Archive for April, 2010
Food2Dorm: Convenient Delivery Of Fresh Food To College Dorms

It's the season where prospective college students are anxiously awaiting their acceptances letters from the colleges they applied to (if they haven't heard back already) to find out where they'll be living in the fall. A lot of planning can go into dorm living, especially when students will be living away from home for the first time, and food can be an issue which is why one business decided to tap into the niche.
Smoking Mittens: Indulge In Your Vice While Keeping Your Hands Warm!
Winter is over unless you live in an arctic climate (at least for those that live in a climate that does get cold); but that doesn't mean that there won't be any cool evenings that you're just dying to get your hands in some mittens. The only problem? Smokers don't have that luxury without resulting in fabric burns.
11 Fashionable Mother’s Day Gift Ideas: Unique Necklaces And Jewelry Mom Will Love!

It's hard to choose a gift for Mother's Day that will make your mom feel truly special. For children young or grown, it's a great time to recognize all of those things that your mom has done for you throughout your life, starting with bringing you onto this earth. For those looking for jewelry ideas, here are some great finds that can be personalized and will become sentimental, not just for the materials they're made with, but because of their meaning.
Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Launches ‘Tech Virtual’ Design Challenge

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation today launched a collaborative design project with The Tech Virtual at the The Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. With a series of design challenges hosted by The Tech Virtual, the Lemelson Center invites the public to develop and prototype design concepts for the center’s next exhibition, tentatively titled "Places of Invention."
Best New Products of 2010: The 17 Edison 2010 Gold Awards

There were more gold, silver, and bronze honors awarded at the Edison Best New Product Awards than ever before. It must have been tough for the judges, who included Thomas A's own grand niece, Sarah Miller Caldicot, to decide on which new products would receive the Gold Awards, but they did - in 15 product categories. In addition, the committee awarded two Golds in a 16th category: The Green Awards.
Google & ITA Software Could Be Game Changer For OTAs & Travel Industry At Large
Lots of "buzz" cyberventilating the blogosphere this week about Google potentially acquiring ITA Software. No, not Google
Buzz (that's old news) - but a buzz with further-reaching ramifications
for the online travel space. ITA
is the meta-search software that provides the booking
functionality for Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and even Bing Travel. If and
when this happens, Google
could virtually shake up and reconfigure the entire travel landscape
online for at least the next decade or more.
Throwing The Social Media Kitchen Sink At The Oil Spill & ‘Drill Baby Drill’
Senior Obama adviser David
Axelrod told Good Morning America on April 30 that the White
House will not authorize additional oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
until the investigation of the exploded and sunked BP oil rig is
analyzed. While this horrific event is casting doubt over the whole
"drill baby drill" mantra movement, social media as its known to do is
rising to the occasion to help alleviate some of the repercussions.
Graphic.ly Speaking, Here Comes iPads & Social Networking For Comic Books
Since the introduction of the
comic-book format in 1934, followed by graphic novels and Manga, the
market for writers, illustrators and fans have grown exponentially
within the last decade. While the printed format may at some point
follow in the footsteps of the dying
legacy newspapers, there are digital solutions emerging. Graphic.ly
is an option in the social media space, while iPads, on the device end
may actually take the place of the printed comic book and graphic novel,
in the near future.


