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They’re suing for “invasion of privacy”… can’t say that I blame them.
From The Smoking Gun
APRIL 4–A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for invasion of privacy, claiming that the web giant’s popular “Street View” mapping feature has made a photo of their home available to online searchers. Aaron and Christine Boring accuse Google of an […]

New Google Sites: Build Your Own One-Click Wiki is at Wired.
It’s about a new twist at Google.
The new Google Sites tool is designed to make it easy for anyone to create, edit and invite collaborators to help build a website — Google Sites seems aimed at anything from corporate intranets to school classroom pages to […]

If you’re doing research on a particular topic for business, please realize that Google News is not an objective source of news.
You do need to broaden your search if you’re doing due diligence on a stock or other business related search.
Here’s an article by Fox News on how Google was about to drop news from […]

The Wall Street Journal has a good article on the new tax deductions your small or home based business may be eligible for.
You may be able to depreciate capital expenses faster on new and used equipment.

If you want social contacts in Brazil, India, Asia and other places outside the US, the social networking place to be is Orkut, Google’s social networking platform.
They’ll now be allowing other 3rd party applications which they expect will make the site more popular.
Read more here.
What fascinates me about this is that smaller home businesses could […]

A College Age Entrepreneur, Stefan Doyno, registered the trademark “Change Rocks” for his jewelry business. He began his business when he was 18 and one of his first steps was to register the trademark that the Obama campaign has been using illegally.
The Obama Campaign has been notified of their illegal use of the term but, […]

I immediately identified with this independent MLM distributor. She started working at home in 2005 and suddenly people called her all day, wanted her to run errands, wanted her to drop everything and go shopping all day, etc.
That’s because when you work at home, people think you really don’t work at all and that you’re […]

Are you underestimating your chances of success? Maybe.
Here’s a recent bit of information from Ankesh Kothari

Frank Flynn and Vanessa Lake are social cientists. Here are the details of a couple of esearch studies they conducted:
Experiment #1:
In one study, the participants had to ask strangers to fill out a questionnaire. But before they went […]

Here’s a bit of news about Holiday Travel Security Guidelines since it’s the week of Thanksgiving in the US.
It makes John Madden look awfully smart to insist on driving in a touring bus.
When it comes to bringing items through checkpoints, we’ve seen just about everything. Traveling for the holidays is an even bigger challenge. Everyone […]

Can a Wiki build your business? Maybe, maybe not. But I’m fascinated by the possibilities for your business and mine. Wiki enabled sites are readily available even for non technical webmasters.
The book Wikinomics:How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything discusses how one old line business (a gold mine!) used the wiki concept to make rapid advances in […]