Virtual Entrepreneur

TheDailyDust.co.uk: A house featured on Grand Designs is to be given away to one lucky Twitterer.The ‘Underground’ house won plaudits when it featured on the TV series in 2007 but has failed to sell due to the detumescent property market, which is why owner Tim Bawtree, 38, hit upon the idea of... More

Sacbee: Local entrepreneur Mark Otero isn’t flirting with success. He’s found it with “Kiss,” a new Internet tool that allows people to search popular Web sites like MySpace or Hi5 and plant virtual smooches on people they like. Otero is the UC Davis business grad who launched... More

Springwise: Roughly 17 million air passengers travel through Paris during the summer, presenting the city’s airports with a significant logistical challenge. To keep tempers cool and spirits high this year, the Aeroports de Paris implemented an unconventional plan: free dance lessons for passengers. Much... More

BusinessWeek: These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses-automotive, design, technology-unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest... More

TIME: Besides his glowing complexion, Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 73-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack 3 years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than... More

Chronicle.com: Youtube phenom ‘Hotforwords‘ raises the ante on the ‘teaching for love’ canard. In the process, she schools us on how teaching really can realize the administration’s dream in the form of the ultimate ‘quality’ process. The 27-year-old Russian philologist... More

DN Journal: Dr. Kevin Ham – everyone in this industry knows the name but only a handful of people really know the man. When you run a domain business that reportedly generates well over $1 million a week from various domain-related ventures and a portfolio of approximately 300,000 names, it is... More

Okay, it’s not easy to name a business, split it up: Kids Exchange. Now make sure you never display your logos like this  Read More →

WSJ: Adriana Serio is into celebrity fashion. She recently got a $28 pair of pink Mary Jane shoes by Robeez after the daughter of actress and former Miss USA Ali Landry was photographed wearing them. Adriana can’t put her enthusiasm into words. She’s only nine months old. But her mother,... More

Wired: Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 – graduate students at the University of Ulster-Belfast – dreamed up the Big Word Project while brainstorming a mass collaboration... More