Start-up Aardvark had an idea to develop a social search engine, in which people could ask a question via instant messenger and then Aardvark would automatically route the question to the user’s friends, and friends of friends, finally bringing the answer back to the user from the user’s own extended social network. But before Aardvark built the technology it tried out the service with humans behind the curtain, in a “Wizard of Oz” scheme, reports The Wall Street Journal

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More and more moms are turning into work-at-home moms reports The Montreal Gazette . A survey done by Leger Marketing for eBay Canada ahead of Mother’s Day found that 33 per cent of Canadians know a mother who has either started her own business or would like to — though only 14 per cent have done so. “Deciding whether to put your career on hold after having children is probably one of the most difficult decisions a mother has to make,” said Tiffany Lemay of Victoria, who started a home-based business selling items on eBay.

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Amongst the fuss and pointless politicking about the National Broadband plan, did you know that there already is a nationwide super-fast fiber broadband infrastructure? It’s called National LambdaRail (NLR), and it’s been privately funded.

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Charlie Sorrel at Wired ’s “Gadget Lab” blog has a column on “ How to make an iPad-beating tablet .” Though by and large, most of the features he describes are exactly the features that the iPad has. For instance: The suggestions that Apple should let users install apps from anywhere ignore this fact: the App store is so successful because it is closed .

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The entrepreneurial spirit starts early for many teenagers, but for most things like high school, college and social lives overpower the urge to start a business.

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As with most mergers, the announcement this week that United Airlines was joining forces with Continental Airlines to become the world’s largest airline touted all of the benefits of the combination: Complementary routes that will give consumers more choice and flexibility; scale that will provide cost synergies; and resources that will allow for strategic investments. Continental’s CEO (and CEO-designate of the merged company), Jeff Smisek, even said that “putting these two carriers together is a match made in heaven.” Unfortunately for Smisek and Glenn Tilton, United’s CEO, making the “match” is a lot different than making the “marriage.” Even assuming that the merger is given regulatory approval (which is not a sure thing), the integration process will be extremely challenging. And even if the integration process is smooth, there is still no guaranty that “bigger will be better.” After all, there are plenty of examples of large industry-consolidation deals that did not pay off as expected (e.g

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Ever wonder what it takes to be successful in business? While you could easily say that the true answer to that question will vary from person to person there are a few key traits that really stick out among all entrepreneurs. The Montreal Gazette recently wrote about some of those defining traits

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The Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur

E-mail marketing could be a great method to increase product sales on products and market your online company. Many web marketers report increases in product sales numbers when they deliver out emails to people on their mailing lists rather than just hope people land on their sites

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Keck-Craig in Pasadena, Calif., is something like touring a strange mechanical museum. Quirky machines—from tennis-ball servers to shrimp deveiners and beer-can chillers—are displayed everywhere, all designed and/or built by Keck-Craig

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We all struggle with information overload. If somebody would just push a button and turn off the Internet for a year, maybe, maybe , we’d catch up on our work, organize our contacts , and restore our sanity

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Have “design thinking” and “social innovation” become permanently intertwined? You’d have to think so based on Tim Brown’s book and the prevailing discourse at any major design/innovation conference (SXSW, PICNIC, GEL, GAIN, LIFT)

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8 Lessons for Creating Social Impact

There’s a scene in “Mad Men”, the TV drama about a 1960s advertising agency. One of the junior copywriters is showing the Creative Director an ad he’s just written.

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Why You Shouldn’t Write for Other Writers

First off, I want to say that this is quite long, but it has some really interesting stuff in it. I’ve read posts from a lot of people who work for transcription companies, who work for customer services companies who have had some real problems with the HR people and unlike the real world you can’t just reach out and smack them

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My lunch companion arrived fifteen minutes late. “My phone has begun to ring again,” he explained, “which is a good sign for the economy.” Once a big-league strategy consultant, he now has a firm that advises CEOs on how to increase the value of their companies.

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The Strategic Imperative Not to Hire Anybody

I have co-written this week’s blog entry with Tsun-yan Hsieh, who has spent the past three decades working with global leaders to help them become more effective. He is Director Emeritus at McKinsey, as well as a member of the Cue Ball Collective .

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(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook .) Earlier this year, at the Economist summit on Sustainability , Paul Polman , the CEO of the ~€40m consumer products giant Unilever, announced that “We have set out a new vision for the company – the challenge of doubling our size whilst reducing our environmental footprint. ..

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If you are a single mom or really anyone who has a desire to run a home based business there are many different ideas that you can use to achieve this. It isn’t that difficult to do.  The biggest problem with most people seems to be in working out the type of business they should start, and for single mothers they have to also work out what is possible to do while still taking care of their children. In this article we will talk about some of the choices that you have to earn an income from home

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Learn How to Run a Home Based Business and Earn Extra Income as a Single Mom

Inc. Magazine has a profile of Tim O’Reilly , discussing how he founded and grew O’Reilly Media from nothing into a $100 million company over the course of 32 years. The article says that O’Reilly has always had a tendency to look to the future, to predict what the next big thing was going to be and be ready for it

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So here’s the paradox: Americans are working 10 percent fewer total hours than they did before the recession, due to layoffs and shortened workdays, but we’re producing nearly as many goods and services as we did back in the full employment days of 2007. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke called these gains in productivity ” extraordinary ” and unforeseen at a recent Senate hearing. There’s a simple, visceral reason for the gains, Mr

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