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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsPeople always say that the manner or style in which you dress can say a lot about you. The entire outfit of a person from the apparel, fashion accessories and even the handbag can help other people tell on what type of person you are. You will discover so much about a woman from even the type of handbag that she carries with her.
For those women who carry bags of average size, which have handles and are snugly fit under the shoulder, they are perceived to be sophisticated and classy. They are usually used by career oriented women or those holding high office positions.
Big bags are usually associated with the younger generation. We find a lot of students carrying bulky bags to put their stuff in like notebooks, books, folders and the like. They are also used by people who have a lot to carry with them or require a lot of space. You can say that a lot of the women who carry these type of handbags seem to be very simple and down to earth.
Formal clutches especially those with embellishments and a lot of trinkets can signify that the woman carrying this is someone who is stylish and chic.
I can say that girls who go for very expensive designer label handbags are very high maintenance women. These girls project poise and confidence knowing that they know what they want and wouldn?t settle for anything less or anything inferior to the expensive brands. These high maintenance girls can be quite difficult to handle so guys need to be extra careful and sensitive to this type of women.
Women are showing their wild side if they prefer to carry with them leather handbags adorned with numerous pockets, chains and buckles. The numerous chain and buckle embellishments tend to project the image of a bad girl who is always on hand to have a great wild time without thinking about the consequences of their actions.
When a women prefers bright colored handbags you can say that this woman is sociable, fun, fresh and friendly. They usually have a sunny disposition and are very outgoing. You can expect this type of woman to be willing to engage in a conversation even with a stranger or someone she has just gotten to know.
For those who tend to choose dark colors like brown and black, you can say that these women are shy and very reserved.
While the above assumptions may not be applicable to everybody most of the time, you can say, that the type of bag you wear whether it is with regards to the style or the color usually reflects your mood.
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Bebo caught in Irish conflict — The video sharing site has become an unexpected platform for both Irish Catholics and Protestants to hurl insults and violent threats at each other. The BBC has the story.
Downturn puts drag on angels — The Center for Venture Research reports that angel investors put less money into each of their startups in 2008 than in years previous, noting a drop of 26 percent from 2007.
Encarta buckles under Wikipedia’s weight — Microsoft will pull its Encarta encyclopedia software from store shelves in June after it failed to compete with its more pliable rival.
Cloud computing coalition discloses members – Those that signed the so-called “cloud manifesto” supporting cloud computing principles, have officially been identified. This group includes Cisco Systems, IBM and Sun Microsystems, but lacks some bigger predicted names, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Entellium execs put behind bars — The two former top executives from customer relations software maker Entellium have been sentenced to three years in prison and heavy fines for fraudulently inflating revenue reports by more than 400 percent.
YouTube, the newest Mouseketeer – The web’s most popular video site has struck a content distribution deal with Walt Disney’s television branch. The New York Times has the details.
Patent auction gets classy — The RPX Corporation, a company devoted solely to buying and aggregating as any pantents as possible, cleaned up at last week’s patent auction hosted at the Ritz Carlton hotel in San Francisco.
Asian virtual goods companies score big — Three Japanese and Korean-made virtual worlds brought in $510 million in 2008 alone. Virtual Goods News has more.
Spam rebounds from cutbacks — Despite multiple efforts to curtail the amount of junk mail finding its way into people’s inboxes, spam still accounts for 94 percent of all email received.
China sets up Nasdaq copycat — China released a set of rules governing initial public offering procedures for its new stock market modeled after the American Nasdaq.
Intel teams with GroovyChannel to build multi-core databases — Fox Business has more.
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One of the best things about the iPhone 3.0 software is it will finally make instant messaging viable on the platform. That’s because with Push Notifications finally working, you no longer will have to have an instant messaging app open all the time to receive messages from it.
Of the instant messaging platforms, Yahoo Messenger is one of the largest, with millions of users. So far, it hasn’t been represented at all on the iPhone, while rivals like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) have. But tonight the company announced an iPhone app at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. It has also posted a demonstration video on its blog, which I have embedded below.
It looks pretty slick, but I have to wonder if users won’t opt for one of the IM apps that supports connecting to all of the various IM networks, like Meebo’s app will. Yahoo smartly touts its app’s ability to bypass the ridiculously priced text messages on the device, something which all of these IM services with Push Notification enabled could help change.
For now, it looks like the app will work even without Push Notification, by keeping you signed in to the network even when you exit the app. Then when you come back, you can see your messages. This is similar to what AIM and other apps of this nature do, but Push Notification will be much more powerful.
Yahoo didn’t give a date for when the app would launch, but the iPhone 3.0 software will be available this summer.
Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone demo video from Yahoo! Messenger on Vimeo.
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bowman9991 writes “Paramount Pictures are so confident about the box office potential of the upcoming Star Trek reboot directed by J. J. Abrams that they’re already working on a sequel. They’ve hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof to write the screenplay. We’re looking at a possible 2011 release for the next Star Trek movie with the same cast. Now that they’ve committed themselves, let’s hope it lives up to expectations.”
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Facebook sacked its chief financial officer today, as the company stares down rumors about difficulties getting financing and high growth-driven costs — now it is defending itself to the press by saying it is on track to beat revenue projections and make 70 percent more than in 2008. Facebook brought in revenues of nearly $300 million in 2008, I’ve previously confirmed, so that could mean around $500 million in 2009? This number is substantially higher than what we’ve heard its internal revenue projections to be (between somewhere under $400 million to possibly as high as $430 million). So what’s going on?
The company has been running banner ads through a deal with Microsoft for years, but a source close to the company says that its revenues have become “less and less dependent” on them as a way of making money. Instead, Facebook seems to be making more money on anything from its own banner ad sales to its experimental advertising efforts. The latter includes include ways for advertisers to pay for Facebook features like a company’s public page to show up within the site’s homepage “highlights” section. It also offers a range of self-serve advertising on other parts of the site, including ways to target ads to particular demographic groups on the site — these ads have been been a big contributor to revenue, TechCrunch recently heard.
Facebook has doubled in size to 200 million users since last August alone. Advertisers want to understand how to reach its users (at least users that advertisers deem able to buy their products, so ones in wealthier countries, more on that in a moment). Maybe advertisers are putting more money into Facebook versus other web ads to see if or how they might work better. Facebook is constantly tuning where its ads appear, along with the rest of its redesigns, so creatively advertising to its users is an at least — how does one say — evolving process. Or, maybe those experimental ads are actually working and that’s why advertisers are apparently spending more on it.
Wait. Advertising is working?
If advertising is where Facebook is making its money, it’s going against the other main trend in trying to monetize social networks. Tencent, a Chinese web portal, IM client, social network and more, made over a billion in revenue last year — mostly from virtual goods. Other social networks are headed in that direction. Most prominently, hi5 — a social network with 62 million monthly active users around the world, but not so much in advertising-rich countries — cut half its staff today because it couldn’t raise funding. It is apparently refocusing its resources on virtual currency, doing things like selling virtual goods within games.
Facebook doesn’t know how long its growth trajectory might hold up, and maybe it will begin to look closer into virtual currency? The company says it’s still thinking about some sort of universal payment service for third party developers and their games, but so far we haven’t seen more than its own years-old virtual gifts feature.
So far, MySpace is the other U.S.-origin social network that is making serious ad money — that I know of. It has more users in the U.S. than Facebook, and may have made up to $800 million last year off a range of ad products, including lots of banner ads as well as self-serve and demographic-targeted ads. Third party estimates suggest that MySpace made less than it thought it was going to.
What we still don’t know is if Facebook has figured out a way to get long term growth — especially beyond banner ads — or if the new money is of a more fleeting kind. At least the company appears to be able to pay for its growth, as I wrote yesterday. Today, it says it expects to be cash-flow positive by 2010.
Debates about how to make money and cover costs appear to have led to Facebook CFO Gideon Yu’s departure today. Note: he’s already been replaced by an interim chief financial officer, Silicon Valley veteran Peter Currie. Yu left because of conflict with company founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to AllThingsD, over issues ranging from “increasing advertising revenue to fund-raising discussions with investors.”
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
CTIA: RIM Launches BlackBerry App World — BlackBerry App World will be available on all BlackBerrys with track balls, including Pearls, Curves, Flips, Bolds, and 8800 series phones. — Research In Motion launched the official BlackBerry App World application store today …
Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu is leaving the company, a move that signals the company is positioning itself to go public.
The social networking site, which recently passed the 200 million user mark, reported that it is on track to increase revenues by 70 percent this year. Could an IPO be around the corner?
Prediction: Facebook files for IPO by the end of 2009.
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Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu is leaving the company, a move that signals the company is positioning itself to go public.
The social networking site, which recently passed the 200 million user mark, reported that it is on track to increase revenues by 70 percent this year. Could an IPO be around the corner?
Prediction: Facebook files for IPO by the end of 2009.
