For all the continual media frenzy over Facebook and Twitter, the most remarkable social networking story of all may well be LinkedIn, the global social network for business professionals founded by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman in December 2002 reports The Telegraph. While the LinkedIn 50 million may pale in comparison with the Facebook […]
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Eve Tahmincioglu at MSN Business has an interesting article about start-up business scammers. Just ask V.M. from the Austin, Texas, area. A longtime entrepreneur in the home-building industry, he had visions of launching his own online travel and health-care insurance business but ended up out nearly $5,000. He didn’t want his name used because he’s
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo about what the web will look like in 5 years. ReadWriteWeb has highlights from Schmidt’s speech: – Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. – Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years –
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Using public domain content as the basis for mashups is a growing trend, and one that is yielding a lot of great, original content. Brandon Mendelson over at Mashable.com takes a look at how public domain material is being re-purposed on the web and in print. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Maybe you’re not feeling
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If you run a small business and cannot afford CRM tools like Salesforce , MakeUseOf.com has a review of Timetonote. While it doesn’t boast of the advanced tools which paid solutions like Salesforce and Zoho offer, for a 100% free service it isn’t bad at all. You can track leads, communication and conversations with customers
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SmallBusinessComputing.com says there are times in running a business when it’s useful to get feed back from people who give you an honest answer. You know how it is with friends and family. You’ll say, ‘What do you think of this,’ and they’ll say ‘Oh great, fantastic, wonderful, you’re a genius,’ when what they really
Billy Mays III admits it sounds a bit odd; a guy who unexpectedly lost his dad just four months ago starting an online contest encouraging people to dress like his departed father for Halloween, reports TampaBay.com. He has asked fans to email a photo of of themselves dressed like his famous pitchman father, infomercial king
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Reuters reports that according to the 2009 National Small Business Cybersecurity Study, small business owners’ cybersecurity policies and actions are not adequate enough to ensure the safety of their employees, intellectual property and customer data. The study, co-sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec, as part of this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness
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In the two years since he lost his job as a cook, Kevin Boudreau has learned the subtle art of how to ask strangers for money. But now, with winter approaching and an aversion to shelters, the homeless man with the grizzled goatee and skull tattoos covering both arms needs more than spare change reports
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An article in The Columbus Dispatch reports that a couple of years ago, Michael Bragg of Apopka, Fla., noticed his girlfriend (now his wife) jotting something down in a small notebook. She was keeping track of her car’s fuel mileage. “Her family had always done that,” he said, “and she just started doing it, too.”
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