Mint.com

The ability to access your financial information in consolidated form from anywhere. This is what Mint.com does for its members. Mint.com looks at your financial picture, classifies expenditures, and analyzes spending. The site takes a read-only snap shot of your online bank accounts by using log-in information you provide. Mint.com only reads the accounts it [...]

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Why Linkedin is a sweet idea

So i checked out the site linkedin.com.  It seems like it’s basically just facebook for businesses.  So that got me thinking, you could take most any successful website and a “business version” of it.  For example, you make a website that is basically Ebay for businesses.  This way business could buy/sell used office furniture or [...]

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Viral Elements on Social Networking Sites

Many of the new web 2.0 sites contain a viral element to help them attract new users and generate new content. Some sites are better at this then others ning.com or facebook.com or youtube.com for example. Let’s look at how these sites differ in their techniques of using viral elements.
YouTube - Post a video, now [...]

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Hello YouTube goodbye Cable?

So my roommate and i had cable the first semester.   But then we decided to get rid of it, because it way too expensive.  Guess what?  I don’t miss it!  I can watch everything i want on the internet, whenever i want, without commercials.   This brings up a couple of  questions.  For example, what is [...]

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Why the internet doesn’t make money

One really interesting internet phenomenon is that many sites are not money driven.  Take Craigslist for example.  It is a very well known site, and many many people use it.  But at the same time, its founder has not made any great effort to monetize it.  sure, he does has some revenue streams from the [...]

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Business with Craig’s List

For the past few summers I have worked for my parents who are both real estate agents. A large part of my job is marketing the listings that we have. One of the most cost-effective things we’ve done, particularly for rental properties, is advertising them on CraigsList.  CraigsList seems to be growing in popularity for [...]

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Pownce.com

From the creator of Digg.com, Kevin Rose, comes his latest creation, Pownce.com. Pownce is a web community on which members share articles, links, photos, music and events with one another. Then, users can discuss what they’ve shared.
Without being a member I wasn’t able to delve really deeply into the workings of the site, nor was [...]

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