David lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send...
As I've mentioned several times on Business Hacks, one of the best ways to manage your online reputation is to create your own website; that way, when people google you, one of the first things they'll come across is something that makes you look good—and you can control. I finally...
The time for buying valuable websites that contain important keywords for just a few bucks is over. Domain speculators have snatched up tens of millions of websites, and they've got intricate setups to make sure that they're the first to any other valuable sites that come onto the market in...
Yelp—the user-generated business rating site—aint just for restaurants and bars anymore. I just used the website to find a CPA to help me figure out my increasingly-complicated taxes. Yesterday, I used it to find someone to sharpen my knives. Last week, I used Yelp to find a plumber for a...
If you're traveling out of the US, you might want to reserve your airplane tickets and rental cars through a website based out of the country you're going to. An article in the New York Times Travel section found that you can often save a significant amount of money on...
When colleagues and clients (and dates, friends, etc.) search for you online, you want them to see you at your very best. As I've mentioned before, this means you need to do lots of things, like join social networks, comment intelligently on blogs, and run faster. But the number one...
When I come across websites that contain important information for whatever I'm working on at the time, I'll often bookmark the pages or sometimes just leave them open for later. Often, though, by the time I'm ready to return to them, I've lost my train of thought or can't find...
If youve got a cameraphone with more than one megapixel resolution, then you can take advantage of a cool free service called scanR. It lets you take photos of whiteboards, business cards, and documents and upload them via email to its website, where it...
