This week was yet another big week for Facebook with the company reaching new milestones, employees leaving, and the official launch of status tagging. I’m also proud to introduce a new feature of our weekly roundup: a stop motion video produced by my sister, Megan O’Neill. This new addition is a complete experiment so let us know your thoughts on the new weekly video!

Facebook Reaches 300 Million Users
This week Facebook announced that they officially crossed the 300 million user threshold, increasing the rate of growth to record levels. In addition to crossing this significant milestone, the company announced…

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We’d like to spend some time talking about documenting your project and sharing it with the world. For many, the goal is to become an Internet sensation, hopefully for the right reasons. Taking a bit more time to make certain you do a great job of sharing your information will pay off. Here at hackaday.comwe focus on technological wonders but these guidelines should work well at improving the desirability of anything you might want to share on the interweb.

1. Pictures
Yes, you need to have a picture to go with your project. Even if you did something that…

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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Magna will cut about 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe, the bulk in Germany, as it acts to return the carmaker to profit and pay back 4.5 billion euros ($6.55 billion) in state aid, its co-chief executive said. The Canadian auto parts supplier aims to sign a deal with former Opel parent General Motors within two weeks to buy a 55 percent stake together with Russian partner Sberbank, Siegfried Wolf said on Monday. “By 2015 we want to pay back the government-guaranteed loans. Opel will be profitable before that, however,” Wolf told a news conference. Around 4,000…

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NEW DELHI — India’s federal cabinet Thursday approved the release of 40 billion rupees ($826.4 million) to state-run banks as a subsidy to offset revenue losses arising from the grant of cheap short-term farm loans. The funds, already provided for in this fiscal year’s budget, come at a time when loan demand for winter-sown crops usually picks up. “For this year, the government has decided to continue the ongoing interest subvention scheme with the provision of interest subvention at 2% to the banks on their own funds,” Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ambika Soni, said at a news conference. State-run banks…

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In the last three months of , it is estimated that over dot.com businesses went out of business forever.It was to be expected and very predictable because far too manydot.com enterprises were riding high on investor cash infusions,were long on promises but produced little if any cash flow.The promise of success never materialized and investors wiselyrefused to throw good money after bad.No business can survive having expenses but no revenue. Not evenon the Internet.That was the "Old Internet" business model.You could write down an idea for an Internet business on acocktail napkin and get millions of dollars from eagerinvestors. Reality…

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MLM Lead System Pro Review -Attraction Marketing Blueprint.
What is the MLM Lead System Pro? This is a self branded customizable attraction marketing system. It is an attraction marketing tool that any network marketer with any company can use to generate quality prospects, build their list and explode their business profits with a lot of less effort and money.
The MLM LEAD System Pro combines the power of the internet with attraction marketing and using automated marketing systems and sales funnels to provide yourself not your business opportunity to profit immediately through affiliate and cash flow programs and to effortlessly…

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The folks at Revision3 really know what gets our pulse going. In this episode, they show us how they built a radio controlled keg. Not only is the system built sturdy enough to cart around the keg, it is also built with the capability for the driver to control the beer flow. This isn’t too shabby for a pretty quick project, but it still can’t compare with Bar2D2.

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In the not so distant past, there was little difference between financial and strategic investors. Investors of all colors sought to safeguard their investment by taking over as many management functions as they could. Additionally, investments were small and shareholders few. A firm resembled a household and the number of people involved – in ownership and in management – was correspondingly limited. People invested in industries they were acquainted with first hand.
As markets grew, the scales of industrial production (and of service provision) expanded. A single investor (or a small group of investors) could no longer accommodate the needs…

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