Archive for January 1st, 2010
Elementary My Dear Watson….It’s Called The Public Domain
The new Sherlock Holmes movie opened Christmas day and has made over $93 million US. A small part of the reason why Holmes is still so popular is that he is in the public domain and new and varied stories are created about him daily according to a story at TechDirt. Yes, he has always [...]
10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010
Today, it is impossible to separate social media from the online world. Facebook reached 350 million users last month — 70% of whom are outside the US — and it accounts for 25% of the Web’s traffic, according to Pew nearly one in five people on the web use Twitter or some other service to [...]
Entrepreneurs Who Never Let You See ‘Em Sweat
New-product innovation tends to be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, reports CNNMoney. Here’s that 1% that led to the creation of a hot little company called Sheex: One afternoon in the summer of 2007, Susan Walvius, then the head women’s basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was at practice and wearing a pair [...]
Start Your New Year With A Digital Cleanse
Musician John Mayer wants you to step away from the laptop and desist with the texting: Mayer is undergoing a digital cleanse, and he wants you to join him. Mayer says on his blog: I’ll be defragmenting my mental and psychological hard drive during the first seven days of the new year, and I invite [...]
Kelowna.com: What is your business? I teach a series of writing classes and workshops to moms who want to write down their stories of motherhood, before they forget. The classes are aimed at moms of all ages and stages, and are for moms who want to write just for themselves or for those who want [...]
Catchphrases and buzzwords can tell us much about a year past — what resonated, what stuck, what the year revealed about the sensibility of the nation, whether you’re a wise Latina woman, a mini-Madoff, a teabagger or Balloon Boy, reports The New York Times. But if ever there were a year to put buzzwords before [...]
Can’t Find An App For That? There’s An App For That…
In a remarkable display of recursive app development, app review site Appolicious has unveiled its own iPhone app that offers on-device iPhone app news and reviews, reports AppScout.com. The Appolicious app recommends other apps based on user ratings, plus comments from the Appolicious community. It also includes an app advisor and a database search for [...]
