Archive for August, 2007

I mentioned this a few weeks ago. Here’s more on the topic from Business Week.
Basically, the aren’t as many people available to fill the outsourcing demand, the rupee is rising against the dollar, wages are rising, and there’s more competition for existing talent. Visas to the US are running short too.
A confluence of adversities [...]

Amazon.com has mastered the use of customer reviews to give customers some idea about the product besides simply the publisher boiler plate which is basically designed to sell the product. But the customer reviews are ordinarily considered more truthful and give additional insights.
Now other online marketers are using customer reviews when appropriate to sell [...]

The free market may do what all the Presidential candidates only wish they could do: help lower health care costs.
Already Wal Mart started offering $4 prescriptions on generics. Now Publix is offering free prescriptions on certain medications.
The plan is being tested in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina.
From Sun-Sentinal.com
Publix supermarket chain said today it [...]

Online marketers, politicians, and - now - hackers are turning to Social Networking sites. The first two seek business contacts and votes respectively. The third hope to exploit the sites for criminal purposes to get at your personal information.
So market online, but be careful what information you disclose.
Read more…
Related Link: Lifelock Identity Theft Protection

Just got the email today. One of my first loans with Kiva.org was repaid today. That means I can put the money back into circulation through another loan, donate it to Kiva themselves or withdraw the money.
I loaned the money (along with a bunch of other people) and the loan took effect on December 6th. [...]

After last week’s bridge collapse, suddenly there’s a plethora of information on deficient bridges… though they’re condition today is no different than last week!
You can check your state by county here at MSNBC 
In the wake of last week’s collapse a sudden wave of “Bridge-o-phobia” swept the nation and the fear of falling bridges hit the [...]

One Person businesses are booming as I’ve reported before. Will the remain microbusinesses though? That’s the question. Or will they remain one person businesses as “teams” who share referrals but remain financially separate?
As the article reports, the “average” revenue was $38,000. But it’s deceiving because many of these businesses are part time operations or seasonal.
From [...]

I’ve blogged about cheap laptops before and suggested they would soon make their way to Wal Mart though initially designed for poor school children.
Here’s how that is progressing in the technology world to a Wal Mart near you… In this case, it’s a PC that uses the owner’s TV set as the monitor to cut [...]

Most of our readers are familiar with Google’s free web based email, document, and spreadsheet tools. But there are other options that allow you to run your life or business completely “on the web”.
But in addition to Google, you might want to check out Zoho.com and ThinkFree.
If you just want to use open source office [...]

Because the United Nations has nothing better to do than award millions of dollars to people who’ve never applied for the money and, in any case, wouldn’t be as adept at frittering all of it away on useless projects that never accomplish anything as they seem to be, they’ve have graciously sent me this email.
I’m [...]