Archive for November 2008

Jing Project rocks

Nov 29th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Open Source, Web 2.0 and Beyond

I recently came across the Jing Project and was a breath of fresh (I mean free) air for screen capture. If you other bloggers and guerrilla marketing gurus have been on the hunt for an affordable and realiable screen capture look no further. I am still on road otherwise I would have taken the time [...]



Podcasts for designers and developers

Nov 28th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Web Design

Podcasts for designers and developers
I am traveling for Turkey-day and loaded up my ipod touch with an array of podcasts from one of my favorite resource sites– Smashing Magazine. I wanted to bone up on a few adobe products per the CS4 release and added some great podcasts for graphic designers and web developers. The [...]



Ideas for small business

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

Ideas for small business startups in 2009 may have you stumped, but don’t despair the current economic climate may be the best time to get your startup rolling. To get your creative juices following for business ideas lets start by sector.
Alternative Energy / Green Products
Virtual worlds & Economies
Home care and Non Medical Services
Healthy lifestyle [...]



Amazon Startup Challenge

Nov 16th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

The Amazon Startup Challenge is down to seven finalists clawing for the $100,000 grand prize. As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Amazon Web Services and startups that leverage the low cost – high scalability services. The seven finalists chosen by Amazon have truly interesting business models.

Encoding.com has transformed video encoding [...]



Content Rich – SEO Copywriting

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: SEO

I just finished reading Content Rich “Writing your Way to Wealth on the Web”. The author and fellow entrepreneur Jon Wuebben tackles an enormous amount of material pertaining to SEO copywriting. He demonstrates the topics and techniques in an easy to understand language. The book is adequate for the novice or experienced copywriter but shines [...]