NEW YORK, NY, March 13, 2008 - AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing world of social media with a network of approximately 80 million unique users.
With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide, Bebo is a global social media network which combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, …

Facebook is the latest ‘hot’ thing in the Internet world. It’s a social networking site that is starting to rival the likes of MySpace and Friendster. While Facebook is a great way to interact with your friends, it’s also a top way to interact with business associates, customers and prospects. You can generate new leads to your business very quickly with Facebook.
The first thing you’d want to do is to gather all your business associates’ email information and add them to your friends list in Facebook. You can also add …

If you are serious about your business and it’s online presence, then you have probably struggled with the issue of getting more customers. Finding ways that are easy, effective, and cost efficient can be hard. One way, to help your business to grow, is by advertising using Facebook.
Now, you may be thinking that Facebook was simply another one of those sites for youngsters. And in fact, you’d be partially right. Facebook, was actually created with the initial intention of allowing college students to swap photos and communicate with one another. …

It there is one thing that you can be sure of, it is the fact that Facebook is definitely not just for college students any more. Originally created so that college students could share photos and interact with one another online in much the same way that other social networking sites work, business owners with an online presence are now beginning to see the beauty of business marketing with Facebook for their bottom line.
For example, a business that is marketing with Facebook is able to promote itself in several ways. …

Company Tops Employee Ratings in Germany for Fourth Year Running; Receives Award in Japan for Second Time
WALLDORF, Germany - February 13, 2008 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has been named “Germany’s Best Employer” for the fourth consecutive year in the 2008 “Great Place to Work” initiative, and that it has been named among the leading employers in Japan by the Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW). The designations recognize SAP’s efforts to provide rewarding career opportunities and a positive work environment for its employees around the …

At the beginning of the call, I heard Jim Bunch mentioning the most important point that will stick in my mind for a very long time.
“Surround yourself with the best of the best and you’ll produce the results of the best of the best.”
If you are into personal development, I believe that there is nothing new in that statement. However, Jim continued by saying that your “will power” is on only when you turn it on, but environments will stick with you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If …

In a Web 2.0 world, social marketing leverages your business with audio, video, and text. As an example, blogging may very well turn out to be one of the most ingenuous marketing strategies for anyone who has an online business and is willing to commit to its process.
Web 2.0 seems such an unlikely stratagem that many online marketers are still wary of using as a marketing tactic, much to their disadvantage. Statistics show that marketers who have embraced and adopted social marketing have experienced unprecedented success.
Here are three reasons why …

There’s a particular resource that any number of people in business overlook entirely. The resource is MySpace. MySpace, as most people are aware, is a social networking web site. The thinking about MySpace may tend to be that MySpace is a site for juveniles. The reality however is that MySpace has millions upon millions of members, and these members fall everywhere along the age line. Though many MySpace members may trend young, the notion that everyone on MySpace is a kid is just plain wrong.
If MySpace isn’t meant for the …

The internet of today is cluttered with myriad ways to create and manage a website. With sites becoming larger and more complicated, it became necessary to move beyond simple html and into more complicated languages for creating attractive and functional websites. MySQL is a database that helps in this regard.
MySQL is an open source database system which uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to operate. Databases are extremely common because they allow for a central collection of data, be it posts to a blog, a database of members to a forum, …