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How to start a Work at Home career

Thanks to the rising costs of daycare and transportation and the desire to have a parent home with the children, today many mothers choose to work from home.
This arrangement is sometimes called “telecommuting”, and it allows parents the opportunity to set up a workspace in their homes to earn a living instead of having to [...]

image ShopVisible integrates with Craigslist

ShopVisible’s corporate blog has been discussing their integration with the Craigslist online marketplace, claiming it gives its e-tailer clients a major advantage in selling products.
The ShopVisible platform can be used to place ads on the Craiglist website straight from the Site Manager, the user-interface for managing all aspects of their business, including multi-channel sales.
It is [...]

image eBay expands Utah operations

I’m of that age when, as a schoolboy I was regaled with tales of Empire and entrepreneurial explorers in far flung places who caused the title “Great” to be placed before the name “Britain”.
Sorry to my American readers, but it’s the truth. It might be why I expatriated to the Far East without so much [...]

image vzaar adds streaming audio & podcasts to portfolio

Video-in-auction service vzaar have blogged that they’ve had a number of requests of late for audio to be added to their list of compatible file types.
They’ve now made the necessary changes, which means you can now stream sound files in mp3 format.
They state this is perfect if you have -

an audio file you want to [...]

Forrester- In 2014, 63m US Homes will pay bills online

Forrester Research predicts the number of US households paying bills online will grow from 48 million this year, to 63 million by 2014, in a new report titled “US Electronic Bill Payment And Presentment Forecast, 2009 To 2014″.
A 5.4 percent annual compound growth rate reflects a maturing market, where growth will shrink in years to [...]

Battle Over Personally Identifiable Information = Lost

A new research report titled “Protecting Personal Information: We Lost the Battle, Can We Win the War?” by TowerGroup,  declares that the financial services industry has lost the battle to protect consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII) data.
TowerGroup’s George Tubin points out that “in light of the loss or theft of hundreds of millions of data [...]

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  • Henrietta -Red Ink Diary: "I am also confused as to the State insisting on salaries being 25% higher than the State average" All good Mormons tithe, in other words give 10% of their income to the church. For the state, high...
  • Adrian (from vzaar): Hi Gaz - Not Ed, The IAB sizes is good point. I think we'll look to allow manual changing of sizes of things like the audio player. Allowing for video in IAB sizes is a little more complex, as ...
  • Garry HJ: Thanks Adrian - will do The reason I mentioned the IAB standard size, is that I can see possibilities for "audio ads" used with self-hosted banner and advert servers (e.g. OpenX) - would certainly ...
  • Garry HJ: As Michael Caine would say ... "Not a lot of people know that" Thanks for the update Kansan Gaz...
  • Adrian (from vzaar): Hi Ed, The player size for audio players is 334x86. We should have mentioned this in the blog, and in our help pages, but didn't think too. We'll update this next week to make sure we mention the f...
 

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