James Mathewson: Audience, Relevance, and Search – Blog Business Success Radio

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 31-08-2010

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk Radio

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Get Your Facebook Mug

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 31-08-2010

Springwise: CrowdedInk’s Friends social mug can be embellished with the customer’s friends from either Facebook or Twitter. The ordering process begins when customers sign in to whichever of the two social sites they’re interested in. From there, they can select up to 184 friends to go on their mug. They can also choose the mug style, colour and sizeceramic, stainless and glass options are all availableas well as customizing it with the images or text of their choice.

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Hello Kitty Your Car

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 31-08-2010

Trendhunter: This Hello Kitty exhaust pipe shows off a serious cartoon kitty fan. The exhaust pipe is in the shape of the little cat herself, outfitted with whiskers and her signature bow to complete the look.

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New frontiers in social networking

Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 30-08-2010

The big news this week is the launch of a National Science Foundation-funded study aimed at “developing the NeuroPhone system, the first Brain-Mobile phone Interface (BMI) that enables neural signals from consumer-level wireless electroencephalography (EEG) headsets worn by people as they go about their everyday lives to be interfaced to mobile phones and combined with existing sensor streams on the phone (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS) to enable new forms of interaction, communications and human behavior modeling.” More precisely, the research, being conducted at Dartmouth College, is intended to accomplish several goals, including developing “new energy-efficient techniques and algorithms for low-cost…

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh – Book review

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 30-08-2010

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Nancy Lublin: Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business – Author interview

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 29-08-2010

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Augmented Reality Tourism

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 29-08-2010

TrendCentral: Built on the Layar platform, the UAR (Urban Augmented Reality) app was developed by the Netherlands Architecture Institute with the ambitious goal of making the Netherlands the first country to have its landmark architectural sites explorable on a smart phone for those who want to embark on a self-guided tour. Beginning with Rotterdam, where users can see a 3D model of the unfinished Market Hall, the institute plans to add several Dutch cities, with the entire country online within five years. Users will not only be provided with current details on a building’s architecture, but also with interesting facts about the history of the site, as well as information on plans for the future. Maybe we will finally understand what motivated architects to design such a narrow house – and, even more importantly, how people actually manage to live in it.

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Superconnect by Richard Koch & Greg Lockwood – Book review

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 28-08-2010

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Bring NoNotes Along

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 28-08-2010

NoNotes is a high quality low cost transcription and translation provider. Imagine being unable to attend a meeting or conference and having every word emailed to you for your review. Save time and money by having your meetings and conferences documented word-for-word. Just record your meeting, upload the file and NoNotes will provide you with a word-for-word record which can then be distributed, searched and stored for your records.

Sharon Armstrong: The Essential Performance Review Handbook – Author interview

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 27-08-2010

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