Recent Blogs
- Make it Happen or Let it Happen? By Doug Perry| 05/11/2008
- What is CCMP ? Do you use it ? By Doug Perry| 04/24/2008
- Bush Administraton Plan for Change Falters By Adam Bernard| 04/14/2008
- Giblink **Phase II** Don't Miss It! By Charles Haire| 02/5/2008
- Hard times ahead? By Adam Bernard| 01/22/2008
Recent News
Morning Line: What's to blame for the rocketing oil price?
- Published Today
Now that the main culprits behind the sub-prime crisis have been named the banks, rating agencies, regulators and so on - a new scapegoat is needed for the latest economic woe, the rising oil price.
Yesterdayevery politician with an audience of atleast onemade forecasts about what price oil will reach ($150 per barrel said the Russian president), told people to cut their addiction to oil (this from the British chancellor and US Treasury Secretary) or just stated the bleeding obvious (British PM).
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YouTube order: Does it threaten your privacy?
- Published Today
Mercury News staff and wire reports
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
The order raised concerns among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Viacom and Google, which owns YouTube, said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of YouTube viewers.
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Why Microsoft will win Yahoo
- Published Today
By David Kirkpatrick, senior editor
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion. » Read More
Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees
- Published Yesterday
An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels - a city that floats around the world.
The self-contained 'Lilypad' city will be home to around 50,000 'climate refugees' from the worst hit areas - including London.
Latest research predicts that sea levels could rise by up to 88cm - nearly 3ft - by the year 2100, putting many islands in the Pacific Ocean in danger.
YouTube vs. Viacom: Google’s IP wins; Users lose
- Published Yesterday
Posted by Larry Dignan 
The latest battle in Google’s ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant’s search code and other critical intellectual property. In the half empty department, Google is being forced to turn over YouTube user histories to Viacom.
Featured Articles
Overcoming Failure to Launch
- By Doug Perry
- Published Yesterday
- Business News
- Unrated
So you’ve got some ideas, a decent prototype, and a couple customers to boot…now what? Sadly, many would-be entrepreneurs fail at running a business before they even start. The complexity of a business plan, lack of funding, and an army of competitors all create a standstill that causes those flames of business freedom to flicker. So how do you overcome failure to launch? Get your ideas in traction by following these steps to success.
Paulson: No quick fix for oil prices
- By Doug Perry
- Published Yesterday
- Business News
- Unrated
By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned on Thursday that record oil prices are likely to prolong the world economic slowdown.
"I think that the oil prices are a strong head wind and at this level, they have got a high risk that they are going to prolong the slowdown," Paulson said at a London news conference as oil traded near the new record reached Thursday, above $145 a barrel.
Creating a niche is key for social marketers
- By Doug Perry
- Published Yesterday
- Social Networking
- Unrated
by Kristina Knight
Social marketers have been looking for something that will push their products and services ahead of the pack. According to a new report from In-Stat, the key to pushing your brand is to create a social niche.
How to Influence People Without Losing Friends
- By Doug Perry
- Published 07/2/2008
- Social Networking
- Unrated
Social networking doesn't only happen online. Mingling at industry events is still one of the best ways to find a new job, if you follow a few rules
Ben Taylor and Richard Berman
When people hear the words "social networking" today, they are more than likely to think immediately of online social networking. However, while online social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook can be a fun way of keeping in touch with people and getting your name out there, there is a lot more to social networking than sitting at a computer screen, especially if your goal is career advancement.
Visa taps into Facebook following
- By Doug Perry
- Published 06/24/2008
- Advertising
- Unrated
Facebook is popular, but struggles to
succeed commercially
Visa, the world's largest credit card network, is paying Facebook $2m (£1m) to advertise its small business service on the popular social networking site.
The company is giving $100 (£51) advertising credits to the first 20,000 US start-ups that download its service via Facebook.
Recent Articles
Taking beef jerky sales to the stratosphere
- By Doug Perry
- Published Yesterday
- Marketing
- Unrated
An online retailer who supplies astronauts with dried beef needs a new strategy to propel his earthly revenues.
By Brian O'Reilly
MONROVIA, CALIF. (FORTUNE Small Business) -- If Gregory Nemitz tells you his beef jerky is out of this world, believe him. His jerky has traveled to space stations four times for astronauts who crave the stuff. If only he could get revenues for his Web-based company, Beefjerky.com, off the ground as well.
Lost something? Check the virtual lost and found
- By Doug Perry
- Published 07/1/2008
- Internet
- Unrated
By Jacque Wilson
(CNN) -- Michael and Sharon thought the photos from their wedding were lost forever.
Then a friend called the newlyweds and told them their photos were online.
The friend recognized Sharon in her beautiful white dress, holding a bouquet of yellow flowers, on a blog titled "Found Cameras and Orphan Photos."
3K offers $299 notebook
- By Doug Perry
- Published 06/30/2008
- Computers and Technology
- Unrated
Boca Raton (FL) – A small Florida-based PC builder is jumping on the cheap notebook train with a UMPC-sized device that is offered in only one version and priced at $299 – which makes it, at least as far as we know, the cheapest notebook currently offered in the U.S
EBay to Pay Damages in Sale of Fakes
- By Doug Perry
- Published 06/30/2008
- Internet
- Unrated
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
PARIS — A French court on Monday ordered the online auction giant eBay to pay 38.6 million euros, or $61 million, in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, in the latest round in a long-running legal battle over the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet.
Google Tries Tighter Aim for Web Ads
- By Doug Perry
- Published 06/27/2008
- Advertising
- Unrated
Published: June 27, 2008
Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at Web users.