NewGusto – Share Your Kitchen
NewGusto offers you a new possibility of enjoying food from other cultures and dining with new people all through the net. With the aid of NewGusto you will be able to meet new people on the internet, you will be able to dine out with people all over the world at their houses and you will be able in turn to virtually invite people to your house for a fine dinner meal.
With NewGusto you will be able to follow with a new approach to net surfing and that is startup food surfing. As social eating has become a new trend and one of the best ways to experience a new culture is to experience the cuisine. Nothing says more than Italy than pasta with Italian mozzarella and prosciutto. But this is not even the tip of the iceberg. You can learn and taste the finest homemade cuisine.
And with NewGusto you will be able to follow with the new philosophy of food surfing. And the best part is that NewGusto doesn’t charge money or credit to its members, meaning that you can experience food surfing for free.
Facebook Email – They Just Flicked the Switch
Other users have reported this over the past few days but Facebook just flicked the switch for us, turning on their Email service integrating with Facebook messages. This could be a big move and potentially push a lot of Email traffic into the Facebook eco-system, which they can of course then scan, analyse and monetize.
I’ll be sticking with Gmail for now but after turning this on Facebook have no doubt leveraged their hundreds of millions of users to become one of the biggest email providers in the world at the flick of a switch.
The Filter Bubble – What the Internet is Hiding From You
Content sites, ecommerce sites, news sites, social media, they’re all doing it. Personalising the web based on invisible algorithmic signals to decide what content to show you and what to filter out. Instinctively this feels like the antithesis of what the web was about when large numbers of people started getting online and publishing their own thoughts and opinions without the help of media gatekeepers. Eli Pariser gives an interesting talk at TED 2011, pointing out the inherent danger in this drive towards ever increasing personalised relevancy.
Habilis – A New Approach to Virtual Assistance
In order to grow your business or to do a job efficiently, you need to fix your eyes and efforts on bigger things and leave the small things to others. You can achieve this by hiring a virtual assistant.
Finding the right Virtual Assistant for your needs can be difficult, sites like odesk and Vworker are great but quality can occasionally be an issue. The idea behind Habilis is to help you take care of small matters in a painless way. This is done through Virtual Assistants provided by Habilis. It has a team of professional VAs to assist you in every day work. The work that could be taken care of through Habilis includes office services, websites maintenance, personal services, etc.
Habilis has two pricing models. One is an hourly payment structure and the second structure is a based on Pay as You Go model. You can either hire a full time VA and pay per hour or get a number of tasks done and pay per task.
The benefit of using Habilis would be in shape of saved time, which is otherwise wasted in finding a good virtual assistant. Besides that working with Habilis would ensure that the work is done in a timely fashion and you do not have to keep sending messages to your VA to get the work completed.
What they Say about Themselves
We provide lifestyle management and virtual assistants to help you stay shipshape at all times. Making appointments, booking flights, even sending out flowers – we do all this and more. Alternatively, you could use us for your work side of things (think presentations, competitor analysis, web research). Simply put, we are at your service 24/7/365.
Why It Could be a Success
Finding a good virtual assistant and get the work done in a timely and efficient manner is as difficult as finding an honest weight-loss product review in Google. Habilis makes this process easy and straightforward. This ease of getting the work done could prove the key to its success.
LikeBids.com
LikeBids is a unique auction site as it’s also free. In fact, you never have to put out one thin dime when you bid on this auction site. With LikeBids, it’s all about sharing. This is how it works – You “LikeBid” your favorite auction. What that means is you must obtain as many “LikeBids” as possible by sharing your individual auction link with everyone that comes to mind. So, in essence, you’re required to refer as many friends and people you know to share your auction so you can win the prize or product absolutely free!
You can win a bunch of free stuff by having the most “LikeBids” every time an auction comes to an end. If you don’t win, however, don’t despair, you can still receive a discounted promotional product just for your participation. It’s really a win-win auction site for everybody concerned.
LikeBids is new and promises to be a great site to visit for anyone who enjoys social media as it’s the first social media auction site. You can bid on great items under such categories as fashion, electronics, health and beauty, video games, and fitness. Win free, play free – who could ask for a better way to bid on an auction site?
LikeBids was established just last year and is just in its infancy. However, it’s already causing a stir among media savvy individuals and will undoubtedly be a favorite social media site. Even if you don’t win, as mentioned, you’ll still be rewarded with an advertiser’s discount code. Therefore, you can better afford some of those things you’ve wanted but didn’t think were possible to get.
If you already enjoy social networking, you’ll like to extend your reach at the LikeBids site. It’s simply a great place for you and all of your friends to meet.
What Does LikeBids Say?
Founded in 2010, LikeBids.com is the first social auction website that allows users to win prizes completely free just for promoting a product auction link. LikeBids.com was founded to give all social media network users the opportunity to win the prizes they may not be able to purchase. By actively involving the users in promoting brands, LikeBids.com removes the annoyance of advertising, and empowers users to be rewarded for actively participating in increasing brand awareness. Although only one winner will emerge to win the prize, LikeBids.com offers all participates a discount code (when a minimum share quota is reached) to help everyone afford what they want most!
What’s So Special About It?
LikeBids.com is the first social media auction website that allows users to win the products they love by promoting them to their friends via social media networks. By providing users a unique gaming experience, and the chance to win prizes just by telling their friends about them, LikeBids.com has replaced currency with social media collateral in the form of “likes” and “tweets”. For participating product companies, LikeBids.com creates the missing bridge between e-commerce and social media marketing, providing a powerful incentive to get social media users actively promoting brands.. Likebids.com is not creating another social media marketing forum. Instead, it is the engine that will drive business through the social media channels.
Publishedin.com – Connecting Businesses with Online Publishers
Publishedin is a new network offering a unique get-connected opportunity to the businesses and online publishers. It is essentially focused on building a bridge between these two groups by ensuring benefits to both.
The basic concept is much similar to that of Google’s Pay-Per-Click program. The publishers write about their favorite stuff, products, and services and link to businesses. Whenever a visitor to the publisher’s website clicks on the link to the business, the publisher is rewarded with cash. Publishedin has termed its system as Reward-Per-Click Program.
Though similar in functioning with Google PPC, it has a totally different concept. Publishers do not have to put up ads on their websites to earn rewards. Instead they are given with a code, which needs to be pasted in their website. Once this code is installed, Publishedin takes care of reporting the referrals.
What businesses get from this system is increased profit through increase in quality visitors and customers. They are free to choose the value of reward they want to offer to the publisher. The Reward-Per-Click system does suggest a reward amount but the business has total control over this function. The businesses can also choose the daily limit for the rewards.
The word-of-mouth or a recommendation is always better than a flashy ad, this is exactly what the online publishers can provide to the businesses through this network. The readers to these publishers act more actively upon their recommendations than an advertisement.
It is also a good solution for those online publishers, who want to make some money through their websites but avoid the intrusive advertisements. Putting the HTML code does not display any ads to the visitors of the website yet the publisher gets paid on every click he refers to a business.
What Do They Say about themselves?
Publishedin.com helps businesses and online publishers connect and benefit each other.
Why it Could Be a Success:
Publishedin has an innovative and non-intrusive approach to connect two very important groups i.e., Businesses & Online Publishers in the cyber space. It is easy to use and well-suited for websites of every size.
eBay Shells out $75 Million for Milo.com
Another success for the current occupiers of the ex-google building in silicon valley. TechCrunch reports that Milo.com has been bought by eBay for $75 million.
Milo.com aggregates products from across the US and is aiming to be the de facto local shopping search engine. They track every item, on shelves, in local stores in real time.
Halloween Sales And Trends For Ecommerce [Infographic]
The guys over at Zippycart have created this great infographic to illustrate the potential profit for ecommerce merchants over the Halloween period.
Richard Branson – If I could do it all again
A startup founder with plenty of wisdom do impart to those of us with only one, two or even three successful startups to our name as opposed to Branson’s dozens of successful startups.
The entrepreneur has just answered some user submitted questions over at Livemint.com. His biography is also worth a read for those seeking entrepreneurial inspiration.
“Q: If you were 24 today, and you were given a budget of $3,000 (Rs138,300) to start a business, what kind of business would you choose? What if the budget were around $25,000?
Alex Bodislav, Bucharest, Romania
A: That’s an easy one. It would definitely be some kind of Web-based business, and I’m not sure it would make a difference if I had $3,000 or $25,000 to start out.
I began my career in the late 1960s with my first business venture, Student magazine. I started by selling it one issue at a time, and soon moved to selling records from a phone booth. The publishing and music industries are struggling today due to the changes brought about by the Internet—but where there’s upheaval, there’s opportunity.”
Easy Money is BS
We just saw this great expose of multi level marketing by Penn and Teller on Seobook.
You can see how these regular people get sucked into what seems to them to be a great business.
A reminder to everyone to employ a bit of critical thinking and cynicism, as there is no such thing as easy money. These people who are sucked into multi level marketing are busing their guts, but are essentially being scammed out of their money and hard work.
The video contains some nudity and is NSFW.