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Chrome OS: The Fight is Finally on for Microsoft and Google...

© RJL20 Two of the giants of the technology world have finally come to blows. And the battle may reshape the industry and impact every business that uses computers. Okay, that sounded dramatic. And Google's move into operating systems has been a bit of a surprise to everyone but the ind...

Taxes on e-Commerce? States Giving it a Try...

© Fosforix VentureBeat had a report recently on state efforts to collect sales taxes on e-commerce. Laws have been proposed, passed, signed, vetoed and in some cases abandoned in New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Hawaii, California, Maryland, Minnesota, and Tennessee. Not long ago t...

Your Company Website

I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should. SimplWeb has an online course available to help you start a website. They describe it as "a free 7 part guide to creating a killer content site that ca...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a dating website and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether they're reputable. Where do you go to find out? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major concern on the Internet. The ...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a variety of hotel and airline booking services and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether it's reputable. Where do you go to find out? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major c...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a variety of banking and financial services and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether they're reputable. Where do you go to find out? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major co...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a variety of Web hosting services that look useful for your business, but you're wondering who's behind the site and where its owners stand on a variety of environmental and social issues. Where do you go to find out? With t...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a name-your-own-price travel reservation service and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether it's reputable. Where do you go to find out? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major ...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz Where is your most annoying spam coming from? How do you contact them about it (or turn them into someone)? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major concern on the Internet. The ability to find out just exactly who is behind a particular website h...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz Whether it's online commerce, advertising or trading in Internet properties and domain names, the Web has come to play an important role in 21st Century business. With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major concern on the Internet. The ability to ...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz You've found a new interactive website that you really like. It allows you to post information about your hobby or business and it lets other users build on what you post, adding to the content. But you're not sure how much traffic it actually gets and, more importantly, ...

The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...

© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a variety of Web hosting services and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether its bandwidth will adequately serve your clients. Where do you go to find out? With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has ...

Virtual Goods and Real Value

Have you paid money recently for a new outfit for your Second Life avatar? Or to send a friend a teddy bear on Hi5? We talked not long ago about virtual currencies . Now VentureBeat has an article out on virtual goods. And they say that while the actual good might not be "real," their v...

Wal-Mart Promises to Promote Women. Do you Believe Them?

BusinessWeek had an article last week on Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke's promise to promote women. Seeking to counter Wal-Mart's image as a company that sells mostly to women yet is overwhelmingly run by men, new Wal-Mart (WMT) CEO Mike Duke pledged at the company's annual shareholder con...

A Cybersecurity Czar

A couple of sources ( Wired , Venture Beat ) commented last week on President Obama's announcement that his administration will create a cybersecurity czar. Most saw the action as a positive step. And among the beneficiaries, the business world stands out. Time is money. Regardless of the rea...

The Time is Now...

Lisa Barone over at Small Business Trends had a piece earlier this month on a webinar called "Just Start - Getting Your Business Started Right." And according to people running the webinar, now is the time to get your small business started. It may not seem so smart to start a busi...

Entering an Era of Virtual Currencies?

There's money. People (me included) carry it around in their wallets and save small pieces of it in the ashtrays or cup holders of their cars. And they buy things with it - hamburgers, gasoline, and sometimes other small things. Then there's checks and credit cards. We pretend they're ...

Working with a Web Designer

It's getting harder and harder to have a business and not have a web page. But most businesss owners don't really have the in-house talent necessary to create a site on their own. So they find a web designer... Entrepreneur.com had some good tips recently for working with a web designer...

An End to Tax Havens?

© marcn A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include: The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...

Can Ztail reinvigorate Online Shopping?

I'd usually look for a more techie sort of forum to discuss a company like this, but the Ztail business model is what I found intriguing about this article. Ztail is a relatively new company that has begun to guarantee the resell value of items you purchase online. The TechCrunch articl...

Will Karen Mills Make a Difference at SBA?

BusinessWeek had a piece last week on Karen Mills, the newly confirmed head of the Small Business Association. She promises to reinvigorate the agency. Mills nevertheless inherits an SBA that languished under the Bush Administration, which cut its funding by about 26% since 2001 and sliced sta...

Revisiting FAS 157, Again

Back in January we reported on how changes to FAS 157 were putting a hurt on financial institutions and many businesses. Now those rules are being softened, according to BusinessWeek . After intense pressure from lawmakers and some factions of the financial industry, the Financial Accounting Stan...

How to Get Federal Contracts for Your Business

I came across this piece recently: Contractors Reveal Their Secrets . I've been involved in the past in applying for federal grants. So this quote struck a chord with me: "Applying for government contracts is a complex, confusing and often intimidating process." The article provides ...

Building Your Resume with Social Networking

Dan Schawbel has a timely piece on Mashable at the moment on using social networks to build your resume. Schawbel list 10 useful social networking sites to help you strengthen your resume and ( surprise! ), LinkedIn isn't the top of the list. Razume is a sight designed specifically to all ...

Things I Should Have Blogged About...

I've been kind of distracted for a couple of weeks now with a variety of demands on my time that I somehow failed to see as converging all at once. I won't bore you with the details... As I look back over the past couple of weeks, five BusinessWeek articles stand out that at least deserved ...

Japan's Economy Unravels

The H Post is among a huge number of sources covering the sharp downturn of the Japanese economy. If there was any doubt that this is a global recession, the economic news on Japan put an end to that this week. Tomoko A. Hosaka put it this way: Japan's economy contracted at the fastest pace...

Stimulus Hype: Sorting Out Keynes (Part III)

So now there's a stimulus package pretty much in place. And whatever all the Right Wingers in the blogosphere may think about it, it's based at least partly on Keynesian economic theory. Will it work? Time will tell. Bruce Bartlett (not a Bush fan), had an excellent column in Forbes late ...

Stimulus Hype: A Populist Plan? (Part II)

I said last week that I'd spent a fair amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle and that it's not an easy subject to unravel. One of the articles that puzzled me a little was by Greg T. Spielberg over at BusinessWeek . It left me uncertain as to whether ...

Stimulus Hype: Will the Stimulus Work? (Part I)

In recent weeks I have spent a considerable amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle. It's not an easy subject to unravel. I've found a handful of interesting and informative articles that have helped shape my opinion of what should happen. But first, th...

Is Your Business Mentor or Idol on Twitter? How 'Bout your Competitors?

Twitter has gotten a lot of hype and free press over the last few weeks. Some was good (it seems to have passed social bookmarking site Digg in market share) and some of it bad (a few dozen celebrity Twitter accounts got hacked recently. So is Twitter actually good for anything, from a busines...

Will Employee Micro-Blogging Help Business?

Yammer : it's not a rare type of woodpecker or a new cocktail for yuppies. It's a micro-blogging tool similar to Twitter - but designed for businesses. VentureBeat ran a story last week on the $5 million in VC funding yammer just got. I'd be interested to hear specific ways that Y...

FAS 157: Is it Killing Investment?

On November 15th a new accounting rule went into effect. It's called FAS 157. It regulates how investments are valued by mandating that they be valued "fairly." And the whining and complaints have begun... "Fair" is such a nebulous concept. Fortunately (I suppose), the new r...

Finding a Job with Social Media

Mashable has a piece by Dan Schawbel ( Personal Branding Blog ) on how to use social media to find a job. Schawbel is a little more upbeat about LinkedIn than I was last week . But he make some of the same points that I did: services like LinkedIn become more valuable if you actually need the...

Are You LinkedIn? Why...?

Marianne Paskowski over at BusinessWeek took a look this week at the value of LinkedIn - and she concludes that, well, there isn't much value in it. At least not from a business perspective. In fact, Paskowski seems down right cynical about social networking in general. She says it isola...

How to Keep Your Job: Personal Branding

Personal branding could keep you from getting fired. At least, that's want Dan Schawbel over at Mashable thinks. His book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success , looks at 10 ways personal branding can help you keep your job. Schawbel talks about things like becoming the ...

Life's a Clearance Sale

It's your store. Would you rather: a). sell one thing-a-ma-bob for $29.99 (and net $10 on it) b). sell two thing-a-ma-bobs for $24.49 each (and net $9 on the two of them) or c). sell eight of these thing-a-ma-bobs for $20.99 each (and net $8 of the lot of them)? Of course the obvious ans...

How Long Until EVERYONE Has a Store in Second Life?

Four or five years ago I read a newspaper article about a grocery store in Blacksburg, Va., where you could pick out your items on a website, pay with a credit card, and drive down to there store and pick them up. One of the bag boys would have them already bagged and waiting on you. Blacksburg bein...

Yammer: Managing the Inbox and Keeping in Touch

I heard a nice little piece on one of the radio shows today (can't remember which one) on Yammer - which TechCrunch recently described as "Twitter with a business model." Yammer takes Twitter-style micorblogging and adapts it to internal business communications. Let's say you ...

Video Ad Tools: SpotMixer and Google

To be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. - Edward R. Murrow © dmax3270 SpotMixer is an online video ad creation tool put out as a service by One True Media. For all of you small to mid-sized companies out there without...

Legal Technology Webinar

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza. - John McClane, Die Hard 2 © WorldIslandInfo.com The International Technology Law Association is holding an ITECHLAW Media Webinar on June 26, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Registration is required. The webinar promises to address ...

One Million Dollars in Free Business Advice

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. - lily tomlin © chrismear Entrepreneurs from around the world listen up. Yourbusinesschannel.com is set to launch a new online television show where a team...

Cannot Blog Today - Waiting For Firefox 3

And at the end of the day the Internet is still all about Software. - Marc Andreessen Well at 10:00 PDT (17:00 UTC), Firefox 3 was to be officially released . According to ZD Net , as of 10:14 PDT, GetFirefox and Mozilla were both down - I got a time out when I checked. The develop...

Productivity or Lack of Productivity

I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams © denn Procrastination is a much maligned trait . Abraham Lincoln, ultra-lawyer, told young lawyers never to leave until tomorrow what could be accomplished today while his wife, Mary, was acc...

Computing is Bigger in Vegas

Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. - Alistair Cooke © guspim The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has brought six Microsoft Surface tabletop computers into its iBar ultra-lounge for use and play by bar patrons. Cool. I cannot wait to get out there and try it...

Free Real Time Stock Quotes

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. - Wall Street Proverb © C R Now free real-time stock quotes are available at several places on the web. Google announced yesterday that its finance pages will feature real-time NASDAQ quotes. The real-time quotes are part of a pilot program...

Webon - Free Web Site Construction

"The road to success is always under construction." - lily tomlin © OiMax It never fails to amaze me how the process of getting a presence on the Web is becoming easier. Lifehacker.com , again one of my favorite sites, recently had a post about Webon . This is an onlin...

Learning with the Fuwa

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. -Richard M. Nixon © rdesai Have you met the Fuwa? No? Well the Fuwa are the "Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace - and good w...

SCORE - a lot of Resources

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie © laughlin Ducttapemarketing.com has an interesting link today to the SCORE website. Score is offering two free how-to workbooks for those who register at the site. The two how-to boo...

Pros and Cons of Social Networking Sites (Written by Professionals)

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds do that. - John F. Kennedy © .hj barraza Small Business Trends posted two articles with opposing views on the use of Social Networking yesterday. The posts are written by professionals and offer two wholly diver...

Your Economic Incentive Check - Put it Towards Retirement

"Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. There's nothing to retire to." - Julius Boros Last night I was going through my mail and I received a nice little post card from a credit card company suggesting I take my economic stimulus check and give it to them to pay dow...

OpenOffice 3.0 Beta is Released

Writing is its own reward. -Henry Miller © gustav* OpenOffice.org has released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta free to download. If you are not familiar with OpenOffice, it is an open source office suite from Sun Microsystems. It is an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office and at a great price...

Law Professors as Presidents

Lawyers play a special part in any society. - President Dmitry Medvedev v © World Economic Forum Russia inaugurated 42-year old Dimitry Medvedev as President of the Russian Federation today. One of his first acts was to install former President Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister. And, if...

Searching for Bargains

"It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less" - George Bernard Shaw © JOE M500 The business needs some new equipment and the need is not pressing. So, I keep my eye out for bargains. I thought I would share some online shopping bargain tips. Lif...

Microsoft Withdraws its Offer to Yahoo - I Watch the Kentucky Derby

"If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat." - Marvin S. Levin © ruscca I admit it. I could care less about the purchase of Yahoo by Microsoft. Saturday ...

Alltop Adds a Law Category

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle © umjanedoan Alltop.com has added a law category to its growing list of blogs on various subjects. Law blogs, affectionately known as " blawgs ," can be entertaining and insightf...

Obligatory Twitter Post

All things are bound together. All things connect. -Chief Seattle © trekkyandy Happy Earth Day! In honor of Earth Day and our interconnectedness I offer the following links to lists of other Twitters and some lists of good Twitter applications. This post is not about productivity. Venture ...

Attachment

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. Lao-Tzu © nicolasnova Humans become emotionally attached to people, places, and things. They become attached to the software they use. They become attached to certain investments more than others such as real est...

If you do not Want Your Kids or Grandmother to Read it - Don't Blog it

If you spit into the wind, it will hit you in the face. - Anonymous © Orin Optiglot The New York Times had a story today about ex-spouses blogging about their ex-spouses. Penelope Trunk was one of the bloggers interviewed. She was interviewed about her posts discussing her divorce and ot...

Location and Visibility

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - abraham lincoln © Addictive Picasso Two really good posts at Duct Tape Marketing and On Start Ups this week. The posts are not really related unless you think of them in terms of location and visibility for your business. ...

The Learning Stairs

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery." - james joyce © tamburix I read a lot. You will need to excuse this post because it is a compilation idea of some books I am reading or from one specific author. For lack of a better term, I will call the concept, "Th...

Selling a Business - Get a Lawyer

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. - Abu Bakr © flattop341 Smallbiztrends writer Anita Campbell posted an article today about selling a business in response to a reader who had written her asking how to go about selling the business. Ms. Campbell illustrates ...

Start Your Blog Today

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. - Jack London. © Jacob Bøtter Much thanks to George Nemeth of Brewed Fresh Daily for sending a Tweet (get into Twitter and you will know what that means) with a link to masternewmedia.org that is an all...

Recommend a Good Book

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson © miss_rogue What is your favorite career, business, or finance book? What would you recommend to someone? 800ceoread.com is running a reader's poll to determine the 100 business books of all time. When I took a look there were some v...

You Think Your Interview was Tough?

"Semper Paratus" is our guide, Our fame, our glory too. - Lyrics from Semper Paratus (Always Ready), The U.S.Coast Guard Service Song and Motto Congratulations to Coast Guard Boatswain Mate First Class Jason Boop (yes, we are related - he is my little brother). Today he passed a fi...

Who do You Look to for Financial Advice?

I need to retire from retirement. - Sandra Day O'Connor Who do you look to when you are seeking advice about financial planning ? Insurance? Retirement? According to a comprehensive survey by MetLife, people in the United States are looking to their employers to provide this kind...

The Art of Billing

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. - Drew Carey Billing for your services is truly an art. An art that poses difficulty to many professionals. A post today over at copyblogger.com offered advice on how to price freelance work and Small B...

Technorati Post

"Dad, do you have to blog? People, like, see you." - Anonymous There are many steps to building an online presence. One of these is making sure your found. Technorati is just the site to do it on. It provides a rating and profile page. You can find my Technorati Profile and see wh...

Learn Web 2.0 in 33 Easy Lessons

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist. - Charlton Heston From Small Business Labs today comes a link to the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants' website offering an online course in everything you need to know about the Web 2.0...

Government RSS Feeds - Good Content at a Good Price

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. - Albert Einstein A corporate presence on the Internet is a must for any sized business. Keeping relevant timely content on that web presence is difficult unless your company has...

More on Organizing with Jott

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. - Marcus Aurelius "What's the catch?" asked my partner. I was showing off the fact that '3' on my phone is my Jott speed dial ('2' and '1' are my kids and AT&T). She wanted to ...