I wrote this a few months ago:
Here’s an amazing website-slash-service I just randomly found Googling myself…. workFRIENDLY.net! What is it? Well it looks a lot like a search engine but what it does it a lot cooler. Just enter in the URL of a site you want to visit and workFRIENDLY masks it into looking like a MS Word document! Now you can read your favorite websites while at work with reduced chance of getting caught by the boss. There is even a “boss” button to quickly switch out the content. Check it out for yourself!
Pop quiz — when do you think about car rental? On as vacation? Yes. On a business trip? Sure. What about a long weekend? No? Well its a good idea worth considering. Just check out the cars available from advantage.com. They are having a special offer — up to a 50% discount on Luxury and Convertible car rentals. Think about it — rent a convertible in your hometown for the long weekend. It’s like a mini-vacation — people will wonder if you’ve won the lottery or something.
Advantage Rent-a-Car has great offers in your hometown and the best vacation spots around the country. Imagine a trip to Vegas where you have your own Escallade or Lambo! Too big? OK, well check out their Special Offers page and find deals as low as $1 a day in Florida. Wherever it is you’re headed or if you are staying local, Advantage has must-see deals on great rental cars.
Google has made some small progress in providing free wireless Internet blanketing over major American cities. It makes sense for Google to do it — the hardware is cheap, the access is too and they would get the unrestricted ability to show their advertisements on this network. Think of it as the Internet 2.0, one where Google makes all the money! Why haven’t they pushed this initiative more?
It looks like there’s just one city with it — that’s Google home base of Mountain View, California. The hometown gets free WiFi thanks to the Internet giant as a sort of thank you. Now what about more cities?
Although we live in a digital age, all businesses still need good old fashioned printed materials. Whether they be return address labels for snail mailings or business cards, printed materials are necessary but don’t necessarily have to break your budget. Check out the services that Vista Print offers. Their rates are some of the best around and are definitely better than you trying to print for yourself. Unless you have $10,000 equipment at home or in the office, you are better off leaving your printing needs to the professionals. Don’t worry if you only need 500 or 1000 items at a time — heck, don’t worry if you only need to buy 1 custom car magnet — Vista Print does not force you into high volume orders. On the contrary, they market their services to small business owners like you who need professional materials but without the expense of 10,000 item print runs. Its a perfectly scalable solution. If you have any questions or even wish to get a free sample of their products, visit the site and check out the “New To Our Site?” section on the bottom right. Vista Print will change the way your business prints. Thanks Vista Print.
Here’s a great idea I came up with — how about if Apple Inc. partnered with XM or Sirius Satellite radio? How would it work? Well all the songs you purchased in iTunes would be made available to play on your satellite radio receiver. The music could be streamed live or downloaded (temporarily) on demand to your car and enjoyed. Another feature would be to hear a song on XM, press a button, and buy it with iTunes seamlessly! How about that?
Finding the right hosting service provider for your web properties is not a task to be taken lightly. There are many different parameters to take into consideration and price isn’t always the most important one. For me, the key is high availability and space. What’s the point of paying for a service which is sometimes “down”?
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Microsoft Vista operating system has not lived up to expectations when it comes to ease of use, compatibility and reliability. Now theres even a petition going around to “Save Windows XP” since it really is a more friendly operating system.
What has Vista made you do? Tell me. Here are some examples:
- It has made me switch to Apple
- It has made me throw a coffe cup at my monitor
- It has made me download a bootleg copy of Windows XP and install it over Vista
- It has made me cry
Living about an hour away from downtown, I love visiting my “home” city of Atlanta to take in the sights. There are many things to do in Atlanta. Here are some of my favorite from my memory.
- Stone Mountain Park is always a great time with that giant hunk of granite and lots of activities.
- Coca-Cola Museum is a trip back in history topped off with all the free soda you care to drink.
- Georgia Aquarium is the largest in the country and a site you need to see to believe.
For an upcoming trip, I am thinking about visiting NYC for the first time. I’m using the Trusted Tours site to plan some of my events. They have a full list of New York City tours and attractions. It should be a really great trip.
For information on these places and more, visit the online travel guides available from TrustedTours.com. They have over 20 cities in the U.S. detailed on great things to do and ways to save money doing them.
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What could Apple Inc do to keep their crown as top innovator? Well there are two lists to be made. The first is product improvements and the second is new products. Please share your thoughts.
Improvements:
- Thinner iPhone / iPod. Is there a new type of solid state memory out there being developed which could shrink these devices more?
- Apple (hd)TV. Make it 1080p capable and stock those movies on iTune!
- iMac Air. Think about it… an even thinner iMac ala Macbook Air. Make it float in the air too!
New Products:
- iPod Nano + Watch? Wear it on your wrist.
- iPod Shuffle the size of earbuds. Keep the cord connecting both ears just for show.
- A way to expand screen size. My personal favorite idea. I’ve written about it before. Screens so thin that they stack when not in use, but then can fold out to a 2×1 or 2×2 array in your hand!
There was a time last year when it wasn’t exactly clear whether blog advertising was going to be accepted in the mainstream market. But after 2 years of operation, IZEA (formerly known as PayPerPost) is still around and going strong with over 100,000 bloggers in their network. IZEA changed their name to reflect their growing services base. Not just PayPerPost, the blog advertising marketplace, any longer, IZEA includes several service platforms including RSS Brief, Blog in Space, and the Blogger’s Choice Awards, IZEA has recently released a revolutionary social marketing network named SocialSpark. It’s a social network driven by bloggers and advertisers where the advertising is 100% transparent, 100% disclosed, and 100% real including Google-friendly No-Follow tags on all links.
IZEA is becoming to blog advertising as what Google is to search advertising. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google was secretly in negotiations to acquire the two year old IZEA and all its web properties. Blogs are still going strong and have solidified their place on the Internet as a legitimate information and discussion forum. As blogs are here to stay, blog advertising is going to only grow as marketers and advertisers seek to gain more exposure on more channels.
