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Go Back to College and DesignYourDorm

Summer break is over. Time to pack up your recent high school graduate into the car and take them off to college. Moving into a dorm for the first time you may not be quite sure what to expect or how your want to arrange your stuff. The DesignYourDorm.com website helps you get your stuff together.

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DesignYourDorm is more than just a space organization site though. Colleges and universities can upload their residential floor plans to the site so students will now how to plan their room decor. The site even lets roommates work on putting their rooms together so things aren’t duplicated.

Once you design your room with what you want you can purchase the items online and have them shipping directly to the school. That would have really come in handy when I was a new college student. Of course when I was a student, I doubt you could have purchased milk crates, some cedar wood panels and carpet remnants online.

Visit DesignYourDorm and get your feng-shui on with your new dorm decor. Make a statement for yourself and be sure and get everything you need to get all that studying done. Remember, you’re not paying $20,000/yr to party and get a date. You’re there for a piece of paper at the end of those four years!

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What Will Be the Next to Die

An interested question was presented to an audience I was in this past weekend. If you could predict what the technology landscape will look like in five years, what players won’t be here? If you could go back five years and have guessed, would you have been right today?

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In my lifetime the things that come to the top of my mind of having died would be the following:

  • vinyl records
  • cassettes
  • 8-tracks
  • beta max
  • VCR
  • floppy disks

If I were to guess about some other items that won’t be here in five years I’d add landline phones. I think incandescent bulbs will probably go away along with places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.

The challenge these days with all of these changes is the persistence of the market that’s available through Chris Anderson’s Long Tail. These days I can’t really imagine anything completely dying, but easily getting out of general availability and usage.

With regards to online use. Will email be around? Or will it be replaced with services like Google Wave? Will services like Facebook still be around, or will the next bigger, better deal replace it? I know I sure hope MySpace goes away for good. Will we at some point decide that twitter‘s 140 characters is just too much to take in and we’ll drop to some service that allows us to update everyone with one word poetry?

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Get In the Game with Flopshots

The cold hard truth is that a tiny fraction of the population will ever be a professional athlete and see their name in lights. That doesn’t stop the rest of us for being crazy, die-hard fans when it comes to supporting our favorite teams.

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The Flopshots site lets you add your name to a variety of sports related shots with your favorite team. You can have your name on the back of a jersey, see your name written in the sky or even have it trailing behind the flame carried by the Florida State Seminoles’ warrior! Perhaps you’d rather have the cheerleaders calling you out by name instead. You can even get your name on the leaderboard at a few PGA tour events as well.

Flopshots gives you the ability to add your name dynamically to a variety of photos and then generate high quality prints, photos, posters and even computer and mobile device skins.

Just visit the Flopshots website and find the image you want to use for your favorite team or sporting event. Enter your name the way you’d like for it to appear and checkout. That’s it!

Here’s an example of one I created for me. Not a Seminole’s fan, but they don’t have the Ohio State Buckeyes or Kentucky Wildcats yet.

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Get off the bench and get into the game with Flopshots!