Archive Monthly Archives: March 2011

How to Save Your Delicious Bookmarks

If you have bookmarks saved in Delicious — and you’d like to save them before Yahoo turns Delicious into a digital relic — then do this: 1. Go to Google Bookmarks. (If you don’t have a Google account, get one.) 2. Click the blue link at the top right that says, “Import Delicious Bookmarks.” 3. […]

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Ideas Are Cheap and Plentiful

One of my favorite business books is Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. I’m reading it a second time because I liked it so much the first time. While I was reading this morning, I came across the chapter called “Start making something” on page 38. It corroborates everything I wrote in The […]

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Internet Sales Taxes and Government Fairness

The cash-strapped California government wants to collect sales taxes from Internet-based businesses. For the third time in three years, California lawmakers are pushing for legislation to make it harder for Internet sellers to avoid collecting sales taxes, and prospects for getting it passed are stronger than ever. Passing the bill is a question of “e-fairness,” […]

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New Search Engine: Blekko

I just discovered the new search engine Blekko. I haven’t used it much yet, but the video walk-through is intriguing because it explains some new twists on what we’ve come to expect from search. For instance, Blekko offers multiple ways to sort search results. Plus, they’re giving open access to ranking data — which is […]

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