March, 2007

Buy Direct From Owner Not Retailer

By at March 31, 2007 | 10:37 pm | 0 Comment

This website has been growing at a very healthy pace since it launched in June 2005, as consumers from around the globe increasingly value the originality of handmade items and enjoy buying from individuals instead of mass retailers. Etsy brings it all together with a great user interface and sophisticated search tools that let buyers find everything from scented soy more...

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Junkebox Technology

By at March 31, 2007 | 5:29 am | 0 Comment

Patrons at select pubs and restaurants in Israel, France and Australia no longer need to worry about change for the jukebox or bugging a dj to play their favourite tunes—they can queue up their music choices via text message from their cellphones.SMS jukebox technology, such as c|station by Australian Rippamedia and SMS DJ by Israeli YCD Multimedia, puts song selection more...

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Want A Nap Don’t Worry

By at March 29, 2007 | 9:30 pm | 0 Comment

MetroNaps launched sleep pods for bleary-eyed New Yorkers in dire need of a nap. New Yorkers who need to relax and recharge can now also duck into Yelo—a new sleep salon offering 20- to 40-minute power naps and reflexology treatments. Research has shown that napping can boost productivity and performance, and Yelo offers more than just a light snooze.Patented private more...

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MyShape

By at March 29, 2007 | 9:29 pm | 0 Comment

Every body is different, and just five or six percent of bodies fit the model that most designers use as their standard. Which is why a women's apparel retailer is using proprietary technology to customize selections to a customer's individual shape. When signing up for their personal myShop, customers enter their measurements and MyShape's patent pending ShapeMatch more...

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Interesting New Virtual Universe

By at March 29, 2007 | 2:48 am | 0 Comment

With virtual worlds all the rage right now deals with youniversal branding), expect a slew of new metaverses to emerge over the next few months. One to watch is Naughty America, launching this summer.It's an adult (18+) massively multiplayer online dating game, where players can create their own avatars and explore a 'sexy' world, or turn on their webcams for some real more...

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Pxidigital

By at March 29, 2007 | 2:43 am | 0 Comment

While the major photography and printing brands - Kodak, Epson, HP - have developed their own digital photo printing kiosks over the past few years, an Australian start-up is convinced that it can grab a good share of a highly competitive market that HP has estimated to be worth USD 7.7 billion by 2009 (including photo mini-labs).Pxi has developed a self-contained, more...

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Ello Mobile

By at March 28, 2007 | 4:57 am | 0 Comment

Belgian Ello Mobile is a new mobile operator that was established with the sole aim of giving away 100% of its profits. Ello is a mobile virtual network operator – it uses an existing network. Instead of offering bargain-basement cellphone plans, the company offers its customers the chance to contribute directly to a cause with every call they make, and every text more...

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New Way Of Advertrising

By at March 27, 2007 | 9:02 pm | 0 Comment

Los Angeles-based Spot Runner offers a solution, by making it fast, easy and affordable for local businesses to advertise on television.The entire process is online and automated: customers pick from a wide range of ready-made videos that are tailor-made to their industry. After selecting an ad, the business customizes voice-over text and on-screen information, and tells more...

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Formotus

By at March 27, 2007 | 5:33 am | 0 Comment

Formotus is an angel-backed mobile software startup that has developed a new way for on-the-go workers -- tax assessors, real estate agents and utility meter readers -- to access forms and documents on portable devices. The startup was founded in 2005 by Joe Verschueren -- a wireless veteran who, before creating ImageX, worked at US West-- and Adriana Neagu -- who, during more...

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Fractional Life

By at March 26, 2007 | 8:56 pm | 1 Comments

With more and more opportunities for leasing and other forms of partial or temporary ownership, it's no surprise that someone decided to create a web portal for 'everything fractional'. British Fractional Life offers consumers an extensive overview of companies that offer asset sharing schemes. The website's categories read like a summary of life's spendy pleasures: from more...

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Herold

By at March 25, 2007 | 9:03 pm | 0 Comment

Austrian Herold, which publishes the country’s white and yellow pages, claims to offer a worldwide first. Customers can purchase Austria’s entire phone directory and plug it into their cellphone. At first glance, this may seem somewhat outmoded. Why use an offline solution when almost every modern phone has internet access? Well, looking up phone numbers through a more...

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Product Promoting

By at March 25, 2007 | 8:54 pm | 0 Comment

Recently launched iliketotallyloveit.com is a community-based website for product recommendations. Or, in terms a Valley Girl would be more likely to grasp, a popularity contest for beautiful things. Members can submit short reviews of desirable goods, with a link to where the item can be purchased. If enough other members like totally love it, the product is promoted to more...

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FlyLite

By at March 25, 2007 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment

Door-to-door luggage delivery services have been sprouting up around the world (see Personal Porter, Luggage Forward, Virtual Bellhop), helping air travellers avoid the hassles of waits at baggage carousels, searches by security staff and lost luggage. Newcomer FlyLite takes the concept a few steps further. The company not only picks up and delivers a member's bag, but more...

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Music

By at March 24, 2007 | 9:44 am | 0 Comment

Amie Street aims to make it easy and affordable for consumers to discover new independent music. What makes it unique? Every song sold at the 'fly little music site' starts off being free and the price increases to a maximum of USD 0.98 depending on how many people download it. The more popular a song, the faster its price will increase to 98 cents. Besides giving early more...

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Guiding The Virtual World

By at March 23, 2007 | 3:59 am | 0 Comment

A travel agency for virtual worlds. Synthravels is the first travel organization to offer a guide service to anyone who wants to tour highly-hyped virtual worlds like Second Life or World of Warcraft.The increasing complexity of virtual worlds is making them more interesting, fun and potentially lucrative. But it's also creating a considerable threshold for newbies, more...

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No Middleman

By at March 23, 2007 | 3:54 am | 0 Comment

UK-based Zopa, a place where creditworthy consumers who'd like to borrow money can get together with other consumers who are happy to lend it to them. Cutting out the middleman, lenders set their own rate of return and choose which borrowers they want to lend to. Zopa manages various 'markets', matching lenders with borrowers' various risk profiles. Intrepid lenders might more...

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Miniprenures

By at March 21, 2007 | 8:36 pm | 0 Comment

French Zlio lets anyone set up an online shop in 5 minutes. Shop owners don't actually need to have anything to sell. They don't have to worry about stock or shipping, either, since orders are fulfilled by large online retailers like Amazon.com, eBay and Buy.com. This leaves Zlio shopkeepers free to focus on curation (selecting an appealing array of products) and more...

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Power Of Groups

By at March 21, 2007 | 8:36 pm | 2 Comments

Popular Chinese sites that are enabling crowds to first group online and then plan for real world shopmobbing are TeamBuy, Taobao and Liba. Combined, these sites now boast hundreds of thousands of registered members, making money from ad revenues and/or commissions from suppliers who are happy to have the mobs choose their store over a competitor's.For More:: more...

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Cash Test Dummies

By at March 21, 2007 | 3:42 am | 1 Comments

Cherryflava Media in Cape Town, South Africa, is redefining a win-win situation with its latest online venture, Cherrypicka. The site invites customers to register as 'cash test dummies' and purchase new products and services at steep discounts in exchange for submitting reviews.The concept is simple. Participating merchants supply a limited number of their product to be more...

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Easy Office

By at March 20, 2007 | 4:35 am | 0 Comment

In fast and instant gratification world where we want everything fast and easy.Easy office is another step in that direction which will help people who are looking for easy office. EasyOffice’s first location will open in Kensington, London in May or June 2007, with rooms for rent long and short term. Gulf News reports that Stelios is also eyeing Dubai: “There are so more...

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