May, 2007

Why Reunion Is Making Money

By at May 22, 2007 | 2:02 am | 0 Comment

Reunion is a social networking company that looks decidedly old-fashioned, compared to glitzy (or garish, some would say) sites like MySpace.And yet its simplicity, like that of Facebook, is apparently part of its success. It now has 28 million registered users, and is adding one million users a month — and by that measure, it ranks among the top five social networks more...

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www.corporateinterns.com

By at May 22, 2007 | 1:44 am | 0 Comment

When Jason Engen was an undergraduate student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, he and his friends knew the challenges students faced in finding worthwhile internships. So for one of his business classes, Engen wrote a business plan detailing a concept for an internship placement service--one that would interview and screen students and match them more...

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Get Rich by Selling Aprons

By at May 22, 2007 | 1:37 am | 0 Comment

Aprons are generally considered more of a fashion faux pas than fashion-forward. They're hidden in the backs of drawers and thrown aside in the presence of company. Helena Steele knew it wasn't always this way. She could remember when her grandmother, Jessie, would bake treats while clad in finely constructed aprons with beautiful patterns on them.So in 2002, Helena and more...

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seahorsepower

By at May 21, 2007 | 8:39 pm | 0 Comment

The BigBelly is a solar-powered waste container that aims to eliminate those all-too-familiar overflowing trash cans, keeping public spaces cleaner and greener. The flagship product of US-based Seahorse Power Company, BigBelly units compact trash on the spot, optimizing refuse capacity — a BigBelly holds up to five times as much garbage as a regular, non-compacting bin. more...

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Tiger Woods Could Teach Us How To Run A Business

By at May 21, 2007 | 8:20 pm | 0 Comment

If you play much golf, you've probably heard the saying "Drive For Show, Put For Dough." For those of you who don't play, it means that driving the ball far on your first shot off the tee isn't really the key to winning in golf. The funny thing is, if you ever go to a driving range, 90% of what you see is people with their drivers trying to smack the ball as far as more...

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Why Adult Prepaid Cards?

By at May 21, 2007 | 8:10 pm | 0 Comment

Adult entertainment on the Internet is a multi-billion dollar a year industry that continues to grow in annual revenue each and every year without fail. No matter what the economic climate may be here in the U.S. or abroad, sex always sells! The Adult Prepaid business opportunity is a franchise that allows you to cash in on the adult business.Why Adult Prepaid Cards?100% more...

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Etsy

By at May 21, 2007 | 8:08 pm | 0 Comment

Etsy is a lovely site with beautiful pictures of the handmade and craft items it sells. It also has cool technology allowing you to find sellers by their location, and it gives good background information on them. It's not the place to buy a mass-merchandise item like a baseball glove, but it has pewter baseball glove stitch markers. Because it is something of an more...

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Solving Your Domain Name Problem

By at May 21, 2007 | 5:10 am | 0 Comment

Everyone has domains they want, but unfortunately they are most likely already registered. Pool.com I would highly recommend them to all if you are trying to get that special domain name that is already taken.Pool.com is a member of the Global Domain Name Exchange. You can access the entire inventory of domains listed through the GDNX on Pool.com's Domain Marketplace.More more...

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Must Read Book

By at May 21, 2007 | 5:02 am | 0 Comment

The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online (Paperback). Buy it more...

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Wiki is for You?

By at May 21, 2007 | 3:59 am | 0 Comment

If you’ve never created a library Web page (and don’t intend to start learning HTML code anytime soon), but want your library to have a Web-presence, maybe it’s time to consider a library wiki. As more educators and librarians collaborate in an online environment, wikis (which in Hawaiian means “quick” or “very fast”) provide users with a tool that can be more...

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Safari Will help You Download Any File From Any Site

By at May 21, 2007 | 3:48 am | 0 Comment

Listen up Mac users. You may already know this, but I didn’t until the other day, and it really comes in handy. Safari has a little tool called the Activity Window, which can be accessed by going to going to “Window > Activity” (shortcut: alt + apple + a). In here you can see every file that the website you are viewing is calling upon. The brilliant thing is that by more...

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Redfin

By at May 20, 2007 | 8:49 pm | 0 Comment

Redfin, The company, as described by TechCrunch, is offering: a combination of MLS listing information (homes for sale) with historical sales data (homes already sold) into a single map. But they take it one step farther than real estate info sites like Trulia and Zillow. According to TechCrunch, if you find a home you may want to buy, Redfin will alpy the role of your more...

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Discover Small Business Watch

By at May 20, 2007 | 8:39 pm | 0 Comment

The Discover Small Business Watch is a monthly index of the economic confidence of the nation's 22 million businesses with five or fewer employees.Key Takeaways from the April Watch:Economic confidence among small business owners decreased in April, driven largely by a deteriorating outlook on economic conditions for their businesses, rising insecurity about the U.S. more...

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Turning useless into useful.

By at May 20, 2007 | 8:36 pm | 0 Comment

Two years ago, Eli Reich was a mechanical engineer consultant for a Seattle wind energy company when his messenger bag was stolen. The environmentally conscious Reich, who rode his bike to work every day, decided that instead of buying a new one, he would simply fashion another bag out of used bicycle-tire inner tubes that were lying around his house. Soon compliments on more...

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www.smartmedicalconsumer.com

By at May 20, 2007 | 8:31 pm | 1 Comments

When Banu Ozden, PhD, couldn't get a straight answer out of her health-insurance company regarding the cost of treatment options after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she got mad. And as she went through the treatment process, she grew increasingly overwhelmed by the fact that the myriad of bills that were sent her way were filled with unintelligible codes and more...

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Search For Young Rural Entrepreneur

By at May 20, 2007 | 8:28 pm | 0 Comment

Lycetts, the UK's premier countryside insurance broker, today launched its search to find the Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007. A cash prize of £10,000 is up for grabs to anyone under the age of 35 who is helping to boost the UK's rural economy amid an ever changing rural landscape.Working in partnership with The Field magazine, the Young Rural Entrepreneur Award will more...

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Sonopia is offering a service for brands to customize their own cellphones and wireless service plans.

By at May 20, 2007 | 12:01 am | 0 Comment

A new company called Sonopia is offering a service for brands to customize their own cellphones and wireless service plans.In place of a carrier's brand at the top of the phones, organizations that partner with Sonopia can label the phones with their own logos, and customize the colors. Marketers and hobby groups can then distribute news and entertainment to their more...

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www.oldversion.com

By at May 19, 2007 | 11:53 pm | 0 Comment

This website called oldversion.com. It contains downloads for many old applications including original AIM, Skype, realplayer and many more. It is definitely a great idea and the guy is making a nice little allowance off of it. I would recommend a quick look.more more...

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Free International Call

By at May 19, 2007 | 11:48 pm | 0 Comment

Once again you can make calls to landline phones in many countries around the world for the price of a call to Iowa. Pat Phelan, CEO of Cubic telecom group, posted the good news that www.yak4ever.com is now live replacing the defunct allfreecalls.net which was driven from business a few months ago by large telcos including at&t who stopped completing calls to these more...

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Startup Robot Genius

By at May 19, 2007 | 11:46 pm | 0 Comment

CNet writes about a new startup: Start-up Robot Genius deploys new security technologyRobot Genius, an Oakland, Calif.-based start-up, announced Monday that it has created a new suite of security products designed to combat malicious software attacks like spyware, adware, and rootkits through a threefold approach of prevention, detection, and remediation.More more...

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