Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 12-05-2009
Twitterification continues. Not only are other social networking sites, such as Facebook, scrambling to pour their members’ energy into the realtime stream, but more traditional publishers are also adopting the Twitter model to firehose their content. Build your arks, my friends: The stream is going mainstream. Yesterday, it was the New York Times that took the realtime plunge with the launch of Times Wire, a jittery twittery service that the paper describes as “a continuously updated stream of the latest stories and blog posts.” The news scroll updates every minute, as fresh stories flicker into consciousness and old ones flicker…
Filed Under (Internet Business) by Admin on 12-05-2009
A few days back Mark Penn published an article titled America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire in The Wall Street Journal. The article is interesting and the outgoing links are enough to show that he has done his research well before writing the article. Ok, he has accumulated whatever is available online (like a lot of other bloggers including me).
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Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 12-05-2009
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 12-05-2009
BornRich: Italian mattress maker, Magniflex, is taking the concept of luxury sleeping to a whole new level with a bedding line made out of the precious metals, gold and platinum. The Gold Mattress from the house is made with a 22-carat gold yarn cover and features the companys patented Memoform Core, which adapts to the shape of the body with up to 85 percent accuracy. Magniflex says the physical properties of gold makes the mattress anti-bacteria, anti-inflammatory, anti-stress and anti-dust mite and odor-free. It sells for $24,000 and comes with matching gold pillows, priced at $1,000 each. The Magniflex Gold Mattress, fit for the royals, is sure to enrich the sleeper with unsurpassed comfort and luxury.
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