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Privacy no longer so important
Privacy? We Got Over It. Amazon closely records our taste in books, Gmail scans our emails to deliver relevant ads, and electronic tolls track where we drive. Profiles on MySpace and Facebook are accessible, forever. The disclosure that Judge Bork liked to rent British comedies seems quaint in comparison. Records about us are no longer kept in scattered manila files in dusty cabinets, but digitally, which means in permanent records that can be combined with other records to paint a full picture of our tastes and habits. Information held by different retailers, insurers and government agencies can be mined...
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Plan your funeral online
Mywonderfullife.com allows you to plan your funeral online. Rhea says I Planned My Funeral and It Was Fun I just had such a fun time this afternoon. I began planning my funeral. It feels odd to plan your funeral. Most people can?t stand the idea of dying. But MyWonderfulLife.com is a comprehensive funeral-planning site that?s free and extremely easy to use. So, why not? Once you open your free account, you can choose burial or cremation, fancy casket or not fancy, visitation or not, what kind of music will play, etc., etc. Mostly I said I want it to...
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Cancer blogs become part of the treatment
Cancer blogs become part of the treatment Boyd is one of a growing number of cancer patients turning to the Internet to discuss their disease, keeping friends and family updated, and connecting with other patients, according to oncology social workers and psychologists. Personal blogs, listservs, and sites like CarePages, CaringBridge, and Breast Cancer Stories give patients an outlet to express the emotional turmoil associat ed with the disease, enabling a virtual catharsis for some....
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More on Tributes.com
How Jeff Taylor, the whiz behind Monster.com hopes to bring the newspaper obituary back to life in an interview published in the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, To Die For You recently launched your latest venture, Tributes.com, a site that allows individuals to post obituaries online. It's pretty depressing, don't you think? I mean, why base a whole business around dead people? You know what? I think it's exactly the opposite. I have this fascination with having a storied life. I had a relationship with a grandfather, but I wasn't old enough to appreciate it and I find I have...
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Only 27% of female professionals have a financial plan
Uncertainty among Mass Affluent Spells Opportunity for Advisors For purposes of this survey, the Spectrem Group, a Chicago-based consulting company, defines mass affluent as U.S. households with between $100,000 and $1 million in assets Only 27% of female professionals?such as doctors, lawyers and accountants?have a financial plan either developed on their own or with help from an advisor. At the same time, only 44% of male business owners have a financial plan. The majority of people in these categories who do not have financial plans ?would seem to me to be the ?low hanging fruit? who can...
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Forget the elevator pitch
Now it's a "Twitpitch", your company's story in 140 characters, about 20 words, the maximum length of a message on Twitter. Businessweek gives us The Escalator Pitch. Their example is Google. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page first approached investors, they had no track record or experience running companies. But Brin and Page had passion for digital information and a concise vision: Google would provide "access to the world's information in one click" (eight words). The investor said when his team heard this, they understood the vision immediately and were eager to hear more."...
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Quickbase for Kayak
How Paul English, CEO of travel website Kayak.com uses a do-it-yourself database to keep millions of users happy, without employing a single customer-service rep. The company spends a total of $10,000 a year on QuickBase licenses and related hardware. English says he would have to spend $300,000 a year in salaries and benefits for an estimated 12 extra staffers he would need to run traditional customer-service software. He also saves on other software: Kayak uses QuickBase to manage projects, vendors, and some accounts. "Small businesses would be foolish to not at least test this kind of solution," says Yankee...
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PR Secrets for Startups
From Techcrunch comes guest author Brian Solis with his PR Secrets for Startups...
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Writers Outnumbering Readers
From Jeff Jarvis, In 2004 reports Pew, 53 million Americans used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online. In 2006 57 million Americans read blogs says the Pew Report 50 million Americans buy daily newspapers....
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Google tests online system to store health records
Google tests online system to store health records Web search company Google Inc is testing in the United States an online storage bank where individuals can store and access their medical records, the company said on Thursday. Just last week, Google said it was teaming up with the Cleveland Clinic, a leading academic medical center, to test an exchange of medical data that Google says will put the patient in charge of his own records. The electronic system will allow patients to control their records and interact with multiple physicians, health care service providers and pharmacies. Google said other...
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