Archives for the 'Entrepreneurship' Category
Shutterstock: Buy and Sell Photos
Published on 13 Sep 2007 at 4:39 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Photography, Solutions.
I am surprised at how well my photos are selling on Shutterstock. So far this month I have sold 122 photos, which amounts to over $30. At this rate, it appears that I will make about $100 this month. I am still uploading photos, and the number of sales does increase with the number of [...]
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Ecofriendly Paper and Textiles!
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 1:01 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Green, Inventions, Solutions.
This weekend we visited my friend Kelly in New York City. Kelly works for Design and Source Productions in Manhattan, and she told us about all the ecofriendly developments that they are making in packaging and production. Their new environmental division is Chameleon Packaging, which is responsible for developing and promoting environmentally and economically smart choices [...]
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Prototyping Prosthetics with LEGOs
Published on 17 Jun 2007 at 12:16 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Lego, Neuroscience, Research, Robotics, Solutions.
This morning I was surfing the web for LEGO Arm designs to try to come up with ideas for stabilizing the pretty mediocre arm I built last night for our upcoming demonstration at MAXENT 2007. I came across a blog called the Open Prosthetics Project featuring a piece titled “Articulated Hand: Low Cost Prototyping with [...]
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Powerset Due to Launch
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:42 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Research, Software.
I received an email from my friend Barney Pell the other day announcing the launch of Powerset in September 2007. Powerset is developing the next generation search engine, which relies on natural speech processing! Right now you can sign up to try the Powerset demo before its release!
A video introduction to Powerset can be found [...]
Linked In
Published on 10 Jun 2007 at 10:05 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet.
LinkedIn is an internet-based business networking service. It boasts about 11 million users from over 100 industries. It is similar to MySpace, but for professionals. You won’t see funny movies of ferrets eating pepper or people making musical farting sounds with their hands— and that is the advantage. In LinkedIn you make a profile, which contains information about your [...]
