Why social networking sites are so popular is summarized in two words “targeting” and “verticals”. Social networks offer online networking that rivals real world networking such as trade shows, business meetings, bar scenes etc. This is because like-minded people have aligned interests and attract each other. For example if I love classical music and [...]
Facesoft or Microbook (sorry couldn’t help myself) is about to get a heavy dose of social networking competition from Google according to a great article from TechCrunch.
Facebook’s move to open up the “social network” for application developers was a brilliant move. However, the one niggling and critical complaint from Facebook developers is not having [...]
For those of you unfamiliar, a 1031 exchange gives the real estate investor the ability to sell a piece of property and parlay the proceeds into a “like-kind” property. Here is a quick lay example:
Selling 60K parcel of land that you originally purchased for 40K.
Buyer 100K parcel of land.
The 1031 exchange allows you to [...]
I have been getting more and more requests to do more postings on real estate development rather than just exclusively cover entrepreneurship, StartupAddict.com and web 2.0 properties and concepts. I decided to satisfy the dual need of web 2.0 and real estate by doing two postings at a time — one dedicated to [...]
I wanted to send a thank you out to John Cricket for compiling a great list of the Top 100 Business Blogs and am honored to have “SA Musings” make the cut (#95). You can find John and his advice over at Business Opportunities and Ideas.
Hope you enjoy the Top 100 blogs…
Business Opportunities [...]
It’s not “what you know” but “who you know”. The old cliche’ is being modified a bit by Facebook’s social graph concept. The social graph is more about “what people around you know”. I’ve been trying to wrap my arms around the term Mark Zukerberg put forth. What I am able to glean thus [...]
Microsoft buys Facebook stake for $240 Million which is an incredibly expensive 1.6% interest in the hottest web property on the market. The $240 million price tag is clearly based on a $15 billion dollar valuation that I touched on in a post earlier this month (absurd amount mind you).
Most Facebook deal trackers figured [...]
I apologize in advance to my fellow entrepreneurial readers who are subjected to reading my “geeking- out” experience of converting my blog and Startup Addict mysql databases from cpanel to 1&1 dedicated servers. I spoke in an earlier post regarding the difficulty with the first Startup Addict programming team and I reluctantly let the project [...]
Social Networking is a blank advertising canvas in 2008 and has the Titans of the Internet (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) scrambling for control…or dare I say at least a game plan. John Battelle offers some insight as always regarding the relationship between existing online spending (at an all time high) and future advertising preference of [...]
CBS isn’t the only network buying up successful web properties, Discovery is plunking down $250 million big one to connect Discovery content into the HowStuffWorks brand. Networks and traditional media companies alike are realizing the fragmentation of media continues at a rapid pace and rather than struggle for user attention why not meet users head-on [...]
