If the answer is yes, you should check out Fundable. It's an interesting concept where all you have to do is get a group of people to pledge a minimum amount of money towards your cause/event/gift. When the goal is met, only then are the funds withdrawn from your PayPal-tied accounts. The service charges a modest 5% commission. So, from my calculations, if you budget to receive approximately 10% more than your actual goal, you should be golden.
claimID, I Did
claimID is one of those Web 2.0 applications that may go places or not. It's really hard to say. But I was intrigued by it enough to apply for an invitation and I got it a few minutes ago.
I quickly set up a few links [much more to be done, of course] but I wanted to share my online ID with you all right away.
So here it is 
Yeah, I can be geeky that way.
Logogle
Polaroid-o-nizer
“Shake it, shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture.” – OutKast
Here is to upping the ante on instant gratification. Polaroid as a company may have come and gone [or at least is on its way out like all the other big guns in the industry] but some creative soul has created an online tool called the Polaroid-o-nizer to mimic the look and feel of those instant wonders.
This is what I came up with – a picture I recently shot of my son who just turned 2 … months old!
Blacklisting Spammers, A Friday Ritual
I began last Friday by blacklisting spammers. Well, I actually listed the IP addresses they so liberally use. I have decided to make this a Friday ritual.
“I want you to copy and paste these numbers in your respective ban-lists. This has to be a group effort. Ok? Please help me, help you, help us.”
So here is this Friday's offerings:
68.36.21.58
200.151.121.74
24.42.140.140
80.9.9.44
68.121.87.225
213.113.111.153
24.162.108.100
24.10.7.99
172.198.82.41
193.150.208.145
172.131.63.205
24.57.179.137
68.39.160.197
64.139.81.211
194.129.118.249