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Flickr now comes with 1 TB of data free

Posted on May 21, 2013June 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office
Laura Hazard Owen, gigaom.com

Yahoo’s already had a busy Monday, what with that little $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition, but the company had a few more announcements to make at a press conference Monday afternoon in New York. It’s revamping its photo-sharing serv…

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Flickr gets revamp – with 1 TB of photo storage free – and Yahoo gets new NYC office (gigaom.com)
Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage (techcrunch.com)
Yahoo offers Flickr revamp with 1TB of ‘free storage’ (arunbabyveranakunnel.wordpress.com)

40 Things To Say Before You Die

Posted on January 20, 2013February 13, 2013 by timbatchelder

40 Things To Say Before You Die
Jessica Hagy, forbes.com

Before you’re sprawled on your deathbed, there are some things you really have to say. They’re not complicated. They’re not poetry.

They’re just short sentences with big meaning.

I hope they get you talking.

40
“I…

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Thoughts On Retirement and the Golden Years (forbes.com)
Virginia still No. 2 in Forbes.com survey (virginiabusiness.com)

Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

Posted on November 5, 2012March 27, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Perks of Working From Home
Jennifer Shore, mashable.com

If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecommuting.

The current workforce totals more than 128 million people, and while eight out of 10…

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The Telecommuting Workaholic (winextra.com)
Managing Telecommuters (business.time.com)
4 Ways to Keep Telecommuting Employees on Task (zoho.com)
Telecommuting from the Manager’s Perspective (epiclaunch.com)
Is Yahoo’s telework ban shortsighted or savvy? (networkworld.com)
Impact of telecommuting on family life (psychologytoday.com)
Yahoo’s edict that telecommuters work in the office is understandable (newsobserver.com)
Working From Home: 9 Results Of Telecommuting – Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com)
Pulling An Anti-Yahoo, Congress Considers Telecommuting (fastcompany.com)

Forum Software Reviews | Internet Communities Deserve the Best Forum.

Posted on August 24, 2011August 24, 2012 by timbatchelder

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Forum Software Reviews | Internet Communities Deserve the Best Forum..

27-year-old Internet community The WELL up for sale (theverge.com)
The Internet Marketing Community Should Mourn (beanstalk-inc.com)
Emergent systems (economist.com)
Chatwing Integrates WordPress Compatibility for Bloggers and Websites (virtual-strategy.com)
4 Tips To Using Forum Marketing (smarthomebusinesssolutions.com)
Why drug companies should build their own online communities (worldofdtcmarketing.com)
Customer Engagement Lessons from an Oracle User Group Leader (customerthink.com)
Scaling the Management of Your Online Community (SXSW Interactive 2013 Proposal) (managingcommunities.com)
6 Common Mistakes in Online Community Development (convinceandconvert.com)
It’s time to amplify our voice against the TPP’s Internet Trap (fromthetrenchesworldreport.com)

Alibaba.com: The world’s largest online B2B marketplace

Posted on May 9, 2011February 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Importers from the world’s largest online B2B marketplace-Alibaba.com.

As cited in the 4hour work week

Alibaba boss Jack Ma to step down (bbc.co.uk)
A couple of Americans in China take on Alibaba with social… and, er, customs data (pandodaily.com)
Alibaba Billionaire Ma Steps Down as CEO Before Possible IPO (bloomberg.com)
Kindle-Less Amazon in China Doomed to 1% Market Share (bloomberg.com)
After Huge Successes, Alibaba Jack Ma Will Step Down As CEO (embargozone.com)
After Huge Successes, Alibaba’s Jack Ma Will Step Down As CEO (businessinsider.com)
Banco do Brasil and B2Brazil.com sign strategic agreement to promote Brazilian products in the international marketplace (prweb.com)

Hunch: Crowdsourcing our Tastes and Preferences

Posted on May 22, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Image via CrunchBase

The founder of Flickr has now moved on to create a new web service that will map tastes and recommendations.

What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.

Women In Tech: Up & Coming Female Entrepreneurs (grasshopper.com)
CrowdSource CEO, Stephanie Leffler, Earns ’40 Under 40′ Nod (prweb.com)
Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again (wired.com)
EHRs a gold mine for medical research? (thlibrary.wordpress.com)
Crowdsourcing and the business of creativity. (digitalsurgeons.com)

Dogpile Web Search indicates paid listings

Posted on May 9, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Indicates whether it is a paid listing in search results

Dogpile Web Search.

Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools (firstdigital.co.nz)
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge (firstdigital.co.nz)
Toolbar Heaven (firstdigital.co.nz)
Google Quietly Launch Financial Comparison Affiliate Ads (epiphanysearch.co.uk)

Scour, After vote – Search Socially

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

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Scour – Search Socially.

AfterVote is a search aggregator that combines results from the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, and MSN) and ranks them for you. Each search results page shows you a particular page’s ranking on each search site, gives you the ability to vote on it.

Bing adds more to its social search with Quora results (bulletfame.wordpress.com)
Search and SEO SxSW Panels You Should Be Upvoting (conductor.com)
Could DuckDuckGo Be The Biggest Long-Term Threat To Google? (conductor.com)
What is Google Your World and What it Means for the SEO | Conductor Blog (conductor.com)
Yahoo ‘Re-imagines’ Search (actionableinsights.covario.com)
Google Scours 30 Billion Web Pages, Serves 100 Million Searches Monthly (news.softpedia.com)
A Journey through Search Engine Optimisation (bbc.co.uk)
5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO (jnferree.wordpress.com)
Why We’re ‘Only in the Early Days’ of Social Search (mashable.com)
The Future of Google. Are You Prepared? (blogherald.com)

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