What of Facebook, which is little more than a glorified contact list interspersed with baby pictures and Zynga games?

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

(Written today from 35,000 feet aboard Delta flight 1496) A few days ago I was speaking with one of my good friends who is a senior Delta flight attendant with more than thirty years of experience with the airline. I was complaining about the failure of Delta to accommodate first class passengers for meals because ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

According to the people who pay attention to such things, there's less than a 50/50 chance of a war with Iran in the next 12 months.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

A quiet FOMC meeting is expected for Tuesday, as the Fed stays its course and lets policy take effect. But QE3 is probably around the corner, Nomura says, as Bernanke seeks to give the economy an "insurance ease."

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

So finally went and did it. Today, it sued Facebook for allegedly infringing 10 of ?s??patents related to advertising, Web site customization, electronic messaging, social networking, and privacy. (Forbes? has the complete rundown.) The lawsuit wasn?t unexpected, since the New York Times flagged the possibility last week.??But the move has already ignited huge controversy at ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

Guest post written by Shomit Ghose Shomit Ghose is a partner focused on information technology at ONSET Ventures. Remember sitting through your college physics classes wondering when you'd ever need to apply what you were learning? That time has now come. In spades. In physics, the second law of thermodynamics states that all systems seek ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

March Madness represents that rare and magical moment when our highly partisan, attention-deprived, and often coarse culture coheres around a simple innocent pursuit. In this moment we transcend differences of race, class, party, geography and gender to root for the underdog, to passionately back small, obscure schools we never knew existed (LIU-Brooklyn?), to embrace school mascots we heretofore had no name for (Clutch, Cosmo, Mr. Cat, Mr. Wuf, Prospector Pete, Big Al, and The Billiken) and to collectively and simultaneously engage in what President Obama termed a "national passtime" with tens of millions of our fellow citizens. During March Madness we become, as Langston Hughes wrote, "America again."

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

Guest post written by Heather Sundell Heather Sundell is marketing manager at The Search Agency, a search marketing and optimization company. I received an invite for Pinterest a few months ago, but only very recently decided to stop being a pop culture contrarian and jump on the bandwagon. Like most marketers, I was almost instantaneously ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

A lot of people ask me for help with their relationships as I have been in the relationship business for close to 20 years. I started out as a divorce attorney helping people get out of their marriages and then I went to the opposite end of the spectrum and founded the matchmaking company, ??so ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:21

Here?s a rundown on the 10 patents that Yahoo claims are being infringed upon by Facebook: Patent #6,907,566, issued in June 2005. ?Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage.? A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:07