April, 2007
T-shirts From Vending Machine
By admin at April 19, 2007 | 8:46 pm | 0 Comment
A new store concept from Uniqlo will sell limited edition T Shirts from vending machines. Opening later this month in in Harajuku, the Tees will be sold in plastic more...
Checkhouse
By admin at April 19, 2007 | 8:17 pm | 0 Comment
In Portugal, Checkhouse gives independent buyers confidence by extensively testing and checking a building's foundation, acoustics, wiring, roof, etc. While traditional surveyors are mainly accustomed to dealing with real estate agents and builders, I believes there's a growing market for pre-sale building inspectors that focus on consumers, combing a keen eye for more...
CEO Refresher
By admin at April 19, 2007 | 4:18 am | 0 Comment
We believe that people have lost sight of what it means to be accountable in organizations and have confused this concept with blame and punishment. This article is an effort to shed some light on accountability and in doing so engage the productive potential of the term.As long as people see accountability as a threat instead of an opportunity they will find clever ways more...
RO0-BEE(Video Cooking)
By admin at April 18, 2007 | 9:05 pm | 0 Comment
The Food Network is a great resource– even if the majority of each show is uninteresting. But The Food Network has the downfall of all television programming– too many commercials, and annoying celebrities. Rouxbe (pronounced “roo-bee”), a new online instructional cooking resource. Step by step, in a pleasantly simple fashion, Rouxbe guides you through some more...
Photoframe Play Music And Video
By admin at April 18, 2007 | 8:57 pm | 0 Comment
Aluratek has created a new version that doesn't just display your photos but also has 256MB of built-in memory. The photo frame can play background music or video in addition to holding all your photos. It even has a remote control. The 10.5-inch frames let you transfer files directly from your computer. The frame has 1024x768 video resolution and sells for $199. More: more...
Motorola’s New Communication Plan
By admin at April 18, 2007 | 8:48 pm | 0 Comment
Motorola this year, explore new experiences by two new ways to communicate his brand power targeting the more voracious social sectors by the coolness. Cobranding strategy and Guerrilla communication. These days made a cobranding strategy with the internationalized argentinean brand "Trosman" (Jessica Trosman) characterized by the permanent innovation of silhouettes and more...
ShopText
By admin at April 18, 2007 | 8:16 pm | 0 Comment
The New York Times recently reported on a company called ShopText that is enabling users to purchase products instantly through their mobile phone and charge it to their credit card. The NYT writes:To use the system, a consumer must first place a phone call to ShopText to set up an account, specifying a shipping address and card account. After that, all purchases can be more...
Shespeaks
By admin at April 18, 2007 | 4:32 am | 0 Comment
SheSpeaks is an online forum for product reviews. Only at SheSpeaks, there's no cost for product testers, and products are chosen for reviewers based on their interests. (At Cherrypicka, members do the picking.) And as the name indicates, SheSpeaks is for women only, which isn't surprising since women control over USD 5 trillion in spending in the United States and are more...
Xbox And Instant Messaging
By admin at April 17, 2007 | 9:13 pm | 0 Comment
Microsoft have just announced that they will be introducing their Windows Live Messenger service to Xbox 360 consoles, allowing gamers to "I.M. directly from their couch" and consolidating what have traditionally been two distinct friend lists. The NYT's writes:In the second week of May, those two worlds will begin to converge. Xbox Live members will be able to link their more...
Live Tube
By admin at April 17, 2007 | 9:03 pm | 0 Comment
One of the theories floating around is that people are far more likely to pay for live experiences than archived content. For example, you don't mind paying for your mobile phone call but you don't like paying for voicemail, or you don't mind paying for a ticket to a band's gig but you won't buy music, or you'd pay to watch your team's game live on cable but you won't pay more...
Transforming Spoken Messages Into Text
By admin at April 17, 2007 | 8:15 pm | 0 Comment
Jott transforms spoken messages into text. After signing up for the service online and validating their phone number and email address, users dial Jott’s toll free number (877-568-8486), say ‘me’ or the name of a contact or group of contacts, speak for up to 30 seconds and then hang up. Jott transcribes the spoken words into writing, and sends the message to its more...
AudioSnacks
By admin at April 17, 2007 | 4:27 am | 0 Comment
Chicago-based AudioSnacks is offering consumers. Users can download audio tours of select destinations and can put up their own tours for purchase.“AudioSnack is a place to find, purchase, download, listen to and appreciate audio tours that people just like you have created to share, and a place where you can do the same for others.” Tours are modestly priced—some more...
DoMyStuff
By admin at April 16, 2007 | 9:02 pm | 0 Comment
DoMyStuff is an online marketplace where busy people can quickly find others to do their chores, from mowing the lawn or picking up dry cleaning to researching a cruise or planning a party. How it works? Someone posts a task, choosing a relevant category and describing the task in detail. Businesses and individuals then bid for the task. Bids include the total cost to more...
Second Life Investment
By admin at April 16, 2007 | 8:56 pm | 0 Comment
Second Life is the best glimpse we have so far of what the whole Internet will look like in years to come.. The net will certainly have a three-dimensional interface by then, and avatars -- little 3D representations of our own selves -- are likely to be how we get around. Second Life lets you learn what works and what doesn't work in using the 3D Internet as an interface more...
Internet Radio
By admin at April 16, 2007 | 8:53 pm | 0 Comment
Internet radio is enjoying an explosion of new services that could make it a viable replacement for broadcast radio -- if the record industry's allies in D.C. don't kill it first. Internet radio and services that deliver personalized streams of music -- and help you discover new music and artists --are growing exponentially. In fact, they seem to be becoming a viable more...
DoubleClick
By admin at April 16, 2007 | 4:58 am | 0 Comment
Google announce acquisition of DoubleClick.DoubleClick provides a suite of products that enables agencies, advertisers, and publishers to work efficiently, that will enable Google to extend our ad network and develop deeper relationships with our partners.This new partnership represents a tremendous opportunity for us at Google to broaden and deepen our inventory of more...
Brain With Fantasy
By admin at April 16, 2007 | 4:43 am | 0 Comment
LOTTERIES are a regressive tax on those who can't do math, runs the famous old saying. "Nonsense!" retort critics. "For a dollar, one can purchase the fantasy of being wealthy beyond dreams of avarice. It is cheap at the price."Over at Overcoming Bias, Eliezer Yudkowsky says "But isn't that a waste of hope?" But consider exactly what this implies. It would mean more...
How Internet Business Work
By admin at April 15, 2007 | 10:25 pm | 0 Comment
Think the concept of building a successful business on the Internet disappeared along with the money in your 401-(k)? Not so. Here's a collection of stories about businesses that not only have made the Internet the key to their strategy, but also have have developed innovative strategies to make it work.How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows ... Its performance is the more...
Boober:New Way Of Banking
By admin at April 15, 2007 | 10:09 pm | 0 Comment
Boober launched last month, Boober is bringing peer to peer lending to The Netherlands. The start-up works much like Zopa and Prosper, with prospective borrowers listing the amount they want to borrow, their credit rating, purpose of the loan, interest rate they're willing to pay, etc. Credit ratings are determined by credit report agency Experian. And loans to AA and AAA more...
Money Machine
By admin at April 15, 2007 | 8:38 pm | 0 Comment
What a Bloomberg can doBloomberg users can set up their screens any way they like. These displays show the data an equity investor might order up. Stock price monitorUsers can get real-time stock prices by paying extra. Delayed prices are part of the standard subscription. Stock chartsBloomberg offers data on 136,000 equities. Sliding tickersA variety of price, volume, more...
