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As featured last year, ING's Postbank is encouraging children to find their inner entrepreneurs and learn how earn, save and deal with money. This week, the bank opened a Bizznizz Lounge in Habbo...
Gaming
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Do a web search for indoor composting, and you'll find plenty of useful step-by-step guides that explain how to build your own indoor composting system, complete with a friendly menagerie of worms....
Eco & Sustainability
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New Zealand-based Ponoko is offering consumers a new way to turn their creative ideas into real-world objects. After uploading their design to the website (in EPS file format), users can choose from...
Style & Design
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As the popularity of text messaging continues to grow, we're seeing more ways that entrepreneurs are monetizing it. Take HouseFront, a US start-up that's currently in beta, that greatly simplifies...
Homes & Housing
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Back in 2003, our sister-site trendwatching.com coined the term nethoods to describe an emerging trend: "neighbourhoods, streets and even apartment buildings are starting to get their own internet...
Homes & Housing
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Every cell phone user has done it: forgot to lock their phone's keypad and accidentally called the first person in the contact list. Usually some unlucky person by the name of Aaron or Abigail....
Non-profit, social cause
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Aiming to empower independent artists, SellaBand has created a platform that enables fans to sponsor bands, and get a piece of the action in return. How it works: fans, dubbed Believers, find an...
Entertainment
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MommyMixer is a networking event that brings together selected university students and parents who need babysitters. A cost effective alternative to childcare agencies, the events allow parents to...
Life hacks
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Travelers have the potential to bring much-needed supplies to underfunded non-profit organizations around the world, but usually they don’t learn about those needs until it’s too late to pack for...
Non-profit, social cause
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Students at Cornell, USC, Princeton and a handful of other US universities now can pool their resources in a handy online forum at TheCollegeFreeWay-a network for sharing notes, outlines, essays,...
Media & Publishing
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There are close to 40 million runners in the United States alone, according to Running USA, and it's a pretty safe bet than nearly all of them travel at least once in a while....
Tourism & Travel
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The internet, which has succeeded in democratizing so many other parts of life, has now set its sights on one of society's most stalwart professions: democratic lawmakers. A recently launched...
Government
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Anyone who's ever traveled is surely familiar with the dreaded Manila Folder-that sheaf of printouts, receipts and tickets we rely on to stay on schedule during a trip. Now TripIt promises to free us...
Tourism & Travel
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Food and beverage marketers have long known that there's nothing quite like sampling to convince a consumer to try something new, but the high cost and limited reach of traditional sampling campaigns...
Marketing and Advertising
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For a few weeks in July and August, the Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo ran a program for guests aged 3-12, employing them for a day. Children picked one of five different types of work: housekeeping,...
Education
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We've written about peer-to-peer lending marketplaces before: Zopa (UK) and Prosper (US) both allow people to lend money directly to others, cutting out banks and other middlemen. Which means better...
Financial Services
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Earlier this year, we reported on NexGym-a youth fitness franchise that keeps youngsters moving through video game-inspired workouts. It turns out they're not the only players capitalizing on kids'...
Gaming
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We've featured efforts by two banks-Postbank and Umpqua-to stimulate children to start their own businesses, but financial institutions aren't the only ones interested in making children financially...
Education
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It's a well-known fact that at least half of all drivers-those with a Y chromosome, in particular-abhor having to ask for directions when they're on unfamiliar ground. Fortunately, help may soon be...
Automotive
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When Springwise first highlighted New York's 311 Service back in June 2003, its primary focus was as a municipal clearinghouse for non-emergency services. In those early days, 311 operators typically...
Government
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