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Our story on swoopo.com, an auction site that advertises crazy low prices, continues to draw folks that are either angry at the site or impressed with their business model.  The concept is rather unique: bidders pay per bid which tends to keep the prices low.  Is it possible to beat… Continue Reading »

Now that Black Friday (BF) and Cyber Monday (CM) are recent memories, I chatted up Michael Brim of BFads.net, a site I and many others rely on to provide us all with the very best Black Friday deals.  I suspect Michael pulls all nighters working on getting these deals up… Continue Reading »

In case you missed it, my post on Swoopo.com has generated a lot of interest and comments.  One of the comment leavers was Swoopo.com’s Senior Manager of Business Development, Chris Bauman. Swoopo.com is an auction site unlike the traditional auctions you know and has taken a few lumps from readers… Continue Reading »

One of the things in this year’s tour that is really making an impression on me is riders choosing to make their bike heavier.  Normally, cyclists (or any endurance athletes) strive to have nothing extra.  No cost is too big, no weight savings too small.  So when you have more… Continue Reading »

Medeploy is a relatively new company aimed at one thing: movie distribution.  Providing the backbone to create a store (rather quickly and quite intuitively) the company is working with big movie distributors as well as a “so ease your Grandma could do it” DIY crowd to get movies into consumers… Continue Reading »

It is no secret that MySpace has completely changed the music scene.  Arguably, the artists MySpace music page is more important than their website.  But other sites are creeping up and taking advantage of something MySpace has not mastered:  new music. Sites like thesixtyone.com and others are helping new artists… Continue Reading »

CTIA exposed a bunch of new companies getting into the voice to text game and it is expected to be a fast growing area.  This morning saw my post on Nuance, a company bringing voice to text to GPS (in addition to a voicemail to text service), last month we… Continue Reading »

I’ll make no secret that I don’t love eBay anymore.  There was a time I did, but since then I’ve been burned by unsavory folks, shoddy product descriptions and a protection that really never seemed to protect me.  The problem is I am still that cheap guy not wanting to… Continue Reading »

I was able to catch up briefly with the PosiMotionteam and learned just a little bit more about their idea to bring an external GPS receiver data to the iPhone.  Since Apple doesn’t seem to be freeing up bluetooth for anything but the headset and the SDK isn’t allowing software… Continue Reading »

At CES I got a chance to sit down with Larry Smith, COO ARCHOS, and talk about his ARCHOS TV+.  To say he was passionate about this device would be a gross understatement; he was downright giddy about it.  Since then, Apple has re-intro’d their Apple TV so I thought… Continue Reading »