http://www.centernetworks.com Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:29:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guhmshoo put together a cartoon that I thought was interesting. The cartoon suggests that while we are celebrating our independence here in the U.S., worldwide we are all celebrating our dependence on Google. James Thomas discussed his life without Google - could you do it? Guhmshoo also recently revealed who he is ... http://www.centernetworks.com/usa-independence-day Earlier this week we broke the news when the official Microsoft PR Twitter account added their third tweet. Unfortunately we missed the chance to break the news that the account was now fully staffed and their first two tweets went out to the world - another reporter got that story. Since ... http://www.centernetworks.com/breaking-yankee-tweets-red-sox This morning we noted that DEMO was now offering some amount of money in advertising to the two winners at their startup-infomercial. As I noted in an update on that article, I am no longer sure if the total amount is $1 or $2 million. TC50 founder Michael Arrington has doubled ... http://www.centernetworks.com/tc50-advertising Last month I discussed presenting at the DEMO and TC50 conferences later this year. In the comments, Techcrunch50 founder Jason Calacanis noted that one of the big differences between the two startup-infomercial conferences is that his Techcrunch50 offers $50,000 to the winner. Now it appears DEMO has stepped up the prize ... http://www.centernetworks.com/demo-tc50-offers-2-million-to-winners As an entrepreneur, it's always interesting to read about lessons other startups have learned as they move on their journeys. Paperless invoicing startup BillFlo has just hit their one-year anniversary and have put together a list of some of the lessons they have learned. The lessons include: Customers don't tell you what ... http://www.centernetworks.com/billflo-discusses-first-year-learnings I've been a happy Yahoo Mail user forever and to the best of my memory, I don't ever remember the service being down. As of 7pm Eastern this evening, Yahoo Mail has not been functioning. The few times that I've received an error, a simple browser refresh fixes the issue - ... http://www.centernetworks.com/yahoo-mail-down Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. Featured Jobs: Technical Director at Your Majesty Project Manager at Modea Technical Services Analyst - New York at Google Senior Brand Strategist at ... http://www.centernetworks.com/web-jobs-june-30 Last night while winding down and watching Ask This Old House, I was alerted to an important post by MG Siegler (MG writes for Techcrunch). The post noted that Microsoft Corporation is now tweeting (that means they are posting up to 140 character messages on the Twitter service). This is huge ... http://www.centernetworks.com/microsoft-adds-twitter-tweet NY-based microblogging service Tumblr has announced a new feature today: Photosets. Photosets takes a bunch of photos and creates a Flash-based slider/photoshow of the photos. You can either upload photos or link out to other photo locations (flickr, photobucket, smugmug, some porn site, etc.). Additionally you may link your photo of ... http://www.centernetworks.com/tumblr-launches-photosets Web site monitoring service Pingdom has announced the launch of a free plan option today. Paid plans are still available starting at $10. The free plan is only limited by the number of websites that can be monitored -- which is one website. They are even offering the free customers ... http://www.centernetworks.com/pingdom-goes-free Over the past week online office provider Zoho has had a bit of fun leading up to announcing their new product launch. First they teased us with a riddle, then they posted a tetris-style image of the new service. Today they have announced that the new product is Zoho Projects ... http://www.centernetworks.com/zoho-projects-20 I guess the people at group SMS service Tatango are loving the "Five...Five Dollar Footlong" commercial these days. Tatango has been testing a program with a 16-store Subway franchise in upstate New York over the past few months. The company says the program went so well that 300 more Subway stores in ... http://www.centernetworks.com/tatango-partners-with-subway This afternoon Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang posted a link to a new job opening at electronics retailer Best Buy. The job title is, "Sr. Manager - Emerging Media Marketing".  The job seems very similar to a former position I held at a Fortune 100 company. Here's the general overview of the ... http://www.centernetworks.com/got-250-followers-on-twitter-best-buy-wants-you Job aggregation service Simply Hired has announced the launch of a variety of international sites today. The list includes local job search sites for Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil and the Netherlands. Simply Hired notes that they are indexing over five million jobs around the world. The idea is rather than ... http://www.centernetworks.com/simplyhired-launches-international-sites Amazon has announced that they are offering free credit card processing through their AmazonPayments division through the end of September. AmazonPayments is similar to PayPal and Google Checkout. The service allows you to accept credit cards for products, services and subscriptions. It appears the free processing was initially available only to ... http://www.centernetworks.com/amazon-free-credit-card-processing