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  eco design. wall grass. could be a good weekend project.
  (tags: design eco simplicit)
• Never mind Musical Chairs, how about a Musical Table? - SlashGear
  use table design for table project
  (tags: led simplicit table design)
• David Allen Interview: Getting Things Done with Email | 43 Folders
  (tags: email gtd productivity timemanagement tiplicious)
• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders
  (tags: email productivity gtd organization tiplicious)
• Hack Attack: One-click DVD rips - Lifehacker
  (tags: dvd backup howto hacks tiplicious)
• WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
  (tags: eco books environment tiplicious)
• Frucall - Online Comparison Shopping Web site for Mobile Shoppers
  (tags: comparison deals mobile phone shopping ecommerce tiplicious)

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WorldChanging wants all of us to join them in hacking the publishing system. They want all of us eco-consumers to buy their book from Amazon at 11:11am PST. This is because Amazon updates their Best Sellers list every 24 hours and it is based on the sales from the previous day. The thinking goes that since a lot of book stores look at Amazon’s best seller list to check for books they should sell, this will give WorldChanging a great way into more stores and therefore spread more eco-love across the globe.

This is a pretty interesting experiment to try. So for all of you eco-consumers, let’s join the party. Plus the book looks to be an interesting read!

WorldChanging

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They said they would have a beta version of the slingplayer for Mac on halloween. And they totally delivered! You could now view your shows from the SlingBox on your Mac. Go here to download the beta.

For those of you that don’t know what a SlingBox is, it’s a must have device that allows you to place-shift. What this means is that you can view your shows from anywhere. Of course you need a SlingBox and broadband internet connection. But this is a really cool service, especially for all of those travellers as well as people that get bored in cubicles. =D

SlingBox Pro

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JotSpot, an enterprise level wiki and collaboration site has just announced that they have been bought by Google. This company was founded by Joe Krauss, who if you any of you recall, was the founder of Excite, which was one of the largest search engines in the B.G. era. (before google). Congrats to him and the rest for hitting it out of the park again. I just wish that he had kept up his entrepreneur blog called bnoopy.

Now I hope this means that the service will be free, because I would totally rejoin them if they did this. But then again, Google may charge for the service, but in all likelihood, they will just run their Ads in the wikis so that they can maintain their main cash cow.

Read more about it here.

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Now that the Dual Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros have been launched, the older MacBook Pro’s have all gone on sale. It’s a steal considering how fast they are and how much they can do.

You can now get the 17 incher for $2,499, which is $300 cheaper than it was just a few days ago.

MacBook Pro $2,499

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For those of you that have been anxiously awaiting for the new bite size shuffle, it’s on sale now! Get your wallets out and be ready to lose this ridiculously small ipod.

iPod Shuffle 79.99

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• Ask Patty - Automotive Advice for Women
  (tags: car advice tiplicious)
• Used Cars for Sale, Sell a Car, Research Cars, Vehicle Reviews - AutoExtra.com
  (tags: car classifieds finance research reviews tiplicious)
• CarSpace - The Car Enthusiasts Automotive Lifestyle Social Networking Site
  (tags: car community marketing network socialnetworking tiplicious)
• Multi-Outlet Extension Cords - Lee Valley Tools
  cool tool for workshop
  (tags: tools shopping cool tiplicious simplicit)

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Palm has announced there new Treo 680 will be launching soon. Cingular may have it for $175 with a 2 year contract and the unlimited data plan.

I really like the new Treo 680, but here are some reasons why I won’t be upgrading my Treo 650 to it. Yes, the 680 is slimmer and antennae-less, two things I really want, and it also has some upgraded UI designs. And of course theres the increased memory, from 32 Mb to 128 MB. But this just aint enough. They both still use the same processor which is no good and the same camera resolution. And of course no wifi! WTF? What is Palm thinking? Their Windows Mobile has wifi capability but their Palm OS doesnt. This is no good. I love the Palm OS for its ease of use and all of the applications out there. But I want wifi! I want a 3.2 MP camera! At least 2 MP!

The one thing this is great for is the many people out there that want to have a smartphone, but were too afraid of the price. Now here is the great design and easy to use Treo series and it’s finally not going to cost the same as a cheap Dell laptop. If you’ve been on the fence about these, get yours now!

Treo 650

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I have this favorite little site. It’s called Digg. Maybe some of you have heard of it. For those living with dial-up, it’s a social networking news site. Now that they have gotten pretty popular, there’s just one thing that bugs me. That is the possibility of them having to close their doors.

How could they close their doors, especially with all of their traffic? Simple, they do have page views, but the problem is that users are sent to sites off of their own site. So if you see a cool story, and I know there are a ton, when you click on a link, you are to the actual news site. Granted most of us Diggers open the links in a new tab, but still, the point is that the user is taken off of their site.

To keep this from happening, I propose Digg look at some old school web tactics and bring them into the Web 2.0 generation.

1. Use frames. Leave the header and possibly the left nav, in a frame, which also has the leaderboard ad unit, and display the linked site below. This will ensure that the user is still on their site, but more importantly, it will increase their page views/impressions.

2. Interstitials - When a user clicks on a dugg story, the new window/tab the link opens into, displays a brief ad.

3. Surveys - Cheesy…yes. Effective…yes. Makes money…HELL YES! With all of the diggers and their opinions, as can be seen by checking out any story’s comments, diggers are very opinionated. Use these opinions and profit off of them. Simply add a survey on the homepage and let it run. Any company would love to get this info, and advertisers would love to be able to gauge user impressions of their upcoming gear or features. With Digg’s tech savvy user base, this could be a boon for any tech gear company.
4.  Create a deals section - in this section users can submit deals they’ve found online, and Digg can autolink the gear with their affiliate code. Similar to what FatWallet does. Except do it with a twist. Make it so that the user who submitted can also include their affiliate link and swap their code out with Digg’s.

5. Create a p2p digg viewer. I’m always going to Digg, practically a few times every hour, and I know I’m taxing their servers. What would be cool would be to have a Digg viewer that sits on my dock and lists the news. Yes there are widgets out there, but the key to this is the p2p component. By using a p2p system, news stories and processing can be taken off of their servers, thereby lowering their costs and also gives them another avenue to display ads. Yes, ads are annoying but, they can make it so that they reward their users. Do a revenue sharing with users who have installed the p2p digg viewer and pay them based on how long they are online and how much they are processing.

All of these can help Digg make money and stick around. Right now, they are looking for more funding or a simple buy out. Whatever happens, if Kevin Rose and his team aren’t able to maintain control, the deal will most likely collapse, or worse, the site that buys them will turn Digg into something disgusting or simply let it die out.

What would you do to help Digg stay independent for as long as possible?

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• Showcase - Main
  firefox plugin that visually shows tab contents
  (tags: plugin firefox tiplicious)
• atelier v.
  interesting book on reusing items for different things
  (tags: art cool creative design products simplicit tiplicious)
• Yep
  (tags: PDF cool free Mac organization tiplicious)
• Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire
  unlimited file sharing
  (tags: data download free tools storage online tiplicious)

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