Marginal Revolution: These homes in El Campo, Tex., stand on land once used to grow rice. Because of that, their back yards qualify for direct payments under federal agricultural programs as long as the owner does not develop the acreage. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so repulsive.
PayPal Providing Virtual Debit Cards
Digital Transactions PayPal Inc. will start rolling out its so-called virtual debit card to “hundreds of thousandsâ€? of users some time this month in a process it expects to complete by the end of August, a spokesperson for the San Jose, Calif.-based unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc. tells Digital Transactions News. The product, which [...]
eBay Seller Watch your Account
 NWAnews Hey, wanna buy a “SCAG SWZ 52 A WALK BEHIND ZEROTURN MOWER / 18 HP KOHLER / NEWâ€? ? Or maybe a “NEW IN BOX Cisco WS-X 6724-SFP for Catalyst 6500 Seriesâ€? ? How about a “NEW D-LINK DI-524 WIRELESS ROUTER 802. 11 BG XBOX CMPTBLâ€? ? Because as of just a few days [...]
Even with Google PayPals Not Going Anywhere
 MSN NBC Google checks in with Checkout It’s about time, Google(Nasdaq: GOOG). The country’s leading search engine finally rolled out its online financial payment service. Google Checkout — not the Gbuy name that had been bandied about, or the Google Purchases subdomain that was uncovered last year — is the real deal now, as Google [...]
eBay Seeks Profits From Bloggers
 MarketWatch.com EBay Inc. (EBAY) wants to develop new software tools that will allow it to cash in on the increasing popularity of blogging, a senior executive told the Financial Times, according to a report on the newspaper’s Web site Tuesday. “Our approach would be to develop new tools that we can turn over to bloggers, [...]
On Independence and Entrepreneurship
Michael Cage: Many entrepreneurs started their first businesses in a fit of independence-seeking … they wanted to be free of petty bosses, financial worries, earnings ceiling or structured hours. Surely, a business is a way to get away from those things and have something different. But the entrepreneurs who move from “success” to greatness … [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Raising4Boys.com.
Manage, Don’t Try to Escape from Risk
Gladys Edmunds in USA Today: If we are to address the concept of risk in total then we must admit that any way we choose to make a living is risky business. However, as a writer, speaker and entrepreneur I will always encourage the entry into what has been, is, and always will be the [...]
Instant Domain Search is what it sounds like: As you type in the entry field, it shows you in real time whether the .com, .net, and .org domain names are available. If the domain is available it presents you with a number of registrar options along with prices, and if it’s not available it gives [...]
Accidental Tech Entrepreneurs Turn Their Hobbies Into Livelihoods
Mitch Wagner at InformationWeek: Most people who pull down a paycheck dream of making a living at their hobby. For IT managers, the dream is more within reach than it is for most professionals, as their technical skills can give them a head start in building businesses on the Web. A supertalented few have even [...]
eBay Could Ban Google’s Checkout as Payment Method
AuctionBytes: Last October, eBay introduced a new “Safe Payments Policy” that prohibits sellers from requesting payment through online-payment services not specifically approved by eBay. With Google launching its long-awaited payment service Checkout, it seems unlikely eBay will allow merchants to advertise the service in listings, at least in the short term.
