I sometimes need a place to post my point-of-view... Is that so wrong?
For more than four decades, the shopaholic America has shown an insatiable desire to spend until our credit cards melt. Yet today, a sharp slowdown, record-high gas prices, high consumer debt levels, a plunging real estate market, and the growing green movement all seem to be conspiring to dethrone the credit card way of life.
With digg, myspace, facebook, and twitter, it is easy to track who your friends are. But these tools not only track friends gained, but also friends lost. It's sometimes surprising to look at your friends list and realize who is not on there any more...
When starting a new business, entrepreneurs have a dream. They dream that there is a great untapped demand out there, who are looking for something and not finding it. It's just not true. We're looking at a future (very soon) where every good keyword is marketed to agressively. And they're unbeatable.
I don't want to offend anyone, but I couldn't stop laughing when I watched this.
Sometimes as a freelancer, you may find that you get so wound up working on your trade that you forget about running your business. Business development is vital because it involves creating a pipeline of assignments so you don’t run dry. Here are some of the strategies I use to ensure that business keeps coming in.
What do you do if you have one main client and for some reason the work from that client dries up? Perhaps the client goes out of business or goes in a different direction or just has a lull in business?
NASA is hiring a handful of people over the next year to join its astronaut training program. The requirements? Must be willing to travel.
Apple has issued a statement after the stock market closed today saying that using unlocking software "will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable" once a future Apple patch is applied.Is this just half-hearted talk from Apple, or have they got an update ready to go already?
We're all used to contextual ads by now. You're visiting digg, and you see advertisements for iPods. But is there any limits in online advertising? CNN.com is running a story about how 7 American soldiers died in Iraq today. And the ad banner reads, "What if you died today..."? Should life insurance be sold alongside obituaries?
