Archive for July, 2008

Forbes’ article on solar energy breakthroughs is another one of a series of technological advances relating biological research to human energy production: “Solar Energy All Night Long” is about how plants transform sunlight into electricity.
Because, says the article,  there’s enough energy deposited on the earth in one hour to meet our planet’s energy needs for [...]

In the job business, we used to say that only 20% 0f available jobs were listed in newspapers or through the government sponsored “Employment office”. Have online listings made more jobs “advertised jobs”? It’s hard to tell.
So many jobs advertised online are business opportunity come ons or scams, it’s hard to tell.
Overall numbers are still [...]

Peterboro Basket Company is located in Peterboro, New Hampshire and has been making fine baskets since 1854. They started as a small business in that year and have been at work ever since.
If your home based business involves making gift baskets, this is the kind of company you may want to investigate buying wholesale from. [...]

Becky McCray alerted me to this story and G.L. Hoffman’s comments.
It reminded of the “Where’s George?” website that lets people track where their dollar bills have been by the bill’s serial number.
This little country girl wrote her name and address on an egg sold at the town market. The egg ended up on a  [...]

My friend John Dilbeck has an interesting post on Firefox’s “No Script” add on that basically doesn’t let surfers “see” anything on your page - like email sign up forms and Google Adsense that are based on javascript applications!
Ouch!
Suddenly every web page monetized with Google Adsense, Chitika or designed as a “Squeeze Page” may be [...]

I guess all those online ads saying “Learn how I made $45,223 in 17 Days” made the IRS go “Hmmm…where was our check from all that?”
On the Wall Street Journal online
If all your money comes from affiliate networks usually they will send you a 1099. But if you’ve been selling through Ebay or other [...]

Check out these stats from a personal contact in the recruiting field.
What social networks do recruiters use to source candidates?
1,022 use LinkedIn (a whopping 97%)
391 use Facebook (37%)
228 use MySpace (22%)
28 use Friendster (2%)
17 Use Hi5 (1%)
13 use Bebo (1%)
You had better upgrade your social network pages so you present yourself in a business like [...]

I’ve always scratched my head to see places that sell only alcohol, tobacco, and junk food go out of business. After all, if you can’t make money from people’s cravings  - what can you make money at?
(I’m sure there are exceptions… I have a friend who runs a liquor store in a rural community, and I’m sure [...]

Somehow I ended up on multiple social networks.
It’s all a bit insane and can get easily out of hand…
One thing about Web 2.0 though is that most of the networks where you have friends  like Facebook and Plaxo, etc all use Twitter as a potential feed.
So if you are on multiple networks like that, sign [...]

I found out about this yesterday.
What’s diesel cost per gallon in your town?
Here today it’s in the $4.50+ range.
If you could sell people diesel fuel for $3.50, do you think they’d line up all day to buy from you and save $1.00 per gallon?
Gas was $3.74 when I filled up tonight. I’d like to have [...]