Start the Conversation: Blogging for Beginners

November 16, 2009 :: Jaime Soell

Creating and using a blog is easier than you think.


Trying to Understand Google Wave

November 16, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Have you been one of the lucky ones to get an invite to Google Wave? Well if you didn’t and want to know more about it, I am here to share and guide to a great resource from Gina Trapani. Over on Web Worker Daily they cover Gina Trapani’s new e-book, the complete guide to [...]


The Time for Tweeting is Now!

November 14, 2009 :: Travis Petersen

From running advertisements and promotions on new products or deals to reputation management and responding to customer queries, online businesses use Twitter for a number of purposes. Figuring out how you might want to use Twitter for your business is important before registering an account.


Tweeting Along With Lions, Tigers & Bears…All At The San Francisco Zoo.

November 13, 2009 :: Kenneth Yeung

This past weekend, I attended a different kind of tweetup. There were a lot of my friends, colleagues and some new people to which I have not met before, but instead of just sitting around in a bar or restaurant talking about what we did for a living or how we were connected, we decided [...]


Smart Working: Leveraging the Emerging Trends of the Real Time Web

November 13, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

I was recently reading an article from Mashable about the trends of the Real Time Web and it got me thinking about how small business are going to be able to leverage these new trends and tools to stay competitive. Here are some trends I think will be coming for the real time web that [...]


Small Businesses Will Have to Wait A Little Longer for New Top Level Domains

November 12, 2009 :: shammock

You Will Have to Wait A Little Longer for New Top Level Domains.


#140conf – Interview with Braxton Woodham of Tap11

November 12, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

There were so many great people and companies at the 140 Conference in LA and one in particular that I found intriguing was Tap11 which is affectionately named after the famous Spinal Tap saying “Turn it up to 11″. The product is built around Twitter and helps small businesses understand their followers/audience to know when to [...]


Would Your Parents Have Twittered Growing Up?

November 11, 2009 :: Joe Loong

I’ve been continuing to think about differences in generational attitudes towards the use of technology in general and social media tools in particular, and I’m not getting very far. I keep going around in circles.
(I am hampered by the fact that I am not a sociologist — not even an armchair one. But let’s ignore [...]


Pubcon 2009 ; Learning from a conference of expert online web professionals

November 11, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Pubcon is a conference that is organized by Webmaster World and the 2009 conference is in Las Vegas. The Webmaster world website describes themselves as :
WebmasterWorld is the leading source for Search Engine and Internet marketing news, best practices and educational events. Founded by Brett Tabke, an early ’80s innovator in running BBS (Bulletin Board [...]


Opening Up Payments At The First Annual PayPal X Innovate Conference.

November 11, 2009 :: Kenneth Yeung

Earlier this month, PayPal held its first developers conference designed to promote its new initiative. This was perhaps a ground-breaking program for the e-commerce and virtual wallet company as it announced that it was opening up its API for developers to experiment with and build applications and systems around. Having supported now over 20 currencies [...]