Tag: niche
Shout'em lets you create your own private social networks
Here's a really nifty tool for those looking to start their own private social networks away from the masses of Twitter and Facebook users. Shout'em enables users to easily and quickly create their own mobile social networks that are private,…
Niche of the week: Is this your luggage?
Are you a filthy voyeur? When you travel by plane, do you look at other people’s luggage and wish you could see what was inside? Are you envious of the x-ray machine operators?
Well, isthisyourluggage.com has you sorted. It’s a bloke that buys up old unclaimed luggage at auction and photographs its contents. Yes, including the pants. It’s an interesting look into the kind of stuff people take on holiday.
So go have a perve. And if you recognise any of it, then let the site’s creator know – he’s happy to reunite people with their lost luggage.
isthisyourluggage.com
Niche of the week: ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com
This week’s bizarre corner of the web is the This is why you’re fat web site.
Subtitled “where dreams become heart attacks” it showcases “deliciously gross food” in all its saturated, multicoloured glory.
Savour if you will the “deep fried peanut butter-covered brownie wrapped in cookie dough”, “the garbage plate”, “The Romellete”, “The Meat Ship”, “hot beef sundae”, “the bacon explosion” and “baconnaise – everything should taste like bacon”.
Niche of the week: Headset Hotties
Welcome to Niche of the Week, an irregular feature where we highlight the slightly more bizarre corners of the internet. This one looks at models on websites with headsets on, usually promising live support, or customer chat, or something along those lines, called, brilliantly, Headset Hotties.
You can’t deny, this has Gary Cutlack written all over it. Unfortunately I can’t verify whether it’s his work or not, right now. I suspect the former. If you’re not familiar with Mr Cutlack’s modus operandi, then I suggest you go and visit Idiot Toys right now. It’s fantastic.
Headset Hotties (via Instant Rimshot)
More niches: Trukz – a haulage-based MMO | Brokers with hands on their faces
Intel on Netbooks: "it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out."
A few weeks back, AMD slammed the netbook, with CEO Dirk Meyer saying “We’re ignoring the Netbook phenomenon–just thinking about PC form factors above that form factor.” Well, Intel has joined them in decrying netbooks as a fad. Sales and Marketing VP, Stu Pann, said:
“We view the Netbook as mostly incremental to our total available market. If you’ve ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size–it’s fine for an hour. It’s not something you’re going to use day in and day out.”
He’s right, but missing the broader picture. There’s a lot of people out there who don’t use a laptop day in and day out. They have a Desktop PC at work, a Desktop PC at home, and they want something to fill in the gaps in between – when travelling, for example. Netbooks are small, light, and cheap – a perfect fit for this niche.
Netbooks probably don’t deserve the level of rabid attention they currently get, but they’re not that bad. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater…
Intel’s comments (via Cnet)
Related posts: Lenovo promises two new netbooks – S9e and S10e | More netbook competition on its way as Ubuntu embraces ARM processors
Niche of the Week: Brokers with hands on their faces
This is a semi-regular feature we’re starting up from now on, called “Niche of the Week”, where we probe some of the odder corners of the internet. This week, we’ve got the does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin “Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog”. It’s a compendium of pictures of stockbrokers with their hands touching their faces…
