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TOP10 for 07/18/2008

Filed in archive Daily Top 10 by Creative Weblogging on July 19, 2008

The most popular entries for 07/18/2008 out of 114 entries made in 146 blogs in the Creative Weblogging network yesterday.

Cool USB - teeny tiny USB On Storage

Technology Just when I though I knew what next USB drive I would buy I seem to find another that beets the bunch. Pico Series USB drives from Super Talent are super small and stylish. They even push wearing them as jewlery. These little USB flash drives come in 2GB to 8GB, as key chains, and are water resistant. An 8GB... Read it all

Strategic blinders Sox First

Business, Economy & Finance The crisis is the result of orthodox business strategy.That's the view put forward by strategic adviser Umair Haque in his entry on the Harvard Business Review blog site, titled Saving Strategy From the Strategists. Orthodox strategy, for example, teaches us to allocate costs and benefits regardless of the preferences of others. The result: everyone shifting and hiding true costs. As... Read it all

Outsourcing Sees Bumps in the Road The Outsourcing Weblog

Business, Economy & Finance In a posting in today's Wall Street Journal BizTech Blog, Ben Worthen points out that outsourcing is taking a bit of a hit in this slow economy. Mr. Worthen pointed to a survey conducted by Goldman Sachs that found that 33% of tech leaders expect to shrink their services budgets this year. As I've stated before, outsourcing is great if... Read it all

Try Wuala beta P2P File Sharing

Technology Wuala is your free online hard-disk. Use it for storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Basically your P2P file share with, as the Website says, no file size limits, no traffic limits. Just get as much storage as you like for free. The idea being that you can, the way I understand the FAQ, after using the free... Read it all

You're Such a Pear Pretty Things

Beauty & Style I love finding indie sites and encouraging others to support them! You all know that I am a fan of Etsy but today, via my linkage through Twitter, I found out about The Pear Project! This is such a cute shopping lifestyle site that allows you to support a variety of indies from accessories, things around the home and so... Read it all

19 Year Old Poker Star The Gambling Weblog

Gaming & Gambling Most of us have a dream of doing or becoming something when we are growing up; but few of us ever realize that dream. But 19-year-old Annette Obrestad of Norway not only realized her dream and is living it; she made it happen, almost as soon as the idea formed in her head. Annette has become the World Series Of Poker, Europe... Read it all

Angelina Jolie Names Daughter After Her Mother The Celebrities Weblog

Beauty & Style By now everyone who follows the celebrity world knows that Angelina Jolie gave birth to twins, a boy Knox Leon, and a girl Vivienne Marcheline. But most people don't know why Angelina, who uses her middle name, Jolie, as her last name, named her daughter Vivienne Marcheline. Marcheline is Angelina's late mother, Marcheline Bertrand's name. As for Jolie and Pitt's son, Knox Leon,... Read it all

Starbucks Moving Jobs To China? China Venture News

Business, Economy & Finance Bloomberg pointed out the irony this week: Starbucks may be shutting down stores in the U.S., but it is investing more heavily in China at the same time. Starbucks is closing 600 U.S. outlets and giving 12,000 U.S. employees the axe. U.S operations doubled in just four years, but economic hard times had hit the gourmet coffee industry hard in the... Read it all

Search Twitter The Social Networking Weblog

Ecommerce & Internet Summize lets you search Twitter for the types of conversations you're looking for. Just type in a word and find all the Twitter posts with that word it. For instance, I typed in 'autism' because I have an interest in finding other parents who have children with autism. There are, of course, a huge number of posts with the word... Read it all

Cooking Cancer Cells Nanotechbuzz

Technology © CarbonNYC What happens when you take carbon nanotubes and coat cancer cells? Well, it gives you the ability to heat them up. What happens if you now expose those cells to near-infrared light? You may end up cooking those cells. This is what researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Texas Dallas are doing. They... Read it all

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