FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog:
Apparently, I’m supposed to read my clients’ minds. I’m supposed to know exactly the style, content, and length of every project a client wants taken care of, typically on the basis of a one-line email.I’m pretty sure I’m not the only freelancer who is expected to offer telepathy as a form of client communication, either. A (Read More)
Engadget:
We haven't heard a solitary peep out of IXI Mobile in a hot minute, even though its Ogo line -- once a member of Cingular's lineup -- had found some niche popularity among teens and the deaf community. We'd even thought they'd gone into R&D hibernation, actually, but apparently not -- they're innovating. They're innovating (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI) has laid off about 25% of their work force at Evite.com. Evite had about 38 employees and now they are down to about 29. Two of the executives that were laid off includes General Manager Rosanna McCollough and VP of Marketing Lariayn Payne. John Foley will be at the top Evite. Hans Wool (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
StyleCaster is a website that offers style tips, shopping tips, and has a social network. StyleCaster raised $4 million in Series A from Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert. Gilbert is a businessman born in Detroit and also founded Rock Financial Corporation. StyleCast said that they plan to use the funding to expand interna (Read More)
Submitted by Competent
from Google Reader:
“The Twitter Experiment” describes one historian’s use of Twitter to expand classroom discussion. Professor Monica Rankin (University of Texas at Dallas) used the microblogging service as a “backchannel,” creating a milieu for questions, comments, and expression. She also Webbed up subsequent reflections on the experiment (Read More)
Yoast:
So the guys who run WestHost and provide me with my awesome WordPress hosting, are a sister company of the guys that run VPS.net, and they recently gave me a VPS to play around with a bit. I kinda liked how easy it was to get a VPS up and running with a TurnKey Linux / WordPress image on it, the only issue was it was versio (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE:RAX) is expecting to return customer credit from the major outage that they had this past Monday. The dollar amount that the company is expecting to return will be between $2.5 and $3.5 million according to an SEC filing. The cause of the outage was a series of equipment failures at a Rackspac (Read More)
David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse:
3 years and I still won’t shut upWell it’s that time again… a blogging anniversary. If you’ve ever wondered about the screwed up domain name (HuoMah = FireHorse) be sure to see last years post… (http://www.huomah.com/News/Latest/The-Anniversary-Post.html)We’ve now logged more than 450 posts (yea slowed down a bit) and o (Read More)
Collective Thoughts:
Humans think they’re such hot stuff. Them and their opposable thumbs. I’ll have you know that us felines are really the strength behind Twitter. Don’t believe me? Apparently the San Diego News Network does:Brians_cat and PETCO haz a conversationThat’s right folks. PETCO pays Natalie Davis, Director of E-commerce to talk (Read More)
Submitted by Quinny
from Google Reader:
I should let you all know that I am - gasp! - double blogging this.Not as gross as double dipping; maybe a little more like re-gifting,but only because the original gift was so good I couldn't keep it formyself. Anyway, there's a slightly different post on this topic over onsymmetrybreaking as well. "Time, I think, is a l (Read More)
NowSourcing:
I’ll be the guest speaker at Bido.com tomorrow, July 2nd at 1pm EST. We’ll be talking about social media and domaining, an interesting crossover that you certainly don’t hear about every day. Please join us and you’ll be able to chat with me one-on-one for the hour. If you don’t already have an account: Log on to bido.comC (Read More)
David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse:
The hype and the realityOne of the more popular buzz words in search over the last while is ‘real time search’. For starters, that’s a bit of a misnomer; there are NO actual ‘real time’ engines… that’s simply not possible (even Twitter search updates in intervals not entirely ‘real time’). Regardless, people keep gettin (Read More)
Google Code Blog:
You may have seen the post on the Google Blog about All for Good, the new site that makes it easy to find and share volunteer activities within the United States. The site was built collaboratively by Google and several partners. We're especially proud that it was built using 100% open source Python code. All for Good's fir (Read More)
Remarkablogger:
Do you have hardly any time to write for your blog? Most people feel as you, so at least you’re not alone. But let me tell you something which may surprise you. For a new project I’m doing with Grant Griffiths (sorry, can’t tell you what it is, yet), we recently conducted a blogging survey in which people gave some puzzling (Read More)
Submitted by How To Make My Blog
from Google Reader:
This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.Since some piano player in New Jersey owns the domain MichaelGray.com I had a few options but the best was to go with my m (Read More)