The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How to Be Happy as a Digital Entrepreneur”.Nellie Akalp says, “People are drawn to the entrepreneurial lifestyle for a variety of reasons. Some dislike having a boss or dealing with office politics. Others are tired of the cubicle monotony or feel like they can do it better on their own. And most digital entrepreneurs are driven by a passion for what they do and a desire to carve out their own future.Yet too often, that initial passion is dampened by the realities of running the show. Working for yourself or starting a business is difficult... [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “Fury At Amazon Over Fee Hikes”.Alistair Barr  says, “A brewing conflict between Amazon.com Inc and its merchants over fee hikes could benefit rival eBay Inc, and provide an opening for Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Google Inc, which are just getting into the space.Amazon’s online bazaar generates margins many times higher than traditional retail as the company takes a cut of every sale on its site made by a merchant, known as a third-party seller, and charges extra fees for handling logistics”. Fury At Amazon... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Are Your E-mail Campaigns Getting Read? This Flow Chart Will Tell You”.Elie Ayrouth says, “Even with the advent of Facebook and more and more communication occurring over social media, e-mail has still remained the constant for companies vying for attention.While e-mail marketing has definitely come a long way since the early days of the Internet, more and more businesses are joining the game to fill your inbox, but customers and e-mail clients are getting smarter. You can have the best content/product in the world,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Reddit, Craigslist and 30,000 Other Websites Oppose CISPA”.Alex Fitzpatrick says, “Reddit, Craigslist and more than 30,000 other websites are flying the flag of opposition to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a controversial cybersecurity bill that was recently reintroduced in Congress.The thousands of websites which oppose CISPA will, starting Tuesday, be displaying an interactive banner ad (seen below) from the Internet Defense League that allows voters to send the following message to their members of... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Pinterest Introduces Web Analytics, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week”.Lindsey Kirchoff says, “Email. Search engines. All those social networks. These channels and platforms are what make inbound marketing possible. Think about it. Without search engines, how would prospects find the content they’re looking for? If there were no such thing as social media, how could businesses still have scalable interactions with thousands of customers and prospects? Sometimes it blows my mind to think how far marketing has come just in... [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “32 Advertisers Doing Amazing Things With Facebook’s Timeline”.Jim Edwards says, “Facebook‘s Timeline feature — which arranges your entire history of photo uploads and status updates into a scrollable continuum  —has been around for more than a year now.It offers advertisers a big, bright palette onto which they can pour the most creative imagery they’ve got. We highlighted those companies who were best at it last year.When Facebook rolls out its new News Feed redesign, many of these photos and videos... [...]

‘Business 2 Community’ is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 17 at 2.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Best Practices from the World’s Most Social Technology Companies”.The ‘Business 2 Community’ team says, “Join the leading enterprise social practitioners from Cisco, Dell, Samsung, and SAP in a frank conversation about how the world’s most social large technology companies are executing at global scale. LaSandra Brill (@LaSandraBrill), Richard Margetic (@ByJove), Jessica Kalbarczyk (@JessKalbarczyk), and Brian Rice (@briansrice) will share their insights,... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Creating a Successful Business Around Hot Niche Topics”.Zac Johnson says, “If you were going to start a new business of your own, what would you focus the product or service on?Hopefully it’s not only something YOU use, but something EVERYONE uses and is interested!After all, isn’t this the best way to have an offer that appeals to everyone and allows you to grow your customer base day after day? Of course it is!Now let’s talk about some popular niches and topics in the world today”.Creating a Successful... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Firefox vs. 3rd-Party Cookies: Helping Or Hurting Browser Users?”.Brian Proffitt says, “The Mozilla Corporation, the commercial vendor behind the popular Firefox browser, is pushing out a new policy for third-party cookies – a policy that’s gotten Internet advertisers in a bit of a snit.The new cookie policy, announced Feb. 25 on the Mozilla Privacy blog, will accept third-party cookies when a user is surfing the Web only if the user has directly interacted with the site or company trying to install the cookie on the... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Whose Fault Is It When Your PC Gets Hacked? Probably Not Microsoft’s”.Antone Gonsalves says, “Since 2002, when Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative, security in the company’s products have improved each year. But while the company has increasingly battened down Windows, Office and its other programs, the number of vulnerabilities in harder-to-patch third-party applications has grown dramatically, making overall security on the PC worse than ever.More Risk In Third-Party AppsRather than go through the... [...]