mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | social, celebrity, shopping
This new site is TMZ with an eye to fashion and product endorsements. It looks like editors upload photos of celebrities using/endorsing various products, and users get to look at those, and make purchases.
Seems like a clear revenue model, but it's not clear to me why users would return here - are they going to compete with TMZ and try to break stories about celebs? If the gossip component is missing, I don't see how it will draw in repeat visitors.
Quoted: Coolspotters is the definitive source for discovering and sharing the products and brands used by your favorite celebrities - in their real lives and in other parts of pop culture such as movies, television, and music. And that's just the beginning...
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | shopping, web developmentQuoted: Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce suite, fully integrating your online store with the Drupal, the leading open source content management system.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | shopping, microsoft, advertising
Display ads are going mobile - and being placed in individual shopping carts!
Quoted: SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is bringing digital advertising to the grocery cart. The software maker spent four years working with Plano, Texas-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. on a grocery cart-mounted console that helps shoppers find products in the store, then scan and pay for their items without waiting in the checkout line.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 10 2008 | robots, pool, cleaning, shopping, wishlist
Our current pool cleaner is getting pretty worn out - I'd love to upgrade to a "smart" version from iRobot!
Quoted: The crew at iRobot continues to broach into new territories for its household robotics. Now these little automated pool cleaners aren't anything groundbreaking (we had ...
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2007 | games, shopping, anagrams, puzzles, scrabble
Our friends told us about this really fun anagramming game, so I snapped one up when I saw it for sale today. There are 144 letter tiles. Each person races to complete a valid Scrabble-style crossword with his own letters.
After we played I checked the letter distribution. Interestingly, they are long on a few letters (from what you'd expect in normal English letter distribution: two each of JQXZ (expect 0), and they are really short on H's: 3 included (expect 9).
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 11 2007 | shopping, heart, cardiac, medical, defibrilator, health
Here's a piece of electronics that you buy and then hope you never have to use - a home defibrillator. We bought one last year - and I just heard that they used one at the Museum of Flight in September to resuscitate a visitor.
It's designed to be easy to use in an emergency - complete with audio instructions during use.
Quoted: Amazon.com: Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator (AED): Health & Personal Care
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | books, shopping, reading, ebook, kindle, amazon
I've been using the new Amazon Kindle for a couple of days now. I actually love it. Comfortable to hold, feels solid, and the display is beautiful. This is also a great gift for someone WITHOUT a computer who loves to read - you can purchase books directly on the Kindle, with no need to ever hook up to a computer. Books are delivered within 60 seconds from the Kindle store.
And new releases are generally only $10, compared to $15-$20 for new hardback releases.
P.S. If you're going to get one - please click the Buy from Amazon button below - your purchase will help support Faves.com!
Quoted: Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2007 | digital, photography, pictures, frame, gifts, shopping
I used to have a Ceiva when they first came out. The brilliant idea of being able to push pictures to the frame from over the internet was marred by the very high service contract that Ceiva (still) charges. Now Kodak has a beautiful 10" picture frame with WiFi built in so it can update photos from your home network (not sure if this can download automatically from an online gallery - the best option would be to have it collect pics from an RSS feed or other source of pictures that my whole family could contribute to).
Quoted: Amazon.com: Kodak Easyshare EX-1011 10-Inch Digital Picture Frame with Wireless Capability: Electronics
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2007 | brother, printer, shopping, office, fax, copier, color, laser
This looks like an excellent multi-function printer with every feature you could ask for:
- Color Laser (20 ppm)
- Duplex (double-sided) printing
- Scanner/Copier
- Fax
- Network ready - wired or wireless(!)
- Print PDF or JPEG direct from USB Flash Drive
- Scan direct to USB Flash Drive (PDF or JPEG)
- 250 sheet paper tray (500 sheet optional tray)
- Toner cartridge capacity - 5,000 pages (black) 4,000 pages (color) - replacements about $75/$100. [$0.02/page black - $0.08/page color]And only $630 - and free shipping.
More specs here:
http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/ModelDetail.aspx?ProductID=mfc9840cdwHigh capacity toner cartridges: TN-115BK, TN-115M, TN-115C, TN-115Y
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | ram, computers, memory, shopping
Quoted: Discount memory prices on Crucial, Kingston, PNY, and generic RAM. Shoppers find the lowest priced desktop and laptop memory for Apple, Compaq, eMachines, HP, Sony and Dell. Shop and compare cheap RAM prices for Dimension, Inspiron, Mac and Presario. dealnews adjusts for shipping so you can compare prices accurately to find the lowest shipped price.
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