Aug 10
How difficult is it to become an Internet millionaire? With a good idea, not very, says Guy Kawasaki. But the result may not achieve greatness.
Source: DAN MITCHELL
Aug 10
The Nigeria scams riled up one person enough to write a parody spam.
Source: Digg / Technology
Aug 10
Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications. After an exhaustive hunt this week, we’ve rounded up more than 230 of the leading online applications for super-productive companies.
Source: Digg / Technology
Aug 10
Texty is a dead simple but useful new internet service that you can use to quickly create and edit content on a web page with zero HTML or programming skills.
Go to the site, start typing text in a WYSIWYG editor, format it and add images. Click a button and get an embed code. Your text will appear in whatever website you add the code to. And if you want to make changes, go back to Texty and edit it. The changes will flow to whatever sites you’ve embedded it on. You can also add comment functionality to a piece of text, and create a RSS feed.
There are lots of great and easy to use content management systems on the web already. Blogging software is just one example. But if someone is working on a web page outside of something like a blog and wants to add a bit of text and graphics, this is a good solution. See our coverage of JS-Kit which has similar tools. I was surprised at how many people are looking for something exactly like this.
I’ve embedded a bit of text and an image below. Everything below this paragraph, including the image, is actually embedded from Texty.
Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
Source: Michael Arrington
Aug 10
This is what happens when a designer forgets which way the sun goes and puts glass in the shape of a parabolic mirror on a building.
Source: Digg / Technology
Aug 10
Filed under: Robots
If no one’s complaining when the Rock-afire Explosion busts out a Bubba Sparxxx jam, we doubt the future alien population of this here planet will have any beef with an android cousin doing the Tango. In a bizarre feat of preservation, a team from the University of Tokyo, Japan has used “video motion-capture systems to record the movement of a dancer performing a Japanese folk routine called the Aizu-Bandaisan.” Rather than just filing it on a DVD, however, they are teaching Kawada Industries’ HRP-2 to mimic the moves, which could open the door (wider) for robotic dance teachers of the future. If you think it sounds weird, just wait ’til you catch the thing on video.
[Thanks, Eileen]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Source: Darren Murph
Aug 10
AP - Kevin Alderman didn’t bring sex to “Second Life.” He just made it better. The 46-year-old entrepreneur recognized four years ago that people would pay to equip their online selves — which start out with the smooth anatomy of a Barbie or Ken doll — with realistic genitalia and even more to add some sexy moves.
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aug 10
AP - People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching “Spider-Man 3″ in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format. Likewise, people with Blu-ray players won’t be able to enjoy the action-thriller “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which Universal Pictures will release only in HD DVD.
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS