Call with your mobile for Free

Blyk offers select users of its mobile phone service free minutes in exchange for viewing targeted ads. A new Belgian player is offering similar ‘free love’ by paying users cash to watch ads on their cell phones.
While Blyk operates as a mobile virtual network operator and offers the free minutes only to those who use [...]

Who Owns What: track the acquisitions of Google, Microsoft, and more

A new widget is coming, to track the acquisitions of big companies (and small ones too).
Who owns what is a printable chart (PDF) that tracks the recent acquisitions of a number of large companies: Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, AOL, News Corporation, and IAC. But coming soon - a widget and RSS feed to help you track [...]

How to build a company with social media

Interesting work from Elliance
The social media potential to drive traffic, increase awareness, and build links. The challenge of this new medium is to marry social media tactics with real business goals. Here Elliance explore some ways that a business can leverage specific social sites to achieve departmental goals.
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The Russian dolls for Geeks

A new and useful take on the classic Russian stacking dolls from childhood. Who knows the concrete difference between a TeraByte and a gigabyte? Now you can see the difference.
From Art Lebedev Studio, for $35.

RedZee: another visual search tool

RedZee may not load search results as quickly as Google, but it does let you preview a web site before you click through.
When you enter a search term, RedZee goes to work trying to find web pages matching your query. Drag your mouse left or right to cycle through the pages. Double click on one [...]

NEC is working hard on design

Here is the AXES Intuitive Information Terminal. Looking more like a “Stargate” secret of all universal knowledge artifact rather than a cleverly crafted concept device, the AXES Intuitive Information Terminal would serve a number of purposes. The proposed ability to operate a keyboard and mouse via the device would transform the normally mundane world of [...]