For-fee anonymizing proxy service.
Stability, speed, versatility of websites, security, cost.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Simple Lists
Create website to host people's simple lists such as grocery store shopping lists or collector wish lists. Make it mobile accessible for use while shopping.
Pay per click ads.
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Lists with social collaboration:
TicTacDo Community is a free social productivity service, combining for the first time in the web industry ready-to-use checklists with collaboration features. Be it for every-day activities, for fun or in the workplace, TicTacDo's take care of the planning, enabling you to take action, engage peers instantly, set due dates, outsource to-do's, share comments, and much more.
Surprisingly long feature list.
Pay per click ads.
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Lists with social collaboration:
TicTacDo Community is a free social productivity service, combining for the first time in the web industry ready-to-use checklists with collaboration features. Be it for every-day activities, for fun or in the workplace, TicTacDo's take care of the planning, enabling you to take action, engage peers instantly, set due dates, outsource to-do's, share comments, and much more.
Surprisingly long feature list.
Create Value From New Coins
Collectors pay a premium for coins that are graded perfect (MS70).
Formula: buy coins; submit to grading company; profit.
This coin sold for $70.01. It does have a special type attribution.
Formula: buy coins; submit to grading company; profit.
This coin sold for $70.01. It does have a special type attribution.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
CLEC To Capture USF
Find under-served communities and install POTS over broadband to provide both POTS and broadband. May be provided with wires/fiber/or licensed Wi-Max.
Rural telco serves 17 people, rakes in $300K
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201102
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday to begin work on a blueprint for transforming a subsidy program called the Universal Service Fund to pay for broadband.
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201109
USDA Community Connect Grant program.
http://ruralcommunitybuilding.fb.org/2011/03/08/usda-community-connect-grants-2011
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/utp_commconnect.html
http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/community-connect
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If USF expands into broadband (instead of abolishing USF), there will be a surge of telecom activity to capture the funding.
October 06, 2011
Rural telco serves 17 people, rakes in $300K
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201102
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday to begin work on a blueprint for transforming a subsidy program called the Universal Service Fund to pay for broadband.
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201109
USDA Community Connect Grant program.
http://ruralcommunitybuilding.fb.org/2011/03/08/usda-community-connect-grants-2011
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/utp_commconnect.html
http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/community-connect
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If USF expands into broadband (instead of abolishing USF), there will be a surge of telecom activity to capture the funding.
October 06, 2011
U.S. regulators proposed overhauling an $8 billion phone subsidy program for landline service to help fund a nationwide expansion of high-speed Internet. ... In 2010, the program paid $4.3 billion to carriers doing business in high-cost areas ...
Changes to so-called intercarrier connection fees “will result in significant consumer benefits,” Genachowski said. “Consumers can expect reduced costs, better value for their money, or both.”
A coalition of telephone companies led by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. in July asked the FCC to reduce those fees, which can amount to as much as $8 billion annually. ...
The FCC’s push to overhaul the USF program may leave “mom and-pop” telephone providers behind ...
Small phone companies would likely stop offering service and be unable to afford the investment needed to become broadband providers. ...
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Tea Cures
Morning sickness? There's a tea for that
In my first trimester, I was fortunate enough to have a fairly easy time with morning sickness - most of it went away when I ate breakfast - but peppermint tea also would have helped, I was told.
After discussing digestive issues with my obstetrician-gynaecologist, she wrote me a prescription, but told me to try fennel tea, or Fencheltee, first. I have yet to fill the prescription and will probably stick to the tea.
Against the leg cramps that I'm waiting to start any day now, I'm to drink chamomile tea, or Kamillentee. To combat the increased mucous my body produces (“A totally normal thing,” says my doctor), I drink the occasional cup of thyme tea, or Thymiantee.
There is even an herbal tea mixed specifically for pregnant women, appropriately called Schwangerschaftstee, or “pregnancy tea.” I got my leafy mixture at my local Apotheke.
The blend varies and most pharmacies work with midwives to make their mix, but almost all agree they should have Alchemella or Lady's Mantle (Frauenmantel), lemon balm (Zitronen Melisse), nettle (Brennnesseln) and raspberry plant leaves (Himbeerblätter). The first two ingredients are meant to calm and relax while stabilising the influx of hormones in the body. Nettles help the body build up the extra 30 percent blood flow it needs to support the work of growing a baby. The raspberry leaves are the most important. They contain vitamin C, important for boosting my weakened immune system, and calcium and iron to boost the baby's growing bones.
After Baby, I'll have to stop drinking peppermint tea, as midwives say it hinders milk production, and switch to a blend of breastfeeding tea (Stilltee), made of fennel, caraway, anise and fenugreek. According to my experienced mom friends, it's delicious.
In my first trimester, I was fortunate enough to have a fairly easy time with morning sickness - most of it went away when I ate breakfast - but peppermint tea also would have helped, I was told.
After discussing digestive issues with my obstetrician-gynaecologist, she wrote me a prescription, but told me to try fennel tea, or Fencheltee, first. I have yet to fill the prescription and will probably stick to the tea.
Against the leg cramps that I'm waiting to start any day now, I'm to drink chamomile tea, or Kamillentee. To combat the increased mucous my body produces (“A totally normal thing,” says my doctor), I drink the occasional cup of thyme tea, or Thymiantee.
There is even an herbal tea mixed specifically for pregnant women, appropriately called Schwangerschaftstee, or “pregnancy tea.” I got my leafy mixture at my local Apotheke.
The blend varies and most pharmacies work with midwives to make their mix, but almost all agree they should have Alchemella or Lady's Mantle (Frauenmantel), lemon balm (Zitronen Melisse), nettle (Brennnesseln) and raspberry plant leaves (Himbeerblätter). The first two ingredients are meant to calm and relax while stabilising the influx of hormones in the body. Nettles help the body build up the extra 30 percent blood flow it needs to support the work of growing a baby. The raspberry leaves are the most important. They contain vitamin C, important for boosting my weakened immune system, and calcium and iron to boost the baby's growing bones.
After Baby, I'll have to stop drinking peppermint tea, as midwives say it hinders milk production, and switch to a blend of breastfeeding tea (Stilltee), made of fennel, caraway, anise and fenugreek. According to my experienced mom friends, it's delicious.
Website To Generate 1099s
2010 health care bill supposedly requires 1099 for more than $600 per year.
Create website that will generate PDF of 1099s that people can print to send to their cable/phone/water/internet providers. Maybe even fuel purchases and grocery store purchases.
Use fonts that are difficult to scan.
Allow easy printout with optional mailing label printout.
Consider hooks into state secretary of state filings for the business to get the official business name and address - so it matches for tax purposes.
Put ads on the site.
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IRS Code of 1986
TITLE 26, Subtitle F, Chapter 61, Subchapter A, PART III, Subpart B
§ 6041. Information at source
(a) Payments of $600 or more
All persons engaged in a trade or business and making payment in the course of such trade or business to another person, of rent, salaries, wages, amounts in consideration of property, premiums, annuities, compensations, remunerations, emoluments, gross proceeds, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits, and income (other than payments to which section 6042 (a)(1), 6044 (a)(1), 6047 (e),6049 (a), or 6050N (a) applies, and other than payments with respect to which a statement is required under the authority of section 6042 (a)(2), 6044 (a)(2), or6045), of $600 or more in any taxable year, or, in the case of such payments made by the United States, the officers or employees of the United States having information as to such payments and required to make returns in regard thereto by the regulations hereinafter provided for, shall render a true and accurate return to the Secretary, under such regulations and in such form and manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary, setting forth the amount of such gross proceeds, gains, profits, and income, and the name and address of the recipient of such payment.
Create website that will generate PDF of 1099s that people can print to send to their cable/phone/water/internet providers. Maybe even fuel purchases and grocery store purchases.
Use fonts that are difficult to scan.
Allow easy printout with optional mailing label printout.
Consider hooks into state secretary of state filings for the business to get the official business name and address - so it matches for tax purposes.
Put ads on the site.
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IRS Code of 1986
TITLE 26, Subtitle F, Chapter 61, Subchapter A, PART III, Subpart B
§ 6041. Information at source
(a) Payments of $600 or more
All persons engaged in a trade or business and making payment in the course of such trade or business to another person, of rent, salaries, wages, amounts in consideration of property, premiums, annuities, compensations, remunerations, emoluments, gross proceeds, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits, and income (other than payments to which section 6042 (a)(1), 6044 (a)(1), 6047 (e),6049 (a), or 6050N (a) applies, and other than payments with respect to which a statement is required under the authority of section 6042 (a)(2), 6044 (a)(2), or6045), of $600 or more in any taxable year, or, in the case of such payments made by the United States, the officers or employees of the United States having information as to such payments and required to make returns in regard thereto by the regulations hereinafter provided for, shall render a true and accurate return to the Secretary, under such regulations and in such form and manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary, setting forth the amount of such gross proceeds, gains, profits, and income, and the name and address of the recipient of such payment.
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