The European Union really has it in for Microsoft and has just fined them $1.35 billion euros, bringing the total amount of Microsoft fines in Europe to approximately 1.7 billion E or $2.55 billion dollars. This is a staggering amount, which equates to about $2.75 per european citizen. This is only about 2 weeks of…
Here are the top 10 web properties for February 2008 according to alexa.com Global top 10 sites Yahoo you tube google windows live MSN myspace facebook hi5 wikipedia orkut US top 10 sites Google Yahoo myspace youtube facebook windows live ebay wikipedia MSN craigslist What is impressive about these sites is the forus on social…
US Flag and state of American support for the war in Iraq. see more flags of Angola, Brazil, China, Colombia, European Union and more
I just read about an investor and businessman who has been around the world 2 times, once on a motorcycle through China, and recently on a souped up mercedes benz through 160 countries. Wow His name is Jim Rogers and he has no fear, and amazing entrepreneurial spirit, and a certified risk taker. This international…
Risk Magazine — the finance industry magazine focused on risk management — presented, this month, its Equity Derivatives House of the Year award for 2008 to Societe Generale, the beleaguered bank that just lost 4.9 billion dollars to a rogue stock trader. Jerome Kerviel bet $73 billion using equity derivatives. This is by far the…
Are you addicted to E-bay and love getting great deals on the largest online auction site? Well a service from cniper.com lets you automatically bid on ending auctions to give you the best deal. Most Ebay power users have multiple auctions running at the same time, and this allows these users to relax and take…
E-commerce website optimizers rejoice – now Google tells us what products people are shopping for! Using the Google Trends tool, we can see comparison search data for all products. Google does not give specific numbers, only an approximate range so we need to extrapolate the data using other analytics tools. The data comes from Google…
We just got back from the 3rd social networking group Twiistup, held at the Air Conditioned Club in Venice, Los Angeles. Twiistup is a for technology focused networking group that lets startups, web 2.0 companies and tech firms mingle and display their businesses. It was a very fun event, and I made some good connections…
The good folks at XKCD.com created an illustration of web 2.0. This is a representation of the current state of the social internet represented by a cartography style of 15th century map makers like Amerigo Vespucci. See a hand drawn map showing all your favorite websites, with size displayed by prominence. Displayed is a list…
At the pubcon.com search engine optimization conference last week, the conference organizers were kind enough to give us complimentary tickets to the Blue Man Group. The Blueman Group currently performs in Las Vegas at the Venetian hotel, which is one of the nicest hotels on the strip. This hotel has the most interactive water features…
