Wireless Tether turns an Android phone, regardless of carrier, into a full blown W-Fi hotspot for any nearby devices that need one.
Check the application at: https://market.android.com/details?id=android.tether&feature=search_result
Monthly Archives for December 2011
Monitor and Control Memory Usage in Google Chrome – How-To Geek
Google Acquisitions and Strategy
Google Acquisitions and Strategy
Published: Dec 2011
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While advertising remains a core offering and the largest component from a revenue perspective, Google is increasingly focused on innovation and product/application integration to develop new businesses and business models.
In addition to their own resources, Google is relying upon an aggressive acquisition strategy to help them expand in different business directions including advertising (improvements), social media, commerce, wireless/mobile, cloud business, and many more.
http://www.mindcommerce.com/Publications/GoogleAcquisitionsStrategy.php
Youtube, the best social media tool for Education
Based on a study announced here: http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-beats-facebook-twitter-educational-social-media-potential/
Youtube is the best social media tool for education as indicated by university students and professor. As they indicated, Youtube adds a value to the classroom even more than other popular social media tools like Facebook and Twitter. It can bring people apart, archive lectures and encourage responses.
Why my LG LED stops playback of movies suddenly at the middle of the movie
Simply, the USB flash is FAT32 which doesn’t support large files. Just format it with NTFS to support large files
BranchOut.com – Another Social Job Search tool
BranchOut is a similar service like In The Door, it utilizes Facebook social graph. The main difference is that users access BranchOut from within Facebook profile, and it gives more of a professional identity.
inthedoor.com – Facebook-Infused Job Search Site Finds Listings From Your Social Graph
In The Door’s premise is simple: Let job seekers use their social graph to find open positions where they might have an inside edge. You need only log in with Facebook and In The Door will find and sort job listings at the companies where your Facebook friends work.
read more at: http://mashable.com/2011/04/05/in-the-door/
Interesting feature for LinkedIn
A new interesting feature introduced recently to LinkedIn was the Skills. Skills are edited by each user in order to organize his skills within profile. However, linkedIn is using such feature in different way. For example, If you are looking for a person, group or company that is interested in a business related to such skill, then LinkedIn allows you to list all persons, groups or companies that is related to such skill.
For example, take a look on the page http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Demographic_Analysis
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson, now the CEO of Zite
Prior to joining Zite, Johnson helped build a slew of search-related startups, including SideStep (which Kayak acquired for $180 million), Kosmix (which Walmart bought for a reported $300 million), and PowerSet, the natural language search engine acquired in 2008 for an estimated $100 million by Microsoft, where Johnson stayed for a few years to work on Bing. But now because of unrealistic costs related to personalizing search, Johnson is focused on content delivery with Zite.
Do you know Y-Combinator – A Great way for Funding Startups
I just came to Y-Combinator today. YC is a great way for funding startups. Take a look on the complete story here:
