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How many Web sites are in Internet?

According to Web server’s last statistics elaborated by NetCraft, there are more than 100 million web sites in the whole world. As you can see in the graph, the growth has been enormous principally in the last 2 years. In August, 1995 they existed near than 19 thousand sites, in 2004 near than 50 million [...]

Free Book: Getting Real

Getting Real, a book elaborated by the company 37 signals (creators of Basecamp, Ta-da List and others), is already available and free, only online. The PDF version to download still continues costing US$ 19.00.
The book had very good reviews, for what is a recommended reading. It’s not a practical book but rather theoretically (planning, skills, [...]

How to make money with free services

A business model that VC* adores. Business 2.0 has published a series of advices to make money offering free services. Which is the strategy? The “Freemiums”services. That is to say, services 100 % free that attract users to a basic product, to offer then a special product, with a respective payment.
Examples of this strategy success are [...]

Ranking of countries where making business is easier

The World Bank published in July a very interesting report called Doing business in 2006: Creating Jobs. And even when it’s not a recent new, let me tell you that it’s very helpful is to know wich are the top thirty economies based on the ease of doing business. To summarizes, this report is a [...]

So you want to start an online business?

Follow these five golden rules, says Michael Parsons, and nothing can possibly go wrong
At this point even the most cynical will probably concede that this internet thing is going to be around for a while. For good or ill, the audience is moving online, which means the people who serve the audience have to move [...]

Seth Godin: Major mistakes entrepreneurs make

In workhappy, as part of the promotion of his new book “Small is the New Big“, Seth Godin shares 5 good advices for entrepreneurs. Of them, which I believe stands out is the fifth one.
5. Failure to measure
All the previous advices (to strain very much, to make efficient expenses, to understand what is and does [...]

The secret to Yahoo Answers succes

Even when searches, in Yahoo! are losing market in comparison with Google, to call people to create their own content really can give result.
Business 2.0 has published an interesting article about Yahoo Answers’s success, considered the second most popular site of information on Internet, only after the Wikipedia.
In June, Yahoo Answers had more than 12 [...]

11 ways of optimizing an URL

11 ways of optimizing an URL it is an article published in seomoz that seems to be very interesting, it shows really valuable information. The especially part that called my attention was point 6, since the web make fashionable spam seekers with subdomains. Here I left you part of the article.
11 advices to achieve successful [...]