Dear Customers: You suck | 10 hours ago | In the gents in the Farm Restaurant in Dublin, a place I won't go back to anyway, not just for this but the atrocious service too. Nothing seems to have changed in two years :
Job at Microsoft - Developer and Platform Evangeli.. | 10 hours ago | If you're into web technologies, love working with startups and developers and want to work for Microsoft's Singapore office, read on to view the job description and also view a video about the position. Position at Microsoft Singapore Microsoft is looking to hire a star performer, super-charged on Web technologies for their Singapore-based team under the Developer and Platform Evangelism Workgro..
Celebrate Your Small Business Independence | 16 hours ago | Today is a special day in the US where all around many are celebrating July 4th as Independence Day. What I want to do is encourage you as a small business owner to celebrate your independence. What I mean by this is that you should celebrate the fact that you have chosen to start your own small business separately from Corporate America or any other type of entity. Image: SXC.hu edited by Kim Be..
Buy Twitter Followers — Targeted And Fast! | 18 hours ago | Paid Advertisement If you've been marketing online for a while, you'll probably have heard the power of what Twitter can do for your enterprise or Internet venture. The simple fact is that having a large volume of followers is no different than having a targeted email list to market to, which is why just about every man and his dog have jumped on the bandwagon. Despite this, many people are findi..
How Not to Select a Future Date | 21 hours ago | I just returned from a cruise to Alaska. We made a quick swing through Victoria in Canada, which required the cruise line to collect my passport information. Like many people who find themselves with rare travel to another country, I just recently renewed my passport. That ended up being a pain using the site's calendar-based date selection. Using their widget, I painfully scrolled through the mo..
Glasses Without Screws, Soldering or Welding | 1 day ago | thestar online: Ralph Anderl is the founding member and managing director of German company Ic! Berlin Brillen Gmbh, known for its patented, screwless-spring-hinge-insert system. The company’s mainstay is sheetmetal glasses, priding itself in designing and producing them without screws, soldering or welding. The screwless system allows users to separate the temples from the front frame, and chang..
The First Discovery of Personal Agency | 1 day ago | There comes a moment, usually in adolescence or early adulthood, when you discover that you have agency. You discover that you have some control over your life -- that you can improve yourself and your situation. I can set goals! I can be the best version of myself! It is exhilarating. For my 13th birthday my Mom gave me Sean Covey's book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens . It had a prof..
Clive Palmer to Buy BHP's Nickel Mines | 1 day ago | Professor Clive Palmer, one of the richest men in Australia has recently declared that he is considering purchasing the nickel assets owned by BHP Billiton ( BHP ) to strengthen up an expansion program of Yabulu nickel refinery which is located in Queensland. Companies that are owned by Clive Palmer bought the refinery today in an undisclosed price which Professor Palmer claimed to be less than $..
18 Ways to become More Retweetable | 2 days ago | You can’t make people retweet you. All you can do is increase the probability of getting retweeted by becoming more retweetable. Today, I’m going to tell you HOW. Not because I’m a Twitter Coach. Not because I’m a Social Media Expert (even though everyone and their mother claims to be one these days…) Nope. I’m just a guy who gets retweeted a lot. My name is Scott Ginsberg, aka, The Nametag Guy, ..
WaveSecure Launches Globally Today | 2 days ago | Previously available only in India, Pakistan and Singapore and only through telcos and manufacturers, WaveSecure will be made available globally and directly to consumers today, 4th July! International consumers who had been waiting for their local telco and phone manufacturer to offer WaveSecurve will be able to obtain the product directly from tenCube now. Having worked with organizations and c..
Three Tips for Creating Your Own Independence Day | 2 days ago | July 4 is Independence Day here in the States, which, for most of us, entails the risk of losing: your fingers to cheap fireworks; your waistline to hot dogs; your liver. All of which, as a red-blooded American, I support wholeheartedly. But if you’re spending today celebrating the country’s independence, how about putting some attention on your own personal independence? It might be independence..
“As an Entrepreneur - What is the one thing .. | 2 days ago | Over the last few weeks we have been asking you “As an Entrepreneur - What is the one thing you cannot do without?”. Thanks to everyone who entered, the overall winner was the iPhone - so entrepreneurs, if you don't have one, this is the number one gadget that entrepreneurs cannot do without! So onto the remainder of the results - The Awesome list of essentials Entrepreneur's can't do..
Iran, the Internet & the Media | 2 days ago | I tuned into RTE's Today With Pat Kenny Show earlier this week for an interesting discussion about citizen journalism. Ger Colleran, editor of the Irish Daily Star, was quick to point out that citizen journalism has always been around in one form or another, but that technology has brought the public closer to the media. This has been particularly brought to the fore by the events in Iran. Some p..
Not in top 3 in Google? Using Google Ads? Ruh roh | 2 days ago | Mulley Communications had a survey carried out on how people react to Google search results and Google ads. The survey results are here. In summary: If you're not in the top 3 results, hardly anybody is going to pay attention to you. Google Ads? What are they? Seems they get little attention. People are not using the address bar to type in website addresses, they just ask Google. Women are a litt..
The Top 3 Dating Sites | 2 days ago | Nobody likes to be single. Every human being craves a certain amount of attention and affection and we all go through life believing that there is somebody “special” out there for us. Some of us find that special person rather easily, whilst many of us do not. For those who lead a very full life [...]
The Keys to Life: Running and Reading | 2 days ago | Will Smith, one of my favorite actors and rappers, tells the audience at the 2005 Kid's Choice Awards that the keys to life are running and reading. The two minute YouTube clip is embedded below. Running because when you run you get tired and want to quit and have to train yourself to fight through the pain and be resilient, and reading because through books you can learn from the people who have..
Commission Accuses Cabcharge for Misusing Market P.. | 2 days ago | A lawsuit was filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) yesterday against Cabcharge Australia ( CAB ), a company that is operated by the Sydney Taxi operator Reg Kermode. In the lawsuit ACCC has accused Cabcharge for misusing its market power in an attempt to eliminate its competitors from the market. Advertisement: read more
Blog Coaching Call Now Available To Download… | 2 days ago | Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 139 Minutes - 54 MB] We just wrapped up a mammoth, 2-hour 19 minute call with over 140 people live . The questions kept coming and Gideon and I didn't want to stop until everyone's question was responded to, so we kept at it. This is a great call covering all kinds of topics su..
Open Kitchen Night | 2 days ago | Springwise: If the underground restaurant known as Charlie's Burgers departs from the norm in part through its secrecy and its constantly changing venue, Open ChefAMe is in some ways its opposite, featuring instead the creations of different aspiring chefs at each of its well-publicized monthly events. Through the participation of a few Philadelphia restaurants, Open ChefAMe offers what it calls ..
Top 5 Posts, June 2009 | 2 days ago | The month of June is officially over. We added over 1,800 new RSS subscribers in June bringing our total to just over 7,000 as of July 1st, not a bad start to the slow summer months! The top 5 posts from the month of June are below: 1. 10 Great Retirement Stocks to Buy Today 2. 5 Great Ratios that Help Detect Accounting Scandals 3. Roubini, 3 Big Reasons Why This Rally Will Fail 4. Why Trade Opti..
ClickForArt Pillows | 2 days ago | What happens when you let folks like Vault 49, Tara Mcpherson and Alberto Cerriteno make limited-edition pillows ? Pure awesomeness.
Facebook Turns To The Crowd To Translate Its Servi.. | 2 days ago | I just noticed this message from Facebook wondering if I'd like to get involved with translating the Facebook service from English (US) to English (UK) - I guess that's because I just logged in from the English south coast. Facebook's new Translations application allows users all over the world to translate Facebook into different languages. Their Application's About Page reads: Join our communit..
10 Cool Ways To Get People To Know More About You .. | 2 days ago | When it comes to Twitter, subscribers or “followers” are your key to building popularity. And popularity is a fundamental and very important concept to grab hold of. The idea is that by following someone, they’ll agree to follow you back. The following are other ideas which can help with subscriptions: 1) Connect your blog or social network site to your profile. By adding a link to each of your ..
Live Web | 2 days ago | Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It . Excellent article by Mary Hodder.
Get Your AYG Fix At Red Sports | 2 days ago | With our first Gold medal in the Asian Youth Games, you might be inspired to follow all the news on the various events. Red Sports is a local site where you can get the latest news, view picture galleries and follow the school and youth sports screen in Singapore in general. The team at Red Sports is still very small. Holding the helm full-time is an entrepreneur who saw the lack of school sporti..
100% Renewable Energy For Sony Europe | 2 days ago | Sony Europe announced today that it will power its 32 largest sites throughout Europe, large meaning more than 100 employees, entirely from renewable resources. In a press release, Serge Foucher, Executive Vice President of Sony Europe, stated that the company has reduced its Co2 emission from fiscal year 2000 - 2008 by 90%. The company has achieved these reduction through energy saving programs ..
Velocity and the Bottom Line | 2 days ago | Velocity and the Bottom Line . How performance touches everything on the web, and includes a quote from me about the importance if of speed to the user experience. You can check out my whole presentation, the Moral Philosophy of Performance, on Blip .
Ann-Sofie Back to Design for Cheap Monday | 2 days ago | Despite a general downturn for most retailers this year, affordable Swedish denim purveyors Cheap Monday have seen dramatic rises in not just their sales, but also in an overall interest in their brand. Rumored to have been bought by H&M, Cheap Mondays were orginally a capsule collection for Stockholm based counter-culture fashion mecca Weekdays and it hasn't been until recently that they've star..
The All New TheFader.com | 3 days ago | Major high fives to my friends at The Fader for a successful relaunch of their .com. It has been great fun to watch their digital presence evolve. Stop by for great music (lots of exclusive tracks) and art/culture features. Congrats guys! Related: The Fader Goes Digital
Recession Proof Spending | 3 days ago | While the state of the economy is having a negative effect on most areas of the retail sector, more than a few industries are experiencing an uptick. Time examines recent trends in consumer spending, discovering that products and services that fulfill needs like escapism, inexpensive luxury and stress relief are reaping the most benefits. Though it's not exactly clear what methodology the magazin..
Vintage HP Calculators for iPhone | 3 days ago | Those with both a fistful of money to burn on an iPhone app and deep nostalgia for retro Hewlitt Packard calculators may be a slim cohort, but if they're out there, HP has them covered. Two vintage designs—the HP 12C financial calculator and HP 15C scientific calculator—have been carefully rendered via touchscreen, costing $15 and $30 respectively. There's no doubt the buttons are wonderful looki..
The Balance Between Image and Content | 3 days ago | Fatal error : Call to undefined function get_the_excerpt() in /home6/giolicio/public_html/isulongseophil.com/wp-includes/feed.php on line 204
RTE Doc on One Launched | 3 days ago | Spoiltchild has been busy working with RTE over the last few months to develop a new platform to showcase documentaries online. We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Doc on One website showcasing over 200 documentaries from the RTE archives. You can download, search by category, review and listen to documentary podcasts. Users can even send suggestions for future documentaries to ..
How to Write an Ebook that Sells in 2009 | 3 days ago | You’ll see one theme come up again and again on Copyblogger. If you want to create real revenue with your blog, you need to have something worthwhile to sell. Most sites are disappointed by the nickels and dimes that come in from advertising. If your site gets massive amounts of traffic, it can work, but if not, you’ll want to find a much more profitable source of revenue. But most of us find tha..
Email Marketing Course Reminder | 3 days ago | A quick reminder for your diary: The Next Email Marketing course facilitated by Alan O' Rourke is on the 9th of July in the D Hotel Drogheda, 6.30 pm. Come along and DIY your email marketing with the best tips and advice from the pros. The fee is €95. Refreshments served on the night. Give Mary a shout at mary@spoiltchild.com and let her know you'll be attending. Looking forward to meeting you. A..
Milkmuny Recycled Wallet | 3 days ago | Hoping to do something about the less than 0.05% of milk and juice cartons in the US that ever end up recycled, Portland industrial designer John Schreiber created Milkmuny , producing highly-functional wallets from the familiar paper cartons we regularly discard. Milkmuny pays local groups seeking to raise funds for the cartons they collect, and after washing them, create wonderful multi-pockete..
How to become the Most Inspirational Person You Kn.. | 3 days ago | The word “inspire” derives from the Latin inspiraire , which means, “to breathe into.” So, I’m curious: What are YOU breathing into people? Hope? Happiness? Passion? Permission? Creativity? Confidence? I know. Kind of tough question. And if you can’t think of your answer right away, don’t sweat it. WHAT you breathe into people isn’t as important as THAT you breathe into people. Unless you have a ..
Eco-friendly Picnic Pack | 3 days ago | In a summer season filled with outdoor BBQ's and picnics in the park, a level of convenience and disposability goes a long way. Unfortunately, for most of us that generally means trash bags overflowing with plastic cups and utensils, paper plates and napkins destined for the dump. Enter Branch's Biodegradable Party Kit , an all-in-one package with everything you need to serve 50 at your next gath..
Thoughts on the Future of Journalism from the Purp.. | 3 days ago | PSFK recently asked our global network of experts, The Purple List for their thoughts on the future of journalism. We received answers that imagine a variety of possible scenarios, though a common theme emerged which points to a system that combines crowd-sourcing with some kind of editorial curation and professional reporting. What is the Future of Journalism? “I'd go with fragmented triba..
Q Tonic | 3 days ago | Idyllic summer nights in Brooklyn leave little to be desired–unless you're Q Tonic founder Jordan Silbert, that is. The gin and tonic lover discovered that the tonic water he was drinking four summer ago was chock full of artificial flavors and high fructose corn syrup, and in the name of not standing up for something so undignified, he set out to create a crisper tonic. After pulling toget..
Pirate Bay Sold for $7.8 Million | 3 days ago | A few days ago The Pirate Bay , the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars. According to a Pirate Bay blog post , the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the new owners without altering the core policies of mocking legal threats and ca..
10 Eco-Innovations From Around The World | 3 days ago | Foot Pump Phone Chargers Festival goers at Glastonbury, in the U.K., can charge their cell-phones through using a standard airbed foot pump, the type normally found all over festival sites. The Orange Gotwind power pump's turbine is rotated at speeds of up to 2000 rpm from the air flow generated by the foot pump, this turbine then directly drives the small but powerful alternator. A 5 minute phon..
Corporate Job to Working at Home | 3 days ago | Recently, the NY Times reported that Job Losses Rise in June as Unemployment Reaches 9.5% so transitioning from working a 9 to 5 (Corporate job) to Working at home (WAH) is slowly becoming a norm. According to this article, The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent, its highest level in 26 years, the Labor Department report..
MySpace: He’s Only Mostly Dead | 3 days ago | Or How I’d Save MySpace But Brian, MySpace isn’t dead, why does it need saving? Hah! What’s that expression, you’re dead you just don’t know it yet. Well MySpace isn’t dead just yet, but its got the path and the symptoms of a dying site. MySpace has a number of problems that befell another famous social network 4 years ago that has only recently resuscitated as a mere shadow of what it could have..
Help the CEB's to build a case for micro finance | 3 days ago | From Kilkenny CEB: The network of County & City Enterprise Boards (CEB) undertook a ‘credit survey’ of small business owners last December, which established that there is a growing credit crisis within the small business sector. The main findings of the survey are as follows: · 54% of respondents indicated that ..
Social iCon 2009 - 23 Oct | 3 days ago | Brought to you by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation , Social iCon 2009 is an experiential immersion in ideas and insights on what it takes to change the world. Come 23rd October, you can listen to speakers from a wide range of sectors and disciplines, including 36 of the world's leading social entrepreneurs, successful businessmen, thought leaders, captains of the social sector, and some of A..
Double Your Sales: Boost Your Conversion Rate with.. | 3 days ago | Have you recently seen a decline in your online sales orders and don’t know why? If you are looking for a website optimizing tool that improves lagging conversion rates, it’s time to take that next step with Google Website Optimizer. Conversion rate is the percentage of visitors to sites who take a “desired action.” Your “desired [...]
What Topic Should You Blog About? | 3 days ago | I spent some time yesterday manning the live chat interface we have running on the Become A Blogger Premium sales page . The live chat is a little innovation Gideon and I came up with to help any person who is reviewing our sales page by making ourselves available to answer any questions live. At any given point in time around 30 to 50 people are viewing our sales page during this week, while the..
The Game | 3 days ago | A special FX test shoot that turned itself into a mini short, by good friend and partner-in-crime at Kilkenny Music and My Music , Ross Costigan and featuring another partner-in-crime, Alan Dawson . Hopefully some of those scripts he talks about come to light soon. Better be a part in there for me. Or you're fired. Go enjoy The Game .
Fluffy Links – Thursday July 2nd 2009 | 3 days ago | Thomas writes about the death and life of his father. The Irish national debt clock . Shesus. Blog of Dave Power. RTE Radio 1 launches one their radio documentary archives ever. 180 documentaries there, 400 by month's end. Some gems in there. Like this one of Eddie Lenihan. They're also on Twitter and Facebook . You can direct download the documentaries or get them as podcasts. And on RTE. Someon..
How To Create A Marketing Campaign That Everyone W.. | 3 days ago | People are being bombarded with marketing messages, from the time they get up in the morning and switch on the radio or TV, to the time that they venture out into the real world, to the time that they eat their TV dinner before crashing for the night. As an entrepreneur, you had better make sure that you have a message that people want to hear, with the ability to crash through all the other “noi..
Build Your Own Affiliate Network with HasOffers | 3 days ago | Paid Advertisement The following is a paid review for TylerCruz.com written and reviewed by Michael Kwan. It is completely of Michael Kwan’s opinion and is not influenced by being paid. If you’re interested in having your site or product reviewed, please view my advertising page. If you happen to be a fan of Tyler Cruz's blog, then there is a good chance that you are interested in how to make mon..
Pastor E.A.Adeboye for President! | 3 days ago | Today, I really want to welcome you into the second half of the year 2009. The match started January 1 this year and it was you vs 2009. It's a great time to ask yourself what the scores are, and what your strategy for the next half should be. It's a good time to do your life audit, and a good time to seek Gods face afresh for direction, for grace and for help! While this is something I'll like t..
Employeeless No More | 3 days ago | We just hired our first employee. Well, technically that's not true. Back when we were doing SEO and web design work we had a few contracted employees . But for Pure Adapt in it's current e-commerce centric state, he is our first employee. Who? His name is John. He's our accountant's son. He just graduated from High School and will be attending college locally at Siena. Both he and his father ..
Frerk and Mark C Woehr | 3 days ago | From beginnings in Stuttgard, Frerk and Marc C. Woehr have developed a style bringing street art into a realm of off-balance darkness. The atmosphere of their collaborative work looks like the product of the Brothers Quay reshaping an urban environment and all the characters emerging from it. While their work has appeared in publications and galleries all over Europe, their first show in the US w..
Lee Memorial: Lives of Lee Memorial | 3 days ago | Lee Memorial's new album took me by surprise twice over. First off, I'll admit that I can't think of a single Australian act that struck me since I heard Yeo and the Fresh Goods last year. Secondly, a mellowed out acoustic sound with poetic lyrics is not style of music that often captivates beat snobs like myself. You may be familiar with Sodastream, a duo that's dropped releases in this vein for..
Attn Biz people: Mark Zawacki talk in Dublin on Ju.. | 3 days ago | Mark Zawacki , founder and managing partner of the Milestone Group will be in Dublin on Friday. He's doing a talk at 10am in the Pearse Suite, (upstairs) Radisson SAS Golden lane (the one in town behind Dublin Castle) RSVP to stephanie milestone-group.com I met Mark when we did the tour of Silicon Valley. A dead-on guy with a huge amount of experience. Well worth meeting him and getting his persp..
Jelli: 100% User-Controlled Radio | 3 days ago | Over the years, regular broadcast radio has become a touch authoratative. The system worked back before popular music was designed to be popular, but today we're all pretty much presented with the same sugary garbage and expected to pick our favorites. Audiophiles seperate themselves from the pack by seeking out the most obscure sounds they can find, but for the regular person who still loves rad..
Transfield Services (TSE): Loser of the Week 26 | 3 days ago | Transfield Services ( TSE ), a company that provides services in sectors like maintenance, operations, assets and project management was the worst performer in the ASX100 index losing 13.4 percent or 36 cents in its stock price and was closed for the week at $2.31. Advertisement: read more
Book Review and Essay: Create Your Own Economy and.. | 4 days ago | I have ~4,000 word essay up at the American Enterprise Institute reviewing Tyler Cowen's new book Create Your Own Economy and presenting my perspective on the ongoing debates around internet information culture, whether we are more distracted, whether bits from blogs cohere into knowledge, the importance of un-focus to creativity, and related issues. It is also the most detailed explanation yet o..
Caltex Australia (CTX): Winner of the Week 26 | 4 days ago | Caltex Australia ( CTX ), a company that operates in convenience stores and also involved in refining, purchase, marketing and distribution of petroleum products was the best performer in ASX100 adding 12.35 percent or $1.4 in its stock price closing the week at $13.19. Advertisement: read more
Dumb Business Moves 2009 Highlights | 4 days ago | What business moves have been made thus far in 2009 that really set themselves apart as, well, dumb? Today's CNN Money features their top 10 which is worth a read. Our favorites from the list: GM Partners With Segway It became clear this spring that General Motors was going to have to get smaller to survive, but this was ridiculous. A week after President Obama gave the company a 60 day deadline ..
Thriller Headphones | 4 days ago | In the wake of Michael Jackson's death, we've started to focus on the drama that still surrounds the singer - his will, the question of what to do with his non-biological children, why he suffered cardiac arrest, and so on. However, it is important not to forget that the reason we all loved the King of Pop is because of his talent as a singer, a dancer, and an all-around performer. The first time..
The Linguistics of ReTweets | 4 days ago | I've done a bunch of research into the characteristics of ReTweets in an effort to understand what makes them viral. ReTweets are the first entirely observable and analyzable viral content spreading mechanism in the history of mankind and as such they offer an unparalleled window into what makes humans spread ideas . Over the past few weeks I've begun delving into much deeper analysis than I have..
Alter the way you do business to succeed | 4 days ago | We stand now with the tide of hard times lapping at our feet, and of soft, comfortable times slowly being drawn out to sea. With the soft times going and the hard ones coming, we must alter the way we live in order to persevere. One thing you can do to brace yourself is to go back to your suppliers—to your telephone provider, landlord, car dealer—and renegotiate. Go to the people you are paying..
Three lessons I learned at UX London | 4 days ago | UX London changed my mind, and that ain't bad A couple of weeks ago I attended the excellent UX London conference arranged by the equally excellent people at ClearLeft. I went there expecting to most enjoy seeing the big names in my field speak, and I must say that I did: Jared ...
On Goplan 2’s Logo design | 4 days ago | We often have little opportunity to go through the details of how we do our work, so this post may interest you. On the Goplan (our project management web application - which you should try out, by the way) blog, one of our designers goes through the process he took to design the identity for Goplan 2.0. The post goes into the thought process behind the logo, the stages it went through, and hints..
How to Free Up Time in College | 4 days ago | College is that time of your life when you’re expected to have independence, autonomy and responsibility. And with these, you're also expected to have more control over your time. There may be times when you feel burned out with having to maintain an academic, social and business life all at the same time. You might be aiming for good grades, working part time to augment your dwindling college fu..
Fluffy Links – Wednesday July 1st 2009 | 4 days ago | My my my month after June. Congrats to Joe Lennon on his book. Banter, fireside chats without the fire about music and everything after. First one is Saturday, hosted by our own Jum Carroll. MCD fuck up another outdoor concert. AC/DC this time. MCD expert Gav also has more reportage of it. (Say this to the sound of someone doing morse code) NCH are doing Oz . Not as good as Wicked, mind. Michael ..
Ain’t no party like an entrepreneur party | 4 days ago | We're having a party! A week from today, the winner of the iQ prize will be revealed. We thought we'd celebrate with a party at the Source Bar. I asked Cory-Ann, who along with Liz, is planning this event of the century (or at least of 2009) what she's ...
Commercial Skydiving | 4 days ago | Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. http://www.aerialadventuresdemos.com/ Matthew Fitch learned it the hard way: Sometimes you've got to look -- twice! -- before you leap. Fitch, 38, is the owner of Aerial Adventures Demos in Hopewell, Va., one of a handful of national parachuting companies that drop skydivers into outdoor events, with clients incl..
Review: One Wild Life (amazing stories of social e.. | 4 days ago | Unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to reading Clare Mulvaney 's new book One Wild Life but fellow Social Entrepreneur Dara Hogan, project leader at Fledglings Childcare , has. And wrote a terrific review which he has kindly allowed me to reprint in full here - Review of "One Wild Life" by Clare Mulvany This book is a “must read” for all social entrepreneurs! Many of us will remember Cl..
Roaming Cap In Play Today | 4 days ago | All of a sudden it seems that I've come from a family who like to travel a lot. I've managed to get away twice this year, most recently to Portugal at the end of the May. My brother has just returned from there. My grandparents are just back from Poland. One cousin has just left for France for the summer while my parents are currently driving around Italy until the middle of the month. I've a sne..
Help these entrepreneurs get the recognition they .. | 4 days ago | OK, we screwed up. Big time. We spent an entire morning filming entrepreneurs for SHINE a couple weeks ago at big aircraft hangar at Sandpoint, and forgot to get their names. Duh. I know. So here's your chance to SHINE! Do you recognize anyone of them? If so, please post a comment below or better yet, click this link which will take you to Biznik's Facebook fan page where you can drill down to ea..
Interview with Brad Sugars | 4 days ago | I am really excited about this weeks interview with Brad Sugars. He is an amazing entrepreneur, and the founder of ActionCoach.com - read on to find out more. 1. Having had 27 jobs by the time you finished your degree must have given you a huge amount of experience in the real world at a very young age, which job did you take the most lessons away from? Working for others is great because it give..
Infocomm SG Portal 3rd Anniversary - 23 Jul | 4 days ago | As part of their 3rd anniversary celebrations Infocomm Singapore will be hosting an afternoon of high tea and networking. Listen to the panel speak on the future of Web portals, the trend towards Web 3.0, and how small and midsized firms can leverage on such changes. Event Details Date: Thursday, 23rd July 2009 Time: 3-6pm Venue: Orchard Ballroom 3, Orchard Hotel Singapore RSVP before 17th July t..
We have awesome customers | 4 days ago | After going to Verity's birthday party and winding up today with a sore throat and a longer battle with this stupid flu, I was feeling quite sorry for myself. Until Dave, one of our awesome customers walked in with a PRESENT! You will never guess what it was.... A whiteboard eraser and whiteboard ...
Ask Yaro And Gideon For Help With Your Blog - Live.. | 4 days ago | Gideon Shalwick and I are running one live free public teleconference where we will be answering any questions you have about blogging. This is a one time thing as our coaching calls are normally only for our paying members. The capacity of our conference line is 150 people only so make sure you are there early if you want to listen in or ask a question. If you'd like to speak to us, or just eave..
Geek Camp Singapore 2009: Calling for Speakers | 4 days ago | If you are a geek, developer or programmer who works with technology most of the time ranging from Java, Python, C++, MySQL, Objective C, Android, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Linux and anything else in the Open Source Movement and otherwise, the GeekCamp is the perfect event for you. The event will be held on 22 August 2009 at Yahoo! Asia, Suntec City Mall, Tower 4, 8th Floor, Singapore. If you want to sha..
Cater to Your Inner-Completionist | 4 days ago | Today while making lunch I realized that when I cut my sandwich into two halves it tastes better overall than when I eat it in one piece. Why? When I eat two halves of one sandwich, it feels like I am "completing" two things, not one. It's the same reason why we'd prefer to read two short books instead of one long book. Total number of pages read might be the same, but we feel more accomplished h..
Jonathan Harris: Sputnik Observatory | 4 days ago | Site favorite and JS friend Jonathan Harris just launched his latest project entitled The Sputnik Observatory . It's the result of a two-year collaboration with NYC based Sputnik, Inc, an organization that documents contemporary culture through intimate video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in the arts, sciences, and technology worlds. There are about 200 videos on the site today, an..
On Twitter etiquette (or lack thereof) | 4 days ago | I witnessed a recent discussion in Twitter about a local politician. A few people were complaining that though he posts tweets regularly and replies to messages, he doesn't take the time to follow anyone. Absolutely zero. This politician is not alone. Some use Twitter to promote their businesses and nothing else. The question then is, is it a requirement for users to follow others? Strictly speak..
Top 10 Hottest ETFs, June 2009 | 4 days ago | Looking to add some Exchange Traded Funds – ETFs – to your investment portfolio? If so you need to read the list below. This list consists of 10 best ETFs that are all high fliers over the past month and have still performed well even with the market's sideways action. Note: ETFs must trade atleast 50,000 shares per day to be included. Data provided by WSJ . Top 10 ETFs For June 2009 ..
Winner Announced: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite x4 | 4 days ago | A Big thank you out to all who participated in this draw. I literally took all your names, put ‘em in a bowl, swished them all around and came up with a winner. The winner is Regina Baker ! Congratulations Regina! You'll need to contact me within 3 business days to smallbusinessbranding @ gmail.com We have more giveaway's coming so be sure to keep an eye out for them. No Tags
The Umbrella Skirt | 5 days ago | Italian designer Cecilia Felli knows what to do with a broken umbrella– turn it into an umbrella skirt . Pretty great! check out all her different creations over here .
Crowdsourcing Comes To Tote Bags In Common Totes | 5 days ago | If you are a diehard fan of crowdsourcing site, Threadless, here's a made-in-Singapore one for tote bags. Co-founded by a young team of four, Common Totes relies on you, the community to submit designs to be voted on by everyone else. The most popular ones will be sent to print. Applying the same successful concept of allowing everyday individuals to demonstrate their creativity for the whole wor..
Snik Zipper Pulls | 5 days ago | With the global user base of mobile phones approaching 3 billion people, more than a few music listeners and callers find themselves in a daily tangle of headphones/bags/jackets that might be avoided if Snik creator Rob Honeycutt has his way. His product line of zipper puller and cord grooves featured on snaps and buckles relieves pressure on the earbuds (athletes rejoice). “I believe there..
Death of Dream, Birth of Vision | 5 days ago | Remember back to when you were a child and you wanted to be a fireman or a lawyer or even a singer when you grew up? Yet when you became an adult that dream died. Have you had a business dream that has seemed to have died right in front of you? Don't give up, just look at it as an opportunity to “Birth Your Business Vision” into fruition. Giving birth to your business vision takes you..
Self Service Design: Interaction versus Informatio.. | 5 days ago | We at iQ pride ourselves on our interaction design work. Crafting the perfect flow, creating beautifully efficient paths to completion and fashioning calls to action that entice your mouse are the daily bread and butter of my job. And so I was really excited when given the chance to work ...
The Pirate Bay - SOLD! for more than SGD$10m | 5 days ago | via globalgamingfactory.com Unbelievable. Is this the end of the fight? It sounds like they are intending to make users pay. I wonder what will come next. It is a sad day indeed. Or maybe a blessing in disguise? Original post at garry blogs
Get Islamic Information At Your Fingertips With iA.. | 5 days ago | If you're an Muslim living in Singapore and has always found it hard to find out where the nearest Halal dining establishments or mosques are, iAlif aims to solve that problem by providing a searchable location-based directory listing. List of mosques. P Problem : Hard to find location information on Halal restaurant and eateries, or the nearest mosque for a prayer. You most likely need to have t..
“When You Are Led By Values, It Doesn't Cost Your .. | 5 days ago | Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have ice cream in their veins. These two unlikely entrepreneurial heroes rose to pop culture status by following different paths. Jerry is more of the joker, always ready with a quick quip, who landed his first job in the industry as an ice cream scooper in college. He tried moving through medical school without any success and reverted to work as a lab technician, ..
