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By David Shamah
 MyBrandz is building a social community around the brands consumers use, know, and love in their everyday lives – independent of the brand maker’s influence or control. Just how much do people love their brandz? Enough to get the corporate logos of their favorite brands and products tattooed on their bodies!
By David Shamah
 Who says the day of the dot com millionaire is past? Penina First just won a $250,000 prize package in cash and services for coming up with the most innovative web startup idea this year – Day-Job, a service that will allow people who are looking for short-term help to connect with a large workforce of temps who need some quick cash, but don’t want to make long-term job commitments.
By David Shamah
 There are many things one could say about how Google has changed the world – but one of the most impressive is how they managed to turn the dictionary into a $16 billion a year business! In the Google universe, words are no longer just words – they are now Adwords, an advertising vehicle little understood by most people, but one with a huge potential for pulling in internet surfers amenable to whatever product or service you’re selling.
The Adwords system is designed for small and medium sized businesses with an online presence, who don’t want to spend a lot of [...]
By David Shamah
 Ginipic saves you that time, though; type your term into the program’s search box, and Ginipic will scour Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Stockxpert, and of course Google Images, and present the results right there on your screen. You choose the one you want, and drag it into your document. Job done!
By David Shamah
 On the surface, Israeli start-up Vidyatel’s mission is to prevent unauthorized use of copyrighted video content by people who don’t pay the copyright holder for the privilege of doing so. But Vidyatel has another, more important message for us: Stop being so lazy! You’re smart, creative and intelligent – and there’s no reason you can’t come up with original content for the videos you upload to services like Metacafe. Why stick that oh-so-lame “I’ll be back” clip in your video? What does Arnold Schwarzenegger have that you don’t, anyway?
Lazy or not, though, it’s time to stop using other people’s digital [...]
By David Shamah
 Most people who interact with computer technology are forced to slog through complicated instruction sets – in the form of line commands, menus or even, in the case of many new Web sites geared for the cell phone market, verbal instructions. In each case, you have to be very specific in indicating what it is you want the computer to do – or risk getting the equivalent of a “dumb stare,” the type kids are famous for when they don’t feel like doing their chores. It’s like you can hear the computer saying “Huh?” Unless you have a natural talent [...]
By David Shamah
 There are at least two schools of thought about competition in business: Either it’s bad, because you have to work all the more intensely to maintain your customers; or that it’s good, because it shows that there are lots of customers out there worth fighting over.
When you’re operating in a space that has a lot of competition, you have to hone your message, letting potential customers know what makes your product or service better. And when many of your competitors are offering what looks like a similar product for free, while you’re charging money for yours, your message – laying [...]
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All articles appeared in the Jerusalem Post, written by me, David Shamah. Questions or comments? Write me at
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