May
22nd
links for 2007-05-22
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:20 pm
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“Consumer opt-in, technology and consumer data will enable real-time, location-aware, user-targeted mobile marketing,”
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I was able to get an invite to join the private beta of Microsoft’s social networking site Wallop, which describes itself as ‘the exclusive place where you connect with your real friends and expand your relationships’. Here’s my report.
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According to Greg Jarboe, CEO of SEO-PR, has estimated that there are some 75,000 fewer full time jobs in North American journalism today than there were seven years ago when Hearst bought the Chronicle.
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After noisily rebuffing the nine attorneys general seeking MySpace sex offender data last week, MySpace agreed this morning to share information on thousands of former offenders it found on the site.
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WordPress has just hit it’s 1,000,000th blog! Wow! In 4 Years. Congratulations to Matt and the team. It’s an incredible piece of software and you’ve grown the business cautiously yet quickly. You don’t ever have seemed to sacrifice quality for speed.
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One of the nice things about independent web entrepreneurs is that they (we?) can draw contrasts against those who are giant publicly-traded faceless corporations, either pointedly or with tongue in cheek. Some of the best recent items in this vein…
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Before the iPod, the Macintosh, or even the formation of Apple Computer Company on April Fool’s Day 1976, there was the Apple I.
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Here’s today’s entrepreneurial trivia question
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A majority of business owners admit they’re scared to fire employees — even incompetent ones. How to find the courage to say, “You’re fired.”
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Women entrepreneurs, who will represent half of all new small businesses in the U.S. by 2009, say that technology is a key factor in the success of their businesses and that they are comfortable with the digital era.
