Archive for July 25th, 2006
10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
Steve Pavlina: Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job: Income for dummies. Limited experience. Lifelong domestication. Too many mouths to feed. Way too risky. Having an evil bovine master. ging for money. An inbred social life. Loss of freedom. Becoming a coward. Photo by Big Fat [...]
All eBay Sellers in UK & US Mad Over Fees
AuctionBytes eBay sellers in Australia and the UK were as unhappy as those in North America over eBay hikes in Store fees. And while eBay is charging sellers higher fees for Store listings, they are at the same time decreasing Store listings visibility to potential buyers by rolling back Stores in Search effective August 1. [...]
Depends on What Your Definition of “Is” Is
ReveNews: Google respondsto the buzz created by Eric Schmidt’s March comments on click fraud today (finally). Most everyone suspected that the comments (“let clickfraud happen”) were taken somewhat out of context, but I hope that they pursue fraud faster than they pursued making an official post about this statement. Granted, the comments have only recently [...]
Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
Kottke: During the depths of the dot com bust, Julian Dibbell looked online for a job and found one as a commodities trader in the Ultima Online virtual world. During one particularly productive month, he made almost US$4000. Dibbell has a book coming out about the experience, Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day [...]
Ebay COO Not Leaving Empty Handed
Mercury News EBay Chief Operating Officer Maynard Webb, who has pocketed more than $90 million exercising and selling eBay option shares since joining the company in 1999, will retire from the company in August. In his most recent trade on June 30, he spent $484,688 exercising his option to buy 25,000 shares for $19.39 each, [...]
 GigaOM EBay customers are upset over San Jose, Calif.-based auction giantâs decision to stop charging users in China transaction fees, mostly because of intensified competition from Taobao (Alibaba) and Tencent, at a time when they are being hit by price hikes as high as 400%. During a recent earnings conference call, eBay CEO Meg Whitman [...]
How Can I Earn a Living by Online Bookselling?
Chuck Huckaby: I found this interesting as someone who purchases dozens of used books on Amazon.com and to a lesser extent Half.com. I find that many of the books can be purchased for the price of media mail shipping $3.49 + a few bucks making my average book purchase $6 to $10 and most of [...]
With Zimmerman PayPal Integrates Text Messaging
Cheap Hosting Directory PayPal is working with Zimmerman Advertising (formerly Zimmerman Partners), to help brand marketers integrate text message-based service, PayPal Mobile into advertising and marketing campaigns. PayPal Mobile is a text message-based service that allows consumers in the US and Canada to send money anytime, from anywhere, using mobile telephones. PayPal Mobile allows users [...]
Forbes: We’ve all heard about the wonders of the broadband Web. You can stream video, surf at lightning speeds, search for God-knows-what, get your e-mail in a blink. Here’s what you may not know: It can let you live far richer than you probably live now. Let me explain: For most of us, our biggest [...]
Skype Creators Set Sights on TV
Beta News The creators of the popular Skype and Kazaa applications have turned their sights on television, aiming to create a new way to distribute video over the Web, BusinessWeek.com reported Sunday. Dubbed the “Venice Project,” a product could debut as early as late this year, and negotiations are apparently underway with major television networks. [...]
Tristan Louis: As readers of this site know, I strongly believe that we are now in the middle of a major overall shift in economic trend that hasn’t been seen since the introduction of the paper bill in late 1700s england. Seen under this lens, I’m starting to think that there may be some truths [...]
Getting a Foothold in the Yoga Market
Siri Schubert at Business 2.0 Magazine: For Susan Nichols, success really was a combination of inspiration and perspiration. During a yoga class in New York in May 2000, her sweaty left foot slipped during the chaturanga pose, causing Nichols to take a faceplant. She bought a Mysore rug, which is moistened and placed atop a [...]
City Turns to eBay to Sell Its Land
Palm Beach Post: The city is poised to wring dirt for every penny it’s worth when it comes to land sales: It’s going eBay style. The city will turn to Internet auctions to sell its extra land, a lucrative alternative to the old ways of either requesting offers from developers or just sitting at a [...]
For Millions of Chinese, Playing Computer Games Is a Livelihood
SJ MercuryNews: “This rural county seat in northeast China has an Internet cafe on almost every street, 63 in total, and most of them are full of young people passing time. Parked in front of computer screens, they move through virtual dungeons to slay ogres and gather gold in online games. But it’s not mere [...]
