Scripting News:
I watched the morning session of TechCrunch's second realtime conference, including the half hour interview with Dick Costolo, the COO of Twitter.Of course Mike Arrington asked him the "Is RSS Dead?" question, and thankfully Costolo didn't want to go there. It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 mill (Read More)
Scripting News:
I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email acco (Read More)
BuzzMachine:
On today’s On Point, Michael Wolff, Steve Brill, and I talked about Murdoch and Google and the show’s blog quoted me thusly:But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to that effect – but I think that Google though (Read More)
BuzzMachine:
Tweet: A tweet paraphrased my link-economy line and showed me I’ve been saying more than I thought I have. **In Twitter today, one @rpaskin paraphrased something I’ve been saying – and said again in my talk at Web 2.0 Expo Tuesday (generously covered in that link by Aneta Hall). My line has been that in the link economy, va (Read More)
Scripting News:
I sort of understand why people don't like the new retweet, but I like it very much, and probably for many of the reasons they don't like it. If you follow me on Twitter you know that a lot of my tweets are links to stories on the web. I would probably forward other people's links more if there were a way to give them credi (Read More)
Marc's Voice:
Congrats to the Open Web Foundation on launching version 1.0 of Open Web Foundation agreement.Anil Dash’s new incubator sounds awesome. Maybe he’ll be interested in our Digital City project.Here’s the video I of the speech I did in Malmo, Sweden this month.A swine flu of stupidityI’m thinking of switching to Rackspace beca (Read More)
BuzzMachine:
Tweet: How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah. Don’t squeander it. **I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up.At the New Business Models for (Local) News Summit at CUNY last week, my (Read More)
Webware.com:
An update to Google Earth for iPhone lets you plot your saved My Maps from Google.com onto Google Earth. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
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Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Mark WaltersIs starting an Internet business an idea that appeals to you?If you want to earn a lot of money online, you need to use leverage You do not want to sell your product alone Lets now look at how best you can do this 1 Recruit masses of affiliates to sell your product 24/7The first question you need t (Read More)
Submitted by Jim Courtney
from blog:
Ernie Roth commented on ANNA M HANSSON's photo 'Queens Gardens open plan living, London, UK. Designer: Anna Hansson'Hi Ana,
Very nice work. I have not done any hotels so far but maybe one day. My wife is English, so we come to London quite often, she is there three to four times a year and I about once a year. I really like London. (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Bay Area iPhone users, relief is on the way. AT&T has almost completed a $65 million upgrade to its network in the region. The carrier has upgraded close to 850 cell sites in an effort to better handle the massive surge in data traffic it has seen in and around San Francisco since the debut of iPhone. (Read More)
Submitted by Ariherzog
from blog:
You may not appreciate when someone unfriends you on a social networking site, but the action verb has a lexicographical importance to the New Oxford American Dictionary which announced unfriend as its 2009 Word of the Year.From the press release:“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Seni (Read More)
Submitted by Marianne Mc Eachern
from blog:
MAKING THE TOUGH SALE IN A SLUMPING ECONOMY
World renowned teleprospecting guru Jeff Gitomer once said, “You don’t get great selling in a day. You get great selling day by day.” This statement really personifies what it takes to be a great telemarketer. B2B Sales is not a one time deal. Business to Business Sales are [...]. (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
When Apple came out with the iPhone, suddenly it seemed like everyone and their brother–well, if their brother owned RIM or Nokia or whatever–was getting ready to put out a touch-screen phone with more or fewer buttons.Now, I won’t say that it’s the rumored Apple tablet computer (rumored to be coming to a rumored Apple [... (Read More)