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DUKAPRESS: E-commerce For WordPress
DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. With DukaPress you can quickly and easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the…
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Chicken Coop Design Competition
The Poultry Project 2010 Chicken Coop Design Competition is calling farmers, designers, thinkers, architects, artists, and locavores to design a chicken coop for use in urban or suburban backyards. The ideal coop will integrate aesthetics with utility and make creative…
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[COMPETITION] Have You Got An Idea For Better Health In Cities?
Have you got a simple idea that could improve the health and well-being of people living in cities? Enter this Philips initiative and you could receive one of three Award grants totalling €125,000 to help translate your idea into reality.…
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Share And Rent Stuff With Your Friends
SnapGoods is a place where people meet, share, and put each other’s stuff to good use.
You can lend the things that you don’t want on the site. You can also borrow from local people you trust.
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Real Time Weather With Google
The latest version of Google Earth projects images of rain and snow over the areas with those weather patterns as it’s actually happening! This is a fun and useful tool for anyone planning to travel or who wants to check…
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$1m Prize for Oil-Cleanup Solutions
This X CHALLENGE, announced on July 29, 2010, is a one-year competition that begins on August 1, 2010 and culminates in the summer of 2011, with head-to-head competitive demonstrations taking place at the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable…
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Michael Reynolds: Earthships
New Mexico native Michael Reynolds is an architect who has built over 1,000 earthships all over the world. His latest project, ‘Haiti Disaster Relief,’ involved the construction of ‘Earthship Biotecture,’ an earthquake-resistant home built with disposed materials like tires and…
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Oded Ezer: Using Skype To Create Art
Oded Ezer’s Face Type is a new project influenced by the visual possibilities of Skype’s video conferencing and social networks. Each letter of “Face Type” was designed by an individual from a different country, and was photographed together with it’s…
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Adjust The Tone Of Your Email
ToneCheck™ is an e-mail plug-in that flags sentences with words or phrases that may convey unintended emotion or tone, then helps you re-write them.
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Jeremy Innes-Hopkins
Jeremy Innes-Hopkins is a creative designer from London. As a student project, he designed the ‘Nokia Kinetic’ a magical phone that makes receiving a call, text, email or alarm a bit more ‘playful’, by converting digital information into kinetic movement;…
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New Domain Extension: ‘.CO’
.CO is the new domain extension that offers people and companies more choice in branding their online presence with a truly global, recognizable, and credible domain name.
Publicly launched on 20th July 2010.
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Scratch Maps
You can get maps of all sorts, but this cute pin-up wall map is interactive – in a lo-fi way. Made for the intrepid traveller it lets you scratch off the gold surface to reveal more detail (like those old…