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Mouth Spray that Instantly Intoxicates
May 7, 2012 by Dane Carlson | Ideas
Medical Daily:
Scientists have created a mouth spray that can instantaneously intoxicate a person for a few seconds without the harmful effects of alcohol.
One spray from the “WAHH Quantum Sensations” device is a small lip-stick sized aerosol can is enough for “a few seconds of intoxication,” according to its makers, French designer Philippe Starck and American scientist David Edwards.
One spray amounts to 0.075ml of alcohol, the minimum quantity of micro-particles, delivered via aerosol, needed to trick the brain into feeling drunk.
According to the company, the boozy feeling only lasts a few seconds. As a novelty gift, especially for risque events like adult product parties or bachelorette parties this could be a big seller.
Photo by stryjek/ShutterStock.
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Tags: Alcohol, Science, spray
He Registered 14 Thousand Domains in 24 Hours!
May 7, 2012 by Dane Carlson | News
CNet:
The next time you find yourself pounding your keyboard in frustration because the domain name you want is already taken, direct your ire toward Mike Mann.
Mann is one of the longest members of the clubby world of domain speculators, and he’s buying up names in force these days. And not all on the aftermarket, as some others do. But new names. Dot-com names that aren’t registered — even though. 100 million-plus already are — that he then turns around and sells for a few hundred bucks, sometimes far more.
And this week, in a span that lasted less than 24 hours across Tuesday and Wednesday, Mann snapped up 14,962 domains — 1,822 starting Tuesday evening and the rest on Wednesday.
14k domains * $15 = $210,000! Wow!
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Tags: dns, Domain Names
Read How I Accidentally Became a Professional Blogger
May 7, 2012 by Dane Carlson | Administrivia
About a year ago, I wrote a brief look at how I accidentally became a professional blogger. If you haven’t read it, take a look.
This is the story of how I accidentally became a professional blogger and started Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. This tale has been a long time coming, because it’s not really something I ever wanted to share. I was always afraid that if I told my startup story I’d just create more competition for myself and everyone would find out how I fell into my business without any planning or foresight. But, I’ve been at this for a nearly a decade and have pointed to and written about thousands of other entrepreneurs and their startup stories. If it was all right for me to share their startup experiences, it’s now my turn to share mine. I just hope that my experiences and foibles will be helpful to others.
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Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 7
May 7, 2012 by Dane Carlson | History
On this day in 1909, American inventor Edwin Land was born. He’s best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
The inventions of Edwin Land made Polaroid a great company — and later accelerated its decline. Insisting on the Impossible, written by former New York Times reporter Victor K. McElheny, tells the story of one of the early giants in photographic technology.
McElheny follows Land’s career from before the founding of Polaroid in 1937 through the release of the landmark SX-70 camera in the early ’70s. Land invented instant photography and turned his company into a tremendous success and a Wall Street darling in the ’60s and ’70s. Land was a bulldog about patents—he trails only Thomas Edison in number of patents he received (535). But while the protection of the U.S. patent system helped Polaroid fend off attacks by its chief nemesis, Kodak, they couldn’t shield Land from his own shortcomings. Land tended to lose track of business costs and he sometimes took criticism too personally. And he disdained market research. McElheny writes that Land’s business philosophy boiled down to “making things that people didn’t know they wanted until they were available.” One of Land’s final inventions—instant movies—loaded Polaroid with debt and sped his departure from the company he founded. Unlike instant photography, nobody wanted “Polavision.” It lacked sound and the film was too short. It was soon overwhelmed by the more popular and practical videocassette tape. Land’s instant photography also fell out of favor. It couldn’t compete with Kodak Instamatics, improved 35mm cameras, and fully automatic digital cameras.
Land, who died in 1991, was bitter by the time he left Polaroid. He sold all his stock and refused to show up at the company’s 50th-anniversary celebration in 1987. His inventions seemed like ancient history. Maybe that’s a lesson for today’s technology hotshots.
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Are You Hesitant To Hire?
May 6, 2012 by Angela Shupe | News
Tulsa World:
Economists say that in past recoveries, small companies were the first to hire. When the economy was improving, they were more nimble than large companies because they didn’t have the bureaucracy that can slow the hiring process. Their hiring helped propel the economy forward.
The economy is growing, but that growth has slowed – and so has the pace of hiring among business with fewer than 500 employees. The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 2.2 percent from January through March, according to government figures. That’s down from the moderate 3 percent growth during the last three months of 2011. Making things worse, the pace of hiring by small businesses is slowing, according to the payroll company ADP, which issues a monthly report on employment at companies in the private sector. ADP says that employment at small and medium-sized businesses rose by 181,000 in March. Employment rose by just 116,000 in April.
Photo by Kevin Dooley
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