Archive for November 15th, 2009
New “Microformat” Could Change the Way We Read Online
Fast Company reports that it’s called “hNews,” and it could provide instantaneous context for any online news article. HNews is the product of a project overseen by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who created the first Web protocol in 1990 and is widely regarded as the “inventor” of the World Wide Web. [...]
Children’s Toy Inspires Cheap, Easy Production Of High-Tech Chips
In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab, reports Technology Review. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost [...]
How Twitter Is Changing The Face Of Media
The most radical shift to media in recent years is that we now have a central real-time hub that serves to enhance every other content platform on the web, reports Mashable.com. Twitter now provides a one-stop, real-time service for all of a person’s content. It allows us something that in the past only huge corporations [...]
Six Steps To Creative Breakthroughs
Innovation is a process. Follow CNNMoney.com‘s road map to generate game-changing ideas for your business. 1. Look Behind You History can be a great teacher. We were always looking back to see what did and did not work. It was fundamental. And it was what my clients were telling me to do. 2. Lose The [...]
Clay McDaniel over at Mashable has an interesting look at hot social shopping trends. A recent study from Burst Media found that 85% of consumers will shop online this holiday season, and the majority of those people will continue to shop online throughout the year. Now that online shopping is widespread – just try finding [...]
Free Apps And Services For Biz
Inc.com has put together a list of completely free apps for your smartphone or PC. Skype — Available for PCs and select smartphones (iPhone and Windows Mobile), Skype lets you make free phone calls to any other Skype user on the Internet via VoIP technology. PC users can also chat using video, swap files, or [...]
