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Latin Business Chronicle – Latin American Business News and Intelligence Reemerging Markets Productivity and innovation will be the true markers of success in the new global economy. Andbank’s international push Andorra’s oldest private bank is undertaking an international expansion aimed at the United States and Latin America. Latin America: instability at home and abroad While the Ukraine crisis has made headlines around the world in the past weeks, instability in Venezuela and Argentina also has an impact on Latin America’s economies – starting with Brazil.
Five Facts About Second Life the BBC Doesn't Un The BBC's recent magazine article, "What Happened to Second Life?", written by Lauren Hansen and edited by Jonathan Duffy, is so incandescently bad, to read it is to feel the entire institution's credibility undermined. After all, if the BBC can get one relatively simple technology story so patently, thoroughly wrong, you have to wonder: What other news items are they bunging up as badly? Some 800 words long, it boasts at least five significant errors which erode its thesis almost wholly: 1. The BBC Misreported Second Life's User Numbers Ten Rules of LinkedIn Etiquette for Business Professionals Unlike Facebook and the like, LinkedIn is strictly a social network for professionals with over 48 million members in over 200 countries. Working like a sophisticated online business card, members from those new to the workforce all they way to CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies utilize the free service. However, there is a right and wrong way to do it, and below are the top ten rules of LinkedIn Etiquette for Business professionals. Bad Profile Picture Professionals who choose to post a picture of themselves on LinkedIn should keep the same frame of mind. Although everyone loves to see pictures of children, it can send the wrong image when looking for a professional online.
FreeAccess Plus!: Web 2.0 Censorship workaround at Global Voices Advocacy Based on Hamed Saber‘s “Access Flickr” Firefox extension, which enables users to circumvent the filter currently in effect in Iran and in few other countries that block Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website, another Iranian developer, MohammadR, has released “FreeAccess Plus!“, a nifty extension that turns Firefox into a proxy that bypasses censorship on popular Web 2.0 websites such as YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr, Technorati.com, FriendSter.com, livejournal.com, MySpace, Hi5 and others. Many of those web sites are barred in Iran.
'Virtual graduation' for students A university is to hold a "virtual graduation ceremony" for students on a distance learning course. Edinburgh University will broadcast the ceremony at its McEwan Hall on to the Second Life web community. The move will ensure students on its E-Learning course who are unable to travel to Edinburgh do not miss out on the graduation celebrations. They will be able to download robes for their online avatars, and gather in a virtual bar after the ceremony.
Serious threat to the web in Italy In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that's where our involvement would normally end. How LinkedIn will fire up your career - Mar. 25, 2010 By Jessi Hempel , writer March 25, 2010: 6:14 PM ET (Fortune) -- If you need a job, or just want a better one, here's a number that will give you hope: 50,000. That's how many people the giant consulting firm Accenture plans to hire this year. Yes, actual jobs, with pay. It's looking for telecom consultants, finance experts, software specialists, and many more. You could be one of them -- but will Accenture find you?
Nart Villeneuve - Keyword Lists A while back I put together various lists of keywords that have been found to be censored in some way in China. I noticed that they’ve been floating around the Net so here’s a post explaining where each of the lists came from. badwords.txt – This is a list that was found on 163.com, a popular Chinese portal. It is unclear to me what the exact purpose of the list is. Date: November 6, 2008 Source: – This is a list that I found on TOM Online’s Skype servers. AZ Business Magazine December 2008 AZ Business Magazine November/December 2012 Bring on the HEAT The Valley of the Sun has created the perfect climate for tech startups. Don’t believe me? What if I told you the Valley is almost as prolific as Silicon Valley for producing tech startup companies?