Guardian: If you fancy being a journalist, there has never been a better time – provided you don’t mind giving your services for free. Dozens of websites now want you to report for them, especially if you have been involved in an earthquake or flood, or been on site during a campus massacre. Train and helicopter crashes, forest fires, robberies […]
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Avatar Fashion
Iconoculture: Stardoll has been a big hit with denizens of virtual environments because the game enables users to dress up their avatars in an infinite spectrum of custom duds. Now Stardoll is partnering with Spreadshirt to bring some of those user-created designs into the real world. The partnership is in an experimental stage, but it could potentially allow any user […]
Baby Boomers Attitude Tees
BoomersWithAttitude.com is a new online tee-shirt store that’s devoted exclusively to the most exceptional generation in the USA today: the Baby Boomers. It features distinctive, unique Tee-Shirts and other quality apparel that further expands on what this already vocal group of over 70,000,000 people has been doing for 45 plus years, that is, Expressing Themselves … with Attitude. Simple and […]
Photo Phone
Crave: Ah, the elusive video phone. We’ve been hearing about that miraculous invention since we were kids, seeing prototypes displayed at Disneyland’s house of the future. But despite an occasional product on the market, visual telephony has yet to take off for the masses. So the closest thing we may be able to get is something like the new “GE […]
Tune Your World Music Financing
Every artist has the same problem of obtaining capital for their next recording. Tune Your World provides the solution of applying micro-financing to the music industry. Tune Your World is an Open Source music project that enables artists and fans to co-produce new works of art and share in the creative process. Its groundbreaking approach is the creation of peer-to-peer […]
Air Con Dog House
Nerd Approved: As if your pet isn’t pampered enough, you can get it this Air Conditioned Dog House and get them one step closer to your sedentary self. You could take the simpler and cheaper route of just letting the dog stay inside, unless that conflicts with your own sedentary lifestyle. Getting up to let them out a couple of […]
Nature Calls
Nature Calls Studio’s mission is simple: to make your bathroom more fun with their unique bathroom art pieces that depict various animals answering the call of nature. It’s a great way to lighten up the mood in the bathroom. In their own words: “We have scoured the Earth for the most sophisticated art de’toilette – a revolutionary new concept in […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 69
The Customer Is Always Right It takes a long time for a self employed business owner to build up a reputation for great customer service. I am a caring person, and putting customer service first is something I hold very dear as an important aspect of how I do business. And recently, I almost blew it. In a fit of […]
User Contributed Gemzies
Gemzies wants to help people getting started on the Internet, on serious topics. To do so, Gemzies aims to “start” at the point a Wikipedia-page “ends”. Gemzies-pages are focused on a single topic. On that topic, they provide a structured and community-rated list of suggested sites, videos, images, news and books. Gemzies-pages are created and maintained by fellow experts, who […]
Twist and Activate Drinks
TrendCentral: Putting a “twist” on the standard beverage bottle design, this new airtight cap also serves as a storage device, keeping active ingredients separate from the liquid. Once the cap is twisted, the ingredients are released, creating a fresh, instant, power-packed drink. Activate drinks feature these twist & release caps, which keep vitamins and herbs fresh. Because vitamins and other […]