On this day in 2009 the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. For more on the history of the Eastman Kodak Company, check out this graphic novel history: George Eastman and the Kodak Camera. This new graphic nonfiction series […]
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Green Bay Press Gazette: … Maria Karas, creator of Bouncin’ Bus. “I have a degree in recreation management and was starting to get frustrated by the lack of jobs in my field,†Karas said. “I wasn’t born an entrepreneur, but heard about the program at EHub and decided to explore the possibility of starting a
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Bizopy: “Life can be much broader, much better, once you recognize one simple fact: life as you call it, was made up by people no smarter than you.” Watch this (likely never seen before) video here.
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Cassandra Daily: Journalist Melinda Wittstock, harnessing both crowdsourcing and gamification, hopes to create a flourishing source of citizen journalism with her new reporting platform NewsiT . Participants in Wittstock’s mobile, crowd-reporting experiment accept distinct tasks in order to contribute to evolving news items. They can opt to interview a source, capture an image, or check
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Vindy.com: Brain Swaggle is an interactive game that combines Scrabble and chess, making for an online game that’s strategic and stimulating, said Downing, the game’s creator, who is from Cortland. “I thought that it would be cool if somehow a game could be created combining the strategy of chess with the vocabulary skills needed for
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Most people who find success are in the lap of luxury. However, Kathleen finds herself in the lap of eco-success. Her baby blankets, made of easily renewable resources, have introduced a bamboo and soybean material that is soft enough for babies and green enough to support an eco lifestyle. Using a no waste approach, the
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The high performance tyre of the future will be very different to the tires we drive on today, if the results of a recent design competition are a guide. Hankook Tire recently sponsored a competition of some of the best industrial design students in the US to reimagine the tires of the future.
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We small business owners have to plan our marketing tactics effectively. However, we also need to remain flexible to adapt to new trends, taking cues from customers and responding appropriately. Here are six marketing tactics that have become indispensable to the marketer’s toolkit.
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den.m bar is a custom blue jean shop in Los Angeles, California. They have turned jean buying into a premium customer experience with a user-friendly online shop that walks the customer through the process of creating their own pair of custom jeans from start to finish. Starting with fabric selection, customers can choose not only
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‎ Arizona Republic: In 2001, Lisa Liddy plunged into growing her book-publishing company, The Printed Page, to take up the slack that followed her husband’s loss of a job in the hospitality industry. Her business took off, as she and her husband, Joe, concentrated heavily on book design, layout and publishing. To counter stress resulting
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