This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In addition to writing for their human readers, web writers and bloggers have to consider the digital web crawlers employed by search engines like Google . Your business can’t skip the task. Since most would-be reader...
Editor’s note: The following data is an excerpt from Inside Facebook Gold , our research and data membership service covering Facebook’s platform and advertising ecosystem .
Nevermind China’s country-wide block on Facebook; the Chinese language is still the ninth-largest language on Facebook, thanks to Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Chinese is growing at a steady pace, and it’s begin...
Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook . Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your busin...
You know the feeling: opening up your e-mail to find hundreds of messages of varying importance. Some are automated reminders from your favorite sites, some are newsletters you have subscribed to, some are actually from real people trying to contact you, and so on. Separating the wheat from the chaff can be overwhelming much of the time, and even the most carefully crafted filters don't keep up wi...
Hype Aside, Most of Us Are Not Checking In is a post from Chris Pirillo Despite all of the hype surrounding various check-in services, most of us are not bothering with any of them. Companies such as Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick and the almighty Facebook all offer services which let you report your physical location online. This allows you to connect with friends on the fly or rec...
First, three posts by JP Rangaswami :
Does the Web make experts dumb?
Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues
His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web dumbs us down. This is wrong. The web can dumb us down, but only if we choose to let it.” Much substance leads up to that, including ...
In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition . Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was good advice. Here’s how one commenter phrased it:
In addition to comments like the one above, my business partner Marc Andreessen suggested that I write a post on how to screen for the ri...
In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition . Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was good advice. Here’s how one commenter phrased it:
In addition to comments like the one above, my business partner Marc Andreessen suggested that I write a post on how to screen for the ri...
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple , Google , Facebook and eight other companies through his current firm, Interval Licensing LLC. The lawsuit alleges that 11 different companies, including YouTube , Netflix and AOL , have violated four different patents associated with web search and e-commerce. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Interval Licensing LLC is a firm that ...
Taking an if-you-can-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places’s read and write APIs. SCVNGR is just one of a handful of companies that has access to both APIs . The startup believes it is the first mobile game to integrate with Facebook Places. SCVN...
In the process of accumulating more than 10,000 employees worldwide, Google also accumulated a lot of former employees. Many of these Xooglers (yes, that’s what former Googlers call themselves) have decided to scale down and start-up. Xoogler-founded businesses are making headlines everywhere as they are acquired by Google, its competitors, find funding from other Xooglers, and blaze new tr...
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In the process of accumulating more than 10,000 employees worldwide, Google also accumulated a lot of former employees. Many of these Xooglers (yes, that’s what former Googlers call themselves) have decided to scale down and start-up. Xoogler-founded businesses are making headlines everywhere as they are acquired by Google, its competitors, find funding from other Xooglers, and blaze new tr...
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More like Trader Johann 's! "Few customers realize the [Trader Joe's] chain is owned by Germany's ultra-private Albrecht family, the people behind the Aldi Nord supermarket empire." (via Kourosh )
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Even the best organizations make missteps. Whether it’s a product that doesn’t work correctly or an employee that makes an odd comment, let’s face it: Stuff just happens. In most situations, though, the most important...
You'll probably be paying for goods and services around town with your iPhone or other smart phone soon, but what will happen if a vendor makes an error or your phone is lost or stolen?
The Consumers Union , the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, has called on the US government to issue regulations for the coming era of mobile payments just like it has for protecting consumers from cre...