The Zpen by Dane-Elec is a revolutionary new input device that captures your handwriting, your drawings, etc… and lets you transfer these into your computer. In fact, Zpen is a two-pieces device: a pen and a receiver with OCR capability. It has 1 gb memory to store your pen strokes.

As we mentioned before in our ‘Use An Idea Journal – Protect Your Creative Ideas Forever‘ post; an idea journal is a must not to forget your randomly generated creative ideas. If you use an idea journal in a handwritten format and have a very good habbit to transfer them into your computer; the Zpen can help you in this process. With its OCR capability, the Zpen receiver transforms your handwriting to your word processor’s format and your drawings are included into this action, too. After your handwritten notes transferred to your computer, you’ll have the ability to organize and search your ideas in a digital form and protect them more easily. It’s small enough to carry in your pocket, so you can use the Zpen as an Effective Idea Journaling Tool, because of these keys:
1- It’s available when you need it to use,
2- It’s easy to use and protect,
3- It lets you organize your ideas easily.

We recommend you to use Zpen as an effective idea journaling tool.

TranslateIN.com is new web application to help you translate a word or a phrase from one of 34 avalaible languages to the remaining 33 of them.  It has a very simple interface for translation and powered by Google Language Ajax API. A mobile version of TranslateIN will be available soon.

In the video below this post, Google’s CEO Eric SCHMIDT discusses  Google’s ‘Clean Energy 2030′ project. But firstly, i’ll talk about what ‘Clean Energy 2030′ is.

Google continues to invest on our Earth’s future.  They have had 2 energy projects, RE<C and RechargeIT we have mentioned before. ‘Clean Energy 2030′ is Google’s new project about  using Clean Energy and reducing CO₂ emissions. The Energy Team at Google has analysed how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030

To  the Energy Team at Google, we need immediate action on three fronts:

(1) Reduce demand by doing more with less = More Energy Efficiency

(2) Develop renewable energy that is cheaper than coal = RE<C = Solar, wind, geothermal and others…

(3) Electrify transportation and re-invent our electric grid = Plug-in cars, mass transportation and new electric transmision lines with less loss.

The cost of the Clean Energy 2030 proposal is about $4.4 trillion and savings are even greater ($5.4 trillion), returning a net savings of $1.0 trillion over the 22-year life of the plan.

You can read full article at this official google blog post.

If it’s not available, you can watch the full video here.

Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0 Wiki.

Web 1.0 was about web pages linking to web pages. Web 2.0 is a transform, web pages to web applications.  The next generation of the web is Web 3.0 – the semantic web.

The Web 3.0 will be mashups of applications with artificial intelligence. The control of the Internet will go out off our hands and the web itself will control the Internet.

The Web 3.0 Expo will be at October 16-17 in Santa Clara, CA. At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo; the strategies, tools, technologies and the big ideas necessary for building impactful, socially relevant, and profitable Web 3.0 products, services and companies will be explored. Featured sessions include:

• Monetization Implications of Web 3.0 (Semantic Advertising, etc.)
• Raising Capital For Next Generation Companies
• Semantic Search Technologies
• From Web 2.0 to 3.0 – Tales from the Trenches
• Business Risks of Web 3.0 …

The second post of our “Business Development Series” is about the definition of “business plan“. A business plan is a document that has a summary of the operational and financial objectives of a business. It contains the budget and the operations needed.

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals. Wikipedia

Many people think that a business plan is only to secure an external funding.  A business plan helps you about to secure an external funding, but it has many other benefits, too. A well-developed business plan can help you as a powerful management tool. A good business plan will provide you step-by-step instructions on how to transform your business idea into a profitable business.

When? Once you’ve conducted your business idea into the feasibility of a new business, then you’re ready to wirte a business plan.

Why? Preparing a good business plan is painful, but planning process forces entrepreneurs to understand more clearly what they want to achieve and how and when they can do it. It helps you structure the financial side of your new business and it’s also a requirement when you’re seeking finance froım external resources. A business plan works as a measure of  your new business’ success. Briefly, a business plan answers “what for?” and “how to?” questions for your business idea…
Next in series “What is the content of a business plan? – Business Development Series – 3″