Frank Warren doesn’t want to talk about himself.He’ll admit that he started PostSecret.com, his Web site of postcard-submitted, artistic, sometimes enigmatic personal admittances, after he went through a period of personal travails. But he dismisses any further probing.

He’ll soft-pedal concrete details about his life—his regular job as the owner of a document delivery company, his [...]

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Some valuable lessons can be learned from the popular TV show “The Apprentice”, below is a snippit first printed in the Seattle PI and adapted by Jacob Madison.

Valuable business lessons for team leaders and managers:

Know when to let it go.
Whether someone’s ideas were good or bad isn’t the issue. As a team member, you need [...]

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A few years back my first experience with the Small Business Administration (SBA) may have soured my view of them because it took a little insomnia to bring me back to their site.

I was actually a little surprised at some of the new content despite the mediocre design. First, they actually have several [...]

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YouTube is about to show us the real meaning of “sharing.” Not only will amateur videographers get to dull the world with clips of kittens playing with a string, they’ll get paid for it, too.

YouTube has confirmed to the BBC that it will share the revenue it makes for uncopyrighted videos. Company co-founder Chad Hurley [...]

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Bungled branding of the new Windows Live Internet services has hurt Microsoft and could affect its chance to play catch-up with Google, analysts said on Friday.

On Thursday, Microsoft lowered its sales forecast for its Internet services business for the full year from 11 percent to between 3 percent and 8 percent. It also acknowledged [...]

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What if you could find out if a prospective roommate is messy or doesn’t pay the rent? Now you can, thanks to a new web site created by a University of Washington grad student.

Visit: RateYourRoommate.com

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Featured on YouTube Thursday morning was a humorous rap song about a young man buying a prized Wii, a self-explanatory clip titled “Scottie Tails: My Date with Barney, the First Dog,” and, seemingly out of place, a video on world peace from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Featured on the new FORA.tv video portal [...]

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Do you ever find yourself humming a song whose title, to your frustration, you don’t know or can’t remember? New search Web site Midomi is designed to actually identify that song for you in as little as 10 seconds.

Launching in beta mode on Friday, Midomi allows people to search for a song by singing, [...]

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Internet firm Google has again pipped Apple to the top spot in a global brand ranking that also sees YouTube and Wikipedia debut in the top five, a survey showed on Friday.

The annual survey by online branding magazine brandchannel.com often throws up controversial results, such as in 2004, when Arabic TV station Al Jazeera [...]

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Google appears to have listened to criticism and pulled its controversial “Tips,” in which it promoted its products above organic results on the company’s Web search page.

For instance, searches for “Calendar,” “Blogging” and “Photo Sharing” showed links to Google products like Google Calendar, Blogger and Picasa above the regular search results. Google’s self promotion was [...]

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