Reuters: Real estate agent Lisa DeWaal serves coffee at a Starbucks outlet for four hours every morning before she goes to the office to start her “day job.” The reason has little to do with the state of the housing market and everything to do with the one big perk that 20 hours a week at the coffee counter provides: affordable health insurance for her and her three children. While health experts say there are no statistics available, analysts say there are many Americans like DeWaal: people who have taken or stick to a job just for the health insurance.

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Of all the bits and bobs of news about Facebook, this latest really should be a surprise to no one: According to a survey by Nucleus, it’s a huge distraction for office workers. What is interesting is just how big a distraction it seems to be. The study (amusingly titled “The Cost of Social Notworking”) examined specific details about how office workers use the immensely popular social networking app

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Facebook Is a Big Employee Distraction, but Is It All Bad?

This is what many newsletters (and investment managers) do: Tout their good calls and ignore their bad ones.  And they do it because it works.  But for anyone who takes their advice and clients seriously–as Cramer purports to–it’s misleading and sleazy.  If you make 100 calls over the next month, about 50 of them will be good.  If we wrote up the top 3 of them, we could make you sound like a market-wizard, too.  And then you would be ready to start selling newsletters! This, by the way,

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For the past few months, there have been strong signals that a company’s “brand” is becoming an indicator to Google’s algorithms in determining organic rankings.  There was a great deal of chatter back in late- February about this topic within the SEO industry.  If this concept is news to you and your company, then you need to take some time to consider how your website is impacted.  There is a solid article over at SEW about this very topic and how businesses (small & large) are successf

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The Influence of Online Branding in SEO

With the Apple App Store having paid an estimated $50 to $115 million in revenue to app developers–with one indie developer reportedly making $250,000 in two months –even the technologically impaired now dream of winning the iPhone app lottery. MEDL Mobile has built a business around that desire: The company turns ideas for iPhone apps into actual apps (which are then sold back to the people who submitted the ideas). The hardest part was not getting the ideas–people submitted 20,000 of them to MEDL’s Web site in 90 days–but choosing which ones to pursue

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MEDL Mobile’s Crowdsourced iPhone Apps: What’s the Catch?

“ John Wiley & Sons book publishing group has selected Attributor as its online content tracking service to help prevent unlawful reuses of its authors’ content on the Web. With the use of Attributor, Wiley can find its content used without permission, including on social networking site, enabling them to identify instances of piracy and rightfully compensate authors for their work

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‘Major book publisher John Wiley & Sons selects Attributor’s anti-piracy technology’

Plastic Logic was in the news just yesterday for its partnership with Barnes and Noble, but today it’s also revealed a tie-up with AT&T that directly pitches it against Amazon’s Kindle. And, just possibly, for much more than that. The Barnes and Noble partnership creates a potent e-book ecosystem thanks to B&N’s huge book library

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Plastic Logic Partners with AT&T, Becomes True Threat to Kindle

The new Plastic Logic e-reader , the one to be sold by Barnes & Noble among others, will use the AT&T net for 3G wireless downloading of e-books, according to the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent . So what will this mean? An even more overloaded AT&T data network—already struggling on occasions with the burden from the iPhone

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Plastic Logic e-reader will use AT&T net, just like iPhone: Network overload issues?

Green roofs are a growing trend in the U.S., with buildings as diverse as the California Academy of Sciences, Minneapolis’ Target Center and the New York Mets’ Citi Field adopting roofs topped with dirt and living plants. But PNC Financial Services Group is taking the lead on green walls, with the largest Green Living Wall in North America scheduled to be constructed on the south side of the bank’s Pittsburgh headquarters

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PNC Bank Building Largest Green Living Wall in U.S.

Despite the flailing economy, many major companies–Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, and Exxon, to name a few–have invested heavily in sustainable technologies that could mitigate the effects of global warming. Good news: these investments will pay off with more than just karma points, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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IPCC: Monetary Benefits of Global Warming Prevention Outweigh Costs

The rumored Apple tablet with the 8-10 inch screen will probably cost closer to $700 than the hoped for $400-$500, if the most common speculation is on target. That’s far, far too much for most people mainly interested in the tab for e-books. But perhaps e-books can piggyback on the other apps

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Apple tablet out for XMAS ‘09 with $700 price tag? Too pricey for e-bookdom?

“Under the Polyphonic model, bands that receive investments from the firm will operate like start-up companies, recording their own music and choosing outside contractors to handle their publicity, merchandise and touring..” – New York Times . Detail: Polyphonic’s founder is Brian Message, who manages the Radiohead rock band (photo)— itself an experimenter .

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July 22, 2009 PR.com (press release)SEO Algorithms Are Adapting, Is Your Search Engine Optimisation?Business ExchangeClick (PPC) Campaigns, Content and Banner Advertising, Search Engine Optimisation, Affiliate Marketing, Shopping Feeds, Website Design and Development, …SEO Algorithms Are Adapting, Is Your Search Engine Optimisation?PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)all 28 news articles » Tags: Add new tag Filed under Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Contributors, Online Money, Uncategor

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For those of you who haven’t checked out the magazine LoftLife – The Loft Style Guide to Life in the City , it is a must read.  And I don’t say that only because I am on their ‘Board of Experts’ – the Editors and Creative Directors are top notch.  Their style and editorials are fresh, relevant and timely.  Last fall Kyra Shapurji, Managing Editor and Linden Hass, Photo Editor paid me a visit at my office in Vancouver to firm up a feature they were doing on favourite shopping spots of mine and a few other Design Professionals in Vancouver (see Spring 2009 Travel/80 Victorious Vancouver: Canada’s design & architecture capital.) Linden Hass shot a few pictures of me and the drawing below is what resulted. LoftLife Magazine Board of Experts I love the illustrations by the talented Graham Smith from San Diego.  He illustrates the masthead and the Panel of Experts for LoftLife magazine. This month LoftLife is going to be on national newsstands: Borders, Barnes and Noble, as well as Hudson News.  So pick-up your copy and read their articles.  In the current Summer 2009 issue I particularly like: Travel/74  Allure of Amsterdam: Dutch Design Beyond Droog.

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LoftLife Magazine

*CONTACT:* Dave Ryan (News Media Only) ryan.dave@epa.gov 202-564-7827 202-564-4355 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *July 21, 2009* ** **EPA’s Climate Leaders Program Recognizes Partners for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions** **”Program also welcomes 60 new participants and announces several companies have set new GHG reduction goals “** WASHINGTON* – EPA’s Climate Leaders program announced today that …

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Air News Release (HQ): EPA’s Climate Leaders Program Recognizes Partners for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (The Auto Channel)

Allegiant Travel Company Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results Date : Source : PR Newswire Stock : (ALGT) Quote :   Allegiant Travel Company Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results SECOND QUARTER NET INCOME INCREASES NINE-FOLD, OPERATING & PRE-TAX MARGINS EXCEED 25% BOARD OF DIRECTORS INCREASES COMMON STOCK REPURCHASE AUTHORITY BY $10 MILLION TO A TOTAL OF $35 MILLION LAS VEGAS, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ:ALGT), parent company of Allegiant

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New details on id Software’s open-world shooter-cum-racer Rage has surfaced via this month’s issue of Game Informer, painting a picture unlike any previous id game. A whole host of details are revealed in the article, including the following features: An engineering system to craft devices including sentry turrets and RC car bombs, if you have the blueprints and parts

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Rage Details: Regenerating Health, Designed for Controllers, Car Upgrades, DVD vs. Blu-ray

Forgive the cheesy headline, the military really does refer to its carbon footprint as a “bootprint.” And now the Army, which was commanded by executive order in 2007 to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 3% annually through 2015, is making strides to reduce that giant bootprint. Earlier today, the army announced that carbon management software maker Enviance will provide its Web-based greenhouse gas tracking and reporting services to 12 bases sprinkled throughout the U.S, including Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Hood, Texas; Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; and Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

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U.S. Army Expands Tracking of Its Carbon "Bootprint"

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Received an email from Mike Perry about an interview, in Germany, with the Minister of Justice: My German contact passed me this link to a Welt Online interview with the German Minister of Justice: German Original Google translation The translation is muddled, but according to my source, the German Ministry of Justice has hired a NY lawyer to help them fight the settlement. I can understand that. Google’s perversion of class action law apparently makes no sense at all under German law

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Germany and the Google book settlement