June 2008
30 posts
Get Out of Your Own Way →
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an eternity at the speed of thought.
Make $829 in 3 weeks...I did! →
Thanks to my efforts, I have managed to earn $40 today. I made this money over at kluster.com.
There is no really good way to explain Kluster, other than call it a “user generated community”. The basic idea is, companies come to Kluster looking for a new name or product. Kluster then crowdsources the project to Kluster users who come up with the product (in 72 hours) or name (in...
Google launches new space race to the moon →
When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.
Welcome to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration as seeking out new business ventures.
The quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put...
Knewsroom is Dead, is there any hope for Kluster? →
Jellyfish and human eyes assembled using similar... →
Despite the massive evolutionary gulf that separates jellyfish and vertebrates, both groups construct their eyes using similar genetic components.
It’s … likely that jellyfish and vertebrates evolved their eyes by independently recruiting the same genetic building blocks, in a case of parallel evolution.
The eyes of the box jellyfish tell us yet again that important innovations,...
Robert Andrew “Bob” Bassett a.k.a. Neme →
SELMA – Robert Andrew “Bob” Bassett, age 32, died Monday, June 2, 2008. Born September 28, 1975 in Landstuhl Germany he was a computer programmer and a member of the Cary Masonic Lodge # 198
Kluster.com: Join the Collective →
No it is not a cult or the Borg from Star Trek. Kluster is billed as a collaborative decision making platform. It may not exactly be the most cutting edge or best new idea of 2008 but it is pretty freckin’ cool.
Kluster’s new Prize Brainstorming Service:... →
Personally, I think Kluster is onto something here - what would be great is to have a kluster plug-in for corporate collaborative platforms (e.g. sharepoint) - now that would be useful.
Like the deadpooled, Cambrian, it was difficult to “get” what Kluster was all about, who it was for and how it worked, until the revamp and the showcase NameThis site.
NameThis brings kluster to life by doing...
“looking at http://kluster.com/ very interresting concept that could become huge”
– Michael_Breiy
The Subtle Sense of Things
A realistic understanding of the function of the components of the eye began around the 17th century, after the gross anatomy of the eye had been firmly established. It was realized in the 17th century that the retina, not the cornea as was previously thought, was responsible for the detection of light. Johannes Kepler of Germany and Renee Descartes of France, both prominent physicists of their...
“It’s touch and go for now, but if ever a product that takes off got its name...”
– Modern Wheel
3 World-Validated Names in 48 Hours →
Have a product that needs a catchy name? NameThis allows you to put your company or product up on the line for people to brainstorm names ideas. You describe what your product’s about, include an image, and can answer any questions your potential namers have for you, and in 48 hours you have three names available that have received the majority of support from the community for you to choose...
“I hate to give this up: reading http://namethis.com is the best thing for...”
– Tyler H. Willis
Kluster unveils application for consumers to name... →
Kluster claims: “NameThis makes the otherwise time-consuming process of finding a market-ready name quick and painless. Why spend time and money gambling on the ideas of a few, when you can have the market bounce ideas off of you?”
The Crowd Takes On Naming Consultants With... →
Crowdsourcing startup Kluster (which launched in February), publicly opened up a new site today called NameThis. It works pretty much like Kluster, except it is only for coming up with names for products or startups. A company pays $99 to put up a challenge describing the product or entity to be named, the community suggests names and votes for the best ones by investing their allotted ‘Watts.”...
Crowdsource Your Branding With NameThis →
Kluster, a startup built on the premise that it can in fact be productive, and perhaps even lucrative, to crowd-source tasks recently introduced to the world a project called Knewsroom, which I subsequently wrote a brief review of, calling it an intriguing effort that would surely be interesting to watch as it built itself a niche for news delivery on the Web. Today, Kluster adds another item...
