It is difficult to run a business, especially during the economic downturn. People are very careful spending their money by all means. Your suppliers start to chase outstanding invoices and your customers order less than ever.

So, it is really important to review your cash flow on a regular basis to find out your exact CASH situation.  And then, you have to dig deeper to look at “everything” could help you through the troubled economic times. If you are not cash flow positive at the moment, you need to work out a plan to achieve that asap. And one way you can do that is by negotiating prices with all your suppliers, even your broadband provider. Remember, every little helps!

Your cash flow, at the same time, measures your business performance and assesses your options for growth. Why? It is always telling you the truth and never trying to hide anything.

You can now subscribe to your events feed so that other calendars which supports the iCalendar format can stay up-to-date with Bizroof.

The following is a list of applications which support iCalendar: Apple iCal, Mozilla Calendar, Google Calendar, Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Live Calendar etc.

The new CashBack programme encourages people to use Live Search,  and they believe it will work in terms of increasing market share of online search.

To participate the SearchPerks, you have to download a special browser add-on, and you must use Internet Explorer. So, Microsoft is trying to kill three birds with one stone:

1. To get more Live Search users
2. To get more IE users
3. To have a better understanding of what people are searching for

Google uses PageRank to identify the importance of web pages. Although there are more than a hundred parameters affecting google search results, PageRank is still one of the most critical factors.

Enterprise Instant messaging (IM) plateforms need to be integrated with their business process and existed operation system. In such a way, the communication between people will be improved.

I believe that they are trying to send out a message to explain how they have connected with over a billion people. However, the whole ads just make me feel that they should’ve/could’ve/would’ve connected with real people but they didn’t.

Here is the long uncut version:

Are you looking for a place to ……..

• Get your startup founded and get the snowball rolling;
  
• Get yourself a mentor who will see your business from a different perspective;
  
• Get significant media attention (VCs, fellow entrepreneurs and press).

TechCrunch50 (once a year)

1. Number of applicants: 1000+ groups.
2. Number of accepted groups: 50+.
3. Founding: ?.

DEMO (3 times a year)

1. Number of applicants: 1000+ groups.
2. Number of accepted groups: 70+.
3. Founding: ?.

Y Combinator (twice a year)

1. Number of applicants: ?.
2. Number of accepted groups: 20.
3. Founding: $5000 + $5000n, where n is the number of participating founders (i.e. 2 founders get $15,000, 3 get $20,000).

SeedCamp (once a year)

1. Number of applicants: 400+ groups.
2. Number of accepted groups: 5.
3. Founding: Up to EURO 50,000.

TechStars (once a year)

1. Number of applicants: 300+ groups.
2. Number of accepted groups: 10.
3. Founding: Up to $15,000.

• Strength - It is fast, secure and multi-processing structured.
• Performance - Chrome uses V8 JavaScript engine to generate javascript code dynamically and hide class transitions automatically. It also uses multi-processing architecture, which allows the browser to shut down a single Tab or a plugin wherever problem occurs but to keep the whole browser alive.
• Security - Chrome warns users when they attempt to visit a harmful website based on google’s phishing and malware blacklists, which is being updated periodically.
• Usability - The Tabs are placed at the top of the window in order to make the navigation faster and smoother. Additionally, Chrome displays 9 most visited web sites and sites most often searched on the home page. This concept was first introduced with Opera’s Speed Dail.

IE8 Beta, released on March 5, 2008, was targeted for web developers and designers. It behaves significantly diffent compared to IE7 and IE6.

• Strength - It is the default browser in Windows
• Security - InPrivate, allows IE8 not to save searching and browsing history, cookies and form data. In another word, it clears the browser cache by default.
• Usability - Search Suggestions, Web Slices, Tab Color Grouping
• Performance - Accelerators, Automatic Crash Recovery

Firefox 3 final version was released on June 17, 2008 after 8 alpha, 5 beta and 3 release candidates.

• Strength - Thousands of add-ons, themes and the community of developers / designers behind it.
• Usability - The download manager and bookmark storing system are redesigned, and they looks easy to use. Also, it separates the themes for Mac, Linux and windows, and that means users will have a more native look and feel on different operation systems.
• Performance - It employs Gecko 1.9 to enhance the existing layout engine. It passes Acid2 test and gets better results on the Acid3 test compared to Firefox 2. Basically, it means that Firefox 3 is more CSS and javascript friendly.

Safari 3 final release of the Windows version was offered on March 18, 2008.

• Strength - It is the default browser in Mac, and it has an elegant interface.
• Performance - It supports for CSS Web fonts and animations and improves support for SVG and HTML 5 media. Performance improvements.
• Usability - As-you-type text search, Quartz-style font-smoothing

Performance Comparison:
Average page loading time (Bizroof Application) :

• IE 8: 1.2 seconds
• FF3 1.1 seconds
• Safari 1.0 seconds
• Chrome: 0.6 seconds

Acid3 Scores:

• IE 8: 17/100
• FF3: 70/100
• Safar: 73/100
• Chrome: 74/100

Enjoy!

Additionally, if you are using Skype Firefox Extention, all the phone numbers will be highlighted, and you can click the numbers to make phone calls via Skype.

Enjoy!