TechCrunch: The iPhone Is Now the Best Selling Phone In the U.S.
WSJ: Defending Against Career Saboteurs
WSJ: Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
WSJ: You Must Remember This: Forgetting Has Its Benefits
NY Times: In Crisis, Remote Access: A lightweight, solar-powered Internet hookup created by a collaboration of nonprofit organizations provides communication in even the most remote areas.
Footnoted.org: GM’s incredibly sobering 10-Q…
Portfolio: The End of Wall Street’s Boom
NY Times: Google Signs a Deal to e-Publish Out-of-Print Books
NY Times:The Media Equation: How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power
NY Times: Advertising: Goodbye Seduction, Hello Coupons
TechCrunch: Keystream Unveils SmartAd, Wants To Turn Watching Videos Into A Painful Experience
Wired.com: A History of Microsoft Windows
TechCrunch: Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren’t.
Buzzworthy: In search of shorter URLs
Boing Boing: Mark Cuban to Obama: “Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to Them.”
NY Times: MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube, as Site Faces New Competition From Hulu — On Monday, YouTube will move forward a little, announcing an agreement to show some full-length television shows and films from MGM, the financially troubled 84-year-old film studio.
Wired: Five Useless Gadgets You Should Throw in the Trash Right Now — Printers, Scanners, Built-In Optical Drives, Fax Machines, Landline Phones
WSJ: The Numbers Guy: Breaking Down Voter-Turnout Numbers — High voter turnout was predicted on Tuesday. And the number of votes counted has already shattered all records. But so, too, does the population of the U.S., regularly. The turnout rate appears to be shy of a new record.
Shifting Careers blog: Keeping Kids Off the Streets, Through Business
Today, an international organization called the National Foundation for Teaching EntrepreneurshipNFTE, was founded in 1988 by Steve Mariotti, a public school teacher, anti-dropout specialist and serial entrepreneur who says that teaching entrepreneurship to low-income kids serves a few purposes: it teaches skills like math, reading, writing and critical thinking; it provides kids with a vision of how they can control their own futures; and it can also keep kids off the streets and in school.
WSJ: A Candidate for Best Car on Road —Honda Fit’s $15,220 base price and stellar mileage make for an econobox to remember. Something to remember when we begin looking for a car. Are we ready to have two Hondas in the family?
WSJ: IRAs May Be Ripe For Shift to Roth — One of the simplest ways to take advantage of the continuing market turmoil: Convert your battered investments from a traditional individual retirement account to a Roth IRA.
WSJ: Incentives to Buy Hybrids Are Dwindling disappearing tax credits and falling fuel prices stretch the payback of hyprids
For instance, let’s say you buy a Honda Civic, which gets 42 mpg and currently has a $525 credit. Assume you drive 15,000 miles a year with gas prices at $2.91 a gallon. The Civic hybrid’s price is some $4,000 higher than a gas-engine Civic, meaning it would take nearly 10 years to recoup the premium in gas savings, according to an Edmunds analysis.
WSJ: 401(k) Plans Face Disparity Issue — As cash-strapped workers curb their 401(k) contributions, more employers could be forced to limit or refund the retirement-plan contributions of higher earners to meet federal nondiscrimination rules.
It’s not called a cigarette lighter anymore, and I have barely used the two in my car, so a recharable flashlight that is recharged from the power source sounds like a good idea, especially as a stocking stuffer.
From Toolmonger: Cigarette-Lighter Flashlight
Michael Hyatt: Leading people and conducting meetings go hand-in-hand. Yes, you can use email, blogs, Twitter, Basecamp, or any number of additional tools. But at the end of the day, you will still need to schedule and lead meetings.
Before you plan another meeting (and suffer the rest of us to sit through them), make a commitment to do the following:
I’d suggest a few weeks at meetings of Toastmaster’s. I’m still taking advantage of things I learned from my meetings.