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FTC's New Declosure Rules Now in Place
in Web 2.0, on December 5, 2009
...mmission rules for blogger disclosure are now in effect.
I should say at this point that I get paid to write this blog. The fact that I write a blog at all might be a conflict in any discussion o...
Google vs Murdoch: Google blinks
in Sox First, on December 3, 2009
...or Business Product Manager Josh Cohen announcing on Google's news blog that readers coming to a paid site via Google can click through to five stories a day on that site but if they do it a sixth ... ...
Last week, I did a blog entry raising the question of whether Rupert Murdoch's much-heralded talks with Microsoft were actually part of a ploy to spook Google and frighten it into paying him ...
Nokia Sues Samsung, Display Panel Manufacturers Over Price-Fixing Claims
in Wangtam, on 2009-12-02
...安全公司承认黑屏死机同微软最新补丁无关
• At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar
• Halogen: Socially Conscious. Empowering. Entertainment.
• VideoLobby.com - Create a professionally styled, custo...
Goldman Sachs loading up on guns
in Sox First, on December 2, 2009
...l crisis never happened. After paying back billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, it paid annual bonuses that rivaled the record payouts it made in 2007, at the height of the bubble. It...
The Story Of Amatoya
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-28
...ry
• 6 Reasons Why Twitter Japan's Subscription Model Might Work (In Japan)
• Microsoft readies streaming Silverlight video for iPhone ...
Will Micropayments Make Facebook a Content Portal?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 27, 2009
...se nickels and dimes.
It remains to be seen whether Murdoch will ever actually make the move to paid content. But if he does, Facebook stands to become even more popular.
...
The war industry's victory: more tax to pay for Afghanistan
in Sox First, on November 22, 2009
...ee said: "“Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for. The only people who’ve paid any price for our military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan a...
Seen that? - Berkshire Hathaway says 'Get Boring'
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...arbie a friend, if you pay for her with your new Visa, her friend will cost $1,087 and won't be paid for in full [...] Read More Berkshire Hathaway yearly report at TJ's...
The last tuna?
in Sox First, on November 14, 2009
...t is turned into high quality sushi. Instead, it would flood the US market, driving down the prices paid to fishermen. But Barry Estabrook's Politics of the Plate site suggests we need a desperate ...
Murdoch threatens Google and BBC
in Sox First, on November 10, 2009
...hat his company's online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when it launches its new paid content strategy. Asked by Sky News Australia's political editor David Speers why News Corp has...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
.... Average pay there is $700,000 and the top rainmakers pull in millions. In 2007, Blankfein was paid $68 million. Blankfein defends the massive pay packets, saying they have been earned by people wh... ... a social purpose." A social purpose? This is a spokesman for the banks that have destroyed so much wealth, that have put people out of work and have the left the global economy in a mess. And this i...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry&... ...ords were vinyl, retail meant stores, and the labels played god. The game would have to be changed, much as it was when Apple designed their YAOMS (iTunes) as a promotional engine for their [...] Rea...
Google hits the satnav market. Hard.
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 30, 2009
...cade, providing a free service which usually ends up being just as, if not more functional than the paid one it competes with, and it looks like they are about to do it again.
What's the market thi...
Hundreds lining up for low pay
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
.... Not just for one quarter either. Which is why we can expect to see more people lining up for low-paid work. The New York Times reports that hundreds of people were applying for a $13 an hour job ...
Hulu PLans to Start Charging for Its Content
in Web 2.0, on October 25, 2009
...ew York today, News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey declared that “it’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.” The Inquisitr said much the same thing.
Wikipedia describes H... ...red that “it’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.” The Inquisitr said much the same thing.
Wikipedia describes Hulu as "a website that offers commercial-supported streami...
Seen that? - The weekly trend in US stocks
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 24, 2009
... at The Hedge Funds Weblog The fight is on..If Goldman paid 6.8 billion for a specialist unit on the floor. Can members let their exchange go for half the ...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
...and likely pay again. I'm not against these payment systems (we certainly know writers could be paid better), but still, [...] Read More Case studies: Microfinance at Au... ... micro loan project in India. These projects are IMHO a real help for rural folks and can breed ver much needed entrepreneurship. "Microfinance is a long way from the world of venture capital ...
Seen that? - AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service
in I got Spam?!, on October 21, 2009
... AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service at I got Spam?! Antone Gonsalves: America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday said they planned to launch cert...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...re is a real trust issue now with agencies. Why would anyone trust them? Particularly when they are paid by the companies who issue the securities that get the ratings. A more sensible solution would ...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
..., the net asset value of Harvard’s General Operating Account, a pool of cash from which bills are paid, fell to $3.7 billion from $6.6 billion. Intellect and finance don't necessarily go together. Wh...
AT&T and Google brawl over sex lines.
in Sox First, on October 16, 2009
...e want to keep it that way for all our users -- which we could not afford to do if we paid these ludicrously high charges." In any case, it says it is providing a service that AT&T should have provid...
Seen that? - BlogKits
in BlogWealth, on October 11, 2009
...vertisers only pay them if an actual purchase is made when an ad is clicked. For bloggers, they get paid per click and the minimum payout amount is $25 which is a lot more attractive than Adsense'... ...ense for a variety of reasons. If you're looking for an alternative, try BlogKits. They provide much the same kind of service as Adsense, except the advertisers only pay them if an actual purchase...
Seen that? - Another non-starter: Micropayments
in P2P File Sharing, on October 11, 2009
... This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry&... ...ords were vinyl, retail meant stores, and the labels played god. The game would have to be changed, much as it was when Apple designed their YAOMS (iTunes) as a promotional engine for their [...] Rea...
Seen that? - Love goes through the stomach
in Are you a beauty?, on October 12, 2009
...ulous recipe or posting about some ultra-fabulous food news. You can find out more about how to get paid [...] Read More ... ... which tells you what to cook, based on the ingredients you have in your fridge. This may not sound much, but I'm sure you know that craving in the middle of the night, after finishing your projec...
Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009
... at The Hedge Funds Weblog The fight is on..If Goldman paid 6.8 billion for a specialist unit on the floor. Can members let their exchange go for half the p...
Palm's Full Monty
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-09
...oice, To Come This Year
• Schmidt: We paid $1 billion premium for YouTube
• SparkPeople
• How to Handle Illegal Interview Questions
• Office 2007 Theme Builder
• The Camelizer
• Arora Is a...
Finally: A Triumph for the Stag
in Classical Drives, on October 8, 2009
...ine auction of the car is likely, with the first funds going to reimburse the expenses of those who paid for the restoration, the balance to the charities.
I remember well when the Stag was launched... ...with Triumph clubs in Canada and the United States during the trip. Such a drive may not sound like much but this is, after all, a vintage car and John put 15,422 miles on the V-8-powered roadster. &q...
Seen that? - Speed Dating: The Movie
in The Dating Weblog, on October 8, 2009
...ing frustrated at high priced internet dating alternatives. Markus commented, "I think the top paid dating sites are a little surprised at how my site has grown recently." Markus still [...]...
Windows 7 Plus BumpTop May Change the Way You Compute
in Web 2.0, on October 4, 2009
... rotate to go to the other side walls. The complete suite of multitouch gestures is included in the paid version, BumpTop Pro. I wasn't very excited about Windows 7 before now. I'm not sure an... ...u don't want with simple hand gestures. You can do things like pan and zoom, using two fingers, much like you can do with the iPhone. You can spread something out or pinch to make it shrink. If yo...
Seen that? - FlatOut 2, Better than the First?
in PCGamers Blog, on October 2, 2009
...tter than the First? at PCGamers Blog Well I actually paid for the original FlatOut game for PC. I have to tell you I was quite disappointed with the game...
Connecting Chords
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 1, 2009
... An independent study by British Ipsos Mori found that those who download, download everything, paid or not.
So where will music go from here? It seems like the majority of people expect music to...
VUDU hits Blu-Ray
in The Wired Home Weblog, on September 30, 2009
...VUDU is a paid on demand video service seen on various digital devices that get hooked up to televisions, and it's just found it's way onto another odd one; a BluRay player, the LG BD390. Why ...
Only 5% will pay for online content
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
Rupert Murdoch's plans to charge people for content are crazy.>br /> Last month, I did a blog entry listing the only reasons consumer would pay for content: it has to make them money, save them money, it has to be specialized and hard to find anywhere else, it has to show them how to...
FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...ities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bonuses paid to executives at the failed financial services firm Merrill Lynch which lost almost $16 billion...
Seven causes of business failure
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...clining market. Chasing the wrong technology is another common blooper. Just as Rupert Murdoch who paid $580 million for MySpace before it was eclipsed by Facebook. So how do companies avoid these c...
Can Skype make it on its own?
in Sox First, on September 2, 2009
...hich is more than anyone expected and certainly more than the $2.1 billion premium-heavy price eBay paid for Skype back in 2005. Despite that, eBay has written down more than $1.4 billion on the acqui... ...t. I can't wait." In its statement , eBay says it's a win-win for both companies. So much for the spin. But in reality, it's an indictment of eBay's hamfisted handling of the me...
Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009
...inly. However, it is a real risk - prudence (and the law in many cases) requires that attention be paid to it.
The perch is another important item. Often, counsel is the only one involved in a deal t... ...company's critical information is outsourced (and remember, information in a company is pretty much like water in the body - a company is about 95% information in one form or another), a risk is p...
Pirate Bay legalization is go
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 28, 2009
...ey they needed in order to buy out torrent site The Pirate Bay. $7.8 million is the price set to be paid, and one wonders quite how they convinced any investors to give out money, as it's strongly...
Invoicing and Collections Policy
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 25, 2009
...ving work to do. That's spending the time and effort to do the work . . . and still not getting paid. Frankly, I'd rather be sitting around twiddling my thumbs or reading trashy murder mysteri...
Will We Soon Be Paying for Content?
in Web 2.0, on August 24, 2009
...t many choices. BusinessWeek looked in some detail at the most obvious of those choices recently: paid content. News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch said recently, though, that he plans to charg... ...e attached to the bill you get from your Internet provider. Like radio, we could start tracking how much each particular piece of content gets used and conpensating the authors in a manner similar to ...
Trying to time the bottom
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 17, 2009
...wners who sold their residence in Newport Beach, Calif., in 2006 for 20 percent more than what they paid for it. They then rented an apartment that is one-fifth the size of their home.
The story does...
Shelby Daytona, Ferrari 250 GT, Jaguar C-Type Top Monterey Auctions
in Classical Drives, on August 17, 2009
...st money. Which seems strange to me as I've always thoughts the boasting rights went to whoever paid the least for the most. That said, here are your 2009 Monterey best sellers:
Mecum Auction ...
A Word of Caution about Balance Transfer Credit Cards
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 13, 2009
...id this altogether is to not charge anything new on the card until the transferred amount is fully paid first. Best way to save your money on credit cards is to pay off your balance each month.
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Sperm banking boom
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...most of them say it's about money. At the Biogenetics site in Mountainside, New Jersey, men get paid $100 per sample of their liquid assets. Multiply that twice a week and someone can make $10,400... ...ne can make $10,400 a year for doing next to no work. According to this report , some can make as much as $5000 per donation. Easy money. No wonder there's been a 40% jump in inquiries. But the...
Is the housing greed a thing of the past?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 31, 2009
...with stories, too. Neighbors of theirs are upset because their home today isn't worth what they paid for it back in 2004. That's not unusual. Housing prices in D.C., and in much of the country... ...;t worth what they paid for it back in 2004. That's not unusual. Housing prices in D.C., and in much of the country, have fallen dramatically since the early to mid-2000s.
What's unusual her...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Selling Domain Names
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 29, 2009
...net, there was furious competition for web site domain names, accompanied by lawsuits and huge sums paid for well-known names. Last year the buying and selling of Web site domains amounted to a $77 mi... ... many aspects of the business. She says the days of million dollar one-word domain names are pretty much gone, but there are opportunities out there for shrewed investors.
It's an interesting l...
CharcoCaps and More Tips Against Gas Discomforts
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 29, 2009
...ns in your wallet. With gas prices still on the rise/high, CharcoCaps is offering a $100 pre-paid gasoline card (while supplies last).
Simply take the gas etiquette quiz and sign-up to win the gas...
Western Digital Introduces Husky 1TB Hard Drive for Notebooks
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 28, 2009
...tween a rock and a hard drive.
The drive only runs $250 which seems like a great deal since I have paid nearly as much for smaller drives. I am not sure if Western Digital has anyway of physically sh... ...d a hard drive.
The drive only runs $250 which seems like a great deal since I have paid nearly as much for smaller drives. I am not sure if Western Digital has anyway of physically shrinking the Sco...
Kidney Selling and Kidney Brokers Do Exist!
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 26, 2009
...potlight on an underground business where wretchedly poor foreigners - particularly in India - are paid $2,000 to $10,000 for kidneys.
Those kidneys are ultimately sold for as much as $180,000 to tra... ...larly in India - are paid $2,000 to $10,000 for kidneys.
Those kidneys are ultimately sold for as much as $180,000 to transplant recipients who otherwise could die.
More than 80,000 Americans were w...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
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US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone... ...h , the banking business stinks because of all the bad loans and investment banking isn't doing much better. Goldman's results come from bigger risks and the concern is whether other banks wil...
Time to Regulate SEO?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 23, 2009
...39;s dominance - and the fact that it controls such an enormous amount of consumer behavior through paid and organic search listings - the company in essence governs commerce on the web. And any compa...
Can manufacturing be saved?
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...turing sector. The paper suggests tax initiatives for R&D might help and ensuring foreign taxes paid on profits made overseas are deductible. Frankly, one would have to question whether any of th... ...fertilizing, better systems of crop rotation, and efficiencies of large scale have all made farming much more productive. "Manufacturing is analogous. In America and elsewhere around the world, ...
Some mortgage villains faring quite well
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009
...unable to pay their monthly mortgage loans? It's because so many mortgage loan officers — paid, by the way, to watch out for their clients — steered them toward risky interest-only or ...
Can news be saved?
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...merican history - no more than the last fifty years or so - a lot of smart and talented people were paid a living wage and benefits to challenge the unrestrained authority of our institutions and to h... ...and clearly it is the informational delivery system of our future, but thus far it does not deliver much first-generation reporting. Instead, it leeches that reporting from mainstream news publication...
Office 2010: Micorsoft Moving to a Cloud-based FREE Business Model?
in Web 2.0, on July 17, 2009
In the words of Mashable , it was expected and inevitable : Micorsoft is putting one of their flagship products, Office, one the web. Included in the web-based version of Office 2010 you'll find Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote, "full lightweight versions of the products, allowing user...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...onder the bank reimbursed the $10 billion in preferred shares taken by the US government and why it paid a dividend of $425 million. There is another reason for its figures: the demise of Lehman Brot... ...
Much has been made of the extraordinary profits posted by Goldman Sachs with its best quarter since the end of 2007 when the recession was just beginning. As Phillip Silitschanu, a senior analys...
Recession reshapes America
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
...da argues that we are now seeing the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and a corresponding exodus of trad... ...pe America's geography where cities like Detroit will turn into ghost towns. Without saying as much, demographer Richard Florida seems to be saying that in his latest book, an extract of which is...
Pandora is Charging So Consider Aluratec Internet Radio
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 13, 2009
... deal with the recording industry that is a sort of win/win. The recording industry is going to be paid a royalty for songs played, and Pandora Internet Radio will stay alive. The catch is that a use... ...o Jukebox that is sure to compete with Pandora, especially since it may not be free.
I tracked how much Pandora I listen to, and it came out to be about 4 hours per day. At that rate, I will run out ...
Employee or Entrepreneur? The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment
in BootStrapMe, on July 12, 2009
...r myself a die-hard entrepreneur.... I've had jobs I loved and jobs I hated, and many that just paid the bills. I've also tried self-employment twice: once as a computer consultant, and now as...
Ok You're Right [50 Cent]
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-12
ok ok ok
ok ok ok *screwed*
ok ok ok
ok ok ok *screwed*
Hook:
when they talk about me, they say i be tripping
what they say about doesn't make me mad
i think they hating 'cause they see me when I'm rolling
man, i can't help it that they really doing bad
ok, alright (they sick)
...
Google Pushes the World Toward Cloud Computing with Its New Operating System
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 10, 2009
... giant. And if they're successful, Google will surely begin more agressively developing premium paid versions of it's free cloud-based apps.
© Randy Zhang
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Chrome OS: The Fight is Finally on for Microsoft and Google...
in Bizinformer, on July 10, 2009
...ons (like Google Docs). Google has made news recently by toying with the idea of releasing premium paid versions of its free apps.
Google and Microsoft have both talked about the release of Chrom...
1954 Buick Skylark. More Beautiful Than a 48 Roadmaster?
in Classical Drives, on July 10, 2009
... excellent condition. Estimated price of $60-80,000 is a tad more than the $4355 the original owner paid.
Okay, Colin... she's certainly a beauty. So I will add the Skylark to my mythical auto m...
Let's Retire F1's Bernie and Max Before it's Too Late
in carzz.org, on July 8, 2009
...r disgusting opportunities. First, Max gets caught with his pants down, playing Nazi sex games with paid floozies. Then Bernie reveals to a Daily Mail reporter his replusive views on democracy and A...
GMail Leaves Beta and Hell is Bound to Freeze Over
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...GMail on my iPhone and macs instead of MobileMe. My only gripe would happen if Google now shifts to paid apps, or if the developers move onto other lucrative applications and leave GMail, Google Calen... ...y have recently beefed up GMail to support drag-and-drop folders. Personally, it doesn't matter much to me. I use Google apps almost exclusively. I do my writing in Google Docs, and I use the Cale...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
... she was working with officials from her mortgage lender to modify her mortgage loan. The homeowner paid more than$5,000 that she thought was being used to modify her mortgage loan into one that she c...
The Month in Twitter - A Nobel Prize Coming?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on July 5, 2009
...gan verifying accounts . And there was some news on its business model .
More useful stuff:
Paid Twitter Stream
Local Tweets
Organizing Twitter
Twitter's Innovation Drought
...
Daimler SP250 Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Sidney Gets a Treat
in Classical Drives, on July 3, 2009
...our years working in London my family and I were frequently chauffered in Daimler limousines (fares paid by ad agency employer J. Walter Thompson and billed to our client, Ford of Europe... don... ... an Alpine with a Ford V-8 under the hood. Gee, did Chrysler hate the Daimler SP250 (nee Dart) that much?
The engine had originally been developed for use in Daimler sedans before Jaguar bought the b...
Madoff's tough spell
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...l spend what's left of his life behind bars. As the Guardian tells us, he is likely now to be paid anywhere from 12 cents to 40 cents an hour for such jobs as food service, cleaning, filing, fac... ...
Much has been said about Bernard Madoff's 150 year prison sentence. The Los Angeles Times points out the obvious : his sentence is a lot shorter than what was handed out to the likes of Den...
