China sells electronics and other manufactured goods to the US (1 container per second reaches US soil, round the clock) and in return imports raw materials like scrap paper and metal from the US to be used in manufacturing.

James Fallows’ very interesting self-narrated slide show demonstrates how Chinese culture is geared towards faster, cheper manufacturing, and the strong work ethic displayed in China. It also shows the vast scale of manufacturing evident especially in Shenzhen:

http://www.theatlantic.com/slideshows/made-in-china/ 

Google Adwords tutorials:

http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/index.html

Other good reading:

http://adwords.blogspot.com
http://www.ysmblog.com

And take a look at:

http://www.gordonchoi.com/

Don’t say you didn’t know.

I was sitting at my desk at work today, flipping spreadsheets, and casually browsing Facebook, when I read the status of a Facebook friend and work colleague that said “Attila is not feeling well and has gone home to bed”. OK, I thought, Attila has gone home.  It was then that I realized the impact Facebook is making even in the work environment (productivity questions set aside) - I found out through Facebook that a friend and colleague that sits 5 desks away was ill and had gone home.

What is to become of us all?

For those addicts who are annoyed/sweating/experiencing palpitations that Facebook is down AGAIN today, you can log in without any hassle by going directly to http://www.facebook.com/login.php.

Just don’t add me as your friend.

Some of you may think that online marketing is just about dropping glib phrases like “deliverables” and “low hanging fruit”, but there’s oh so much more to it than the cliched buzz words we use in the middle of “think tanks”.

Thanks to Quirk’s eMarketing Glossary, you can now wax lyrical with the finest. For example, do you know what a zone-file is? Me neither, until I read the glossary lovingly prepared by a Quirkstar.

Most useful.

If that isn’t quite enough for you, have a chuckle at The Business Jargon Dictionary, that includes these choice nuggets:

Column-shaking - Threatening to uproot the traditions (or bad habits) of a company, usually with new and unconventional ideas.

Muppet shuffle - The shifting of under-performing or troublesome employees to other unsuspecting departments

And who hasn’t come across (or been!) a:

Mucus trooper - Your colleague that always gets the worst colds, yet still makes it in to work to cough it all over you.

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This is gonna change the way I use the web. SPUTTR gives you one stop search from all the major search engines, online shopping portals, blogging sites, dictionary.com and more…with a single click.

 Go to http://sputtr.com/

To anyone who hasn’t yet discovered Scribe Fire, the Mozilla FireFox blogging plug-in, the key is to bang the two rocks together guys…

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Yahoo Chairperson Terry Semel has quit, ending his increasingly ineffectual pursuit of online search leader Google  - so reports http://www.news24.co.za

“Mountain View-based Google now makes more money in a single quarter than Yahoo does in an entire year. The contrast represents a harsh comedown for Yahoo, which was the larger of the two companies when Google went public in August 2004.

Since then, Google has steadily expanded upon the internet’s largest advertising network to create nearly $140bn in shareholder wealth as its stock price increased by more than sixfold. Yahoo’s stock, meanwhile, is worth a little bit less than when Google went public.

Google’s meteoric rise is an especially hard pill for Semel to swallow because he once flirted with the idea of buying Google. In mid-2002, Semel reportedly terminated negotiations when Google set its sales price at $5bn.

Google’s success since then has decimated the employee morale at Yahoo, leading to a recent wave of executive departures that raised concerns about whether the company would be able to retain the talent it needs to regain its stride.

Just last week, Semel assured shareholders attending Yahoo’s annual meeting that he had the fortitude to lead a comeback. He has been counting on recent improvements to Yahoo’s online advertising system and a series of key partnerships to boost profits after the company suffered an 11% drop in its first-quarter earnings.”