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Former Polish PM Says Online Voting Caters To Beer Drinking, Porn Watching Youth

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The former Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that Polish citizens should not be given the option of voting online.
“I am not an enthusiast of a young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it,” Kaczynski said […]

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Gates Zings Google On Applications

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Eric Schmidt and his fellow Googlers probably can’t wait for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to get the heck out of the business world and go on with his philanthropic works.
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Customer Complaint Hell

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Business, Internet, Blogging, Google, Open Source, AOL
Does your small business listen to customers’ complaints? Do you have a way for customers to get in touch with kudos or complaints? According to Jeff Jarvis, learn how to love the customers who complain by learning how to listen to them. The first way small business […]

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Progress is being made on Vudyo and Cromple.

January 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I now have a few sites up and running. Vudyo is an audio sharing playlist site thats run on a clipshare foundation.

Which is doing pretty good. I have to fine tune it some more though.
My second is

This one is a micro-blogging site that is custom coded. Cromple just started and is making […]

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French President Proposes Tax On Internet

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has proposed banning advertising on public television and recovering some of the lost revenue by taxing the Internet and mobile phones.
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Study Labels Social Networking Types

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

MySpace commissioned a study of MySpace and Facebook users and researchers identified six types. They also invented a word or two along the way.
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Online Job Ads Up In December

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

In December there were 3,541,200 online advertised job vacancies, an increase of 6 percent from last December, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series.
While this number is up from last year, it was down by 13 percent from the November level, partly because of a seasonal pattern, which began with the Thanksgiving holiday. […]

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Buxfer: personal finance with support for iPhone, Twitter

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Finance, Web services

We’ve written about personal finance sites like Mint and Spendview before, but Buxfer has a few interesting features that differentiate it from the others. While it offers auto-syncing of transaction information with your banks and credit cards, budgeting, and expense analysis, Buxfer also has three key characteristics:

Shared Finances - Buxfer allows […]

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Mass Events Labs Acquired By CMP

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Wikipedia lists “trade shows” as one of CMP’s products, and while this might be an odd way of putting it, the corporation’s fresh acquisition of Mass Events Labs acts to substantiate the underlying fact.
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Researchers Question Yahoo Answers

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Stanford University researchers analyzed 10 months worth of content from Yahoo’s popular Answers service to learn about the people using it and where it might go in the future.
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