Download Google Maps for mobile to your phone, and never carry a paper map again. Google Maps on your phone makes it easy to determine your current location with or without GPS, get driving and transit directions, get phone numbers and addresses for local businesses.
Link: Google Mobile
There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money. Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and business finances.
Here you’ll find resources for keeping track of business expenses, finding out if you’re being charged hidden fees, invoicing roommates, and more.
Link: Mashable
If the Internet could speak with one voice, it would probably groan “oh, not again!” That’s because every raving success story about Internet startups is tempered by dozens more that crashed and burned in a sea of wasted money, bad ideas, or unfulfilled hype. As venture capitalist Paul Graham writes, most of these failures are never written about. No one knew about them, so they were never really expected to go anywhere. But a select few had very public flame-outs – what Graham calls “the elite of failures.”
The list below celebrates not the failure of these companies, but presents us with a conservative reminder of a not so distant past and the lessons we can learn from it.
Link: Business Pundit
There are only so many hours in a day, and you’ve got to determine which social media tools drive business, which ones build community, and where you can learn the most in the process. Maybe you’ve built a blog or a home page or some other starting point for your online presence. How do you manage the rest of your online presence, and how do you keep track of everything?
Link: Mashable