News Cellar - Making $$ on the Web

'Gray Googlers' strike gold

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
Oct. 26, 2007

LOS ANGELES - Jerry Alonzy figured he'd be working into his 70s at least.

As an independent handyman at the mercy of weather patterns near Hartford, Conn., he'd always made a decent income that rarely grew.

Then he found Google (GOOG), and his life changed. Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 a year from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and he couldn't be more thrilled.

"I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in," he says. "What's not to like?"

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News Cellar - Making $$ on the Web

How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google

zenterlogo.pngI met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version of PowerPoint to get bought by Google. I listen to a lot of young entrepreneurs who desperately want to get bought by big companies like Google (GOOG), Microsoft or eBay, but Crosby and Walker actually made it a reality. On Tuesday, Zenter, an interactive presentation software, was acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum as mentioned in my colleague Erick Schonfeld's blog.

A little less than six months ago, Crosby left his pregnant wife at home in Phoenix and together with Walker, drove to Mountain View in an old Honda Civic to pursue the American dream. Crosby and Walker rented a small apartment, slept on air mattresses and began crunching out thousands of lines of codes day and night. So how did the pair, who met while working at Go Daddy, end up making a product (which, incidentally, was still in private beta) that Google had to snatch up? Here's a look at how Zenter did it.

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Personal Growth - Work

Where The Best-Paying High-Tech Jobs Are

Paul Maidment, 08.01.06, 12:00 PM ET

If you want to find the top-paying jobs in the U.S. tech industry, you may want to look in the obvious places--Montgomery, Ala., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Fort Smith, Ark., for instance.

Surprised? So were we. But for those looking to make top dollar as programmers, systems engineers and hardware technicians, these seemingly technologically out-of-the-way metros rival better-known high-tech hubs like San Francisco, Boston, New York and Washington D.C., for wages.

Such places often have niche local employers for IT professionals, not to mention much lower costs of living than the industry's traditional epicenters. A programmer earning $100,000 per year in San Jose, Calif., for example, would only need to earn $61,515 in Montgomery, according to data from ACCRA, a nonprofit that compiles cost-of-living data.

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News Cellar - Web 2.0

Microsoft Plays With P2P TV

Video: LiveStation Demo Microsoft Research (MSFT) and a UK-based company called Skinkers are developing peer-to-peer software called LiveStation for streaming live television over PCs.  Think of it as a Slingbox Without the Box.  (See demo video above).  Except that TV stations would have to sign up to stream their broadcasts over the service.

 

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