Featured Site Reviews
Marbledom is all about Marbles, the kind you played with when you were a kid.
The site has auction listings of all kinds of marbles even the ones you may have not heard of. Here are a few of these marble names: Antique, Bull’s Eye, Cat’s Eye, Crystal, Flame, Onionskin, Spirals, Stars, and Swirls.
If you are a marble collector, Marbledom is for you.
Quirky is a social product development company. Your product ideas come in, our community & design team works on them, we sell your product worldwide, and share the revenue with our inventors & influencers.
By enabling a fluid conversation between a global community of influencers and an expert product design team– we are able to accomplish the impossible: bringing one brand new product concept from sketch to store each week.
The previous site was Inventors Digest. Looks like we are staying with the theme for the time being.
We all have ideas for new products. For $99 you can submit your idea to Quirky and get the all kinds of feedback and involvement by the Quirky community and if it gets enough community votes and the quirky team’s vote, you can see your being developed into an actual product. Yes, you get paid a percentage of sales. You can find details on the FAQ page.
Submitting a winning product idea is not the only way you can make money on quirky. Get involved and vote for product ideas, become an influencer and get a portion from the proceeds the winning idea brings.
Don’t for get to shop at Quirky. You can by brand new products before they are mass marketed. They make great gifts.
Quirky is about crowd sourcing of new product ideas and getting/giving feedback on these ideas. Go get involved…
Inventors Digest is committed to educate and inspire independent and professional innovators. As the leading print and online publication for the innovation culture, Inventors Digest delivers useful, entertaining and cutting-edge information to help its readers succeed. Inventors Digest is unfailingly ethical and unceasingly bold in its celebration of innovation.
If you are an aspiring inventor or someone who enjoyslearning and reading about inventions and stories relate to them, you should bookmark Inventors Digest.
POP Bidz is all about Popular Auctions. What are the HOTTEST selling items on eBay and why do you need them? Browse and you’ll certainly find something you’d never known you needed so badly! Hey, if it is popular, you gotta get it… NOW!
I guess you can call it “crowd-sourced shopping” since you are browsing, shopping and buying stuff you really didn’t think you needed or wanted. Well, you will discover stuff you never knew existed. Why not buy it?
It is Auction Surfing!
VEVO is the leading innovative online premium music and entertainment service for consumers, advertisers and content owners that blends the very best in musical content with cutting-edge video technology and a thriving user community powered by YouTube. The content is made available on YouTube through a VEVO-branded channel, on VEVO.com, the service’s marquee destination site, and through a VEVO-branded embedded player. The service also serves as a syndication platform for additional internet destination sites, expanding the reach of the VEVO brand across the worldwide Web.
Make sure to check out the Whatca Say? Channel
Retro is big!
Vintage is big!
Vintage Electronics is big. I know of friends who are paying big bucks for vintage turntables and vintage receivers. That’s probably why VintageTronics.com will turn out to be a huge success.
VintageTronics.com is not only about turntables and receivers although these seem to be the most popular items. It also has listings of vintage computers, telephones and gadgets among other things. one thing I’d like to see is vintage parts and hobby electronics kits.
Check it out, I’m sure you’ll find something interesting.
Signature Bids
Signature Bids is all about Autograph auctions.
SignatureBids.com is offering an easy interface to find autographed memorabila. You can browse by categories like celebrities, models and presidential etc.
It also has a great search feature. Just enter the name of the person you are looking to find in te search box and you’ll get a list of memorabilia signed by that person.
Elegant Themes provides a great selection of quality WordPress themes that you can have access to by purchasing a yearly subscription at a very reasonable price: $19,95 as of September 2009.
UPDATE: As of July 2012, you can get 100% complete access to our entire Elegant Themes collection of 77 themes for only $39! That’s less than 50c per theme.
Here is what the owner of Elegant Themes states:
I craft my themes with a goal of simplicity and professionalism and strive to inject each design with a dose of modest elegance. I believe that your website is not just a tool, it is an integral part of your identity. My job is to respect each customer by providing attractive and userfriendly templates that will help you achieve your online goals.
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Each WordPress theme comes expertly coded in valid XHTML and CSS, and all are made compatible with the latest version of WordPress. I make sure that each template performs flawlessly in each of the most widely used browsers to insure maximum functionality. Furthermore, all sidebars are made widget ready for your convenience.
If you are looking to give your blog a new and unique look make sure to check out Elegant Themes.
Toxel.com – Design Ideas and Tech Concepts
Toxel.com is a daily design, inspiration and technology blog dedicated to showcasing the best creative products and designs from all over the world.
Cool Stuff can be found here…
JunkScience.com is about “All The Junk that’s Fit To Debunk”.
“Junk science” is faulty scientific data and analysis used to further a special agenda. The junk science “mob” includes:
MEDIA
PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS
GOVERNMENT REGULATORS
BUSINESSES
POLITICIANS
INDIVIDUAL SCIENTISTS
INDIVIDUALS
Since April 1, 1996, JunkScience.com has had a discernible impact in the fight against junk science and garnered numerous awards, including being named:
- a “Top Resource” and one of the “Most Popular” health news web sites by Yahoo!
- “One of the 50 Best Web Sites” by Popular Science
- a “Hot Pick” by Science.
- A “leading debunker” of global warming by Rolling Stone magazine.