Archive for August, 2006

PayPerPost says “Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.”
Dave Taylor writes about the pros and cons. There are two kind of opportunities, you have to write positive to get paid or you can write whatever you like and still get paid. The [...]

A new kind of offices are popping up. They cater for people on the road and/or people who do not need an office fulltime. Additional to being an office it is a place to network, you share with people from different companies.
Bureaux is an Australian concept. The Coffee Office is American, while Habitaz is SouthAfrican. [...]

Usually instant messaging is done using a software installed on your computer. meebo.com is a new alternative, you can use the big five (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber/GTalk) from one platform online.
I am using Meebo and it works nicely. Since I use Firefox as webbrowser it is easy to have Meebo running in a tab.

openBLOG is the blog for OpenBC, the company behind XING.
Their presentation says:
openBLOG gives you the chance to get to know “the people behind XING”. Team members write about their experiences, new ideas and developments and give you an insight into the world of XING.

Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple Fellow and entrepreneur extraordinaire, talks about up-starting a start-up. In a preview from his book, “The Art of the Start” Guy encourages entrepreneurs to make meaning, make mantra, and get going. According to Kawasaki, some examples of making ‘meaning’ are: make the world a better place, increase the quality of [...]

Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired, says that the future belongs to those that serve the millions of untapped niche markets as well as they serve the masses. Read his manifesto at ChangeThis to find out how unlimited shelf space and personalization can revolutionize your business.
It is a really interesting document that shows how new ways [...]

Rajesh Setty writes in a manifesto at ChangeThis that “being part of the commodity crowd erodes your value.” You need to rise above the crowd by following Setty’s 25 ways.
In his blog are many more ways, current number is 159.

I’m not the world’s greatest fan but the game does have some similarities to life. In life or baseball you have to do similar things to win.
1. You have to play the game. Philosophizing about it on the sidelines doesn’t accomplish anything.
2. You have to take your foot off first base and risk being thrown [...]

monday9am.tv is a really interesting site where there is one new short film each Monday. Each film includes personal questions to think about.
They present themselves better than I can so I picked this from the website:
Our intention is that you ask yourself questions about your life, and work out that you are the only person [...]

The Care and Feeding of Your Network is a useful document at the ChangeThis website. You can read about the Five steps to greatness in Networking and more about networking.
Their definitions of the word network makes you think:
Network (n): a group of people that are all well-known by a person.
Network (v): helping people that you [...]

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