Pete's family has used wind power for generations but he ran into stiff opposition when he decided to start a full-scale wind farm. As you might imagine, the opposition came from two direction: energy people and preservationists. If you want to get a first-hand account from someone in the trenches of alternative energy, listen to the interview on NPR and check out the article in BusinessWeek. They are both incredibly informative. And, from what I've seen, we all have a lot to learn in this arena.

Here's a brief excerpt from the BusinessWeek article:

Wind power, while still just a speck in America's total energy mix, is no longer some fantasy of the Birkenstock set. In the U.S., more than 25,000 turbines produce 17 gigawatts of electricity-generating capacity, enough to power 4.5 million homes. Total capacity rose 45% last year and is forecast to nearly triple by 2012. Right now, only 1% of the country's electricity comes from wind, but government and industry leaders want to see that share hit 20% by 2030, both to boost the supply of carbon-free energy and to create green-collar jobs. (Source: BusinessWeek, July 3, 2008)

STUDENT TWEETS: Everyone has to start somewhere.

I started Twittering in February with no idea what I was doing. How did I become acclimated? I was online three or four times a day looking up tech news, reading Mashable and TechCrunch, NYT Tech columns, PRWeek, Business Week, poring over Google Trends, getting GMail alerts for news and blog posts on PR and Social Media, virtually all of the blogs in my Google Reader were tech and PR blogs. I needed to be able to engage with the people who were on Twitter about things that were important to them.

When LaunchSquad, found me on Twitter, though, it was because I'd "tweeted" about one of their clients - Vivaty.

TWITTER ON THE JOB?

JetBlue was one of the first business Twitter feeds that I followed and actually tweeted back at. They are one of the best Twitter business models I've seen.

When I started here, one of the first things I was asked to do on each of my accounts was either establish or revamp their Twitter activity. I wrote a Twitter strategy based on a case-study on JetBlue's Twitter activity.

WHY I PAY ATTENTION: Their 4,800 followers are resulting from updates about their flight schedules, flying/travel tips and steady responses to customers and other Twitterers.

WHAT I TAKE AWAY: To be savvy with customers and Twitter, you need to pay attention to what they're saying. People often express frustrations with software and companies on Twitter.

Another great example is Mighty Leaf Tea. They're hardly tech, but they're in the East Bay and so here in San Francisco - and silicon valley, we're big fans. They've got great, unique flavors which makes for great "Tweets". 

WHY I PAY ATTENTION: They're not tech. At all. They sell tea, for god's sake. But they come up with useful ways to discuss their products over Twitter and currently have 500+ followers in their pocket.

WHAT I TAKE AWAY: They post "relevant" issues and articles and are engaged in their industry beyond just their product - like the above post: List an interesting article and bring it back to the product. Very nice.

THE SKINNY

I suggest before taking on a client's Twitter campaign, work on beefing up your own feed in addition to the rest of your online presence. Social media savvy applied to personal uses can only help when you're asked to do it for a client.

A friend of mine and former intern here at LaunchSquad, Ben Kessler, has a great blog as well as a juggernaut Twitter following (currently at 579) and has managed 6,200+ updates so far - In September he averaged 24 updates a day. Makes me tired just thinking about it.

In my own case, I eventually found an even balance for my Twitter feed: my initial rabid tech/PR discourse combined with a cultural commentary (articles, music, film, events) and have - to reinforce Julia Roy's point - seen a steady increase of 5-10 new follower's a week.

Once you've honed this aspect of social media - and not to imply, by any means, that I have - you've become a valuable asset to any company, client and agency as they all are trying to figure out what Twitter means and could do for their business.

Social media seeped into the business world awhile back with LinkedIn…and of course rated PG Facebook pages. Now while I am dedicated to my multiple social media pages, I’ve wanted something more comprehensive that had all my news and business contacts that I share articles with in one place…

I swear the good people of Business Week read my mind when they created Business Exchange. Business Exchange is like Digg for business people. It gives members of the Web community the ability to create new discussion topics collaboratively. The really great thing about Business Exchange is it isn’t pre-populated with Business Week stories…it pulls from content all across the web.

Another exciting thing about Business Exchange aside from providing access to relevant business information is that you can connect your LinkedIn page to it. So now people can leverage their profile in a new environment.

On the front of making new friends I learned about a very cool new project here in San Francisco, Noisebridge which has just (as in earlier today) signed a lease on a commercial space here in San Francisco where they will be opening up an open HackerSpace for everyone to enjoy and use as a base from which to build and create amazing hacks. While I don't know if I'll be active enough to pay a large monthly fee to support the space, I plan on doing what I can to support them - and hopefully as a result may finally get around to doing far more hacking than I have of late. Including perhaps exploring how to hack my largish collections of conference schwag and old electronics into something more interesting and useful (or at least fun).

On a more serious note I hope to participate in more hackerish spaces and events to expand my personal network in still further directions. In the past few days I have been thinking a great deal about who I know, what I do with my friends (or more accurately don't do) and what I really would like to be spending more time (and to the extent I have it money) on doing.

A few of the things that I realized I am not doing to the extent that I would really like, and to the extent that they are in fact important to me, is I have not been anywhere nearly as active in an arts and literary scene as I would like. I want to get out to art galleries and openings, start to the extent that I can afford it to collect art, to make more of my own (for example finally print my best photos of the past years). I want to attend live theater and other shows, go to even more literary events and readings and in short spend more time around others who share my tastes and cultural interests.

Sure, i am a geek and like technology, but I am a geek about many different fields. In high school besides all my honors science and math classes I took as many (perhaps more) honors history and english classes and I was an editor of the school literary magazine (which I'm proud to say won a national award that year for design). In college I did performance art, attended tons of live theater and shows, hung out in amazing art scene cafes and bookstores, wrote poetry and had a great time - and had friends with whom to share those interests and explorations. But in the past decade or so I have not had friends with whom to share my loves of art, design, poetry (of some forms), writing, theater and other arts.

My tastes are complex, I like certain types of literary writing - This American Life for example and related works of literary non-fiction. But I generally do not like the fiction of the New Yorker (read it each week hoping that I will like the story but rarely do) and though I feel I should, I haven't every really gotten entirely into McSweeney's though I love the physical design of each issue. Sure I'm a huge science fiction and fantasy fan, but I love many other genres and my own writing (and interest in writing) tends towards the fairly serious - if with more plot than most "mainstream" fiction.

In terms of art I tend to like certain types of design driven art - I prefer art that is physically pretty vs. art that is only confrontational. I have collected a lot of small works of art - art books for example, though I don't yet have a good way to display them. If I had the money I would love to collect a lot of visual arts and perhaps select sculptures. At the highest end probably my favorite artist is Juan Miro. When I was in chicago I attended serious art fairs a few times each year - by serious I mean the types of fairs where you could have bought a large, original Juan Miro if you happened to have had a spare $1.5M or for less works by many living artists.

Also this week i am amused by the release of the BusinessWeek 25 Most Influential People on the Web a list on which I know nearly half of the members, have been to parties at some of their homes in fact. And even the people I don't know personally, I know that in nearly every case friends of mine do, in fact, know them (and work for/have worked with/invested in them). A simple reminder of why I moved to the Bay Area.

This could be one of the most critical weeks in American (and world) history in terms of the financial markets, I plan on spending this week working on what I can do to weather the storm - how I can generate revenues for my advertising network and/or other revenue streams to support myself and projects i am working on in the potentially turbulent times ahead.

here they are in no particular order

Steve Ballmer

Mitchell Baker

Jeff Bezos

Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page

Jeff Clavier - softtechvc.com

Paul Graham

Ariana Huffington

Joi Ito

Steve Jobs

Jonathan Kaplan

Loic Le Meur

Jack Ma

Matt Mullenweg

Rupert Murdoch

Craig Newmark

Gabe Rivera - techmeme.com

Kevin Rose

Sheryl Sandberg

Jon Stewart

Peter Thiel

Maria Thomas - etsy.com

Anssi Vanjoki

Jimmy Wales

Evan Williams

Jerry Yang

Ejovi Nuwere grew up in the impoverished Bed-Sty section of Brooklyn. After watching a close friend gunned down as a teenager and his mother succumb to drugs, Ejovi began searching for an escape and found it in technology. By the age of 15 Ejovi had become a computer security professional working for an Internet Service Provider in Manhattan that he originally hacked in to. At age 21 he was already an accomplished security expert working for one of the world's major investment banks. He later went on to work as a Security Consultant for prestigious security startup @Stake which was later acquired by Symantec.

Ejovi has appeared as a commentator on CNN and NPR and has been featured or quoted in Wired, Boston Globe, Businessweek, and MSNBC. Ejovi was one of Businessweeks top 25 under 25 in 2005. The article discussed his security company SecurityLab Technologies which provides security for the growing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone business. He raised the startup capital for SecurityLab Technologies through consulting. One of the focuses of the company now is developing security products for large companies looking to deploy VoIP calling to save money on telephone services.

SecurityLab's first product will be a box that a company can install on its internal network. Overtime, Ejovi hopes to evolve his business into a hosted Web service. The first trial is already underway with a financial services company in New York City. By the way, I was first introduced to Ejovi Nuwere from reading his autobiography Hacker Cracker which you can purchase at Amazon.com by clicking here.

Below is Ejovi being interviewed by Dr. Bobby Austin [1 of 4]

Mikey Digital

A common set of metrics will be recorded for each organization so donors and investors can check regularly and track their progress or spot trouble. Social entrepreneurs will be able to benchmark their results against those for similar organizations around the world.

The system will allow foundations and other donors see what the return on their investment is, and compare it against other similar organizations to see if real progress is occurring. I can imagine that not only will the information be useful to investors, though, but also to other stakeholders - partner organizations, beneficiaries, almost anyone involved the same field who wants to stay informed of the value of programs and money.

Since social enterprises are relatively new entities, standards and benchmarks are not common or shared. A specific metric that one enterprise decides to use may differ with the next. The PDMS offers a solution to the current haphazard situation...

The system will provide a deep reservoir of vital stats. All listed companies will use the same financial accounting methods. They'll be measured based on seven basic metrics, including revenue growth, net income, the number of customers served, jobs created, wage growth, local suppliers supported, and additional money raised. Additionally, investors and social enterprises can customize the system to include their own goals and accomplishments.

But how can PDMS really make a difference? The Acumen Fund is an early player in testing the database and offers evidence:

For instance, a few months ago Acumen managers noticed that an ambulance company in Mumbai, India, didn't have enough patients per day riding in some of its vehicles. Acumen sent a representative who helped the company, Dial 1298 for Ambulance, analyze its operations and shift things around to make more efficient use of vehicles and personnel. "They came up with a beautiful model that will make it possible to break even on every ambulance," says Sweta Mangal, chief executive of the ambulance outfit.

The ambulance example shows how this system may provide ways to make easy adjustments in programs and financing to achieve an end goal.

I am interested to hear critiques against such standards for social enterprises - do they create a restraint against the very same creative methods that set these organizations apart? Is it really possible to compare one social enterprise against another, when each seems to serve a different issue, audience, or mission? To what extent should investors look to this database to make their funding decisions?

But as the article states, there is a lot of "latent capital" in moving large amounts of money and ideas for social change - and the PDMS may be a huge shift in increasing the impact of "doing good" across sectors.

(More information can also be found at the Clinton Global Initiative's website, and Vinay touched on PDMS back in March when discussing social investing).

FDIC May Need $150 Billion Bailout as Local Bank Failures Mount

The IndyMac debacle is taking a large bite out of FDIC reserves, and if scores of other banks fail in the year ahead, the fund will be depleted. Taxpayers will have to step in. Full read : http://tinyurl.com/5yt6o8

Buffett Buys Goldman Stake in `Economic Pearl Harbor'

Billionaire Warren Buffett, calling turmoil in the markets an "economic Pearl Harbor,'' said his $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is an endorsement of the Treasury's $700 billion bank rescue plan. Full read: http://tinyurl.com/4t98sr

Warren Buffett stake in Goldman Sachs earns $783 million return

Within hours of revealing his dramatic, confidence-boosting investment in Goldman Sachs yesterday, Warren Buffett had made a $783 million (£424 million) notional profit. Full read: http://tinyurl.com/43ntgu

Stocks rise on bailout hopes; credit remains tight

Financial markets grew more upbeat Thursday as lawmakers moved closer to hammering out a deal aimed at reviving the crippled financial system. The Dow Jones industrial average at times rose more than 300 points on optimism about the plan and demand for short-term, safe haven assets eased slightly as some investors bet the move would help unclog credit markets. Full read: http://tinyurl.com/3eknzr

OTCBB LIGHTENS UP

Here's a comparative look at the total dollar value of all securities traded on the OTC Bulletin Board over the past 7 yrs

As the chart indicates, dollar value dipped below $44 billion for the first time in '07 since '03.

The OTCBB also provides a graphic depiction of the monthly dollar value of securities traded on the exchange from 8/07 to 8/08

OTCBB: Total Dollar Volume by Month

(August 2007 - August 2008)

As depicted by the chart to the right, total dollar volume has been dropping considerably over the past year with August figures representing a nearly 60% decrease. In addition, total share volume is down almost 20%. So, things have certainly been better for the exchange in past months.

While the overall Bulletin Board exchange may have seen better days, there are still a great number of compelling plays in this arena and a great deal of money to be made in playing BB Stocks.

Here's a few examples of some recent small cap success stories:

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp. (OTCBB: QMNM) recent advanced more than 4,000% in just 3 trading sessions, running from $.0016 to $.075 from 6/18 to 6/23. Roughly every $1,000 invested at the recent low yielded profits of approximately $43,000.

City Loan Inc. (OTCBB: CYLN) advanced near 3,2000% Tuesday on 30K shares traded and followed up that performance today gaining 50% or $.05 on modest volume of 2.679. CYLN is now showing potential to reach higher highs as its financial situation improves and the company pushes forward with aggressive expansion plans. As I've mentioned previously CYLN operates in the somber, but prosperous auto title loan industry and could transform itself into a national market leader if growth objectives are met over the next 12-24 months.

Quantum Technologies (OTCBB: QTWW) ran from $.50 on 1/30 to more than $3.00 in July for +500% gains on sheer future potential despite a horrendous bottom line, for now at least.

Biophan Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: BIPH) - a medical device company focussed on treatment of acute heart failure - gained 212% or nearly $.02 Wednesday on news it recently eliminated $2.3M in dilutive financing .

Location Based Technologies (OTCBB: LBAS) - a provider of personal location solutions - has seen its stock price surge from the $1.50 range back in July of '07 to a recent high of $10.61 this past summer for gains exceeding 600%.

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There is a healthy discussion taking place on HRM Today, too.

I want to clarify my contributions to the initial discussion:

1. It is possible to earn money as a blogger. I don't deny that you can earn cash-money as someone who writes for a blog.
2. I believe that it is nearly impossible to become a wealthy Human Resources blogger -- or any kind of blogger.
3. Wealthy bloggers are more than just bloggers: they are marketing professionals, advertising specialists, and professional speakers or consultants.

This is especially true in the Human Resources space.

Hey, I know it's possible to earn money through optimizing and monetizing your blog. You can add widgets, adwords, and all sorts of fun stuff. You can also join a branch of the Russian mafia and allow your computer to be used as a part of a global identity theft ring. The opportunities on the web are endless, but they aren't the most effective ways of earning money.

I am simply saying:

• It's tough to pay your mortgage and fund your 401(k) through Google Adsense; however, you can fund your 401(k) by working for Google -- or working for yourself and offering a product or service.

As a Human Resources professional, your blog should be an extension of a portfolio of skills -- not your entire portfolio.

Am I wrong?

[PS -- I've never clicked on a Google Ad unless it was an accident. I'm just sayin'.]

One question caught my eye.

Breanne asked, "How do you make money on your blog?"

My answer was simple: there are no rich bloggers out there.

There are wealthy people who blog, but the money is earned through

• owning a business (related to the blog) with a tangible product or service,
• speaking to groups,
• organizing conferences,
• or working for a real company.

I want to be paid handsomely to sit at home and write about myself -- but it's not going to happen. People enjoy reading about my experiences in Human Resources and I have received compliments on my blog; I have been interviewed by a few MSM outlets and have been asked to provide insight on workforce strategies & talent acquisition in Corporate America; however, no one will give me an unlimited bukkit of cash to blog about my life as a Human Resources professional, to post pictures and stories about my cat, or to write about my sick & crazy grandmother.

It's a shame. It's a crying shame, really.

Business Week published a slide show, last year, with a nice list of the most successful bloggy entrepreneurs. Those entrepreneurs made money through a mix of advertising, VC infusion, and licensing agreements. Go Fug Yourself, a site mentioned in Business Week's article, earned a little less than $7,000/month at the time of publication. While that may seem like a lot of money for a blog about celebrity fashion, it's a business -- and there are expenses that offset the revenues. You could double the monthly revenue and I'm sure the authors of the blog -- Heather & Jessica -- wouldn't consider themselves rich.

ProBlogger had an interesting and informal poll of bloggers and revenue streams -- and I learned that a whopping 28% of bloggers made no money in 2007, and 25% of bloggers who made money earned less than 33 cents/day.

I've been blogging since 2004 in one format or another. If anyone has the key to being a wealthy HR blogger, besides marrying a dude like J. Howard Marshall and waiting for him to have a heart attack, please let me know. You can contact me here or find me on Twitter.

Poor network coverage is becoming obvious thanks to rising 3G demand, but that can be fixed with capital upgrades the carriers are already undergoing. In the meantime, according to a panel of carriers at last week's Mobilize, network operators are still actively encouraging the growth of data use on their networks. In fact, earlier this month I spoke with application developers at DEMO, who said that rather than charging them to put their apps on the network, carriers were trying to pay them to do so, primarily to increase data usage.

Carriers, especially in the U.S., are trying to avoid becoming dumb pipes. Efforts such as limiting P2P on wireless networks and capping data use at 5 GB per month are attempts to keep the barn door shut before the horses run out. It's too late for broadband access through DSL or cable, but a variety of factors, from limited spectrum to the early nature of 3G, means wireless broadband could stay under carrier control for years to come.  For example, the article quotes a T-Mobile executive that says carriers are encouraging applications that use less bandwidth:

T-Mobile USA, owned by Deutsche Telekom (DT), will demand a higher minimum payment from developers whose paid applications use up more of the carrier's network capacity. "We've aligned a set of incentives for our partners to do what we believe is right for the consumer while being mindful of constraints of the mobile world," says Ian McKerlich, director of mobile Web and content services at T-Mobile. The carrier will also prohibit developers from offering free applications that use up more than 15MB per user per month.

T-Mobile is only now rolling out a 3G network, so this may be an effort to keep data use in line until the network is fully operational, but it also could allow T-Mobile to offer its own applications that it can control and price. An example of such a carrier-controlled services is texting, which nets operators incredible profits.

Services for music, social networks and photo sharing are other potential gold mines if carriers can figure out how to control their distribution on their networks. Orange may have figured out one way by pricing data costs into its subscription music plans. Data caps and limiting the bandwidth an independent application uses is an easy way to do it. And by doing it now, carriers condition consumers to accept limitations on their wireless broadband. However, offering unlimited wireless broadband might harm a carrier's bottom line in the long run.

Wireless broadband has limits (and is certainly more expensive when it comes to transferring bits), but the real threat to wireless broadband isn't that data use will overload the network, but that carriers won't be able to walk the line between delivering compelling services at a price point that makes them money and keeps users surfing.

 This particular ad for a grant writer is unusual because it is 1,327 words long. I am not making  this up. This potential employee will need to demonstrate competencies in the following 25 areas: problem solving, project management, analytical skills, customer service, interpersonal skills, teamwork, written communications, change management, leadership, quality control, business acumen, cost consciousness, ethics, organizational support, adaptability, punctuality, dependability, initiative, initiative, innovation, judgment, motivation, professionalism, quantity, and safety. In the interest of brevity, I've excluded the supporting details.

Ironically, this job description doesn't mention being able to leap tall buildings at a single bound or being able to walk on water. It's also interesting to note that Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was less than 300 words. Wonder what he knew that these windbags don't.

Employers also communicate by their behavior during the hiring process. Liz Ryan, an HR professional and New Millennium Workplace Expert, writes a column for BusinessWeek online. A recent entry lists six questions from potential employers that should send a candidate running in the opposite direction. These include asking for references or a Social Security number early in the process; asking candidates to complete a questionnaire before being asked to interview; asking candidates to travel on short notice; not being allowed to meet the team; and having all communications funneled through the HR person.

The Message: Companies communicate with both their written content and their actions. If a hiring situation smells fishy, do you want to take the bait?

Detroit needs fast access to cheap capital or the industry's problems will soon deepen.  Ford Motor spokesmen argue that it is just as critical to the U.S. to keep auto manufacturing alive as it is to support the country's financial system with aid to troubled banks.

"This is not a bailout. We're looking to lower the cost of capital so we can meet the fuel efficiency mandate put on us and transform our industry faster".  - Ziad S. Ojakli

People are noticing that Michigan, being a critical swing state in the Presidential election, may be a "Road to the White House". Detroit's lobbyists have also won over the Presidential candidates, like Senator Obama who supports expanding the loans to total the $50 billion that is being asked. Sen. McCain however voiced his support for the original $25 billion plan.  Auto executives are still very fearful that they will run out of time before they can win enough support; both Congress and the White House are sensitive to the risk that if they backstop the automakers after bailing out the financial sector, they could face more pleas as the weak economy takes its toll on other industries. Michigan and Ohio do have 37 electoral votes...

But how will taxpayers feel about all this?

Vikki

Exhibit A:

At least, that's what Sophos spokesman Graham Cluley is saying. As reported by CNet, Cluley claims to have evidence that a section of BusinessWeek's site – aimed at providing information on what companies poach employees from what MBA programmes – has been attacked by a malicious cracker. Rather than the more usual – and juvenile – defacement common of such attacks, the perpetrator has left behind malicious code which attempts to coerce visiting browsers into downloading and installing a malware package from a Russian website.

The malware was placed on the site as a result of an SQL injection attack – a method of exploiting vulnerabilities in the way certain web applications accept input in such a way to directly affect the database backend – by an unknown assailant. More worryingly, the site is – at the time of writing – still affected by the attack, although the Russian website hosting the malware is currently offline.

Cluley claims to have alerted BusinessWeek to the issue a full week ago, but the code is still present. He states that companies like BusinessWeek who are “hit by SQL Injection attacks need to move fast to not only remove the malicious scripts, but also to ensure that they do not get infected again” as failure to find the root cause of the problem – usually a web application that is failing to sanitise its inputs properly – means companies which have “been struck by such an attack often clean-up their database, only to be infected again a few hours later.”

How much trust do you place in the websites you visit? Are viruses things that only happen to people browsing pr0n, or do we all need to be a little paranoid about our browsing habits? Share your thoughts over in the forums.

Pe siteul de la businessweek veti gasi niste interviuri interesante din industrii variate si studii de caz interesante: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2008/ca2008092_371191.htm

Acest site poate fi u instrument de lucru foarte util pentru profesori. Contine ultimele noutati pe cateva industrii si o multime de analize si topuri.

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Hal ini dilaporkan oleh perusahaan anti virus Sophos. Cracker menggunakan injeksi SQL untuk menginfeksi salah satu bagian dari situs BusinessWeek yang menawarkan informasi ke mahasiswa MBA tentang lowongan pekerjaan.

Dilansir Wired dan dikutip detikINET, Rabu (17/9/2008), menurut Sophos ada ratusan halaman situs BusinessWeek yang terinfeksi.

Kode yang disusupkan ke situs tersebut akan mendownload malware dari situs cracker yang berada di Rusia dan mengirimkannya ke PC pembaca. Belum bisa dipastikan malware tersebut telah bersarang berapa lama di situs BusinessWeek. Namun serangan ini disinyalir untuk mendapatkan informasi pribadi pengunjung situs, termasuk data keuangan.

Terkait dengan hal ini, pihak BusinessWeek telah mengeluarkan suatu pernyataan. "Keamanan online menjadi prioritas utama kami, dan kami akan terus menyelidiki masalah ini. Kami yakin informasi personal pembaca masih aman. Serangan tersebut hanya menginfeksi satu aplikasi dalam bagian tertentu dari situs kami, dan aplikasi tersebut telah dipindahkan. Kami terus berusaha untuk memastikan integritas situs kami dan melindunginya dari berbagai macam aktivitas ilegal dan berbahaya."[detikinet]

• Business Week's Business Exchange
  Business Exchange launched September 5th, as a Web site that allows users to create business topics, collaboratively aggregate content from the entire Web and connect with other business focused users around these topics.
  (tags: web2.0 socialnetwork socialmedia news businessweek)



• WSJ.com to get social-networking makeover
  The Wall Street Journal's Web site is getting a makeover, borrowing a page from social networking. The newspaper site is expected to launch "Journal Community" on Tuesday to allow paying subscribers to comment on individual stories, create discussion groups on specific topics, and ask one another for advice, according to a report Sunday by the Associated Press. Like social networks Facebook or MySpace, the community will allow subscribers to create personal profiles. But instead of missives on favorite movies and music, these profiles will feature subscribers' real names, job details, and interests, according to the report.
  (tags: digital socialmedia newspaper facebook myspace wsj)



• Chief executives still don't get the web
  The internet is in its second phase and about to enter its third. The ramifications of its relentless progress will touch all businesses - and yet 61pc of CEOs admit they "do not know enough" about emerging technologies.
  (tags: ceo internet digital management business)

Rezultatul imediat al lansarii noilor produse a fost o scadere la bursa a actiunilor. Este interesant de urmarit si reactia pietei.

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