Archive for January, 2009

Now that I think about the nightmare that setting my PayPal account was initially some 3 years ago, I can’t help but feel that I will hardly ever be able to employ enough efforts to go through the procedure again even if I have to. I have already written about the multiple limitations that many [...]

I have often wondered how it happens that everyone is always willing to share a piece of two of advice about everything related to the internet and online industry while people will rarely act as experts in other industries – be it nuclear science or construction – without proper training and real knowledge. At the [...]

So yes, now we really know that things are really bad in the internet industry with the most certain proof of all being the fact that even the almighty Google is hit by the crisis as its advertising-generated revenue is shrinking. On Wednesday via a series of posts on various blogs Google officially announced some [...]

Lately the topic of various government officials joining the blogosphere with their own personal or official blogs has been a popular one with many politicians realizing internet may be just the right place to openly talk to the population and hear what people are really concerned about. The latest news we covered was about Kazakhstan [...]

We are constantly talking about multi-tasking and about how we sometimes absolutely have to do at least 3 things simultaneously to be able to do at least the largest part of our daily tasks on time. But even with this approach I often find myself leaving certain things still undone when closing my laptop at [...]

Of course everyone knows that almost all the industries have been hit by the current recession to a certain extent at least. And while there are industries that will manage to stay relatively healthy, it is obvious that there will hardly be any company that will not be damaged at all. Unlike I somehow thought, [...]

Today I have received an email from the creator of iFart, the iPhone application we profiled a few days before Christmas as the application that has generated impressive revenue for its creators – even despite of its dubious nature. The entire technology blogosphere has been very impressed watching the application that does nothing but imitates [...]

Of course it is no wonder to see more and more countries adopting various social media tools now that it is a proven fact that they can be more than efficient in talking to the connected population of a country – with Barack Obama heavily relying on internet and various social media tools in the [...]

Today AOL is announcing launch of a specialized business unit, MediaGlow, intended to coordinate all the digital publishing efforts and handle management of existing AOL websites and launch of new ones. We have seen examples of AOL launching various websites and reporting on their successes over 2008 pretty frequently and now AOL reports that publishing [...]