FEATURE ARTICLE
NORAD Santa Tracker Tells You Where the Big Guy Is on the Big Night [Holidays]
Somebody needs to keep track of Santa Claus as he makes his way around the globe Christmas Eve, and, once again, NORAD has stepped up to the plate. This year they’re providing radar coverage and up-to-the-minute info on his every move. Volunteer military personnel work into the wee hours of the night tracking St. Nick on [...]
Business Acumen, Uncategorized
The New Bootstrapping
Christine Mason McCaull is one of several entrepreneurs Portfolio.com is following as part of the series The Great Global Adventure. All of the entrepreneurs will be blogging about their experiences. This is the third in the series of blogs from entrepreneurs.
When we started our most recent business, ClickMarkets (in shared office space with a decent [...]
Social Networking
Selling Social Media Snake Oil? – New Media, Social Media, Digital Media Community and Jobs
Everyone seems to be getting sucked into social media. At the same time a large percentage of companies are using it wrong or using it without defining clear objectives.
Stephen Baker writes in Business Week: Beware Social Media Snake Oil
“As millions of people flock to these [...]
Business of Entertaining
AOL Sets Out to Reinvent Itself – Again | BNET
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong, the ex-Google advertising sales chief now in charge of Time Warner’s AOL division, got a laugh when he spoke in September at an interactive media conference in New York. If only that was what he intended.
A tall, dark-haired 38-year-old, Armstrong looks a bit like the actor Jon Hamm [...]
Personal Development
The decade of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple – Nov. 5, 2009
via money.cnn.com
Great summary of the last 10 years — CEO of the decade according to Fortune.
Posted via web from Tom’s posterous
Social Charity
Giving the Power Back – Social Media ROI Defined
There’s a lot being said about social media at the moment, and Twitter in particular. Not all of it is positive. Many businesses and non-Twitter users decry the platform, calling it everything from banal to a fad that will be over shortly.
Most of the criticism from the business side comes from the belief that you [...]
Fun Stuff
The iPod touch generation – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech
Is Apple’s iPhone-without-a-phone the McDonald’s Happy Meal of mobile communications?
Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics
Peter Farago of the mobile analytics firm Flurry uses data from its November report to make the case that Apple (AAPL) is quietly — and successfully — using the iPod touch to lock in a loyal base of under-age users [...]
Thought of the Week
30 predictions for the future of Twitter
via feedproxy.google.com
Great clip by Loïc Le Meur – on the future of Twitter , SMS , google/bing.
Posted via web from Tom’s posterous
