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Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and internet policy expert. She has now joined Barack Obama’s team to take over the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice. Varney is reported to have said “For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem”. Google, she suggested, “has acquired a [...]
Gekko is a new and unique way to find places – spots – that you love based on your profile and your match with like-minded people.The startup is using the most blatant use of sex to launch. Unfortunately it’s not even funny. Check out the Viral Video here
Jessica Livingston a partner at Y Combinator had released a book called Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. This book speaks in detail with thirty startups of Silicon Valleys most notable successes. In this was an interview with Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, who speaks about the experiences he had raising money for the [...]
Seth Godin talks about the power of permission-based email, being Google Friendly, social media and how the internet has changed everything. Filmed at Seth’s London Session on 17th Feb 2009. Check out the Video
Danny Sullivan posted on his blog an interesting comparison of how Microsoft Live and Ask.com showed better results when one searched for Oscar Winners as compared to Google. Many would say that they would never have thought that Google could be outdone.Providing instant answers isn’t something new for search engines and searches with answers can [...]
A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girlfriend refused to marry him. The Guardian Newspaper reports that it has become [...]
Facebook says that it has removed ads for a get rich quick scam that appeared on the site for weeks before being noticed by staff. Users still report that some of the ads remain on the site and are being re-published at a rate faster than the site can review. The ads appear as signed [...]
Microsoft research has released a paper about a Web browser it calls Gazelle. This web browser is constructed in such a way so as to to act like an operating system with the browser protecting resources and sharing across Web sites. According to Microsoft no existing browsers is like Gazelle, this includes browsers based on [...]
YouTube has introduced a new feature for publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. People can now send a special link to their friends so that friends can easily add their own comments to videos. YouTube’s editor now has a link that you can share with your friends – or the to the world. [...]
Sharlyn Lauby authors a blog at hrbartender.com – http://www.hrbartender.com recently on Mashable she posted an interesting article that speaks about how to deal with social media conflict. When you encounter conflict in a work environment, you can go into that person’s office, have a private chat, talk out the matter then go out for a [...]
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
