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EVO announced that evo.com is open for business to provide shoppers with the widest selection of green gift items on the web. EVO has prescreened millions of products for their green attributes and only offers products for sale on evo.com that earn an EVO rating of one to five leaves. EVO has partnered with Trees for the Future to plant a tree in the name of everyone who joins the evo.com community, and has pledged to plant at least 100,000 trees this holiday season.

In addition to toys, evo.com features gift baskets, clothing, jewelry, bath and body products, food, home accessories, gadgets, and even eco-travel packages, cars and solar energy products. Retailers offering products and services on evo.com range from specialty brands to large retail giants and include American Apparel, Baby Center, Burt’s Bees, Comet Skateboards, Eileen Fisher, GE, Hanna Anderson, HP, Home Depot, Macy’s, Method, No Sweat Apparel, Nordstrom, Patagonia, REI, Target, Toys “R” Us, Toyota, Under The Canopy, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Viva Terra, and more than a thousand other sellers.

EVO, the world’s largest green shopping destination, provides consumers with easy access to better green information, products and services. EVO’s founders envision a community of millions of people all voting with their dollars to increase demand for eco-friendly products and services. The company’s ultimate mission, developed over three years with significant input from green thought leaders, is to leverage the power of business as a tool for social and environmental change.

Technically Speaking, if you haven’t figured out by now that GREEN is where we are all headed, you need to wake up and smell the organic coffee. OR you missed the Google Green announcement post.

Digital Ca$h has been the rage since the internet took off in the mid-1990’s. The only problem is that no one has been able to capitalize on the idea of making digital cash work. It is being reported that they are testing this in London with a Nokia cell phone. The idea sounds great, but in the same token I believe they need to ramp up the base of the test.

I feel it’s beyond time for digital cash to really take off. I for one hardly ever carry cash on me; the real dollar bill that is worth less and less as the minutes tick by. More often than not, if they don’t swipe a card, I don’t bother being a customer at said establishment. In the past few months there has only been one place where I went to that didn’t take a card. The only reason I stayed and bought drinks was because it was a good bud of mine in town from Chicago for one night only!

Now the difference between swiping my card and swiping a cell phone is pretty non-existent to me personally. I think that we have had the technology for years and we should start to retire the monetary system that isn’t working.

Digital money is an idea which has been a long time coming to fruition. In the 1990s the Mondex electronic cash system was tried out in Swindon but failed to win sufficient interest or trust from customers or retailers.

The reason I think this test needs to go into a bigger scale is that they figured out that it’s not only money you are carrying, but information that you need to work, play, and keep connected.

The phones will double as a travel pass and wallet that can be used to make small value payments.

Social interaction or social networking is what stopped it from taking off in the 1990’s. The only social network was the bbs system that many of us remember. Now with the advancement of bandwidth to speeds that you could have only dreamed of when you were dialed up on that blazing fast 14.4 modem, the reality is here today where digital cash should take the stage for good.

Technically Speaking, if you believe in the current monetary dollars vs euros, than you must also be one that could be classified as cheap and frugal!

Shopnik let’s you search and compare items in an intuitive, easy to understand graphical environment. With its sleek, superfast interface featuring product aimed at informed buyers 25-40 seeking the top tiers of technology and performance, Shopnik streamlines the process of finding the product you want with the features you need both quickly and at the best possible price.

With its advanced shopping model, Shopnik lets tech-savvy users plug in a specific set of features, technical specifications and a price range to rapidly hone in on the products they seek. Beautiful multi-angled product shots, in-depth feature and spec sections and a smart comparator that includes the ability to save and store your product homework all combine for a fast, easy, specifics-driven shopping engine found nowhere else online. The site features LCD screens, Laptop Computers, GPS Systems and
Digital Cameras, and dream cars.

Technically Speaking, I’m really cheap and frugal except when it comes to looking at the possibilities of picking a flat screen in the near future. No idea why, I don’t watch much TV; guess I just want one? makeup mirrors

I Love Rewards Inc., one of North America’s leading web based reward program providers, today announced that it has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing round with JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital and other angel investors.

I Love Rewards develops innovative web-based reward solutions for small and medium- sized businesses and Fortune 1000 companies. JLA Ventures is one of Canada’s leading venture capital firms that invests in growth companies that are focused on the Internet, digital media, e-commerce, communications security, mobile computing, and enterprise software companies.

Technically Speaking, I find it quite interesting that web sites and businesses that I have never heard of are making good money. $3.3 million is a good round, and proves that the web economy isn’t slowing down at this time. top diet pills

Jangl, Inc., the company connecting millions of online profiles and mobile phones, safely and privately, today debuted a major upgrade to its free service, enabling a text messaging capability that cleverly connects mobile handsets and personal computers for free SMS.

Together with its current service, today’s launch means that Jangl customers can now:

Be private: By talking, exchanging voicemails, and now swapping text messages — on any phone or personal computer — without ever sharing their private phone number;

Save money: By eliminating some text messaging fees and drastically reducing most long distance calling charges, and;

Stay connected: With anyone, anywhere, with or without your phone, easily adding friends to your Jangl network and choosing when and how they can connect with you.

In offering its new text message-enabled service, Jangl taps a huge market. According to leading technology analyst firm Gartner, about 936 billion SMS messages were sent worldwide in 2005, and that number will approach 2.3 trillion in 2010.1 Nearly all new mobile phones available today are SMS-enabled, according to CTIA.2

The addition of SMS capability reaffirms Jangl as the leader in bridging the web and the phone by broadening the company’s offering beyond voice and voicemail, and — when combined with other features recently released — strengthens Jangl’s value proposition for mobile consumers with active lifestyles on the social web. Jangl’s technology already connects 40+ million online profiles with mobile devices due to its customized, in-context service integrations with some of the web’s top social networking and online personals sites.

Jangl today also debuts a way to instantly get Jangl phone numbers for your email contacts, including those from Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, and Hotmail.

Jangl™ is the social communications leader connecting phones and online identities for millions who socialize, share and create online. In 2007, Jangl and telephony platform leader JAJAH entered into a strategic partnership to collaborate on new services and business projects in the future. Jangl’s investors include Cardinal Venture Capital, Labrador Ventures and Storm Ventures, which together have invested $9 million. Jangl is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Technically Speaking, I think the partnership between Jangle and Jajah was a very good strategic move on both companies part.