Archive for April 13th, 2007
LA Daily News: Roxanna Bina had a curious packing list when it came to preparing her 9-month-old son, Felix, for his first trip outside the U.S. Then again, the Santa Barbara mom is far from ordinary. A foodie who had sworn off jarred baby food, Bina cooked and pureed gourmet organic dishes for her infant [...]
The Hidden Money Making Opportunity on eBay
Marketing on auctions is nothing new. Although Ebay is the most popular auction site on the internet, plenty of auctions sites have sprung up because of Ebay’s success. Many people are quietly making thousands of dollars per month marketing their products on eBay. What isn’t really well known is the number of people who are [...]
Disney Fans Ultimate Treasure Available on eBay
The ultimate piece of Disneyana is available on eBay. Walt Disney’s signed passport is on the auction site and is expected to fetch a hefty price of between $14,000 and $21,600. The passport was used just once, according to the item description, when he traveled to London right before Mary Poppins was released. Magical Mountain [...]
Gal Ditching All on eBay Gets Ditched Herself
Consider this the ultimate spring cleaning: Lisa Perry, a 45-year-old lawyer and self-described pack rat, is selling nearly all of her belongings — minus her dog, cat, photo albums and a stack of underwear — on EBay. Dog not included click to enlarge The auction — entitled “Everything Perry Owns!!” — began Tuesday and is [...]
New York Observer: When David Shipley, editor of the New York Times Op-Ed page, and Will Schwalbe, editor in chief of Hyperion Books, met in Grand Central Terminal in May of 2005, neither man would have guessed that their conversation that day would result in a 247-page book, “Send: The Essential Guide to Email for [...]
Employers Take Widgets To Work
Business 2.0 Magazine: Most technologies these days are spawned in the consumer world and laboriously swim upstream into the heavily dammed networks of corporations. But widgets–tiny, downloadable applications that display data from the Internet on websites or your PC’s desktop–could make that leap in record time. Widgets are designed for a single purpose–entering a new [...]
How Second Life Changes Customer Service
BusinessWeek: Web 2.0 is still the hottest buzzword in tech circles, with every big brand worth its salt rushing to open a headquarters in Second Life or build its own MySpace page. But beyond showing off some fancy programming, a handful of companies are already looking at the latest wave of technologies to explore whether [...]
There’s History And Money In Obsolete Computers
Reuters: In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider obsolete junk. Years later, his collection of early computers, printers, and related parts is [...]
Court Rules Myspace Postings Free Speech
USA Today: A judge violated a juvenile’s free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. The three-judge panel on Monday ordered the Putnam Circuit Court to set aside its penalty against the girl, referred to only as A.B. [...]
