As part of its 10th Birthday celebration, Google launched a very ambitious initiative called Project 10^100 last year. The purpose was to foster and reward ideas that could improve the world. $10 million will be shared among five selected ideas for the implementation of the projects (not the individuals who submitted the ideas). Initial response exceeded all expectations with Google receiving more than 15,000 ideas in more than 25 languages. About 3,000 Google employees from several offices around the world reviewed the massive number of submissions. Your Vote Is Needed! According to Google's spokesperson, Jaime ...
About Sebastian Barros
Sebastian grew up in Santiago, Chile and later relocated to Malaysia. He has been involved in telecommunication and technology development for 10 years, and is currently working in Ericsson Malaysia, as Head of business development for Multimedia. Sebastian received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Gabriela Mistral University, and two Masters in Business Administration from University of Chile and Tulane University.
Sep 26 2009
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Google: It is Shopping Time!
After being dormant for quite some time, it looks like Google is on a shopping spree again. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt told Reuters that there would be acquisitions (with focus on small companies) approximately once a month mainly as a way to hire the best talent in the market. Google also has a specialized channel called Google Venture for financing new start ups or technological innovations. Recent acquisitions include video company, On2 and the spam filtering technology maker, reCaptcha. However, what we are really interested to know is, which start ups will Google buy ...
Sep 23 2009
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8 Tools to Crowdsource Business Solutions and Ideas
If they say 2 heads are better than one, I wonder what a community of heads will make. Crowdsourcing, which means using ‘crowds’ to ‘source’ solutions to your problems, uses this simple concept to bring forth great ideas. James Surowiecki said in his fascinating book, "The wisdom of crowds" that large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Together, they are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions and even predicting the future. Companies today are crowdsourcing to develop new technologies, design advertising ...
Sep 21 2009
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5 Social Media Disasters
Social media has given consumers a whole new voice. A recent study by Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology found that 20% of Twitter updates are either requests for product info, or responses to brand messages. With that, companies better not give consumers anything bad to talk about. As with the 5 case studies below, the consequences can be severe. 1. Honda Product Manager gets caught AstroTurfing When Honda decided to publish its upcoming Crosstour photos on Facebook, it should be ready for some serious feedback. Within a short time, its fan ...
Sep 20 2009
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Google Brand Valuation On The Rise
With the financial turmoil still lurking in 2009, this year's Interbrand Best Global Brands left many of the famous on spectator seats. Even the overall value of the top 100 brands fell by 4.6%, an equivalent of USD 55.472 billion. It could have been worse if Internet giant Google was not on the charts. Its valuation has improved by a whopping 25%. From USD 25.590 billion in 2008 to USD 31.98 billion in 2009. It has frog-leaped several big brands like Toyota, Intel and Disney, all of which suffered a slip in ...
Sep 18 2009
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Listen To The Social Media Buzz With 38 Free Tools!
Listening is important for any business. A way to do that is through marketing research to understand what consumers care about, and get insights to what they think about you. However, it is usually quite expensive and time consuming, and you would only be able to capture a static snapshot of consumer interests. Luckily, there's a solution to this problem! That's by listening to the social media buzz. I'm not saying that marketing research is ineffective and can be completely replaced by this simple idea. What I'm really saying is, listening to the social media ...
Sep 18 2009
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Make Voice Calls On Twitter
Jajah, an Internet communications provider, which has more than 20 million users to date, announced a third party service called Jajah@Call today. This service will enable Twitter users to make free calls to other Jajah@Call users on Twitter. But here's the catch, the call will only last for a maximum of 2 minutes. The rationale behind it? 2 minutes is the verbal equivalent of a tweet. Jajah@call enables Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users. According to the company, the service is free, easy to use and ...
Sep 17 2009
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Twitter To Ask For Funds At $1 Billion Valuation?
TechCrunch has quoted from an undisclosed source that Twitter is currently pressing for funds at a $1 Billion valuation. It is also said that the micro-blogging giant plans to raise about $50 million in the coming financial round, adding up to approximately $55 million to date. Many would be raising their eyebrows upon reading its ambitious valuation. It was just in February that Twitter was valued at $250 million, raising $35 million in a Series C round of funding . A sudden increment to a milestone billion dollar valuation is indeed hard for ...
Sep 15 2009
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12 Tips To Finding A Job On Twitter
Twitter was created as a micro-blogging service with the idea of sharing and communicating in 140 characters. But as the website continues its exponential growth with more than 44.5 million unique visitors worldwide in June 2009, it is becoming a hot-spot for job seekers as well. Formulate a Twitter job hunting strategy to effectively build your professional network and personal brand to get you your dream job. Below are 12 tips to help you get started! 1. Create a separate professional Twitter Account Personal and professional tweets normally do not mix well together. My ...
Sep 15 2009
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Know Your Numbers: 10 Free Web Analytics Tools For Your Website
If you are a website owner, you will probably realize how critical it is to know not only your traffic growth but also its sources, visitors' viewing pattern and loyalty, popular landing and exiting page and et cetera. It doesn’t matter if you are running an e-commerce site or a blog, traffic analysis is key to performance measurement and enhancement. That's why you need a clever toolkit to help you with the analysis. There are lots of tools available on the Internet, all with different flavors and capabilities. I would like to ...
Sep 16 2009
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Survey: Best Brands On Mobile Web
BuzzCity recently released its findings of brands that are likely to meet the needs of mobile Internet users. The survey, which was conducted in ten countries on 1500 users, tests which brands under different categories are favored by the mobile Internet audience, why they are preferred, and how probable they would be recommended by users. It is found that users base their brand preferences on brand performance first, style and then price. The top 10 international brands with the most appeal in the mobile Internet were put together by measuring their scores across ...
Sep 11 2009
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Search Market Reaches More Than 100 Billion Searches A Month
There must be good reason why Google, Bing and even Facebook are placing so much focus on improving search. comScore released their monthly report on global online search, and unsurprisingly, number of searches has grown to an amazing size. As Internet penetration deepens, search engines has become more people's common information resource. Online searches hit 113 billion in July, which was a 41% increase from a year ago. As always, Google sites attracted significantly more searches than other engines, bagging 76.7 billion searches and 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! sites was ranked ...
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