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CityMove – Bringing together a set of Web 2.0 technologies

CityMove – Bringing together a set of Web 2.0 technologies

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photo credit: Zoom Zoom I came across an interesting website called CityMove, a website designed to bring together people looking to make a move to or from New York with New York Movers that can help them move their possessions around the country. I found it particularly interesting because it brings together a number of different concepts that just wouldn’t work in an offline world. There’s more on how the process works on my other blog, but here’s what struck…

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Focus on niche markets

Focus on niche markets

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One of the great things about the Internet is that it provides a great marketplace where traders and customers can meet. And it’s really effective at providing a steady stream of custom for niche markets that wouldn’t survive otherwise. If you deal with specialised products, like WordPress themes or gold coins, you wouldn’t survive unless you had a way to tap into a steady stream of customers. And one such market is industrial valves. Valves Suppliers UK is a company…

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Watch out for those bank charges

Watch out for those bank charges

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Interesting article on the BBC website talking about how Bank are charging “sneaky fees”. It’s an interesting look into what’s happening to the bank overdraft market, where legislation has clamped down on unauthorised overdrafts. In return, the rate of authorised overdrafts has increased, with an average of around 19%. That’s an average, so while there are some that are lower, there are also others that are higher. It can be quite awful to be hit by unexpected charges, so make…

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Considering an online MBA?

Considering an online MBA?

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It’s great that we have so many options available nowadays. It wasn’t so many years ago that the only option to do an MBA would be to take some time off work and attend a University campus. Now there are a multitude of options around. I did mine with Heriott-Watt in Edinburgh, by correspondence, but here’s another option for people living in the US. Western Governors University is an online university that has a variety of courses ranging from teaching…

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Real vs Perceived Risk

Real vs Perceived Risk

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Image via Wikipedia Interesting post on Seth Godin‘s blog entitled Apparent Risk and Actual Risk which talks about how people can perceive situations as being more risky than they actually are, and sometimes end up choosing to go down more risky paths just because of this perception. So, what drives this perception. I put it down to two different factors. First of all, it’s easy to overlook certain factors when performing your personal “risk evaluation”. Assumptions and ignorance are the…

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What’s the time?

What’s the time?

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In today’s global economy we deal with partners, suppliers and customers all around the world. And sometimes it gets confusing to know what time it is locally for them. So here’s a tool that can really help. It’s a time clock that helps you tell the time in any part of the world, and you’ll never be lost for time again. It’s always good to be considerate of your partners, regardless of whether they’re a large computer manufacturer or a…

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