Up until a year ago, I had never considered doing work as a freelancer. When I started my own blog, I gained a wealth of experience and connections that led to my ability to offer freelance services in a variety of areas including article writing, web design, internet marketing, and …
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Blog Your Way to Freelance Success
As freelancers we’re afforded a lot of perks – everyday is casual Friday, and we don’t have to “pretend laugh” at our bosses’ bad jokes – however, we definitely have our fair share of burdens, too.
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Future Skills: How to Match Professional Growth with Industry Demand
YouTube has been a revolutionary invention in promoting your message through videos. It has been a one of its kind of digital communication tool to facilitate your message reach to your audience in a more absolute manner. You can find almost every video you are looking for on YouTube from …
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Take advantage of YouTube for your business
Nokia is more than pleased with the take-up of the new Ovi Maps, announcing over 1 million downloads of the free sat-nav service in the first week. The five most popular phones to get the service are the Nokia N97, N97 Mini, Nokia E72, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the new Nokia 5230 – even more impressive considering the N97 was a latecomer to the upgrade party. Nokia’s Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki was suitably elated with the rapid take-up: ” This is great news for our 3rd party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps. When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer
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Ovi Maps Navigation Downloaded 1 Million Times In First Week
Monster has announced that they will be acquiring the “assets” of Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million in cash. I’m not going to scrape the press release, you can read it here. I wonder what will be left of Yahoo after all of their consolidations, partnerships and sales. Yahoo says today’s sale will allow them to focus on their core businesses and, “delivering exceptional experiences to users, partners and advertisers.” Here are the specific particulars regarding the agreement on top of the HotJobs acquisition, “Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement, to take effect upon the closing of the acquisition, in which Monster will become Yahoo!’s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada. The traffic agreement calls for performance based annual payments calculated by clicks and expressions of interest, subject to annual floors and ceilings
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Monster Acquires Yahoo Hot Jobs for $225 Million
Over the holidays I took some downtime to catch up on reading a book I should have read a long time ago, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. Far be it for me to criticize a guy as smart as him, but I do think he missed a few things. The book is essentially
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constructive criticism of Friedman’s The World is Flat
Facts speak for themselves; India has been a top outsourcing destination for variety of IT work over the past decade. As businesses go online and look for cheap solutions, they look to places like India, where many SEO companies provide top quality solutions for 10% of the price compared to the US counterparts. It is interesting to see the trends that most of the regions which top the search volumes are dominated by South East Asia. Google continues to dominate the search market, and hence the SEO searches are attached with the term “Google”. Interesting to see that more searches are “SEO Google”, “SEO wordpress”, “SEO tools”, which shows that more and more people are blogging a lot, and more and more people are doing some basic SEO for themselves instead of relying on experts
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India again the top SEO outsourcing destination
One of the nuggets of interesting data inside the newly-published Sophos Security Threat Report 2010 reveals which social network people believe poses the biggest security risk. We polled over 500 firms, and 60% felt that Facebook was the biggest danger: We shouldn’t forget, of course, that Facebook is by far the largest social network – and you’ll find more bad apples in the biggest orchard. The truth is that the security team at Facebook works hard to counter threats on their site – it’s just that policing 350 million users can’t be an easy job for anyone
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Revealed: Which social networks pose the biggest risk?
Gartner, among its altogether 250 predictions, this year makes emphasis on the themes of shifting ownership and revenue flows. As the macro-economic environment adjusts to a new balance between supply, consumer demand and regulation, the focus of this year’s top predictions has expanded to encompass shifts in the way that users interact with IT . “As organizations make plans to navigate the economic recovery and prepare for the return to growth, our predictions for 2010 focus on the impact of critical changes in the balance of control and power in IT,” said Brian Gammage, Vice President and research fellow at Gartner
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Outsourcing Potential 2010 – How Does It Look Like? (Part 3)
Research In Motion has refreshed its Bold smartphone line-up in the country with the launch of BlackBerry Bold 9700. With a 2.44-inch TFT LCD display, the phone offers a resolution of 480×360 pixels. Featuring a full-QWERTY keyboard touch with sculpted keys and chrome accents, the phone packs a wide range of communication and multimedia features. Bold 9700 supports 3G HSDPA networks and is equipped with 624 MHz processor and 256 MB on-board Flash memory.
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BlackBerry Bold 9700 launched in India
The New York Times notes that books from Macmillan, one of the largest U.S. publishers, have been removed from Amazon.com. The post says that Amazon made the move in a disagreement over pricing. The publisher has asked Amazon to lift e-book prices to around $15 from $9.99. “Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books,” the Times reports.
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Dell has been giving hints about the upcoming handheld Android tablet, previously called the Streak, for some time. TechCrunch spotted CEO Michael Dell in the street and he pulled out what he now calls the Mini 5 and gave a very brief demo.
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Dell Mini 5 Gets Mini Demo from Michael Dell
I lunched with visiting professor Ralph Folsom again when he talked about Nafta & Free Trade in the Americas: Prospects for the Future @ his 9th annual lecture @ John Marshall law school. Here’s what he had to say: The Andean Community kicked off the free trade movement by bringing together Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, & Peru
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history/future of free trade in the Americas
Another pronounced trend of the coming year shows up in the shifting global markets. The survey by the global consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Duke University’s Offshoring Research Network stated that the outsourcing industry is transforming due to the emergence of new providers around the world and efforts of existing outsourcers to expand into new markets. “Outsourcing companies in North America and India, which have long dominated the industry, are being challenged by competition from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia in service areas such as contact centers, business process outsourcing, and information technology outsourcing,” the survey revealed. Near-shoring has gained momentum among companies considering outsourcing services .
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Outsourcing Potential 2010 – How Does It Look Like? (Part 2)
The BlackBerry Magnum has now gain a hands-on video review and we bring you that video review for your viewing pleasure which can be located below courtesy of the guys over at fonefrenzy. The BlackBerry Magnum video lasts just under the tow minute mark and the reviewer emphasises the BlackBerry Magnum is a real BlackBerry with a clicking screen for any doubters out there, and that RIM has tried to keep the style of the BlackBerry Magnum similar to the old style BlackBerry Bold. He then compares the BlackBerry Magnum up against the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and BlackBerry Bold 9700 noting the Magnum is similar to the 9000 whereas the 9700 has a changed up keyboard. Anyway enough of me babbling on, you just want to hit up that BlackBerry Magnum video for yourselves and make up your own minds, so get to it and enjoy. Source :http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/
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BlackBerry Magnum hands-on video review
Apple Inc. unveiled a tablet computer named ‘iPad’ to revolutionized personal computing. Priced at $499, the device features a 10-inch touchscreen, with 3G data and a custom ARM processor instead of the previously considered Intel Atom processor. It will be positioned in that empty spot between smartphone and laptop in Apple’s product line.
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Apple’s iPad :A Revolution in Personalize Computing
Everybody’s Doing It Sooner or later nearly every freelance writer comes across the opportunity to ghostwrite – and no, we aren’t talking about writing scary novels or typing while hearing creepy noises in the background. Ghostwriting is a tricky activity, otherwise known as getting paid write under someone else’s name. It’s also …
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Freelance Ghostwriting: Is It Ethical?
As we usher in 2010, the blogosphere – including Endgadget, Techland and Geek.com — is abuzz around Google’s Android-based Nexus One. So, it seems like a fitting cue to take a look at the smartphone OS market, consider some of the newest data rolling in from 2009, and consider how the market might impact freelance …
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A Developer-Centric Look at the Smartphone OS Market
oDesk is live at the Affiliate Summit and we just unveiled our exciting new payout plan for affiliate members. Now we’re also announcing a special offer for Affiliate Summit publishers: $100 towards your first oDesk hire! So, how does it work? It’s as easy as 1-2-3: 1) Join the oDesk Affiliate Program. Go to www.odesk.com …
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Special Offer for Affiliate Summit Publishers: $100 towards your first oDesk hire.
We’re excited to announce the new payout for the oDesk Affiliate Program and what better way to do so than live at the Affiliate Summit? In just a few short months since our new affiliate program was launched, we’ve already begun working with affiliate marketers to grow the oDesk community. Now …
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oDesk Announces New Payout at Affiliate Summit
Last night, oDesk had the pleasure of attending and sponsoring TheFunded’s Founder Showcase, an event that allowed early stage companies from all over the world to pitch their ideas to an audience of venture capitalists, investors and industry experts. Events like this can be the break a fledgling business needs …
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TheFunded’s Founder Showcase