Archive for November 24th, 2009
Unnerved by forecasts of grim holiday sales, malls are pulling out all the stops to try and get shoppers in the door. The Los Angeles Times reports at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, aerialists twirl 80 feet off the ground as escalator riders gawk. The mall has bumped it’s holiday marketing spending up one [...]
Will Advertising Spell The End Of Twitter?
MySpace was doomed when the social network became overrun with obnoxious ads. On the heels of newspaper articles alerting users that their friends tweets could actually be an ad, Valleywag predicts Twitter is following in MySpace’s footsteps. The problem, argues Valleywag, isn’t advertorial content, but the fact that the tweets in question look like endorsements [...]
Doctors Express Hopes To Franchise Urgent Care
At his Doctors Express center in Towson, Md., Dr. Scott Burger has spent the last three years tending to the community’s night-time fevers and weekend hurts. USA Today reports the former emergency room physician wants to take the center’s model nationwide, doing for urgent health care what, say, Papa John’s did for pizza — making [...]
Best Inventions of 2009: The YikeBike
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. It’s like getting your first Big Wheel all over again — and you don’t even have to pedal. An innovative bicycle-design concept derived from the old-fashioned penny-farthing, the YikeBike is a folding electric [...]
RidgeBlade is a wind-power system that can be fitted to buildings with minimum visual impact and maximum energy conversion potential, reports trendspotter Springwise. This micro-generation system employs discreetly housed cylindrical turbines positioned horizontally along the apex of a sloping roof. The slope of the roof naturally channels wind into the turbine chamber, meaning RidgeBlade can [...]
Survey Indicates Joblessness Will Soon Bottom Out
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) released a study which shows that net employment losses are expected to rebound in the first quarter of 2010, the Associated Press reports. The survey predicts that employers will start adding to their payrolls shortly after that. But don’t expect them to ramp up fast enough to replace [...]
Moms Help Fuel The Home Business Boom
CBS5.com: Sasha Nichols couldn’t find interesting looking bows that stayed put in her daughter’s hair. So the homemaker took out the glue gun and made her own. From a little workstation in her garage, her business Bow Bijou bloomed. She started selling bows in local boutiques. “The first few minutes I brought the product in, [...]
Labels That Your Kids Will Love
If you have a child in daycare or in school then you know what it is like to label everything, from cups to clothing, that leaves the house. Traditionally that would mean the use of a permanent marker but now that is no longer necessary. Innovative parents, like Laura Porreca of Lovable Labels, have found [...]
