February 2009
13 posts
Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being... →
See also: The Paradox of Choice.
LovelyCompanies.com on Telegraph.co.uk →
Together with Fund it Frog, LovelyCompanies.com got a little mention today on Milo Yiannopoulos’s Telegraph blog. The post is about innovation in charity fundraising - do check it out!
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Translating TED →
“Five years ago, an amazing teacher or professor with the ability to truly catalyze the lives of his or her students could realistically hope to impact maybe 100 people each year. Today that same…
Delightful iPod Speakers →
I just spotted these lovely iPod speakers on Twitter (thanks Phil) and thought I’d share them!
They’re made by a company called Speakal and they come in a handful of funky designs -…
One Year of LovelyCompanies.com! →
I can hardly believe it: it’s been a year to the day since I decided, on the spur of the moment, to start writing about lovely companies! Please join me in wishing happy birthday to…
TED 2009: First Talks Emerge →
Last week was TED week in Long Beach, California. The conference (which we’ve written about before) gives the stage to some of the most fascinating people from around the world to talk…
Twitterers Organise Twestival - Tonight! →
Tonight something extraordinary is happening right around the world. In 200 cities across the globe, people will be getting together to raise money for charity.
The event is called …
Why Not Give Away Your Free Capacity? →
We first wrote about Litmus almost a year ago when they gave all their users a Christmas present: a free lifetime account for stats package CrazyEgg worth $9/month.
Litmus is a web app…
GoodGuide: “Goodness” Ratings of Consumer Products →
GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.
It can help you answer such…
Is it marmalade? Is it honey? No, it’s Superjam! →
“Fraser Doherty always loved jam.” So starts the blurb on his website Superjam.co.uk. When Fraser (”Jam boy”) was 14, his Gran shared her jam secrets with him and after developing the…
Meet Gary Vaynerchuk →
Gary Vaynerchuk is an American businessman who took over the family business - rebranding it as Wine Library - at a young age and transformed it from a local store into a $50m national…
How to react to your website getting hacked →
One of the scariest things that can happen to anyone with a website is to see it get hacked.
A few weeks ago a site called Corkd.com, run by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, was hacked…
Research: Happiness Is Contagious →
We all know that giggling can be highly contagious but the LA Times recently published some more concrete evidence that happiness is contagious…
Scientists studied the relationships of 5,000 people…