How to Be an Effective CEO This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't fo 07-25-2009 by point24 Tags business, google, startup 101
Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning’s continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U.S. is still very much in the midst of recession. Additionally, the U. 07-13-2009 by point24 Tags dice.com, google
Nokia N97 Hands On Nokia is a in a really weird place right now. They’re the #1 handset manufacturer in the world, yet we’d all be lying if we said they didn’t have to work to stay there. RIM and Apple are the new wonder boys and they are steadily stealing 07-09-2009 by point24 Tags 5 megapixel, apple, bg's corner, edge, google, gprs, gsm, nokia, wi-fi, windows
Facebook is Getting Vanity URLs: Get Yours on Saturday at 12:01am EDT We heard rumors about this for at least the last couple of weeks, but today, Facebook finally announced that it will allow users to pick and choose their own vanity URLs. Instead of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=432123451 , you will now be able t 07-03-2009 by point24 Tags facebook, google
Stealth Startup Udorse Raises $500k From Founders Fund Udorse , a New York-based startup currently in stealth, has raised a $500,000 round of seed funding from Founders Fund . Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel will be serving on the company’s board of directors. At this point we know very little about t 07-02-2009 by point24 Tags google, udorse
Reasons to blog Almost everybody in this world has heard about blogs. Blogs have become very popular because they offered people a new chance to express their feelings and 07-01-2009 by akymro Tags blog, blogging, community, google, internet
Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles about current events clustered in the lists of sources on Google News , Google confirmed today. Those collaboratively written and edited pages will now sit side by side with professional news reportin 06-28-2009 by point24 Tags google, professional news, wikipedia
Is Zipcar planning an IPO? Depends who you ask A bit of a kerfluffle has sprung up around car-sharing service Zipcar , and whether Bloomberg misquoted chief executive Scott Griffith that he’s planning an initial public offering for 2010. You’d think it would be a relatively easy dispute to 06-24-2009 by point24 Tags google
A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad) It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. Cookpad , the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 06-16-2009 by point24 Tags cookpad, google, launch
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook Announced I think of this as a love story, began Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager at Google, as he announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook , a plug-in that syncs Outlook with Apps, much like Outlook syncs with Exchange. But love? Not so much. Googl 06-15-2009 by point24 Tags apps, google, mic, microsoft
Hacker News | Ask HN: If Google is a monopoly I read the article "A Brief History of Google Killers" (http:// news ycombinator.com/item?id=616482) and saw these numbers: " show Live Search's share as fluctuating over the past couple of years, but never exceeding 2.6 percent. . Read the original h 05-24-2009 by randallmark Tags doing, google, hacker, monopoly
Just Orb » Blog Archive » What the hell They've been making changes to Google News for about a week now, and it's not bad looking, so no complaints about that, but the fact I had a number of “ news alerts” (specific searches) set to appear on my Google News page that are now . See the ori 05-24-2009 by randallmark Tags archive, blog, google, hell, what
DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage Traffic On Digg DiggBar , the new shortURL and toolbar service from Digg, is certainly useful. I expect it to become my default short URL service on Twitter since it is so easy to create a short URL by simply adding Digg.com/ in front of any URL. It will redirect to a s. 04-03-2009 by revenant Tags business, digg, google, people, top, twitter
