I’ve been working on some new code that delivers product placements from service providers directly onto my site and here it is. The great thing about this is that the service offerings are changing all the time keeping it fresh and new.
My work with Fotolia continues to show promise with another 3 sales in July and all of these my most popular image to date. Just click the link to be taken to that image.
Pyr 02 by Pete Linforth- Fotolia.com
You could also visit my complete collection of images on Fotolia.
I recently purchased some stock in Pure Circle and thought I’d share some news.
PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world’s leading producer of high purity stevia products, is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a No Objection letter for the use of PureCircle’s SG95 product as a Food and Beverage ingredient in the USA. This will enable PureCircle to offer a wider and more flexible array of stevia solutions, helping to further accelerate stevia adoption in the important USA market.
PureCircle’s high purity SG95 product is a further example of the company’s leadership in innovation. Along with seven previously approved steviol glycosides, SG95 includes two new steviol gylcosides, Rebaudioside D and Rebaudioside F, both of which are receiving GRAS No Objection for the first time. The new high purity sweetener delivers great taste and consistency as well as pricing well below sugar. The product is ideally suited for applications formulated with both sugar and SG95 to achieve a low cost solution to partial sugar and calorie reduction and provide further incentive to application development. Together with PureCircle’s successful high purity Reb A 97, SG95 will provide customers with an expanded range of options to improve products across their portfolios. With GRAS affirmation, PureCircle is prepared for immediate commercialisation of SG95.
Magomet Malsagov, CEO and Managing Director of PureCircle, said: “The launch of SG95 is a very exciting development for PureCircle in the Un
I host all my sites (and I have quite a few I can tell you) with blue host for one single monthly fee of $6.95. No more hidden fees and as I grow my list of domains I can simply add them for free. You could easily make a business out of this managing other peoples domains for them hosting them your $6.95 hosting plan with Blue Host. what you charge them for the privilege is of course up to you. Click the banner advert below and see all the great features you get. they even include automated WordPress installation and many other of your favourite blogging formats. It’s all there including unlimited email addresses, free analytical stats, you name it they’ve got it.
This is simply the best hosting company around.
Lending and borrowing is pretty simple when it comes down to it: somebody lends and somebody else borrows. Zopa have made a few small tweaks to this time-honoured method, to ensure everything is safe, secure and legal.
Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It’s like borrowing and lending with your friends and family – except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with.
Both lenders and borrowers get better rates, because Social Lending is more efficient than the traditional banking model. Banks have massive overheads, with thousands of employees to pay and hundreds of branches to maintain. So they have to take large margins on the money that passes through them.
There’s no smoke and mirrors here. Banks use your money to make even more money for themselves. They lend some of it out, gamble some of it on the price of tin or the Yen depreciating, and invest the rest in any other money-making schemes they can think of.
Whereas at Zopa, people who have spare money lend it directly to people who want to borrow. There are no banks in the middle, no huge overheads and no unethical investments
Zopa was the world’s first lending and borrowing marketplace. By demonstrating that Social Lending works on a large scale, Zopa has changed the financial sector for good.
So hit the link (the big picture above) and see what you think. If you dont need a loan but have money you want to loan out you can do this as well and guess what – you’ll get better returns thatn leaving it your bank paying a paltry rate.
If like me you’re into Twitter in a big way then you’ll also know how difficult it can be managing your Twitter account effectively. Your main problem to deal with is one of time, you simply cant spend all day in front of your machine tweeting, managing your followers, managing your DM’s, managing your whole Twitter life in fact. what you need is a tool that takes the strain for you managing your Twitter accounts (yes it can manage as many as you want from a single user interface) allowing you to concentrate your time on great tweets rather than anything else. The tool is very easy to use and once installed on your machine you can literally set it up and let it run 24 hours a day 7 days a week every single day of the year. It has numerous automation options allowing you 100% control over your Twitter account.
And the very best thing of all – it’s high quality software but very reasonably priced.
Click the banner below and see what I’m talking about. Press the link now and enjoy the freedom this great application brings you.
You’ll have a steady growth in followers in no time and of course these are specifically targeted by you – not some random follower list.
Finally got to grips with the Lulu interface and managed to grab the code for my new art book preview Images from my mind.
Thought I’d continue the publishing theme from my last post with a round up of where I am at the moment.
Firstly there is my new photo book called Images from my mind. It’s a collection of some of my art work in a photo book format. It gives a taste of what art I create and is really a fore runner to a complete set of themed art books I’m working on. Just click the Lulu icon to be taken to the book where you can preview its contents and of course buy a copy.
I’ve also created a new book along one of my favourite passtimes, that being maths. This book is a printing of Pi to 1,000,000 decimal places. I dare you to purchase and read it – it’s a very difficult book to read and take in as it consists entirely of numbers. It would make a crazy present so click the Lulu picture below and grab a copy now.
Finally I’ve taken some of my music creations and put them together on a CD for your listening pleasure. Instrumental guitar music is where I’m coming from with this release. Again the Lulu picture below will take you to the CD site. the release is called Disco noise with guitars. I hope you like it.
It had to happen at some point in time, I finally got it together and published my very own book of some of my favourite art creations.
The hardback book is an ideal Coffee Table item and has a variey of art creations themed on specific subjects.
Photographic manipulations where I take a standard photograph and manipulate it into an art piece.
Mathematical creations where I use mathematical formulas and techniques to create my art.
Digital reality where the boundary between reality and nature becomes blurred.
Reflection where the inner world of the mirrored sphere is explored.
What a great evening was had by all at the West Midlands Young Enterprise Regional final Innovation Awards. six finalists each winners from their own region competed at the Great Hall, Birmingham University.
The contenders:
Team 5 from Colton Hills Community School in the Black Country with their FUN5 product designed to get kids active.
Felicitas from St Dominic’s School in Staffordshire with their jewellery iPhone ear pieces.
More bees from St Thomas Moore Catholic School & Technology College with their Bee box to attract bees back into our gardens.
Inspired from The Royal Grammer School Worcester with their aromatherapy fan.
Fairbags from Idsall school Shropshire withe their Fair Trade cotton bags,
Smart from St Martin’s Independent School for Girls with their jewellery and cards.
As you can see a very diverse range of product offerings and each team were very capable in answering my tricky business led questions as I toured the stands as part of my role as Board member for the Birmingham area board. they were all highly motivated, confident in themselves and confident in their business planning and delivery. It was a joy to spend a couple of hours with them all.
and after some excellent presentations by all teams the winner was announced.
The winner of the Best Company Award at the Young Enterprise West Midlands Innovation Awards 2010 last night was Felicitas from St Dominic’s School in Staffordshire
Well done to Felicitas, and all the other Young Enterprise teams.