NewsGator reported that over one million paid business users now take advantage of its Social Sites enterprise social computing solutions. Social Sites helps a wide range of organizations harness the value of social networking, but the financial services, pharma/biotech, professional services, high-tech, and aerospace and defense industries have been the strongest adopters of the technology.For example, NewsGator counts the top five pharma/biotech firms as Social Sites customers, including Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.

Great news for Total Coverage as City Focus 2009, the publication that we design, copywrite and publish for Portsmouth City Teaching PCT has been awarded 3rd place in The Association of Directors of Public Health’s Annual Report Competition . Dr Paul Edmondson-Jones, Director of Public Health & Well-being at Portsmouth City Teaching PCTsays:” I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you formally for all the work that you did to help produce the report which has also been very favourably commented on by others, including a written formal endorsement from the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee”.

Canon’s technological innovation has for decades delivered optical excellence, advanced image processing and top performance, from photographic and broadcast television cameras to our complete line of consumer camcorders. Light, more compact and user-friendly, the Flash Memory Canon FS21 brings you stunning video at an affordable price. As employed in advanced electronic products such as laptop computers, MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones, Flash Memory has numerous benefits.

by Scott Rodgers Last week when I happened to see the amazing light works and artistic creations over the bend of my city’s Downtown, I was truly amazed. The amount of growth and progress that the electricians acumen has exhibited over the city works in some recent months is totally worth heaps of praise. Just after that, I happened to read about the interesting innovation that has been marking cable lights off late. These guys are planning mobile lights that create marvelous light illusions.

President Obama held meetings with Chinese leaders in Washington yesterday to highlight the importance of cooperation between the two countries, both of which share the title of world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. Obama discussed the need to shift from foreign oil dependence, and he expressed the need “to act in concert” with China and with “common sense” in the switch to low-carbon energy sources.

In response to the ever-changing needs of today’s tech-savvy high school students, Bridgeway Academy announces the addition of a complete online high school program to their broad spectrum of educational offerings. “The digital era has had a tremendous effect on the way students process information,” said Jessica Parnell, Principal of Bridgeway Academy. “At Bridgeway Academy, we recognize that the traditional learning methods that worked 20 years ago may not work for every student.

Ever since I got my first iPhone Ive had it jailbroken. The original reason being that I did not want to extend my ATT contract. The secondary reason being that I wanted apps on my phone. Remember when Apple said having apps on thr phone could bring down cell towers only to introduce them themselves a few months later? Well that was then. Now we have the app store and I have purchased more than $50 worth of apps helping Apples profit margins that much more.

SPECIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL HEALTH SCARE By Rick Joyner When I read the brief on what was contained in the National Health Care bill that is now being presented before Congress, I could not believe I was reading something that was actually being considered in the United States of America. This is not about money or government mismanagement—this is about something far more diabolical than that. As incomprehensible as it may seem, this is about euthanasia, the power to determine who lives or dies in America.

Maria Mitchell used this telescope, now at the American History Museum, when she taught at Vassar. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. Standing in the entrance to the first floor west wing of the National Museum of American History , a large  telescope towers over visitors. It’s angled toward the ceiling, drawing the eye up to imagine the sky above. Saturday marks an auspicious day for the artifact.

A project codenamed “Square” is the brand new iPhone-base payment processing system that’s currently being alpha tested at the also brand new Self Edge NYC. In addition to keeping the process paperless, Square makes check-out clean and easy. The innovation is in a small, plastic card reader that fits in to the headphone jack of an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and transfers the credit card’s swipe data to the app (pictured, right).

A lot of good ideas are being incubated to reinvent the publishing revenue model. We’re going to begin profiling some of these ventures under the label “Revenue 2.0.” If you’d like to be considered, send us a description of your product or service along with contact information. Please don’t send ideas; there are plenty of those. We’re looking for going concerns. Pete Groverman can’t believe it’s so difficult to buy a newspaper ad.

Note: This is a post I wrote on TechCrunch Europe a few days ago. Online password management startup Passpack , recently announced it’s follow-on funding. The company raised €350,000 in June 2008 and now previous investor Zernike Meta Ventures is topping that with additional €74,000. This new capital injection will enable the company to finish the development of their product and start to actively market it. There is a great blog post about this new round in wich they explain what the funds will be used for.

In a recent Business Week online article, Peter Yared , founder and CEO of San Francisco startup Transpond , describes ” The Failure of Commercial Open Source Software “. While Yared makes a case that the commercial open source software business hasn’t lived up to the hype that it will “change the world,” he reaches too far in declaring its failure. A more appropriate conclusion would be to recognize that commercial open source only recently reached broad acceptance as a business strategy and is on a strong growth trajectory.

This guest post is written by Marcelo Calbucci , the founder and CTO of Sampa — a personal homepage creator that will be shutting down next month. He’s writing a series of posts about the lessons learned from the venture at http://blog.calbucci.com . He’s also the publisher of Seattle 2.0, a web resource for tech entrepreneurs and startups in Seattle. Consumer startups are tough. You have two basic choices: A paid offering or a free offering (or freemium).

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Blowtorch Entertainment is a new media movie company founded in late 2007 by CEO Kelly Rodriques , who had previously sold managed services startup Totality to Verizon in 2005. Blowtorch’s plan was to produce video content for 18-to-24-year-olds. Ignition Partners, where Rodriques had been an operating partner, invested an undisclosed amount in Blowtorch’s initial $50 million round. But a report on VentureWire today listed Blowtorch as the latest non-success in Ignition’s portfolio.

  Andreas_DFJ_pt1 Andreas_DFJ_pt1 I was fortunate enough to spend some time chatting with Andreas Stavropoulos, a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). DFJ is an innovative forward thinking Venture Capital firm that has a passion for creating a networked Venture Capital firm that can identify investment opportunities and deploy capital throughout the world.

The U.S. could successfully cut its non-transportation energy use by up to 23 percent by 2020 through energy efficiency initiatives alone, argues a report just issued by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. That differential could save the country as much as $130 billion and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.1 gigatons every year. That being said, getting the U.S. in shape to actually effect these changes could be quite costly. The firm estimates that $520 billion would need to be invested first to put proper efficiency measures in place.

Regardless how great your idea is, any business requires significant funds to get started. Where can you secure the financing you need to build a successful company? For many entrepreneurs, seed money from investors is the key – but in this economy, attracting investors is particularly challenging. We spoke with Matt Harbaugh, Chief Investment Officer for Innovation Works, Inc. , a Pennsylvania company that invests in early-stage companies, to learn how entrepreneurs can find the money they need in a tight market and what steps they can take if they can’t secure funding right away.

Bloggers and other online publishers have a few options if they want to enhance their sites with previews of the sites and content they link to — there’s Snap , which has been around for a while, plus a newer startup called Apture . Now semantic publishing Zemanta has entered the competition with a product called Zemanta Balloons . These tools are useful for publishers because they allow them to enrich the reading experience by linking to other content without actually forcing the reader to leave their web sites.

Movie Reviews And How To Buy Movies by Cory FergusonFor years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Let’s look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. They Won’t Believe Me: Fine James Cain-type melodrama in reference to a philanderer who gets engaged with 3 females, leading to calamity and a tremendous twirl ending. Young succeeds in his unsympathetic role; Johnson does marvels with her scenes as his spouse.

While we’ve grown accustomed to all the emphasis on smart technology these days — smart grids, smart meters, smart houses and so on — smart clothing is one topic we hadn’t really given much thought to. Not so for a team of EU-funded researchers, who have embedded sensing devices into textiles that can be used to create smart clothes . Such garments could help physicians keep an constant eye on rehabilitating patients in a strategy described as “remote health monitoring with (a) wearable non-invasive mobile system.” The so-called “Healthware” research was supported with €990,000 in funding from the EU’s eTEN programme.

Mountain View, California – ( The Hosting News ) – July 30, 2009 – Google’s fiscal results for the period ending as of June 30, 2009 have been revealed. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google noted, ”Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn. While most of the world’s largest economies shrank, Google’s year-over-year revenues were up 3%. These results highlight the enduring strength of Google’s business model and Google’s responsible efforts to manage expenses in a way that puts us in a good position for the economic upturn, when it occurs.

Creative has introduced the Zii EGG which is an energy efficient handheld StemCell Computer based on the powerful ZiiABS ZMS-05 media-rich applications processor. Its the world’s first handheld StemCell Computer. Besides its multi-touch 3.5-inch LCD screen, it can also output HD video at up to 1080p. The ZMS-05’s 24 floating-point processors deliver up to 8 GFLOPS of raw processing power, while the StemCell Computing’s flexible architecture allows stunning display of 3D graphics on a small handheld battery powered device.

Topics: notting hill, carnival, houses, ladbrooke grove The Carnival is the biggest public festival in London, Caribbean in origin and inspiration but increasingly international and multi-racial in spirit and fact. It originated in 1966 as an unofficial response to race riots in Notting Hill in the later 1950s, as a simple street parade with music. In one sense that is still its basis, but now the Carnival is a huge show on the August Bank Holiday weekend, with childrens costume parades on the Sunday and adults on the Monday, from morning till night.

The editorial team has been so busy at Oshkosh this year we haven’t even had time to blog. But now that I’m back in the security of the office, I thought I would take a few minutes to talk about what’s new and interesting at the show. Without a doubt, the A380 and WhiteKnightTwo are the draws this year. Garmin has yet more new products, the OEMs are generally happy and optimistic, and technological innovation is continuing to transform flying.

by Sam Roberts This is a small article on one of the discoveries of the modern era the ring tone! Some facts about the ring tone: 1. Ring tones are the sound made by any phone, whether mobile or fixed (land line), indicating that a call or message is being received by that instrument. The proper nomenclature should be ‘ring sound’ as in many cases there is no aspect of a ‘tone’ to it. 2.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg… Guy Kawasaki discusses the four qualities of innovation that successful products need. The New Yorker asks whether the Kindle can really improve the book. Ryan Sholin provides a good list of posts covering the evolution of news. Fast Company ponders whether the digital divide has really been bridge or if rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. This list of 20 small business blogs includes sites that provides tips and report on trends, among others.

I’m idle. I’m angst ridden. It’s the summer and there is nobody around to chat bob to about digital wurlds or new meja with. I thought about attending Creative Cuppa’s (Fast becoming my Department’s golden boychild) seminar on the “Digital City” today. I tried, but I couldn’t for the life of me bring myself to do it.

by Sam Roberts This is a small article on one of the discoveries of the modern era the ring tone! Some facts about the ring tone: 1. Ring tones are the sound made by any phone, whether mobile or fixed (land line), indicating that a call or message is being received by that instrument. The proper nomenclature should be ‘ring sound’ as in many cases there is no aspect of a ‘tone’ to it. 2.

Image via CrunchBase At DFJ Esprit some of our biggest successes have come from cash out deals where the founders have taken some money off the table at the same time as we have invested to fund growth.  It worked very well for us at BuyAt and more recently at WAYN I believe it has had a positive impact on the dynamics around the board table and the prospects for the business.  Not all VCs think cash out deals are a good idea though, with many believing that if entrepreneurs take money out of the business they might lose motivation, and that it is much wiser ‘hold their feet to the fire’.

Author : Anna Johnson If you’re like many Internet business owners you’ve had to ‘bootstrap’ your way to business success. You haven’t received loans or venture capital – you’ve used savings, you’ve reinvested your profits, and you’ve rolled up your sleeves and done just about everything yourself – to get your business up and running. But there’s a point at which where a ‘bootstrapping’ mentality can actually inhibit the growth of your business. This is particularly so when it comes to delegating and outsourcing.

Intel Capital is no stranger to the clean technology space, but today, it took its participation to the next level with five investments in green companies, amounting to $10 million in all. In the mix, it brought one new portfolio company, demand response firm CPower , into its fold. While Intel declined to say how much it was giving each startup, it said it was providing follow-on investments to Irish company Powervation , and U.S.-based Convey Computer , Grid Net and iControl .

(Red notes a base-case scenario and blue represents upside.) Twitter shares might be worth between $19 and $26, giving the company a valuation of up to $589 million, according Read More Related posts: How much is Twitter worth? $589 million, says SharesPost report (Red notes a base-case scenario and blue represents upside.)… Trying to sell shares in a private startup? Join the club! SharesPost is just the latest in a host of…

Four years ago, on the TED stage, I announced a company I was working with at the time called Odeo. And because of that announcement, we got a big article in the New York Times, which led to more press, which led to more attention, and me deciding to become CEO of that company — whereas I was just an adviser — and raising a round of venture capital and ramping up hiring.One of the guys I hired was an engineer named Jack Dorsey, and a year later we were trying to decide which way to go with Odeo, and Jack presented an idea he’d been tinkering around with for a number of years that was based around sending simple status updates to friends.

VC4Africa Meetup in Nairobi, Kenya Are you in the Nairobi area? Thursday 30th July we will have a VC4Africa meetup in Hotel 680 from 5.30pm – 7.30pm. Details and sign up here: http://www.vc4africa.com/events/vc4africa-meetup-nairobi If you are interested feel free to join our meetup and feel free to forward this message within your network. Hope to see you tomorrow!

When was the last time you got together with the who’s who of the Houston entrepreneurial class?  Caroline Collective, the Houston Technology Center , and StartupHouston.com are hosting an impromptu happy hour this Thursday at 7pm , right here on Caroline Street. Be part of the Houston startup community that gets to meet and greet with some of Texas’ best Venture Capital Firms from Austin, Dallas and Houston’s own DFJ Mercury.  Expect drinks in the form of St. Arnold’s beer.

You’ve heard numerous anecdotal accounts of the great startup fire sale that began late last year in the wake of the financial markets collapse. Here are data to back up the suspicions that young venture-backed companies were being unloaded at tremendous speed – and for next to nothing. The figures come from 451 Group and were delivered late Tuesday by Vice President Tim Miller at the Always On Summit at Stanford University. They show that the mergers-and-acquisitions deal volume for information-technology companies has held up this year.

Perfume Dropshipping – Setting Up Shop With Little Or No Capital – eddieway.com 07/29/2009 Perfume dropshipping can be a lucrative method of income generation. To begin with, drop shipping is a product delivery service that allows the retailer to sell his/her product to consumers without investing in whole-sale or bulk quantities. Perfume dropshipping can be a lucrative method of income generation. To begin with and drop shipping is a product [...] Related Articles: Learn How to Make Your Own Fragrance The basic concept of making fragrance is quite easy.

(Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Susan E. Woodward of Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc.)An entrepreneur’s primary incentive is ownership of a substantial share of the enterprise that commercializes the entrepreneur’s ideas. An inescapable consequence of this incentive is the entrepreneur’s exposure to the idiosyncratic risk of the enterprise. Diversification or insurance to ameliorate the risk would necessarily weaken the incentives for success.

I’m looking forward to facilitating the Graduates in Partnership programme. It’s co-sponsored by BT and NESTA and is largely led by recent graduates themselves. They’re convening their opposite numbers working in UK companies. The aim is stimulate innovation within and between their organisations. We’ll be using a largely open space approach based on letting people with ideas and passion drive the process, with the bare minimum of formal structure. The invitation is open to graduates working in UK based organisations.

Date: Friday 18 September 2009 09:00 – 17:30 Location: Said Business School , Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk Iain Dale , Author of Iain Dale’s Diary Cory Doctorow , co-Editor, Boing-Boing Bill Dutton , Director, Oxford Internet Institute Jonathan Ford, Reuters Commentary Editor Ben Goldacre , Author of Bad Science blog, Guardian Research Fellow Nuffield College Simon

• Unique to Sorenson Media’s Internet Video Delivery Network is Pre-Upload Encoding through Sorenson Squeeze, Resulting in Top Quality Video and Speedy Upload; Critical for Video Pros • Customers Transition Readily from Best-in-Class Sorenson Squeeze Digital Encoding Software to Sorenson 360 Video Publishing Platform, Now Seamlessly Integrated • Unlike Other Video Publishing Platform Providers, Sorenson Media has been an Internet Video Innovator for 14 Years; has a Strong Customer Base; and has been Profitable for Years SAN DIEGO (July 29, 2009)-When Jim McLaughlin, executive producer for Sparks Milling, a digital media production company in St.

Yet again we’re talking about computerized trading, in this case “high-frequency trading” as described in various mainstream and trade media outlets . This sort of conversation has been going on since the 1980s, when program trading helped cause the 1987 stock market crash. Here’s the description from the NYT : Powerful computers, some housed right next to the machines that drive marketplaces like the New York Stock Exchange, enable high-frequency traders to transmit millions of orders at lightning speed and, their detractors contend, reap billions at everyone else’s expense…

Remember back in February when Google got all protective over Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!? Their line was that the bid was a bad idea and the gripe was that (in a whiny voice) ”It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation”. Well, now it’s official, so Google can go weep in the corner for poor Yahoo!- they’ve set-up a 10 year search and advertising deal with Microsoft. Actually Yahoo! won’t be that poor, with an annual profit projection of $500 billion and estimated savings of $275 million.

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies’ complementary strengths and search platforms into a market competitor with the scale to fuel sustained development in search and search advertising.

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp . has finally roped Yahoo Inc . into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and finally setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc . The 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft access to the Internet’s second-largest search engine audience, adding a potentially potent weapon to the software maker’s Internet arsenal as it tries to better confront Google , the leader in online search and advertising.

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Finally something well done. It isn’t a buyout, but an agreement of two companies with great cultural differences that strive to remain competitive on a world where Google rules.

Microsoft & Yahoo! finally reached deal on Search partnership After many unsuccessful attempts Yahoo! and Microsoft finally announced an agreement for partnership to fight against the number one Google in search and monetization from it.According to both companies, the agreement will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry.

Do you remember the last five presentations that you sat through? Did any of them include a Power Point deck filled with bullet points? Can you talk about them individually to any degree of detail? I can’t. What I do remember are the really great presentations that I’ve seen — the one’s that captured my imagination, emotions, and heart. They were the ones that told stories. They got their point across without bullet points. Instead they ignited a vision inside me.

Perfume dropshipping can be a lucrative method of income generation. To begin with, drop shipping is a product delivery service that allows the retailer to sell his/her product to consumers without investing in whole-sale or bulk quantities. Perfume dropshipping can be a lucrative method of income generation. To begin with and drop shipping is a product [...] Related Articles: Learn How to Make Your Own Fragrance The basic concept of making fragrance is quite easy. It…

So what is Booyah and what does it bring to the iPhone that no one else has done? Before we dive into that here’s a little background info on the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup. Founded by three former videogame industry vets from Blizzard, Activision and Insomniac Games, Booyah looks to shake things up with real-life achievements for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). Booyah CEO Kevin Lee is an industry vet having worked on Ratchet and Clank, Diablo II, Resistance: Fall of Man before parting ways with Blizzard to launch Booyah with Brian Morrisroe and Sam Christiansen.

Got some knowledge you want to share with the world? And maybe make some money at the same time? The traditional thing to do would be to write a book, but a startup called Knowledge Genie says it has a better solution, offering an easy way to turn that knowledge into an interactive web tutorial. Co-founding husband-and-wife team Milo and Thuy Sindell took me through the creation of a tutorial — or, as they call it, a Genie. Getting one up-and-running is simple.

Most of mine are. Ruthless that is. And I think it is a damn fine thing. Once again, I don’t pretend to be generalising across the spectrum of angel investors, trying to draw conclusions on the basis of my ten or so. The beauty of writing a blog called “The Entrepreneurial Truth” is that I am writing my truths. You can question their applicability to your lives, but you can’t question the authenticity of my subjective experiences. If these experiences are useful to you, then this post has been worthwhile.

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post a ton of fun links pertaining to design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! However, due to the fast-paced nature of microblogging, these links become buried within a few hours.

Got some knowledge you want to share with the world? And maybe make some money at the same time? The traditional thing to do would be to write a book, but a startup called Knowledge Genie says it has a better solution, offering an easy way to turn that knowledge into an interactive web tutorial. Co-founding husband-and-wife team Milo and Thuy Sindell took me through the creation of a tutorial — or, as they call it, a Genie. Getting one up-and-running is simple.

Got some knowledge you want to share with the world? And maybe make some money at the same time? The traditional thing to do would be to write a book, but a startup called Knowledge Genie says it has a better solution, offering an easy way to turn that knowledge into an interactive web tutorial. Co-founding husband-and-wife team Milo and Thuy Sindell took me through the creation of a tutorial — or, as they call it, a Genie. Getting one up-and-running is simple.

Earlier this afternoon, the TechCrunch office got some new additions: a collection of massive stickers, ranging from giant TechCrunch logos (you can see them on the CrunchCam ) to various animals, a big donut, and even a surfing alien. They come from a new startup called Larger Than Life Prints , which is best described as a CafePress or Zazzle for humongous stickers. The company allows users to design their own oversized wall graphics, which can then be ordered in one-off runs or sold to other visitors through an integrated store.

Offerpal Media is the first “Managed Offer Platform” for social applications, online communities, and e-commerce sites. Our turnkey platform allows developers of social applications on leading networks (such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, and others) to monetize their traffic through uniquely engineered offers. Concurrently, advertisers tap into Offerpal’s expansive network to reach more than 50 million highly engaged and targeted consumers on social networks.

We knew electric car startup Coda Automotive was on the hunt for more funds to help it bring its planned $45,000, China-built electric sedan to market next year — but we didn’t expect this: Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who oversaw the government’s bailout negotiations with General Motors and Chrysler last year, has joined a group of investors providing $24 million in Series B funding for Coda.

Sure you’ve heard of Rahm Emanuel, the former Representative from Chicago turned Barack Hussein Obama’s Chief of Staff and purveyor of dead fish wrapped in newspaper for enemies. But have you heard of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel? A bioethicist, Dr. Emanuel was chosen as a special advisor to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget for health policy. He is “working on the “health care reform” effort.” He is “detailed” to the OMB spot and is still officially an employee of The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health.

Filed under: Canada and the World , Entrepreneurship and Business , Innovation Policy July 28th, 2009 by Earl @ MaRS Canada lags Starting to rest easy because of the recent bounce in your stock portfolio? Hold on a minute. An expert panel with a long term view says don’t be distracted by boom or bust.  Focus instead on the fundamentals of corporate strategy – like business spending on innovation.

by Sue Quillen Cartoon character scrub uniforms are truly a great innovation in medical uniforms. They are practical and comfortable for job-related tasks. More importantly, they help to bridge the gap between you and the child during that critical first meeting. Every nurse and caregiver deals with two basic considerations at the moment of first encounter with children. First is how to make a good impression that would warm up the child and keep him away from throwing unnecessary tantrums of getting close with a total stranger.

Why do your employees get up and come into to work everyday? What drives them to make the commute, to miss family events, and to commit to YOU. I get why they work, but why for you? Do you know why? A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about the difficult economy and it’s impact on employee moral. He predicted a mass migration in his company as soon as the job market improves. Why? Companies are making a lot of poor decisions, which is creating terrible working environments.

Watershed is case studied in Investing in creative industries , a new publication by Work Foundation supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Local Government Association (LGA). Creative industries are increasingly cited as one of the sectors likely to be a future source of jobs, innovation and productivity. Yet for local areas, faced with multiple calls for investment and tighter resource constraints, it can be difficult to know whether creative industries should be a priority for local investment.

Please Visit Our Website for more detail! Ryerson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, Ryerson University, Canada One Ryerson Post Doctoral Fellowship (RPDF) is immediately available from October 2009 in Spacecraft Dynamics and Control for three years (i.e. 36 months) renewable annually. The annual salary is $41,000 plus benefits (approximate total value of award $50,000).

Hello, my name is Christopher Hawker. I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products. My company is called Trident Design, LLC. I have developed many products in numerous industries and have over 20 products on the market. My most famous invention is the PowerSquid , a cephalopod-inspired power strip with outlets situated at the end of short cords, thereby eliminating the problem of losing outlets to bulky transformer plugs.

The interest in photovoltaic technologies in California dates back further than most people would expect, starting at the turn of the 20th century when tens-of-thousands of homes in Southern California took advantage of the “California sunshine” to heat water for their homes. Fast forward to the 21st century and the establishment of statewide solar programs and government incentives lead to a budding photovoltaic industry. The graph of the growth of grid-connected capacity in California between 1990 and 2008 showcases the importance of incentives.

Southern California digital agency, Automatic Partners, creates a breakthrough web experience for the leader in upscale casual dining With their thirst for innovation and fanatical attention to every aspect of the dining experience, it was clear t …

Linux Foundation Introduces Linux-Branded Affinity Visa Platinum® Credit Card 100% of proceeds will go directly to open source community activities and members SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2009 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it will offer an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the Linux operating system through Linux Foundation initiatives.

Ben Darnell , a key member of the Google Reader team, has left Mountain View to jump into startup life. Darnell bailed Google for FriendFeed , which was founded by ex-Googlers and notably in part by Kevin Fox, who used to work with him on the Google Reader team. Darnell is FriendFeed’s first hire in over a year, and will get employee badge number 13. He starts today, and according to the blog post announcing the steal, he’ll be bringing his “ninja-fu data-storage and scalability skills” to the startup.

VCs are jacks of all trades. © In the few weeks that I’ve been interning at a London based venture capital firm, already one thing is clear: a venture capitalist needs to be a jack of all trades, i.e. competent in many skills. Further, to be a really good VC – it is necessary to be master of a lot of these skills. Whereas a career in consulting might be a full time mostly soft-skills based career, or career in banking might be a full-time mostly quantitative-skills based career, a career in venture capital is a mixture of many things.

This is part of my ongoing series, “Pitching a VC” – the entire outline is here Whenever I sit on panels and discuss the topic of fund raising the topic of how to handle the discussion of valuation (e.g. how much you’re worth) always comes up. I have very fixed views on this topic although I’ve learned through these discussions that not everybody agrees with me.  Having sat on both sides of the table on many occasions – I’m pretty sure I’m right about this one  I know that the line of answering below mostly applies to 2009 (e.g.

Can Cleantech Entrepreneurs Rely on Venture Capital? – Renewable Energy World Despite the recent declines in investment, the macro-trends for cleantech venture capital are very positive — funds are getting bigger, the market for clean energy has grown to a respectable size and long-term signals from government are coming together. Last week, the Cleantech Group released a report on the state of venture capital, which showed that venture investments in the cleantech space were up 12 percent from the first quarter of this year.

MySpace has been taking quite a bit of heat lately for its stalling growth and waves of layoffs , but there are at least a few areas where the site has continued to do well, like MySpace Music , which still sees strong traffic. Now we’ve come across another under-recognized bright spot for MySpace: its Events platform, which has overtaken Evite , the web 1.0 startup that managed to gain a massive following despite a generally poor user experience, in terms of popularity.

http://agileroots2009.confreaks.com/videos/16-jun-2009-09-00-artisanal-retro-futurism-team-scale-anarcho-syndicalism-brian-marick-small.mp4 (tags: video conferences agility agile-management revolution social-norms social-networks propaganda history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug kawgooshkawnick not-an-employee ) More on the iPhone Suicide: Letter from China : The New Yorker “Chinese police are investigating the case, including whether or not Sun was brutalized.

Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Mom-and-Pop Operators Turn to Social Media : For many mom-and-pop businesses with no ad budget, the microblogging service is their sole means of marketing. Main Street’s soaring sour loans : As the effects of the economic collapse began pouring down Main Street, the government last year was left holding a record $2.1 billion in write-offs of small business loans it had guaranteed.

The web-based storage startup Egnyte has raised $6 million in a new round of funding, Venture Beat reported. New investors include Polaris Venture Partners while previous investor Maples Investments came on board again after having led Egnyte’s seed round last year.The company is endeavoring to replace the traditional file server for smaller companies by taking advantage of the Web.

Facebook and SunRun, a San Francisco-based company that helps finance residential solar installations, don’t connect on many levels. But according to Rich Wong , a partner with Accel Partners — the venture capital firm that backed Facebook early on and on Tuesday will announce that it has led an $18 million investment round for SunRun — the biggest risk in both plays has to do with whether the startup will be able to achieve massive scale.

Facebook and SunRun, a San Francisco-based company that helps finance residential solar installations, don’t connect on many levels. But according to Rich Wong, a partner with Accel Partners — the venture capital firm that backed Facebook early on and on Tuesday will announce that it has led an $18 million investment round for SunRun — [...] Related Posts GigaOM: Booyah: iPhone Game Startup Gets $4.5M in Funding GigaOM: Facebook’s $200M Cash Cushion May Be a Lifeline Earth2Tech:

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Credit cards have nowadays insinuated themselves into all corners of our lives, and it is rare for an adult these days to not carry at least one card. As well as being used in the traditional manner to buy goods or services in person, they are also now used online, over the telephone, for writing checks, and even for withdrawing money from cash machines. People use them in all sorts of ways – as a means of borrowing, as a convenient payment method, and even for earning money through cashback or reward schemes.

Looking for a Creative Adventure/Vacation this August?  A global creative faculty arrives in Costa Rica this week to help businesses and individuals create new realities.  Sponsored by Retreats Costa Rica and Go Wild! Go GREAT! Now to WOWTM Learning Adventures, a week of Creativity, Innovation and Personal Coaching is scheduled for the week of August 7th – 14th.

I’m back from Casual Connect in Seattle. It’s a smallish gaming conference for folks in the casual games space , which encompasses basically any game that isn’t a disc- or cartridge-based console (Xbox 360/Wii/PS3/DS/PSP) title. There’s a little bit of cross-over on the two leading handheld consoles, but most of the folks at the conference were either in the casual downloadable space, or inventing ways to take money from those people. It was my first time at the conference.

Officials from least developed nations on Friday agreed to a strategy for using intellectual property to encourage local innovation, protect national cultural and genetic resources, attract foreign direct investment, and spur development at a World Intellectual Property Organization forum on the use of intellectual property for “prosperity and development.” But they did not appear to highlight other options for development such as exceptions and limitations to copyright or flexibilities they are

Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS While Palm is busily engaged in a game of domination with Apple to see which one can keep iTunes sync working or broken the longest, the Pre homebrew community hasn’t been sitting idle, introducing two new and painless ways to get homemade software up in your handset. The first is a desktop app called WebOS Quick Install that works on Mac, PC, and Linux, allowing installation with just a drag, a drop, and a click.

While Palm is busily engaged in a game of domination with Apple to see which one can keep iTunes sync working or broken the longest, the Pre homebrew community hasn’t been sitting idle, introducing two new and painless ways to get homemade software up in your handset. The first is a desktop app called WebOS Quick Install that works on Mac, PC, and Linux, allowing installation with just a drag, a drop, and a click. The other is called fileCoaster, enabling users to download and install IPKs right on the phone itself, plus other files too.

We sat down recently with our Diplomat Jerry Duff and picked his brain for a few hours. Here’s what we discovered. How do you bridge the gap between left and right brain thinkers? As long as your goal is efficiency and not quality, the old impersonal way will work. The secret of innovation is divergence before the idea is completely formulated. Companies want a risk-less gamble, and there is no such thing. In any business, your key is choosing the right clients.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In the spirit of innovation and tackling new challenges with new ideas, LendingTree is pleased to host the 10th Annual LendingTree 2009 Lender Summit scheduled for August 31 – September 2 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. This year’s event will examine recent trends in the lending industry, facilitate the sharing of new solutions and highlight innovative approaches and products that are generating tangible results and maximizing revenue.

The press release from NBC, which may have caught the entertainment press by surprise this morning, typically buries the most important information. While announcing that former VH1 executive Jeff Gaspin will be taking over in the new job of chairman, NBC Universal Entertainment, a paragraph much further down notes that current entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman “will be returning to his entrepreneurial roots” after the network’s fall schedule is launched.

So by now you’ve seen the press release about reorganizing ATDC, VentureLab, and the SBIR Assistance Program under the single banner of ATDC. And that we’re throwing open the doors of ATDC to all technology entrepreneurs in Georgia. This is different . ATDC is almost thirty years old. (We’re going to have a thirty-year birthday bash next year; be sure to come!) And, throughout most of ATDC’s history, it’s been a very exclusive club. We usually get a couple of hundred applications a year, and usually accept about a dozen into membership.

High-Tech Gründerfonds , one of the most active venture capital firms in the german startup scene, just announced a half-million euros investment into software startup  ReCoTech , a developer of IT-based solutions to optimise strategic large scale office space allocations. The new capital will be used to finish the product and enter the marketplace with a license base revenue model. “ReCoTech’s mathematically innovative algorithms and its large efficiency potential in construction projects convinced us to invest”, says Dr.

Spotify , the Swedish streaming music startup which has racked up more than 6 million users in Europe, has released a first glimpse at its much-awaited iPhone application . Spotify’s mobile efforts have been talked about as a potential iTunes killer , or even a rival to piracy , because of the application’s ease-of-use and comprehensive library of more than 6 million tracks. It resembles iTunes, although users stream the songs instead of owning them. ”We want to be better than piracy,” said Jim Butcher, a  Spotify spokesperson.

Spotify , the Swedish streaming music startup which has racked up more than 6 million users in Europe, has released a first glimpse at its much-awaited iPhone application . Spotify’s mobile efforts have been talked about as a potential iTunes killer , or even a rival to piracy , because of the application’s ease-of-use and comprehensive library of more than 6 million tracks. It resembles iTunes, although users stream the songs instead of owning them. ”We want to be better than piracy,” said Jim Butcher, a  Spotify spokesperson.

Spotify , the Swedish streaming music startup which has racked up more than 6 million users in Europe, has released a first glimpse at its much-awaited iPhone application . Spotify’s mobile efforts have been talked about as a potential iTunes killer , or even a rival to piracy , because of the application’s ease-of-use and comprehensive library of more than 6 million tracks. It resembles iTunes, although users stream the songs instead of owning them. ”We want to be better than piracy,” said Jim Butcher, a  Spotify spokesperson.

For years, it has been fashionable to approach any problem by asking Jeff Jarvis’s question: “What would Google do?” But the most admired technology company in the world isn’t Google. It’s Apple . And when it comes to the most admired technology executive, Steve Jobs far outshines even the great Eric Schmidt. So why isn’t anyone asking “What would Steve do?” Perhaps it’s because the answer to that question flies in the face of everything we’ve held sacred over the last five years.

A lot of readers were incredulous over last week’s news that Ning raised another $15 million in venture capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $750 million valuation. That comes despite the fact that Ning traffic appears to be flatlining, and revenue to date is likely very small. A typical comment to that post: “What an ASTOUNDING way to waste money.” Others pointed out that venture capitalists typically invest hoping to at least have a chance at a 10x return – and in Ning’s case, it seems unlikely that the company will be worth the necessary $7.5 billion any time soon.

A lot of readers were incredulous over last week’s news that Ning raised another $15 million in venture capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $750 million valuation. That comes despite the fact that Ning traffic appears to be flatlining, and revenue to date is likely very small. A typical comment to that post: “What an ASTOUNDING way to waste money.” Others pointed out that venture capitalists typically invest hoping to at least have a chance at a 10x return – and in Ning’s case, it seems unlikely that the company will be worth the necessary $7.5 billion any time soon.

A lot of readers were incredulous over last week’s news that Ning raised another $15 million in venture capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $750 million valuation. That comes despite the fact that Ning traffic appears to be flatlining, and revenue to date is likely very small. A typical comment to that post: “What an ASTOUNDING way to waste money.” Others pointed out that venture capitalists typically invest hoping to at least have a chance at a 10x return – and in Ning’s case, it seems unlikely that the company will be worth the necessary $7.5 billion any time soon.

A lot of readers were incredulous over last week’s news that Ning raised another $15 million in venture capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $750 million valuation. That comes despite the fact that Ning traffic appears to be flatlining, and revenue to date is likely very small. A typical comment to that post: “What an ASTOUNDING way to waste money.” Others pointed out that venture capitalists typically invest hoping to at least have a chance at a 10x return – and in Ning’s case, it seems unlikely that the company will be worth the necessary $7.5 billion any time soon.