mischadehart:

Loaded Antioxidant Berry Smoothie

I absolutely love this smoothie. It has no added sugar and all the antioxidants. Blackberries rank extremely high on the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) scale, so don’t skip out on them! You can make this smoothie with any fruit you like. You can also substitute the rice milk for almond or coconut milk, but I wouldn’t recommend it! (in terms of flavor)

This recipe makes 1 serving.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of blackberries
• 1/2 cup of blueberries
• 2-4 ice cubes depending on size
• 1 1/2 cups of rice milk

Method:

Blend together and enjoy!

This sounds awesome.  I’m going to Harvest Time tonight!

brycedotvc:

This man makes his living providing charges for cell phones (pay by the hour). A reminder that entrepreneurship comes in many shapes and sizes.

When we were planning our New Years Party last year, I thought it would be cool if people at the party could share the pictures they were taking in real-time.  I imagined it would work like this:

1. Take picture with camera phone.
2. Email, MMS, picture text it to some address.
3. Use projector to show slideshow of pictures received.

I hacked this together one afternoon.  The result:

http://bln.kr/static/nye.html

Not bad.  It actually worked pretty well at the party.  For this hack implementation I used:

• Tumblr as datastore.  Tumblr accepts pictures sent to an email address, so I just made a slide with instructions and the input email address display every 10 slides.  You can see the slideshow as a blog here: http://nyepic.tumblr.com/
• The awesome jQuery cycle plugin

The whole thing is just one static HTML page, and you can view source of the page to see my entire hack javascript.

The business idea here is to create a real service out of it.  This prototype was very well received and people seemed to love interacting and being on the big screen.  I’ve thought of at least ten ways you could charge for this service.  Charge per event (4 hour period), charge for a certain amount of photos, charge to import directly to Facebook, etc.  I suppose this could work with Eye-Fi too…

Thoughts on technical implementation: I think Lamson would fit well here for receiving the emails/mms/picture texts.  I downloaded it and poked around the code.  Pretty exciting project.

This is a simple idea that I’ve already seen TJ Chapman begin to develop.

• start a live UStream
• have people send you links to their music
• review it live
• charge $25 to skip the line and get reviewed next

Yes, this is similar to payola, but as long as you are transparent about the cost and benefit I see no problem.  It is akin to “leveling up” in social games like Farmville.

I love that TJ Chapman is developing this on his own by utilizing 3 free services:

• UStream for live video
• Our company bln.kr for social music hosting
• PayPal for taking payments

He has a set schedule for review shows, every Monday and Thusday, and that is critical. Last Thursday he had around 650 people tuned in.  You can see past shows here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tjsdjs

The challenge for anyone else wanting to become a live music reviewer is building an audience.  TJ has been in the music industry, and has a modest following on Twitter.  Luckily for the aspiring reviewer there is an abundance of independent musicians who want to get their music heard and are hungry for feedback.  Although, the reviewer must have a perceived value offering for the artists.  Either large listening audience or music industry affiliations or something that has the potential to further the artists career.

You could also move upstream and create a service which combines the APIs of UStream, bln.kr and PayPal and charge reviewers a monthly fee, or takes a percentage of their income.

This is not a home-run and retire idea, but more of a fruitful passion play.