Corporate America, join the conversation or you lose.

Recently, I wrote two posts, one on FriendFeed the other on PicLens. Just for kicks I decided to let the companies know that I liked their product/service (…proservductice?) and I had written a post about them. I wasn’t expecting a shoutout on their blog or being added to some list, I just wanted to let [...]

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Twitter - At a Glance

I’m taking a look today at Twitter, a popular online service similar to the “status box” implemented by Facebook. Twitter gives users the opportunity to post small updates on their life via a personal RSS feed.
Here’s the basics. Once you’ve signed up for a twitter account you’ve got your own personal little twitter [...]

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Ahmadinejad blogging?

Yep, it’s true. Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is BLOGGING!
This is the final nail in the coffin, blogging is now mainstream if Iran’s president is doing it!
The blog is available in English or Arabic. The comments show what country you are from. If you comment please don’t be like the majority of stupid American’s commenting and [...]

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Advertising opportunities

In creating a website and trying to make money through advertising there are multiple things that need to be looked at. Many of the presenters in the elevator pitch competition talked about using advertisements as a source of income. The first and easiest way to advertise on a site would be through Google [...]

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The Captcha from hell…

Captchas are getting ridiculous but this takes the cake! Maybe this isn't so bad for some of you engineering/math types…
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Social Networking is leading to an impersonal World

In looking at all of these cases we have done such as Second Life, Facebook and talking about MySpace I want to bring about another aspect.  In today’s world as I was growing up the computer has become more and more popular with younger and younger generations.  I grew up using AIM among other things [...]

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Land That Job

Continuing upon what we talked about last night, I came across www.climber.com in the WSJ today. Excerpt from WSJ - “Visitors to 9 month old climber.com are prompted to answer about 25 questions on qualification topics… and results in a personal profile. Climber works with roughly 40 corporate clients and sends them profiles [...]

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the Kiva Community

Not only does Kiva offer information about the lender, exchange of money and field partners, but the organization also allows you to see the profiles of the other lenders. Thus building on the idea of community that we’ve already discussed. In addition, they have a website - kivafriends - which allows lenders to communicate with one [...]

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Kiva

Kiva is a nonprofit, p2p microloan company designed to promote entrepreneurship in developing countries.  Founded in October of 2005, Kiva has financed US$21 million worth of loans coming from 242,000 lenders.  You can be a lender.
The Kiva team initially focused its funding on the country of Uganda but has since opened up the offering nationwide.  [...]

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E what?

Nine years ago, I was astonished and confused to hear that friends of ours had purchased both a boat and a car online on some “new” website called Ebay. Little did I know, Ebay had already been up and running for at least three and a half years.
Nowadays, you can buy just about anything and [...]

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