IE8 setup change hints at further concessions to EU in antitrust fight
Microsoft on Thursday bowed to critics involved in the company’s European antitrust case who have accused it of silently changing users’ default browsers, a move that may be aimed at Brussels-based regulators.
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) will no longer replace a PC’s default browser when a user selects the already-checked “Use express settings” option in the setup screen, Microsoft said on Thursday. Both Opera Software and Mozilla had hammered Microsoft in May over the tactic, accusing the company of force feeding IE8 to users with Windows Update, and silently changing the default browser on PCs.
Will the proliferation of entrepreneurism and small businesses
lead the U.S. out of recession as the New Economy?
What if we haven’t bottom out yet?
What if we rethink our current approach?
What if I started a new business?
Historically, economic downturns are lead to recovery by small business.
Data and public sentiment show this may hold true for the present economic
turn around to begin.
Today’s jobs and tomorrow’s sources of gainful employment are projected to come from the burgeoning entrepreneurial class and new businesses starting up across the country.
Consumer Confidence = Two thumbs up!
When asked this Spring, “Who will lead us to a better future?” Americans put Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses first with 63% followed by Science and tech leaders (52%). (Source: WeMedia, 2009)
Encouraging Facts
In 2008, 3.2 out of 1000 adults created a new business each month. That’s approximately 530,000 new businesses per month (source: The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 2009).
The states with the highest entrepreneurial activity rates were Georgia (590 per 100,000 adults), New Mexico (580), Montana (530), Arizona (490), Alaska (440), and California (440). (Kaufman)
Crazy to Start a Business Now? Who would start a company when their economic future is unstable? Well try reading Startups in a Downturn. Lessons learned: everything is cheaper, there is less competition in the marketplace and in fundraising, there is more time to work on business plans. Read more here.
According to a post on Entrepreneur.com, a small sample of 25 individuals produced encouraging findings on social networking ads.
An eye-tracking study conducted by Oneupweb, a search marketing firm, found that 65% of subjects studied approved of seeing advertisements and even engaged with ads while searching for products and reviews.
Although encouraging, businesses and marketers might seek further data to corroborate Oneupweb’s findings before jumping to spend precious ad budgets.
Nextgov, the web site service launched this spring by Government Executive Media Group, has a Web 2.0 tool dubbed “The Feed” that aggregates official Twitter feeds from federal government agencies on its website.
NextGov is the interactive online home for federal managers interested in technology-based business solutions. Nextgov.com is designed as a meeting place for government and industry managers to share insights on deploying IT successfully to achieve agency missions.
You no longer have to wait for CSPAN to report on what your federal agencies are doing now.
Clickz reports that Moonfruit, the Do It Yourself web site tech firm cries foul of Twitter pulling its hastag #moonfruit from twitter’s trending topics list.
In short, twitter censored the suddenly viral quick rising hashtag from its list.
Sad for the web 2.0 community, Twitter’s move undermines the ability for the community of users to police itself; in supporting or not supporting community activity, or even reporting wrongdoing when it occurs.
This maybe an opportunity for Twitter to develop another identifier for commercial hashtags based on color or a separate sear collumn for its users.
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