Archive for September 8th, 2009
Wired: Gone, at last, are the days of bribing your best friend with pizza and beer to hold your flashlight as you tinker (or fumble) with a wrench in the dark recesses of your car. Grab yourself a set of Hi Beam-Light Wrenches and you can use one hand to hold the wrench and the [...]
Subcontracting To Snag Stimulus Dollars
The Wall Street Journal: For small business owners trying to find a way into the lucrative market for federal contracts, subcontracting can provide a back door. With billions of extra federal dollars being offered though the economic stimulus package, many small business owners have set their sights on winning contracts directly from federal agencies. For [...]
Chicago Toy & Game Fair 2009 Young Inventor Challenge
Examiner.com: Creative young inventors are invited to build and submit a prototype and marketing poster display for an original game or toy to be judged in the Young Inventor Challenge at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair at Navy Pier on November 21, 2009. Chicago children can turn in entries as individuals or as a [...]
Science Tells Us Which Online Ads Work
The New York Times: A technician in a black lab coat gazed at the short, middle-aged man seated inside the Walt Disney Company’s secretive new research facility here last week, his face shrouded with eye-tracking goggles. Read ESPN.com on that BlackBerry, she told him soothingly, like a nurse about to draw blood. “And have fun,” [...]
Trilingual Mom Opening New Language School
SouthCoastToday.com: As a young girl of Austrian descent living in Argentina, Dolores Garcia Laredo de Hirschmann grew up appreciating both South American and European culture, and, along the way, she picked up three languages. The experience added so much to her life, said Hirschmann, that as a mother of four living in America she has [...]
SocialNetworkingNanny.com Minds Facebook, Twitter, And LinkedIn For You
PR Web: A new virtual assistant service helps savvy businesses capitalize marketing opportunities on social networking web sites. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are important marketing tools. They can create new opportunities — but it’s important to be consistent — and that takes time. SocialNetworkingNanny.com to the rescue. SocialNetworkingNanny.com provides administrative services. [...]
Fast Company: Some Twitter users bemoan the service’s 140-character limit. But to others, the restrictions are a source of inspiration. And any technology that has the cultural impact of Twitter will inevitably be embraced by artists (if only for the publicity). Writer Arjun Basu has made a name for himself writing 140 character stories he [...]
Find Your Primo, Clothing That Motivates
If you participate in a sport, it is important to keep your head up and your inner “winner” on hand. While that might be a little tough, Primo Activewear has a line of shirts that is bound to bring out the winner in everyone. Tanya Primo-Jones originally had surfing in mind when she created her [...]
