2. TECHNOLOGY BLOGS
Mashable
With a traffic ranking of 346 (170 at the US level), according to Alexa, it ranks
as one of the most important blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly
deals with topics related to social networks, such as YouTube, Facebook,
Google, Twitter, MySpace, as well as technology companies (such as Apple),
but also reports on lower profile social networks and sites.
3. Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a technology weblog that deals with consumer
electronics issues. Founded in 2002, it was originally edited
by Peter Rojas until he was recruited by Weblogs, Inc. to
launch a similar technology blog, Engadget.
4. GigaOM
Gigaom is a blog-related media
company that offers news,
analysis, and opinions on
startups, emerging technologies.
It helps today's business person
make sense of the enormous
technological changes that are
sweeping our world.
5. BUSINESS/FINANCIAL BLOGS
Bloomberg Businessweek
It helps global leaders stay ahead
with insights and in-depth analysis
on the people, companies, events,
and trends shaping today's
complex, global economy.
6. Business Credit Blogger
Its vision is to empower small
business owners with the much
needed support, coaching,
information, tools, and resources
necessary to build business credit
separate from personal credit plus
have access to the necessary
funding sources to grow, operate,
or invest in their businesses.
7. Yahoo! Finance
It provides financial news, data and commentary, including stock quotes,
press releases, financial reports, and original programming. It also offers
some online tools for personal finance management. Also, Market
updates with commentary during trading hours. You can get a feel for
what the market is doing and what it is reacting to with a quick read.
8. ENTERTAINMENT BLOGS
9GAG
It focuses on teenagers. Operates an online platform and social media website.
Users upload and share content, either user-generated or found on other social
media websites. The website's content is generally referred to as "internet
memes", and is upvoted (similar to liking on YouTube), downvoted (as in
disliking a video on YouTube), and commented on by users based on its
popularity at a given time.
9. E! Online
It is a source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity
gossip. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows!
10. TMZ
It breaks the biggest stories in celebrity and entertainment news. Giving
exclusive access to the latest stories, photos, and video as only TMZ can.
13. Importance of Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence (CI) is an important driver of the
future. Imagine for a moment that some of us might put our
brains to work in parallel with a certain level of efficiency.
In fact according with the current research, when
measuring CI as team performance, it correlates with how
well a team works but not with the IQ level of the team
members. There is no doubt that technology will help us to
be much more efficient in working together and that
artificial intelligence will serve a lot at the service of CI.
15. Web based collaboration tools
› A collaboration tool helps people to
collaborate. The purpose of a
collaboration tool is to support a group
of two or more individuals to
accomplish a common goal or objective
they have set themselves.
23. ›LinkedIn is a business-focused social networking site
that launched in 2003. Its main purpose is to help
people network professionally. The basic service is
free.
›Recommendations – Your connections can write
recommendations, or testimonials, for your profile.
These can be a powerful testament to your business
and professional skills.
24. What would be the importance of using a professional
network such as LinkedIn for your
professional career?
›LinkedIn is a great resource, particularly for finding
individuals with specialist skill sets and getting some
useful background on people that you may be in the
early stages of establishing business relations with.
Some of the specialized Linked in groups have good
discussions, particularly in technical subjects. I do
endorse the idea of "quality over quantity" when it
comes to LinkedIn connections.
