If “people who need people are the luckiest people,” what does it make people who need to find out all they can about people? Perhaps a better question would be, what does it make people who make the tools for people to find out about other people? Perhaps that question could be best answered by Saad Zniber, co-founder of Yatedo. Read more »
Sometimes, it is unclear what a business did before a certain point in its corporate history, even by researching the company. Sometimes, a company exists for a time before it hires an individual who turns out to have a great impact on the company; that is the type of hire that puts a company on the map! Joyce Fleck had exactly that level of impact on the Navarre Corporation. Read more »
One of the big stories in the technology sector at the end of 2011 was the initial public offering of stock for Zynga. Zynga, the creator of some of Facebook’s most popular games, was all set to leap into the business of making money off its popularity and the IPO sought to raise billions of dollars for the company. Amid news reports of other video game companies experiencing financial hardships, the Zynga IPO was viewed by many as catastrophic, with the stock losing value its first few days. While this might have made a lesser CEO cringe and get out of the game, it was nothing to Mark Pincus. Read more »
Learning to speak a foreign language can be especially difficult for adults. After all, adults have years, decades, of word associations to overcome when learning a foreign language. With many other languages having different word orders and verb tenses that are not used in English, adult learners are not only tasked with learning a new language, but with thinking an entirely new way. Fortunately, not every language is as difficult as learning Chinese and there are some great programs for those who want to rise to the challenge of learning a foreign language. For learning German, there is arguably no better resource than Fluenz German 1+2+3. Read more »
Fans of digital photography – especially amateurs and those who do not have a lot of money for expensive, professional photo manipulation software – have been mourning the demise of Picnik. Picnik is no longer an independent photo manipulation website, though its tools have been absorbed into Google+. For those who might not want to join yet another social network, but enjoyed the look and feel of Picnik, there is now iPiccy. Read more »
With improvements to the Internet and the rise of Internet social networks, it is becoming easier than ever to connect and stay connected with members of your family. At the same time, social mobility in the United States has made it commonplace for families to move around a lot and keeping track of how members of your family relate to one another can be a full time job. To make genealogy simple, comprehensive and fun, Ancestry.com has now released Family Tree Maker Deluxe 2012. Read more »
Of all the social networks on the Internet, Twitter seems to be the one that is both the most trendy and least useful. Limited to 140 characters, Twitter is basically an extended message board for your life where you keep anyone who might be interested up to date on where you are, what you are doing and/or what thoughts are going through your mind. While Twitter might not be a bastion of deep thoughts or profound ideas, Twitter actually embodies perfectly the “social” part of social networking. More than any other social network, Twitter acts as a barometer of just what is hip, trendy, and popular in the world at any given moment. Twitter is the snapshot of both popular culture and current events. But, seeing the big picture Twitter is trying to reveal can be hard. For that, you need TagWalk. Read more »
The business of doing online business is more vital and robust than ever. Those businesses that are not yet taking advantage of the Internet as an income channel are rapidly finding themselves at a competitive disadvantage. But setting up an online business can be difficult, especially for those who are not technically inclined. Few people understand that as well as Mitchell Harper does. Read more »
If you are not hip to all of the latest trends in the tech sector, there are some exciting new technologies and services of which you should be aware. While technology is changing rapidly, there are some new trends that appear to be here to stay and that you may well want to utilize. One of the big emerging markets is Cloud storage. Cloud storage is like a storage locker or a safe deposit box for your files; you transfer your files and documents to a special site on the Internet and they are, theoretically, protected and are available to you from any computer device you use. The latest major Cloud storage service is Google Drive. Read more »
Sometimes, the best ideas come from the ashes of a previous idea that simply did not work out. When ZeptoLabs began making computer games, the chief programmer worked very hard on a physics software engine. That engine was programmed to realistically mimic how objects fell based upon a player cutting the ropes that suspended the object. ZeptoLabs went with a different game mechanic for their first release, Parachute Ninja. However, the programmer who worked on the initial version of the game thought there might be a way to use that game engine. That tenacious programmer was Efim Voinov! Read more »