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Ok, so you have a great idea, a partner or two, some cash to make it happen and you want to embark on your idea full time. First of all, good for you – it’s a big step. Something that you will most likely come across very quickly is the dynamic of working [...]

A few years back I lived with some kids who made their coin as bike couriers in Boston. They spent their days riding around town, delivering packages from building to building or doing anything that was required. I always wondered how the service was centralized and worked in terms of organization. I eventually learned [...]

To be perfectly honest, I’ve never tried using virtual world applications like Second Life – probably for reasons that have to do with stories like stalkers on these services and older, shady men posing as young women.  But Hangout Industries has brought a seemingly different type of virtual world app to the table, one that [...]

Let’s be honest here – iPhone apps are big business for developers who have made compelling, interesting programs.  Many of the success stories have been games made by individuals as part of side projects.  These are folks who get a good idea, act on it and end up with a really successful product.  I recently [...]

I first saw Cambridge based Wiggio at the Web Innovators Group back in March and was immediately impressed. They launched in the late summer of last year, and immediately positioned themselves as ‘a collaboration tool for college students’.  Why they targeted this market segment is interesting, as I find their tool useful and I’m not [...]

The reason I like Shareaholic’s Firefox plugin so much is because, well, it’s a browser plugin, and therefore it’s always going to be right in my face and totally simple to use.  Before I got the Shareaholic button, I had buttons from multiple web apps in my bookmarks toolbar (Delicious, TinyURL, Evernote, etc…).
Now Shareaholic has [...]

Have you ever set out on a creative project with your kids to try to make a book from start to finish?  I don’t have personal experience with this myself, but I can imagine that the art and story writing with your kid(s) is the easy part.  The actual creating and binding of the book [...]