Tags in the sky...

Google wants you
The online search giant says most of its revenue comes from small
companies - and it needs more of your business. Should you hire it?
* Full topic >>>
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/06/smallbusiness/Google_AdWords.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2009050605
 
 
Is it a new "long tail" story?
* Does your business follow the "long tail" paradigm?
* Post YOUR own COMMENTS
 

Fred Vallaeys, Google's AdWords evangelist
 
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product and main source of
revenue ($16.4 billion in 2007)[1]. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC)
advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner
ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international
distribution. Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of
one title line and two content text lines. Image ads can be one of
several different Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.
Google's AdWords division is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan[2], the
company's third-largest facility behind its Mountain View, California,
headquarters and New York City office.[3]
* Full topic >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdWords


 
AdSense is an advertisement application run by Google. Website owners
can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently,
video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are
administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or
per-impression basis. Google beta tested a cost-per-action service,
but discontinued it in October 2008 in favor of a DoubleClick offering
(also owned by Google).
* Full topic >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense


 
Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services.
Named for the mathematical term "googol" Google operates web sites at
many international domains, with the most trafficked being
www.google.com. Google is widely recognized as the "world's best
search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. The
company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers,
content...
* More >>> http://www.tradevibes.com/company/profile/google


 

http://www.tradevibes.com/

If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
 - Rene Descartes
 
Same principle applies to any plan, project, business, startup your are in...
Not just once, do it as many times as possible...
- JFA
 
René Descartes (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]), (31 March 1596 –
11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized
form),[2] was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and
writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has
been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy," and much of subsequent
Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be
studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations on First
Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university
philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is also
apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system allowing geometric shapes to
be expressed in algebraic equations being named for him. He is
accredited as the father of analytical geometry. Descartes was also
one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
 

 
René Descartes. Portrait after Frans Hals, 1648.

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I do not use prosper.com... I am curious how nice could it be...
Could Open money be possible
* Who use it?
* Do you like it?
* Post YOUR own COMMENTS
 
Lend to a friend
Peer-to-peer lender Prosper.com is back in business.
Last October, the nascent peer-to-peer lending industry nearly saw its
demise when the SEC forced its most established player, Prosper.com,
to stop brokering new loans temporarily while it determined whether
Prosper's loans should be classified as securities.
Now, after a six-month quiet period, Prosper is open to lenders and
borrowers again. It announced April 28 that it will once again broker
loans, at least in California.
>>> http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/28/technology/hempel_prosper.fortune/
 
Prosper is a people-to-people lending marketplace that attempts to
make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding.
Address: 111 Sutter Street, 22nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94104, US
Founded: unknown People: Chris Larsen, John Witchel, Ed Giedgowd, Kirk
Inglis, Catherine Muriel, Jim Breyer, Larry Cheng, Paul Hazen, Bob
Kagle,
Tags: borrowers, Forbes, loans, p2p, Ebay, lending, finance, bank*
Full topic >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com
>>> http://www.tradevibes.com/company/profile/prosper?search=simple
 
 
http://www.tradevibes.com/
 
https://www.tradevibes.com/ugenimage/logo/company_106/366.png
 
 
Prosper Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based company
that operates Prosper.com, an online auction website where individuals
can buy loans and request to borrow money. Borrowers set the maximum
interest rate they wish to pay,[1] and loan buyers, called "lenders,"
bid on specific loans by committing a portion of the principal and
setting the minimum interest rate they wish to receive on a particular
loan.[2] Prosper manages the reverse dutch auction, assembling bids
with the lowest interest rates in order to fund the loan.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Marketplace

I use Zoho, I like it
I do use as a Googgle Docs replacement... I'm trying ever to boost
competition...
 
- Do you use it?
- Do you like it?
* Post YOUR COMMENTS...
 
>>> http://www.zoho.com/
 
Zoho Overview
Zoho offers Office Suite, which includes Writer, Projects, Sheet, CRM,
Show, Creator, Wiki, Planner, Suite, Notebook, Chat, Meeting and Mail.
All products are offered through dynamic webpages that allow for rich
online applications.
Zoho's parent company is AdventNet, "a software company started in
1996 focusing on building affordable software for businesses."
AdventNet also builds ToonDoo, a...
>>> http://www.tradevibes.com/company/profile/zoho
 
The Zoho Office Suite is a Web- based online office suite containing
word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking,
wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications
developed by AdventNet Inc., an Indian-based company[1] [2] [3]. It
was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional
products, such as spreadsheets and presentations were incorporated
later into Zoho. [4]
Although some applications, such as Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects,
require a fee to be used, Zoho maintains that it has a commitment to
"maintaining a free tier of entry-level applications with free
registration."
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho_Office_Suite
 

 
Zoho offers Office Suite, which includes Writer, Projects, Sheet, CRM,
Show, Creator, Wiki, Planner, Suite, Notebook, Chat, Meeting and Mail.
All products are offered through dynamic webpages that allow for rich
online applications.
Zoho’s parent company is AdventNet, “a software company started in
1996 focusing on building affordable software for businesses.”
AdventNet also builds ToonDoo, a site that allows users to easily
create comic strips.
Zoho’s main competitors are Google Docs & Spreadsheets as well as
Microsoft Office.
Milestones edit
8/7/08 — Zoho Reaches 1 Million Users 1
>>> http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zoho
 
 
Video >>> http://www.beet.tv/2008/09/zoho-web-apps-c.html
 
>>> http://www.beet.tv/

I think this an economic turning point
Bye consuming, ads or pr monologs...
Hello again to true dialog with customers and one to one recommendations...
* Post YOUR COMMENTS
 
conversation
1340, from O.Fr. conversation, from L. conversationem (nom.
conversatio) "act of living with," prp. of conversari "to live with,
keep company with," lit. "turn about with," from L. com- intens.
prefix + vertare, freq. of vertere (see versus). Originally "having
dealings with others," also "manner of conducting oneself in the
world;" specific sense of "talk" is 1580. Used as a synonym for
"sexual intercourse" from at least 1511, hence criminal conversation,
legal term for adultery from late 18c.
>>> http://www.etymonline.com/
 
The Conversation is a painting by Henri Matisse dating from 1908–1912,
depicting the artist and his wife facing each other before a
background of intense blue. It is in the collection of the Hermitage
Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation_(painting)
 

 
A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions,
procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons
trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the
economy. It is an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to
exchange things
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market
 

A market outside of the walls of Tangier, by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Markets are now driven by "long tail" model, that is not "mass"
consuming but "small niche" clients.
I feel that startup web industry analysts have not at all integrated
the "long tail" lessons.
... We hear only about web success as millions of visitors.
 
* Give YOUR point
* Post YOUR comments
 
The phrase the Long Tail (as a proper noun) was first coined by Chris
Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article[1] to describe the
niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell
a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities.
Anderson elaborated the Long Tail concept in his book The Long Tail:
Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (ISBN
1-4013-0237-8).
...
The Long Tail concept has found a broad ground for application,
research and experimentation. It is a common term in online business
and the mass media, but also of importance in micro-finance (Grameen
Bank, for example), user-driven innovation (Eric von Hippel), social
network mechanisms (e.g., crowdsourcing, crowdcasting, Peer-to-peer),
economic models, and marketing (viral marketing).
...
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail
 

- I do not use it too much, find it slow and obsolete interfaced
 
* How do you feel it?
* What for do you use it?
* Post YOUR comments
 
 
Is Facebook losing its glow?
The social networking site is still growing -- but that also means
serious growing pains.
>>> http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/15/technology/hempel_facebook.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009041511
 

 
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated
and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks
organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and
interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them
messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about
themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting
members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory
schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get
to know other people on campus.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
 
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to
keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share
links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Anyone can join Facebook
All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To
connect with coworkers or classmates, use...
>>> http://www.tradevibes.com/company/profile/facebook

Do remember step 1 is personal funding and/or business angels... Maybe
yet peer to peer funding...
- JFA
 
* Post YOUR own COMMENTS
 
The venture game: What investors want
Even in tough times, venture capital money is available for startups
with vision and a foolproof plan.
* Full topic >>>
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/14/smallbusiness/the_venture_game.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2009041510
 
10 steps to catch VC cash
Looking for funding for your big idea? Follow our 10-point guide to
landing the right investors.
Show your passion
* Full topic >>>
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0904/gallery.10_steps_to_VC_cash.smb/
 

 
http://forum.belmont.edu/

- Yes Ford is like that... but GM is worse... and the banks...
- Why taking people tax money to rescue dead industries?
- Why not taking this money to help people build startups?
 
* What is your point, Post YOUR comments
 

 
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