When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009

Santa Barbara-based Solid Oak Software , a maker of PC Internet filtering technology, is claiming that the firm's software code is being used by the country as part of a new program to force PC makers to install filtering software on all new PCs shipped in the country. study, released last week by researchers at the University of Michigan, found that Internet blacklists from Solid Oak Software, maker of the CyberSitter line of web filtering software, were included in China's "Green Dam" software from firm Jin Hui. ...Tags: In a report from the Wall Street Journal, the firm said it is looking for an injunction to prevent U.S.

have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitte I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

Long time Make It Work customer and Santa Barbara resident Rob Lowe joined Twitter today. Congrats on the new show Rob and welcome to the Social Web. Tags: Eric Greenspan Make It Work Santa Barbara amy poehler aplusk ashton ellen nbc parks and recreation rob lowe theEllenShow Twitte Rob Lowe's first tweet His profile is @robloweprofile.

Web 2.0 Affiliate Marketing – As described more fully in Pour and Stir , anyone with basic web development skills can become an affiliate publisher and generate income by creating websites that market a variety of products and services He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. What do Warren Buffet, Martin Luther King, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Harry Truman and Wayne Gretzky all have in common? In addition to all of them reaching the pinnacle of their chosen professions,

Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes. All of which requires many weeks of time, effort and lots of up front money to get your web company off the ground. Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like Previously startups had to purchase servers, load balances, routers, write some code and hire a hosting company to house and manage all of the hardware and software infrastructure.

Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes. All of which requires many weeks of time, effort and lots of up front money to get your web company off the ground. Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like Previously startups had to purchase servers, load balances, routers, write some code and hire a hosting company to house and manage all of the hardware and software infrastructure.

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media Alelo Google Yahoo Mahalo MySpace Tech Coast Angels

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said Wednesday that it has rolled out a new software product that the firm is aiming at remote web support. The firm said the new web support service will cost $9.95 Citrix also said it has unveiled a new version of the firm's corporate web support product, GoToAssist Corporate, which adds Mac support, multiple monitor support, ability to reboot a client's computer, and According to Citrix, the new service, GoToAssist Express, is a version of the firm's remote support service which will allow individuals and small businesses to provide online, technical support to clients.

frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. In between it all, I'm dropping off/picking up my son, hanging out with my wife and dogs, or perhaps a cigar with my brother or friends. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Just found the title of my post. You've been blogging for a while, what are five I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.