In my last blog post, I wrote on svpply.com and how it made shopping for trendier clothes and other items easier by compiling products from many outside sources. Another similar site I found earlier today is uncrate.com. Although there are many similarities between the two sites, there are a lot of differences.

Uncrate is a site tailored to men, and it adds five new products each day to its homepage. Uncrate doesn’t just add anything to its site. It adds products for men interested in adventure and the finer things in life. It ranges from Honda motorcycles to bulletproof polo shirts.

Uncrate has positioned itself as a site appealing to active men interested in high quality products. It’s a great vehicle for any company trying to establish its product with the active, classy man in mind.

Guys, you’re going to love uncrate!

Recently, I was doing some dress shopping for my girlfriend’s birthday, and I couldn’t find a whole lot that I thought she would like. My search was turning into a nightmare. First, I have never shopped for a dress before. Second, every dress I thought looked nice was sold-out. It was funny really. On the rare occasion I found a dress that was nice and in stock, it ended up being out of stock by the time I went to order it the next day. It was as if every girl in the world decided to go dress shopping that week. It definitely wasn’t the most pleasant shopping experience (I have a lot more respect for women.).

After a while, I was tired of sifting through page after page of hideous dresses. Finally, I had a bit of luck. My younger brother informed me of a site called svpply.com. I have never used Pinterest, but from my understanding, they are similar; however, I think Svpply appeals to a trendier crowd. Basically, people add products to Svpply’s database by liking products on outside sites.

Svpply helped me tremendously by narrowing my search results. No longer did I have to view a million dresses designed by someone just starting off in the industry.

There was one drawback to using Svpply: on some occasions, the dress I was interested in was sold-out. Yes, the search results were definitely narrowed down, but some of the products were not available for purchase. However, Svpply was very helpful, and my overall experience was great!

Internet Entrepreneurship at its Best (or Check Out This Cool New Site): Part 1

Feeling overwhelmed by the internet? Did CobbCC1′s post make your head spin? Are you trying to make a significant purchase but feel buried under a mountain of product reviews that all seem to contradict each other? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, try visiting: JustBuyThisOne.

This new site takes into account millions of reviews from Reevoo and condenses them into a single product recommendation for your price range. There are eleven different categories of products, from vacuum cleaners to laptops and each with multiple price ranges. The site is simple to use and easy to navigate. It even includes Room Service which is their guarantee that if you don’t love their recommended product, they’ll take care of returning it, refunding you, and replacing your product with a better one. For free.

It’s a European website so all the price quotes are in pounds but you can easily take the recommended product and plug it in on Amazon to get it in the US of A. So next time you need a new electric kettle, go to this site to help you get the best bang for your buck in the shortest amount of time.

Take a look at the company explained in 60 seconds:

What is this new Policy Shift?

Google recently announced that they are going to be eliminating a significant number of their privacy policies across their different services to make way for a single new privacy policy. This policy states that on March 1 of this year Google will begin integrating information from each of their different web services in order to develop a profile for each user. Google states that these profiles will be used to “tailor” search results and provide advertisements that each user will find more relevant. If you aren’t already worried about this policy, you should be.

Who Should Care and Why?

Just about everyone. Anyone who uses any form of Google web service (i.e. YouTube, Gmail, Google+, and Google’s search engine) and enjoys some level of privacy. The new policy becomes much more frightening in conjunction with the fourth privacy principle of the Google company philosophy:

People have different privacy concerns and needs. To best serve the full range of our users, Google strives to offer them meaningful and fine-grained choices over the use of their personal information. We believe personal information should not be held hostage and we are committed to building products that let users export their personal information to other services. We don’t sell users’ personal information.

This means that as of March 1, any online activity that you perform with some degree anonymity using one of Google’s services will be public knowledge that is associated with your name, your face, and your phone number. This should be particularly off-putting to android phone users whose real-time location, Google Wallet data, and much more will also be available.

The Take-Away Message?

So what can you do? Not much really. There’s no way to opt out of this debacle. If you plan on continuing to use Google’s web services, you’ll simply have to submit to these policies and the fact that all personal information you share or indicate with them being available to anyone who cares enough to know. Ultimately you’ll just need to reevaluate using Google’s services instead of their alternatives. Time to break out the pros & cons charts again!

Ok so you want to start an online business. That’s awesome. But what are you supposed to do??

Of course you’ll need to do all of the annoying paperwork for setting up a business with the government, but we won’t get into that here. What’s next? You have an idea, you have product/service, and you’ve created your company and registered it with the government… but you need something else… A WEBSITE!

Now I realize create a website is a seemingly expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming ordeal. But that’s not true! Sure, you can hire a web developer (like me! email: dabonz413@gmail.com). Although I don’t charge much, if you choose the wrong developer it can cost thousands of dollars! But a start-up online business can’t usually afford that. There’s a better way: WordPress!

WordPress is an online content management system, that anyone can use! It provides a simple, clean, & user-friendly interface for creating your website. There is a learning curve since it’s a new system, but it can be learned and you never have to learn a programming language like HTML.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this article, right here on internet-entrepreneurship.com!

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This company is an internet based job search company which makes jobs available to the public and makes their site available for companies to post jobs.

It also gives in-depth tips to help people apply for jobs including;  10 cover letter don’ts, seven deadly sins for new hires, and behavioral interview tips.

Monster.com also allows you to post your resume on their site where businesses can come to the site and look at them. This could be helpful for someone who is just coming out of college to post their resume and then continue to work on their studies.

They also have a search for people to find their specific community, such as for military, teachers, or fine arts.

Monster.com seems like a great internet resource for people and companies to join together and communicate on what the companies want and allows individuals to pick what companies they want.