A “backer bar” is a bar that caters to a team foriegn to a local market. For example, a San Francisco Giants bar in midtown Manhattan would be a backer bar. Mike Stratis and Brian Folmer recently created a new business and website called BackerBar.com to catalog and locate these kinds of establishments. What’s the […]
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Business Insider: “I’ve found that entrepreneurs, unlike smart people, get focused on working with whatever they have at hand and doing one important thing at a time. Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once.” Perhaps all entrepreneurs are smart people, but not all smart people are entrepreneurs. In order
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The Pirate Bay has launched a new category called Physibles. They explain: Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You
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You may have heard that earlier this week a consortium of billionaires has started a company called Planetary Resources to mine the asteroids. If you’re wondering why, consider this: How much useful material is out there is astonishing. A famous 1997 publication, “Mining the Stars,” suggested that at that year’s prices, a small metallic asteroid
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The Washington Post: It’s called Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, and it refers to the practice of allowing employees to use their own handheld devices (and in some cases, laptops or desktop computers) to access their work networks. The practice is already popular. A Cisco study determined that 95% of the surveyed organizations are
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According to estimates by the financial website 24/7 Wall Street, zombies pump more than $5 billion of life into the nation’s economy and even more globally. Here’s their math: Movies: $2.5 billion. Video games: $2.5 billion. Comic books, magazines, TV: $50 million. Halloween costumes: $500 million over four years. Books: $100 million. Merchandise: $50 million.
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Cassandra Daily: Prismatic is a news aggregation and recommendation engine that generates a personal newsfeed filled with wide-ranging news that might otherwise go unnoticed. The app achieves this by basing recommendations on what’s trending across entire social media platforms instead of generating content based on an individual’s social networks. Skimming from the top of Twitter
Entrepreneur: Spooky noises keeping you awake? Wishing you could call Ghost Busters? Roto-Rooter, one of several franchisors embracing Halloween as a marketing opportunity, suggests you contact one of its plumbers to take on those things that go bump in the night. As part of this year’s campaign, the company says “crashes, clanks and bumps” are
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Springwise: Japan-based NTT DOCOMO is launching its Hanashite Hon’yaku app, which offers real-time translation of phonecalls. Rather than making a call through the standard phone app, users select a contact through Hanashite Hon’yaku if they will be talking to a foreign language speaker. The app then automatically detects what languages are being spoken before providing
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There’s a arms race on in the automatic traffic camera world. As better and better camera technology is developed for the police, industrious inventors crank out products to defeat them. Ethical problems? Maybe for some, but you know what they say: “Find a need and fill it.†Wired has more: Traffic-light tickets have ticked off
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