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Monday, December 26, 2011

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FindTheBest, an information site that lets shoppers compare everything from apartments to dogs to venture capitalists, is unveiling a new design.

The new look, created by design firm KKLD, aims to cut through the sometimes cluttered and text-heavy datasets that are FindTheBest’s bread and butter.

“Like any product, you keep adding new features and new features and it winds up looking like Frankenstein over time,” said founder Kevin O’Connor in an interview at VentureBeat’s offices. The new design is aimed at making comparisons clearer, more iconic, more graphical and easier to understand at a glance.

For example, on smartphone ratings, the comparison grids include colored bars to show how many megapixels the camera has and colored clock circles to show how many hours of talk time the battery is rated for. But on college ratings, the charts show pyramids to indicate how well-rated the college is.

It’s a much more approachable representation of the data than FindTheBest’s previous text-centric tables.

The site is built on a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP foundation (LAMP) running on Amazon Web Services. The underlying technology took two years and a $2 million investment to build. It is aimed at making it easy to create new comparisons and fill them with relevant data, and O’Connor boasts that his company can now add a new topic in about a week at a cost of $1,000 to $2,000.

The site now includes over 700 different comparisons in nine major categories. Each comparison has its own unique data structure, to facilitate comparisons and filtering that’s relevant to that particular class of products, and the data comes from public sources, researched by FindTheBest’s staff.

FindTheBest’s website now gets 3 million visitors per month, a figure that is growing by about 15 percent each month, the company says. It also syndicates subsets of its data to about 50 partner sites. The company has begun to make money from Google AdSense advertisements and from “Buy Now” buttons connected to Amazon.com and Nextag.

O’Connor claims that 15 percent of the site’s visitors go on to visit, call or e-mail one of the vendors listed in the database, a remarkable click-through rate that bodes well for the company’s future revenue prospects.

FindTheBest has raised $6.76 million to date, including a $6 million first institutional round from Kleiner Perkins in July, 2011. The company is based in Santa Barbara, Calif. and New York.

O’Connor sold his previous startup, ad network DoubleClick, to Google in 2007 for $3.1 billion.

Let’s face it: These days, most of us have more than enough stuff.

Instead of buying more gadgets and do-dads for your loved ones and friends, have you considered making a charitable donation in their names instead? Or handing out charitable gift cards?

Since the best, feel-goodiest part of gift-giving is knowing you brightened someone else’s day, it makes sense to give your gifts to those who are truly in need — and your recipients might agree with that sentiment, too.

If you’d like to buck the consumerist tradition while still keeping the joy of seasonal gift-giving, there are more than a few alternatives. Best of all, they’re available online and are great choices if your gift-selection deliberations have left you with little time on your hands.

Here’s our list of easy online charitable gift-giving options, including charitable gift cards. We at VentureBeat hope you’ll consider making charitable causes part of your gift-giving plans now and throughout the year.

Donors Choose gift cards

Donors Choose is a project aimed at the needs of underprivileged classrooms and students. These gift cards can be loaded up with the amount of your choosing, then sent to the recipient who can decide where the funds should go. For example, they can choose a classroom to donate to based on location or subject material. The cards can be mailed, emailed or printed at home.

Unicef inspired gifts

Unicef’s mission is to save children’s lives through simple improvements such as vaccinations, proper nutrition and clean water. The United Nation’s organization has created gift categories on its site ranging from emergency help to immunizations to education. When you select a gift, you can dedicate it to a friend or loved one, who will then receive a card. Winter Child Survival Packs and Child Survival Food Packs are particularly appreciated around the winter holidays.

American Cancer Society donations

Through the Cancer.org website, you can make a charitable donation to honor or remember a friend, family member or loved one. You can choose for your donation to be used to benefit cancer research, a number of specific cancer types (such as breast cancer) or just send it to wherever the funds are most needed.

charity: water gifts

If clean water is something you’re passionate about, check into the gifts available from charity: water. The organization offers print-at-home cards, a pack of 10 cards to send in the mail or deliver in person, and personalized cards with DVDs and wristbands. All of the proceeds from the purchases are used to fund clean water projects.

World Vision gift for children

World Vision will help you select a gift, mostly focused on the needs of children, for people in needy or underdeveloped communities. This could be as simple as $22 for school supplies or as much as $100 for a woman’s small business or a well to provide clean water. When you select your gifts, you will be sent special cards including a picture and information about the impact that gift will have on those receiving it.

Salvation Army tributes

The ubiquitous Salvation Army bell ringers are going high tech this year, taking donations with Square credit card readers and smartphones. Bell-ringers outside the grocery store are only one way Salvation Army raises money for its many projects during the holidays. Salvation Army, which focuses on helping the homeless and destitute, allows you to honor a loved one when making a donation through its website. If you so choose, Salvation Army can send a special letter to your honoree.

Doctors Without Borders tribute gifts

Medical emergencies happen everywhere, all the time — especially during natural disasters and political unrest. Doctors Without Borders attempts to respond to those in greatest need with fewest resources. Through the organization’s tribute gifts, you can choose to send an e-card or a mailed letter to let your loved one know about the gift.

Oxfam America Unwrapped

For gift-giving, Oxfam will allow you to choose items such as mosquito nets, a dozen chicks or a school meal to be donated to those who suffer from poverty and hunger. The friend or loved on on your shopping list will get a card (via mail or email, or you can print it out yourself) with details about the gift.

Razoo giving cards

For these flexible gift cards, you choose the amount of the total donation, then print or email a card to the recipient. He or she can then choose a nonprofit organization to receive the funds. Another Razoo tool is the Holiday Wish, which allows you to raise funds for your favorite cause through a simple page that can be shared via email and social sites.

Habitat for Humanity Gifts from the heart

Habitat for Humanity is an organization that focuses on building safe, affordable housing for the homeless and at-risk. Through its website, the group lets you make a donation in someone’s name. When making your donation, just choose to have a card mailed or emailed to your gift recipient and choose the occasion of the gift.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Money Making Secrets

The Bridge to Work provision of the American Jobs Act will enable Justin Gangon's California company, Choicelunch, to offer training in the extremely marketable food service industry to disadvantaged youths in 2012. Provisions in the President's comprehensive plan to immediately put workers back on the job and put more money in the pockets of working Americans will also help the company optimize long-term employee retention by allowing both Choicelunch and prospective employees to determine a better fit prior to hiring. Gangon, a co-founder, says the American Jobs Act will help him grow his business in 2012:

"In doing my initial research, I believe the Bridge to Work provision could be a great benefit. We have a lot of employees who have been with us for years, and we've had people walk-off the job in the first few hours after making it through a lengthy interview process because they didn't fully realize what it would entail (even though we allow them to observe the work performed and detail the job at length). Ultimately, putting people in a job on a provisional basis is as good for the employee as it is for the employer - both sides get to assess if it's a good match and the probability of long-term success, retention and job satisfaction increases."

Gagnon met his Choicelunch co-founders through an acapella group at Notre Dame, where their first business venture was organizing (and surviving) a 40-stop national tour. Ryan Mariotti studied chemical engineering, Keith Cosbey was a piano performance major, and Gagnon pursued a business degree, and after they graduated in 2000, each got jobs in their respective fields. But, in 2003, Gagnon pulled in Mariotti and Cosbey to help propel his parents’ catering business into a company that would partner with schools to bring a different flair to kids fare, despite the fact that none had any training or experience as chefs.

In the beginning, Choicelunch was a small operation with little profit: the college trio lived at home to save money. Now things are different. Choicelunch operates four kitchens with 30 trucks to deliver lunches ordered by parents to 220 schools in California. Gagnon estimates that Choicelunch’s “culinary dream team” produces 16,000 to 18,000 meals per day. The team coordinates with local farmers to create a menu of 17 healthy, wholesome, allergy-conscious lunches to choose from, featuring organic ingredients and including homemade nitrite-free bagel dogs and hand-rolled, kid-friendly sushi. According to Gagnon, though, the growth hasn’t taken away from Choicelunch’s family feel: “Starting from passionate roots, everyone on the team is engaged and excited about the Choicelunch mission. That’s what makes us a success.”

"In doing my initial research, I believe the Bridge to Work provision could be a great benefit. We have a lot of employees who have been with us for years, and we've had people walk-off the job in the first few hours after making it through a lengthy interview process because they didn't fully realize what it would entail (even though we allow them to observe the work performed and detail the job at length). Ultimately, putting people in a job on a provisional basis is as good for the employee as it is for the employer - both sides get to assess if it's a good match and the probability of long-term success, retention and job satisfaction increases."

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Monday, December 19, 2011

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Industrial carpet cleaner is really a most useful thing to utilize inside the places of work to wash carpets and rugs. In large traffic areas, in which carpets tend to be densely damaged, cleansing becomes difficult; as a result, most cleaning contractors obtain a commercial carpet cleaner.

Office properties, making use of their countless rectangular feet regarding carpeted location, create special challenges with regard to cleaning companies. Cleansing businesses need to clear carpets within office structures in as little moment as you can to avoid disrupting daily procedures. Inside large visitors areas, exactly where carpets and rugs are usually densely dirty, washing will become even more difficult. Therefore, the majority of companies obtain a business carpet cleaner designed to provide superlative, efficient cleaning with regard to business places for instance office complexes.

Low finish carpet cleaning machines may help you save money in the beginning, but repeated complete breakdowns, damage, and also bad work quality will definitely cost much more in the long run. These types of reduced ability equipment are usually designed for utilize in the home or within more compact places. They can't operate hour or so following hr with no break, because business carpet cleaning needs. Additionally, they're not long lasting adequate in order to stand up to the particular corrosive chemical compounds and grime that a industrial carpet cleaner is subjected to. Consequently, you should look up the actual stock for a supplier that gives commercial carpet cleaner and also select the right item.

Any industrial carpet cleaner has greater strain levels and heat configurations as compared to home equipment, allowing for faster, far better washing. Several brands of business carpet cleaning devices may well achieve temperature ranges as high as 210° Farrenheit. They are able to possess pressure levels different around 500 psi, which is often modified based on the washing specifications.

Just about the most crucial specifications with regard to carpet cleaning products will be continuous functioning. As a result, top end commercial carpet cleaner is fitted together with high ability remedy and recuperation tanks. Several machines possess remedy tanks since big inside capacity as 18 gallons. Also, to avoid the necessity to cease the equipment before the drinking water heats, 2 heating system elements are supplied as opposed to a single, which usually minimizes heating system time to around 5 min's. Many of these floor covering shampooers possess computerized refilling as well as dumping components so that the owner will not wind up throwing away productive time filling up and also draining out fresh and also unclean h2o.

Carpet extractors should be lower movement, it doesn't matter what ailments an individual function below. Although you may in no way confront h2o deficiency, just about all businesses with this dynamics must make use of drinking water moderately. Also, in the event that you are required to just work at the customer's site, you might must be a lot more cautious about water make use of, particularly since wet worksites tend to be seldom treasured. Carpet cleaning that utilize much less h2o assist in more quickly carpet drying, therefore eliminating conditions which lead to mildew as well as bug pests.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Helpful hints on choosing a appliance repair provider Appliance Repair Chicago

Tips on hiring an appliance repair service

1. For almost any options concerning picking a major appliance repair business, receive suggestions firstly various appliance repair companies via men and women whoever opinions people have confidence in, just like your own relatives in addition to good friends who may have received suffers from with hiring appliance repair solutions ahead of
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2. Take into account when it is more cost-effective for you to merely unhealthy the appliance for the brand new one in comparison with to own this remedied by the specialized. Free estimates can even be written by numerous appliance repair chicago
online or higher the product. Doing this, you do not need to publication a proper services require a specialist right away and acquire incurred expensive service fees for just a straightforward repair that one could actually perform yourself. At this stage, you can pre-judge whether you must fix or maybe change the actual faulty product
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3. An additional component that will help to think about whether you need to retain the services of a specialist appliance repair technical assistant may be the normal life span of kitchen appliance. Perform a small online research to find out if your kitchen appliance might be far too older in case mending it will eventually try to be a new spend involving money along with occasion
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4. In certain aged types of dishwashers, washers, along with refrigerators, they will are apt to have an improved good quality in terms of their central pieces compared to existing low-end versions. Globalization has lead to presenting particular tiny parts of several home appliances to become stated in majority in several places on the planet; that offered for the manufacturing connected with affordable, relatively low-quality interior areas. There are many great and also sturdy old-model home appliances that might be really worth solving
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5. A simple react connected with unplugging then plugging returning an electronic appliance can sometimes crystal clear the situation with regard to moderate digital failures on cleaners
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6. Before you locate a expert appliance repair specialist in to the future more than along with conduct the particular restore in your case, you may want to examine the major search engines intended for appliance repair study materials that may illustrate the problem as well as provide frequent do-it-yourself steps. On-line product manuals usually are totally free and might provide you full precisely tips on how to do trivial fixes regarding specific types of home appliances
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7. If you have your knack for it as well as would prefer to perform complex property repairs yourself, you need to act like a professional and put on basic safety glasses along with steel-toed protection shoes. It's also wise practice to help unplug the applying 1st before even thinking about unscrewing whatever. Sharp edges exist on the inside dryers and that means you should be very careful while taking care of 1
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Why you should hire a professional appliance repair service?

Using the services of an expert to perform the appliance repair will keep a person through wasting your time trying out the actual operation of an house appliance you don't understand. Seeking to repair it all on your own may even result to far more injury on your equipment. You can find so many affordable appliance repair solutions getting publicized on the net as well as within the phonebook. It is possible to constantly call the correct one that can correct no matter what malfunctioning kitchen appliance you may have in your house
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There are specific household equipment items which may be much more cost-effective to repair when compared with to switch. Microwaves, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, dryers, stoves, and many others. improve the everyday lifestyles; most of us from time to time even come across convenience by utilizing these individuals. When they obtain damaged as well as are amiss adequately, getting rid of these people instantly for the latest a single may not be monetarily audio. There are so many situations where your not working is incredibly bit of a, in support of some minor changes or simple repairs might make them always be as effective as fresh again
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Specialists which offer house fix products and services can be found on the net or even on the phonebook, as well as many of them are willing to appear above or even talk with a person around the mobile phone to offer totally free quotes about achievable charges pertaining to solving a specific residence product
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What to look for when hiring a professional appliance repair service?

Inquire through loved ones and pals initial intended for suggestions. Those people in whose views people trust are the top cause of info about different house appliance repair services that they have attempted ahead of.

If you work with sometimes an on-line appliance repair forum or perhaps the online advertisement of a commercial appliance repair organization, then you must be sure it affirms “licensed in addition to insured” so that you can make certain you happen to be having the providers at a specialist who has undergone any formal appliance repair training. The particular company’s state licence also needs to become another thing that you need to watch out for. The actual licenses range has to be appropriate and also the insurance policy needs to be updated. Moreover, you need to study about how precisely long that appliance repair corporation has been in business as well as where areas the idea operates; a corporation with a substantial amount of local history tends to be much more reliable because it will go by means of certain measures to help keep their skilled name in the profession. One more important things to prevent disregard whilst searching for the appliance repair service is actually whether or not the business can be stated with important net internet directories just like the yellowish webpages, Google roadmaps, Aol community, and so on. The idea must be shown some time; an exceptionally hidden 1 might just be the inexperienced new venture or a swindle. You should additionally understand that appliance repair chicago
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When you've got lastly determined which appliance repair company to search with, you may inquire pointedly about the label on the tech which will become offering a person and promptly request to speak with your ex primary. At this point, it is recommended that you just request the actual technical assistant the time they has been mending home equipment. Provide the pc professional the important points in the trouble. Produce every one of the indicators and so that she / he can imagine feasible advantages of the applying failure. The particular specialist probably will present many possible leads to for the product trouble possibly prior to the individual possesses the opportunity to occur over to your residence. Finally, obtain the estimate of the fix cost after getting discussed the situation. An established technical assistant is actually eager to offer you a single

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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