TheDailyDust.co.uk:
A house featured on Grand Designs is to be given away to one lucky Twitterer.The ‘Underground’ house won plaudits when it featured on the TV series in 2007 but has failed to sell due to the detumescent property market, which is why owner Tim Bawtree, 38, hit upon the idea of giving it away on [...]

CBC.ca:
While newspapers throughout North America struggle with declining revenues, a Chicago entrepreneur plans to launch a new newspaper that reprints blogs in print format.
The first issues of The Printed Blog are to go on sale Tuesday in Chicago and San Francisco.
The three-page, full-colour newspaper will consist exclusively of online content from over 300 local and [...]

Search Engine Watch:
1. Do the keyword research. If your most relevant keyword phrases have zero or very few searches, start rethinking right now.
2. If the keyword research works out, move forward and buy a good domain — but don’t spend too much. If it doesn’t work out you’ll be left holding a worthless domain [...]

Business Opportunities:
An Austin entrepreneur plans to turn a parent’s struggle to keep up with baby gear into a new Web-based business.
Jeff Chambers, the founder of two technology companies, has launched Babyslist.
The venture is designed to help parents save money with an online marketplace for parents to swap, buy and sell used baby-related items from others [...]

PRLog.Org:
Scott Campbell, 13, is launching his first startup, ScotBlog.net. The site is one of the internet’s first socially focused blogging sites, a community to produce and share new content with others. ScotBlog has many features, including allowing the user to create a profile, join user created groups, send private messages, add friends and most importantly, [...]

News 8 Austin:
Some of the Internet’s biggest Web sites and most powerful companies were once nothing more than a few big dreams in a small garage or a bedroom. It’s the garage-to-greatness approach and some local entrepreneurs are doing just that. They’re turning their passions into profits in this sluggish economy.
Jill Clark and Mandi [...]

ITworld.com:
1. Don’t Give Away Services for Free. As you’re starting a computer business, you need to learn how to take your prospects through the sales cycle, from free to fee. Barring some extraordinary circumstances, you should not spend several non-billable hours on just an initial proposal. A typical sales proposal has no value-added uniqueness and [...]

PC World Canada:
Find an Affordable Web Host
The Web site for your new business has to reside somewhere. How do you pick a Web host that won’t leave you high and dry?
Most hosting plans for small companies offer similar features: basically unlimited storage space, support for common databases and publishing systems, and anywhere from a few [...]

A. Dawn Journal:
What kind of courage do you need to tell your dad at the age of 16 that you are planning to quit high school? Moreover, wouldn‘t it be a lot harder if your dad is an immigrant from India who came to the U.S. with only $25 in order to pursue a better [...]

Idea Marketers:
The predicament every new webmaster faces is “How do I get Free Traffic to my website?” This becomes even more critical when you work with a low budget. Webmasters know the value and importance of traffic. They know only too well that the very success of their online business depends on the volume of [...]

NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation Blog:
Attention all high-school seniors – do you think you have what it takes to be recognized as a 2009 Young Entrepreneur Award Winner? It’s time to find out. Scholarship applications are now available for the 2009 Young Entrepreneur Awards, a scholarship program sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Business Young [...]

Entrepreneur.com:
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’ve got piles of paper cluttering your office and to-do lists that seem to be multiplying like rabbits. The good news is that many of the tasks that keep you from being as productive (and profitable) as you could be can be outsourced. You may not think you can afford [...]

Citizen Economists:
Traditional global credit markets have frozen, and they’re proving difficult to unstick. Under-capitalized banks are not keen to lend out what’s left on their balance sheets—not even and sometimes especially not to each other—and the value of the U.S. currency has risen steeply relative to those of other nations as banks around the world [...]

FutureNow:
Have you ever wished you were Bond? James Bond? Here are five ways to spy on your competitors’ web sites, without breaking any laws.
1. Statbrain - Using several sources, Statbrain’s algorithm computes the number of visitors to a website based on offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc.
2. AideRSS - Find out which of your [...]

Eastside Business Journal:
The U.S. Small Business Administration recently unveiled a new Web site geared to the 50-plus entrepreneur, providing useful information, links and resources vital to starting, growing and expanding a small business.
The new Web site at www.sba.gov/50plusentrepreneur features interactive information and links to help 50-plus entrepreneurs consider the benefits and rewards of [...]

Sacbee:
Local entrepreneur Mark Otero isn’t flirting with success. He’s found it with “Kiss,” a new Internet tool that allows people to search popular Web sites like MySpace or Hi5 and plant virtual smooches on people they like.
Otero is the UC Davis business grad who launched the profitable Mochii Yogurt shop in midtown just over a [...]

Best News Small Business Today:
It is always important to protect yourself and your assets as a business owner of a home business opportunity online. One of the first ways to do this is by getting a trademark approved by the US government in order to protect your company name. This will be important down the [...]

Business Opportunities Weblog:
Now available from the NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation, Johnny Money Online Game is a FREE Internet-based small business simulation game that engages students as they explore the risks and rewards of business ownership. Johnny Money is the newest of the Entrepreneur-in-the-Classroom programs, which are designed to enable educators to talk about entrepreneurship in [...]

Small Business Internet Marketing Blog:
The news this week is pretty dire. On the heels of the US Government’s bailout of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG Financial, stock markets in the US, Russia, Japan and elsewhere are suffering tremendous losses. The NYTimes paints a linkbait-worthy, interactive picture of the financial industry’s collapse. If you’re anything [...]

DuctTapeMarketing:
Here’s a directory of Facebook applications.
And, here are my favorite applications for business use:
Telephone - With Telephone you can call, send and receive voice messages through Facebook, just like having voicemail on your phone. All you need is the application and a microphone and you can start sending messages to your friends.
Slideshare - SlideShare is [...]