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 goodand 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...
Yelpthe user-generated business rating siteaint 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...
So Twitter is not for everyone, and I'm still not sure where I stand on the whole micro-blogging thing myself. (Though the Summize search function has at least made it possible to see what everyone's up to.) But if you're going to partake in the latest tech craze, you might...
Ever wanted to check out an online publication, website or application without first forking over your email address? You can register using the awesome new OtherInbox that Rick scored beta invites to, or you can channel 2004 and see if someone's already signed up using a generic username and password...
Given the deluge of information you can precipitate simply by surfing the web these days, there is a new wave in web design to get the relevant information out front as quickly and usefully as possible. It doesn't get much more lightning fast than UmbrellaToday?, which has stormed the weather...