Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Ebay is rethinking Skype according to Forbes.com
The original intention was for ebay buyers and sellers to use the VOIP service to speed the closure of transactions and make sales easier by letting buyers and sellers converse.
$2.6 Billion dollars later… now they’re lukewarm on the project.
Skype HAS helped a lot of businesses reduce their overhead, but […]

Just like Gmail scans incoming mail to trigger news and advertisements, a new technology exists to scan telephone conversations and deliver - theoretically - appropriate ads in “real time” according to the Denver Post.
It’s a smart idea - if you’re talking about something you may have an interest in it.
Computer speech recognition programs do not […]

The tools to engage in Identity Theft are as close as ebay.
Hacking Software and Identity Theft Software are being sold on ebay according to the Telegraph(UK).

Hacking kits, enabling criminals to break into personal email and bank accounts, are being sold on eBay, online security experts have warned.
Anyone wanting to obtain private information from a computer […]

Marketplaces “hate” monopolies - at least where competition is allowed. To date and the foreseeable future, the Windows operating system has a near monopoly on business software applications.
Will VMWare intrude into Microsoft’s monopoly - or rather - allow other users to get a piece of the pie without requiring Windows users to switch wholesale?
Decide for […]

Here’s the list from Popular Mechanics about 25 things every man should know how to do.
But since most men don’t know how to do all these things, it’s also a list of 25 clues about potential part time service businesses to start!
1. Patch a radiator hose
2. Protect your computer
3. Rescue a boater who […]

What is the future of email marketing?
With most young people texting these days, email is seemingly for “old fogies”.
Even chat and Instant messaging are a bit like texting with training wheels.
The old mantra was “the money’s in the list” but now what form is the list supposed to take?
Or is it lists? One snail mail, […]

The other day I was telling you how well Keyword Anywhere was working. Just as their product was rolling out, the Keyword research tool at Overture went out!
URL: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Talk about bad entrepreneurial fortune for a brand new product! While the folks at Keyword Anywhere are trying to help their current customers with a workaround, evidently […]

I guess you’d say that LeadStash.com is Web 2.0 Direct Mail For Small Business. Unveiled a week ago, it has already drawn criticism from a major publisher’s blog - Fast Company. In fact, I found it because Google picked it up and I saw the headline in my email! I guess press releases CAN […]

Email is crucial to business these days for many reasons. Most corporations use it in lieu of paper correspondence and it carries more weight than paper communications. Paper communications are likely sent by email and expected to be printed out! In one organization I’m familiar with the printed and signed documents are scanned and also […]

I needed to do some keyword research so I decided to purchase and test the new tool Keyword Anywhere. I don’t expect I’ll be able to use all it’s foreign language search components soon, but just the English tools are awesome enough. The picture is about a search done using Myspace to suggest keyword niches.
You […]