Fortune Small Business:
Jann Yogman is counting down to New Year’s Eve - but his numbers are going up.
Last year, the entrepreneur’s New York City startup, New Year’s Nation, hosted 5,000 guests at a national New Year’s Eve bash in five U.S. cities, all connected by streaming video on giant plasma screens. This year, he’s expecting […]
Fast Company:
Brenda Dietrich. Dietrich and her team of math geeks are changing the way IBM works. In the hands of talented mathematicians, data creates an invaluable advantage. Elaborate algorithms reveal a company’s inefficiencies and opportunities–unseen bottlenecks in the supply chain or customers’ hidden buying patterns. “It’s a great time,” Dietrich says, “to be a computational […]
Mashable:
2007 was a heck of a year here at Mashable. Throughout the year there were some standout stories based on any number of criteria. This list is a sampling of the stories that shaped the year behind us.
* Barack Obama’s MySpace Ambitions - February 2007 and Obama is looking to social networking to help his […]
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service:
I love the beginning of a new year. Not for the champagne-filled revelry of New Year’s Eve, but for the chance for a fresh start for my business and my life.
I’m optimistic for 2008, even though it’s likely to be an unsettled time for the American economy, but there will […]
Posted by on 31 Dec 2007 at 7:06 am under Ideas, World
Esquire:
1. Breaking Down the Firewall. Internet censorship is the book burning of the modern age, denying as much as a third of the world’s population access to news and information. But a new brand of activists — or “hacktivists” — are using their computer expertise to help people stranded in Web-censored countries abroad (and corporate […]
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