tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394084879458917922024-02-19T14:15:09.902-08:00Mind Riders Technologymindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-85018687692060325972019-03-13T04:59:00.003-07:002019-03-13T04:59:34.009-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-21285461107368465892018-03-03T03:21:00.002-08:002018-03-03T03:24:33.990-08:00How to design in reality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Design is an execution process of the idea to reality. We are creating the bridge of communication, which make this journey successful. Most innovative ideas need more innovation to create a way for their user interface and user experience representation.</div>
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We believe in functional <a href="http://www.mindriderstech.com/" target="_blank">design </a>our every creativity represents the same. Mature and experience hands of our best designers lead to a design solution which is more precisely can call as the best fit solution for your ideas. Lets join hands and create the best in the store.</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-11526846621819785272018-02-27T03:43:00.002-08:002018-02-27T03:43:23.124-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-47146900840577639592015-07-29T04:40:00.003-07:002015-07-29T04:40:36.605-07:00An approach to enabling Office 365 features and functionality using group membership<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For large enterprises with a mature approach to IT services, the idea of managing access to features and functionality in Office 365 via a web portal is a step backwards. Service desk teams may be given specific instructions and limited access in order to carry out just the tasks that they need to. Arguably that’s not “may be given” but “should only be given”…</div>
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One of my customers uses Active Directory groups to assign access to software – for example Project, or Vision – applications that are not universally available. We were talking about doing something similar for Office 365 features and functionality – i.e. adding a user to an Active Directory group to enable an element of their Office 365 subscription (the users are synchronized from the on premises AD to Azure AD).</div>
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I suggested writing a Power Shell script to run as a scheduled task, querying the membership of a particular group, and then making the changes in Office 365 to enable particular features. We could use it, for example, to enable a feature like One Drive for Business to just a sub-set of users; or to assign Project Online or Vision Online licenses.</div>
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Well, it turns out I’m no innovator here and it’s already being done elsewhere I haven’t run the script yet… but it certainly proves the concept and gives us a starting point…</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-50055821956195812782015-07-29T04:29:00.004-07:002015-07-29T04:29:39.173-07:00Self-Soothing Homework<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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it’s been a hot minute since I’ve written a syllable here. Sorry for that. My life has been moving at the speed of light this year. So fast, I was <del style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">complaining to</del> telling my coach the other day that I didn’t have time to process everything that’s going on as it happens. I pronounced myself emotionally constipated, for lack of a better description.</div>
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Among her recommendations was this: Sing “The 59th Street Bridge Song” to myself…really S-L-O-W-L-Y. (And let’s just skip right over the fact that, yes, I am old enough to know that song, and know it by name, shall we? Thanks.)</div>
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It’s an infectious little song, under two-minutes long when Simon and Garfunkel do it, but an easy one to slow down and add a little funky groove to without losing any of the infectious quality. As soon as she mentioned it, it lodged itself in my brain and has been there ever since.</div>
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Last night, I was so exhausted, I went to my room at 8:20pm, intending to relax and catch up on some of the shows I’d recorded, but as soon as I got horizontal, I was OUT. COLD. Dead to the world.</div>
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I woke up to my light and TV still on, with cramps so bad, I was sure I was being sawed in half. I went to the bathroom, came back and crawled back in bed after peeking out the window and seeing that it was still dark outside. I tried and tried to go back to sleep, but couldn’t. I was WIDE awake…at 4:39am. UGH.</div>
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I gave up and got dressed and wandered out here to my office, railing against the idea of starting client work while it was still dark outside. Then, it occurred to me that I had also promised her that I would take time to think and write about what was going on in my world as a way to process it all. But…I didn’t feel like writing.</div>
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The song was STILL playing in my brain, so in a flash of brilliant self-care, I gave myself permission to “play” and create a video using pictures and that song. But first, I had to find a way to slow it down without making Simon and Garfunkel sound ridiculous. I entertained the idea of recording myself singing it…for about 3 seconds…until I remembered the hour and nixed that idea with a quickness. So, to iTunes I went, searched by song title and what to my wondering eyes would appear, but a slow version recorded by Kathy Troccoli on an album called, “Heartsongs”. BINGO!</div>
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I spent my early morning creating this little video using pictures of people I love. Now, when I need to soothe myself, I can not only “hear” the song in my head, I can “see” this little video. And, of course, I can play it anytime I want. I’m sure it will mean more to me than anyone else, but you might enjoy it, so I’m including it here.</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-47686599124698661072015-07-29T04:26:00.002-07:002015-07-29T04:26:29.288-07:00Win a Copy of Golf List Mania!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em><strong>Note: the contest has ended and <a href="http://www.lifeintherough.com/2011/07/19/win-a-copy-of-golf-list-mania/comment-page-1/#comment-18204" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: none;">a winner was chosen via drawing</a>.</strong></em></div>
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You may have recently read my review of <em><a href="http://www.lifeintherough.com/2011/07/10/book-review-golf-list-mania/" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: none;" title="Book Review: Golf List Mania!">Golf List Mania!</a></em> and I’m happy to say that the publisher has provided a copy for me to give away to a reader. If you were thinking of picking up a copy, then enter the contest and you might win one!</div>
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Obviously, I can’t give away a copy of a book of golf lists without having you do a list of your own, so here’s how it will work: <strong>write a comment giving me a list of five things you love about golf</strong>. It doesn’t have to be a top-five, though it certainly can be. It can be people, places, courses, shots you’ve seen, tournaments you’ve attended or played in, anything at all that you love about the game.</div>
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I’ll give it a couple of weeks to get some good lists going. Then,<strong> I’ll choose my top-three favorites. From those, I will randomly draw the winner.</strong> Feel free to be as creative as you like because only my three favorites will make it to the finals. If you’ve been paying attention over the years, you might have a good feel and be able to figure out what will impress me. There is a soft spot in my heart for many things relating to golf.</div>
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I will post the winner on August 2nd, or thereabouts.</div>
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Good Luck! I can’t wait to read those lists!</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-41536516375391936772013-02-23T10:17:00.001-08:002013-02-23T10:17:13.588-08:0014 Things Successful People Do On Weekends<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Exercise.</strong> Everyone needs to do it, and if you can’t work out 4 to 5 days during the workweek, you need to be active on weekends to make up for some of that time, Vanderkam says. It’s the perfect opportunity to clear you mind and create fresh ideas.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jacquelynsmith/files/2013/02/gym1.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright wp-image-12857" height="175" src="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jacquelynsmith/files/2013/02/gym1-300x210.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="249" /></a></strong>“I know an owner of a PR firm who takes walks in the park with his dog to spark ideas about how to pitch a new client, or what angle to take with the press for a story,” Kurow says.</div>
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Cohen suggests spin classes and outdoor cycling in the warmer months. “Both are energizing and can be organized among people with shared interests. For example, it is not uncommon for hedge fund folks and Wall Street professionals to ride together on weekends. It is a great way to establish and cultivate relationships based on membership in this elite professional community.”</div>
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“Successful people make time for what is important or fun,” Egan adds. “They make space for activities that add to their life balance.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Vacation. </strong>Getting away for the weekend provides a great respite from the grind of an intense week at work, Cohen says.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Disconnect.</strong> The most successful people avoid e-mail for a period of time, Vanderkam says. “I’m not saying the whole weekend, but even just a walk without the phone can feel liberating. I advocate taking a ‘tech Sabbath.’ If you don’t have a specific religious obligation of no-work time, taking Saturday night to mid-day Sunday off is a nice, ecumenical time that works for many people.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Volunteer.</strong> “I know a commercial real estate broker who volunteers to help with cook-off events whose proceeds are donated to the Food Bank,” Kurow says. “The volunteer work provides a balance to the heavy analytical work she does all week and fulfills her need to be creative — she designs the promotional material for the non-profit.”</div>
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Cohen says a lot of successful people participate in fundraising events. “This is a great way to network and to meet others with similar interests,” he says. “The visibility also helps in branding a successful person as philanthropic.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Avoid chores.</strong> Every weekend has a few have-to-dos, but you want these to take the minimum amount of time possible, Vanderkam explains. Create a small window for chores and errands, and then banish them from your mind the rest of the time.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Plan.</strong> “Planning makes people more effective, and doing it before the week starts means you can hit Monday ready to go, and means you’ll give clear directions to the people who work for you, so they will be ready to go, too,” Vanderkam says.</div>
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Trunk agrees. She says successful people plan their month and year because “if you get stuck on short-term lists you don’t get anything big accomplished.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Socialize.</strong> “Humans are social creatures, and studies of people’s experienced happiness through the day finds that socializing ranks right up there, not too far down below sex,” Vanderkam says.</div>
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“It has been demonstrated that successful people find great satisfaction in giving back,” Cohen says. “Board membership, for example, also offers access to other successful folks.”</div>
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“For the pure joy, some folks find great satisfaction in creating beautiful gardens,” Cohen says.</div>
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Kurow knows an attorney who uses her weekends to garden and do mosaics and tile work to satisfy her creative side. “Filling her life this way enables her to be refreshed on Monday and ready to tackle the litigation and trial prep work. Artwork for her is fulfilling in a way that feeds her soul and her need to connect with her spiritual side.”</div>
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Bridge lessons and groups can also sharpen the mind and often create relationships among highly competitive smart professionals, Cohen says. “I once saw a printout of a bridge club’s membership list; its members were a who’s who of Wall Street.”</div>
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Theatre, opera and sporting events can also enrich one’s spirit, he adds.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Network.</strong> “Networking isn’t an event for a successful person, it’s a lifestyle,” Trunk says. Wherever they go and whatever they do, they manage to connect with new people.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jacquelynsmith/files/2013/02/recharge.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft wp-image-12853" height="123" src="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jacquelynsmith/files/2013/02/recharge-300x210.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="176" /></a></strong><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Reflect. </strong>Egan says truly successful people make time on weekends to appreciate what they have and reflect on their happiness and accomplishments. As Rascoff said, “weekends are a great chance to reflect and be more introspective about bigger issues.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Meditate.</strong> Classes and private instruction offer a bespoke approach to insight and peace of mind, Cohen says. “How better to equip yourself for success in this very tough world?”</div>
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Successful people know that time is too precious to be totally leisurely about leisure, Vanderkam concludes. “You’re not going to waste that time by failing to think about what you’d like to do with it, and thus losing the weekend to TV, puttering, inefficient e-mail checking, and chores. If you don’t have a busy workweek, your weekend doesn’t matter so much. But if you’re going from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day, it certainly does.”</div>
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After making a visit to a disappointingly bland Google conference room behind frosted-glass doors in New York, the Verge’s Joshua Topolsky got some <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">hands-on time with Glass</a>. His in-depth report included an interesting little bit of information about Glass that many people have been wondering about. <a href="http://www.google.com/glass/" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Glass</a>, he wrote, will be compatible with Android – as most people always expected – and Apple’s iPhone. Google just confirmed to us that this is indeed correct, though the company didn’t want to comment on the details of how this will work.</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-66916903541217169322013-02-23T10:00:00.002-08:002013-02-23T10:00:36.514-08:00The Best Cloud Computing Companies and CEOs to Work For in 2013<br />
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Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task.</div>
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Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect. Those are the qualities I think of whenever I’m asked to recommend the best cloud computing companies to work for. Using the scores from Glassdoor.com I’ve put together the table below comparing cloud computing companies and when available, the percentage of employees who approve of their CEO.</div>
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Cloud computing companies are sorted based on the percentage of employees would recommend their company to a friend. I added in CEO scores to get a sense of which companies have a significant gap between morale and the perception of the CEO. As of today according to employee rankings, <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft</a>has the largest gap between percentage of employees who would recommend the company to a friend (77%) and CEO rating (48%).</div>
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The highest rated CEOs you’d want to work for based on their Glassdoor ratings are as follows, with their ratings shown as of today:</div>
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Jyoti Bansal of AppDynamics (100%)</div>
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Drew <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/places/tx/houston/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Houston</a>, Dropbox (100%)</div>
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Aneel Bhursi, Workday (100%)</div>
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Scott Scherr, Ultimate Software (97%)</div>
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Jim Whitehurst, <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/red-hat/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red Hat</a> (97%)</div>
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Aaron Levie, Box (94%)</div>
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Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his back. He’d do that roll-the-eyes thing whenever my partner spoke.</div>
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Wade had caught the disease. The disease is very contagious and it spreads to the other employees quickly and it contaminates everyone’s work. Like a tumor you have to cut it out as soon as it appears. Wade was fired.</div>
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The disease spreads in stairwells. The archaelogical digs of startups are found by deciphering the cigarette butts and condoms flung down the stairwells. The employees talk to each other there. They talk about you. And they don’t say very nice things. Put a microphone there. And while you are at it put a microphone in the elevator. It can’t hurt.</div>
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When I was a kid one of my friends told me he got a blowjob every weekend in the stairwell at Quakerbridge Mall near the movie theater. I had acne, bad hair, cysts, braces, glasses, and bad clothes.</div>
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Fucking stairwells.</div>
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L. was crying when she called me and asked me to meet her at the cafe across the street from work. I said, “what’s wrong?” She said, “just meet me at the cafe.”</div>
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She was a project manager working at my first company. The cafe was the Abracadabra cafe and for some reason they served coffee and donuts in a magic store. The best magic store in the city. Where David Blaine supposedly learned his stuff and everyone made fun of him behind his back. Like people do.</div>
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L. was still crying. She had heard one of my partners call her ugly and stupid when he thought she wasn’t listening. She didn’t know what to do. “I had been so happy at work until this moment,” she said.</div>
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One word can destroy people. It’s so easy. The magic word.</div>
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We want to be loved and when it’s not returned by those in authority we just feel horrible. There was nothing I could tell L. other than that I valued what she did. She was in charge of about one-third of our business. I wanted her to be happy. Every word is important. We sat there until she stopped crying.</div>
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Ten years later, almost to the day, I took my daughter Mollie to the same store. The man behind the counter sold us six different magic tricks. Mollie couldn’t figure any of the tricks out. Like the pencil that pokes a hole in the paper and then you can move the pencil around without creating a rip. We took them back to the Chelsea Hotel where I was staying and all night we practiced them. The next day Mollie went home and I was lonely again.</div>
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Abracadabra.</div>
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In 2001, I was running a $125 million VC fund with three other guys and about five or six employees. We occasionally <a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-arafat-out-of-2mm-and-lost-100mm-in-the-process/" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">co-invested with</a> Yasser Arafat. I had the passwords of all the other partners and would regularly read their emails. Am I past the statute of limitations on this one? They didn’t like me and, to top it off, I was paranoid and sick.</div>
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One time Mark emailed to Alex, “you better get your partner in line.” Alex took me to dinner that night. Vietnamese. And he told me I had to contribute more to finding deals. It was mid-2001, the Internet had crashed and our firm was going down the drain. I honestly had no clue what to do. And nobody knew it yet but I was broke and was being forced to sell my house.</div>
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<a href="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/spiral1.jpg" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank"><img alt="spiral" class="size-medium wp-image-763420 aligncenter" height="300" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/spiral1.jpg?w=200&h=300" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;" width="200" /></a><strong style="font-size: 13px;">Beware of stairwells</strong></div>
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On weekends I would meditate with a group of people. We would sit all day and it was supposed to calm the mind. My legs hurt being in the lotus position for so long. The lotus position is not a relaxing position. It’s not supposed to be relaxing. It cuts off circulation to your legs and then after about a half hour it becomes excruciatingly painful.</div>
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One time after an hour-long sitting, the bell rang and we all got up to do a walking meditation. My legs were numb and asleep and as soon as I got up I fell over onto the ground and was in agony as the blood slowly came back into my legs. Everyone had to continue their walking meditation while I was frozen on the floor in pain and embarassment. I was losing my job, my money, my house, and I was on the floor numb. Everyone stepped over me silently, their hands clasped in front of them, heads down, doing their walking meditation while their minds continued to settle.</div>
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O. wanted to start his own business but still wanted to work for me. So I moved him to half time and gave him the same pay and introduced him to his first clients so he could start his business. But we were getting more and more work and we were opening multiple businesses, so O. was soon doing more work for me than just half time. One time one of my main investors asked me to do a task and I asked O. to do the task. O. replied that it was not important and he would not do it so I ended up doing the task. O had gotten the disease.</div>
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I asked O. to take a week or two off and then come back with a clear mind. He wrote back, “the secretary makes more than me. You buy dress shirts for one meeting and then throw them behind your desk where they stink up the office. I not only quit the business but I quit YOU.” He then shut off his phone and blocked me on Facebook and wherever else we were connected.</div>
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I’m proud to say we have patched that up and we are now friends.</div>
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Here are my rules for employees:</div>
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<strong>A) Treat them as if they are eventually going to be better than you.</strong> You can learn from every one of them before you have to fire them or before they abandon you.</div>
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<strong>B) Picture that all of them will eventually start their own businesses</strong> and you are just training them. This doesn’t mean be nice to them all the time. It means train them to start their own businesses. In my first business a bunch of employees broke free, stole some clients, and started their own business. Now they are doing very well. My partners hated them. I love them. It’s good to have many friends who look back and appreciate what you did for them.</div>
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<strong>C) If an employee gets the “disease”</strong> (all they want is more money and they don’t care about anything else and they start to have an attitude) then instantly fire them. There is no cure for the disease and it’s highly contagious.</div>
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<strong>D) No employee is allowed to say a bad thing about any client.</strong> Everyone has to love the client’s products. No gossip. No jokes. Worst situation: One time we had a proposal to send to the U.S. Post Office. Everyone worked very hard on it and we got it done just in time. The project manager FedExed the proposal to the Post Office. Fed. Ex. He was tired because his wife had just had a baby in the prior month. We had to fire him that very night. Nor did we win the job.</div>
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<strong>E) No gossip about anyone.</strong> I was guilty of this as a VC. I would talk badly ab0ut one of the CEOs we invested in. One of my partners told him everything I said. The CEO eventually went bankrupt anyway but he has since written a novel where I am the evil character. Gossip is a seed that gets twisted into history.</div>
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<strong>F) I picture every employee calling home at night to their mother</strong>. The mother asks, “how was your day at work?” I picture the employee saying, “Mom, it was the best.” I picture the mother crying tears of happiness because the baby that once came out of her is so happy to be working with me. I try to make that happen every day.</div>
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<strong>G) Teach the employee how to exploit you for their own gains.</strong> You certainly exploit them. Not in a bad way. You have to exploit them. You charge more for their services than you pay them and than you pay for all of your fixed expenses. That’s how you get rich so it’s worth it. But ultimately they have to exploit you to feel good about the relationship. When you both die there should be no bad feelings that linger among the maggots you share between your graves.</div>
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<strong>H) How can they exploit you?</strong> By building a rolodex off of yours. By learning your skill set. By learning how you deal with your failures. By learning not to repeat your mistakes. By eventually stealing some of your clients and employees and breaking off to start a business or take a higher position at a competitor. None of these things are bad things. You want them to do this. If you train them how to do this then it all becomes a good thing for you in the long run even though you might not see that. If you act with abundance in these situations then abundance will come to you. Too many bosses act with fear and scarcity and ultimately scarcity will come to them.</div>
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<strong>I) Teach them how to sell.</strong> Even if they are programmers. Programmers are often introverted and think they can’t sell. I’m a programmer. Because of their introversion, programmers are often seen as more trustworthy by the clients. Bring programmers or introverts to your meetings. They listen the best and they are the best sales people but they don’t know it.</div>
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<strong>J) Surprise them.</strong> Employees are like “reverse clients.” You have to please them just like you please a client. It doesn’t cost much to reward an employee who gets a job done. Gift certificates, dinners, get a masseuse to come in every Friday, write employees personal notes about what you liked about their work, and so on. Employees, like clients, are the gift that keep giving. They are all there to make you wealthy so you need to be infinitely grateful to them and, ultimately, help them get wealthy.</div>
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I don’t have any employees anymore. I now work with partners on everything I do. I know what things I’m good at and what things I’m bad at. Ultimately I wasn’t very good with employees. I tended to fall in love with a few of them a little too much. And then I would break all my rules and very bad things would happen.</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-54635106103040261202013-02-23T09:55:00.000-08:002013-02-23T09:55:02.685-08:00Microsoft Hacked, Just Like Facebook and Apple<br />
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<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130124/microsoft-earnings-come-in-on-target/microsoft_new_logo/" rel="attachment wp-att-288384" style="color: #0087bb; text-decoration: initial;"><img alt="microsoft_new_logo" class="alignright size-full wp-image-288384" height="285" src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2013/01/microsoft_new_logo.png" style="border: 0px; float: right; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 12px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" width="380" /></a>On Friday evening, Microsoft announced via its security blog that it, too, had been the victim of a cyber attack, comparing its situation to the likes of Facebook’s and Apple’s recent security breaches.</div>
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“During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations,” wrote Matt Thomlinson, General Manager of Trustworthy Computing Security, in <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2013/02/22/recent-cyberattacks.aspx" style="color: #0087bb; text-decoration: initial;">a company post</a>.</div>
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Microsoft claims no evidence of customer data being compromised.</div>
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The security breach of the Redmond-based software company is just one in a series of high-profile tech company hacks, starting earlier this month with Twitter’s announcement that the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130201/twitter-hacked-250000-user-accounts-compromised/?mod=atdtweet" style="color: #0087bb; text-decoration: initial;">data of some 250,000 user accounts</a> could potentially have been compromised.</div>
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As we reported earlier in the week, laptops belonging to employees at <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130219/this-is-the-site-likely-responsible-for-the-recent-major-tech-company-hacks/" style="color: #0087bb; text-decoration: initial;">Facebook, Apple and possibly Twitter were infected with malware</a> after visiting an iPhone-focused software developer site. Sources have told <strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AllThingsD</strong> that many other companies could have been infected by the malware-spreading site, and perhaps many more will disclose similar instances of hacking in the coming weeks.</div>
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And just yesterday, customer service management provider <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130221/zendesk-hacker-accesses-twitter-tumblr-and-pinterest-data/" style="color: #0087bb; text-decoration: initial;">ZenDesk announced that it had been hacked</a> as well. The fallout from that hack affected some of the companies ZenDesk provides its services to, including Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr.</div>
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Microsoft did not respond to a request for further comment<br />.</div>
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mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-7840320194639185702013-02-23T09:51:00.001-08:002013-02-23T09:51:04.656-08:00Profile of a cyber criminal (infographic)<br />
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Profile of a cyber criminal (infographic)</h1>
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Yesterday, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/22/zendesk-hacked-twitter-pinterest-and-tumblr-users-were-affected/" style="color: #ef3320; outline: none medium; text-decoration: initial;">Zendesk was hacked</a> and the personal information of an unknown number of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr users was stolen. Last year, <a href="http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/20/17022584-id-theft-on-the-rise-again-126-million-victims-in-2012-study-shows?lite" style="color: #ef3320; outline: none medium; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">12.6 million U.S adults</a> were the victims of identity fraud.</div>
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Who’s committing these crimes?</div>
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Most of them are between 29 and 49 years old, and three-quarters are male. They work in organized groups, half of which have six or more members. And they live all over the world, but especially in Asia, notably China and Indonesia.</div>
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That’s according to online payments company <a href="http://jumio.com/" style="color: #ef3320; outline: none medium; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Jumio</a> – one of the companies that Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin has invested in. Jumio has put together an infographic highlighting who is attacking companies and people.</div>
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To do what they do, cyber criminals need access to the interwebs. That means Internet service providers and website hosting providers are critical, and most of the ones criminals work through are based in Russia and China.</div>
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This won’t make victims of identify theft, hacking, or online fraud feel any better, but only 0.0019 percent of cybercrimes in the U.S. in 2010 were tried in court and saw the hackers convicted.</div>
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Here’s all the data, in visual form:</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Earlier today, we noted that </span><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/facebook" style="background-color: white; color: #1d637d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> COO </span><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/sheryl-sandberg" style="background-color: white; color: #1d637d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Sheryl Sandberg</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> is </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandberg-leaving-starbucks-board-2011-12" style="background-color: white; color: #1d637d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">stepping down from the Starbucks board of directors</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> next year.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">But we kind of gave short shrift to her replacement, Clara Shih, who's the CEO and founder of social network marketing company <a href="http://hearsaysocial.com/" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Hearsay Social</a>.</div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">After graduating, she quickly moved between jobs at three high-powered tech companies: <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/microsoft" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft</a>, <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/google" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Google</a>, and <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/salesforce" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Salesforce</a> (she also interned at <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/oracle" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Oracle</a>). All were to prepare her for the dream of starting her own company.</li>
</ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">In 2007, she was inspired by the release of Facebook's social graph to create a little side project that would integrate Facebook profiles into Salesforce. She didn't tell her employer about it, but bunch of her Facebook friends installed it, and that drew the attention of a Forrester research analyst, <a href="http://forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/2007/09/from-facebook-t.html" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">who blogged about it</a>. </li>
</ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">That led to a book deal. Her book, "The Facebook Era," explained to companies how they could tap into social networks to drive sales. <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/the-new-york-times" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">The New York Times</a> liked it so much, they wrote a <a href="http://www.thefacebookera.com/press.php" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">two-page profile</a> about her and the book.</li>
</ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">From there, she called her college friend Steve Garrity and convinced him it was time to seize the opportunity to form the company they'd always wanted to form together.</li>
</ul><div style="margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The cofounders went on to raise $21 million Sequoia and <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/nea" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">NEA</a>, and have since turned Hearsay into a fast-growing success story.</div><div style="margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Shih told us she's excited to contribute her expertise in social marketing to Starbucks.</div><div style="margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">But she neglected to mention that she once had a summer high school job at Fermilab, the physics research lab -- we got that from her <a href="http://www.thefacebookera.com/press.php" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">LinkedIn page</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; font-size: 1.077em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It explains how the car would know when to take control, where it is located and which direction to drive in.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMku6eQ_ibw_fqB1DSTw0Vuiynxrl5XELkOhsjkuTMzxuagdrCheLBZ5URpZVtD-V-9A487UgD8-olKfvjUdmmA8naWZat6SM8JwWR9XcoyohEgAOtMb0fti_evn-EOPMv7Dl6S1kyBc/s1600/_57353153_googlecarr2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMku6eQ_ibw_fqB1DSTw0Vuiynxrl5XELkOhsjkuTMzxuagdrCheLBZ5URpZVtD-V-9A487UgD8-olKfvjUdmmA8naWZat6SM8JwWR9XcoyohEgAOtMb0fti_evn-EOPMv7Dl6S1kyBc/s1600/_57353153_googlecarr2.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: auto;"></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The search firm suggests the technology could be used to offer tours of tourist locations or to send faulty models to repair shops.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The application for <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349" style="color: #1f4f82; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">Transitioning a Mixed-mode Vehicle to Autonomous Mode</a> was applied for in May, but had been hidden from public view until this week.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The document describes using two sets of sensors. The first identifies a "landing strip" when the vehicle stops. This then triggers the second set which receives data informing the machine where it is positioned and where it should go.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The landing strip allows a human driving the vehicle to know acceptable parking places for the vehicle," the patent filing says.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Additionally, the landing strip may indicate to the vehicle that it is parked in a region where it may transition into autonomous mode."</span></div><span class="cross-head" style="color: #505050; display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Direct and drive</span></span><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google says the landing strip could simply be a mark on the ground, a sign on a wall, or lines or arrows showing where the vehicle should be parked.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To detect which landing strip it has been parked at, the document says the car could activate a GPS (global positioning system) receiver to find its rough location and then use its sensors to detect trees, foliage or other known landmarks to determine its exact position.</span></div><div class="story-feature narrow" style="clear: right; color: #505050; display: inline; float: right; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: -160px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; text-align: -webkit-auto; width: 144px;"><a class="hidden" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16197664#story_continues_2" style="color: #1f4f82; font-weight: bold; left: -5000px; position: absolute; top: -5000px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Continue reading the main story</span></a><h2 class="quote" style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/2_0_8/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.png); background-position: 0px -188px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; font-size: 1.231em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; 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display: block; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prof Alan Woodward</span></span><span class="quote-credit-title" style="clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">University of Surrey</span></span></div><div id="story_continues_2" style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alternatively the filing says the car could read a QR code - the popular two-dimensional square barcode - which would have details about the landing strip's location.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Telling the car precisely where it has been parked could be crucial to ensuring it knows where to go.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The patent explains that GPS receivers are sometimes only accurate to about 30ft (9.1m). However, if the vehicle can monitor its path and knows where it started from, it can simply be told to drive set distances from that point, adjusting its direction at the appropriate places.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The patent describes how data provided at the landing strip could also tell the vehicle to look up an internet address which would let it know if it needed to drive itself to a repair shop, or simply move to another parking bay to ensure a hire company had its cars spread evenly across its various pick-up spots.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It says the landing strip could also provide information about how long the vehicle should pause before driving off.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The wait period may enable a human who was driving the vehicle to exit the vehicle and remove his possessions," the filing says.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Additionally, the vehicle may be equipped with additional sensors that enable it to detect when the human has moved a sufficient distance away from the vehicle to allow safe autonomous operation."</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google adds that the driver may not always wish to leave the vehicle after it has switched into automatic mode.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gives the example of a self-drive vehicle providing a tour of Chicago's Millennium Park with the machine programmed to stop at the site's ice rink, fountain and sculptures for set amounts of time before returning to its starting point.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ZL4JP0CjKh1yCTmjW-GjJ8Mm1kuLaw7uUupPk9AvcmRCCbCCRvkRbA4EQCY_qLu21ZpLwV_lOj26Gg47YatFZF5mQRQiJ4ebjLoE02xRmlfcQIHBaWxPHL9dGAodYeRl9037OsGWVa4/s1600/_57359433_l100288small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ZL4JP0CjKh1yCTmjW-GjJ8Mm1kuLaw7uUupPk9AvcmRCCbCCRvkRbA4EQCY_qLu21ZpLwV_lOj26Gg47YatFZF5mQRQiJ4ebjLoE02xRmlfcQIHBaWxPHL9dGAodYeRl9037OsGWVa4/s1600/_57359433_l100288small.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="cross-head" style="color: #505050; display: block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Test runs</span></span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although the technology described may sound fanciful, Google has been testing a fleet of driverless cars for several years. The vehicles combine artificial intelligence with the firm's Google Street View maps as well as video cameras and a range of sensors.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-rendering: auto;"></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has adapted a fleet of Toyota Prius and Audi TT models which have driven 160,000 miles with limited human input and more than 1,000 miles without driver involvement.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cars travelled along Highway 1 between Los Angeles and San Francisco, over the Golden Gate Bridge and elsewhere. Two humans were on board at the time - one to oversee the driving and intervene if necessary, the other to monitor the equipment from the passenger seat.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The firm has also successfully lobbied the state of Nevada to pass a law requiring its Department of Transportation to create rules and regulations for autonomous vehicles on its highways.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Engineers behind the project say that robots can react more quickly than humans, meaning the number of road accidents could be reduced. That might also mean more cars could be on the road at the same time, driving closer together thus increasing road capacity.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google told the BBC it had no further comment to make on the project at this time.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The patent will allow Google to restrict other companies from using a similar method to switch their cars between human-controlled and automatic modes. Alternatively it could charge them a fee for a licence.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experts say driverless cars could become a commercial prospect sooner than most people believe.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Google believe it is a technology that is here and now and will start appearing in motorcars in the near future," said Professor Alan Woodward from the department of computing at the University of Surrey.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We already have systems that park your cars for you and automatically brake - the next obvious step is to have cars take over the routine driving.</span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Google has funded a lot of this work at universities. 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</div>mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-8931600038452053412011-12-01T21:45:00.000-08:002011-12-01T21:47:22.231-08:00Can Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin Really Get You a Job?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Roughly 14 million people were unemployed in October, yet the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2% over the summer, and overall hiring was weak, according to a Federal Reserve survey--<a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2011/20111130/fullreport20111130.pdf" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Beige Book</a>--released on Wednesday, Nov. 30.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The trend of slow to moderate pace of the economy is barely enough to keep the unemployment rate, which has been hovering above 9% for the past year or so, from reaching double digit.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Expert say in order to have a meaningful impact on the employment situation, the economy needs to grow at twice of the current rate. However, the increasing likelihood of a global recession partly from the <a href="http://www.econmatters.com/2011/11/euro-bond-europes-only-way-out-for-now.html" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">raging debt crisis in Europe</a> would certainly pose a serious threat to the already struggling growth and <a href="http://www.econmatters.com/2011/07/2-million-99ers-scream-hard-recovery.html" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">bleak employment outlook</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">These days, a college degree and years of experience do not necessary mean a good job like they used to, and competition is fierce for the few available openings. Coping with this New Normal, job seekers are reaching into unconventional and creative avenues to gain a competitive edge in the job jungle. And social media are increasingly becoming the new job fair for people to network, get new job leads or to promote and showcase resumes.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/indeed" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Indeed</a>, <a href="http://www.econmatters.com/2011/05/social-network-why-so-linkedin.html" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Linkedin</a> is the new hangout for corporate as well as agency headhunters, and many corporations have <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/twitter" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a> accounts and <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/facebook" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> pages. The infographic below, based on a recent survey by Jobvite finds some interesting statistics regarding using social media for job search. For example,</div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">1 in 6 workers use social media to get hirid</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Almost 90% of job seekers have a profile on a social media site</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">54% of all job hunters use Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin to find jobs</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">50% of job seekers used Facebook, 25% used Twitter, and 36% used Linkedin to look for a job in the last 12 months</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://static5.businessinsider.com/assets/images/dot-black.png); list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">18.4 million Americans say Facebook got them their current jobs. The numbers for Twitter and Linked in are 10.2 million and 8 million respectively</li>
</ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Of course, this does not mean social media will completely replace the good old want-ad (virtual pr paper) searching and applying, but rather as something to add to the job searching tool bag. Even for the gainfully employed, social media provides an open and easy way to network, being sociably cool and keep you updated on the new technology and social trend.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">So it is beneficial for anybody, regardless if you are looking for a job, to be on at least one of the major social media site (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" style="color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;">Linkedin</a>). After all, social media mobilized Arab Spring, and in today's modern world, one either embraces the new wave, or gets left behind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1GLJ4Uu3t1Gtdwchbpd3s2Nq2z7MIA5_lrK-9VzaD1uDj7dfSOHJskai8ReLCLaSgn4GNazrEqn9pxT4hQWMWLLUHPWvygrFSjnAfu0zgnq_RGVmRNEVBezZhFh7TqeEb0FIG56sME8/s1600/facebook-linkedin-job-searc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1GLJ4Uu3t1Gtdwchbpd3s2Nq2z7MIA5_lrK-9VzaD1uDj7dfSOHJskai8ReLCLaSgn4GNazrEqn9pxT4hQWMWLLUHPWvygrFSjnAfu0zgnq_RGVmRNEVBezZhFh7TqeEb0FIG56sME8/s1600/facebook-linkedin-job-searc.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>2. Website </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A business website is important for ranking well on search engines, especially if your domain contains your exact business name. By <a href="http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2011/4573/seo-must-know-basics-the-hows-and-whats" target="_blank">creating a search-optimized site</a> with a front page that strategically lists your business name, address, phone number, and other important details, you can help your site rank well for searches that use your business name. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>3. Optimized Website Pages </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Create keyword-optimized pages throughout your website (e.g., the About, Products, Contacts, and Press Releases pages) to increase the chances of getting your business website ranked for your business name and getting individual pages of your site to rank high on SERPs. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Typically, up to four additional pages can rank on SERPs before Google displays a "Show more results from [website URL]" link. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>4. Blog </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Search engines love relevant, fresh, dynamic, and regularly published content about your business, industry, and community. Blogging is one of the most effective ways to dominate the first page of SERPs. In addition, social "likes" and "shares" are becoming important signals to search engines. People tend to share timely, informative, or entertaining <a href="http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2011/4972/content-fuels-social-media-interaction" target="_blank">content from blogs</a>, rather than static pages from websites, so you can create search-friendly links and social authority via your blog. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can create and host a blog in several ways. For example, you can integrate your blog with your business website, or create a blog on a different Web address and cross-link the blog with your website. The latter will enable your blog—with its unique Web address—to rank on its own. Moreover, your blog will be deemed a unique site, which means multiple pages from your blog could rank individually on SERPs for your business name.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>5. Google Place Page</strong> </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Claiming your <a href="http://www.marketingprofs.com/marketing/online-seminars/371" target="_blank">Google Place page</a> is an absolute must for any local business. You can <a href="http://blog.getreachcast.com/74185/2011/03/03/how-to-set-up--optimize-a-google-places-page-for-your-local-business.html" target="_blank">optimize your Place page</a> for search around your business name and business keywords, and your listing can also appear in Google Maps and at the top of the SERPs.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>6. Google Profiles </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The launch of Google+, Google's social network, along with its recent decision to open up the network to businesses, too, bodes well for those seeking attention from search engines.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those profiles can rank high on SERPs for your business name; of course, you should include business-name keywords in your Google Profiles or Google+ About pages.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>7. Online Directories and Listings </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">List your business on digital directories and listing sites, such as Citysearch. Think of such sites as the "Yellow Pages" of the Web. By making sure that all of your listings are accurate and the information on all the sites is identical <a href="http://blog.getreachcast.com/97181/2011/04/06/google-places-optimization-the-devils-in-the-details-with-local-listings.html">down to the details</a>, you can help search engines such as Google pull your listings data higher in search. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>8. Social Profiles </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Claiming, optimizing, and using social profiles are important ways to own more real estate on page one of SERPs. The <a href="http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2011/5609/brands-and-social-media-the-rise-of-social-advertising" target="_blank">four most popular social networks</a> used for ad campaigns are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Company profiles on those social sites will often rank high for your business name, especially if you optimize your profiles to include your official business name in the content. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>9. Review Sites </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Listing your business on local review sites, such as Yelp, is another way you can own more territory in search. Customers may already be leaving reviews about your business online, so it's important to claim your business profiles on review sites to monitor and manage your online reputation. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>10. Syndicated Press Releases </strong></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Creating <a href="http://www.marketingprofs.com/short-articles/2284/how-to-search-optimize-your-press-release" target="_blank">search-optimized press releases</a> when major news occurs and syndicating them via a wire service can spread news about your business and help you own more SERP territory. Major news sites can pick up your press releases off the wire and run them, word-for-word, on their sites—which would pack a lot of authority with search engines.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To add more authority to your overall Web presence, optimize your press-release content just as you would a website page, and include links to your business website, pertinent blog posts, and social profiles. </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">* * *</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Local businesses today have more options than ever for optimizing search engine rankings and owning page one of SERPs. Begin by thinking strategically about what would make the most sense for your business based on your available resources and what would be most relevant to your target customers.<strong> </strong></div></div></div>mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-28707067368339018072011-11-16T09:25:00.000-08:002011-11-16T09:25:44.672-08:00Facebook hit with unsolicited porn, violent videos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919319" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">REUTERS - <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321404557_1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">Facebook Inc</span> said on Tuesday that it is investigating a rash of unsolicited graphic images that hit some users' accounts this week.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919441" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The images, Internet links and videos depicting pornography and violence have hit some people's Facebook newsfeeds in recent days.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919441" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919312" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"We experienced a coordinated spam attack that exploited a browser<span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321404557_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">vulnerability</span>," Facebook spokesman <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321404557_0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">Andrew Noyes</span> said in a statement emailed to Reuters. "Our efforts have drastically limited the damage caused by this attack, and we are now in the process of investigating to identify those responsible."</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919476" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Facebook does not know yet who was behind the attack and a motive was not clear, Noyes added during an interview with Reuters.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919475" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Facebook users were tricked into pasting and executing "malicious" javascript in their browser URL bar, which led to them unknowingly sharing the content, Noyes explained.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919479" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Facebook engineers have been working to reduce this browser vulnerability, he added.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919322" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Facebook and other "Web 2.0" sites are easy targets for such attacks because they pull in a lot of content from outside sources, according to <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321404557_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">Paul Ferguson</span>, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro Inc.</div><div id="yui_3_3_0_18_1321464203919493" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"It seems every other day there is some new Facebook 'threat,' but this is just the new reality of Web 2.0 and social networking," Ferguson said. "It is 'low-hanging fruit' for criminals."</div></div>mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-36307559382895371642011-11-12T09:44:00.000-08:002011-11-12T09:44:56.419-08:00Anti-Facebook Social Network “Unthink” Launches To Public<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6yg66j0JS-1FY0JPltM32Jjzvz5OIN-7kdUaKGn47coIZSB_eMgjrQhU82YQTbptA0QmY5fiy5HFK3RoN6Nh3IJ_qtCgE7PZMF8pXKVxlk6eIsMaIlEos5pgXORwRAJl7BW31YdwIFg/s1600/unthink-logo-green-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6yg66j0JS-1FY0JPltM32Jjzvz5OIN-7kdUaKGn47coIZSB_eMgjrQhU82YQTbptA0QmY5fiy5HFK3RoN6Nh3IJ_qtCgE7PZMF8pXKVxlk6eIsMaIlEos5pgXORwRAJl7BW31YdwIFg/s1600/unthink-logo-green-full.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Facebook says it will soon allow you to get help from your friends when you get locked out of your Facebook account. According to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-updates/10150335022240766" style="color: #0a9600; font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">a post</a> on Facebook’s official Security page, you’ll be able to designate three to five friends as “Trusted Friends” who will be sent special codes in the event that you’re locked out of your Facebook account and unable to access your email.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It will also be introducing something called “App Passwords” to bring increased security to Facebook-enabled applications.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Typically, when you can’t remember your Facebook password, you can have a password reset sent to you via email. Sometimes, such as when you’ve had your Facebook account hacked, your email has also been compromised. In other cases, people who signed up with Facebook so long ago may no longer have access to the email account (or accounts) Facebook has on file.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With the new “Trusted Friends” setting, getting back into your locked account can now be facilitated by your friends instead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMl3Q6YnzjymsNmQlVLwtUpIVtHu-SlEw727Jm08jCWPLMjbvMvDszPYD4p2fIpp2JoKKgp_72FXPeyb30ymxicbJYDsEUILSNLuRt2dsZXaHY-O45TIQOeQYl8f6bqiMI6u2x9IdHck/s1600/facebook-security.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMl3Q6YnzjymsNmQlVLwtUpIVtHu-SlEw727Jm08jCWPLMjbvMvDszPYD4p2fIpp2JoKKgp_72FXPeyb30ymxicbJYDsEUILSNLuRt2dsZXaHY-O45TIQOeQYl8f6bqiMI6u2x9IdHck/s1600/facebook-security.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-31261720692927132492011-11-11T09:10:00.001-08:002011-11-11T09:12:19.466-08:00Top 10 mistakes of Internet business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It is a known fact that there are many people who already succeed in the </span><a href="http://www.honeytechblog.com/tags/internet/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" title="Internet">Internet</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> business arena. Before venturing into the field, try to consider the pros and cons of this business. Here are the </span><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">top 10 mistakes of Internet business</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">, always be mindful of these pitfalls.</span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<ol style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Many people think that Internet business is easy. Well that is definitely wrong. You need to work hard and devote time to it if you want to succeed.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">It is wrong to think that Internet business is risk free fraud because many <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi" rel="wikipedia" style="text-decoration: none;" title="Modus operandi">modus operandi</a> can ruin your business overnight.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">People think that selling in the web is easy but that is definitely a wrong impression. You have to exert effort on ad campaigns and SEO to build traffic towards your website.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Having flashy website with lots of flash animations is a no-no. These websites will be bulky and very hard to load into a web browser.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">There are online store owners who still put ads from other online stores. This act will only confuse visitors.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Many websites are hard to navigate. Visitors do not have any clue where to go.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">A picture of the product you’re selling is not enough. You also need to add concise information about the product in the brochure pages.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black;">Contact information about the online store can be difficult to find, you still have dig deep into the website.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Many online companies exaggerate on product specs. Some customers will take the bite at first but eventually the company will lose customers because of this practice.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">There are online companies that offer overnight shipping but will not be able to make it. This will again discourage customers to go back.</span></li>
</ol><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">So these are the <strong>top 10 mistakes of Internet business.</strong> Make sure not to commit these mistakes and check these 7 ages of a business for your way to your success.Last but not least have a look over the building blocks Of online business so that you can have better</span></div></div>mindridershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423003085235718862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339408487945891792.post-46938116285661745422011-11-11T08:56:00.000-08:002011-11-11T08:56:10.528-08:0032 Ways to Use Facebook for Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Facebook’s not just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. It’s great for marketing your products, landing gigs and connecting with your customers.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>Here are 32 ways to use Facebook in your business.</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><ol><strong style="background-color: white;">Manage Your Profile<span id="more-16355"></span></strong></ol><ol><li class="first" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Fill out your profile completely to earn trust.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Establish a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=721" style="text-decoration: none;">business account</a> if you don’t already have one.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Stay out of trouble by reading the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=721" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook rules</a> regarding business accounts.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Install appropriate <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php" style="text-decoration: none;">applications</a> to integrate feeds from your blog and other social media accounts into your Facebook profile. (Although you should be careful before integrating your Twitter feed into your Faceboook profile, as a stream of tweets can seem overwhelming to your contacts.)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Keep any personal parts of your profile private through <a href="http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?ref=mb" style="text-decoration: none;">Settings</a>.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Create friends lists such as “Work,” “Family” and “Limited Profile” for finer-grained control over your profile privacy.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Post a professional or business casual photos of yourself to <a href="http://gigaom.com/collaboration/6-tips-for-better-branding-using-avatars/" style="text-decoration: none;">reinforce your brand</a>.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Limit business contacts’ access to personal photos.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Post your newsletter subscription information and archives somewhere in your profile.</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Obtain a Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/username/" style="text-decoration: none;">vanity URL</a> so that people can find you easily.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Add your Facebok URL to your email signature and any marketing collateral (business cards, etc.) so prospects can learn more about you.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Post business updates on your wall. Focus on business activities, such as “Working with ABC Company on web site redesign.”</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Share useful articles and links to presentation and valuable resources that interest customers and prospects on your wall, to establish credibility.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Combine Facebook with other social media tools like Twitter. For example, when someone asks question on Twitter, you can respond in detail in a blog post and link to it from Facebook.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Before traveling, check contacts locations so you can meet with those in the city where you’re heading.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Research prospects before meeting or contacting them.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/friends/?filter=ffp" style="text-decoration: none;">Upload your contacts from your email client</a> to find more connections.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Use <a href="http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/friends/?filter=ffp" style="text-decoration: none;">Find Friends</a> for suggestions of other people you may know to expand your network even further.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Look for mutual contacts on your contacts’ friends lists.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Find experts in your field and invite them as a guest blogger on your blog or speaker at your event.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Market your products by posting discounts and package deals.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Share survey or research data to gain credibility.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Use <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook Connect</a> to add social networking features to your web site.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/search.php?hq=suggest+friends&ref=hq" style="text-decoration: none;">Suggest Friends</a> to clients and colleagues — by helping them, you establish trust.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Buy <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=409" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook ads</a> to target your exact audience.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Read up on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/beacon/faq.php" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook Beacon</a> to see if it might be useful for you.</span></li>
<strong style="background-color: white;">Use Network, Group and Fan Pages</strong>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Start a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=906" style="text-decoration: none;">group or fan page</a> for product, brand or business. Unless you or your business is already a household name, a group is usually the better choice.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Add basic information to the group or fan page such as links to company site, newsletter subscription information and newsletter archives.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Post upcoming events including webinars, conferences and other programs where you or someone from your company will be present.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Update your group or fan page on a regular basis with helpful information and answers to questions.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Join <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/help.php?page=799" style="text-decoration: none;">network</a>, industry and alumni groups related to your business.</span></li>
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<li id="trln" name="trln" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><strong>Ignoring statistics:</strong> Detailed reports of visitor traffic are available for your Web site. This service may be offered by your hosting provider or obtained through a third party. By monitoring your statistics (such as visitors-turned-customers, users on broadband, etc.) you can tailor your marketing and design toward those who visit most or find weak spots based on who you are not attracting.</span></li>
<li id="trln" name="trln" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><strong>Free or cheap hosting:</strong> As attractive as some of these services are, realize that the reliability of your business depends on the reliability of your hosting. A good host service should have minimal downtime, offer services such as shopping cart systems, and have good customer support. Be sure to read reviews and apply for free trials (if possible) before you commit to anything.</span></li>
<li id="trln" name="trln" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><strong>Avoiding spiders:</strong> Spiders are what search engines use to find your page. You want to make sure your pages are designed so that you show up high on search engine rankings. This process is called search engine optimization. There are, however, ethics and strategies to SEO. Some practices (such as hidden text, redirects, etc.) will result in you being banned from search engines.</span></li>
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://www.gmail.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</a> is recently experiencing outage and account inaccessibility. Is happens from time to time and Google has not yet addressed it until now. This will definitely tarnish the image of Google.You may check about the latest problem of gmail <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail+is+down" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. <strong><a href="http://mashable.com/author/stan-schroeder/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Stan Schroeder</a></strong> of Mashable published an article stating “<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/02/24/gmail-down-panic-mode-on/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">gmail down panic mode on</a>”.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</a> is another brilliant concept but it can also help terrorists with bad intentions do their strategic planning.May be you should know that “<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070312-google-censor.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Terrorist Use of Google Earth Raises Security Fears</a>” and “<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/google_maps_aids_terrorists/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps aids terrorists</a>”.Every technology have its own flaws but it can also be recovered.Their are so many severe questions on national securities.For example latest mumbai bomb blast terrorist “<em>Kasab”</em> is in arthur road jail so<a href="http://www.techmadly.com/buisness-info/technology-news/will-google-remove-arthur-road-from-its-map" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">will google remove arthur road from its map?</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Chrome</a> is yet another web browser. Who needs another one? Google already partnered with Mozilla for the Firefox so there’s no point in adding another web browser.<a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/brandon" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">John Brandon</a> says that “<a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_fail" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Is Chrome the first epic fail at Google?</a>”You should also read the <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6za17/chrome_fail/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">chrome fail</a> discussion on the reddit.More over this is the comment from a user in a Google groups<br />
<blockquote>I just updated Google Chrome to the latest version, RC 1 i.e. non-<br />
beta. And now my Gtalk within Orkut states that it doesn’t work with<br />
this browser. Come on, both are Google products… They should work<br />
better together, not fail on such an epic scale.</blockquote><strong>Update</strong>: Google is continuously working on project “chrome” and come up with some new features. I wish to remove this point after extensions updates in the Chrome final release. (on beta and developer versions it have extensions features and we also developed <a href="http://www.honeytechblog.com/google-chrome-extensions-for-gtalk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_top">Google <em>Chrome</em>Extensions for Gtalk</a> , <a href="http://www.honeytechblog.com/google-chrome-extension-for-checking-ip/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_top">checking IP </a>and <a href="http://www.techprone.com/speed-test-google-chrome-plugin/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" title="Speed Test">Speed Test</a> )</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://www.google.com/finance" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Finance</a> is so US centered, you cannot find good information about other countries. There are competitions that are far better like Yahoo Finance.<a href="http://www.portfolio.com/contributors/Felix-Salmon" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Felix Salmon</a> questioned “<a href="http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2009/01/28/is-google-too-big-to-fail" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Is Google Too Big To Fail?</a>”.According to a <a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/yahoo-finance-versus-google-finance.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">blogpost</a> “<em>Minor disadvantages of Google Finance are that it doesn’t show all the popular ratios that Yahoo does, such as the PEG. For foreign stocks, it shows profit margin and operating margin information, but not the P/E or P/S</em>”</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://checkout.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Checkout</a> is yet another mistake from Google. It is half-baked and it is so limited. Why should people use this when you have Paypal which offers more options.You check some advantages and disadvantages of<a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/What-are-the-advantagesdisadvantages-of-Google-Checkout-versus-PayPal" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Checkout vs Paypal</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Picasa</a> is a good photo manager but Picasa Web album is definitely a bad idea. The user interface is confusing.I personally like to spend $25 on Flickr Pro rather than using Picasa.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://webaccelerator.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Web Accelerator</a> is another bad product from Google. It has many privacy issues. It also causes problems with some websites not loading properly.<a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey_not_so_fast_an_alert_for_web_app_designers.php" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">37signals reports</a> in fact that the Google Web Accelerator “<em>Google is essentially clicking every link on the page — including links like “delete this” or “cancel that.” And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations</em>“.Moreover checkout some “<a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032_3-5700776.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Hard facts about Google’s Web Accelerator</a>”.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://video.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Video</a> is also a bad idea. It did not feature popular TV shows. And it is so slow.Have a look on <a href="http://blog.jmcardle.com/?p=192" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Why Google Video Will Fail</a> and</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://desktop.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Desktop</a> is posing security threats among users. The software pulls personal data from your PC.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There are too many instant messaging software out there. <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Google Talk</a> is too late.More over foxnews recently discloses that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500105,00.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">‘ViddyHo’ Virus Spreads Through Google Chat</a>”.In case you have the time ,look over the some <a href="http://askville.amazon.com/advantages-disadvantages-google-chat/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=16769176" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">interesting facts</a> about Google Talk.</li>
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