Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 7th, 2008
I can’t for the life of me remember where I read that little blurb, but it’s a pretty good evaluation of the still young social networking site Virb°.
The folks behind the site call themselves Virb Inc. and are the same gang that created PureVolume back in 2003. (By the way, if you’re into the [...]
Tags: css, customization, indie music, myspace, purevolume, Social Networking, virb, xhtml
Posted in Social Networking | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
In creating a website and trying to make money through advertising there are multiple things that need to be looked at. Many of the presenters in the elevator pitch competition talked about using advertisements as a source of income. The first and easiest way to advertise on a site would be through Google [...]
Tags: Advertising online, Advertising opportunities., Blog Advertising, Website Advertising
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
This is an incredibly neat little widget I stumbled across today. It's only been live for about a month now so I figured it was worth a little write-up.
"ThatsMyMouse" is a tool that allows users on your site to see not just their own cursors, but the location of anyone else's cursor who happens to [...]
Tags: java, module, social network, that's my mouse, Web 2.0, Web Tools, widget
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
It slips my mind who it was, but someone in class had a great idea of an online newspaper or "e-zine"
I stumbledupon this and the concept seems similar similar or at least would help augment the idea proposed in class. The gist is that you create a personal newspaper from your RSS and Atom [...]
Tags: Atom, e-zine, ezine, Feed Journal, Online Newspaper, RSS
Posted in Web Tools | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
It struck me today that one of the most successful brands I’ve ever seen, has been built by a college drop out, and I’m not talking Gates or Zuckerburg. I’m talking Johnny Cupcakes.
http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/blog/
This New England native has built a brand with a cult following and rather than “selling out” for the quick pay day, [...]
Tags: Brand building, E-commerce, internet entrepreneurship, Johnny Cupcakes
Posted in Entrepreneurship | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Robert Frost wrote a poem entitled “Fragmentary Blue,” in which he pondered why humanity took such delight in the beautiful blue present in birds, flowers, eyes, etc. He ends the poem by hypothesizing that we view the blue sky as heavenly, and because we cannot reach it, we revel in nature’s heavenly reminder to us [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Every game is an escape from reality in some fashion or another. Games take some element of reality and simulate it to varying degrees. Battleship, for example, simulates a naval battle by allowing opposing players to select where on a board to place their ships and where to fire their missiles. Fog of war is [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
10 years ago, the idea of ebay would have sounded absurd to most people. Who in his right mind would buy something from a random stranger over the internet? Anonymity, one of the internet’s biggest strengths, is also one of its biggest weaknesses. Ebay has successfully harnessed the power of the individual on the web [...]
Tags: anonymity, ebaY, Paypal
Posted in ebaY | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
We have all heard of different companies using Second life for Marketing and even small time people doing business in Second Life. Some people are doing so much business they don’t have to have a real life job and devote their whole time to running their business in the game. Organizations and governments are also [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I don’t know anything about Kiva. Or, at least, I didn’t. I still don’t know that much, but from what I have learned, I believe Kiva.org is making a huge difference in the lives of people all over the world.
One of the largest questions I had when I first started researching was, “How does Kiva [...]
Tags: Kiva, Thomas
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