You’ve heard of People2People. Have you heard of Select Alternatives? They also work with newspapers and offer them dating sites. Here’s the founders story.

The basis of Select Alternatives is that it is a series of local sites (currently 27 local sites), each one engineered specifically for the demographics and psychographi

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Where would we be without the Woz? I had the occasion, and the honor, to interview Steve Wozniak recently, and get his thoughts on the rise of social networking. (For those of you who don't know who Steve Wozniak is, he is a computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventio

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One of the things I have to write about the Pampers Mommy Blogger Event was meeting the CEO of Unicef Caryl Stern. Pampers and Unicef have teamed together to rid the world of tetanus.

I’ll admit, before this, I didn’t see the big deal. We all get vaccinated, so you don’t even think about tetanus. However, after watching the

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Tetanus? Is that even a thing anymore? Who’s ever heard of someone who has tetanus? Not me.

Well, until I went to Cincinnati. Until I met (!) the President & CEO of US Fund for UNICEF, Caryl Stern. Until I saw the video diary of Bryan McCleary, Director of External Relations of P&G and his trip with UNICEF to Angola, Africa.

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Fourteen mom bloggers from across North America spent two days at Pampers Baby Care Headquarters, and at a general level, the experience was refreshingly similar to the Disney blogger event I participated in this spring in that it shed new light on a big brand that I assumed was solely focused on revenue. The folks I met at Pam

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Yes, YOU, you right there, reading this site. Do you have five cents? Your five cents can SAVE A LIFE. WOW, right? In poor countries like Angola, women give birth on dirt floors and then their umbilical cords are cut with knives made from a piece of sugarcane pulled right out of the ground. Do you know what lives in dirt? TETAN

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Not one of us walked away from our visit with UNICEF USA’s CEO Caryl Stern unaffected by her descriptions of the thousands of preventable neonatal and maternal deaths from Tetanus, a totally preventable disease. The cost of a single vaccine? Five cents. There was no question we weren’t going to do something about it.

Every

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ASMALLWORLD is exclusive to the jetset crowd, mainly in Europe. They may grow to one million users, in time. But size is not what counts with this social network. ASW is shooting to be the creme de la creme SNS.

I would say we’re definitely a pioneer in this business. I had a passion to develop this as early as 10 years ago.

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Ben runs Frumster and JWed, and they are for sale. According to Compete they have ~6% of the traffic of JDate, but have a lot more potential to grow.

Frumster.com was started in December of 2001 by a gentleman in Israel (actually a Canadian who had moved to Israel) and I was one of the first members to join the service. I ha

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Back in March of this year, United started charging for baggage, and for the customer, it has been downhill since. Depending on which airlines you are using, you may have to change the luggage you are using. Personally, I wish there was one guideline, because this is seriously confusing. Below I have listed different airlin

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Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up outside that shattered window. Two officers went into the house — and one stumbled back out.

Clutching his stomach, the rookie retched in the weeds.

Plant City Detective Mark Holste had been on the force for 18 years when he and his young partner were se

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Yes, you heard it right. I am completely jealous of all of you, since I only got one of these to borrow! The Sony Digital Photo Frame is worth about $249.99, so this is a giveaway you want enter! It is a 9-inch Digital Photo Frame with 800×480 resolution and 15:9 aspect ratio LCD screen. It has 512MB of internal memory with

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LifeProject Method, created by Fernando Ardenghi, is an innovative and high precision quantitative method that allows us to meet people based on similar personalities. He plans to launch his own online dating site incorporating LPM.

In 1997, he took the normative 16PF personality test when applying for a job. Could the knowl

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Forget the banks. Who needs credit cards!? Now you can just ask a favor from a perfect stranger and borrow money to buy a car, or consolidate debts. Zopa plays the part of middleman. Here’s my interview with the CEO.

We believed that for the consumer getting as a borrower as close as possible to the people who have money, le

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The Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is a 700 acre urban wildlife refuge. The Sanctuary is open to the public year round and is a great place to take your kids. It was started in 1935 as a waterfowl rehabilitation site. It continues to receive over 3,000 injured, orphaned, and sick animals

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