Despite the global economic gloom, we continue to see smart entrepreneurs and businesses introduce innovative new business ideas to the market around the world. If you want to be in the know, this free report by CoolBusinessIdeas.com is for you. Our newly published 28-pages PDF ebook (worth $38), Cool Business Ideas in 2009, is an analysis of innovative and never-seen-before […]

Sporkings: PepsiCo, the owner of Mountain Dew soda brand has rented a bowling alley in Brooklyn to throw a “taste test” party. They were testing the brand new “Ultraviolet” diet soda. Most of the guests were Twitter users and fans. On a projector screen, everybody could watch Twitter search queries related to @mtn_dew and occurrences of the hashtag #newdietdew. People […]

Cnet News: URL-shortening services are abundant and becoming more so. They’re usually designed with a priority on minimum character length, not easy reading: Is.gd, Bit.ly, Twurl.nl, Tr.im, Sn.im”, Cligs, and TinyURL. So what’s new now? First, Twitter, and second, shortening URLs is becoming an actual business–notably at present through the addition of “analytics” features that can let those who use […]

Examiner.com: Crowdsourcing is a phenomenon that is gaining fast acceptance in the business community and beyond. It has the potential to affect business quite fundamentally and can usher in radical changes to business models and business processes everywhere. Crowdsourcing is a method that involves and uses “crowds” (i.e., large, undefined, randomly distributed, undirected, unsupervised groups of people) to performs tasks […]

FT.com: In recent years, some forward-thinking chefs, who believe that personal expression and creativity are more important than slavish devotion to symbolic luxury goods, have abandoned the antiquated approach of haute cuisine, a style of cooking traditionally based on a few select ingredients. These forward-thinking chefs are seeking out the highest-quality ingredients, usually from their area, without regard to their […]

FT.com: There is a new movement afoot. Just as the self-build trend is gathering pace, so too is a new wave in do-it-yourself (DIY) projects for the home – embracing everything from plumbing, woodcarving and pottery to robotics, electronics and recycling. At the spiritual heart of all this is California-based magazine Make, which, since launching in print and online in […]

Packaging Digest: Clever spin on packages such as bottles with diffusion closures, multi-dimensional shapes, feel-good visuals. Winners of the 46th Annual Package Awards competition of the National Association of Container Distributors (NACD, www.nacdnet), evaluated in February in seven categories, demonstrate clever shapes, functionality and decorating options. Honored during the association’s 2009 annual convention in Las Vegas, in April, the winners […]

Harvard Business Publishing: The annual Harvard Business Review’s breakthrough business ideas is now out. This year, the list includes trends ranging from Africa to the economy, from Western Union to state capitalism, and from biomimicry to something called the IKEA Effect… HBR has also gone further to anticipate the context in which we would now read them. Thus some of […]

Fancy having a complete shopping cart website, and accept credit cards, PayPal, and mobile all at once? Now you can, thanks to the P & G mobile payment plugin for Joomla. If you are already running the popular open source CMS Joomla / Virtuemart on your e-commerce website, the P & G mobile payment solution will enable you to accept […]

People Web International (http://www.peoplewebinternational.com) is a global news social networking site with a purpose: to be the world’s biggest and perhaps its only totally independent news provider. CNN, AP, Reuters and the BBC combined have a little over 10,000 reporters between them, with the biggest individually having about 4,000. Now imagine an organization having a network 5 times bigger than […]