Hi Arnie,
Our latest issue is now online. Here's a quick run-down of the new products and services
that caught our attention this week:
Food & beverage / Eco & sustainability
Heimathonig is a directory of local beekeepers, helping consumers
buy honey direct from the source. Beekeepers' profiles include details
about the bees and the flowers they gather nectar from.
Tourism & travel
Users of OfferMeaTrip describe a notional holiday: the destination,
duration, activities and cost. Approved travel agencies then get to
submit offers to the users in the form of a custom travel brochure.
Eco & sustainability / Style & design
Greenaid is a project to convert vending machines to sell 'seed
bombs': balls of clay, compost and seeds that can be thrown
discreetly into derelict urban sites to (temporarily) transform them.
Government / Telecom & mobile
Potholes, stray garbage, broken street lamps? Citizens of Eindhoven
can now report local issues using an app that allows them to take
a picture, geotag a report, and directly notify the city council.
Financial services / Life hacks
Recently launched into public beta, California-based WePay is an
online payment service that strives to make it easy for groups to
collect, manage and spend money.
Media & publishing
Adopting the rapid-development, frequent iteration principles used
by many startups and software developers, Leanpub allows bloggers
to publish PDF books, then republish later with new updates.
Non-profit, social cause
Kopernik is a platform that showcases exciting tech products, allows
vetted organisations to submit proposals explaining how they'd
use them, and manages crowdsourced funding for those ideas.
Lifestyle & leisure
Konkuri is a free-to-use tournament and league management web
application that allows users to create their own tournament sites.
It has already hosted more than 20,000 tournaments.
Fashion & beauty / Media & publishing
GoTryItOn lets users upload digital snapshots of themselves in
various outfits. Those allowed to see the outfit can then vote for
or against it and/or make suggestions for improvements.
Food & beverage
The Urban Wine Company collects grapes from vine-growers in
London and the southeast UK and presses them collectively. The
resulting wines are sold locally; contributors get six bottles for free.
Media & publishing
A Story Before Bed lets users keep in touch with the kids remotely
by recording audio and video of themselves reading children's
stories, synchronized to the pages of an onscreen book.
Automotive, Eco & sustainability
MyFord Touch enables drivers to monitor and track their vehicle's
real-time fuel economy performance and mile-per-gallon averages
by means of a bar chart next to the fuel gauge.
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