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Submitted by Holeinhiseye from Google Reader: I'm just back from an excellent evening at The Arches in Glasgow organised by Lynsey at the Starter for 6 programme along with colleague Gillian. I was sharing the stage with Debs and Gaylie at RM* (rm star) for an active discussion centred around networks, social media and marketing.Starter for 6 "is an enterprise trainin (Read More)

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Small Business Trends It’s time to vote on your favorite small business books of 2009.For the second year in a row we are holding the Best Small Business Book Awards – Reader’s Choice.This year the Awards are bigger and better than ever.  A total of 47 books have been nominated. And you can help choose the winners. The 10 books that get the most (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Holeinhiseye from Google Reader: FlooringThe Floor Covering Institute Blog TalkFloor Blog DOMOTEX: The World of Flooring Flooring The Consumer Fixing It Up McKay Flooring Blog FloorDaily.net RSS Feed FLOORS IN! MILLWORK McKay Flooring Blog - www.mckayflooring.co.uk NFT - Breaking News NFT - Cover Story NFT - Feature Article NFT - Industry News NFT - Web Ex (Read More)

2 days ago

ReadWriteWeb Ten days after Google's Sidewiki was accused of lifting features from annotation startup Reframe It, the little company is striking back. In a video interview with Reframe It CEO Bobby Fishkin, ReadWriteWeb learned why this 15-person team thinks they've got a fighting shot at besting the search Goliath. SponsorThe idea for (Read More)

3 days ago

O'Reilly Radar The iPhone, in addition to revolutionizing how people thought about mobile phone user interfaces, also was one of the first devices to offer a suite of sensors measuring everything from the visual environment to position to acceleration, all in a package that could fit in your shirt pocket.On December 3rd, O'Reilly will be (Read More)

3 days ago

The Next Web Here at the Microsoft PDC event, there are about a dozen Microsoft Surface computers spread out around the center, open for anyone to sit down and play with. Put simply, they are nearly endless fun.They are currently running an application that streams photos and tweets that contain a specific hashagged tweets in a scrollin (Read More)

3 days ago

Neatorama YouTube link “Own goals” (kicking a ball into one’s own net) are uncommon in soccer (”football”) and ice hockey.  Because this one occurs in a youth sporting event, it is just indescribably cute. Via BuzzFeed. (Read More)

3 days ago

kottke.org This is really well done. (thx, joris) Tags: The Wire   TV   video. (Read More)

3 days ago

Small Business Trends As I previously mentioned, I was lucky enough to spend last week attending PubCon Las Vegas with some extremely smart search marketers. One of the sessions that really stood out for me was the Local Search and Mobile Optimization panel. During the presentation, one of the speakers, William Leake, identified four important (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Submitted by Holeinhiseye from Google Reader: The other day I heard someone singing to a friend on the tube. The song was from the hilarious Bill Bailey sketch where he talks about turning down money from Asda because of their reputation on human rights and other issues.This is one more example of where sustainability issues are becoming deeply embedded in popular cult (Read More)

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BBC Former Scotland midfielder John Collins says he is interested in taking over from George Burley as manager of the national team. (Read More)

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Quick Sprout In 2006 my business partner and I were running an Internet marketing agency called ACS. We were looking for new channels that would not only drive us more clients, but would also create additional revenue streams.After brainstorming for a while we decided that I should start blogging. Our logic behind starting a blog about (Read More)

4 days ago

Neatorama The National Trust is encouraging their gardeners to urinate on bales of straw.  A three-meter-long “pee bale” has been established at Wimpole Hall; gardeners visit the bale when nature calls (and when visitors are not present, because “we don’t want to scare the public.”)  The bales are later added to the compost heap.Only (Read More)

4 days ago

Silicon Valley Watcher Patrice Lamothe is the CEO of PearlTrees, an unique social bookmarking service that uses the visual metaphor of "pearls" with each containing a web page. And like all visual metaphors it is best to see it rather than read a description. Here is a quick video and a sample image: "PearlTrees is a way for people to map the In (Read More)

4 days ago

Mashable! Twitter, for all of its greatness, would not have significantly altered the landscape of real-time online communication without the swell of developer interest around its API. The simpleness of the service was, no doubt, key to Twitter’s meteoric rise, but Twitter applications – desktop, web, mobile – drove home the utility (Read More)

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