Archive for April 3rd, 2008
Carbon Services Venture Set Up
The Age: Pacific Hydro and the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation have formed a carbon services joint venture called Perenia seeking to capture the market before Australia’s emissions trading scheme starts. The business will on-sell credits created through the Clean Development Mechanism, an instrument under the Kyoto Protocol. The credits will be available to trade in [...]
Organic Baby Food Mom's Will Say "YES!" To
The world of food that Heather Stouffer had been introduced to at a young age was the first step in creating her love for a variety of good foods. When Heather had her son, she couldn’t wait for him to reach the age where she’d be able to start feeling him great homemade purees of [...]
InsideBayArea.com: Alexandra Eisler can still remember the day it occurred to her that she really could have it all — a family, a business and a life filled with the kind of work that she calls fun. “I remember I was on assignment for my government job in the Cotswolds, visiting a family that made [...]
With two “children” in her life, her daughter Marissa and her business, it’s pretty easy to say that Shea Kelly is a busy woman. Like many inventions, DaBib was an invention of necessity. Traditional bibs just didn’t do their job right when she used them while feeding her daughter. Frustrated, Shea created a bib that [...]
Parents like to shop for their children and Suzi Heaton makes it easier to do with her new online store, Maddy Rose Boutique. Started on September 11th of last year, Suzi created a fun online boutique where parents can find unique, high quality items for their children. By being online, she’s able to help parents [...]
Will Google Buy Skype From eBay?
Google may acquire eBay’s Skype, voice ads to follow? – TECH.BLORGE.com Speculation is flying about Google potentially acquiring Skype, which has struggled to turn a profit for its current parent company, eBay. Google almost certainly thinks it can change the situation by dropping fees and adding advertising to portions of the Skype service.So far Google [...]
Ways to Make Use of Your Downtime
CreativeBriefing.com: Clear out your feed reader If you’re like me, while you’re in your busy mode, you’ll fall behind in your RSS feed reading. And when your Google Reader (or whichever reader you use) looks worse than your inbox, it’s time to do some clearing out. Clean your office It could be time to do [...]
eBay Hires New Corporate Communications VP
Alan Marks to Join eBay as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) today announced that Alan Marks has been named senior vice president of corporate communications. Reporting to President and CEO John Donahoe, Marks will be responsible for leading the communications strategies for all areas of the company, including business and [...]
Dreaming About Work Can Be Nightmare
The Wall Street Journal: A recent survey commissioned by Staples, the office-supply giant, indicates that 51% of small-business professionals dream about work. Of those, 70% say that when they wake up, they turn their work dreams into action. Dreams can come true. But if they stumble onto the subject of work, you can only hope [...]
FCC Says No To Skype’s Mobile Open Access
FCC to Turn Down Skype’s Mobile Open Access Plea – washingtonpost.com The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has set enough rules requiring that mobile networks are open so it won’t approve a petition from Skype that would have required mobile operators to allow any application to run on their networks, said the commission’s head.The move is [...]
Parents like to shop for their children and Suzi Heaton makes it easier to do with her new online store, Maddy Rose Boutique. Started on September 11th of last year, Suzi created a fun online boutique where parents can find unique, high quality items for their children. By being online, she’s able to help parents [...]
eBay Wants You To Pay For International Exposure
eBay Adds Fee-Based Option for Increased International Exposure eBay is introducing a paid option for US and Canadian sellers to gain exposure on eBay.co.uk default search results. eBay UK and eBay Ireland sellers will also have an upgrade option to list on the North American sites. Currently sellers have the option of choosing World Wide [...]
eBayer Raffles House For $100 An Entry
wcbstv.com – N.J. Woman Raffling Home Off On eBay For $100 Does the subprime mortgage crisis have you out of the real estate market? Try this one on for size. There’s a house you can own for less than the price of dinner for two in Manhattan. Looking for a house in New Jersey? How [...]
Google Employee Perk We Can All Get
Wisebread: I recently found an amazing (and I don’t use that word lightly) resource from Google that I think is completely under-used and seriously under-marketed. This resource is called Google Talks and it contains over 170 fascinating lectures, given to the very lucky and privileged Google staff, most around 1 hour long. Google TechTalks are [...]
Record Your Skype Calls With Call Graph
Record Skype Calls as MP3s with Call Graph | Lifehacker Australia Windows only: Freeware plug-in Call Graph integrates with the popular VoIP application Skype to record your Skype as MP3s and organize those recordings with a simple interface. Once installed, you can set Call Graph to automatically record all of your Skype calls, or you [...]
Unlikely Places For Eureka Moments: Harry Potter
Wired: J. K. Rowling Author Train car between Manchester and London, UK “It was extraordinary, because I had never planned to write for children. Harry came to me immediately, as did the school and a few of the other characters such as Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost whose head is not quite cut off. The [...]
eBay Moves Digital Download Listings to Classifieds Section – AppScout Making some cash auctioning off digital downloads on eBay? Not anymore.In an effort to squash feedback manipulation, the online auction site announced recently that it will no longer allow use of its standard auction format to sell digital downloads. As of April 1, sellers must [...]
WPTV: Have you ever seen a new product and said, “Boy, I should have thought of that!” Today meet four South Florida moms who had a good idea…and acted on it. Feeding her 4-month-old son Dillon, helped inspire Lisa Alfieri to create one of the new must-have baby products. Lisa Alfieri-mom inventor says, “I always [...]
10 Tips For Balancing Business And Home
Debbie Travis at National Post: 10. Steal the housekeeping. Every woman, married or not, should have some money set aside. My mom used to call that “stealing the housekeeping.” Set aside $50 every month, so you can always close a door and walk out. 9. Stop being so shy. It’s just a waste of time. [...]
