Archive for December, 2008

Of course it is quite difficult to argue that 2008 has been a very challenging year for many, especially with the global financial crisis bursting out later in the year. Many of us have been affected, some actually hit heavily – people working in many industries have been damaged to a certain extent and internet [...]

We have spoken already about how women tend to make more New Year’s resolutions but are less willing to keep them and one comment on that post suggested a few things about making a New Year’s resolution and actually keeping it. The most obvious tip is to make the resolution public as if you have [...]

Now that the year 2009 is mere hours ahead I wanted to draw your attention to a new project launched yesterday trying to really make a difference. The name is The Hush Project and the idea is “to get web workers on board and help change the lives of people that change lives, but do [...]

Oftentimes when I try to talk about the problems with online advertising and internet users unwillingness to watch ads on our sites combined with a very similar (or maybe stronger) unwillingness to pay for content, commentators mention Wikipedia as a popular example of how successful a donations-based model can actually be. Of course it is [...]

I don’t know what made me think of this – watching news on TV way too much over the weekend or maybe the end of the year which often makes many of us (me included) do soul-searching contemplating our achievements over the previous year or plans for the next one – but I have come [...]

Sitting here and thinking about my personal results of the year 2008 I could hardly avoid thinking about what my New Year’s resolution should be now that we are approaching the year 2009. Pondering this idea I stumbled upon results of an interesting survey about people’s behavior when it comes to New Year’s resolutions. The [...]

Yesterday BusinessWeek discussed an interesting phenomenon we witness on a daily basis online but rarely pay much attention to – that of people contributing long hours of their work (often something that they do for a living) to certain websites for free in hopes of being rewarded with some sort of praise or of building [...]

Whenever we talk about web 2.0 the most popular mantra for us is about people moving more and more of our activities from desktop applications to online ones – until we eventually need nothing but a browser installed on out computer to perform all our tasks, both business and personal ones. But since we’ve been [...]

A reader has recently suggested that I review a new open-source project that is promised to completely change the way social networks work once it is actually launched. The name of the project is XdbE and I thought I’d take a look at what the guys promise – especially since they told me the private [...]