Original: Recession Drives Restaurateurs, Diners To Trucks
понедельник, 30 ноября 2009 г.
Real-time flight reviews via Android and iPhone
Original: Real-time flight reviews via Android and iPhone
Regular Springwise readers may remember Lufthansa's MySkyStatus service, which lets air travellers get flight status updates posted automatically to their Facebook or Twitter profiles. Offering a variation on the same theme, mobile application EezeeRator now gives users a simplified way to share real-time flight information and reviews via Android and iPhone.
EezeeRator is a free travel companion from French Air Valid that allows passengers to post airline reviews while in flight. Travellers need only download the application—an Android version is available now, with iPhone software coming next month. With an on-board wifi connection, they can then use the application to search for airline and flight information, post reviews, and send messages, tweets and pictures in real-time from their phones. Preformatted message templates make it quick and easy to add text or photos and post; the resulting messages get sent both to Twitter and to Eezeer, Air Valid's airline-focused social network with information sheets on 1,220 airlines, information and ratings for more than 47,000 flight numbers from 260 airlines, and some 120,000 reviews from 45,000 members. All messages are moderat
The company blog explains: "The next time your flight attendant gives you the cold shoulder when you ask for an extra bag of pretzels, whip out your phone and tell everyone! These are the types of applications that will show which companies are taking care of their customers and which are hiding behind slick advertising."
Indeed, in addition to that much-needed dose of transparency for the airline industry, EezeeRator also gives passengers additional services including door-to-door luggage collection and delivery (thanks to First Luggage), and a way to purchase carbon offsets (through a partnership with JPMorgan Climate Care). All that and a heaping helping of nowism too! What is *your* brand doing to enable instant gratification for its customers...?
Website: www.eezeerator.com
Contact: www.eezeer.com/contact
Recession drives U.S. restaurateurs, diners to trucks
Original: Recession drives U.S. restaurateurs, diners to trucks
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Mon, 2009-11-30 09:59.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Every Thursday night, Lonnie Bishop and Lisa Case have a dinner date. For $5 each, the couple dines on fancy hot dogs served from a food truck parked outside their favorite wine shop in Los Angeles.
The fire engine-red truck labeled "Let's be Frank" is part of a growing fleet of mobile food vendors that serve tasty and inventive fare, often organic.
The trend has drawn entrepreneurs looking for opportunities in the recession and diners seeking cheap eats.
The new vehicles raise the bar from the traditional "taco trucks" that sell mainly Mexican fare at construction sites and in neighborhoods in U.S. cities with big Latino populations.
Their menus are wildly Cohen and her business partner leased a boxy truck complete with a kitchen and an order window.
BURGERS AND TRUFFLES
Their hot pink truck, called "Baby's Badass Burgers," flaunts a logo of two buxom cooks who could double as pin-up models and sells gourmet mini-burgers. Parked off Hollywood Boulevard, the truck draws workers like Lara Yturriaga, who ordered a Cougar -- two mini burgers topped with St-Andre cheese and black truffles.
"I'm on a quest this whole month (to eat at) 10 food trucks," Yturriaga, 25, said. So far, she's tasted Indian crepes and Asian-style meat in a rice-patty bun.
"I like that it's always something different," she said.
Many operators use Twitter to tell customers where they're going next. 'Kogi,' which serves Korean barbecue tacos, was among the first to use the free social media site.
"A restaurant is more like a passive sell. The lunch truck is more active," said Takeshi Kimura, w said.
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How Sigmund Freud Helped A Man Sell Couches Worth Thousands Of Dollars Psychoanalysis, the treatment originated by Sigmund Freud more than a century ago that requires patients to lie on a couch and say whatever comes to mind, has been battered in recent years by everything from antidepressants to skepticism to managed care that doesn't pay for such long-term therapy. So who in his right mind would want to launch a company that makes psychoanalytic couches? 4. Bad Fishing Trip Makes A Florida Man Rich Great business ideas often come from strange places, but no one expects to find one at the bottom of a river. Yet that's what happened to George Goodwin. When he went fishing in shallow Florida riverbeds during the early 1970s, Goodwin often caught more logs than bass. "I used to snag my lures on them," he remembers. Most fishermen would have cursed their luck; Goodwin, now 59, reeled in a multi-million-dollar business instead. 5. 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We've seen the Wikipedia model applied to car design, a video dictionary and an online publishing platform. The latest? Foodista, an online cooking encyclopedia whose recipes can be edited by anyone. Launched late last year, Seattle-based Foodista is a collaborative project to build the world's largest, highest-quality cooking encyclopedia. The site says it is the first to organize and cross-link the basic elements of cooking: foods, or the basic ingredients; recipes, or combinations of ingredients; cooking techniques; and kitchen tools. Rather than include hundreds of recipes for the same basic result, however—the way many recipe sites do—Foodista aims instead to perfect a few key recipes through the collaborative editing process. Thousands of high-resolution photos from the Flickr.com Creative Commons currently illustrate the topics on the site—though not the results of specific recipes, as TechCrunch points out—and users can also upload their own photos. Content is fully editable, and a ra Will a thousand cooks produce a better recipe, as the site implicitly promises? Or will the collaborative process reduce each of the site's recipes to the most bland, lowest-common-denominator version, as TechCrunch suggests it might? Time will tell. In the meantime, one to watch—or get involved in? (Related: 52 recipe contests to spawn crowdsourced cookbook — Personalized cooking: recipes match cravings — Customized cookbooks stir in online recipes.) Website: www.foodista.com Link of the day - If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You 1. How Sigmund Freud Helped A Man Sell Couches Worth Thousands Of Dollars Psychoanalysis, the treatment originated by Sigmund Freud more than a century ago that requires patients to lie on a couch and say whatever comes to mind, has been battered in recent years by everything from antidepressants to skepticism to managed care that doesn't pay for such long-term therapy. So who in his right mind would want to launch a company that makes psychoanalytic couches? 4. Bad Fishing Trip Makes A Florida Man Rich Great business ideas often come from strange places, but no one expects to find one at the bottom of a river. Yet that's what happened to George Goodwin. When he went fishing in shallow Florida riverbeds during the early 1970s, Goodwin often caught more logs than bass. "I used to snag my lures on them," he remembers. Most fishermen would have cursed their luck; Goodwin, now 59, reeled in a multi-million-dollar business instead. 5. How Any 13 Year Old Kid Can Become A Millionaire At the age of just 13, Dominic McVey exploded into the public's con otting-Find-Your-Next-Great%2Fdp
We've seen the Wikipedia model applied to car design, a video dictionary and an online publishing platform. The latest? Foodista, an online cooking encyclopedia whose recipes can be edited by anyone. Launched late last year, Seattle-based Foodista is a collaborative project to build the world's largest, highest-quality cooking encyclopedia. The site says it is the first to organize and cross-link the basic elements of cooking: foods, or the basic ingredients; recipes, or combinations of ingredients; cooking techniques; and kitchen tools. Rather than include hundreds of recipes for the same basic result, however—the way many recipe sites do—Foodista aims instead to perfect a few key recipes through the collaborative editing process. Thousands of high-resolution photos from the Flickr.com Creative Commons currently illustrate the topics on the site—though not the results of specific recipes, as TechCrunch points out—and users can also upload their own photos. Content is fully editable, and a ra Will a thousand cooks produce a better recipe, as the site implicitly promises? Or will the collaborative process reduce each of the site's recipes to the most bland, lowest-common-denominator version, as TechCrunch suggests it might? Time will tell. In the meantime, one to watch—or get involved in? (Related: 52 recipe contests to spawn crowdsourced cookbook — Personalized cooking: recipes match cravings — Customized cookbooks stir in online recipes.) Website: www.foodista.comвоскресенье, 29 ноября 2009 г.
Personalized jewelry marks a specific moment or place
Original: Personalized jewelry marks a specific moment or place
Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Original: Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2009-11-25 15:48. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies 
суббота, 28 ноября 2009 г.
Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Original: Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2009-11-25 15:48. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
Personalized jewelry marks a specific moment or place
Original: Personalized jewelry marks a specific moment or place
пятница, 27 ноября 2009 г.
Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Original: Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2009-11-25 15:48. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
Online hub helps people pack & sell their know-how
Original: Online hub helps people pack & sell their know-how
Contact: www.myknowledgegenie.com/contact-knowledge-genie.cfm
четверг, 26 ноября 2009 г.
Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
Original: Top 10 Madconomist.Com stories
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Beer-loving crowd aims to buy Pabst Brewing Co. for $300 mln
Original: Beer-loving crowd aims to buy Pabst Brewing Co. for $300 mln
Hollywood-based Forza Migliozzi and New York's The Ad Store are the two firms behind the venture. They're asking (legal-age) fans of Pabst's 25 brands to pledge between USD 5 and 250,000 each towards acquisition of the company. Money will only be accepted if the full purchase amount is reached, at which point all contributors will get "a crowdsourced certificate of ownership as well as enough beer to match their pledge".
While BeerBankRoll promised the crowd control over the business plan for a pub and brewery, no crowdsourcing of decisions is mentioned on the BuyABeerCompany website (in fact, Pabst owns brands and outsources brewing to MillerCoors). Still, if figures on the website can be trusted the idea is going down like a cold beer on a sunny day—over USD 11 million has been raised. It could be that fans of the cheap-but-hip Pabst Blue Ribbon are just the crowd to go for community ownership, though whether 60 million will stump up five dollars each remains to be seen.
Contact: info@forzamigliozzi.com — brian@adstore.com
понедельник, 23 ноября 2009 г.
Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Original: Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2009-11-19 19:36. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies 
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide by Dan S. Kennedy
Contact: nicole.lippa-gasparro@ontario.ca
воскресенье, 22 ноября 2009 г.
Eco-iconic license plates for green vehicles
Original: Eco-iconic license plates for green vehicles
Contact: nicole.lippa-gasparro@ontario.ca
Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Original: Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2009-11-19 19:36. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide by Dan S. Kennedy
суббота, 21 ноября 2009 г.
Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Original: Homebiz Success Stories - Mutt Huttz
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2009-11-19 19:36. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies 
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide by Dan S. Kennedy
Contact: nicole.lippa-gasparro@ontario.ca
среда, 18 ноября 2009 г.
Female-friendly taxis arrive in Mexico
Original: Female-friendly taxis arrive in Mexico
Despite the best intentions of the scheme, some local women's rights campaigners claim that the girly vehicles are promoting harmful female stereotypes. Still, they are certainly eye-catching and for women who have experienced harassment by male drivers in the past, the 24-hour service is sure to offer peace of mind. Similar operations have already proved successful in places from London to Teheran. Mexico City proposed it in 2007, but settled instead for female-only buses and subway cars. If this service in Puebla is successful, there are plans to expand to other cities. If your own town doesn't yet have a fuchsia fleet, now's the time to launch one.
SmartMedicalConsumer.Com Success Story
Original: SmartMedicalConsumer.Com Success Story
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2009-11-18 09:17. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies Link of the day - If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You
http://www.smartmedicalconsumer.com/
Some people you just shouldn't mess with. When Turkish-born Banu Ozden couldn't get a straight answer from her health insurance company about treatment costs after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, she got mad. And she got madder still as she went through treatment and received myriad bills filled with unintelligible codes and statements that didn't accurately reflect what she owed. When she finally sorted thr llow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMillion-Dollar-Idea-Everyone-Interests-Inventions%2Fdp%2F0470193360%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1248519777%26sr%3D1-2&tag=deprice-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions
IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea
вторник, 17 ноября 2009 г.
More baked goods by subscription, now in the UK
Original: More baked goods by subscription, now in the UK
Contact: info@ledolci.com
Unusual Business Ideas That Work
Original: Unusual Business Ideas That Work
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-11-17 11:20. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
понедельник, 16 ноября 2009 г.
10 Coolest 'Weird-Science' Wikipedia Articles.
Original: 10 Coolest 'Weird-Science' Wikipedia Articles.
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2009-11-14 19:32. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies 
Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Original: Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Contact: contact@laviedemondoudou.com
Spotted by: Fadila Merizak
воскресенье, 15 ноября 2009 г.
Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Original: Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Contact: contact@laviedemondoudou.com
Spotted by: Fadila Merizak
10 Coolest 'Weird-Science' Wikipedia Articles.
Original: 10 Coolest 'Weird-Science' Wikipedia Articles.
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2009-11-14 19:32. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
суббота, 14 ноября 2009 г.
Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Original: Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Contact: contact@laviedemondoudou.com
Spotted by: Fadila Merizak
Profiting From Locavores
Original: Profiting From Locavores
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Fri, 2009-11-13 11:00. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
http://www.localdirt.com/
Few would dispute the benefits of eating locally grown food, both for the environment and for human health. Access is the challenge, which is why we've seen such goods sold in vending machines, delivered by bicycle and packed in five-dollar bags for commuters. The latest spotting? Local Dirt, a Wisconsin-based site that connects buyers and sellers of locally grown food nationwide.
Farmers and other vendors begin by creating a profile page to promote their produce, as well as listing the quantities and prices of the products they have to sell. Individ ww.springwise.com/">Springwise]
The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions
IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea
пятница, 13 ноября 2009 г.
Profiting From Locavores
Original: Profiting From Locavores
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Fri, 2009-11-13 11:00. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
http://www.localdirt.com/
Few would dispute the benefits of eating locally grown food, both for the environment and for human health. Access is the challenge, which is why we've seen such goods sold in vending machines, delivered by bicycle and packed in five-dollar bags for commuters. The latest spotting? Local Dirt, a Wisconsin-based site that connects buyers and sellers of locally grown food nationwide.
Farmers and other vendors begin by creating a profile page to promote their produce, as well as listing the quantities and prices of the products they have to sell. Individ ww.springwise.com/">Springwise]
The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions
IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea
Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Original: Personalized books starring a child's favourite toy
Contact: contact@laviedemondoudou.com
Spotted by: Fadila Merizak
четверг, 12 ноября 2009 г.
Spiral-shaped wine cellars for every home
Original: Spiral-shaped wine cellars for every home
Contact: info@spiralcellars.com
3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories
Original: 3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-11-10 14:58. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
http://www.unicycle.com
Unicycling enthusiast John Drummond, a technical writer at IBM, decided it might be fun to sell a few cycles over the Internet. Seven months after unicycle.com debuted in 1999, Drummond, of Marietta, Ga., was so overwhelmed by demand that he enliste y early-20th-century furniture design -- with mechanical chops he began polishing at age 10, Gregg sells his pieces on bikefurniture.com and through a smattering of retailers.Creations such as the Milano lounge chair (pictured), $400, blend steel hardware and rubber upholstery -- made from inner tubes -- with swooping, organic curves. Gregg has been making the furniture since 1991, but it wasn't until 2004 that ...read on.
среда, 11 ноября 2009 г.
Connecting buyers and sellers of locally grown food
Original: Connecting buyers and sellers of locally grown food
Contact: www.localdirt.com/contact_us-a194.html
Spotted by: Cecilia Biemann
3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories
Original: 3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-11-10 14:58. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies
http://www.unicycle.com
Unicycling enthusiast John Drummond, a technical writer at IBM, decided it might be fun to sell a few cycles over the Internet. Seven months after unicycle.com debuted in 1999, Drummond, of Marietta, Ga., was so overwhelmed by demand that he enliste y early-20th-century furniture design -- with mechanical chops he began polishing at age 10, Gregg sells his pieces on bikefurniture.com and through a smattering of retailers.Creations such as the Milano lounge chair (pictured), $400, blend steel hardware and rubber upholstery -- made from inner tubes -- with swooping, organic curves. Gregg has been making the furniture since 1991, but it wasn't until 2004 that ...read on.
вторник, 10 ноября 2009 г.
How To Make Money On Drive-By's
Original: How To Make Money On Drive-By's
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-11-10 11:13. Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies Link of the day - Shape Solitaire Review
http://www.shotspotter.com/
Police surveillance cameras can make civil libertarians queasy. But what if cops could listen for dangerous crime instead of watching?
Enter ShotSpotter, a Mountain View, Calif., company that has installed microphones on telephone poles in 45 cities and counties across the U.S. with few complaints from local citizens.
< obert Showen in 2004, was struggling with anemic growth until he acquired a small wireless company in 2005. That let ShotSpotter lose the cumbersome telephone wiring required by earlier versions of the technology.
ShotSpotter's clients include the U.S. Army, which has been testing the system in Iraq. As a result, the Commerce Department classified the microphones as military munitions, which meant that they couldn't be exported. But Beldock fought back, spending roughly $500,000 on lawyers and consultants. "Night-vision goggles went through the same thing 15 years ago," he shrugs.
It paid off: ShotSpotter won the right to pitch its product to police chiefs around the world. Its first target: Brazil, another country with a history of major gun violence.
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Crowds map filming locations across the world
Original: Crowds map filming locations across the world
Contact: www.filmaps.com/contact.php
воскресенье, 8 ноября 2009 г.
5 Totally Weird Business Stories From The Recent Past.
Original: 5 Totally Weird Business Stories From The Recent Past.
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2009-11-07 12:42. Posted in: Crazy Money
Cooking wiki can be edited by anyone
Original: Cooking wiki can be edited by anyone
Contact: www.foodista.com/contact
Spotted by: Murtaza Ali Patel
суббота, 7 ноября 2009 г.
5 Totally Weird Business Stories From The Recent Past.
Original: 5 Totally Weird Business Stories From The Recent Past.
Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2009-11-07 12:42. Posted in: Crazy Money
Cooking wiki can be edited by anyone
Original: Cooking wiki can be edited by anyone
Contact: www.foodista.com/contact
Spotted by: Murtaza Ali Patel
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