DaaS or Data as a Service is an increasingly use technology for startup companies as well as established ones. It is a cousin and closely related to Software as a Service such as most of the web application that are use today. This is a great negosyo idea to explore since the market is quite large and the cost is scalable. It is mostly use by bundling both the data and the software into a single package and sold as a consumer product over the internet or it can also be an intranet. Known benefits of this type of service is its agility to move quickly due to the simplicity of data access, Cost-effectiveness since its scalable and can be broken down into different layers, data quality which tends to improve because of a single point of updates only. There are hundreds of DaaS vendors on the web with different pricing models. Neil Haboush is one of the expert in data as a service which is base in Canada. One pricing model is volume-base which has two approaches, namely quality-base pricing and the other one is pay per call. Data type base model is another model which charge based on the type of data customers’ needs. In terms of disadvantage of this type of service is the reliance of the customer’s on the ability of the internet service provider to be up always, just like in cloud computing.

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Online reputation for your business nowadays is very important and must not be just taken for granted. The life of your business will be greatly affected when someone make misleading, inaccurate or negative links in your search engine results. It will adversely affect the impression of your business when people will “Google” or search your business online. Unfavorable search engine results can greatly influence how your insurance companies, loan officers, potential clients and business partners. Enter a new kind of service on the web, it’s an online reputation management services that will help you protect your search results and your reputation online. It will monitor and suppress misleading or inaccurate links, protect your business from online attacks, distance yourself from others with your name, increase your online credibility and authority. It offers 3 types of plan depending on your online reputation status. It start for as low as $129 per year to $5,000 per year which is recommended for someone with high-ranking negative content with some popularity and a common name but for someone with not much negative content and with no online presence and little online visibility the lowest plan will do you good already for a start. It also offer the middle plan which is called ReputationDefender 3000 if you want to avail of it.

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A report from New York Times – Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers.

Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.

the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,”. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”

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WikiLeaks is all in the news nowadays and the Philippines was not excempted on its
released of hundreds of thousands of classified documents.The site’s secret-document dumps have spawned contentious political debates, international nail-biting, and near-daily headlines.

In a story in Inc.com, all that buzz has been a boon for small business. Hundreds of online pop-ups have emerged, peddling their Wiki-wares to the site’s band of loyal followers. Many see the site as purely political; others see it as purely profitable.

Since WikiLeaks hit the headlines, vendors have been uploading new Assange- and state-secrets-themed products daily to Zazzle.com, an e-commerce site based in San Jose, California. Products on the site, which is an open marketplace for designers and small businesses, range from the fairly traditional (buttons, T-shirts, sweatshirts) to the downright droll (dog sweaters, onesies, skateboards).

It stands to reason, then, that WikiLeaks-related websites—some legitimate content hubs, some little more than an attempt to generate ad revenue from URL typos—have also been an inevitable product of recent media attention.

“In the past few months, we’ve started seeing an increase in the number of domain names with the word ‘wiki’ and ‘leaks’ in them,” says Adelman. The site, which claims to register a domain name every second of every day is also hosting about 10 auctions right now for WikiLeaks-themed domains, with an average starting bid of around $5,000 each.

Photo by Zazzle

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Attention Philippine Photographers here is a new service that can add new twist to your wedding services. A report from Tampa Tribune in the U.S., that hefty leather-bound, gold-edged wedding photo album is getting some new competition, the iPad.

In addition to offering a traditional album, a growing number of wedding photographers are starting to sell Apple iPad computer tablets, pre-loaded with hundreds of photos and video of the couple’s engagement, wedding and reception – some with lavish digital layouts and multi-media presentations.And the couples are buying them, fast, partly because guys love them.

“If I’m presenting photo packages to a bride and groom, I can tell you when the guy sees that iPad, he sits up, and gets excited for the first time in the whole wedding-planning process,” said Stephen Yanni, a photographer who does weddings across Florida. Since starting to offer iPad albums just two months ago, about half his clients are buying them.

“You may not lug out that 40-page, 30-pound album, except to force the relatives to flip through it on the couch,” Yanni said, “but brides will carry around that iPad wherever they go, and show it to every single person she meets.”

Photographers like Yanni see that as a major marketing opportunity and represent a rapid shift in wedding photography, catering to a thoroughly digital generation of couples who want their pictures on digital photo frames, as their computer wallpaper, on videogame consoles, on cell phone screens – and most importantly, on the bride’s Facebook page.

Photo by Yanman Photography.

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Most of this flash game developers are earning a living out of this little flash games. This is a great negosyo idea in the coming year. Here’s an excerpt from VentureBeat.

About 16 percent of those surveyed make more than $1,000 a month (the survey included 1,104 developers and publishers). The top 1 percent make more than $25,000 a month, according to the survey by Mochi Media.

That means that Flash games are becoming more than a hobbyist market, according to the San Francisco-based company, whose mission is to help Flash developers monetize their games through ads and virtual goods sales.

The numbers of developers making money is a higher percentage than other fields such as blogging or music. The company’s first Flash Games Market Survey is the first comprehensive study of the demographics behind Flash developers.

About a third of Flash developers say they monetize their games in four different ways, including running ads or enabling micro-transactions so that players can buy virtual goods, such as extra weapons or decorative clothing.

About 58 percent use ads wrapped around games; 43 percent use sponsors, and 25 percent get revenue from licensing, ads on web sites and creating custom games for brands.

The industry is relatively young. About two-thirds of developers said they started making games within the last two years, and 75 percent of game publishers started their web site game portals within the last two years, said Ada Chen, product marketing manager at Mochi Media.

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If you are familiar with Twitter, the most popular socia media platform online today. Here is an innovative idea using twitter as his medium. Read these excerpt from Fast Company:

Some Twitter users bemoan the service’s 140-character limit. But to others, the restrictions are a source of inspiration.

And any technology that has the cultural impact of Twitter will inevitably be embraced by artists (if only for the publicity).

Writer Arjun Basu has made a name for himself writing 140 character stories he calls “Twisters.” Basu has gained a relatively large following on Twitter–over 8,000 followers to date–and now, one of his micro-stories has been turned into a micro-movie.

The film is part of Filminute, an annual festival of one-minute-long films that runs until September 30.

Photo by Filminute.

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There are customized bottled water with there name for large establishments already that have large order volume. But another novel idea is to really give it away during fiesta celebrations, sporting events and any other outdoor activities with large crowd of people. The cost will be shouldered thru advertising and this is happening already abroad here is an excerpt from springwise.

Summertime is filled with opportunities for brands to show they care, whether by helping consumers find a place to change at the beach or by giving them a little cooling refreshment during a heat wave.

Targeting the latter option is Soak Media, a UK firm that gives out free bottled water to London commuters courtesy of on-bottle advertising.

Focusing only on the months of July and August, Soak sells advertising space on 330 ml. plastic bottles filled with Buxton water and then hands them out for free to overheated London commuters, who would normally pay GBP 1 or more for such refreshment. Soak’s own staff hands out the bottles from an ice-filled cart, after which time it estimates the bottles spend about 50 minutes in the average consumer’s hands.

The company also does specials including leaflet tip-ons, specially shaped bottles and sampling. Perhaps best of all, however, is that it donates all its profits to charitable causes.

Given the ongoing controversy over plastic water bottles, it’s not entirely clear that such vessels will be the right medium to focus on going forward.

Nevertheless, the last two heat waves saw a 20 percent increase in bottled water consumption, Soak says, so there’s no doubt consumers can use a little extra help staying hydrated.

Photo by Soak Media.

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