Archive for January 4th, 2007
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Yes, I’m at it again, but this year I promise to be a bit more pared down, a bit more to the point. I had nearly 20 predictions last year, I’m hoping that by the time I lift my fingers from the keyboard I’ll have a few less. So Happy New Year, [...]
BusinessWeek Predictions for 2007
BusinessWeek Online: Despite this era of instant gratification, I don’t think anyone has yet created a device or application that can predict the future (unless you count Michael Jennings from the 2003 movie Paycheck). So even though you’ll have to wait to see if our seven Internet predictions come true in 2007, you won’t have [...]
Look To Microlenders For Funding
Entrepreneur.com: If you only need a small amount of money to start your business, one option to consider is to obtain a microloan. Originally intended as a way to fight poverty by lending small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing countries, microlending is becoming a popular source of capital for startups launched by middle-class [...]
Net Biz Idea: YouTube Scraping
Okdork.com: Hosting videos is bandwidth and cost intensive, so let Youtube worry about those costs. In the meantime, aggregate and embed their popular videos on your own website and surround them with Google Adsense. Some sites have already started to exploit this: ViralVideochart.com NBAjunkie.com VideoBomb.com Cyber-Knowledge.net But wait! Before you try this, know that it [...]
Springwise: London-based Babyplanners has managed to find yet another niche-market waiting to be penetrated: young, hard-working parents-to-be, who are willing to shell out some dough to have others deal with the endless shopping, researching, conflicting advice and general stress and confusion that come with a first-time pregnancy. As Babyplanners state on their website: “your dedicated [...]
Skype Looking to Boost Security For Future Add-ons
In late December, a security firm sent out an alert that a worm was spreading via Skype. It turned out to be a false alarm. No worm has spread on Skype, and while security experts have painted a target on the popular Internet telephony application, its defenses have been pretty solid, according to the company’s [...]
AuctionCheckout.com Offers an Alternative to PayPal
What makes AuctionCheckout different from PayPal? In the PayPal environment today, if you’re selling, the funds from your transactions are going into your PayPal account. PayPal is not a financial institution. They can freeze those funds. AuctionCheckout âBlueâ? is an auction-checkout technology that will fund directly into your local checking account, because you have your [...]
eBay Once Again Raises Fees to Make Itself Strong
Dear eBay Community Member An important part of any business strategy is the regular evaluation of pricing structure. From time to time, we make pricing changes to correct unhealthy dynamics in the eBay marketplace, as was the case last July. Typically, however, we make changes on an annual basis at the beginning of the year. [...]
After the only grocery store in Truman Minnesota closed, 17-year-old Nick Graham bought and re-opened it to help save his struggling community. via 37Signals.
