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Setting up an auction

When setting up an auction on eBay, there are several things that you need to be aware of. EBay has several options that you can choose from when listing an item. Some of them are more valuable than other. Every auction you list comes with a listing fee that eBay charges. Those listing fees depend on several things. We will get into that a little later. The options you select when listing an item will have an impact on those listing fees. We are going to discuss several valuable strategies that you can use to make your auction successful. The listing process itself is really quite simple to do.

To start the listing go to www.ebay.com and select on the “sell” link at the top of the screen. From there you will be asked what product you are selling and you can simply type that into the box on the screen. Make sure you select the proper category. (more…)

Before You Quit Your Job by Robert Kiyosaki

Favorite Points

• Take Care of Legal Aspects at the Beginning.
• “An ounce of prevention if worth a pound of cure.”
• When you start out, you have a lot of expenses but no income. How do you deal with this?

Minimize Your Expenses

• Position as a caretaker – no rent.
  • http://www.caretaker.org/
• Live on Costco food
  • Quaker oatmeal.
  • Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
  • Lettuce – six for $3.
  • Tuna.
• Budgeting
  • Stick to it. (more…)

While Google is currently celebrating its tenth birthday with an unprecedented charity event and keeps rolling out new features every day — the latest being Google Moderator, a tool that applies Digg-like rankings to meetings, allowing attendees to vote on what questions will be asked — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, spoke yesterday about the future of Microsoft and how they will focus on the competition against Google in the next few years.

As search engines have gotten better at discovering web content in many forms, manually submitting to them has become less of a focus. But content and distribution platforms continue to expand, and as they do so, the need for manual search engine submission remains an important, if changing, option. Of course, Google is still the king of search engines (some would even say the whole game, but I’m not one of them), and making sure that the search king sees all the attributes of an ecommerce website is important. To that end, it's a good idea for ecommerce web masters and website owners to understand—and hopefully take advantage of—the changes Google recently made to its content submission webpage. Google already offered many submission ...

After a long wait and constant delays in the development process, today Yahoo, Inc. finally released APT, its brand new ad serving platform which aims at providing publishers and advertisers with a unified, simple and intuitive interface to make the Internet advertising business much easier to manage for both parties.

When economic times are tough, you have to do more with less. You must continue your marketing program while spending less money in the process. Search engine optimization is the perfect solution to low-cost, recession-proof marketing.

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Here’s a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator. This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo).

What does Google Moderator do? When we have tech talks or company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they’d like answered. The user interface looks like this:

My team uses it often at Google, e.g. it’s great for prioritizing which questions are most important.

I like that Google is in many ways turning itself inside out by taking many of our internal tools and making them available to the world. We use tools such as Gmail and Google Docs all the time in-house to share information, presentations, and docs. Guido van Rossum recently announced that a version of Mondrian, our internal code review tool, is available for the outside world to use. Now Google Moderator is another tool that anyone can use. Projects such as Google Code and Google App Engine make it even easier to share code or applications with the world. And releasing low-level tools such as protocol buffers or high-level tools such as Google Web Toolkit makes life easier for lots of developers.

Google is not the only company that does this, of course. Yahoo for example has their excellent Yahoo User Interface Library, Yahoo Pipes, or YSlow. Its just nice when companies release code or tools that benefit lots of people on the web.

At any rate, give Google Moderator a whirl. You can create your own “series,” which lets people ask and vote on questions. Who knows, maybe we’ll try to find a way to use Google Moderator the next time we do a webmaster chat. Oh, and Google Moderator is a free service, so give it a try sometime.

P.S. Congrats to the engineers that launched this as a 20% project.

I recently got a Nespresso C100T capsule based espresso machine. I decided to compare the shots it makes with a shot from Starbucks. Here’s the results of my very non-scientific taste test:

	Nespresso	Starbucks
Flavour	Intense flavour, smooth.	Very bitter, almost burnt.
Crema	Good	None
Price	$0.52	$1.55

As you can see Nespresso makes a great espresso, including a nice crema. The beauty of Nespresso over traditional espresso machines is that there is almost zero maintenance. So if you like espresso based drinks this is a must buy.

Nespresso is popular in Europe, but it seems to be fairly unknown in the US. I was introduced to Nespresso by my brother who lives in Belgium and swears by it. When I found a Nespresso machine in an Italian home I was staying in, I figured if it’s good enough for the Italians it’s good enough for me.

The big disadvantage for this system is that you can only buy your capsules from Nespresso (unless you do what this guy does). Fortunately you can order online and the capsules are shipped to you in a couple of days.

[ Note this post is not sponsored by Nespresso, but if they want to send me some free capsules I won't complain ]

Magento Commerce, an open source ecommerce platform, has introduced an Apple iPhone specific theme that is potentially the first step toward leveling the playing field for small online retailers who want to compete in the lucrative and booming mobile ecommerce market. Mobile eCommerce Has Massive Potential Mobile ecommerce (often call m-commerce) is coming; 9 million Americans have already made a purchase from a mobile device, and perhaps half of the United States' 250 million odd mobile handset users are willing to make a purchase in the near future, according to a recent study from The Nielsen Company, New York, N.Y. All of those U.S. users plus the billions of consumers in Asia, Africa, and India, where a mobile handset may serve as...