Sep 21, 2009

Seth's Blog Business Development is a mysterious title for a little discussed function or department in most larger companies. It's also a great way for an entrepreneur or small business to have fun, create value and make money.Good business development allows businesses to profit by doing something that is tangential to their core mis (Read More)

Aug 24, 2009

Submitted by Gofractal: How does network marketing relate to getting your website noticed? What do you need to know about network marketing if you want to be successful? Crawled by Google and Presented by Peter Abolins. (Read More)

Sep 11, 2009

TechCrunch There’s quite a big vulnerability with FriendFeed right now. Using the post via email updating function, anyone can post a message as anyone else on FriendFeed. For example, someone posted this pretending to be FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor.Obviously, this is a huge security problem. When it was spotted just about an ho (Read More)

Sep 03, 2009

clipotech As much as people talk about Twitter, we must realize that Twitter is only a tool (or infrastructure as I have argued). It is not a destination that people will focus their attention on for hours of the day. Destinations have been the goal for many startups, but to be a true, complete destination you need to supply a wealth (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Boing Boing Ikea's corporate structure is insanely complicated. It is technically owned by a Dutch charitable nonprofit -- a strategy that allows the group to pay 3.5% tax on annual profits of €553m. However, the charity itself appears to do almost no charitable giving. Most of the money disappears into generic line-items like "other o (Read More)

Jul 30, 2009

PR 2.0 Credit: Natalie DeeSocial Media continues to fascinate me.If you stop and think about it for a moment, we’re presented with something special…something almost too simple to appreciate.Essentially, we have been given a gift – a looking glass into the thoughts, opinions,  feedback, and dialogue that represents a snapshot of m (Read More)

Aug 03, 2009

Mark Evans There seems to be no lack of entrepreneurs willing to take a crack at developing a new search engine – even if it means going to head to head with Google. Whether it’s Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Cuil or Blekko, there is no lack of search start-ups. What’s puzzling about this search landscape is the lack of start-ups focused on bl (Read More)

Jul 27, 2009

Submitted by Avi from Google Reader: Five basic tips for dominating local. If you’re a local business, local musician, local event planner, local anything, you need to try these methods.1. Optimize your site or microsite for local. Buy a local domain name, like Boston Martial Arts. When people are searching for generics, they’ll Google for your locality and th (Read More)

Jul 29, 2009

Copyblogger If you haven’t heard the story yet, a Chicago real estate company called Horizon Realty Group filed a lawsuit against one of its tenants on Monday. She apparently made a snarky remark on Twitter, claiming that the company “didn’t care” about mold in her apartment. Horizon is suing her for libel, looking for $50,000 in damag (Read More)

Jul 23, 2009

mashable Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com.In the current economy, job security has become somewhat of an oxymoron. Which is one reason why maintaining connections with your old university classmates, especially when yo (Read More)

Jul 22, 2009

readwriteweb In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any big Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It took a good couple of years until I spotted them at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. And that's fair enough, due to the size of the company and the (Read More)

Jul 22, 2009

Advertising Age - Homepage Who is Claude VonStroke? Is Dan Deacon familiar? Perhaps you have heard of Amanda Palmer? Or Erol Alkan? If you are a serious fan of independent music, it's likely one or more of these names rings a bell. What might be surprising that they can teach both scrappy startup brands and major consumer-package-goods players how to (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

KyleLacy.com If you are running a social media company or  thinking about implementing some type of social media strategy into your business… there is no better company to track than Razorfish. They recently released a report called Fluent which examines the possibilites of using social media influencers (like Chris Brogan and Douglas K (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

MichaelFruchter.com ——–It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I would focus on one, Dairy Queen.—Dairy Queen, for those of you who are not familiar with the brand, is an ice cream (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

TechCrunch What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report embedded below or on ENGAGEMENTdb, which was presumably created with Wetpaint’s site-creation software.The study scores the (Read More)

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