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• HOW TO: Quiet the Twitter Noise – So what do you do when you want to quiet the Twitter noise but don’t want to de-friend people? You currently have a few options:1. Instead of listening to all of the noise, you can focus in on certain signals
  2. You can use a platform to group your favorite tweeples and focus only on them
  3. You can mute the tweeps that you don’t want to receive tweets from
• 100+ Killer WordPress Resources | Steffan Antonas’ Blog – Below is a list of links to the very best reading out there on Hacking WordPress and building a better blog. I’ve also included a list of links to designers and others who are significantly advancing WordPress through innovative theme development and plugins. If you know of a post or resource that I have not included yet, please add it in the comments! I’ll constantly update this list as I find more of the good stuff.
• Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins – Learn these 10 tricks and you’ll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems.
• Rules for Making a Good Impression – BusinessWeek – Getting favorable word out on a tiny budget is one of the perennial challenges facing small-business owners. Advertising is often too expensive, so most business owners rely on good old fashioned networking and word of mouth. However some are better at it than others (see BusinessWeek.com’s Smart Answers podcast, 4/18/07, “Instituting a Client Appreciation Program”). Here are seven rules that will guarantee a strong first impression and a powerful, lasting one.
• HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed – FriendFeed is a social media feed aggregator that makes it easy to follow many different individuals’ various social activities on the Web all in one convenient place, instead of jumping from service to service (and having to create new accounts ad infinitum!) to see what the people you’re most interested in are doing.It’s basically a continuous river of information that you can use as a virtual water cooler of news and content, but it’s also interactive – you’re encouraged to comment on other people’s stories, “like” something that resonates with you, and more. If you’re looking for something that is a one-stop solution for a variety of different content frames: feed readers, micro-blogging, images, etc, then FriendFeed is a good fit.

  Let’s look at a few tips for both beginning and more advanced FriendFeed users that can help you make this service as useful as possible.

• Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku – Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other
• George W Bush Timeline – Facts About George W Bush – Esquire – You know 9/11, Iraq, and all the rest. Almost. Come on, did you remember that Google only went public in 2004?! Before we consider what’s next, an abbreviated history of the last eight years of our lives.
• Financial literacy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – In Australia, 67 per cent of respondents indicated that they understood the concept of compound interest, yet when they were asked to solve a problem using the concept only 28 per cent had a good level of understanding.A British survey found that consumers do not actively seek out financial information. The information they do receive is acquired by chance, for example, by picking up a pamphlet at a bank or having a chance talk with a bank employee.

  A Canadian survey found that respondents considered choosing the right investments to be more stressful than going to the dentist.

  A survey of Korean high-school students showed that they had failing scores – that is, they answered fewer than 60 per cent of the questions correctly – on tests designed to measure their ability to choose and manage a credit card, their knowledge about saving and investing for retirement, and their awareness of risk and the importance of insuring against it.

• Intel meets reduced estimates – Jan. 15, 2009 – NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Intel Corp. reported a 90% drop in fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that were in line with Wall Street’s reduced expectations, as demand for semiconductors remains weak.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company reported net income of $234 million, or 4 cents per share, for the three months ended Dec. 27. That’s down from earnings of $2.27 billion, or 38 cents per share, in the year-earlier period.

  Sales in the quarter fell 23% to $8.2 billion from $10.7 billion a year ago.

• Smart job strategies to avoid layoffs – Jan. 15, 2009 – (Money Magazine) — When you read the latest blog postings about layoffs in your industry or hear about another colleague losing his job, do waves of anxiety wash over you? Well, you don’t really need us to confirm that you’ve got good reason. The unemployment rate among college-educated workers has jumped 41% over the past year, with layoffs only expected to accelerate over the next few months.The good news: There is plenty you can do to decrease the chances that you will join the 1.4 million professionals currently out of work. The following six strategies have helped others who faced job cuts successfully stand down the threat. While there’s no guarantee they can do the same for you, it pays to try. Maybe the boss will decide you’re indispensable, after all.
• 10 Steps To Untwangling Twitter To Make It Useful | My Super-Charged Life – Are you using Twitter effectively? Twitter can be a very useful tool for marketing your site, establishing a brand and making valuable online connections. However, it takes a combination of the right tools and strategy to make Twitter useful.

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