I’m pleased to announce that the Business Opportunities and Ideas blog has moved from www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk to: www.businessopportunitiesandideas.com If you have the site bookmarked or you link to it, please update your links. Everything should work exactly as before, all usernames and passwords for the blog and forums remain the same and should still work. However as with any move of … Read More

This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. It is a shortened version of a longer post published by the Post Carbon Institute. What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. … Read More

Oil King Warns Of ‘Green Bubble’ It’s Ghawar that is of utmost interest to the industry. The biggest oilfield ever found, it has been producing for five decades, often putting out more than 5 million bpd, a level that Aramco has been able to maintain by injecting millions of barrels a day of water into the field to push up … Read More

According to The New York Times , Facebook is set to introduce location sharing into their arsenal of social networking tricks this April at the F8 conference. I predict that 98% of my Facebook updates will read “My bedroom.” This is unconfirmed, but according to trusted sources, Facebook has been developing this location-based feature in-house for awhile now, tinkering until … Read More

Google’s up to its old tricks again , extending software tentacles in new directions to capture or subvert entire markets: This time it’s aiming at business software by launching Google Apps Marketplace, which does clever cloud-connecting stuff. Digging through Google’s slightly obfuscating explanation in its blog post on the news, it seems that the App Marketplace has been conceived to … Read More

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Gagandeep Singh, who works for Fortepromo. It creates high quality promotional products that help businesses to promote their brands. Are you a frustrated business owner who is looking for an effective way to attract your customers’ attention and promote your brand? This article tells you how you can promote your brand and attract new … Read More

Step aside BEMs (big emerging markets) , and instead, let’s take a look at RDEs (rapidly developing economies) — an important growth engine for many multinationals. Is there a difference between BEMS and RDEs? In my due diligence for this post, I discovered BusinessWeek’s article, ” In Recession, Focus on Emerging Markets ,” and I’m still unclear as to which … Read More

Why would you ever put a skyscraper in the countryside? In the case of Design Crew for Architecture’s Freshwater Factory skyscraper, the idea actually makes sense. The skyscraper, designed for the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition , isn’t meant for human inhabitants. Instead, its series of bubbles are filled with water-filtering mangroves that desalinate seawater without using any electricity. The system … Read More

I t’s not your neighbor who once gave you awful advice on a hot stock tip (you’re no longer on speaking terms, unless you need to borrow a power tool). It’s not one of those “market pros” you read about on CNBC who seemed so sure about this one stock that he called it a no-brainer (you bought the stock … Read More

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. In this article I’m going to share with you my top three tips for keeping everything together, so that you can easily access your client information and know … Read More