Archive for December, 2006

Vendelo is Spanish for “sell it” and Armando Fileto Texas disck jockey turned ebay entrepreneur is selling it as a tradiing assistant for people who don’t have either the time, skills, or interest to get rid of their stuff on ebay. To minimize overhead Vendelo operates out of a small office instead of a retail [...]

Newsweek reveals that despite the carnage shown on TV, the Iraq economy is booming.
The growth is meteoric; the article uses the phrase “on steroids” to describe it. It’s both the massive companies like Iraq’s major cell phone provider and construction industry (see photo) and small shopkeepers and undoubtedly many entrepreneurs making a few extra bucks [...]

I can’t tell you how many teenagers I meet who tell me they want to break into the “video game field”. Based on just what I hear about the popularity of this field, I wonder who’ll do the mundane things in life in the future like bake bread, operate power plants, and do brain surgery?
This [...]

The New Scientist found that Terrorists are winning the War of Websites. Terrorist websites are more sophisticated and interactive.
A team at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell used software to analyse the “sophistication, content richness and range of interactive features” on 86 websites set up by groups the FBI and other official sources categorise as [...]

The United States has more coal reserves than Saudi Arabia has oil reserves.
So coal companies languishing that these riches seem to fewer practical uses nowadays are transforming the asset into a modern fuel capable of propelling B-52’s and private airliners through the skies…via Liquid Coal
And some believe this fuel would only cost $40 per barrell!
Talk [...]

I’ve got the feeling I’m going to be a little brain dead this week so for some reason this caught my eye.
How many people bemoan that they can’t get a job, they can get ahead, they can’t do this or that.
It’s everybody else’s fault of course…or fate…or the position of the stars… or the devil. [...]

Becky McCray’s blog listed another great resource for businesses seeking government contracts.
It’s the Small Business Federal Government Contracting Blog by Ken Larson. Here’s Ken’s profile (in addition to his military service in Viet Nam):
As a Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Volunteer Counselor, I assist many small businesses with their planning and operations processes. Small [...]

With fears that our oil dollars are simply funding our enemies and making us poorer, there are widespread calls for “hybrid” gas and electric cars.
The question remains… if everybody got one, is there enough power generation capacity in the US to power them?
This study reports that there is.
It assumes several things…that you commute the “average” [...]

Agloco announces a new 10 Million member goal by July 2007.
We know this is an ambitious goal. But, we also know the power of an Internet based network. We know that 20% of AGLOCO Members will do the bulk of the building of the network and we designed the referral system to reward them for their [...]

On Friday, Google unveiled a new domain registration service.
Google’s service will charge a US$10 annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes — “.com,” “.net,” “.biz” and “.info.”
Web sites that register their domains through Google will be automatically set up to work with several other company products, including e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging.