Next week, those of us here in the U.S. will celebrate our annual Feast of Gluttony…er, I mean Thanksgiving, a time devoted to expressing gratitude for all the good things in our lives, including — and in some cases especially — really yummy food. And thus … Read More »
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Alex Harris of Alex Designs runs a 100%-online web consulting and design business. Describe your job/career/business Interactive creative director managing an agency (AlexDesigns.com) that is focused on Web Based Customer Acquisition and Conversion of eCommerce, Lead Generation and Traffic Building. Our team delivers effective creative … Read More »
Ben Worthen, Biz Tech blogger for the Wall Street Journal, got a nasty comment by email recently: We received this email the other day in response to our post about Google’s mobile-phone operating system: “You are a moron…Hopefully you have not (and will not) procreate. It … Read More »
Oracle made its official debut on the social web party scene this week at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco. Previously a Web 2.0 wallflower, the database and business applications company has joined the scene with gusto, launching social networking for its customers … Read More »
If you have the itch to work from home but not as an employee, how about checking out StartupNation’s Top 100 Home-based Businesses? These are not mere business ideas but actual home-based businesses organized into ten categories including Best Financial Performers, Yummiest, and Most … Read More »
Google’s apparently thinking that by attracting developers they can give Android, their mobile phone platform, the best chance at success. Targeting developers, though, is not the only way to find success with new technology: some companies succeed by going directly after users while others ride … Read More »
ActiveSymbols’ Eyealike visual search launches in beta today, allowing you to find dates that look like someone else you find attractive — the person that dumped you last year, your favorite coworker, or America’s Next Top Model, for example. If you’re not in the … Read More »
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The wild proliferation of online meeting tools makes it easier than ever to collaborate across distances — except that before you can use one you have to choose from among all those tools. Which one is right for you? I’ve rounded up nine you might consider: … Read More »
TGIF! The weekend is nearly here. For many of us it’s a chance to step away from the dual monitors and spend time with friends and family and on personal hobbies. I’ve found I need to choose compelling and flow-inducing activities during my time off … Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, Edelman marketing strategist Steve Rubel declared the Web 2.0 world to be skunk drunk on its own Kool Aid. But I’ve seen signs of sobriety recently. Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups. Teqlo shut down … Read More »
By Anne Zelenka
Nov. 8, 2007, 1:25pm PT
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Are you excited about how the web reinvents television like it reinvents work? Then make time in your schedule to attend NewTeeVee Live, a one-day event on November 14th in San Francisco from our sister site NewTeeVee. It will showcase the online video industry’s … Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Mashup maker startup Teqlo has shut down. This less than four months after VC Peter Rip, then of Teqlo investor Leapfrog Ventures, shared the growing pains Teqlo was suffering after realizing that the world didn’t want yet another do-it-yourself application builder. “Over the next … Read More »
Judi Sohn doesn’t just edit Web Worker Daily, she’s also an executive at nonprofit C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. She works remotely for the Alexandra, Virginia based organization from her home in New Jersey (or anywhere else she happens to be). Describe your job/career/business. You may know … Read More »
Being able to reuse and remix others’ online content means opportunities for both creative expression and profit. But once you start down that web working path, you’ll almost certainly confront legal issues around copyright and fair use. In a TED video made available this month, … Read More »
The dueling advertising announcements out of Facebook and MySpace have once again put privacy concerns into the spotlight. Technology commentator Esther Dyson suggests that instead of legislative relief such as a Do Not Track list, forward-thinking businesses should cooperate with their … Read More »
When you start your day each morning, you may have a set of sites you visit — your online email and calendar, a couple news sites, maybe a blog or two, your Facebook or MySpace page. Make it easy on yourself by installing the dead-simple
Facebook moved first with the F8 platform. Then Google (GOOG) and a coalition of other social networks responded with OpenSocial. Now, at today’s Defrag conference, semantic web startup AdaptiveBlue has announced ClosedPrivate, the latest strike in the worldwide social applet war. … Read More »
Well, that’s a disappointment. There’s no GPhone, just a GMobileOS with a seriously robotic name. And even that’s mainly a PR play at this point. We won’t see any phones running Android until the second half of 2008. But despite the vaporous aspect of these discussions, … Read More »
Social information sharing startup HiveLive launches their LiveConnect Community Platform today at the Defrag conference in Denver, but it’s not HiveLive’s first appearance on the web scene. In 2006, they opened a private beta that looked to some like just another Web 2.0 … Read More »
Can you make money by giving stuff away on the web? Yes, but it’s not straightforward or easy, as Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has discovered. He says, “Free is more complicated than you think.” By sharing your work online you might be able to increase … Read More »
MySpace has signed on to OpenSocial, bringing to its 100-plus million users the wonders of mini social applications à la Facebook F8. MySpace (NWS) already announced plans to open their platforms to third-party developers, but the Google (GOOG) connection comes as a … Read More »
This week’s field report comes from Gautam Ghosh, an HR consultant and micro-community founder based in Hyderabad, Indian. Gautam combines home-based prospecting for opportunities with on-site work. Describe your job/career/business I’m a Human Resource Consultant based in Hyderabad, India. How has the web changed your working life? It … Read More »
Maybe Google should have doodled a vampire on their home page today, in honor of Halloween and their announcement of OpenSocial, a set of APIs that allows web developers to write applications once, then deploy them on a variety of different social networking platforms. This … Read More »
Do you use any rich Internet applications (RIAs)? Applications that regularly communicate with the Internet, but offer a desktop-like user experience? I use at least three applications I’d label as RIAs: Adium for instant messaging integration, Twitterific for interacting with Twitter, and iTunes for playing … Read More »
Can social web applications like blogs, wikis, and online communities make a company more productive? Enterprise collaboration company Jive Software thinks they can, by enabling social productivity — making things happen across ad hoc social networks instead of just relying on individual progress or … Read More »
Today’s field report comes from Amie Gillingham, co-founder with her husband of an online service for artists who represent themselves. Mother of two and a fine artist, Amie works from home at her dining room table. Describe your job/career/business My husband and I are entrepreneurs, and together, we … Read More »
Time blogger Bill Tancer likes to get work done while watching TV: Lately I’ve been obsessed with couch multitasking — either working over e-mail while watching the tube, or in most cases adding depth to what I see on the television with real-time web-based research. Tonight, … Read More »
Radar Networks has unveiled its semantic web application Twine, a “revolutionary new way to share, organize, and find information.” Twine offers personal or workgroup knowledge management with natural language processing smarts. Twine allows you to organize, find, and share information in the form of notes, … Read More »
There’s big action in search engines these days: see Web Worker Daily’s list of 11 alternative search engines, Read/Write Web’s top 100, and the GigaOM show’s opening question to Google’s (GOOG) Marissa Mayer about the spate of search engine competitors. But even as … Read More »
Today’s web worker field report comes from Lea Woodward, who ditched a job as a management consultant to travel the globe with her husband Jonathan as a location independent coach, consultant, and writer. Describe your job/career/business My husband and I are both ex-corporate rat racers. I was a … Read More »
Do you use the web to succeed at work in ways you couldn’t before? Then we want to hear from you. We’re introducing a new feature, From the Field, about how real-life web workers work, and we invite you to participate. You don’t have to work from … Read More »
Can advanced “telepresence” — heavyweight fixed-location videoconferencing systems from the likes of Cisco, HP, and Polycom — help web workers be more effective? Could their HDTV-sharp life-size images make virtual meetings the standard and make business travel obsolete? Or is the untethered web workforce better served … Read More »
Some tech companies are blasting cubicle and office walls, installing software developers and other workers into open-plan workspaces in a bid to increase communication and collaboration. But while open-plan workspaces certainly lead to more conversation, not everyone agrees that they’ll lead to greater productivity overall. Oracle developer … Read More »
Sometimes you’ll feel stuck and stagnant just when you need to come up with new ideas or new approaches. What to do? Try these websites and pages to shake up your thinking. Approach from a different angle. Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are a set of … Read More »
Do tech startups achieve a clear advantage by locating themselves in a tech hub like Palo Alto, Boston, or (my personal favorite) Boulder? Many old-school investors think so. But physical proximity is becoming less and less important as online social tools bring casual chance encounters … Read More »
Jason Calacanis launched yet another discussion of the future of the web with his official definition of web 3.0, in which web 2.0 cake is spread with a liberal frosting of people, but not just any people — “gifted” people. … Read More »
You don’t have to be trained in computer science to build online applications. Web tools like DabbleDB, Coghead, and Ning turn almost anyone into a web app developer of sorts. Big enterprise software companies, seeing an opening, want to help too, with mashup … Read More »
Adobe’s acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, announced today, and Microsoft’s unveiling of Office Live Workspace bring yet more attention to online office apps. Whether online alternatives will entirely replace heavyweight desktop suites like MS office or OpenOffice.org remains to be seen. What is clear is … Read More »
Almost four-fifths of Sweden’s population uses the Internet compared to just over 20 percent of Brazil’s, yet Brazil has beaten Sweden handily on at least one measure: Google availability. Uptime monitoring company Pingdom reports that from Sept. 1, 2006 to Sept. 1, 2007, … Read More »
As social interactions and contact information get distributed across different services like Facebook and Twitter, it’s harder for you to keep track of all your contacts and what’s happening with them. Yesterday, Web Worker Daily’s Samuel Dean reviewed Fuser, a universal inbox that lets you … Read More »
BNET has a great article on managing employees in remote locations that includes tips for building trust. Trust is key to the effective functioning of any team, whether distributed geographically or not. Fortunately, you don’t have to meet face to face to create and maintain … Read More »
CNET’s Caroline McCarthy welcomes the naked generation: It’s no longer noteworthy to point out that there are hordes of Web users who are putting their lives online, from revealing “personality surveys” posted in pink Comic Sans MS on glittery MySpace profiles, to Flickr play-by-plays of the … Read More »
In 1986 Roger Smith, then chairman of General Motors said, “by the end of this century, we will live in a paperless society.” He didn’t get that quite right. If you’re like me, you probably still deal with paper regularly. You need to fax something with … Read More »
Which way do you like this popular quote: “the best is the enemy of the good” or “the good is the enemy of the best”? If you like the first way — the way Voltaire said it — you’re ready for this tip. You probably … Read More »
As a followup to his NY Times column on Adblock Plus, Noam Cohen ponders the morality of blocking ads. But many of his commenters suggest that this is not a moral or ethical issue: it is an economic one. If enough people choose to … Read More »
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