Have you noticed those funny looking little squares popping up on all kinds of products and in places of business lately? Companies have started adding them to their products by placing them in visible locations, all with the hopes that you'll pull out your mobile screen device and scan away for an important message, information or even a discount coupon for one of their products.
Pinterest is the fastest growing website of all time, having amassed ten million users in just nine months.
So why has Pinterest been such a success? Pinterest is all about creating a category like "cool houses" and filling it with relevant images.
It's a simple formula, but it works. Unlike other blogging tools like Tumblr, Pinterest is more of a posting board for ideas to inspire others.
Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android andApple app stores and it’s easy to see the fierce competition for user attention. The number of apps has grown to more than 1 million, each vying for downloads and market share.
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio .
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
The world is a rapidly changing place to live. Survival has always equaled the ability to adapt to changes, to evolved. With the advent of the computer, the internet and all the programs to communicate, we certainly live in a much different reality than your grandpa.
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Today I'd like to talk about my new friend Rich German and his brand new book, Monetize Your Passion. In an effort to raise money for homeless children, Rich is giving his book to you for free. Please read this story and then click on the link at the bottom to get your copy. |
Today I'd like to share a resource that I think is one of the most useful I've come across in the last few years. It's become a valuable tool for people like me that are always on the run and never seem to be able to focus on any one thing for a long period of time.
A word is the smallest free-form item that may be uttered in isolation in language. Words can be combined to create other units such as phrases clauses and sentences. Word may refer to spoken word or written word or sometimes the abstract concept behind either. And that abstract meaning is the power of the spoken language.
Gratitude, Thankfulness, or Appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. I'd like to write today about the feeling of gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation, and more specifically to focus primarily on the attitude surrounding expressions of these feelings.
Millions of workers have been unemployed for far longer than they'd like. As of March, more than 6.5 million were unemployed for 27 weeks or longer. Not only can unemployment drain resources, it can take a toll on the psyche of the unsuccessful job seeker.
Network, Network, Network
I was reading a good article about LinkedIn that I thought would be good to share here on my blog. It was written by a well known pioneer in the internet space, Guy Kawasaki. There are numerous ways to interact and grow in the social media space and LinkedIn is just one of them.
In order to gain momentum in your life's goals you need to ask yourself, "What did I accomplish Today?" In order to answer that question, you need to ask yourself better questions like…
Reprint from Mashable.com
Is Apple unveiling the iPhone 4.0 OS on Thursday? That’s what it looks like! Boy Genius Report has posted an invitation to an event that includes the tagline, “Get a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS” with the shadow of the number four in the background.
