Archive for September, 2008
How To Turn Any Product You Sell Into Residual Income
The concept of this is for you to offer a subscription
type product as an upsell or backend product. For
example, if you’re selling an ebook for $37 offer a
subscription to a related e-zine for $9.95 a month.
Instead of an e-zine, it could be monthly updated
information for the ebook.
It’s not just for e-books, you can make it [...]
MySites: Your Multimedia Desktop for the Web
MySites is a Web desktop that lets you store up to 10 GB of photos, music, videos, and other files that you can easily share. You can embed these items with code on your websites or share direct links to each item.
Yahoo Fat Farm: How Many People Does Yahoo Need To Fire To Get “Fit”?
By Henry Blodget
Yahoo’s fat as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. So they’ve hired Bain.
What’s Bain going to do? Tell Yahoo how many people to fire–and where. How much is Bain going to charge for that information? Millions of dollars (which means another couple dozen folks will need to be fired to [...]
Everyone hates ComScore
By Jessi Hempel, writer
Last winter, when Google lost a third of its market value, analysts blamed a small web-research company based in Reston, Va., called ComScore. The firm had issued a report that said Google’s domestic paid clicks – the number of times people click on an ad – had flattened. Analysts initially went berserk. [...]
Bush: Rescue To Pass
By Jeanne Sahadi
President sought to reassure markets bailout will pass, despite breakdowns.
President Bush on Friday sought to reassure markets that Congress, despite a breakdown in negotiations on Thursday, would pass a $700 billion financial rescue plan.
“There are disagreements over aspects of the rescue plan. But there’s no disagreement something must be done,” the president said [...]
JPMorgan Chase to Buy Washington Mutual
by Christopher Palmeri
In a deal brokered by the federal government, JPMorgan Chase will pay $1.9 billion for deposits and branches. WaMu depositors will be protected
Washington Mutual’s long, drawn-out struggle to find a buyer came to an end late Thursday, Sept. 25, when it was announced that the nation’s largest savings and loan would be [...]
The Credit Crunch and Small Business
By John Tozzi
Amid the widespread crisis, even healthy small businesses are feeling the squeeze. But some banks see an opportunity to lend
How directly will small business lending be affected by the ongoing financial crisis and forthcoming bailout? The evidence is mixed. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress that the $700 billion plan was needed [...]
The Financial System Bailout: Deal or No Deal?
by Jane Sasseen and Theo Francis
Congressional leaders announce a pact in principle, but face unhappy rank-and-file Republicans. Can John McCain swing them? Does he want to?
The deal is on. No, it’s off. No, it’s on again.
It was a day in Washington that would have tried the patience of Monty Hall. After several days of nearly [...]
YouTube Fights Global Poverty With “In My Name”
by Don Reisinger
YouTube on Thursday announced that it’s going to do its part to fight global poverty by launching “In My Name,” a global effort to raise awareness around eight time-bound, measurable goals that the United Nations set back in 2000 to combat global poverty. Known as Millennium Development Goals, the ideas outlined during that [...]
hi5 Makes Translation Easy for Developers
by Stan Schroeder
Social network hi5 has launched a language translation tool fully compliant with the OpenSocial 0.8 standard. The tool will make it easy for developers to localize their applications, while the users will be able to communicate in their language of choice not only on hi5, but also when using third-party applications available on [...]
Google Moderator is Digg for Group Questions
by Stan Schroeder
Sometimes it seems to me that the most useful of Google’s projects come from their engineres 20-80 rule, which means that they are encouraged (coerced? forced? whipped?) to spend 20% of their time on side projects.
Will Music Click with MySpace Users?
by Ron Grover
MySpace parent News Corp. will offer free music from the four major labels in a full-court press to generate ad revenue
The music industry is looking for its next act. And MySpace, News Corp.’s (NWS) social network, intends to provide it. On Sept. 25, the giant social network is finally unveiling its long-anticipated [...]
Oracle Dives Headlong into Hardware
by Aaron Ricadela
With business applications faltering, Larry Ellison is redoubling efforts to spur sales of databases, which make up most of Oracle’s revenue
Larry Ellison kicked off his annual speech to Oracle (ORCL) customers by comparing the engineering behind his new America’s Cup racing yacht to Oracle’s products. “Like a lot of families, I’m holding [...]
Main Street’s Rage at the Financial Crisis
by Susan Berfield
Working folks are outraged about the government’s proposed Wall Street rescue
it has been shaken by economic changes seemingly beyond its control: the churning of industries, the dislocation of workers. Many residents just sigh at the mention of Billy Joel’s anthem to the gritty, struggling Allentown of the 1980s, when the once-great Bethlehem [...]
Bailout Outrage Races Across the Web
by Moira Herbst
Arun Gupta was enraged as he learned the details of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s plan to fix the U.S. banking system with $700 billion in taxpayer funds. The 43-year-old copy editor and freelance journalist, who publishes his own alternative newspaper, The Indypendent, needed to channel his angst but couldn’t find a live protest [...]
Next Post Previous Post Watch The Political Spin Machine With Google “In Quotes”
Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently.
Is Yahoo Trying To Sell Yahoo Answers?
Part of Yahoo’s survival strategy beyond merging with AOL may be to sell of what they consider to be non-core assets for cash. We heard from a source that Yahoo may be quietly reaching out to a couple of potential buyers to see if they’d be interested in their Yahoo Answers property. We filed the rumor Continue Reading
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