Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Screen Scraping Content To Excel via Web Connectors. My friends love to tease me for being a "spreadsheet guy" because I make spreadsheets for nearly everything under the sun. Mostly product comparisons, financial analysis(ish), stuff like that. One spreadsheet that I work on very frequently deals with 401k fund options from my employer.
Due diligence on 150 funds is a time consuming process. To help me make semi-educated picks I browse finance.yahoo.com to look at stats such as the beta, expense ratio, manager tenure, turnover, yield, (1, 3, 5, 10) year load adjusted returns, etc. The problem? These stats change constantly, and manually updating a spreadsheet is a chore! Recently I was investigating data streams for a keystroke biometric project that I'm working on and came across some information that led me to believe that creating data connections through Excel would be a snap. If you open MS Excel 2007+ and go to the Data tab you'll notice there are several external data connection options (Access, Web, Text). Geoff Garcia: Klout Influence Summary. Do you have Facebook Klout? Easy and Fast Gamification with Badge-O-Matic | BigDoor Media. So you’ve already decided you want to reward your users for performing certain actions by giving them points and badges.
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Shoppers can then put those funds toward the purchase of a new iPod or iPod Touch. The trade-in program is only available for one week, starting Sunday, Oct. 17 and running trough Saturday, Oct. 23. Customers can bring in up to three of their previously used but still working iPods to a Toys "R" Us service desk, and the store will make an offer for each music player, depending on the age and model. Customers receive an iPod "trade-up" card loaded with the total dollar amount of their trade-ins, and the card can be used to buy a new device.
The program won't be available in all Toys "R" Us stores, so shoppers should check with their local outlets. Share this. Unsubscribe.com Raises $2.1 Million To Help People Get To InBox Zero. How many mailing lists are you on that fill your email inbox every day? Figuring out how to unsubscribe from all of them can be a pain. From that frustration was born Unsubscribe.com, an LA-based startup that just closed a $2.1 million Series A financing.
Charles River Ventures led the round. Other investors include Ron Conway’s SV Angel, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier as well as angel investors including Matt Coffin, Tim Ferriss, and Matt Brezina. Unsubscribe.com was started by James Siminoff (who previously founded PhoneTag/Simulscribe, which is now part of DiTech), Joshua Roth, and Wil Schroter. It adds an “Unsubscribe” button to every email. Siminoff explains the problem he is trying to solve. Each unwanted email might have a different way to unsubscribe.