Saturday 23 June 2012

Hot Startups - Duolingo.com

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http://duolingo.com/

Even with artificial intelligence, language is not something machines are good at. Unlike their human counterparts, computers cannot easily point the difference between, say, a molehill and an ant hill. Sarcasm, jokes – even the most complicated language algorithm has a hard time with those. Add in wordplay, irony and cultural context to the mix, and it will be one hell of a day in a computer’s life.

Luis von Ahn, a computer scientist turned entrepreneur, is capitalizing on that human edge to decode stuff for the success of his startup, Duolingo. Duolingo utilizes groups of language learners to translate text on the Web. Duolingo offers basic language lessons to the learners, and then, little by little, from simple to difficult, they’re given text to translate.

Individuals and other entities may submit content to Duolingo for translation, and Duolingo offers, for now, at least, free translation services. As it is in its early days, there is no quality control mechanism in place yet, except for users voting for the best translation. The site is currently on invitation-only mode and is limited to Spanish, English, French and German translation. For its lessons, Duolingo taps into online content that is not under copyright or is released under a Creative Commons license.

For Duolingo to be successful, it’s going to need a giant crowd of learners. The better they become, the more chances of accurate translation. At Duolingo, big chunks of text are broken down into easy and difficult bits by a machine and distributed to learners depending on their levels and put back together, yet again by a machine. Eventually, Duolingo will be charging for its translation services for faster and more precise translations.

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Friday 22 June 2012

Business Ideas - IDPoster.com

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http://www.idposter.com/

If you're looking for a poster to adorn a blank wall or a unique calendar to grace your desk, or if you're simply hoping to own an awesome poster of your favorite celebrity or perhaps a personalized poster with your cute little pet puppy on it, IDPoster.com may be the right place for you.

Founded in 2010, IDPoster.com specializes in distributing celebrity posters for home and small business use. The company's top-of-the-line printing – notably, the vivid colors – and high-quality paper products from the world's leading manufacturers ensure 100% customer satisfaction.

To start the ordering process, simply visit their website, www.idposter.com, browse through and choose from the massive collection of celebrity posters they have available. Posters are alphabetically arranged and may range from movie stars, famous athletes, singers, models and more. When you're done with your selection, determine the poster size you want and add to your shopping cart. Payment may be made via major credit cards or PayPal.

For custom posters, simply map to the local drive where the image you want printed on your poster is located. And then, choose the design and size of your poster. You may also use downloaded images of your favorite comic book heroes, cartoons or celebrity photos not available in IDPoster's catalog.

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Niche Business - Hot Tub Covers

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http://northernhottubcovers.com/

Spa and hot tub covers have been known to reduce, if not completely prevent, evaporative losses from a pool or hot tub when not in use. Assuming the level of heat loss at 70%, even a hot tub cover with relatively small thermal insulation value can achieve up to 75% heating costs savings compared to simply leaving the spa or hot tub uncovered.

Northern Hot Tub Covers, a Canadian company manufacturing hot tub covers that are sure to withstand Canadian weather, capitalizes on this glaring fact. Northern's ultimate goal is to provide consumers with durable replacement spa covers at an unbeatable price while at the same time providing satisfactory customer service before, during and after a sale is closed.

Depending on the thickness of the cover, Northern's cover options can range from either Signature, Premier, Ultimate and Ultimate II. The company also provides spa accessories like bubble covers, foam core inserts, spa caps, cover lifters and hot tub filters.

The first choice in hot tub covers online ordering, Northern Hot Tub Covers' goal is simple, to be the provider of choice for economically priced hot tub covers.

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NicheBiz - LazBoy Spas

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http://www.lazboyspas.com/

La-Z-Boy is a brand name synonymous to home furniture, most notably, comfortable seating - sofas, upholstered recliners, sleeper sofas and stationary chairs.

Over 80 years ago, La-Z-Boy started out as a partnership between cousins Edwin Shoemaker and Edward Knabusch. In small town Monroe, Michigan, they invested in a furniture business and set out to design a wood-slat porch chair with a recliner system. Their invention was a hit, and as they say, the rest is history.

In keeping with the cousins' designing philosophy – "nature's way of relaxing" – La-Z-Boy Spas/Hot Tubs has taken comfort to a whole new level and developed what the company calls the perfect spa. Currently, it is offering the market three collections of underwater seating that are available in the hot tub industry anywhere. From Premier to Signature to Classic, there's a wide array of choices waiting for you, no matter how constrained your hot tub spa equipment budget might be.

Every La-Z-Boy Spas/Hot Tubs product employs a winning six-C strategy. One, indoors or outdoors, just like the first La-Z-Boy chair, it's engineered to be comfortable. Two, from 14 pre-programmed massage patterns to La-Z-Boy's exclusive AquaFlex Massage Technology, your massage can definitely be customizable. Three, a combination of dual microfiltration, pressurized ozone and a weekly La-Z-Boy Aquazure application ensures convenient maintenance and water management.

Four, the Therma-Zone insulation system ensures cost savings through energy efficiency. Five, since its inception, craftsmanship has been one of La-Z-Boy's trademarks. Then and now, special attention is given to the various elements of each product. And six, La-Z-Boy promises consumer protection via a guarantee that's 100% no nonsense and no fine print.

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Thursday 21 June 2012

Who Is Thomas Edison - History



A Brief History of Thomas Edison
If there ever was a man that revolutionized the world, Thomas Edison has surely secured his place. With an interesting childhood and a number of successful early inventions, and later inventions that would eventually change the world, Thomas Edison has surely made an impact and has made his name well known in a number of different industries. With that being

The History of Michael Dell



Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49291777@N05/4540424707/,
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Having been born on the 23rd of February 1965, in Houston, Texas, Michael Dell displayed an amazing interest in both gadgets and technology. Amazingly, at the age of eight, he made a serious attempt of earning his high school diploma in a hastened manner by successfully making through a test and subsequently

Tuesday 19 June 2012

5 Cool Small Tech Projects By 5 Big Tech Companies

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You probably know all of these companies. You know what they do. You know they are big. But each one has a cool side project or a small aquisition that’s oftentimes (unfairly) overlooked. Well, it’s time to do some justice.

1. Microsoft/Leafully.com. You know Microsoft as the biggest tech company with a virtual monopoly on PC operating system (though this is changing very quickly). You may also know that Bing has essentially been a failure so far. What you probably don’t know is that Bing engineering team (Timothy Edgar and Nathan Jhaveri, to be exact) are behind a free cool little app that let’s you track your energy usage and hopefully reduce your energy consumption in a friendly competition manner (literally, since you compare your stats with your friends).

2. Google/Prizes.Org. Google is known not only as a leading search engine, but also as a factory of really cool side projects everybody loves – from GMail to GoogleMaps. So I chose Prizes.Org for two reasons – first it became Google’s after acquisition of Slide (all other projects were killed). Second, Prizes.Org succeeds where Google itself has failed – namely Google Answers.

3. Bitrix/Bitrix24.Com. Bitrix is the largest commercial CMS maker in the world (people know about WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other free CMS, but ask anyone what’s the most popular CMS you have to buy and they won’t be able to tell you, but now you know). Bitrix24 is a free (to small businesses) social enterprise platform that combines SalesForce (CRM), DropBox (file sharing), Yammer (social workplace), BaseCamp (project management), FaceBook (likes) and a few other tools just to make you wonder ‘how can they afford to give this all away for free?’

4. Apple/Chomp.Com. Obviously, Pixar would be an ideal candidate since it’s Steve Job’s side project and Steve Jobs and Apple are almost the same. But since the Pixar story is so well known, I’ll settle for Chomp.Com, Apple’s search engine that is designed specifically for app search.

5. YCombinator/HackerNews. YCombinator may not be the biggest venture capital firm, but it’s probably the best known ‘startup bootcamp’ (which reflects Paul Grahm’s philosophy – ‘they don’t need money, they need advice and connections’). HackerNews is the founder’s personal project who wanted to recreate the early days of Reddit community and avoid the Eternal September . So far, so good.

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http://dudepins.com/

Women love Pinterest. As of February 2012, women users are 80% of the total Pinterest population. Given this stat, Pinterest is still seen as a chick's site. Now, two Vancouver dudes, namely Colin Brown and Kamil Szybalski, have decided to create Pinterest's love interest: Dudepins, a startup that shares male-oriented content.

Dudepins is fairly easy to use. All you have to do is sign up, edit your profile, upload an image of you and you're ready to create a montage. Now, why the name Dudepins? The answer is pretty obvious. The co-founders felt "dude" was representative of male-oriented content, and "pins" was synonymous to content sharing.

When asked what inspires them, Colin pointed out the passion of others, prompting him to love the startup culture where a day is never the same and success is directly proportional to a person's decision and execution. Kamil, on the other hand, gets his inspiration from challenges, stress and results. He added he couldn't imagine himself spending his working hours outside of the startup environment.

Major emphasis on customer satisfaction is what makes Dudepins special. This is because Colin and Kamil want users to feel part of a community. The two founders are always accessible via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail to address user concerns. Dudepins is a self-funded venture.

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Friday 15 June 2012

10 Cool Free Business/Productivity Tools You Should Know About

1. Bitrix24.com - Bitrix24 is a new startup that offers free sales/collaboration/productivity to small businesses. If your company has fewer that 12 employees, you get free CRM, free project manager, free file sharing/document manager, free calendar and other free goodies.

2. GotFreeFax.com - As the name implies, GotFreeTax is a free online faxing service, which lets you fax 3 pages for free to any fax number in US or Canada.

3. RememberTheMilk.com - Free To-Do list, iPhone and Android support.

4. WaveAccounting.com - This online accounting SaaS that offers unlimited invoices and expense tracking as part of free plan for small businesses.

5. JetRadar.com - This free low airfare meta searchengine searches through 700+ airlines to find best deals normally available through direct purchase on airline sites only (to combat price comarison services, airlines oftentimes reserve lowest prices only to own websites). Very handy if your business requires frequent travel.

6. PRLog.com - Free press-release distribution service.

7. Weebly.Com - Free website creator. Does not require any technical experties.

8. PickyDomains.Com - This one isn't free, but rather risk-free (naming service). If you need a cool domain name, product name or slogan, PickyDomains charges you ($50), but only if you decide to use one of their suggestions. If you don't like anything, you don't pay anything, hence risk-free.

9. Join.Me - Join.Me is a cool free webcast/webconference service that allows you to do free webcasting for 4 people.

10. Kolab.org - Kolab is free open source e-mail/workplace collaboration plaform. It's a little ugly and takes some technical expretise, but hey - free is free.


This is a guest post by Dmitri Davydov. Dmitri blogs at NicheGeek.com, a website where unusual business ideas and new cool startups are posted every day.

Startup Buzz - AllPhotoLenses.Com

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http://allphotolenses.com/

Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional, I’m sure you will agree, photography isn’t bound to go out of style, not by a long shot and definitely not in the distant future. Mainly, it is because photography immortalizes moments that the human memory will never be able to capture forever. Now, photography is an art, too. While it’s true that it is simply capturing something that already exists, when you look at a photograph, you also look at the way the photographer chooses to frame and present his photo to ultimately spin the photograph into an art form.

It is because of the artistic nature of photography that different brands and makes of camera lenses have been introduced to the market, all aimed at allowing photographers to generate varying results in terms of a photograph’s sharpness and other parameters.

Sergey Borodin, the brains behind AllPhotoLenses.com, aims to make the site the biggest online data repository regarding everything photo lenses. AllPhotoLenses.com is a virtual place where photographers hang out, discuss and review photo lenses and view actual photographs taken using a particular lens. Backed by supporting documents, personal experience or other online resources, users themselves upload news, articles, photos and reviews into the site. In addition, photographers have the option to buy and sell lenses and other photographic equipment.

For two years now, Borodin, a professional photographer himself, has been running a similar site in the Russian language via Lens-Club.ru.

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http://www.dealflicks.com/

Seeing movies in theaters is a pastime a lot of people love to do. But nowadays, doing so has become really expensive, and a lot of folks would rather spend their limited income on other things.

Enter Dealflicks, a Los Angeles startup that is currently in beta mode. Dealflicks aims to revolutionize the entertainment business by connecting movie theaters with movie enthusiasts, allowing theaters to sell empty seats at a discount, generally 40% to 60% off the regular ticket price. This way, movie theaters make money off what would otherwise have been a no-sale, and customers get to enjoy movies for less.

Now before you go about jumping up and down, take note, there's a catch. You only get to specify the day and vicinity you want to see the movie, not the specific movie house or time. The moment you purchase the ticket, the site will inform if you're supposed to head on to the theater two blocks away right at that very moment or if the movie is going to be a movie-and-dinner kind of thing.

Launched in mid-April of this year, Dealflicks has raised $47,500, and this summer, they're planning to expand in Santa Cruz, California, in El Campo, Texas, cities in the Bay Area and Virginia.

Like most startuppers, Dealflicks founder, Sean Wycliffe, had his own set of problems to face before Dealflicks was finally ready to take off. With a business background under his belt, he was no programmer. The developers he contracted with eventually all became busy with other stuff that he was forced to learn programming himself. Wycliffe insists he's still bad at programming but better to know who's good and who's not, what technologies must be used and how long things normally take. Currently, Dealflicks has two developers, three co-founders and eight interns.

Wycliffe would consider himself successful only once Dealflicks starts generating a seven-figure revenue stream and joining forces with the top 10 movie theater chains.

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Thursday 14 June 2012

CMS - How To Choose Content Management System



Here's a short video about how to choose CMS (content management system) from BitrixSoft. BitrixSoft is primarily known for it's intranet solutions, where it's number 2 right behind Microsoft. BitrixSoft's latest project is Bitrix24 - enterprise social network that offers free crm, free file storage, free project management, and other business tools that are free to companies with 12 employees or under.

Wednesday 13 June 2012

Startup Buzz - MoxTree.com

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http://www.moxtree.com/

When entrepreneurs discover a gap, they normally bridge it with a startup. And that is what Victoria Oldridge, the “mompreneur” behind social networking startup MoxTree did. MoxTree came into existence out of her desire to connect and vent about the trials and difficulties brought about by motherhood and the immense disparities in moms’ social groups. As soon as Victoria realized the huge gap in age, lifestyle and location in the mothers, she thought there has to be another way to connect the women more competently.

Baby Moxtree is a network that connects mothers based on their common interests (careers, goals, hobbies, philosophies, etc.) and stages of motherhood. The network also allows moms to form groups (book, fitness, professional networking, etc.), provides them with tools to help them find other moms they are compatible with near them and the freedom to put their mom-friends and interests in a single place. MoxTree is looking at the total modern woman and makes it easier for her to connect with like-minded moms.

So far, instead of getting involved in accelerator programs with the hope of obtaining venture capital funding, Victoria is bootstrapping the project. This decision stems from her desire to take personal risk and have control over the project’s rate of development. Bootstrapping, according to her, is middle ground for the work, family and life balance she’s looking to achieve.

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Tuesday 12 June 2012

Jayden Wozencroft - Funhouse Client - sponsored fighter, wins...

























Jayden Wozencroft was tattooed by Juan when Juan was still with us at Funhouse... Jayden just won a series of fights and will be at the convention center in September!

For all you fight fans, he's not one to miss!

Along with Tony Nguyen, we tattoo 2 fighters who kick ass....




Sunday 10 June 2012

Meet Donuts.Co - New Startup That Raised $100 Million And Applied For 307 TLDs


http://www.donuts.co/

"The existing spaces (like .com) are saturated." Daniel Schindler, Donuts co-founder is spot on. As per the WHOIS database, millions and millions of top-level domains have been registered to date - .com, .net, .info, .org. - that a good number of people are having a difficult time coming up with a domain that hasn't been registered yet.

It is for this reason that the idea of expanding Internet addresses beyond the aforementioned extensions to basically just about anything imaginable came to being, and Donuts, a web registry established in 2011, is hoping to cash in on the opportunity. As of this writing, Donuts is aiming to own and operate 307 new "dot-brand" extensions.

Aside from Donuts, hundreds of other companies have applied with the ICANN for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), and the complete list of applications, along with the proposed domains, will be made known on June 13.

When Donuts started operations last year, right out of the gate, it had been very vocal about its intentions to take advantage of this opportunity. Starting with 3,000 potential domains in its list, through its proprietary method of valuing gTLDs, the company was able to narrow it down to 307, which, by most standards, is still a lot.

Donuts and other applicants are keeping their lips sealed about any specific domains for competitive reason. As of May 30, ICANN revealed it has received roughly 1,900 applications. Each domain application is estimated to cost about $185,000, meaning, Donuts had to pay $56.8 million for those on its list. In any case multiple applicants had to battle for the same domain, the name goes to auction, which could mean millions more in expenses for the winning bidder.

Schindler, however, isn't concerned. According to him, access to money isn't going to be a problem. Well, given that the guy has raised more than $100 million from investors, he has every reason to say that.



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Saturday 9 June 2012

Bootstrap This - 29+ Sites That Help You Save Money

1. Bitrix24.com - Free CRM, planner, project manager, document sharing (limited to 12 employees)

2. PickyDomains.com - Pay per result naming service, $50 for domain/name/product line, slogan.

3. Reddit/Freebies - Community moderated daily updated freebies list.

4. AppSumo.com - Groupon clone for buying enterprise software.

5. JetRadar.com - Low airfare meta searchengine (searches through 700+ airlines to find best deals normally available through direct purchase on airline sites only).

6. SideJobTrack.com - Free invoicing.

7. MoneyBookers.Com (Skrill) - PayPal alternative, cheap way to accept online payments/credit cards (25 cents + 3%, please refer to site for exact details)

8. Kodesk.com - Office sharing. You can both buy and sell extra office space, including by the hour.

9. PRLog.com - Free press-release distribution.

10. InternMatch.com - Own slaves legally.

11. RetailMeNot.Com - Discount coupons, business section available.

12. OpenOffice.Org - Free MS Office alternative.

13. WaveAccounting.com - Free online accounting SaaS

14. SysAid.com - Free helpdesk software. ZenDesk.com is worth paying for.

15. CouchSurfing.com - Yes, I do want to let complete stranges sleep in my house for free (so I can do the same when I travel).

16. SubmitYourStartup.Com - Partly outdated list of sites that accept startup submissions.

17. Vator.Tv - Social network for startups

18. LowerMyBills.com - Loan/Insurance/Internet Provider/Phone Carries comparison service.

19. Score.Org - Free consulting from retired entrepreneurs (available in certain areas only).

20. Logaster.com - Free logos. Bad English gratis.

21. 99Designs.com - Cheaper alternative for design work. Designers hate the site, so it must be good.

22. MinuteBox.com - Hire doctor/lawyer/coffee enema expert - pay by the minute. Lots of experts, typical pay is around $2.50 a minute. Not sure, but there's probably some sort of minimum required.

23. HelpAReporter.Com - Free publicity (pitch your business directly to journos working on certain stories).

24. AVG - Free antivirus.

25. Weebly.Com - Free website creator.

26. GotFreeFax.com - Send free fax online. Limited to 3 pages, US and Canada only.

27. RememberTheMilk.com - Free To-Do list, iPhone and Android support.

28. Zamzar.com - Free online file converter. Let's pass a law that mandates that only one extension (how does .file sound) is allowed!

29. Join.Me - Free webcast/webconference SaaS.

P.S. I have not included eBay, Skype, etc. since everybody knows about those. Did I miss something? Send me a message.

Wednesday 6 June 2012

In-Depth Startup Profiles - Chegg.Com

When it launched in 2007, Chegg quickly became known as the Netflix for textbooks. Rather than spending $100 or so on a physics or biology tome used for one semester, students turned to Chegg to rent books for as much as 80 percent off the cover price. The startup’s bright orange boxes became as recognizable on college campuses as Netflix’s red envelopes are in living rooms. Chegg received glowing press coverage for disrupting a stodgy industry and saving students hundreds of dollars a year. Venture capitalists fell for the idea, putting more than $140 million into the company by early 2010.

That’s when Dan Rosensweig, the former head of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero franchise and previously a Yahoo! executive, took the helm. He quickly realized that Chegg, for all the positive attention, was a money pit. The company was approaching $100 million in annual revenue but hemorrhaging cash. Chegg bought any book requested by a user, regardless of its likelihood of being rented again. It also spent heavily on shipping and on a warehouse in Kentucky. After a review of the business, Rosensweig found that Chegg was six months away from going broke. “The company was truly at risk, it just didn’t know it,” says Rosensweig. To fix things, he raised an additional $75 million, hired a new finance chief, and culled the textbook catalog, keeping only titles he knew could earn back their purchase price.

Then he turned to Chegg’s other, more existential threats. The iPad made its debut shortly after Rosensweig took charge, setting in motion a rapid shift toward digital consumption—including e-books. Around the same time, a number of young technology companies began reimagining education, building online platforms for student-teacher interaction and other services that displace the textbook as the nexus of the classroom. “There’s a huge opportunity for teaching oneself and a huge opportunity for learning online,” says Pooja Sankar, chief executive officer of Piazza, which is developing a question-and-answer forum for students and professors.

Though textbook rentals remain the source of most of the company’s $200 million in sales in 2011, Rosensweig is preparing for a time when students no longer buy—or rent—printed books. He’s spent around $50 million on six acquisitions over the past two years. His aim is to turn Chegg into a digital hub providing everything a college student needs, from homework help to discounts on dorm room decorations, and “to save them time, save them money, and make them smarter.”

To create what he calls “the largest connected network of students,” Rosensweig and his 350-person team plan to begin testing an enhanced Chegg.com on June 1, giving them the summer to work out kinks before the back-to-school traffic boom in August. The site weaves together all the services Chegg has bought or developed. Students can log in using their Facebook credentials, giving Chegg.com information about a user’s connections on the social network and where they go to school. A freshman interested in economics can see reviews of all the relevant classes offered by her university and the professors who teach them, information powered by CourseRank, a 2010 acquisition. Once she knows her schedule, Chegg offers her options to rent or buy the books on her syllabus, in digital or physical form. When classes begin, Chegg acquisitions including Cramster, Notehall, and Student of Fortune let her share notes with classmates, download study guides from professors, and contribute to Q&A forums offering homework help. Chegg is also following the lead of Apple and building an app store where third-party developers can sell their education-related software.

Some of the new services are marketplaces, where Chegg facilitates transactions between students. A person struggling through a biology assignment can pose a question about mitosis, and another student might volunteer to answer for free or charge a few bucks, with Chegg taking an undisclosed cut of the proceeds. Other products require a monthly subscription fee, and the site will also include daily-deal-type offers. Chegg also generates money from Zinch, a site acquired in 2011. It’s a free service that helps high school students narrow their college search and find their perfect university. College recruiters pay Chegg to connect with the students that show interest in their school. In total, Rosensweig estimates that Chegg’s non-textbook sales will double as a percentage of total revenue this year from last, though he won’t disclose specific numbers.

One area Chegg isn’t counting on for immediate growth: digital textbooks. The company recruited a small team of Israeli engineers to create an e-book reader built on the new Web standard HTML5, allowing customers to download texts to any device with a browser. It’s not Chegg’s main focus, however. Rosensweig says the digital textbook market will remain small for some time, and he prefers to steer clear of Apple and Amazon.com, which sell proprietary textbooks for their own popular tablets. Chegg also passed up an opportunity to buy Kno, a company founded by former Chegg CEO Osman Rashid, which was building an education-focused tablet, according to three people involved in the discussions but who declined to be identified because the negotiations were private. Kno abandoned its tablet as the iPad gained popularity.

Chegg’s new website is like what Facebook might have become had it remained limited to universities, says Michelle Hummel, CEO of digital marketing agency Web Media Expert. Students and educators are “looking for something other than Facebook that’s more targeted to their needs,” she says.

[Via - BusinessWeek]

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Watching videos on YouTube is cool if you’re always connected to the Internet. But what if you’re offline, solitary in some remote island in the middle of nowhere – now, I wouldn’t want this to happen to you if you don’t want to – with no means of connecting to the Internet? Videos on YouTube wouldn’t be so cool anymore, yeah?

YouTubeDownloaderHD is a video-grabbing software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and save them to your local drive. You can easily convert these videos to FLV (Flash video), MP4 (compatible with iPods, iPhones and iPads) and AVI (both normal and HD) formats without at all diminishing the quality, allowing you to watch your favorite videos via your portable video player even while commuting – or yes, while enjoying nature alone in that island.

To start downloading videos from YouTube via YouTubeDownloaderHD, simply download the software, copy and paste the YouTube URL to YouTubeDownloaderHD and specify the folder in your local computer where you want the downloaded video saved, no need for complicated scripts or browser plug-ins. Easy, huh? YouTubeDownloaderHD is available for Windows and Mac computers.

You can also choose to download MP3 audios from YouTube videos, giving you free rein on the quality, 64 kbps (low quality), 128 kbps (medium quality) and 192 kpbs (high quality). And have I already mentioned the software is free?

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Tuesday 5 June 2012

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In the fall of 2007, T.J. Clark sat down with three former colleagues from Hotwire.com to assess business opportunities in the travel industry. One jumped out at him. "Those last few miles of the trip were way behind the times," he says. "We couldn't figure out why nobody had modernized the experience in the town-car category."

Deep into the internet era, town-car and limo services still worked pretty much the same way they had in the age of Donkey Kong. If you were a regular business customer, you probably had a service to go to the airport and back, and you knew the driver like you did your barber or dentist. But establishing a relationship beyond your home base was an ad hoc process. It involved scoring leads from friends or colleagues, dealing with scraps of paper with phone numbers and scrawled first names, then getting a suspicious voice at the other end of your cold call. It felt more like finding a bookie than planning business logistics.

There were no national or even regional brands in the category--even today, no company has captured as much as 1 percent of the town-car industry, estimated at $1.3 billion in revenue in 2012, according to research firm IBISWorld--and virtually no online booking. Prices tended to be high compared to taxi service. And the quality of the rides fluctuated from surprisingly luxurious to unendurable.

A former intercollegiate swimmer at Notre Dame and then a Chicago trial lawyer, Clark moved to San Francisco to join the Hotwire team led by college friend Karl Peterson, then stayed on when IAC bought the company in 2003. Four years into his corporate career, he was ready for another ride on the startup roller coaster.

In early 2008, he and his team bought the Limos.com URL. They set out to build a network of providers who would agree to the company's strict standards in return for inclusion on its website. They traveled extensively, attending conventions, visiting with proprietors and taking hundreds of rides to validate the quality of car companies.

Their technology team created software that would instantly aggregate prices from every provider in their database who was willing to make the trip requested by a consumer. A feedback feature ensured that unacceptable performance had instant ramifications. Since launching in early 2008, Limos.com has grown from four employees to 55; revenue rose to more than $6 million in the first two years of business.

There are now more than 2.5 million registered users. Many are booking leisure trips--anything from wine tours to prom night--and the average fare in that category is about $500, making it a sizeable chunk of income. Meanwhile, half of the Fortune 500 companies have at least 50 registered users.

"We're making three big bets," Clark says. "We're betting on accessing both leisure travel and business travel in the existing town-car market, and we're betting on moving people from taxis to town cars. All we need to have is one of them pay off. So far, they all are."

That doesn't even include a larger potential market of business travelers who are using Limos.com to replace rental cars. In most cities, the cost of booking Limos.com cars ends up comparable to renting one--without having to pay for parking and gas. "There's also something nice about showing up at a meeting in a town car, as opposed to figuring out where to park," Clark says. "Less stress."

The number of potential customers who will be exposed to Limos.com will grow exponentially this month, when more airlines and hotel chains add a link to the site from their booking confirmation pages. "We think 2012 will be the year of the private car," Clark says. "It'll be the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry. And we'll be the brand that reaps the benefits."

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Monday 4 June 2012

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Nowadays, photo editing is an “in” thing. A lot of people enjoy cropping, enhancing and applying all sorts of techniques to enhance their photos, inasmuch as every photo has a story to tell. Best of all, these can be done through a selection of photo editing software, free or otherwise, that’s available to just about anyone on the web.

The name may not say much and the tagline – the only place for social pins – a little obscure, Yuhuhu.com is a cross between an online photo editing freeware and a social media platform like Pinterest. Notwithstanding the outright confusion (as there is no About page), what’s remarkable about this site is the simplicity of the interface and the relative ease of navigation. Here are some the basic steps:

1. Choose the thumbnail of the image you want to include in your photo. That can either be a bear with a plush heart, an outstretched hand with a bouquet of flowers, grapes, a cat sleeping in a box, and a few others.
2. Select the position/variation of the photo effect, either lower left-hand side or lower right-hand side.
3. Upload your photo.
4. Do some editing, if needed.
5. Finally, once you’re done, click go and your edited photo should be available for download.

At step #4 above, however, everything started to get really tricky. As there aren’t any instruction manuals, figuring out how to go about the horizontal and vertical layouts was quite a challenge. And for a photo editing software (if indeed it is), Yuhuhu.com doesn’t have much photo effects. The choices are very limited, all contained in a single page and a little too girly to begin with.

On the upper right-hand side of the page are three tabs – Home, Register and Login. Since I was already at the Home page and I didn’t have any login credentials yet, the next logical course of action was to register. I was asked to provide a username, a password and my e-mail address. After hitting register, boom, I came up with a PHP error that left me wondering what in the world just happened.

When I tried registering again, thinking I just bumped into some kind of a glitch, it turned out I was already registered. What was even more disappointing was discovering that the features available to me as a registered and unregistered user were basically one and the same, leaving me to conclude I just wasted my time registering.

To compete with other established photo editing freeware and/or social media platform, Yuhuhu.com still has much to work on.

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Two years ago, Lynne Sanditen was waiting in line, deciding whether to order a meal of green beans or mashed potatoes for her father who had kidney disease. She thought, something had to be done to solve this problem. That very moment, the KidneyDiet idea was born.

In order not to have to undergo dialysis, which, in the absence of a kidney transplant, is a lifetime procedure, many kidney disease sufferers have to track and change their eating habits.

A technology marketing expert by profession, Sanditen launched Boulder-based Pain Free Living and worked with software code experts, independent contractors and nutritionists to create the KidneyDiet mobile app to help end users monitor their intake of potassium, protein, phosphorus and other nutrients. With KidneyDiet, users either scroll through a list of food items or type in the items to determine their nutritional value. The app conveniently allows them to analyze and track what they eat to ensure they are following their doctors’ recommendations.

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Sunday 3 June 2012

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Artwork by Andy Warhol, military medals, helicopters, and a Babe Ruth baseball bat aren't the typical pawnshop fare. But all of these valuables have been used to secure loans through a personal asset company called Borro.

At a time when small business bank loans can be hard to get, more entrepreneurs are looking for alternative ways to finance their businesses. Borro is trying to tap into that niche, offering short-term loans between $1,000 and $1 million to small businesses and other clients who provide collateral such as fine art, watches, jewelry and even private jets and yachts.

Paul Aitken, founder and CEO of Borro, came up with the idea for the firm after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.

"I felt there was an opportunity to provide a business that bridges the gap between the very high end types of lending that private banks do and the very high end of retail pawnbroking," he said.

Borro doesn't have a retail presence, though, and it offers much bigger loans than a traditional pawnbroker, so "we don't actually call ourselves a pawn shop," said Aitken.

Indeed, loans average about $17,000 at Borro vs. $150 at a traditional pawnshop, according to data from the company and the National Pawnbrokers Association. Depending on the item, a customer can borrow between 50% and 70% of its resale value at an interest rate ranging from 2.49% to 3.99% per month.

Originally launched in the UK, Borro made its way stateside in January. Clients include small business owners who need cash to invest in new technology or finance a growing business, as well as private individuals garnered through referrals from private banks and financial advisors.

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Saturday 2 June 2012

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Late one night about 15 years ago, Lee Loree noticed his wife holding a perfectly lucid conversation in her sleep. That observation started the then-stock analyst on wondering about sleep patterns, talking to engineers, and then soliciting money from angel investors to build a device to improve how we sleep.

The result is the SleepTracker, a watch-like monitor and alarm that users wear on their wrists to record their sleep patterns and awaken them at an optimal time within the window they have chosen. The alarm goes off when the lightest sleep stage is reached during that window, reducing early morning grogginess. The monitor also records sleep stages throughout the night, converting it into data that can be analyzed over time with tracking software.

Loree, 39, has sold more than 250,000 units in 35 countries but still runs his $3 million Innovative Sleep Solutions as a one-person business from his Atlanta home. I spoke to him recently about the startup process and why he deliberately keeps his company small; edited excerpts of our conversation follow.

You were working in finance in 1998, with no background as an inventor or a sleep scientist, when you came up with SleepTracker. How did you do it?

I started checking books out at the public library. I spent 20 or 30 nights sitting in a closet, watching my wife sleep, which is pretty creepy when you think about it. I had access to a lot of smart people through my networks, so I met with them and eventually found a micro-electrical engineer and a software programmer to write the code. We built a couple generations of prototypes, which I financed by withdrawing money from my retirement accounts. When we had north of $100,000 invested, people told me I was a fool—and rightly so.

I was still working at a bank at the time, and I ran out of funds. So I wrote a business plan and did a mini-roadshow, meeting with angel investors. I went with an angel who had business experience and could help me navigate the startup. He turned into a pretty good shepherd. He’s still involved with the company; we talk quarterly.

You got the product to market in 2005. What was the reaction?

We sat and stared at our website that first day and we had 38 visitors. We didn’t have any sales. The next day, a tech blog found us and they threw up a screenshot of our website. Our business went crazy. It was like a commercial where people are watching one sale, then another, then five, then 30, and everybody starts freaking out.

I had conservative projections in my business plan, with 1,000 sales expected in the first year and 5,000 in the second year. Well, we sold 5,800 pieces in the first nine months and 12,000 the next year. We were cash-flow-positive in the first month. We scrambled to support various browsers and add an international component to our shopping cart. The product blew away all expectations that I ever had.

Your product was an early innovation but now you have competitors. Does that concern you?

I believe competition is inevitable, so you use it to your advantage. More people advertising in this space, doing interviews, doing marketing—it should grow the pie, assuming you have a product that works and is fairly priced.

A lot of our competitors have gone out and raised significant amounts of money. They have employees; they have infrastructure. Meanwhile, we have this quiet little business, we haven’t had to get additional outside investment, we have built up a significant war chest, and we don’t even carry a line of credit. We run the business debt-free and it’s clipping along.

Do you think about growing into a larger organization?

We found a sweet spot: Our business grows 10 to 20 percent annually, which is real manageable, and we are where we want to be in terms of managing cash flow. We have all the infrastructure: a call center, fulfillment center, manufacturers, warehouses—but none of them work for me. My main goal with this company was flexibility with my lifestyle. I wanted to be a dad and a husband and be there to be a part of things with my family. If I had the ambition to have a bigger company, we could scale this business up and do 500,000 pieces a year, I don’t have any doubt about that.

But using contractors, rather than employees, works for me because when we’ve fulfilled that obligation, I can turn off that expense and turn it back on when I need it. They like it also because it gives them the flexibility to pursue other contracts. And I don’t have to deal with 401(k)s, or kids being sick and people being out of the office.

How did you set up distribution?

You can get the product online at places like Amazon and Costco and in a few very specific brick-and-mortar stores. There really is not a great channel in the U.S. for these types of devices. We’ve been in specialty catalogs but we’ve not found that to be particularly productive. Some of the big box retailers that used to dedicate a lot of space to CDs and video games have gotten crushed because people are streaming that stuff now. So they’re piloting different things in that dead space, but we struggle to think that’s a good plan for us. No one is going to Best Buy to pick up a sleep monitor.

In Europe, Mexico, and Asia, we have a much bigger footprint. There are limited resources in a small business and I’ve spent much of my time trying to grow international sales.

About half of your revenues now come from sales overseas. How do you manage those markets?

We sell to 30 independent distributors, some of whom I found in our first month of operations and [who] are still with us today. We get them the product, plus camera-ready art, and I do media interviews all over the world. Of 30 distributors, 20 of them I’ve never met face-to-face. Bidding jobs to people, regardless of where they live or what they look like, has worked for me from day one in this business and I believe in it.

You are still selling the same basic product you started with in 2005. Have you got any innovations in the works?

We’re on our fourth or fifth iteration at this point, but we’re kind of a one-trick pony. I recognize that for the long term, we want to have multiple legs so we have more stability, but I’m not sure how to make it a whole lot better. It’s really hard—when you have a business that makes money—to change your focus. We are working on some innovations; by the first of the year we should have a feel for their potential and timelines. But we’ve done this before and the ideas all peter out. Sometimes we’ve spent $10,000 to $40,000 before walking away. I have a proven product, so I try not to monkey too much with it at this point.

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If you love to read, you know that books are a treasure. And if you're somebody who loves to collect memories through photographs, you know that photo books to share with family and friends can be a source of joy and inspiration.

Novels, art portfolios, photo collections - if you love the value they bring and hope to create your own one day, either to keep, share, even sell, PrintLuna, in collaboration with Paro Printing, helps you turn that aspiration into reality. Launched in 2010, PrintLuna is an online service that assists creative people in designing, publishing and selling their own books.

Creating a book has never been as easy, economical and fast as PrintLuna's free online book builder. After selecting your book layout and trim size, you directly proceed with creating your very own book. Once the design layout is chosen, you have creative freedom to edit page layouts, photo positions, text, etc. Always remember, the book's final quality is dependent on the experience and professionalism of the people you entrust your book with, and PrintLuna promises to provide users with an unwavering focus on superior craftsmanship.

Aside from designing and publishing your book online with no need for download, other perks PrintLuna offers include selling your book at no extra charge, getting your book delivered to your doorstep, turning your book into a gift friends and family will love, receiving promotions for special events and a whole lot more.

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Friday 1 June 2012

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A lot of people wonder (and you may be one of them), why do companies need logos? And why do these companies sometimes spend thousands of dollars for a logo? The answer is simple: Logos help in branding, in creating an identity for a company, an identity that is easily recognized by consumers. As for why companies spend thousands for a logo, they probably are not aware there is a service called LOGASTER.

LOGASTER is an online design software and logo maker that allows users - mostly SMEs (small and medium enterprises) - to create their own professional-looking logos in a matter of minutes, regardless of a user's designing or logo-making experience.

Creating a logo with LOGASTER involves the following basic steps:

1. Select your profession or business type. This is to ensure that unrelated logo designs are filtered out.

2. Choose your logo. In this step, you will be given a wide range of logo choices. And once you've made your choice, you're ready to work on editing the text, size, font, color and other features of your logo.

3. Once the logo is created, you can try it out on envelopes, business cards, letterheads and more. You can even choose to download a 70-pixel logo for your website, all for free.

The moment you're completely satisfied with your design, for the price of $4.99 a month, you get to create and edit your full-sized logo, create new logo designs, product designs, company giveaways like pencils, lighters, memo pads, etc. Basically, what LOGASTER hopes to accomplish is save users' time and money while not compromising customer satisfaction and overall quality.

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