Don’t get me wrong, Facebook is a wonderful web application because of your ability to reach potentially millions of individuals easily, but it has become somewhat of a mess lately. A new site that is currently in “Beta” is almost identical to the structure and flow of facebook (you will see what I mean when you start using it), I feel like this new site will became more effective than facebook for socially responsible enterprises to network online. The site is called UnltdWorld. It is essentially a niche version of facebook geared entirely to individuals and organizations that are interested in socially responsible organizations. Hopefully they have learned from the mess that is now my Facebook inbox which I constantly have to hit “Ignore” buttons for application requests about who should sleep with who, and movie quizes, and will really tighten up on what all makes this site effective.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Facebook for its original intent, staying up to date with friends, however I am glad to see smaller niched social networking sites that are learning from the pros and cons of Facebook. Check the site out and be sure to become “friends” with me (http://unltdworld.com/profile/chrisauer/).

When reading a post from Mark Cuban (Warren Buffett, Taxes and the Presidency), I began to fall in love with what he was calling for in tax reform.  Obviously the most important points that he brings up in his post (well, for me at least) was about small businesses being taxed.  Cuban says that we should just completely do away with taxes for any small business with less than 25 people.  The idea being that it would cause small businesses to start poping up, creating new job opportunities for our country.  The government could still receive income tax from the businesses employees, but the business itself would not have to worry about taxes until it reached 26 employees.  Check out his blog post linked above, well worth the read I think!