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The Key To a Better 2009
12|31|2008
“Credit, the disposition of one man to trust another, is singularly varying,” Walter Bagehot, the financial journalist, wrote 135 years ago. “In England, after a great calamity, everybody is suspicious of everybody; as soon as that calamity is forgotten, everybody again confides in everybody.”
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From the top, Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News; Mark Lennihan/Associated Press; [...]
Green Energy In 2009: Predictions And Things To Watch
12|31|2008
As the new year approaches, it's time to think about what will come for green energy next year. On the small scale, I happen to agree with a commenter on this DailyGreen call for 2009 green predictions. The commenter predicts that solar bags will be the big trend of '09. I hope so — they're [...]
Los Angeles Speaking Series #3: “Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business”
12|31|2008
As planned, I’ll be hosting monthly presentations/conversations each month throughout 2009 on different topics for entrepreneurs. These are FREE events, and my goal is to help contribute to the Los Angeles Technology Scene by bringing together various entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, social media experts, and professionals in the technology field.
These events are put on [...]
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
12|31|2008
by Michael Stelzner
Can Twitter actually help my business or is it a complete waste of my valuable time? This was the very question I asked myself only a few months back.
Perhaps you’ve pondered the same?
When people I respected started singing the praises of Twitter, I decided to give it a go. At first I just [...]
“Transformers” Sequel First Photos, New Details
12|31|2008
The "Transformers" sequel starring Shia LaBeouf And Megan Fox is out in summer 2009, and new stills show the movie's incredible access to the pyramids of Egypt and visual proof that Shia's hand injury, from a car crash earlier this year, has been written into the film.
Directed [...]
Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Before And After — And What’s Next
12|31|2008
The online environmental community is abuzz with reports of all kinds about the coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee, ranging from first-hand accounts to health concerns to worries about coal in general. Twitter in particular has been a place where people have been posting news [...]
The Biggest Business Scandals Of 2008; From Jerome To Bernie
12|31|2008
Looking back on it now, Jerome Kerviel's $8 billion trading loss seems almost quaint.
It's hard to recall the shock that greeted reports of the young Societe General trader's scheme after the year we've been through, marked by the craven come-ons of the subprime mortgage industry, overpaid overly-optimistic CEOs, a [...]
10,000 hours
12|30|2008
It's not surprising that Malcolm Gladwell's new book has made a splash. All his thought-provoking writing does and deserves to.
The argument of Outliers:
Where you're born and when you're born have an enormous amount to do with whether or not you're successful.
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
Both of the bullet points above [...]
Free eBook- Using the Social Web to Find Work
12|30|2008
Leveraging on social media to network and find jobs will be more relevant in '09. Click here to download a free eBook by Chris Brogan.
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6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now
12|30|2008
By Michael Calore 14 hours ago
Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds with their utility and ingenuity — [...]
Reporters Without Borders: 62 journalists killed in 2008
12|30|2008
By Miriam Mannak
Although the number of fatalities among reporters, photographers, and other people working in the field of journalism in 2008 has dropped to 62 from 106 in 2007, in many countries a job in the media remains risky business.
However, international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders presses that a drop in fatalities should not be regarded [...]
Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter
12|30|2008
by Guest Poster on December 31, 2008
in Twitter for Business
More and more businesses are looking to get onto Twitter – in this post Michael Gray shares some tips on how to get set up effectively.
As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers. In the [...]
Books: what not to miss in 2009
12|30|2008
Claire Armitstead
Nick Hornby returns to the world of music with his new novel, Juliet, Naked. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Set 2666 by Roberto Bolano
The first big hitter of 2009 is large in every sense: it's a 900-page, five-part epic set in a fictional city on the US-Mexico border where hundreds of young female factory workers have mysteriously [...]
Newspapers are Old News
12|30|2008
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As a follow up to my post, "Extra Extra, Read All About It! Newspapers Respond to the Social Web," new research emerges that documents the looming exit of print newspapers as a primary source of national and international news.
According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, a new survey indicates that [...]
Blogging Tips for Beginners
12|30|2008
On the page below you’ll find links to a series of blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. It unpacks the basics of blogging and a lot of the decisions and strategies that you’ll want to consider when setting up and starting a blog.
My Ultimate Guide to [...]
M&A Looks Grim for ‘09
12|30|2008
Dow Chemical's ugly end to 2008, with its stock decimated and its acquisition of rival Rohm & Haas in doubt, is emblematic of the state of M&A in the new year: conservative and fearful
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By Ben Steverman
If the last few days of 2008 are a sign of things to come, the prospects for [...]
The undeniable shift to Keynes
12|30|2008
By Chris Giles in London, Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt and Krishna Guha in Washington
Published: December 29 2008 19:06 | Last updated: December 29 2008 19:06
More than three decades have passed since Richard Nixon, the Republican US president, declared: “We are all Keynesians now.”
The phrase rings truer today than at any time since, as governments [...]
Bjork Turns Venture Capitalist
12|30|2008
Javier Espinoza
Icelandic singer partners with financial services firm to launch sustainable investment fund.
The quirky singer and actress Bjork is hunting for investors to inject capital into her economically troubled country, whose financial system collapsed in October.
Nominated for 13 Grammy awards, an Oscar and two Golden Globe awards, she has become a venture capitalist, teaming [...]
Entrepreneurial Scholarship
12|30|2008
Andy McKelvey knows what it is to dream big – to have the vision, creativity and drive to convert a new idea into a thriving business. He also knows what it takes to make those dreams a reality.
That’s why the McKelvey Foundation is honored to award $40,000 scholarships to young entrepreneurs nationwide who have started [...]
Must Have Resources for Every Entrepreneur
12|29|2008
www.TheNoDak.com
I have finally realized that for the past 3 years at Solamar Marketing Agency – I’ve been doing things WAY to manual. And these manual things were taking up WAY too much of my time. With the help of some of my mentors I’ve been able to find tools that not only make your life [...]
Why Twitter Will Go Mainstream In 2009
12|29|2008
by Darren Rowse
Today Dennis Goedegebuure from The Next Corner (follow him at @TheNextCorner) makes some predictions about Twitter in 2009.
2008 showed an unbelievable growth for Twitter as THE place for microblogging. With competitors like Pownce closing their doors, it seems that Twitter has the stronger cards to become the sole survivor in this field. [...]
Innovating in the Great Disruption
12|29|2008
Posted by Scott Anthony
While the global economy began slowing down in late 2007, forces transforming the face of business trace back more than a decade. Over that time period, technological improvements have made it ever easier to start and scale a business. Convergence went from being a cliché to a reality. Companies from countries like [...]
Do Startups Need Professional PR Help?
12|29|2008
10 Things High-Tech Founders Should Consider
By Chip Griffin
At the risk of alienating all of my remaining friends in the public relations industry, I thought I might share some of my running commentary during today's For Immediate Release broadcast on Blog Talk Radio. The subject was startup PR and the jumping off [...]
Data: What are the Benefits of Social Media Marketing?
12|29|2008
by Adam Ostrow 12 Comments
Looking to make the case for why your organization or clients should be using social media marketing? A survey last month, highlighted today in eMarketer, outlines the benefits that marketing executives cite as reasons to embrace the medium:
Not surprisingly, customer engagement takes the top spot, with 85.4% of [...]
Best Package Design
12|29|2008
Presumably environmentally friendly packaging for Newton Running by TDA Advertising and Design. The contents that make up this packaging can’t seem to be found within our Interweb World, so if anyone knows please post it in the comments section.
Roaster Joe’s Cream & Sugar
Designed by Entermotion.
Sobe Lifewater 0 Calorie
Hitting stores shortly, new zero-calorie SoBe Lifewater is [...]
How Taking May Be Giving
12|29|2008
By: Ellen J. Langer
We’ve all heard the old adage that it’s better to give than to receive, but why this is so is less known. As will become clear, giving is a gift—not only to others, but to ourselves—because it increases the bond between us and the person to whom we have given, tells us about [...]
Discover Your Character Strengths in 15 Minutes
12|29|2008
Take the ‘Values in Action Inventory of Strengths’ survey to identify your character strengths.
The classic question psychologists get asked at parties when they reveal their profession is: “Are you analysing me?” A good answer for any psychologist who wants to be invited to more parties is: “Yes, and I find you to be a wonderful [...]
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting
12|29|2008
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: December 26, 2008
TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
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Senator [...]
10 Tips on How to Be Interviewed
12|29|2008
by Darren Rowse
Yesterday I wrote a series of tips on how to ask for an interview for your blog. Today I want to focus on how to handle being interviewed as a blogger.
Over the past few years I’ve been interviewed in numerous ways as a result of my blog including on TV, for newspapers, for [...]
5 Very Official Tips for Building an Online Presence
12|29|2008
The other day Arik Hanson, someone I met recently on Twitter, asked me if I could provide 5 tips for cultivating an online presence.
Now, with that in mind, please let me preface this by saying that in many ways, I feel like any kind of online presence I have began by accident. I never really [...]
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
12|28|2008
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
DARMSTADT, Germany — From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, no cold [...]
Timeless and Time-Tested Warren Buffett Watch Predictions
12|28|2008
As a new year approaches, it is customary for journalists to make predictions about the future. This time around, CNBC.com has a collection of prognostications from CNBC bloggers on a special page: Predictions ‘09.
Last year around this time, Warren Buffett Watch offered its Eight Predictions for [...]
Happy Holidays!
12|25|2008
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
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Branding lessons from Will Smith
12|25|2008
USA Today recently ran a cover story on Will Smith that spells out how the affable actor has amassed over $2.45 billion in North American box office receipts. I’ve grabbed some excerpts that should provide guidance to just about any type of brand.
Spend seven seconds sitting across from Will Smith, and you’ll never wonder why he’s a superstar. [...]
Frank Gehry
12|25|2008
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Frank Gehry: Turning your passion into a great career
12|25|2008
Frank Gehry was born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada. He moved with his family to Los Angeles as a teenager in 1947 and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. His father changed the family’s name to Gehry when the family immigrated. Ephraim adopted the first name Frank in his 20s; since then he has [...]
Happy Holidays
12|24|2008
Happy Holidays
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12|24|2008
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Newsweek’s 1997 Gadget Shopping List: Merry Christmas Past
12|24|2008
A snowy Christmas in Chicago has given us time to dig through our parents' Newsweek archives, including some amazing Bill Gates covers — see photos below.
More topical: Gems like this year-end gadget shopping guide from the Nov. 24, 1997 issue. (Cover story: "Can we stop Saddam?") On the Newsweek editors' Christmas lists:
PalmPilot (PALM) Professional, $369. [...]
Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising
12|24|2008
Thirty years ago, a young economics professor named Muhammad Yunus started a new kind of banking in Bangladesh — tiny loans to small entrepreneurs. Few thought these dreamers in a dirt-poor country would ever repay. But most did — and in 2006, Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Micro-lending has changed lives, built communities and created [...]