Yol Gidenindir !

According to Springwise, below smart ideas covered in 2009 will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2010.  2, 8, and 9 are my favorites on this list. For a full review of each idea, please follow this link;   TOP10 . What are your favorites?  1. Small-scale food production using membership models  2. Low impact advertising 3. Health tracking devices 4. Sample stores, cafes & vending machines 5. Discreet rooftop solar panels and wind turbines 6. Rotating retail at airports and in malls 7. Remote farming for consumers 8. Connecting creative consumers with local fabricators 9. Paying consumers to promote products they use and love 10. Single-use toilet bag turns human waste into fertilizer 

Check this out! (but don't panic, it is from Dec'09) A young Turk, Cenk Uygur, and his rebel band are out to take down traditional television, with a hand from YouTube, satellite radio, and 500,000 fans.  For a full story, visit FastCompany... here is the link ! You may check his blog as well for the latest views and comments... Enjoy it!

They promote the system by "With FreshlyBranded, you can access millions of professional and amateur designers, writers, and marketers from all of the world. All for as little as $99" slogan. Looks like gray as their logo on the right... however, when you dig their site and read about how it works section, you get the idea. If you are a new setup or family company looking for a nice design and some ideas to do marketing, have a visit to FreshlyBranded .

I have mentioned it in 2006 and wrote as "It is a new concept in marketing, and I wonder where it will end up?" (At that time, the blog was in Turkish!)  http://borgadincler.blogspot.com/2006/03/tryvertising.html Look how tryvertising evolved! http://springwise.com/marketing_advertising/esloultimo/

Backwaters - Allapey / Varkala -  Kerala - Hindistan Gokarna, Ohm Beach’te geçen 9 gün sonrasında artık yola çıkma vakti gelmişti. Zaten bu tip uzun seyahatlerin up & down ya da bir başka tabirle yoğun ve sakin dönemleri vardır. Vakit yollara düşme vakti gelmişti, bir sonraki hedef Doğunun Venedik’i olarak bilinen Backwaters’dı... İnternetten edindiğimiz bilgiye göre Pazar günleri Gokarna’dan Allapey’e (Backwaters’ın iki kasabasından biri) giden bir ekspres tren vardı. 14:40’da hareket edip 14 saat yol alıp ertesi sabah varıyordu... lakin bilet yoktu. Gokarna – Ernakulam Dedik ki “Yol Gidenindir!” ve kendimizi istasyona attık. Bir şekilde Ernakulam’a giden trenin yataklı (a/c değil, fanlı) vagonundan yerimizi ayarladık. Bilet fiyatı 568 Rupi (17TL). Bir backpacker olarak Hindistan’da 14 saatlik yola “uzun” dememek gerek zira benim rekorum 26 saat ve hatta 36-38 saatlik trenler bile mevcut. Bu yolculukların bir bölümünü müzik dinleyerek, sudoku çözerek, memleketi