This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. [...]

Finally! This is the new President. A historic day for all the Americans! A historic day for the whole world! Yes, we did!

Barack Obama, gave a great speech in front of 200,000+ people in Hyde Park, Chicago,IL. He appeared in front of the people, that were waiting for hours there, with his family…

Obama thanked Sen. [...]

Today at 8pm was live the 30minute Obama’s ad. It was the most expensive ad in the history. This ad was on the air simultaneously in the channels FOX, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, UniVision, BET  and TV One. The cost of this ad was approximately $3-$5 millions!

The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees.
Total Layoffs: 36
Total Employees: 19,556

Company
Date
Location
#
%
Source

Haute Secure
October 23, 2008
Seattle
3
50%
TechCrunch

XeroxCorp
October 23, 2008
world-wide
3,000
5%
WSJ

Cake Financial
October 23, 2008

30%
internal blog

Mercent
October 22, 2008
Seattle
6
12%
Seattle Times

Dell
October 22, 2008
Round Rock, Texas
8,900

Reuters

imeem
October 22, 2008
San Francisco, CA
20
25%
TechCrunch

Mahalo
October 22, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
6
10%
TechCrunch

TicketMaster
October 22, 2008
New York, NY
300
5%
Billboard.biz

Veoh
October 21, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
15

Silicon [...]

It’s new logo presented Pepsi, a part of the big plan of repositioning its brand, with a cost of $1,2 billions.
The circle with the blue and red smile created in 50’s but PepsiCo wants to create a different logo for the three major sodas. PepsiCo created different smiles for Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max!

Some [...]

The 8th Red Bull SoapBox Race took place in San Francisco yesterday. Red Bull began this event in 1997 and since then and every year Red Bull SoapBox Race takes place in many cities around the world. Yesterday San in Francisco, there were more than 75,000 people to see the 34 teams that participated in [...]

Nakheel announced that they will build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Nakheel Tower,will be built in Dubai, and its height will be 1200 meters!!! Responsible for the construction will be an Australian company (Woods Bagot) and the total cost will be $61 billions! The tower will be ready in 10 years!
Besides this tower there [...]

Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.

The new program expands a two-year-old service that allows Google News users to search the archives of some major newspapers and magazines, including The New [...]