101 Dumbest Business Moments of 2007
from Businesspundit
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… Fortune is back with the annual 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list. Check out the 2007 version. My vote for the worst business move of 2007 goes to #17 - naming a drink “Cocaine.” I hope that marketing team was fired. [...]
How Disney’s CEO Works
from Lifehacker by Gina Trapani
Disney CEO Bob Iger shares a few tidbits about how his typical workday goes with Fortune magazine. He gets up at 4:30 a.m., exercises regularly and he eschews the chauffeur and drives himself to work so he has a little extra privacy. He’s also a stickler for punctual meetings:
My [...]
This Week’s Best Posts
from Lifehacker
This week’s best posts include:
Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More“In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera’s auto mode to the curb…now in part two we’re going straight to manual mode to learn about aperture sizes and shutter speeds.”
How to Track Down Anyone Online“While there’s still [...]
The Mac Attack
Apple’s going back to the future this holiday season.
Forget new gadgets like iPhones and iPods. The company expects to get a year-end lift from the product that made it a sensation in the first place: the Macintosh computer, which seems to be winning converts from the Microsoft Windows world.
Shares of Apple [...]
Japan’s Bloggers: Humble Giants of the Web
from Smart Mobs by Emily Turretini
Compared to the English-speaking world, the Japanese have gone blog wild. They write Web logs at per capita rates that are off the global charts. The Washington Post reports.
Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English, according [...]
FirePay Calls It Quits
from Read/WriteWeb by Josh Catone
PayPal competitor FirePay notified members today that will begin the process of shutting down later this month. The UK-based online money exchange service will begin shutting its doors on Monday, December 10, 2007 when it will no longer allow users to add funds to their accounts or transfer money. Users will [...]
More Socially Conscious Retail
from PSFK by Orli Sharaby
Interwoven Threads is a new company hoping to create a brand new business model for fashion. Started in Kansas City by Andy Woolard, the company sells nicely designed organic cotton t-shirts for $25 a pop, and for every shirt that’s purchased, a duplicate is donated to reStart, a Kansas City-based homeless-advocacy [...]
A Digg Without Vote?
Keegy is a hybrid application web mashup that, through the user of robots which monitor the anonymous interactions of the users on the web, generates your personal edition. It compiles information and news available on the Internet provided by other people and orders them by means of an algorithm of Artificial Intelligence that learns [...]
Web 2.0 Startups Find Europe Fertile Ground
by Jennifer L. Schenker
Europe may not have the equivalent of a Silicon Valley—a single geographical location where money and connections come together to spawn Internet giants like Google (GOOG) and Facebook. But the decentralized nature of European innovation and entrepreneurialism isn’t proving an impediment when it comes to social networking and other so-called Web [...]
I am back, new projects and google gadgets
Fellows,I am back, in slow motion for a while. Actually, I have been taking care of my family and engaged in some others projects. Some of my new projects are listed below:http://www.dating-service-free.comhttp://happylike.ushttp://www.beijoouqueijo.com.brhttp://www.venturecommons.com.brhttp://www.venturecommons.com
So, I did not forget to send the t-shirts for the winners of the september contest. I will do it soon.
I am studying a [...]
