Recently, we launched Videoblast.it. An easy way to share a favorite moment within a video! With Videoblast.it you can create a unique customized page with your video and comment. You can even control the specific time your video will start! After you create your videoblast go ahead and share it with the ones you want. Post it to your Skype chat, email it, or share it with your facebook friends and twitter followers.

Now you just have to follow 3 simple steps to make your Videoblast and share your favorite moment within a video.

1. Enter your Youtube url in the white box right on top. Not sure about the url? Click the blue link to transfer to Youtube and pick your video.

2. Decide when you want your video to start. Although this step is not necessary, the core excitement from a Videoblast is when you capture that exact moment within a video. You can test if you picked the right time by clicking the “Test Time” button and previewing your videoblast in the small screen on the right!

3. All done with the video? Add a comment that you want to attach. The comment will be shown at the top of the video when the video is played. Finally you have the opportunity to put the right title to the video you are sharing!

If you have any comments or suggestions contact us and let us know what you would like to see!

If you live in San Francisco, you must have noticed the new Yahoo! interactive ads in few bus stops around the city.  (Currently at 20 high-traffic bus stops) At each one of these bus stops there is one 72-inch touch LCD screen that allows the commuters to play games and compete other neighborhoods.

Players earn points for a local neighborhood that they choose from a pull-down menu, and at the end of the competition the winning “team” gets a block party with a performance by the band OK Go. The Derby runs through January 28, 2011.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Yahoo’s Ad agency. created the Bus Stop Derby campaign, which is built around four games that correspond to the features of the mobile apps for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Sportacular and Flickr:

1. “Incoming!” is a race to sort color-coded mail as it slides down chutes
2. “Chatter Scatter” players text against time
3. “Sport-a-pult” is trivia-meets-target practice
4. “Snap Happy” is a 3-D puzzle

“Local’s going to be increasingly a big part of the content we push out, so it’s important for us to have both a digital and a physical presence in the local community,” explains Penny Baldwin, Yahoo!’s SVP Consumer Marketing and Brand Management. (Source)

What a great idea. This is the definition of an integrated marketing campaign. It is local and viral, people try the new mobile apps and it’s a way to fight for your neighborhood. Today Mission is number one! Let’s see who is going to win!

The games are not that much exciting but what else can you do when the bus is late.. Every bus stop is also a free Wi-Fi Spot. I’m really surprised by this innovative campaign by Yahoo! and Goodby Silverstein & Partners.

Read more about the “Bus Stop Derby“

This is a cool idea. It’s a brand new website that was launched 10 days ago. In Rentalic.com you can share your guitar, camping tent and iPod dock with others and get some money. Do you need some speakers for your party this weekend? Don’t buy them.. Just rent them for just few dollars.

About Rentalic.com:

Rentalic Inc. is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California. We provide an innovative web platform that enables person-to-person renting between friends, family, and communities. It is an online marketplace where owners can post items or services to rent out and borrowers can rent items or services they need. By offering a wide assortment of products and services that are conveniently located and cost effective, Rentalic.com provides a high value service to everyone!.

It’s very new and has few staff there but get there and support it! It;s a great idea that let you rent, share and be green!

Follow them on Twitter and Become a Fan on Facebook!

Sustainable Brands Boot Camp –13 week online sustainability training program intended to get business professionals up to speed on what they’ll need to be competitive and sustainable. Brought to you by the producers of the Sustainable Brands Conference.

Participants will learn from some of the world’s top sustainable business practitioners. Each of our faculty members is a leading sustainable business expert in his/her specialty, counseling many of the world’s top global brands about how to step up to today’s market demands and successfully build business value and brand equity by innovating for sustainability.

The course follows Sustainable Life Media‘s 4-step prescription for building the better brands of the future: “Observe, Re-Design, Measure and Communicate.” In just an hour-and-a-half a week, over one business quarter, you and your teams can gain a solid grounding in the core disciplines needed to move successfully in to the new age of sustainable business. Topics include market drivers, business model and product innovation, supply chain partnerships, brand strategy and marketing, metrics, and more.

If you haven’t yet taken the time to give yourself a full orientation to the basics of building a sustainable brand, now’s the time. Sessions are available live and on-demand.

Yesterday I visited the Cool Product Expo 2009 in Stanford University. I saw several new ideas.. Some of them were quite complicated and some others were too simple. Most of them were interesting though.  Some of the interesting products were the new Yahoo Service “Search Pad”, Cooliris browser add-on, the Hot Topper, NeuroSky and many more..

Here is all the companies that participated: 23andMe, 3Brick Design,  3Prong Power, Adolph Consulting Services, Aerobie, Inc., Alite Designs, Anybots, B.Minima, Blackbird Guitars, California Cars Initiative, Catapult Design, ConXtech, Cooliris, Cyclute, D.light Design, Dante Beatrix, Inc, Development by Design, D-Rev, Driptech, Elliptigo Inc., Embrace, Evernote, Green Gears, Green Harvest Technologies in cooperation with Ziba Design, HandMe, HighLite, Jaipur Knee Project, Joby, Karven Holdings LLC, Klutz, Logitech, Lunar Design, MagnoGrip Inc., MINIWIZ S.E.D. Co., Ltd, NeuroSky, Nila, Obscura Digital, Pianistica, PlantSense, Plug-In Supply, Psyleron, redmark, Speck Design, Stanford PRN, TacDial, Taco Lab, Think Gum LLC, Tieks, Visible Energy, Volkswagen, Xhibitr, Yahoo! Inc,.

Since I can remember I have always been amused by all forms of creation.
When I was a little boy I dream of becoming a science-fiction film director.
As a 33 year old, I believe that by using available means, we are able to make every idea that comes to our minds happen.

“When there is a will, there is a way” – whenever you use advanced technology or a pencil. What matters is the initial idea and the process of its creation.

You can also see the documentary video of his job..

These are the pillows that we will love.. Mac icons! Visit the website and order your pillows now!

This is not just mobile phone.. It is everything that you ever wanted!

It really sounds like fiction, but can you imagine a phone that goes beyond everything you already know about phones? Wi-Fi, Internet browsing, GPS, Cameras… are very simple! Those are all mainstream, and you’d expect to see them on a phone. In fact, if a phone doesn’t have them, it’s not worth a second look.

Now put you imagination to work, close your eyes and picture the ultimate ALL-IN-ONE device, that can do everything… you’re looking at the Pomegranate Phone! It is a very interesting project with a great website..

http://www.pomegranatephone.com/