Many so-called experts are trying to fill young people with fear about what they should post in their Facebook accounts. They make the case the school admissions staff and company recruiters are going to check your Facebook page and ding you for the stupid things you did. (Who among us has not done something stupid when we were young, but I digress.) This advice is mostly defensive: “Don’t do this,” “don’t do that,” [...]

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If we do some quick maths, it is obvious that many people spend what is an inordinate amount of hours on Twitter and Facebook. And they receive nothing in exchange. That is, nothing that has a monetary value. Monetization on social sites is a concern mostly privative of the sites themselves. The social network users are seldom (if ever) taken into consideration.

This company aims to change all that. In principle, [...]

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I don’t know if you are familiar with the term “NEPA”. It stands for “National Environmental Policy Act”. You will be acquainted with it if you have ever launched an enterprise or project that could have had an impact in the environment, as filling out a NEPA form is mandatory then. That is obviously something invaluable in the world we live in, as our planet has already seen its share of inclemency. But the [...]

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How passionate are you when it comes to your favourite team? I don’t know you, but if you label yourself as a punter of any - any – team in the world, no matter the sport or denomination, chances are you will go into a sulk if someone speaks ill of it. And that is only natural.

This website stands as a spot where individuals who share the trait that has just been described can meet up and engage in “Battles” [...]

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Technology is not for everybody, but the fact is that we have to deal with it on a daily basis no matter how tech-savvy or clumsy we are. And at an increasing rate at that. Keeping in mind an online repository like the one under review right now is a good idea, then. In essence, it collects information which is supplied by users all around the world as regards a wide-ranging collection of technological issues.

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Bearing in mind that dogs are our best friends, it comes as no surprise that there are endless social sites devoted to them. This is one such resource, and as you already know I love reviewing each one of them owing to how fond I am of dogs and puppies.

As far as Wagger.co.uk goes, upon creating a profile (going by the name of your canine companion) you can easily start uploading the usual media such as photographs [...]

Millions of blogs -- including Mixergy.com -- run on WordPress. So I invited the entrepreneur behind this insanely successful software, Matt Mullenweg, to do an interview about how WordPress went from idea to a growing business. I organized this interview like a biography, so you'll get to see how he found his revenue, decided what features to add, landed new users and more.

He started cranking out companies in his teens, and before he turned 20, Albert Lai sold one of his early businesses for over a million dollars in cash. He's now working on his 5th company, Kontagent, a Facebook funded and VC backed social analytics startup. I asked him to come to Mixergy and talk about what he learned along the way. So he stepped into a closet -- the quietest place in his office -- and recorded this interview via Skype.

Setting up an online business is a snap compared to the work involved in building a brick and mortar company. So I figured we internet companies could learn from Ann Siner, the woman who built My Sister's Closet, a chain of designer consignment stores. Read on (and listen to the full program) for some of the lessons Ann learned as she built 11 stores with $11.2 million in revenue.

Warren Jolly's site started out as little more than a message board for web entrepreneurs who were running affiliate ads, but he was determined to grow its revenue. So he talked to his customers, and what he heard taught him how to bring his revenues up to $400,000 per month.

I want this site to occasionally bring you business ideas from successful people outside the business world. So I invited Barry Libert, author of Barack, Inc., to teach what he learned from studying Barack Obama's winning campaign.

CardXC is an online business card that have a lot of feature. Visitor could create and share business card to the world. We have powerful online business card generator and many other features. Cardxc could also be used for offline.

Surcentro is a web site statistics and web analytics service. Here you can find the amount of visitors, pagerank, indexed pages, view Alexa and Compete graphs and other additional information about every single page on the web.

Looking for irreverent news and ideas on this little thing called social media? Mediaista.com has some ideas.

MOSCOW, Russia - August 20, 2009 - The new collaborative service will help people learn foreign languages using the method invented by German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann.

3DminiClips.com is a video portal of 3D animations, where users can easily find quality content given the proper classification and ranking system provided by the site, based on users votes. Go and visit!

So that was day one of Techcrunch 50. The best tech conference in the universe, that pays my wages. And what did I learn today? Today I learned that the Rocky soundtrack makes any technical hitch a million times more dramatic. I learned that Yossi Vardi believes that any disaster can be solved with a show [...]TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco

Soft-spoken Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some surprisingly harsh criticism for the TC50 companies he saw today: Why aren't you trying to change the world? I asked him more about that in our backstage sidestage interview during the TC50 cocktail party. "To be fair, is selling shoes changing the world?" I asked. Watch the clip after the jump to hear his answer. I pressed Hsieh on details about his relationship with Jeff Bezos and Amazon. He can't really [...]

He calls me out on it in the video below so I might as well admit it: I've been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It's not that I think he hasn't been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs-- he has. But that's a lot of equity to give up and to date no Y Combinator company has really hit it huge. Graham says that's going to change. "Four or five of our companies could go public," he says in the interview after the jump and names [...]

The second company to emerge from the TechCrunch50 DemoPit as a peoples' choice winner is YourVersion, a discovery engine that looks to help recommend new content based on your past searches and interests. The company was among the top two recipients of TechCrunch50 tokens, which are used by conference attendees to vote on their favorite companies in the DemoPit, and shares today's Peoples' Choice Award with oDesk. YourVersion launched today, and [...]

Each year we see hundreds of impressive applications to TechCrunch50 — unfortunately, we always have a number of great companies that deserve attention but don't quite make the cut as finalists. That's why we have our TC50 DemoPit, where we invite a few dozen other strong startups to demonstrate their wares in the conference building's main hall. Each conference attendee is given two TechCrunch50 tokens — one for each day — which they use [...]