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How Dare They Block My Facebook at Work?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. Marty Zwilling.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. Local News Online & More Valuable User Generated Content. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. Fuel Micro Jobs.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS. . where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. ycombinator.com. .

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Isabel Garreton was a social entrepreneur before it was fashionable.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e.

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