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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Cool Origami Bookmarks From Your Laser Printer
First we had PocketMod, the pocket organizer made from folding a single sheet of paper. Now Italian artist Fabio Sirna brings us colorful, non-destructive bookmarks right from your laser printer. [via Marc Orchant]DIY - Paper Bookmarks
First of all: thanks to all the people for comments, feedback and suggestion. I've update the Paper Bookmarks, and now there are two versions. Both are on A4 size paper, but I design it to fit also the Letter size. If you have trouble, please explain me, because I don't have letter size paper here. I think that if you scale the print of about 95-98% it works well also on letter size paper. [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Trend Watchers Resource List
A list of resources for trend watchers, from Gerald Celente, founder and director of the Trends Research Institute. Published at StartupJournal. [via TP Wire Service]Recommended Reading For Trend Spotters
Current events form future trends, says Gerald Celente, founder and director of the Trends Research Institute, which has been tracking business, consumer, social and lifestyle trends since 1980.
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Here is a selection of books Mr. Celente counts among the exceptions, as well as his daily online reads for spotting trends.
The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl. "Whether you're tracking pop culture, high fashion or health care, all things are connected, and economics is the tie that binds them all."
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism by John C. Bogle. "Tracking trends is a way of seeing where we are, how we got here and where we're going. And John Bogle's new book does just that."
China, Inc. : How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C Fishman.
The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job by Oded Shenkar. "I'm among those who believe that while the 20th century was America's, the 21st will be China's."
The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living: Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth by Walter Szykitka (Editor). "One of hottest trends we see is the rapidly growing desire of more people to be self empowered, non-reliant, and 'off the grid.'
Haaretz, Al Jazeera, the Independent and China Online. "These four are our daily must-read news sites."
Drudge Report and the Raw Story. "We log on to these two Internet sites daily because they generally span the ideological spectrum."
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Monday, December 5, 2005
Automating the International Affiliate Sale
This morning Matt Mower sent a link to Toronto-based programmer Scott Ambler's site, where Scott has created an Amazon Affiliate page with links for US, UK, CAN, AUS, and JP geographies. Matt has bought a few books from recommendations here, but has never purchased via my Amazon links becasuse they are US-based and he is in the UK. Matt thought Scott's setup was good and recommended I do something similar so he could purchase via here in the future. He went on to say:
It also occurs to me that, with one of those things that can look you up via your IP address, you could dynamically generate a link to the correct associates site (US/UK/etc...) without needing to provide a whole bunch o'links (but obviously providing fall-back to a page with all of them in case it goes wrong).This seems like a good idea but I don't know anything about it - how difficult is it, are there existing tools, etc. An inquiry to AJAX and Remote Scripting guru Brent Ashley on the feasibility of Matt's suggestion led to hostip.info which has some interesting examples of what can be done with ip lookups. Below I've pasted in a snippet of code that should (if all goes well) display the national flag of an individual page viewer.
If there is a zooming map and a flag above this worked, if not it didn't. I can't see the HTML in Qumana so I don't know how this will be formatted. But it seems to me that using an ip lookup service such as hostip.info combined with a little server-side scripting one could do what Matt suggests. I don't know how useful it would be. Probably not very for any one individual - I've sold a whopping 10 books through Amazon since October 1, generating roughly $10 in affiliate fees. Can't imagine that would be much higher if I'd had CAN/UK affiliate links available. But then again...
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