Speaking of Success

Looking for sales advice to give you the edge to succeed? This valuable information that can motivate you to exceed in a competitive marketplace.
Author Bill Todd is a high energy, humorous, professional speaker and trainer with over a quarter century of front line sales, marketing, customer service and advertising experience. His Free E-Book that speaks […]

iPhone: The Next Revolution

The new Apple iPhone debuted with a splash. While it will not be available until June, this revolutionary new device marks the beginning of a new electronics ‘arms race’ not seen since the iPod debuted. The iPhone features a touch-screen interface and a slim profile, merging the iPod’s hallmark sleek Apple design with next-generation […]

DNForum — Domain Sales & Appraisals

This site — DNForum.com — is a clearing house for discussions on a variety of topics on domain name sales, domain appraisals, and discussions about domain registrars.
Their “Industry Leaders” forum allows you to talk about issues with registrars. If you’re like me and have a lot of domain names, then you’ve likely run afoul of […]

Web 2.0 and the Long Tail

Much is being said about Web 2.0 and the Long Tail. Web 2.0 is the marketing term for next generation web sites, but what is ‘The Long Tail’?
In a nutshell, it’s being able to put those infinitely large inventories of product up on the web for consumption, and making money off niche markets. In the […]

Google’s Borg Plans

A fascinating opening line, and insight into Google’s Borg plans for universal domination:
Google has revealed plans to help convert the world’s paper filing cabinets, in Tron-like fashion, into mere nodes in the great hive mind.
But Borg in a benevolent way, if they stick to their ‘don’t be evil’ world view.
Read article: Google eyes filing cabinets […]

PHP Productivity

PHP is great for programming on the web. It is also a highly productive language:
PHP scripts are five-to-10 times more productive than hand-coding a server application in Java or C from scratch
It is so productive that IBM is pushing it for the mainframe! Read more @ PHP Puts Mainframe Developers in Prime Time

What is your Perfect Major?

No anyone who could use a nudge in picking their career? Check out this quiz: Quiz Farm - What is your Perfect Major?
Probably not too scientific (given the few questions asked) but still worth a shot.

Optimize for IE? Better not!

Microsoft’s IE browser continues to lose market share. According to OneStat, as of July 2006, the most popular browsers in the USA are:

Microsoft IE
79.78%
Mozilla Firefox
15.82%
Apple Safari
3.28%
Opera
0.81%
Netscape
0.20%

Firefox continues to gain usage at a rapid clip — Firefox increased total market share by 1.14 percent since […]

Number of Americans Online Grows

Total U.S. adults with access to the Internet has swelled to 77 percent, or 172 million people, as of April 2006.At home 70 percent of adults have online access, an increase over the 66 percent in 2005.
Read more at  TechWeb

Gartner sees declining need for tech skills

Is IT on the decline?

The need for employees with specific IT skills will decline 10% per year as companies move to commodity and virtualized systems, according to Gartner Inc.

What this doesn’t address is that while specific skills may be less in demand, the demand for people who understand business as well as they do technology […]