With addresses -- both real and virtual -- becoming increasingly transient, Tigerbow reconciles an important e-commerce question: how can I see a real item to a virtual address? People change jobs and locations with an ever-increasing frequency, and yet they fail to update people on their new location, because their online presence remains the same. This, however, becomes a problem when people want to send things other than e-mail.<br /> <br /> Tigerbow provides an elegant solution and approach: if I need to want to send you something, I\'ll send you a real gift to your virtual... More >>

With addresses -- both real and virtual -- becoming increasingly transient, Tigerbow reconciles an important e-commerce question: how can I see a real item to a virtual address? People change jobs and locations with an ever-increasing frequency, and yet they fail to update people on their new location, because their online presence remains the same. This, however, becomes a problem when people want to send things other than e-mail.<br /> <br /> Tigerbow provides an elegant solution and approach: if I need to want to send you something, I\'ll send you a real gift to your virtual address; then Tigerbow pings you and asks for your real address (plus approval), and BOOM -- a package gets delivered to your mailbox. I am no longer frustrated by not knowing your address. Old friends, family members, and semi-stalkers, rejoice.<br /> <br /> Their website, tigerbow.com, carries a large, yet finite set of gifts -- I think implementing what they do on current retail websites is much more effective (and they\'ve started going that). I also would be concerned about they make money -- there are a lot of lucrative approaches here, but getting the right revenue generation model is absolutely critical. (I don\'t know if taking a small cut from each sale, which sounds lucrative in the aggregate, is the right approach.) But Tigerbow has the right mix of skills -- tech and tech finance backgrounds -- to make it work.<br /> <br /> The ability to bridge the real and the virtual holds more promise beyond online retailing -- and online retailing itself will soon be a $100-billion-dollar-a-year industry -- so it\'ll be interesting to see how Tigerbow plans to grow beyond casual gifts aimed to savvy customers in the online B2C market. << Less

This site was hyped a lot and so I decided to try it out. This review is from my perspective as a user.<br /> <br /> It\'s wonderful. Amazing! But only for books. That\'s what upset me the most. After entering a lot of my books I wanted to enter movies and mostly my music - which is what I really collect a lot of and, yes, have duplicates so really need a good tracking package. So I looked at CollectorZ, iTrackmine.com, and Delicious. They\'re all really good for what they cover but I couldn\'t use CollectorZ because it was about $150 for everything. I liked iTrackmine\'s mobile ... More >>

This site was hyped a lot and so I decided to try it out. This review is from my perspective as a user.<br /> <br /> It\'s wonderful. Amazing! But only for books. That\'s what upset me the most. After entering a lot of my books I wanted to enter movies and mostly my music - which is what I really collect a lot of and, yes, have duplicates so really need a good tracking package. So I looked at CollectorZ, iTrackmine.com, and Delicious. They\'re all really good for what they cover but I couldn\'t use CollectorZ because it was about $150 for everything. I liked iTrackmine\'s mobile access (really useful because I have a ton of music). And Delicious was really beautiful.<br /> <br /> So, GoodReads -- my suggestion to you is to diversify. But until you do, I think you\'re limiting yourself. << Less

What seems like a good idea, is in practice, unfair and unreliable. Yes, reviews from an unbiased traveler seems great. However, TripAdvisor fails to screen reviews, which allows personal vendettas to appear as \\&quot;reviews\\&quot;. Though they claim to allow properties to resond, in reality TripAdvisor throws a seemingly never ending series of obstacles in the way, claims to require a review of the response, and then fails to publish that response. Calls, emails, faxes are neither answered nor responded to. So, when wondering why a property didn\\\'t respond to a se... More >>

What seems like a good idea, is in practice, unfair and unreliable. Yes, reviews from an unbiased traveler seems great. However, TripAdvisor fails to screen reviews, which allows personal vendettas to appear as \\&quot;reviews\\&quot;. Though they claim to allow properties to resond, in reality TripAdvisor throws a seemingly never ending series of obstacles in the way, claims to require a review of the response, and then fails to publish that response. Calls, emails, faxes are neither answered nor responded to. So, when wondering why a property didn\\\'t respond to a seemingly damning review, understand that it perhaps was Tripadvisor\\\'s failure to screen originally and then Tripadvisor\\\'s failure to allow the response to be published. << Less

Sometime I read someone congratulating ebay on its classifieds business trend mentioning it goes in line with its core business as opposed to going after phone companies.<br /> <br /> I disagree with that opinion. The auction commission(Ebay) is a buy and sell business model.Classifieds is not Buy & Sell activity for the company;it is Advertising.In that regard,Kijiji is in competition with Google itself.<br /> <br /> The idea of monopolizing the classifieds market by going after craiglist is naive and short-sighted.If ebay bought craiglist,a huge exodus will fo... More >>

Sometime I read someone congratulating ebay on its classifieds business trend mentioning it goes in line with its core business as opposed to going after phone companies.<br /> <br /> I disagree with that opinion. The auction commission(Ebay) is a buy and sell business model.Classifieds is not Buy & Sell activity for the company;it is Advertising.In that regard,Kijiji is in competition with Google itself.<br /> <br /> The idea of monopolizing the classifieds market by going after craiglist is naive and short-sighted.If ebay bought craiglist,a huge exodus will follow to any current or emerging alternative out there.<br /> <br /> Kijiji\'s competion will not be just coming from craiglist side but from <br /> a multitude of recession-emerging parasites classifieds websites that will further speed its downfall.<br /> <br /> \"We play to win\" said someone from ebay.<br /> <br /> Win what ? The guy(Craig Newmart) is offering the service for near free<br /> <br /> And Who plays to lose?<br /> <br /> Internet Users have long perceived classifieds as the \"Internet Bonus\" to the average user. <br /> It has come to be sterotypically perceived as Free .And will remain so.<br /> The French site Annonces spent years trying to monetize this damn thing without success.And there has been thousands of similar experiences. As if Ebay never made a simple market research(which confirmed the other commentator\'s point that they did it more out of revenge).<br /> <br /> Kijiji will eventually go down as a loser and ebay should try to stop the bleeding early and remove this lame sheep from the market before it is badly wounded and its malaise spread to ebay itself. << Less

Nanosight has a patented low cost optical nano-particle tracking and detection technology. It is not only positioned as a category-killing device company, but also sits at the heart of a broad range of innovative new applications that are capable of facilitating breakthroughs in diagnostic, material development and other particle detection applications.<br /> <br /> It first generation product the LM10 uses a laser light source to illuminate nano-scale particle. Particles appear individually as point-scatterers moving under Brownian motion. The system can instantly recognise a... More >>

Nanosight has a patented low cost optical nano-particle tracking and detection technology. It is not only positioned as a category-killing device company, but also sits at the heart of a broad range of innovative new applications that are capable of facilitating breakthroughs in diagnostic, material development and other particle detection applications.<br /> <br /> It first generation product the LM10 uses a laser light source to illuminate nano-scale particle. Particles appear individually as point-scatterers moving under Brownian motion. The system can instantly recognise and quantify the size distribution of particles and can highlight agglomerates and contaminants.<br /> Results are displayed as a frequency size distribution graph and output to spreadsheet. In addition, video clips of images may be captured and archived for future reference.<br /> <br /> This platform in itself is competitive on a like-for-like basis with alternative, but much more expensive nano-particle detection technologies. However, successive generations of Nanosight instruments are adding additional capabilities that ensure the devices will be unrivalled in their capabilities.<br /> <br /> As well as scientific instrument sales, broader applications include homeland security, medical, defence, water, food & agriculture, particles sizing, nano-particle safety etc. These markets are potentially huge and all lack viable sensing devices. <br /> <br /> The management team is excellent. << Less