OK, I put up with the numerous bugs, the frequent nondescript error messages, and so on, but tonight I tried to just click on the Groups link in MySpace and got this, repeatedly for the past half-hour or so:

Hey Rupert… how about throwing a couple of extra million into fixing the infrastructure!!!

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I”ll be appearing on AllTalkRadio Monday tonight on the Growing Your Business with Fred and Lyna show at 8pm EST. I”ll be talking about how entrepreneurs can use online networks to find strategic partners, customers, business partners, and much-needed expertise to help you start and grow your business.
If you miss the live show, don”t worry [...]

Nitron Advisors is featured on the front page of today’’s Wall Street Journal:
Big Investors Turn to Network of Informants
“For professional investors, something akin to what Match.com has done for the nation’’s singles…hooking up middle managers from hundreds of companies with professional investors desperate for an investing edge.”

More (requires subscription or two-week trial)
UPDATE: Michael Mayhew posted [...]

An interview with Michael Gerber, Author of The E-Myth Revisited:
“If they don’t fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achieve their potential. That’s because the person who owns the business doesn”t truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is the key.” - Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber is the founder [...]

The creator of BugMeNot.com has launched http://www.retailmenot.com/, which provides coupon codes for retail stores, without the privacy-infringing registration requirements. A very useful tool.

Many online stores allow for a “coupon” or “promotion” code when you order to automatically assign discounts, deals and freebies (kinda like money for nothing). RetailMeNot.com is a place for finding and [...]

Our COO, Scott Lichtman, is speaking at this event:
New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Cyberspace Law Committee
presents
Web 2.0: Upgrade Your Web Marketing

The Internet is upgrading to version 2.0 and so should your law firm’’s marketing. More and more lawyers are taking their practices to the next level and this forum should help you do [...]

For this blog and for Brain Food, We are looking for an email service that can convert our blog posts into both daily and weekly mailings. Services like Feedburner can automatically convert each blog post into an email. And a company like Constant Contact (and its many competitors) will take our mailing list [...]

More social networking humor from Chris Pirillo:

Of course, once I thought about it, I realized that in most of the social networking sites in which I participate, “friendship” is bi-directional, i.e., both people have to consent. Maybe a better definition would be “Someone you actually know who won”t accept your social networking friend request.”

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Congratulations to the team at Accolo, which was just named the #1 fastest growing private company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Accolo is the company that acquired Teten Recruiting. For more on their approach to recruiting, see “Use Online Networks to Find Your Star Employee“.

It seems that on many of the networks and lists on which I participate, there’’s been an issue with “negativity” lately. Many have had members leave because of the negativity that they perceive.
You know, I would never be one to come out “in defense” of negativity. It frustrates me as much as it does anyone [...]