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Google FeedBurner: monetize and measure


And before you know it, Google buy FeedBurner. Now what? Well, as metrics go, FeedBurner is up there with Technorati.
It’s a way of measuring the girth of your web presence. For the likes of the bigger players, they tend to weigh in heavily.
Right now, I’m more nimble. But I aspire to be equally cumbersome at [...]


Microsoft Surface will suffice


It’s a brave company that steps out of their comfort zone and pitches an entirely new class of product at an unsuspecting market. A brave company indeed, but Microsoft don’t qualify. First of all, I’ll qualify that statement: Microsoft, much like any huge slab of a multinational business empire, don’t do things on a whim. [...]


Are you ready to run your own business?


Running your own business isn’t easy. It’s a life-changing commitment that requires a great deal of your time. But the possible rewards can often vastly out-weigh the trials, troubles and tribulations you’ll encounter along the way.
Before embarking on this perilous and exciting journey, you must first perform a very honest appraisal of yourself by asking [...]


Yahoo! Pipes goes Geo


Ye know, I just didn’t get Yahoo! Pipes at first. But now that I do, the potential is staggering.
As we inch forward, inexorably towards a web-enabled world, businesses must adapt to the web, to its new nomenclature, it’s culture and its strengths as well as its weaknesses.
In this web-enabled business world, there are services providers, [...]


Jeff Han, Microsoft get in touch?


We’ve all seen what Apple can do with touch screen technology, so there’s no surprises there. What with the former Apple Newton, and more latterly, the Apple iPhone, there’s some history.
More recently, Microsoft have been showing off some of their own touch screen technology efforts, which came to my attention by way of my mate [...]