Audiopoint: Hearing the Internet
Living without the Internet is a difficult task in this day and age. Accessibility to online media, however, has become easier for those with auditory and visual disabilities. Audiopoint, a voice data solutions enterprise, has been in the business of text-to-voice services since 1998. The reason it’s still around is simple: it listens to its clients and gives them what they want.
Posted Mon Nov 3, 2008
How to Schedule Meetings and Network Anywhere
Networking is essential to business in any industry. However, when traveling on business, meeting people in the same field can be difficult when you’re not familiar to an area. MeetingWave, an online service that helps business travelers connect, allows users to schedule public meetings in locations like hotel restaurants to which other users in those cities can request an invitation.
Posted Mon Nov 3, 2008
PlumChoice: Leveling Up on Remote Tech Support
Not everyone is a computer whiz it always easy to get your computer repaired. It often involves driving somewhere, shipping your desktop or laptop off to some factory, or paying hundreds of dollars to have a repairperson stop by your home or office. PlumChoice offers assistance via secure Internet connection and is upgrading their level of service.
Posted Mon Nov 3, 2008
Getting Political for Halloween
Let’s face it: the U.S. presidential election is dominating our lives and won’t stop until November 4. Might as well have some fun with it, right? Luckily, Halloween falls before Election Day, making it the opportune time to get creatively political. Not to mention, its great for business. According to the National Retail Federation’s 2008 Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions survey, approximately 574,000 adults plan to slip on some sort of political costume on October 31.
Posted Wed Oct 29, 2008
Searching What You Say: The Forum Search Engine
Google may be one of the greatest innovations of the decade, but one could argue there’s a lot of clutter. Smaller, more niche search engines are popping up to cut through all the flotsam. One such site is Twing, a search engine scouting out information in discussion forums.
Posted Tue Oct 28, 2008
.tel: Getting Information On the Web Without the Web
We’re always looking for an easier, more secure way of getting a hold of contact information, whether its personal or professional acquaintances. Telnic, a UK-based registry operator, launched what their developers call the “webless web” platform, opening the door to resources and open source code for third-party developers on October 15.
Posted Mon Oct 27, 2008
The Designer-Small Biz Connection
If you want your business to be noticed, design is everything. However, a lot of startups and small businesses often don’t have the budget for an in-house design department. In an effort to facilitate the connection between freelance designers and small businesses, there’s 99designs, an online crowdsourcing contest that creates a forum for designers to showcase their work and win new clients. The Melbourne, Australia-based operation just opened up their American headquarters in San Francisco.
Posted Fri Oct 24, 2008
T5 Has Landed: The new New York JetBlue Hub
As a frequent flyer between American coasts, I have become a regular customer of JetBlue, with its typically cheap(er) nonstop flights from New York’s JFK airport to San Francisco. I still remember the first time I landed in JetBlue’s Terminal 6 in August 2007. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a dingy, crowded, sorry excuse of a baggage claim area and the upstairs departures terminal wasn’t any nicer.
Posted Wed Oct 22, 2008
Park(ing) Day Redux
Posted Mon Oct 20, 2008
The Mobile-Web Connection
Applications or apps have revolutionized the social media market in the last year, both on the web and on mobile phones. However, few applications allow users to access their personalized content between platforms. Sonic Boom, founded in late 2003, publishes “mobile social media,” which allows members of social networks like Facebook to generate and access their content on both online and mobile mediums.
Posted Fri Oct 17, 2008
Arnold Schwarzenegger Goes Solar The governor of California parties with the solar industry in San Diego at the Solar Power International Expo 2008. Here’s the video, and other high points from the show, including a joint effort between GE, HP, and SunPower.
Posted Tue Oct 14, 2008
Innovating the Wish List
As we find ourselves amidst a global economic funk, no one has money to waste, especially on gifts nobody wants. One way to save your friends and family some time and money and organize your interests is MyRegistry.com, an online tool where you can register for, well, just about anything.
Posted Mon Oct 13, 2008
Grading Top Biz Execs, One Story at a Time
As banks and financial services firms continue to fail, one has to ask who was heading the shop and how did they drop the ball. A lot of people agree that we need to pay closer attention to Wall Street from now on. ExecDex is a new social media monitoring and reputation management system, graphically illustrating both public and media perceptions of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies, including key Wall Street financial firms and execs.
Posted Fri Oct 10, 2008
Telling Language Learners More
Learning a new language as an adult is never an easy task. While there hundreds of language-learning software products on the market, it’s often difficult to differentiate between any of them. One product trying to stand out from the crowd is Tell Me More, produced by Auralog. Geared towards individuals with 10 levels of vocal and grammatical instruction, developers guarantee that students can reach a level of fluentness where they can hold normal conversations with native speakers.
Posted Mon Oct 6, 2008
The Rebranding of Britney Spears
The pop princess has returned to her throne and it’s about time. Fans (including myself, and I am not afraid to admit it) have been waiting for four long years, through the many, MANY trials and tribulations of Britney Spears, but it looks like America’s fallen sweetheart is finally back on top and building up her brand again.
Posted Fri Oct 3, 2008
Breaking Into the Media Industry Easier
Breaking into the media publishing industry without a portfolio is extremely difficult, if not impossible. However, one citizen journalism site is looking to make portfolio-building easier and more lucrative. Helium.com, is a competition-based model in which writers can post articles they’ve written, and publishers can buy them all in one spot.
Posted Wed Oct 1, 2008
How Wall Street's Meltdown Will Affect Your Career Wall Street's woes could creep into every aspect of the job market, but some folks have more to fear than others. If you're a freshly hired middle-manager with a company that's about to be swallowed up in a merger, make sure your resume is up to date. But if you're an accountant who specializes in corporate risk reduction, now might be your time to make a power move.
Posted Thu Sep 25, 2008
The Future of Resumes
Paper resumes are things of the past. If you want to get stand out and get ahead, you have to get online. At least that's the idea behind FutureResume.com, the new job board that let's job seekers use video resumes and videoconferencing and lets employers view a candidate's personality and professionalism before the interview.
Posted Wed Sep 24, 2008
Saving the Music Industry -- Environmentally, At Least
As the music biz starts tossing out jewel cases by the busload as they try to jump on the green bandwagon, a Canadian enterprise is also looking to clean up the music industry. Yangaroo, a Toronto-based venture, is innovating the way labels sell their products to radio stations with a digital alternative.
Posted Wed Sep 24, 2008
