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Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?

Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future?READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Hulu
• The Wild World of Web TV
• Cut the Cable: All-Time Top 10 TV Shows on Hulu
• Seven Shows That Found a Second Life on Hulu

Small Business Innovation Trends Mobile Enterprises

Today, the number of unemployed in the U.S. has reached about 15 million, over 10 percent nationwide. As a result, millions of people are seeking new opportunities joining a growing trend of Mobile Office Entrepreneurs using the advances in communication technology, entrepreneurial creativity, and the ever-more-hectic pace of modern life all combining to encourage the rapid development of mobile businesses. READ»

Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

Today’s “Third Age Entrepreneurs”, those seniors over 50-years old are healthy, energetic and competitive and determined to remain productive well into their 70s. They aren’t going anywhere near that rocking chair on the front porch if they can help it. Industry data shows seniors and women entrepreneur - small business startups rapidly increasing. Read more... READ»

Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

Today’s “Third Age Entrepreneurs”, those seniors over 50-years old are healthy, energetic and competitive and determined to remain productive well into their 70s. They aren’t going anywhere near that rocking chair on the front porch if they can help it. Industry data shows seniors and women entrepreneur - small business startups rapidly increasing. Read more... READ»

Why the Times Is Wrong to Be Bearish on Palm

The New York Times doubts Palm's comeback in light of recent Android buzz. But Palm isn't competing with Android--at least not yet."Both phones got good reviews for being easy to use and great for Web browsing," the Times says, but ...READ»

New "Microformat" Could Change the Way We Read Online

It's called "hNews," and it could provide instantaneous context for any online news article.HNews is the product of a project overseen by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who created the first Web protocol in 1990 ...READ»

The Web's Untouchable Ghost Towns

Spammers can only operate for so long before they're found out and shut down. Once eradicated, they leave a virtual ghost town behind them. Scores of Internet addresses have been abandoned this way, says The Washington Post, creating ...READ»

New EU Cookie Law Smacks Of Windows Vista's Constant Nagging

Regulators in Europe have approved a new law that would require users to approve each cookie stored by their Web browser. Cookies are little informative tags that tell a Web site details about your last visit there. The EU Council ...READ»

Increase Sales Using Dynamic Marketing

As the choices of new marketing strategies and initiatives evolve, organizations constantly reevaluate what marketing initiatives to pursue and how much to invest in each marketing communications channel. Learn to help your organization determine how much to invest in from one vehicle versus another? The best way to do this is with the same logical approach for building your own personal or business investment fund. Think of each marketing channel as a stock in your portfolio. Your nonprofit can invest in all types of marketing communications-from paid advertising and direct mail to e-mail lists and social marketing and much more. READ»

Sales Results Developing Website Conversion Rates

Several lead – sales management tools are available to help you monitor the download conversion rates. Do you know your site's conversion rates? What do you take into consideration when making changes to your site's design? Research has shown that 60% of websites do not know their conversion rates. By regularly measuring the websites effectiveness it will increase your sales in comparison with most competitors.READ»

Can "Freemium" Work? Babbel and WSJ Say No and One of Them Is Wrong

Babbel and The Wall Street Journal both turned away from the Freemium model this week. The outcome will be drastically different for each. Babbel, a language-learning site, came out of beta today with a surprise: It will be charge ...READ»

Palm Hopes Building Apps on the Web Will Draw Developers

Palm desperately needs better apps. And it's hoping its new Web-based development environment will lure more creative code monkeys, according to PCWorld. But is the environment really the problem? Or is Palm offering too little too ...READ»

Google's Data Show Tennessee, Florida Most Troubled Over Health Care

Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»

China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

Global automakers are looking to China's fast-growing market to drive sales amid slack demand elsewhere. Sales have been spurred by tax cuts and subsidies meant to help nurture China's auto industry and encourage purchases of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beijing's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus has helped to prop up spending on cars and other big-ticket items, and lifted economic growth (GDP) in the latest quarter to 8.9% from a year earlier. China, Brazil, Australia and India are both seeing significant economic growth. READ»

What Can Yahoo Learn From Malware?

Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets. Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»

Website Sales Content Solutions Driving More Web Traffic

There is no single magic pill for building and increasing exposure of high quality website content. Continuously keep yourself educated, updated on evolving tools building upon the elements described above as a foundation for growing your online business goals. Use a well conceived diverse plan of attack designed to draw targeted customers to your website.READ»

Sales Power Dialing Results Art Not Simply Technology Based

Customizing effective cold calling scripts is an art. Have you ever had to read from a script that was prepared for you to sell a product or service? As a sales person, there should be no question that making cold calls is or has been a part of your job. Many people don't like it very much because it requires hard work, discipline and consistency. Let's face it, closing the sale is a lot more fun.READ»

Effective Sales Teams For Higher Revenues

Effective sales is about sustaining momentum thru innovation creating even more revenue opportunities on a consistent basis. Innovative leadership management must often perform the unenviable task of helping those that don't belong to find other career paths. If you want sales to improve, particularly in highly competitive sales industries, then leaders must create a career growth-oriented atmosphere that thrives on constant improvement, regardless of market conditions.READ»

Sustainable Job Employment Solutions For USA

By James Rickman, November 8, 2009 This article contains practical job solutions for Americans. So far much of the national focus has been on getting employers to hire i.e. add jobs instead given the global economic stagnation it’s much more realistic and effective to enable unemployed individuals to "create" their own jobs by fostering small business entrepreneurship. There’s a measurable, huge difference between the two approaches. It’s the key to achieving sustainable economic recovery in America. READ»

Is There Such Thing as Internet Addiction?

China has banned the use of physical punishment to cure Internet addicts, according to a report in CIO, a publication of the International Data Group. But was there ever such a thing as Internet addiction in the first place? ...READ»

Netflix Study Says No One Knows About Streaming Video. Huh?

A new study comparing streaming video services from Amazon and Netflix found that most people surveyed didn't even know they could stream video in the first place. Wait a minute: Didn't a study we reported on yesterday say that 90% of ...READ»

What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?

It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how? Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»

Epix Aims to Put HBO and Showtime to Shame; Try It for Free Here!

Last month we reported that a new cable channel called Epix was going to try to steal thunder from heavyweights like HBO and Showtime by also offering all their movies online at EpixHD.com. The channel, which is being offered first on ...READ»

2009: The Year Mobile Web Use Exploded

Mobile Web usage has been on the upswing ever since the iPhone leaped onto the stage. But new data form Opera suggests it's not just the iPhone that's delivering the Internet to smartphone users. Opera, in its Opera Mini format, is ...READ»

Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby

Ever use email to talk to the person sitting one office down? You're not alone. Most people use the Web to talking to people within their own city, not far-flung contacts, according to a new study by the Hebrew University in ...READ»