Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Web Worker Daily had an article on the expected proliferation of microprojectors.  Here’s what they had to say basically:
The basic idea is that advances in lasers and LEDs are making it possible to build into a small device - say, the size of a large cell phone - something that can project a picture a […]

Frank Michael Russell from the Mercury News waxes eloquent on why you might want to start telecommuting from Paris these days thanks to rising costs on the west coast.
Yay, America! Yes, our economy has been struggling, and yes, our dollar has been lagging against the euro, the British pound and even the Canadian dollar. […]

I’ve liked seeing how ZOPA US is coming along.
In the US this “peer lending” system is insured up to $100,000!
The minimum buy in for investors seems to be $500 which is pretty good… with up to 3.75% APR today versus a national 2.9% That’s because they don’t have to pay for fancy bank real estate!

I […]

If you liked the “Tipping Point” book… you might like this article too.
Is The Tipping Point Toast? over at Fast Company.
Basically if you’ve got a million bazillion buck and you read “Tipping Point” you wanted to target “super influential” opinion leaders.
According to this article, it’s all baloney.
If you were one of those influential people that […]

Here’s the Top 50 list.
The US is #22 in part because the criteria used to determine the list considers our 2nd Amendment freedoms to cause “instability”.
Not to mention all the drugs coming over the Mexican border the article says.
Here is the full list:
1 Vatican
2 Sweden
3 Luxembourg
4 Monaco
5 Gibraltar
6 San Marino
7 Liechtenstein
8 UK
9 Netherlands
10 […]

Though we fear the word “recession” for many good reasons, Advertising Age reminds us Recession Can Be A Marketer’s Friend
Why? Slumps spawn innovation. Here were some examples I found interesting.
Previous recessions have provided big opportunities — spawning the brand-management system, soap operas, modern cable networks, airline loyalty programs, the IBM personal computer, the iPod, Crest […]

Since gas prices seem to remain high, even when ordinary consumers are using less defying free market theory (which only holds if the market is free by the way, that increasingly leaves ours out) consumers are at the end of their rope. Using less hasn’t worked.
The price of gas has been spread through the entire […]

Pizzerias Get $6 to $9 more on web orders according to the San Jose Business Journal. Evidently it’s a global phenomenon. By using the web, buyers can spend more time and don’t feel as rushed. So they spend more money.
This means that local, independently owned pizzerias can get a huge bang for their buck by […]

In case you need some good news to keep you enthusiastic about your work at home business efforts or prospects, here’s some from the Tea Leaf (Click through to read the whole list).  Some of the points are open to debate, but overall there’s at least some good news in here to perk up your […]

Here’s an interesting article by Joel Kotkin about Texas.
It’s starts out with the story of a small business venture that quickly blossomed. It reminds me of the old saying, “serve the masses, live with the classes.” May you be surprised by success!
In 1995, during his senior year at Texas Southern University, a predominantly black school […]