The Black Entrepreneur’s Toolbox: 100 Networking Resources, Guides, and Links


Starting out is difficult for any entrepreneur. Acquiring funds, generating publicity, fighting the competition and getting established are only a few obstacles that make the transition from amateur to professional a rocky one.

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New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers


In the ongoing battle over pop-up advertising, marketers are gaining a new weapon to fight back against the increasing use of pop-up ad blockers. Falk eSolutions AG, a German-based vendor of online ad delivery systems, plans to offer publishers and marketers a way to thwart software that blocks pop-up and pop-under ads by automatically converting them into other forms of online ads when such software is detected.

¬> Ziff Davis Inc. ¬> falkag.de

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Do you sincerely want to be HUGE?


No, not another spam offer for appendage enhancement. How about a huge URL?

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Firefox: Tipps & Tricks


Das Deutsche Mozilla-Wiki

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ViaSat und Zyxel setzen auf Satellit und VDSL


Unter dem Namen "Constellation" bieten die Unternehmen ViaSat und ZyXEL weltweit eine Lösung für einen breitbandigen Internetzugang für Wohn- und Geschäftshäuser an. Die Lösung basiert auf VDSL (Very High Bit-Rate DSL) und einem bidirektionalen Satellitenzugang und ist damit vor allem für Regionen geeignet, die auf herkömmliches DSL verzichten müssen.

¬> golem

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Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards


Ask an IT person if they know what Slashdot’s tagline is and they’ll reply, “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.” Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic.

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Web Fire Escape


The Web Fire Escape is a simple device which has been designed to allow readers of weblogs to instantly replace a Web Fire Escape equipped blog with an alternate work-safe site or a fake word processor or spreadsheet application. When you see a weblog with the Web Fire Escape equipped button you can be sure that career salvation is only a click away should a work colleague or manager approach your desk whilst you are catching up with your daily blogs.

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What to do if your internet connection goes down


Every year we grow more and more dependent on the Internet. But would you know what to do if your connection suddenly went down? No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it's important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency. If your connection to Cyberspace were to ever get severed, you should at least be prepared. We have included a few key points that should assist you if that were to happen.

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WWW-Pionier Berners-Lee strickt an neuer Web-Schicht


In Zukunft sollen surfende Maschinen Web-Inhalte nicht nur verarbeiten, sondern auch verstehen. Bisher hapert es am Vokabular: Die Ontologiesprache Web Ontology Language (OWL), mit der man Computern die Bedeutung von Web-Inhalten beibringen will, steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen. Dennoch wird OWL dazu beitragen, dass die Vision des Semantic Web Wirklichkeit wird, urteilt iX in der aktuellen Ausgabe 12/03.

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Yahoo redesigns search engine


Yahoo today is unveiling the most extensive redesign of its search engine features yet as it steps up competition with Internet search leader Google.

At the core of the redesign, which includes more streamlined results and text-based advertising, is a desire to build search traffic and draw greater revenue from paid search, which Yahoo estimates could account for nearly 20 percent of its 2003 revenue.

``Paid search is the new gold,'' said Gary Stein, a marketing and advertising analyst for Jupiter Resesarch.

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Opera turns Microsoft site into Muppet language


Norwegian software group Opera took a swipe at Microsoft on Friday by issuing an Internet browser that converts text on Microsoft's Web site into the nonsense language of a popular television puppet.

When Opera users visit Microsoft's MSN site with the new browser, the text displayed there appears to them in a language mimicking that of the Swedish chef on the popular Muppet Show, Opera said in a statement.

"This joke is for real," Opera's chief technology officer Haakon Wium Lie told Reuters.

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