Archive for November, 2007
November 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
…Levente Szabo. Congratulations to the Hungarian design student, who took home the top prize from the Electrolux Design lab 2007 competition with E-wash, a compact washing washing machine that uses soap nuts instead of detergent. The announcement came yesterday in Paris, where all the finalists had gathered to compare and celebrate their designs.
The fifth edition of the contest featured the second clothes washer in three years (remember the Airwash?) to garner the win; it’s most notable feature is that it’s designed to use soap nuts rather than detergent, to make it viable fo…
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
With Facebook making changes to its Beacon program, users will see a new set of options every time they interact with a “Beacon Affiliate”. This is what you’ll see:
Notification
Facebook users will see a notification in the lower right corner of the screen after transacting with a Beacon Affiliate. Options include “No Thanks” that will immediately [...]
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
It seems like only the day before yesterday we were talking about gray water recovery systems and how they are legal, and how that guy in Atlanta was talking through his hat.
Then we walk into Construct Canada and find Chris Thompson wrapped around a complete package unit available off-the-shelf right now, approved for use almost anywhere. …
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
It’s Construct Canada time, when every architect and contractor in town descends into the sixth level of hell, Dr. Evil’s former lair now converted into the Toronto Convention Centre South, to take in all the new serious nuts and bolts of construction. Everything that is “green” gets a balloon, and they are usually flying over concrete, insulated concrete forms, external insulating systems, anything with two inches of expanded polystyrene is considered green.
There were some old friends that we have covered before like Ecotraction…
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
The Home Depot is reluctant to call itself a green company
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
In case you
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Reports surfaced yesterday, and now we have the official word from Facebook. Users will now have to opt-in to share purchases via Beacon:
Stories about actions users take on external websites will continue to be presented to users at the top of their News Feed the next time they return to Facebook. [...]
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
I first met Sarah Meyers when she crashed our 2006 party at August Capital. She was booted, but got enough video footage to make this video. This year she was back at the party, but as an invitee – see one of her videos here.
Meyers now lives in New York, and has been working on [...]
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Dow Jones’ MarketWatch may not report stock information about particular companies as well as its competitors, such as Google Finance, newly redesigned AOL Money & Finance, or even Yahoo Finance, but it has taken the initiative to develop a new portfolio tool that tops them all.
Whereas the others’ portfolio tools are still stuck with clunky [...]
November 29th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
It’s been less than two weeks since Google penalized PayPerPost bloggers in the most devastating way possible – by resetting all of their PageRanks to zero and effectively removing them from the Internet.
PayPerpost, now called IZEA, is in the process of launching RealRank, an alternative way to rank blogs. But their advertisers are still [...]
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