Real or Fake; How Reliable Are LinkedIn Professional Recommendations?

Are there certain people selling or trading LinkedIn’s professional recommendations or endorsements for their own self promotion on LinkedIn? If yes, then how can you actually determine whether a professional recommendation posted on someone’s profile on LinkedIn is actually genuine? Are there any issues which may be deemed questionable or unethical when coming to some recommendations posted on LinkedIn users’ profiles?
As it’s generally known, most [...]

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A Dream in the Making for Twitter’s Revenue Stream?

Today TechCrunch published an article about the dilemma Twitter may be facing in deciding its functional and accepted revenue stream model.
But if I recall correctly, didn’t Twitter hire a business manager a few months ago, whose aim might have been to develop their revenue stream model? What has he been working on thus far? I don’t foresee any other revenue models for [...]

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LinkedIn, the Perfect Acquisition for Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook, or Microsoft?

Why hasn’t Microsoft or Yahoo, not Google, acquired LinkedIn yet? The struggling AOL could benefit from buying LinkedIn too. LinkedIn is a good target right now. Facebook could be a perfect fit for LinkedIn too, just not Google. Google and LinkedIn would be like butter and water, just won’t make a good mix, but its [...]

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Does It Matter that Former Yahoo Exec Brad Garlinghouse Has Joined AOL?

TechCrunch reports that former Yahoo Executive Brad Garlinghouse has joined AOL. But does that cause to help AOL?
Nope, not even a little. It won’t help make a difference with AOL. Brad would have been better off if he had joined either LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter (or even my next project Welated.com or Laatie.com).
AOL as a brand has [...]

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Welated, a Social App for Social Networks

In July, I launched Wrisen, a social app for social networks on Facebook, which has so far received great, rave review, and it’s growing faster than I’ve expected.
We’re currently working to launch a full version of the Welated site at the end of August, but the exciting news is about our new social app version [...]

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Wrisen Ads to Reach 97.8 Millions on Facebook

Wrisen’s ad campaign started running on Facebook today, August 4, 2009, in the U.S., UK, South Africa, and Canada, with a target reach of up to 97.8 million of Facebook users.
Learn more about Wrisen at http://www.wrisen.com

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Wrisen.com, a Social App to Help You Remember, Honor, and Cherish Your Loved Ones

Wrisen (www.wrisen.com) was launched on July 27, 2009, and it’s live now exclusively on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/wrisenbook. Wrisen, a social app for social networks lets you easily create profiles for all your loved ones, post and share eulogies and condolences, upload their pictures, videos, and memorial gifts.
Wrisen enables you to share sympathy about your loved ones with [...]

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The Most Stupid TV Commercials; Nationwide and Microsoft

For weeks now, Microsoft has been running TV commercials, generally promoting the PC. The commercial usually starts with an individual, usually has a young, sort of geeky looking person, out to buy a new laptop.
He or she (they have multiple actors) could be a young lady or guy, who starts out describing what kind of [...]

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Latest Update: GoDaddy.com’s Shady and Unethical Domain Names’ Renewal Process

The following is my latest update on my two previous posts regarding GoDaddy.com’s possible unethical European domain name expiration and renewal procedures.
Since my last update here, I have had numerous email exchanges with an executive from GoDaddy.com, trying to amicably negotiate with GoDaddy.com in regard to their European domain name unethical expiration, renewal, and cancellation [...]

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Google Should Aquire Mozilla Firefox

The best business marriage could be forged between Google and Mozilla.
Google is trying to break into the Internet browser business with its not-too long ago launched browser, Chrome. And, Mozilla’s Firefox has been closing in on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which so far has not caused any serious threat to the Internet Explorer.
Mozilla’s Firefox homepage is [...]

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