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10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:40:24 +0000

Your gadgets and computers, your software and sites — they are not working as well as they should. You need to make some tweaks.

But the tech industry has given you the impression that making adjustments is difficult and time-consuming. It is not…..Full story here

Motorola Xoom tablet has a barometer to forecast weather, delight meteorologists

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:38:41 +0000

The Motorola Xoom tablet, unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has a few features not seen on many other tablets — no buttons, 4G capabilities and even a barometer.

The barometer, which measures atmospheric pressure and can help forecast the weather, is a unique inclusion and might make the Xoom the tablet of choice for meteorologists…..Read more

Bump Technologies Expands and Raises Money

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:05:40 +0000

Bump Technologies makes an app that lets people bump their phones together to exchange things like business cards, photos and even money.

On Tuesday, Bump will announce that it has raised $16.5 million in venture capital. The firm Andreessen Horowitz is Bump’s newest investor, and its previous investors, including Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway, also contributed…..Read Full Story

The Five Best Work-at-Home Businesses

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:03:59 +0000

Determining the best work-at-home business, in many ways, depends on your personal experience. Of all of the home-based business opportunities available, there are five that just about anyone can consider….Know more

Eye-Catching Products in a Hall of Gadgetry

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:24:53 +0000

The throngs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, which ended Sunday, jammed this city’s streets, hotels and cellular networks. At times it seemed it might have been easier to stay at home and read about it on the Web. But that might have meant missing out on an unexpected discovery or the buzz of something big. Technology editors and reporters of The New York Times who attended share snippets from their notebooks below….Complete Story here

Why Real-Time Marketing Matters Now

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:39:28 +0000

For more than a year now, the Trendrr Chart of the Week on AdAge.com has served as a fascinating barometer of the real-time information economy. The chart, which runs most Wednesdays (and which, speaking of charts, invariably lands in the AdAge.com “Most Read” Top 5), utilizes data from Trendrr, a digital- and social-media tracking service. I’ve used it to parse all manner of trending memes in the entertainment/media/tech brand space, from Apple (“A Close Look at Apple’s Latest Astonishing Twitter Takeover”) to “Inception” (“How ‘Inception’ Became the New World Cup”) to Foursquare (“The Consumer as Waldo: Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook Care Where You Are; Do You?”) to a certain unavoidable Canadian crooner (“Behold — and Fear! — the Awesome Social-Media Power of Justin Bieber Beliebers!”)….Read Full Story

Internet Promotion – Advantages and Disadvantages

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:37:39 +0000

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The emergence of globalised trade, increase in foreign investment and cross-border transactions have put many small businesses under pressure to find innovative ways to continue to market their products and services. This is especially difficult given that they often operate on tight marketing budgets…..Read more

How to make money on your news content website

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:33:31 +0000

This article is designed to help journalists learn how to make extra money, or even a full-time wage, by publishing independently online. It is not intended to provide an online revenue model for established news organizations. Heck, they’ve got business managers. They shouldn’t need a wiki to show them what to do….Read more

9 Ways To Save Money While Shopping Online

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:32:13 +0000

Online shopping has become extremely popular and efficient; however saving while shopping online is important because of the wide array of choices and websites available on the Internet…..Read full story at

The New Reality of Mobile

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:19:27 +0000

We’re all trying to “figure it out” – i.e., create a competitive advantage and valuable customer experience via the mobile channel. Naturally, we turn to 19th century philosopher George Santayana, best known for the quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

While we have seen the pitfalls of applying too literally the principles of one medium to another – brochure-ware websites, direct marketing-based e-mail programs – there are lessons to port over….Read more

Tis the Season to be Shopping: How Virtual Goods Are Impacting Holiday Shopping Culture

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:25:32 +0000

It’s the holiday season once again, and many people around the world are in the throes of a culturally mandated gift giving frenzy. Stuff! Things! Sales! Stampedes! The senseless abuse of beleaguered retail employees! Of course this year, more people than ever will forgo all of that insanity and choose to shop online instead, preferring instead to make their selections quietly in their underwear at 4am, endlessly surfing from site to site on an eggnog fueled bender trying to find the best deal possible (that will also deliver on time)….Full story here

Online Marketing Today – A Lot of Research, A Lot of Psychology

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:38:49 +0000

When I went into marketing/communications in the 80’s, things were simpler. I spoke 5 languages, which pushed me into this field. What else could I do, be a translator? Not on your life. Not when I could be creative, come up with quantitative studies and research why / how people buy.

It seemed simple, right? You have a product and you have to figure out a way to sell said product. You had magazine ad space, TV commercials, newspapers… every day, everywhere you looked, you’d see some form of advertisement. Eventually, we became desensitized to print and TV marketing – the traditional ways.

The Internet wasn’t used as it is today (although it still had some traction). The World Wide Web was the Wild Wild West. It was a “small” little marketplace, with a minor audience for client product promotion…..Read more

The Web’s Best Travel, Shopping, and Dining Sites

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:09:37 +0000

Whether you need to arrange a flight, find bargains, or make a restaurant reservation, these 13 sites make it easy.

With these 13 terrific Websites and online services, you can make travel arrangements, dig up discounts and unusual gifts, decide on a great restaurant, or whip up amazing meals of your own.

For more on the year’s top sites, see The Web’s Best Productivity Sites and The Web’s Best Entertainment Sites….Find out more

Getting Started With Internet Marketing: Conducting Research

admin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:39:16 +0000

You’ve heard the stories of entrepreneurs creating social networking sites from their garage, generating millions of dollars. You’ve heard the stories of the person who was laid off from their job, who then turned to the Internet to provide their skills, resulting in earning a full-time income from home. Also, you’ve also got the stories where people are generating full-time incomes by being the middle man and promoter of other business owners’ products and services. These are stories where regular people, young and old, have turned to the Internet to generate a second income, build a business, or have the opportunity to join the ranks of entrepreneurship and free them from working for someone else….Read more

Spending Money: Experts Say You Can Make Money Online

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:22:50 +0000

Fifteen billion smackers: That’s the value Microsoft recently slapped on Facebook when the computer giant invested $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s online social-networking site.

You could seethe with envy — or you could chase your own fortune on the Web.

Some online businesses require only a few hundred dollars in equipment, while others demand significant hardware and perhaps even a warehouse. Some might make you rich; others might just cover beer money. And all involve various levels of time, capital and technological skill….Full story here

11 Ad World Predictions For 2011

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:21:02 +0000

2010 was the year of real-time bidding. As spend shifted from networks to real-time bidding platforms, agencies and advertisers explored the use of data to improve audience-buying.

In 2011, this interest will give way to large scale investment.

This increased investment will fuel the shift to Data 2.0 predicted by Gil Beyda along with continued infrastructure innovation in the growing data management space ……..Read more

Word-Wide Web Launches

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:24:49 +0000

Language analysts, sifting through two centuries of words in the millions of books in Google Inc.’s growing digital library, found a new way to track the arc of fame, the effect of censorship, the spread of inventions and the explosive growth of new terms in the English-speaking world.

In research reported Thursday in the journal Science, the scientists at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google and the Encyclopedia Britannica unveiled a database of two billion words and phrases drawn from 5.2 million books in Google’s digital library published during the past 200 years. With this tool, researchers can measure trends through the language authors used and the names of people they mentioned…Read full article

A bountiful year for open source

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:41:15 +0000

It is now just over 12 years since seven people sat down in a conference room in Silicon Valley to fix what they saw as the marketing problem with the words “free software.” Most people thought that the word “free” meant only that no one had to pay. It seemed they didn’t have an attention span long enough to try to grok what Richard Stallman was saying when he kept repeating, “‘free,’ as in speech.”

After considering dozens of combinations, Christine Peterson hit upon “open source,” and the phrase has grown to represent a section of the software marketplace big enough to merit its own end-of-the-year roundup. Full Story here

Windows Phone 7 Gets Jailbroken

admin — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:08:26 +0000

By Casey Chan

Windows Phone 7 is “finally” jailbroken! ChevronWP7, the unlocker tool, works with every WP7 phone and allows for the side loading of apps, the use of private APIs, and access to low level functionality. Basically, it unleashes your WP7 phone.

It’s easy to jailbreak too:

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Who’s Afraid of Apple, Google, Facebook?

admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:07:36 +0000

GIGAOM November 26, 2010, 6:11PM EST

Timothy Wu says we should be alarmed by the monopoly powers accumulated by Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, and eBay. Why he’s wrong

By Mathew Ingram

Timothy Wu, the Columbia University law professor who coined the term “net neutrality,” is not someone to be dismissed lightly, especially when it comes to communications and media trends. In his recent book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires—and in a related piece in The Wall Street Journal—Wu argues that just as AT&T was a monopoly during an earlier phase of communications history, companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple now hold what he calls “information monopolies” that could be just as damaging to our society.

Does he present a convincing case that this is true?

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