Have a dream of growing your home-based business into a virtual corporation? Your dreams may come true this year thanks to Jim Douglas, the governor of Vermont. Up until now, U.S. law required limited liability companies to maintain physical headquarters, real life board meetings, and loads of boring paper work that have no significance in the digital world.

In July, 2008, Gov. Jim Douglas signed a Bill entitled “H.458, an Act Relating to Digital Corporate Transactions”. Under this new law, physical presence of company board directors is no longer required, as …

Almost all the industries have been hit by the economic crisis, porn industry no exception. It seemed obvious that people would rather save on dating and try to find distractions from work-related problems in virtual reality worlds and porn. However, after Larry Flint, the Hustler publisher, asked the United States Congress to allocate five billion dollars to bailout the adult entertainment industry, it became clear that no one is immune to recession.
Russian company Elecard, a provider of video compression technology and high quality software products for video and audio playback, …

The number of Google’s advertising clients has been a closely guarded secret until now. UBS Analyst Ben Schacter broke the myth of millions-gazillions advertisers in his interview to Times, and made an assumption that the company had between 1.3 and 1.5 million advertisers by the end of 2008. Google declined to provide any comment on that, but

“In a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google said it had 1 million advertisers as of 2007. If history is any guide, we can expect the number to be much higher …

A new promising service called Artiklz has recently passed the beta testing phase and is now open to the general public. This California based venture has even been nominated for Mashable Open Awards in November last year.

What it does: the service aggregates discussions around various social media sites and allows selective conversational search. Basically with the help of Artiklz search engine web surfers are able to track conversations on any subject on any popular blog platform, forum, social sharing and discussion site. Blog owners get a set of tools to …

Most small businesses owners were hit hard by the economic crisis in 2008. However it had little or no influence on some online ventures, which not only maintained their operations but their owners turned into millionaires.

The year has been an inspiration for hundreds of thousands bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs world whide especially after the sale of the 3 most talked about blogs for some fairy tale money. These widely rumoured super expensive blogs were:

ArsTechnica.com acquired by Conde Nast

Just several days ago Google launched SearchWiki, a service that allows users logged into a Google account to customize search results for their needs. Now Googlers can vote up/down websites, delete and add websites, write notes and reviews of any website they like or dislike.

Google claims that these changes only affect the search results of every individual user, however it also states that the results can be shared with other Wiki users. Here’s what Google Blog says about the feature and its goals:

Xtranormal.com, a Web 2.0 startup from Montreal, Canada, has recently launched their new product. What it does is it brings moviemaking to the masses. With its simple interface, drag and drop animations, pre made scene templates, gestures, and camera moves, anyone familiar with computer can create their own animated movies and upload them to YouTube, Facebook or MySpace.
You should really hurry up before it goes mainstream!

Yesterday Google launched their new Gmail themes which allow every user to customize the layout of his e-mail box. Google team has announced they will provide this new function to all Gmail users within the next couple of days. Now my 4 out of 6 accounts (yes, I have 6 actively used Gmail accounts and an account manager) all have different themes. My favorite one so far is the Ninja theme.

Google has always been known for its constant brand, cleanness, and minimalism, so this step towards the mainstream (read MySpace) …