March 25, 2008
Beer Stock Market - Internet User Venture Capital!
Hi all,I’ve been busy building this “online stock” market over at SiteHoppin.com. Go check it out as we just launched it…and I need some rest from 5 straight days of ridiculous coding… SiteHoppin Beer Stocks are “internet stocks”, we call IUVC (Internet User Venture Capital), that allow you to buy into our ... More
March 22, 2008
DIY HACK - How to make your own UPS for your computer and other peripherals during power outage!
The other day, my home had power-outage for like 6 hours. I could go buy a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), or I can make my own UPS using a car battery. Well, I am just hoping this DIY UPS lasts 6 hours so I can keep using my spare laptop, which shouldn’t need that much power anyways to run off the UPS. But if I tried to run my deskto ... More
March 14, 2008
Virgin Mobile uses Spitzer as a marketing “tool”
Virgin has always been doing these kinda things, ganging up on their competition or picking on poor politicians. Hey, at least they always worked. Virgin Mobile Canada knows how frustrated people can get with the lack of personalized service these days. Faster than Eliot Spitzer could say, “Um, oops,” the company came out with a print ... More
March 8, 2008
iPhone 2.0 coming soon… with 100 million dollars for app developers!
Lol… check out iPhone’s counter-attack on Google 10 million dollar prizes to Android developers. Who will win? Definitely, iPhone is way ahead as far as technology and Google’s simply chippin’ away to their new venture. The only thing I hope for? That, Apple gets their bandwidths straight and start getting on CDMA network ... More
March 2, 2008
Yahoo to demo its upcoming oneConnect service
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s an interesting web app that Yahoo’s workin’ on that will bring not only instant messenger service but all type of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc…etc… Looks pretty good, not that I’d use it. Yah ... More
February 29, 2008
SiteHoppin’ tranforms itself into a powerful free advertising platform for bloggers and site owners!
Yey, remember we were working on our new site, SiteHoppin.com? Well, now there’s more reasons to use it. On top of finding new interesting sites, you can get FREE traffic by earning Beer Credits. Basically, everytime you hop or rate a site on SiteHoppin’, you will be able to earn Beer Credits, which you can later down the road, use for ... More
February 23, 2008
Palm emulation for iPhone/iPod touch demonstrated?!?
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is a funny video of people trying to emulate Palm on the iPhone. What a waste of time. I could, however, understand it if they emulated the iPhone on the Palm. This is like emulating PS3 on NES. (not that it is possible) We give props though for hacking i ... More
February 14, 2008
Charge your gadgets for free
There is an idea that by producing a sophisticated piece of cloth, you will be able to charge up all of your gadgets by somehow connecting to it, this is not static electricity, which you get when rubbing your shoes on the carpet, this is something completely different. The cloth would be made up with nanogenerators built into the fabric, there w ... More
February 13, 2008
The compressed air bike
This is a great idea out the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, this bike will use a pneumatic system rather than that of a chain, this makes the ride smoother as when the pedals are used these will then make compressed air to push through the bike and then turn the wheels in a smooth action. The frame of the bike is made from a vacuum formed ... More
February 3, 2008
What’s StumbleUpon afraid of?
In a recent encounter with StumbleUpon’s banning of 20 accounts in our network, we have conjured up a little bit of something we read in a book by Guy Kawasaki, “How to drive your competition crazy.” In the book, there’s an example of how Ben & Jerry’s turned a law-suit into an hilarious marketing victory. Here&# ... More
January 31, 2008
The DIY stylo foam sofa
If you are worrying about getting new furniture in your home, why not consider making your own it so easy to do, you will be wondering why nobody ever thought about it before. All that is needed are loads of stylo foam sheets and an electric saw. The only problem it that if it breaks what do you do? But there are some good points it’s light, ... More
The art of climbing
It seems that climbing is all of the rage these days, and now it comes in a gallery form. These are those walls that are used to have people climbing up them as an artificial rock face. However someone had the brilliant idea of adding a few picture frames, just to make it look at bit natural. Source [Inventor Spot] Art, Art, brilliant_idea, Bus ... More
January 30, 2008
Stumbleboy is afraid he’s only going to make $61.3 million in profits instead of $61.8 million?
In a recent encounter with StumbleUpon’s banning of 20 accounts in our network, we have conjured up a little bit of something we read in a book by Guy Kawasaki, “How to drive your competition crazy.” In the book, there’s an example of how Ben & Jerry’s turned a law-suit into an hilarious marketing victory. Here&# ... More
January 28, 2008
A new idea on post its
This is a really great idea that one looks like you have brought your breakfast into work with and secondly for the idiot who goes around the eating everyone’s stuff, he wont do it anymore after a mouthful of that. It looks really funny and with will get a few good laughs at work. Source [Oh Gizmo] Art, Art, Business Ideas, Business Ideas, Co ... More
January 26, 2008
Build your own Apple Store
Here’s a great resource of what Apple uses to build their stores. I didn’t know they used so many stuff…it’s cool to know though just in case you want to build your own store like an Apple store. If you want to re-model your home in the style of an Apple store, here are links to the suppliers of the actual items they use. ... More
January 25, 2008
Flying stick cam
Obviously this will only be any good outside unless you live a huge house, but the idea is really cool as the unit is self powered and requires no batteries at all. While in the air it can lift like a helicopter and has built in face detection which will mean that whatever the subject is, it will remain in focus. As the power reduces it will begi ... More
January 24, 2008
World Record - John Chow is the Blogging Seinfeld? He makes money making fun of the internet!
As you well know, my blogger friend John Chow was on Entrepreneur this month! He’s coined as the “Blogging Seinfeld”. I couldn’t agree more. There’s a lot of people saying how John Chow is a spam blog but I disagree with that. He made a new blogging topic, “Making Money Online” so explosive that now y ... More
January 20, 2008
Mike Arrington on TV
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s some interesting interview with Mike Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch. via TechCrunch Business, Business, Business Ideas, Business Ideas, Cool, Cool, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Franchise, Franchise, gyu, mike_arrington, money, money, techcr ... More
January 18, 2008
StumbleUpon’s new “secret” extension-less Toolbar is just like SiteHoppin.com
Wow, today I got up to see stats on SiteHoppin.com and found out StumbleUpon is “secretly” working on a new “extension-less” toolbar just like SiteHoppin.com. It seems like the guys at StumbleUpon might have picked up SiteHoppin’s new ideas. We praise them for doing that since that confirms that we are on the right p ... More
Data exchange rings
Imagine that all you need is to shake hands with someone to get all of their personal info; well this could be true soon if the concept design gets the thumbs up. You get a card and ring, the data on the card is transferred onto ring and when you shake hands with another ring holder the data is exchanged. No need to worry about power either the ... More
January 17, 2008
Save those old razors
As some disposable razors are quite expensive and as they are only used once it sometimes seems to be a waste of time. But there is way that can prolong the life of the razors. This device looks as if it would really work and finally make disposable razors a little less disposable than before. Priced at $20 Source [Oh Gizmo] Business Ideas, Bu ... More
January 15, 2008
The $28,000 dolly
In order to find out more about the serious matter of what happens when someone is shaking a baby, we have seen the news stories that occur every now and then. This one has been developed by the University of Oslo and if any feels that this could be a waste of money, and then we would just have think about the thousand babies that die from this t ... More