Reflections On The First Year Of Working At Home Written by Kirk Bannerman
For reasons that escape me now, I kept sort of a diary during my first full year of working at a home based business. It was nothing close to being a complete daily diary, but was more of a collection of scribbles about things that I felt were worthy of note at time. Since quite a bit of time has passed since then, I decided to revisit these notes.In no particular order, here are some of things that I had made note of. Choosing path...in beginning, my enthusiasm was very high (perhaps too high?) and I was chasing off on several different home-based business opportunities at same time (exhibiting "dog in a meat market" syndrome, I suppose) and not focusing my efforts enough to be successful at any single one of them. I finally reigned myself in and focused on a single work at home business opportunity. In other notes I find reference to emotional and/or psychological issues that I experienced and are probably typical for most people when starting a home based business. When working at home a person can, at times, experience a feeling of isolation which is probably brought on by lack of interaction of a work force environment. There were also periods of doubt in early going...did I pick a viable business opportunity?...am I doing right things to develop my business?...when will I start making a profit?, and so on.
| | Google and AOL delivering desktop searchWritten by Loring A. Windblad
Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. Google beat out rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL in launching an application that lets users retrieve Outlook e-mail, text files, Microsoft Office documents, AOL IM logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed via Web browser. Google calls it a "photographic memory for your computer." According to search industry pundit Danny Sullivan, Google is making desktop part of Google, rather than making search part of operating system. And your desktop data never is never sent on to Google.com--your machine does heavy lifting on local data. AOL is close behind with a desktop search tool in works that will likely be offered as a feature within a Web browser that AOL is developing. Meanwhile, Apple has already demonstrated a desktop search tool (Spotlight) that will make its appearance in next version of Mac OS X. Google on Thursday (14 Oct) unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which will report earnings for first time as a public company next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve e-mail, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a Web browser.
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