Op-Chart: Making Money Hand Over Fist
An oil trader demonstrates the hand signals used on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The top 25 blogs, by the Time Magazine
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Through Springwise (coolhunting of businesses)
NDEUR handpainted shoes
Etsy, hum, ebay for handmade stuff
Issuu is a new site that converts users’ documents into interactive, magazine-style online publications that can be viewed directly in a web browser.
Bookswim and Paperspine allow you to rent used books
Bellendoejezo organizes cell phone workshops. A group of VMBO students (preparatory middle-level vocational education for students aged 12–16) was trained to work as phone coaches.
Blurb, a publishing software and services company that brings bookstore-quality publishing to the masses.
Parts of Sweden currently offers add-ons to six of IKEA’s most popular product lines, from various doors for Expedit units to wine racks for Ivar shelving.
Pernod Ricard’s customized label program, which has actually been around for a few years, allows US residents (over 21, of course) to order personalized labels for Chivas Regal, The Glenlivet, Jacob’s Creek, Kahlua, Mumm Napa and Wild Turkey Russell’s Reserve.
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Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently: If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.
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Oxford Landing’s South Australian Shiraz wine label sports a useful innovation - a tear-off tab to retain all the useful bits of info to remind you about your great wine experience.
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My next travel guide: Unlike presents search functions, specialized guides focused on art collections, vintage clothes hunting, and architecture, events listings and much more. So if your idea of tourism includes checking out the hottest young galleries, coolest shops and maybe a demonstration of a new type of synthesizer, Unlike is the guide for you.
On the same note, whenever I’m going somewhere, I’m always looking at superfuture or dropping a line on the forums to ask for some advices.
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Starbucks change of strategy: “After years of focusing on the espresso market, and after months of allowing itself to be caught in a distinctly unpremium battle with emerging competitors such McDonalds, today it returns to the drip business, and to its roots, with Pike Place Roast — named after its first store in Seattle.”