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This month’s WIRED has an interesting article about Local Motors, an open source car design start-up. Local Motors takes the knowledge and history of kit cars and applies open source design techniques, and Web 2.0 networking to create small batch designs for car aficionados. At $50,000 a pop, this isn’t something everyone is going to want [...] The Florida Media Co-op is a grassroots (or entrepreneurial if you prefer) effort to coordinate advertising on local blogs around Florida. If you want to advertise on some Florida blogs, FMC provides a quick, one-stop-shopping sort of place so you don’t have to deal with each blog proprietor individually. If you want to try to generate [...] Hey, this is what I’m in grad school for! I just never heard the term before. “Many of big ideas that computer visionary Douglas Engelbart came up with in the 1960′s have come true, but a couple of them haven’t yet. One of these is his notion of the “Certified Public Logician.” Engelbart predicted that a [...] Kudos to Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman for being named two of Inc. Magazines Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30. Friedman and Soliman started College Hunks Hauling Junk and are are based here in Tampa, Florida. “Raised in the nation’s capital, these two entrepreneurs were schoolmates of Chelsea Clinton and Al Gore III before they launched America’s [...] Here is Bill Gates 1976 letter damning software pirates. Its tenor reminds me a lot of newspaper company executives’ response to bloggers. Or the RIAA’s response to music fans. They all have in common that they see fans as the problem rather than themselves. An Open Letter to Hobbists By William Henry Gates III February 3, 1976 An Open [...] Senator Bill Nelson has taken the lead on abolishing poisonous Chinese drywall in the US. The next step is to help Florida become a producer of EcoRock (as seen in the video below). Nelson’s leadership on drywall issues, and Florida’s aching construction industry, combine for a rare opportunity to bring new, sustainable businesses to the sunshine [...] Looking for a gift for a vegan friend? Try Moo Shoes. “MooShoes, Inc. is a vegan-owned business that sells an assortment of cruelty-free footwear, bags, t-shirts, wallets, books and other accessories. MooShoes offers its services through an online store as well as in its retail store in New York City, the first cruelty-free store of its [...] Over at Forbes Joel Kotkin suggests that Tampa and the cities along the I-4 corridor focus on “medical services, business services and light manufacturing” as a substitute for tourism and development. That sounds like pretty weak sauce to me. I’d like to see a huge hobbyist culture develop around the arduino, which leads to [...] Here’s a free idea for anyone who wants it. No child could resist a series of classic children’s tales re-told with zombies for characters. For example, in Zombie Cinderella, the young prince scours the town to find the beautiful maiden who left her foot behind at the ball. UPDATE: Whoops, may be too close to Cinderella [...] We need more help for returning [...] managing the Facebook [...] Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and [...] Tampa’s new media market needs a new media advertising [...] Too busy to cook? Check out Cooks & Company. Cooks & Company provides an affordable, time saving service of shopping for your groceries, preparing delicious, nutritious meals in your kitchen – using organic foods whenever possible, storing your meals for reheating, and doing all the cleanup! Seminole Heights posted this from Michelle Baker, one of the cooks [...] |
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