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On-demand book publishing, promotion and e-commerce

Recommendations for Self-Publishing from Dr. Javier Vera:

clickbank.com: sell your product through their affiliate system

kunaki.com: CDs DVDs on demand

eFulfillmentService.com: offers a complete package of online order processing, storage and shipping

vervante.com: Vervante provides a produce-on-demand solution for books, DVDs/CDs and kits –they ship orders worldwide.

For Art/Photo books I recommend San-Francisco based Blurb. I’ve made a few books with them and always been satisfied.

Lulu offers a similar service but not as focused on the needs of art photographers.

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Nanosolar: innovation from california

Thomas L. Friedman would be proud of this solar power innovator based in San Jose.

Their new panel factory in germany is automated to sustain a production rate of one panel every ten seconds, or an annual capacity of 640MW when operated 24×7. Nanosolar also today announced that serial production in its San Jose, California, cell production factory commenced earlier this year.

Nanosolar has added new capital and brought its total amount of funding to date to just below half a billion U.S. dollars…

via Nanosolar: Blog

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crossbrowsertesting: What happened to free?

These guys have a great product and might really give LitmusApp a run for their money. But it’s no longer free.

“5% paid number in a freemium model is a great percentage traditionally, it only works if you have thousands upon thousands of users (ie Flickr, etc) – it does not work in an industry such as the web design area with a focused audience where we see hundreds of users per day.”

via crossbrowsertesting.com Blog: What happened to free?.

NEW: Bookmarklet. I’ve been using theLitmusApp bookmarlet for a while and it’s great. but this allows you to jump right into using a virtual environment OR taking screenshots.

What is really cool about the whole thing is how it can change your workflow in testing. You can work on a site and get it to your liking and two clicks later you can look at that site in IE6, Opera or Chrome. You can even run screenshots.

via New cool bookmarklet | Pick an OS – Pick a Browser – Test a Website.

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Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal

NYTimes: A great panorama from Grand Central Station.

Inside a cramped brick room in the train station are the greasy innards of a hundred-year-old clock with a stained-glass dial, the largest of Grand Central’s timepieces.

GCstation

via Rooms – Rooms Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.

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Twitter favorites “favstar”: A Florida woman gave birth …

i found a new way to surf the best of twittersphere

“A Florida woman gave birth to a baby 9 days early at 9:09 in the morning on 9-9-09. But, get this, 8 lbs. 4 oz. LAME.”

“Half of the appeal of staying up late is the total absence of morning people.”

“I just solved world hunger! Or at least my hunger. I assume it’s scalable.”

Twitter favorites: favstar/ Tim Siedell.

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Work+School

Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why even the best task chair in the world not as effective as standing? I also relate to how meditation plays into sleep and stress-related rules.

This site has some great videos that demonstrate these simple principles…

THE 12 RULES

EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.

SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.

WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.

ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don’t pay attention to boring things.

SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember.

LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat.

SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.

STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don’t learn the same way.

SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses.

VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.

GENDER | Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.

EXPLORATION | Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.

via Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

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Some iPhone product reviews

My favorite accessory is the BudCozy. It’s a fabric cover for earbuds that keeps away thetangles and looks great too.

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Indexhibit

Another free tool for making websites. looks clean but not very robust on first glance.

A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.

via Indexhibit.

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WordPress Mailing List Plugins

A great list of mailing list plugins for WordPress (link is offline as of 7/2011). I also found MeeNews at http://www.wp-newsletter.com/. I have not tried it but it looks fully featured.

But I suspect it will be hard for any of these plugins to keep up with all the features that a paid service like MailChimp offers. I recommend the simple plugin the MailChimp team makes. It makes the job of adding a sidebar newsletter signup form a breeze. Note that I often tweak the CSS to get the “subscribe” button to align right or match my theme in other ways.

In this article he needed the ability to export the user list in .csv format so it can be used in other programs (like CRM). UPDATE: When I had a client recently who used MailPress (which i can’t recommend) I was able to extract the email list from the WordPress database using phpMyAdmin and Excel but such a procedure is not for the faint of heart.

via A Trek Through WordPress Mailing List Plugins – Email Mailing List Manager – Social Media Marketing (link is offline as of 7/2011)

See also this great list of newsletter plugins.

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bicycle parkour video

YouTube – Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill April 2009.

Taking parkour to another level with bike-based moves.

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