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Mobile Payments To Explode Globally

Mobile payment systems are about to surge in users across the globe.

NYT's Mobile Banking in the Emerging World

Some of the mentioned mobile payment providers:

Telefónica - Latin America

Globe - Philippines

Smart - Philippines

Orange - Africa

Vodafone Pesa - Africa

Gemalto - Latin America, Middle East, India

Trivnet - Latin America, Middle East, India

Telenor Easypaisa - Pakistan

Book Me Online

This is an awesome service to show your schedule availability and it ties into your existing calendars like Google Calendar, Lotus Notes, Apple iCal, etc.

Tungle.me

The other awesome booking service I've seen is Bookd.com but it is catered more to the services industry.

Photo-Sharing is Growing

Photo-sharing services are growing in number and popularity.

Photo-Sharing Is The Next Evolution Of Social

Instagram

Picplz

Path

DailyBooth

Got Too Many Gift Cards?

If you received too many gift cards this holiday season, you might want to sell or trade them online.

CardPool.com

PlasticJungle.com

Build Your Own Mobile App

Here is a growing list of mobile app builders you can use to make your own mobile app.

MobileRoadie.com

AppBreeder.com

GetCS.com

SwebApps.com

Sencha.com

PhoneGap.com

PyxisMobile.com

Google App Inventor

How Was GPS Invented?

If you are interested in how our modern day GPS technology was invented, watch this short video.

Where Good Ideas Come From

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

These are some of the best talks on the planet.

TED.com
Introduction to TED

Alternative Payments

Here are more alternative payments options for customers without credit (cards).

PayNearMe.com

GreenDot.com

Review of PayNearMe

Review of Green Dot

Among others, Rixty and Coinstar offer similar services.

500 Startups

These might be the coolest super-angel investors on the planet. Dave McClure, the founder, seems to know what he's talking about. I've been reading about him on Fast Company and it's very good stuff. Keep an eye on them if you have a great idea.

500Startups.com

Look in Wikipedia for other super-angels.

The Andreessen Horowitz Fund

Seems like this fund in Silicon Valley would be good to pursue because they will educate you to be a great CEO.

Andreessen Horowitz
NYT's Andreessen Starts 2nd Fund to Invest in Tech Start-Ups

The One Sentence Pitch

Here is the perfect template for making your own one sentence pitch, to be ready for when you bump into that multi-millionaire.

Madlibs For Pitches: How To Perfect The One Sentence Pitch

It was constructed by the Founder Institute's Adeo Ressi

The sFund

I hope I can use the sFund some day.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/kleiner-perkins-and-partners-create-250-million-social-fund/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Excerpt from NYT: Kleiner is creating the sFund at a time when investing in social is hardly new. Several prominent venture capital firms like Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and others, have been heavy investors in social start-ups. And several companies, like the game makers Playfish and Playdom, have already been sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Touch Books for the Little Ones

Upcoming touch books for the iPhone and iPad.

http://touchoo.com/

Webydo: From PSD to HTML

You might want to keep track of this upcoming service.

It takes a PSD and generates all the HTML, less tables  - meaning CSS-style layout.

Pass it along to your peers or otherwise keep them grinding at the mill the old way.

http://www.webydo.com/

My Kids Need Drawing Pad

A drawing pad for little picassos built as an iPad app. This is exactly what my kids need.

DrawingPadApp.com
NYT review

myGengo: Translation API

A service called myGengo.com has an API for human-powered translations. I'm not sure what that all means but this is one service to keep track of.

TechCrunch news

TechCrunch review

Location-Based Advertising

There are some big players involved in this arena and here is a small list of them to help you keep up.

First are the actual providers of the location-based check-in data:

1. Foursquare
2. Facebook Places
3. Twitter
4. Gowalla

Then there are the ad-campaign services that use the above data to pinpoint your marketing:

1. Context Optional, 
2. SnackSquare, 
3. Geotoko, 
4. Sprout Social 
5. PlacePunch

PeopleSmart: Look for Anyone

The new way to look for anyone is to use PeopleSmart.com

U Like Clear Wireless?

So u like Clear's 2 year commitment and excellent broadband service ey?

Well once my contract runs out with Clear, look at what I can get now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/technology/personaltech/02pogue.html

The Virgin Mobile MiFi.....about the size of a credit card.

$40 a month, no contract, unlimited data