Taken from Dumb Little Man’s Jay White

We get lots of email at Dumb Little Man but this one really hit me because I tend to get in this rut too.
Jay

I love the site but I have a question (if you don’t have time, don’t worry about it). You mentioned that you are a work-a-holic and [...]

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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn’t necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft’s eyes.

“Google’s success very clearly caused an inflection point within our industry and within Microsoft in terms of understanding advertising as an economic engine,” Ozzie said Tuesday, speaking to analysts at a Goldman [...]

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One of the primary reasons that MySpace has achieved such success in the realm of social networking is the ability for users to customize their profiles with layouts, music, videos, and assorted other widgets.

As the number of MySpace users continues to grow, however, the company is becoming less inclined to allow third parties to use [...]

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The company that recently won the rights to the GMail trademark in the UK has taken its case Stateside. And if Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) is successful claiming its stake to GMail in the US as well, your @gmail.com address could change to @googlemail.com instead.

Late last month, IIIR filed a petition with the US [...]

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A new report highlights the importance of making new businesses appear credible to employees and customers.

The success of an emerging business depends largely on the owner’s ability to convince potential employees or customers that the nascent company is operational, according to new research.

In an attempt to explain why some organizations succeed and others flounder, Erno [...]

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A cheaper web-based alternative to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)  Office unveiled by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)  this week could ultimately challenge Microsoft’s dominance of the small-business workplace  software market, small business technology experts say.

Google Apps Premier Edition, a bundle of on-demand Office-like applications launched on Thursday for just $50 a year per account—compared to Office’s price tag of up to $499—is [...]

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Google may be running into trouble with copyright holders via its YouTube division, but that doesn’t mean content creators aren’t willing to work with the search engine giant.The search company has signed deals with Dow Jones, Conde Nast and Sony BMG to syndicate video to multiple sites, according to an article in The New York [...]

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A former Microsoft senior manager with deep ties to the Seattle startup industry has created a social networking startup called LiveMocha.

Shirish Nadkarni, who spent 12 years at Microsoft before founding the mobile e-mail messaging startup TeamOn in 1999, said the month-old startup will launch this summer.

“We are not trying to be a social network just [...]

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I was reading an article from Fortune Small Business entitled “Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?” and started thinking about both sides of the question.

Most entrepreneurs and investors seem to think the answer is “no” while most academics and students think the answer is “yes.”   No surprise there.

However, I would say people are asking the wrong question.

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A top semiconductor industry analyst says Google threatened to blacklist his Web sites when he complained about a new site of his not showing up in search results. Dan Hutcheson, chief executive of VLSI Research tells the story like this in his “The Chip Insider” newsletter:

“In the past, when you launched a website, or Google [...]

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