Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category

Limbo

February 11, 2007

Unbelievable. What business models people think of. Limbo is a mutant bidding site that has been around since October 2005. It’s a game where you compete against other (real, live) players to find and retain the lowest, unique bid. If your bid is the lowest and unique (no one else has submitted the same) then you win! Keep in mind that if someone else puts in the same bid, then yours is no longer unique. And the game moves to another, higher unique number. Don’t think of overloading the bids by submitting all numbers because there is a daily limit of 20 bids per person.

Damn.. somebody actually won a Mini Cooper for $50.43! So you are thinking “How can they give away those prizes for nothing?”. Seems like the guys at Limbo have created partnerships with big companies who give away stuff in sweepstakes all the time. Limbo provides these big companies to still throw away their ‘prizes’ but get a heck lot more eyeballs and action in their target customer age (18 to 35 year-olds).

I was so intrigued by it, I signed up. Haven’t played much, but I can tell right now that it is addictive. I’ll update this post when I find out more (or win :) ).

Blue Chip Expert

February 10, 2007

Blue Chip Expert adds the flavor of ‘exclusivity’ to he mundane networking & recruitment process. They aim to bring together highly specialized candidates, hiring managers and recruiters, but membership is granted by invitation only from an existing member.

There isn’t much that I could see since I didn’t have an invite (I might ask them for one- there is a email address you can send requests to).

Update: So I asked for an invite and got it yesterday :) Now I am registered member, and can invite others. Let me know if there is someone who wants to join.

Perceptive Pixel

January 26, 2007

Perceptive Pixel is a company founded by Jeff Han to commercialize his revolutionary touchscreens. You can watch the video or read about it- It takes you through the Minority Report-like user interface that Han demo’d at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference 2006. Very cool.

Sidenote – It’s not like Jeff is the only one in this game. Big players like Microsoft, Mitsubishi are also taking a swing at it. I’ll post more as I find out..

Webanalyticsbook.com

December 27, 2006

A semi-organized blog about something I’ve been interested in – Webanalytics. I always knew those 100million-videos-per-day numbers from YouTube were fake. This guy/girl apparantely writes in the related domain. [Blog Link]

Social Ranking – Overload!!

December 22, 2006

Don’t think I can take it anymore. I’m innundated with sites having a different take at social ranking/bookmarking/sharing. Makes me wonder if competition is good or bad in this space. Everyone is just slightly different than the other. Check them out:

  1. del.icio.us (right, you knew about that already..)
  2. Furl
  3. Yahoo Myweb
  4. Google Bookmarks
  5. Blinklist
  6. Blogmarks
  7. Digg
  8. Windows Live
  9. Reddit
  10. Ma.gnolia
  11. Tailrank

BlinkList

December 22, 2006

Yet another twist to the socical bookmarking saga. [Site Link]