How They Almost Deleted Toy Story 2
Ever forgot to back something up? If so, you’ll appreciate this video from Pixar, about how they almost erased Toy Story 2.
I use Dropbox for my backups. What do you recommend?
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Smarter Parking Meters
Photo by Ian Sane.
The Atlantic Cities: “This week, the on-street parking meters in Santa Monica, California, have evolved to the next state of sentient existence. Now, whenever a car leaves a spot, the meter will reset itself, even if there’s still time left on the meter. The tiny, measured-in-minutes lottery prize of the urban driver is no more.”
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How to Make Money Online
Author Seth Godin has listed his 21 rules for making money online.
The first two are golden:
- The first step is to stop Googling things like, “how to make money online.” Not because you shouldn’t want to make money online, but because the stuff you’re going to find by doing that is going to help you lose money online. Sort of like asking a casino owner how to make money in Vegas…
- Don’t pay anyone for simple and proven instructions on how to achieve this goal. In particular, don’t pay anyone to teach you how to write or sell manuals or ebooks about how to make money online.
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Pancake Art
Like Nathan Shields I like to make pancakes for my kids on Saturday mornings. While I can barely recreate my children’s first initials, my pancake design skills have nothing on this American math teacher in Saipan. Shields can make just about anything! Take a look at his website, Saipancakes, for more of his creations.
Although he’s not selling them, someone should open a pancake restaurant with his designs on their menu.
Niche Biz: Raffle Tickets to Space
A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle.
Called “I Dream of Space,” the company is selling 25,000 posters at $10 apiece, the proceeds of which should cover a $200,000 ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 seat on XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx, plus some profit for the company’s founders.
No spaceflight company has yet made a commercial flight, and it could be years before they do, but that day is approaching.
Photo by AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker.
Start a Video Contest to Promote Your Biz
Lisa O’Masta wanted to use Youtube to market her business Interwrite. She knew though 60 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute, that her marketing efforts would just get lost in the crowd. So, Ms. O’Masta and her marketing team came up with the idea of a song-parody video contest. Teachers and students were [...]
Forget Gold, There’s a Sand Rush On
Get ready to mine the sand off the floorboards of your SUV after last summers trip to the beach, because there’s a sand rush in the midwest. Scouts armed with geological maps and elevations from Google Earth are knocking on doors in the upper Midwest in search of what seems too common to mine: sand. [...]
ShopFlix Helps Monitor Merchandising
Phil Storage’s company, ShopFlix, allows manufacturers, brokers, and retailers to monitor visual merchandising plans. SoapBox Cincinnati has more: Shoppers who file purposefully down store aisles may think they’re on a personal mission: bread, juice, tissues, bananas. In fact, retailers design their spaces to remind patrons that while they only need one thing, it wouldn’t hurt [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 15
1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun. 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights. 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become [...]
Hangers Report Popularity of Clothes
The numbers on these hangers in a retail store in Brazil show in real-time the number of “likes” an outfit has received on the Facebook page of the Brazilian fashion retailer C&A. Singularity Hub has more: The promotional video for the service pitches the idea like this (translated from Portuguese): “When they go clothes shopping, [...]
