My personal favorite was MIT’s 2toBrowse, a Chrome extension that
allowed two people on separate computers to both control active cursors
and collaboratively browse the web. One users installs the extension,
receives a special URL, and another can click it to instantly begin
browsing together without having to download anything. The extension
could help people teach their parents how to use a specific website,
allow customer service departments to walk customers through solutions
to problems, or provide entertainment.

Other high quality projects included Georgia Tech’s Skoole, an on-campus
peer-to-peer SMS-based textbook exchange, and a cloud-hosted security
system from the University of Illinois team that lets users access their
personal browser settings and files from public computers using the
proximity of their mobile phone as the key. Waterloo produced the most
technical project, a JavaScript MapReduce distributed computing library.

The College Hackathon, also known as the Camp Hackathon, serves as a
powerful recruiting tool for Facebook. By finding top young engineers
and bringing them to the headquarters, Facebook increases the chance
they’ll want to work for the company once they graduate — or drop-out
like Facebook’s founders. Though I must say, the $500 per team member
grand prize seems a bit small considering the company is preparing for a
$100 billion IPO. At least last year’s winners got a summer internship
at Facebook.

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million
users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004,
initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge
hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding
a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four
months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for
the term…
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We’ve seen the creation of halal baby food and halal cosmetics over the years, both free of ingredients that are forbidden by Islamic law. Given that alcohol is also one of those forbidden ingredients, it makes sense that there’s now ArKay, a brand-new halal-certified whisky beverage that’s entirely alcohol-free.

Gearing up for a global launch this week, Florida-based ArKay bills itself as “the world’s first alcohol-free, whisky-flavored drink.” The beverage includes no alcohol and so is technically considered a soft drink; at the same time, it’s said to taste just like the “real thing,” its maker asserts. Not only that, but the product conforms to halal guidelines and is made with certified halal ingredients. From December, ArKay will be available in one-liter glass bottles and 12-oz. aluminum cans for USD 10 and USD 4, respectively.

With a potential market that amounts to roughly a quarter of the world’s population, ArKay is now seeking qualified distributors and importers around the globe. Retailers far and wide: time to get in line?

Website: www.arkaybeverages.com and www.arkay.co.uk/index.aspx
Contact: www.arkaybeverages.com/contact_us.aspx

From: http://ping.fm/QmSiB

Inovasi-inovasi bisnis baru tumbuh dari beberapa negara industri baru.

Di CINA, Chen Shan – 23 tahun- membangun kembali bisnis sepeda bermerek ‘Forever’ yang sempat bangkrut. Kini 1,3 juta sepeda ‘Forever’ telah terjual kepada para konsumen muda yang terutama terpikat dengan sepeda yang kini berwarna-warni itu.
Di INDONESIA, pesawat radio AM/FM ‘Magno’ dibuat dengan tangan dengan menggunakan bahan-bahan yang tersedia di desa. Keuntungan dari penjualan radio unik tersebut dimanfaatkan untuk pelatihan pembuatan kerajinan dan pengembangan keterampilan kerja para pengrajinnya.
Di TURKI, perancang grafis Beste Miray memiliki ide untuk menentukan posisi tempat dengan menggunakan Google Maps, lalu menggunakan cetakan peta tersebut dalam amplop untuk dikirimkan via pos. Kini ide tersebut menjadi sebuah aplikasi web bernama: Mapenvelope.
Di BRAZIL, kosmetik dengan merek ‘Kapeh’ memanfaatkan kopi dari sebagai salah satu bahannya. Produk kosmetik tersebut yang meliputi pelembab dan sabun kini telah diekspor ke Belanda dan Portugal. Mereka juga tersedia di internet.
Di INDIA, perusahaan konglomerat India ‘Tata’ mengembangkan ‘Swach’, filter dan penjernih air yang menghasilkan air minum dengan memanfaatkan abu. Piranti jinjing tersebut tidak membutuhkan listrik maupun air yang mengalir.

[ENGLISH] from Five smart brands & innovations from ‘emerging’ markets [Springwise]

Our sister-site trendwatching.com’s latest briefing focuses on the EXCEPTIONALL, highlighting the fact that exceptional B2C innovations will increasingly come from all corners of the globe, with brands and talent from emerging markets getting ready to shine. The briefing is full of fun examples, here are five to get you started:

CHINA | Forever is a Shanghai based bicycle brand founded in the 1940s. Having fallen out of favor in the 1990s, the brand was relaunched under the leadership of 23-year-old Chen Shan, offering a range of bikes in bright colors, appealing to younger consumers. The company now sells 1.3 million bikes a year.

INDONESIA | The Magno AM/FM radio is handcrafted using sustainable materials in an Indonesian village. Profits from sales go back to initiatives supporting the producers such as the education in handicraft and work skills and the growth of plantations for wood used to make the products.

TURKEY | Istanbul-based graphic designer Beste Miray came up with the idea of selecting a location in Google Maps and using a print-out of the map as the inside of an envelope to send to a friend via old-fashioned snail mail. Later, a New York designer took that concept and launched a web application for it: Mapenvelope.

BRAZIL | Cosmetics brand Kapeh uses coffee from the Brazilian state Minas Gerais in all of its formulations. The products, which include moisturizers, soap and bath oils, are now exported to the Netherlands and Portugal, as well as being available online.

INDIA | An innovation by Indian mega-national Tata, the Swach is a water filter and purifier that produces clean drinking water through the use of common ash. The portable purifier doesn’t require running water or electricity.

For many more examples, check out trendwatching.com’s briefing.

Beberapa ciri waralaba yang menguntungkan adalah ia memiliki biaya operasi rendah, pesaing yang tidak banyak, dan tidak menawarkan produk komoditas yang memiliki biaya servis rendah. Beberapa contoh waralaba semacam itu adalah,

1. Waralaba layanan finansial: Waralaba yang menawarkan layana finansial seperti pajak, akuntansi, dan asuransi konsumen. Biaya operasi rendah karena ia membutuhkan staf sedikit dan tidak membutuhkan tempat yang luas.
2. Waralaba layanan perawatan dan kesehatan: Waralaba layanan kesehatan dan perawatan manula akan menguntungkan karena seiring dengan membaiknya kehidupan, manula akan semakin banyak. Waralaba perawatan dan kesehatan memberikan layanan seperti asistensi manula, perawatan di rumah, dan pengujian laboratorium.
3. Waralaba dari rumah: Waralaba ini menguntungkan karena ia tidak membutuhkan biaya sewa tempat. Keuntungan lain adalah tidak adanya biaya transportasi, juga pajak.
4. Waralaba internet: Waralaba internet dapat dijalankan dari rumah, dengan hanya membutuhkan fasilitas seperti koneksi internet, komputer, meja, dan kursi. Selain itu secara umum, sebagian besar waralaba Internet saat ini dirancang untuk dilakukan oleh pemilik sendiri sehingga tidak membutuhkan staf sama sekali.

[ENGLISH] from The Most Profitable Franchises to Start Today [Get Entrepreneurial]

Article Contributed by Ray Haiber

As a professional small business broker and franchise sales consultant I am often asked what types of franchise opportunities are the most profitable to start and own. From my experience there are a few common factors or characteristics that give some franchise business models a definite edge or advantage when it comes to the ability to consistently produce high profit margins. Some of these advantageous characteristics include having low overhead expenses, limited competition, and not offering a commodity type product or low barrier services. Below are a few franchise opportunity categories that share some of these characteristics and are generally regarded as having the right stuff to be very profitable.

Financial Services Franchises:

Franchises that offer financial related services such as income tax preparation, accounting, and consumer insurance services generally enjoy very high profit margins for a number of reasons. This includes low overhead expenses because of generally lower staffing requirements and no absolute need to rent high traffic (and expensive) retail space. And because they offer professional type services the barrier to entry is a little higher than starting the average home cleaning or janitorial franchise which helps limit competition. And last but not least financial franchises like insurance and tax franchises offer services that have the ability to generate repeat and residual income which can do wonders for the bottom line.

Medical and Health Care Franchises:

Medical and senior care franchises are well positioned to reap the benefits of an ever expanding market due to major and favorable demographic trends such as the inevitable aging of the baby boomer population. Traditionally health care and medical related franchises that offer services like assisted living, senior home care, and lab testing have very high profit margins and are generally considered recession resistant. These factors bode well for maintaining high profit margins for these generally non-discretionary services that will always be in demand for the foreseeable future.

Home Based Franchises:

Some of the most highly profitable small businesses I have ever worked with as a professional business broker were home based. In my opinion the benefit of not having the expense of a monthly lease payment can not be overstated in terms of bottom line profitability. Other profitable advantages of owning a home based business include no daily commuting or travel expenses, as well as certain tax advantages that could put more money in your pocket at the end of the year. Be sure to consult with an accountant or CPA for more details about the tax advantages of starting a home based franchise or business.

Internet Franchises:

Starting an Internet franchise business offers many advantages in terms of setting the stage for being very profitable. This includes the fact the most Internet franchise opportunities being offered today can easily be operated from a small home based office with just an internet connection, computer, desk, and a chair. Consequently your overhead expenses will be much lower than that of a typical brick and mortar retail franchise business because there are no lease expenses or expensive equipment and inventory expenses. And generally most Internet franchises being offered today are designed to be owner operated so there are no expensive staffing requirements either.

iTriage, software untuk smartphone berbasis iOS dan Android, menampilkan isi dari website informasi medis iTriage. Kita bisa mencari gejala penyakit dan mempelajari berbagai kondisi kesehatan.

[ENGLISH] from iTriage Turns Your Smart Phone into a Medical Diagnosis Tool [Lifehacker]

Android/iOS: iTriage puts the content of the iTriage medical information web site on your smartphone. You can search through symptoms, learn more about a wide variety of medical conditions, and more.

From the initial interface you can search for a doctor or a location to receive various medical treatements, look up symptoms, read more about specific diseases, and learn more about the procedures used to treat them. Browsing through the symptoms list displays possible causes of each symptom. Clicking on the injury or disease process itself lists a description, additional symptoms, tests that can be conducted to determine if the suggested disease or injury is the culprit, available treatment, as well as images and videos of the disease or injury.

iTriage is obviously not a replacement for a consultation with your physician or a trip to the emergency room, but it is a well organized and portable index of thousands of symptoms and their causes. Visit the link below for more information or search for iTriage in the iTunes Appstore or the Android Marketplace to grab a copy for your phone.