NYCResistor’s Kellbot is an amazing craftista and has a pretty good head for numbers. I’malways getting asked by friends about advice on keeping track of finances, both for side projects and personal finances. Kelly brought Freshbooks to my attention through her blog and with her blessing, I can gladly recommend it to others. Managing Wholesale Accounts |
Enter Freshbooks. Freshbooks is an online invoicing tool which makes things really easy. You enter your client info, put together an invoice, and send it via email or snailmail. If you send the invoice via email the client will get a link to a login page where they can view the invoice and, if you’ve set it up, pay it. I just got around to configuring mine to work with Paypal / Google Checkout. Read more at www.kellbot.com |
Perhaps I’ll just send them this article on Twitter’s many uses… |
Putting Twitter’s World to Use
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SAN FRANCISCO — The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast? |
But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it. Read more at www.nytimes.com |
The homeless have lots of signs that don’t get absorbed. Add a .com to one of them, and suddenly something happens. How else can you change the game, say, through dance protests?
I got a Mascha Kaléko postcard (not related to the experiment) from a dear sweet friend in Bielefeld. It turns out she lived on Minetta Street in NYC, not too far south of NYU.
And yes, I actually know someone in Bielefeld. The town actually exists.
My first inkling was that it had to do with collecting biographies of DIY heroes like Bre Pettis. Nope. Biology! DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. This will require mechanisms for amateurs to increase their knowledge and skills, access to a community of experts, the development of a code of ethics, responsible oversight, and leadership on issues that are unique to doing biology outside of traditional professional settings. Read more at diybio.org |
It seems odd to think of Mozilla monetizing itself, specially since it’s owned by The Mozilla Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The article here is essentially probing the tension between Google and Mozilla, now that Google has launched Chrome. It seems that it’s in Google’s best interests to support both, and it can afford to do so…but is wedding itself to Google in Mozilla’s best interests? Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google |
To date, the arrangement has proved mutually beneficial. Google accounts for more than 88% of Mozilla's revenue, which totaled $75 million in 2007. And as Mozilla wins over users of Internet Explorer, it helps Google grab share in the lucrative Web search market. Firefox has about 22% of the browser market, making it by far the strongest competitor to Internet Explorer, which maintains a 67% share, according to Net Applications.
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Search partners are just one of several options for Mozilla to generate revenue in the future, Baker adds. “It's not hard to monetize the browser,” she says. “There have been more opportunities for money than people think.” She's mum on what these may be, but two of Mozilla's coming projects may offer clues.
Read more at www.businessweek.com |
| Set to launch on certain Nokia (NOK) phones in late spring, Fennec is the first Mozilla browser optimized for mobile platforms. If it gains traction with enough handset makers and mobile users, Fennec could represent another way to draw revenue from a partnering search engine. |
Plug-Ins Could Be Lucrative |
| Currently in beta testing, Weave is an online service Mozilla designed to help users synchronize their personal information, passwords, and browsing history as they move from one device to the next—as well as provide greater control over how Web sites such as social networks can collect the data and share it with others. |
| Finally, Mozilla could attempt to profit from the growing use of third-party applications known as plug-ins, which are made available to users who download Web browsers |
Google also pledges loyalty to the partnership. “Obviously we are now in the browser space but we remain great supporters of Firefox,” says Google spokesman Eitan Bencuya. “It was Mozilla that kicked off most of the innovation we have seen in browsers over the last few years.”
Read more at www.businessweek.com |
In following with a previous clip on Vanno, this post from a DC local talks about (what I think is) a subset of Online Reputation Management, called Buzz Monitoring.
| One of the most important discipline areas at iStrategyLabs is buzz monitoring. While we’re technology solution agnostic, we’ve been using ScoutLabs a lot recently because they’ve created a product that is much less expensive than their competitors (something our clients certainly appreciate right now) and it works quiet well. Read more at www.istrategylabs.com |
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