Following on yesterday’s post about the Wall Street Journal’s top Internet trends, we thought it would be interesting to show another list of top trends, this time by the Web Talk Guys.
Here’s what the Web Talk Guys see as the top trends in the Internet right now:
1. The decline…
Today’s Wall Street Journal (requires subscription) has a special section on top trends in ten industries. The review of the Internet trends is especially interesting and germane to the small and midsize business market.
Here are the Journal’s top 10 Internet trends for 2004:
1. …
We have started a new feature here at Small Business Trends. Each weekend we review some of the great weblogs being authored on the Web today.
We call them PowerBlog Reviews. “PowerBlog” because these weblogs really are powerful. Many of them are downright superb. Each of them that we…
Editor’s note: This is the first in what we expect to become a weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs…
Cracked Cauldron Spillings tells you that it is a weblog “Wherein we follow our intrepid entrepreneurs as they flounder around opening a bakery.” And that…
Skype, a way of making voice calls using the Internet instead of telephones, is currently free. It is also easy to use, requiring only the purchase of a $15 (USD) headset.
But Skype is still a ways from being practical for small businesses.
Skype, a Scandinavian company, is by the same people who…
With a Starbucks or one of its imitators seemingly on every corner it’s time to take a look at the coffeehouse as more than a beverage-dispensing trend. Sure people go to these little islands of caffeine for a taste of the bean, but that’s not the only reason, and maybe not even the…
We’ve written before about the rapid growth over at eBay’s B2B venue, Business Marketplace. It targets small businesses which need goods (such as PCs and restaurant supplies) and services to run their operations.
Now, in an article by Small Business Computing, Jay Fiore, an eBay…
Starbucks is launching an initiative in Costa Rica which will guarantee supplies of coffee and also support the coffee farmers there. According to Drinks Business Review Online:
“Starbucks has set up the Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company. Part of the company’s role will be to support…
The Internet — specifically Google and blogs — is changing doctors’ practices.
Medpundit, a practicing physician, describes in an article over at Blogcritics.org how she and other physicians increasingly use the Internet. Among the uses:
Finding information to assist in making…
The sale of counterfeit goods has mushroomed and become more prevalent in recent years. So much so, it’s now become a cottage industry for entrepreneurs and even gone mainstream — sort of.
One way counterfeit goods are sold is through home parties in American suburbia, similar to…
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