Posted by Ingrid Riley on April 19th, 2010
With about half of Facebook’s 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web’s most popular destinations
Now Facebook is intensifying its efforts to expand its empire beyond its Web site; the company wants to turn scores of sites across the Internet into satellites where users will be able to interact with their Facebook friends.
Details of Facebook’s plans — which involve a variation on its “Share” button, already prevalent on many sites — are expected to be introduced by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, on Wednesday during its conference here for third-party developers. But even before Facebook makes its plans public, its aim to become a social networking force across the Web is facing competition. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 15th, 2010
Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, based in Cambridge, Mass., registered the first .com domain. Today there are 84 million. Of course a Web site, 25yearsof.com, is celebrating the anniversary. And a Facebook fan page declares: There are 11.9 million e-commerce and online business Web sites, 4.3 million entertainment-related sites and 1.8 million sports sites with a .com Web address. When was the first time you registered a .com domain?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 21st, 2010
Industry spoilers tend to leave a trail of pissed off competitors and former clients in their wake. They tend to be shiny, smiley companies that overcharge and under deliver on everything they do. They are the ones who have excellent snake oil salesmen at the helm and some political or family based relationships in their target industry. These spoiler type companies tend to find quite a few sucker clients, those businesses who are naive enough to say yes to a company without doing due diligence, then blindly hand over a fat cheque.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 16th, 2009
If you own a business, chances are you do. But don’t pat yourself on the back too quickly. By now it’s widely-accepted that if you have a business card you should probably have a website. It doesn’t matter what your company is selling – a website, however modest, has become a standard. The real question is: what is your website doing for your business?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 19th, 2009
The number of websites dedicated to helping entrepreneurs is incredible: there are always new sites, to the point that it can be hard to keep track of them. However, I have a few favorites. There are some tools I absolutely rely on for everything from marketing to billing, some blogs I read constantly and a few resource sites that I consult for all sorts of small business issues.
If you are an entrepreneur of any kind, it doesn’t particularly matter where you are in the process. Whether you’re just starting out freelancing in your spare time or you have a thriving business and you’re looking to expand, there are always new resources that can help you along in the entrepreneurial process. These sites are a great starting point: they’re all good resources and you may not have explored all of them. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on December 12th, 2008
AdMob is a rare start-up these days: its venture backers are happily forking over more money, it is hiring instead of laying off employees and it is cash-flow positive. The mobile advertising network, which places ads on Web sites people view on their phones, announced Wednesday that it had raised $15.7 million in its third round of financing from Accel and Sequoia Capital. That comes on top of the $18.5 million AdMob has already raised from the two companies. More.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on November 26th, 2008
If you were offered the choice to create one of two businesses—a web development shop where you do bespoke work for clients, or a start-up where you build your own product and sell it directly to customers—which would you choose?
Both of these business models involve the same activity: building web sites and web applications. Yet they are very different businesses. One is a service business; the other a product business. In this first instalment of a series on start-ups, we’ll look at the differences between these two approaches. Furthermore, we’ll see how they translate into what businesses are all about: making money. More
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Now Facebook is intensifying its efforts to expand its empire beyond its Web site; the company wants to turn scores of sites across the Internet into satellites where users will be able to interact with their Facebook friends.
