Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl on nytimes.com

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If VLC could convert files…

… I would be the happiest man around because VLC Media Player 0.9.6 is the best player I have ever used because it plays ANY video file I want, even the temp files that DC++ is using :-).

Anyway, as you will see I also use VLC to relate good news. :-)

The first one is about a book, a SEO book, The Non-profit Guide to Search Engine Marketing. It contains a lot of useful information and PeterD also succeeded to put together some extraordinary SEO tools.

The second news is a financial one, related in a way to the actual international financial crisis.

Logistics software provider Descartes Systems Group said it had net income of $2.3 million in the quarter ending Oct. 31, compared to $1.7 million in the same period the prior year. Revenues for the quarter were $17.0 million, up 10 percent from $15.5 million during the same period the prior year.
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The online underground economy talks about millions of dolars!

This economical crisis has come with a lot of interesting news. And jokes. “The new economical crisis affected also the social relationships. That being told, the latest news is that women are actually forced to marry for love…” :-)

Anyway, I have found out that maybe there is hope… The November 24th Symantec report details an online underground economy that has matured into an efficient, global marketplace in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold, and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars.

Symantec

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Latest results of the internet growth

There are 2 news that made me publish this article. In spite of the fact that we are in the middle of an international financial crisis, seems to me that online businesses are in that narrow corner of those few positive financial signals these days.

In the very heart of a financial crisis, U.S. citizens spend on video games and hardware!

Living a global financial and economic crisis is not a secret anymore. Banks are falling down, prices are growing, the global buy-power is falling also mostly because people are saving money instead of spending.

There is no business field affected but…

… gaming industry! Yeah, sounds a little bit incredible isn’t it? Seems to me that US population is staying inside the house and play games!

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