Insightful books

Crossing The Chasm:  Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
.....Geoffrey A. Moore
Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got
.....Jay Abraham
Inside The Tornado:  Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge
.....Geoffrey A. Moore
Living On The Fault Line
.....Geoffrey A. Moore
Net Gain:  Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
.....John Hagel III
Rocking The Ages
.....J. Walker Smith and Ann Clurman
Strategic Brand Management:  Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity
.....Kevin Lane Keller
The Innovator's Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
.....Clayton M. Christensen

Useful Web sites

www.amcity.com - The Business Journals in 41 US cities
www.ceoexpress.com - links to newspapers, magazines, and other resources
www.dogpile.com - master search engine
www.embpage.org - US embassies
www.wave.net - flags of the world
www.411.com - people, places, and phones
www.shagtown.com/days/ - worldwide holidays and festivals 
www.itu.int - International Telecommunications Union
www.mapquest.com - local maps and directions
www.regus.com - Regus Business Centres in 950+ sites in 70+ countries
www.x-rates.com - currency conversion
www.travlang.com - languages for travelers
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ - world time and time zones
www.wtca.org - World Trade Centers in 300+ locations in almost 100 countries
www.world-calendar.com - world calendar