I thought that some of our readers might be interested and qualified to attend one of our upcoming private hedge fund dinners.
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Seeking Ecommerce Experts for New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Hedge Fund Dinners
December 2006

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Nitron Advisors is organizing a series of dinners for Ecommerce experts to talk with major hedge fund Read More...

From the "brazen careerist", 10 Job-hunt tactics you might not know:

2. Use proactive recommendations.
Instead of waiting for a hiring manager to ask for references, have your reference call immediately. This works well if you have a heavy-weight reference, like a well-known CEO or someone who knows the hiring manager. But it also works well if Read More...

More funnies from Chris Pirillo:

Teresa Valdez Klein and Jason Preston have been posting their notes from the various presentations at this week's Blog Business Summit. Among the highlights:

A link to 15 Ways to a Killer Blog with Maryam and Robert Scoble
Ben Edwards on Branding and Social Media
A link to a link to Jeremy Popper's Unclear on the Concept; Lessons Read More...

There's a great write-up of danah boyd in Financial Times, which labels her the high priestess of internet friendship. I thought they did a great job, with the exception of not respecting her preference of not capitalizing her name.
In addition to profiling danah, the article also chronicles the development of Friendster and MySpace, and others, Read More...

One of the major themes of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online (see Chapter 16) is the need to preserve ones corporate and personal virtual reputation. I've long thought that there was a need for a business that would be a personal PR agent, which would monitor what's being said about Read More...

Let me say first off that I am, generally, a MySpace fan. I'm active on there, and my teenage son and my two older stepsons all have accounts.
But you've got to be careful on there. Last Thursday I spent the better part of a day cleaning off spyware and a Trojan virus from my son's Read More...

"People who access the Internet for what have become routine functions -- sending emails, writing blogs, and posting photos and information about themselves on social networking sites -- do not realize how much of their personal privacy they put at risk, according to Wharton faculty and legal experts. Nor, they add, have the courts fully Read More...

There's a great piece at Inside Bay Area this week entitled on how Corporate America is embracing social networking. The story focuses on the increase in customers for Visible Path and the in-house social networking being developed by IBM called "Fringe".
The jury is still out whether any of the fledgling MySpace wannabes for the business Read More...

This week, Work.com relaunched in the form of a Web 2.0-ish business community. The site consists of how-to guides for running your small business, written by a combination of in-house editors, certified topical experts, and members.
While this has admittedly been done before, Work.com has done a great job on the execution:
- great domain name
- a Read More...