Official Google Blog
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that infor (Read More)
Submitted by Biznavigator:
Effective outsource methods and strategies are needed by nearly every business. Knowing how to screen, how to hire, where to hire for your particular business and having effective processes and blueprints to follow can make the difference between success and failure. (Read More)
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Submitted by Daculadad:
The Prestigious Mark has over 850,000 promotional items to select from with a tenured marketing and branding staff to boot. (Read More)
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: it is true that you are literally putting your brand or marketing message right in front of your customers when you give away promotional items, the effects can be more than just the usual brand visibility. Promotional products allow you to foster a better relationship with your customers. As a result, you gain stronger customer loyalty.
ReadWriteWeb
When Google announced their plans for a new "cloud"-based operating system built around the web browser, there was some concern about the OS's capabilities. Although a lot of our computing can now be done in the web browser these days thanks to online applications and services, there are still quite a few operations that ne (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Google just announced that it is working on a a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the web experience for users. SPDY (pronounced "speedy) is not meant to replace HTTP, the protocol that allows web servers and browsers to talk to each other today, but it does augment HTTP. The new protocol incorporates fea (Read More)
TechCrunch
Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a le (Read More)
Boing Boing
The Times Labs blog takes a hard look at the data on music sales and live performances and concludes that while the labels' profits might be falling, artists are taking in more money, thanks to the booming growth of live shows. The Times says that they'd like more granular data about who's making all the money from concerts (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Etsy is an e-commerce hub for buyers and sellers of handmade goods, vintage goods, and art supplies.Etsy's 2009 gross merchandise sales reached $130 million at the end of October -- up from $88 million over all of 2008 (and up f4om $26 million in 2007).Etsy keeps 3.5% of those sales for its revenues.Read the rest of this st (Read More)
Mashable!
The Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear on a daily basis.Each day more (Read More)
: Even though most of the functionality is available from different resources, bringing it all together under one place makes this a killer web app. The link to the article is a great resource. Even though I didn't see any mention of tracking and privacy issues addressed in the article.
Sean's shared items in Google Reader
Have you ever heard of Twitter tags? No, I’m not speaking of those search functionaries known as #hashtags, I’m talking about regular tags that are a staple of bookmarks and blog posts.The ability to sort and share are fundamental to how we interact with digital information. However, Twitter seems to have ignored the power (Read More)
: I had to Google "folksonomy" but yes I think the social aspect of categorization could be a major feature. Thanks for introducing me to a new word. :)
My Clippings on NewsGator Online
PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)
Gizmodo
The Staples Black Friday ad has leaked, and while there are some good deals here, I'm not sure I'd stay up all night for any of them. But hey, a 1TB external HDD for $70 is a pretty good deal... Here's the full list of tech stuff on sale. Doorbusters marked with a *. Cell Phones Motorola H710 Bluetooth Headset - $39.99 Comp (Read More)
The Guardian
Supporters exasperated by Mike Ashley's ownership believe the money can be rasied to buy him outNewcastle United supporters have taken a huge challenge on in seeking to transform their well-worn contempt for Mike Ashley into a positive bid to take over the club themselves. The Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) launch (Read More)