BusinessWeek: Anyone who wants to join Xianz, a Christian social network, needs to abide by a set of rules that read more Ten Commandments than terms of use. Rule No. 2, for instance, bars cursing and “derogatory words.” The next one bans name-calling: “You may express your disagreement with someone’s point-of-view, but personal attacks…are prohibited.” Compared with the relatively permissive […]
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Paper Thin Video
USATODAY: In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cellphones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video. Sony released video of the new 2.5-inch display Friday. In it, a hand squeezes a display that is 0.3 millimeters, or 0.01 inch, thick. The display […]
Extreme Budget Airlines
BusinessWeek: For years, airlines have sought to emulate the low-fare, low-cost business model of Southwest Airlines, the much-studied pioneer in the cutthroat aviation game. Terror attacks? Exorbitant jet fuel costs? Little matter, the profits still flowed at Southwest, as its ultrafrugal ways kept pace with expenses. Now a new generation of discount carriers is set to make Southwest look downright […]
Shuttle Attraction
Wired: Imagine being in a dragster, peeling out from zero to 100 in three seconds, then keeping your foot to the floor for a full six minutes until you reach 17,500 mph. On Friday, the Kennedy Space Center will open the Shuttle Launch Experience, an amusement-ride-cum-astronaut-flight-simulator designed to mimic the 17,500-mph liftoff of a NASA shuttle orbiter. The 44,000-square-foot attraction […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 44
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: CULTURE & MUSIC Free Music by We7 A new platform called We7 has developed a system that does just that. Currently in beta, We7 gives brands the chance to communicate with users by “grafting” a short (around 10 seconds) audio or video ad to the front end of the file. Hail The iRosary […]
Timeshare Canine
Iconoculture: Leased cars. Vacation condos. And now, timeshare dogs. FLEXPETZ lets dog lovers who don’t have the time or space to be full-time pet owners make playdates with dogs from breed-rescue shelters. FLEXPETZ members pay $40 a month, plus a daily fee, and can reserve their dog of choice online. But before part-time companions start tossing Frisbees to Fido, they […]
Solar Lighter
Gizmodo.com: If you are an adventurous animal then lemme give you some dope on the solar powered lighter. Now if I have set you to wonderland as to why is this a key object for the adventurous, then the answer is cause it works for the people that go camping and run out of matches or gas on the lighter. […]
Free Music by We7
TrendCentral: While the terms “free” and “legal” aren’t usually used together to describe the business of music downloading, a new platform called We7 has developed a system that does just that. Currently in beta, We7 gives brands the chance to communicate with users by “grafting” a short (around 10 seconds) audio or video ad to the front end of the […]
Providing a Thriving Office
Thriving Office: Want a successful and thriving business environment? Here’s the creative and innovative CD to enhance your working environment. Thriving Office is a CD, filled with office sounds, that home businesses play it in the background while they’re on the phone to sound more established. In addition to eliminating uncomfortable silence, it also masks domestic noises, such as kids […]
Hail The iRosary
JoshSpear.com: In today’s fast-paced world, young Catholics are finding it hard to slow down enough to say the rosary. The Catholic staple, wherein “we say fifteen decades or tens of Hail Mary’s with an Our Father between each ten, while at each of these fifteen decades we recall successively in pious meditation one of the mysteries of our Redemption” is […]