Archive for December 29th, 2009
@pdxWebDr: Business idea: MeWithaMustache.com, where people can upload photos and it layers a mustache on their lip. I slept about 3hrs last night. @djenningspr: RT @heavensgame: You know what Twitter needs, an auto translate function 4 foreign lang tweets. A nice business 4 someone there @chipmunc56: Business idea: Heated handlebars?RT @srobbin: Had my first winter [...]
Solar panels aren’t even ubiquitous yet and already solar panel theft is a big problem. In the past year, over 400 panels, worth at least a thousand dollars each, have been stolen from the vineyards of Napa County, California. As more homes and businesses install solar panels, the problem will grow. Ground-mounted panels are the [...]
Newsweek put together a list of business predictions for 2010. 10. The New York Times Charges for Web Content 9. Comcast Will Fire Jeff Zucker 8. Boeing Will Soar 7. Unemployment Drops Below 9 Percent 6. Derivatives Remain Largely Opaque 5. Cap and Trade Won’t Pass (But It Won’t Matter) 4. AIG Will Be Downsized [...]
Trendwatching.com has put together a list of 10 consumer trends for the new year. Business As Usual Forget the recession: the societal changes that will dominate 2010 were set in motion way before we temporarily stared into the abyss. Urbany Urban culture is the culture. Extreme urbanization, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and far beyond will [...]
10 Books You Should Have Read in 2009
Since it’s the season of giving, AdAge figured they’d drop a little knowledge on you. While you’ve been running yourself ragged going to conferences, socializing in social media and just trying to hang on, you may have missed these titles. 1. Twitterville by Shel Israel 2. The Next Evolution of Marketing by Bob Gilbreath 3. [...]
Five Technologies Shaping The Web In 2010
As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come. However, in this article, Six Revisions will be talking about what’s actually driving these trends now, [...]
Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009
Every year at ReadWriteWeb, we look at hundreds of new web apps aimed at everyday users. Here is our list of the top 10 consumer web apps of 2009. These are apps and services that helped consumers use the web in new ways this year; and brought technologies that were previously only geared towards advanced [...]
Amazon Sells More Kindle Books Than Conventional Books
It had to happen eventually, and it’s not really a surprise, considering people don’t tend to shop online for books on Christmas Day but… it will be marked down in history, that’s for sure — Christmas Day 2009: the day digital books outsold their physical, paper counterparts,(At Amazon anyway), reports DownloadSquad.com. It’s a misleading statistic, [...]
al.com: Christy Jordan is a busy work-at-home mom, wife and blogger who has built a business she began as a hobby. Her blog, SouthernPlate.com, led to her selection as a “kitchenista” by Kraft Foods. The “Velveeta it! Kitchenistas” shared daily tips and advice on VelveetaKitchenistas.com “to help make dinnertime a success,” Jordan said. “Not only [...]
