When you think about paying a visit to a library, you think about
shelves upon shelves of books, a library catalog, and sometimes even a
male or female librarian dressed in tweed and glasses so nerdy that
they’re the coolest fashion statements ever. What you do not expect to
find is a business that is chock full of emptiness. But that’s exactly
what the world’s newest library offers to patrons.
![Christie's Scapegoat [Bridget Anne Kelly] Faced Light Traffic On Twitter Trail](https://i0.wp.com/inventorspot.com/files/imagecache/ContentHalfWidth/blog1/Screen_shot_2014-01-10_at_6.35.17_PM.png "Christie's Scapegoat [Bridget Anne Kelly] Faced Light Traffic On Twitter Trail")
It’s been said that in today’s socially connected world, it’s almost impossible to completely remove your digital footprint
from the Web. As hard as you try, traces of your bon mots, bio clips
and tweets seem to remain sticky enough for others to find.
Earn up to 5 dollars per week for working out or eating healthy with Pact, an awesome new smartphone app that helps you earn money for living
healthy. It is designed to help you stick to your commitments to stay in
shape, eat more veggies, or log your meals, perfect for those New
Years Resolutions. Integrates with RunKeeper, Jawbone UP, Fitbit, Moves, MapMyFitness and MyFitnessPal.
With all of the stories coming out of schools about shootings and bullying, it is nice to find a spot of positive news. It comes in the form of a Buddy Bench. The bench is the idea of second-grader Christian Bucks at Roundtown Elementary School in York, Pennsylvania and is designed to create a safe space for lonely or sad children to go to connect with other children so that they can make friends and create a larger support group around them.
In the foreseeable future, search on smartphones will allow for
intuitive logic not just text-matching based on keywords. But what will
our smartphones offer in the Web 3.0 world of Semantic Technology,
Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things?
Some business find their niche in a world of innovative products, other
businesses find their niche making light of what would otherwise be
serious business. Whether you like the direction that this unique
business has gone is up to you, but they sure have managed to attract
attention.
Usually one learns of a new innovation, invention, social media breakthroughs from techie news sites like Spot, AllThingsDigital. Mashable, and
others. Word traveling fast in real-time is then amplified by all the
major social networks (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, for starters) and
if it’s really ‘disruptive’ it will begin to blanket our zeitgeist.
This is then followed by the business trades and legacy publishers
elaborating on the shiny new thing’s various iterations over time.
It’s that time of year again when we feel compelled to make New Year’s Resolutions. There are so many things wrong with doing this to ourselves — from looking at ourselves so critically that we end up aiming for a New Year’s Revolution, to setting ourselves up to certain failure on an accelerated time-line. It may be time to change our way of thinking about creating our vision of the new year ahead of us.
While the blogosphere spawned thousands upon thousands of writers who in
many instances lacked the opportunity to write for legacy publishers,
ironically the major criticism levied against them came from those
traditionalists. Traditionalists who critiqued bloggers as less worthy
of acclaim because they were not vetted by the established press.
Traditionalists, the likes of noted playwright Aaron Sorkin who agreed
with Sarah Palin when their combined condescension labeled them, "pajama people."
Community First! is a faith-based concept to address homelessness in Austin, Texas. The idea is to create a small community for people who are homeless. This community will consist of a wide variety of small homes, as well as help finding jobs, and medical, dental, and other services. Of course, there will also be a community church as well.
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