In today’s tight economy, it’s more important than ever to seek out the best possible deals on must-have items. Sites like QuiBids give savvy shoppers the opportunity to nab products at ridiculously low prices. Add in the element of fun, and the fact that their “Buy-It-Now” feature means that you can’t ever pay too much – and it means there is simply no reason not to try it out for yourself.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
QuiBids
But the best part of QuiBids may be the “Buy-It-Now” feature. This allows bidders who did not win an auction to still buy the product they want and apply the cost of the bids they placed as a discount on the regular product price. So you still get the item and the bids you placed previously in the auction don’t cost you anything!
Some customers have really made out like bandits on the site. We spoke with Cyril Bennet, a QuiBids customer in Arizona who recalled a recent auction that he participated in, “As I was bidding, my roommate was asking me how the auction was going. At that moment, gazing at the screen, I watched as the timer read, "3… 2… 1…SOLD!" and I won this VIZIO 32 HDTV for $2.60. True story. I’ve really enjoyed using QuiBids…its awesome!"
Some customers have really made out like bandits on the site. We spoke with Cyril Bennet, a QuiBids customer in Arizona who recalled a recent auction that he participated in, “As I was bidding, my roommate was asking me how the auction was going. At that moment, gazing at the screen, I watched as the timer read, "3… 2… 1…SOLD!" and I won this VIZIO 32 HDTV for $2.60. True story. I’ve really enjoyed using QuiBids…its awesome!"
bidders
Savvy bidders have recently been able to buy a brand new Apple Macbook Pro for $23.90, a Nikon D90 Camera for $45.84, and Sony Playstation 3 for $12.32. On average, buyers pay just 25% of retail for items they win in auction on QuiBids.
The auctions are also insanely fun. Each bid costs just 60 cents, and each auction has a strict time limit. When you place your bid, the system adds a little time to the auction to see if any other bids come in. If you have the winning bid when the clock runs out – you win the item for that price. According to QuiBids CEO Matt Beckham, “A huge part of our growth is generated by word of mouth and friends recommending us to their friends – so we must be doing something right.”
The auctions are also insanely fun. Each bid costs just 60 cents, and each auction has a strict time limit. When you place your bid, the system adds a little time to the auction to see if any other bids come in. If you have the winning bid when the clock runs out – you win the item for that price. According to QuiBids CEO Matt Beckham, “A huge part of our growth is generated by word of mouth and friends recommending us to their friends – so we must be doing something right.”
site
One of the most interesting and successful companies offering penny auctions is called QuiBids. This Oklahoma based company auctions off brand new products such as iPads, Macbooks, HDTVs, Digital Cameras, Gaming Consoles, and more for steep discounts, often as much as 85% off their retail price.
So how do they do it? In the case of QuiBids it’s quite simple. You see, whenever a prospective buyer places a bid for an item on QuiBids, the company collects a small fee. This fee is really inconsequential to the bidder, but based on the volume of sales and bids, the company is able to collect a substantial amount. This revenue allows the QuiBids to sell these expensive products to the winning bidders even if their bid is only a tiny fraction of the value of the product.
So how do they do it? In the case of QuiBids it’s quite simple. You see, whenever a prospective buyer places a bid for an item on QuiBids, the company collects a small fee. This fee is really inconsequential to the bidder, but based on the volume of sales and bids, the company is able to collect a substantial amount. This revenue allows the QuiBids to sell these expensive products to the winning bidders even if their bid is only a tiny fraction of the value of the product.
New Auction Sites
Have you ever heard of "Penny Auctions"?
They’re a new online auction model that is becoming hugely popular. Penny auctions allow individuals to do just what the name implies – buy new popular products for just pennies on the dollar.
They’re a new online auction model that is becoming hugely popular. Penny auctions allow individuals to do just what the name implies – buy new popular products for just pennies on the dollar.
web is alive
“The web is alive and well; it’s just different,” Baptiste said. “Why not have your cake and eat it too?”
OnSwipe will be free for personal bloggers and smaller sites, according to Baptiste. The site will work with bigger publishers, but Baptiste plans to generate more income as a media company (e.g. ad sales and revenue sharing) than by selling software as a service.
OnSwipe is hardly alone in envisioning tablets as the ideal device for both publishing and reading.
Earlier in the day, Yahoo announced that it would soon be releasing its tablet publication platform called Livestand. That offering is intended to let publishers create tablet versions of their website — also using HTML5, though those versions will live within the Livestand ecosystem, and be mixed in with Yahoo content on Livestand’s front page.
OnSwipe will be free for personal bloggers and smaller sites, according to Baptiste. The site will work with bigger publishers, but Baptiste plans to generate more income as a media company (e.g. ad sales and revenue sharing) than by selling software as a service.
OnSwipe is hardly alone in envisioning tablets as the ideal device for both publishing and reading.
Earlier in the day, Yahoo announced that it would soon be releasing its tablet publication platform called Livestand. That offering is intended to let publishers create tablet versions of their website — also using HTML5, though those versions will live within the Livestand ecosystem, and be mixed in with Yahoo content on Livestand’s front page.
reason
There is no reason to be doing native apps,” Baptiste told Wired.com in a phone interview. “This isn’t a geeky, open source thing — it’s a publisher point of view that ‘I already have this web traffic, I want to own this experience.’ Publishers should be in control.”
OnSwipe’s five-person team of coders has been able to get HTML5 to do much of the same “crazy stuff” that an app can do, according to Baptiste, even though they are currently limited by some devices that don’t have browsers capable of “acceleration,” which allows a website to call on some of the resources of the user’s computer.
OnSwipe’s five-person team of coders has been able to get HTML5 to do much of the same “crazy stuff” that an app can do, according to Baptiste, even though they are currently limited by some devices that don’t have browsers capable of “acceleration,” which allows a website to call on some of the resources of the user’s computer.
battle
That battle — and the fundamentally different world views the underlying technology supports — is continuing to play out as media companies struggle to make money online, Apple and Google battle over web video formats and app store policies, and users choose sides.
OnSwipe, which is currently signing up beta users, grew out of a project called PadPressed, which turned WordPress-powered sites into swipe-able tablet-friendly websites, which he built because he considers the iPad the “most important consumer device ever.” When he and his co-founder Andres Barreto saw how popular that was, they decided to think bigger.
OnSwipe, which is currently signing up beta users, grew out of a project called PadPressed, which turned WordPress-powered sites into swipe-able tablet-friendly websites, which he built because he considers the iPad the “most important consumer device ever.” When he and his co-founder Andres Barreto saw how popular that was, they decided to think bigger.
move
While the move is in some sense just a good P.R. stunt, Baptiste’s challenge illustrates a deep conflict on the net — apps versus HTML5. Apps close much of their data off from the rest of the web, but can better use the power of chips in mobile devices to create new user experiences. HTML5, the newest version of the web’s lingua franca has only a subset of an app’s interactivity, but remains open to the web, so that pages can be linked, shared, cut-and-pasted, bookmarked and searched for.
Last September, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson declared “The Web Is Dead,” foreseeing the app-ification of the digital world; while Wired.com editor-in-chief rebutted with his prediction “How the Web Wins“.
Last September, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson declared “The Web Is Dead,” foreseeing the app-ification of the digital world; while Wired.com editor-in-chief rebutted with his prediction “How the Web Wins“.
early
“I have an early early prototype of a web version of The Daily sitting in my hands as we speak and it rocks,” Baptiste wrote.
OnSwipe’s model works much like mobile versions of websites do: A publication’s server is set up to recognize when a swipe-enabled touch device such as the iPad is requesting a webpage, and redirects them to a different version of the site hosted by OnSwipe. And that touch-enabled site won’t just be a slightly translated mimicry of a site intended for traditional computers, but will instead feature more interactivity, bigger graphics, and dynamic content from sources such as Twitter, Quora and Flickr, according to Baptiste.
OnSwipe’s model works much like mobile versions of websites do: A publication’s server is set up to recognize when a swipe-enabled touch device such as the iPad is requesting a webpage, and redirects them to a different version of the site hosted by OnSwipe. And that touch-enabled site won’t just be a slightly translated mimicry of a site intended for traditional computers, but will instead feature more interactivity, bigger graphics, and dynamic content from sources such as Twitter, Quora and Flickr, according to Baptiste.
the daily
“Make a version of The Daily that lives in the browser on tablet devices. Provide the same native-like experience of an app and own your user. See which version is the better business after six months,” Baptiste wrote.
Making the test even easier, Baptiste says OnSwipe already built up a rough version for Rupert, since The Daily’s content is also published on the web.
Making the test even easier, Baptiste says OnSwipe already built up a rough version for Rupert, since The Daily’s content is also published on the web.
review
That model requires that users download updates via Apple’s app store and that the content is static. So, for instance, if there’s breaking news that The Daily writers cover, readers won’t get it until the app is updated the next morning.
That makes no sense to Baptiste, who in a Thursday blog post challenged Murdoch to see if a browser-based version wouldn’t be better.
That makes no sense to Baptiste, who in a Thursday blog post challenged Murdoch to see if a browser-based version wouldn’t be better.
Startup Challenges Murdoch’s Daily to Drop the App and Try the Web
OnSwipe, a stealth startup working to allow publishers to make interactive, finger-friendly tablet versions of their online publications, has a few questions for Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily: Why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the web? And why aren’t you using our technology?
OnSwipe, led by entrepreneur and writer Jason Baptiste and backed with $1 million in venture capital, is working on technology that turns any website into an interactive, slide-and-zoom, constantly updated read on a tablet, without the need for readers to download an app as they do with The Daily, Popular Mechanics and even Wired magazine.
OnSwipe, led by entrepreneur and writer Jason Baptiste and backed with $1 million in venture capital, is working on technology that turns any website into an interactive, slide-and-zoom, constantly updated read on a tablet, without the need for readers to download an app as they do with The Daily, Popular Mechanics and even Wired magazine.
episode
“…I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills…or do the laundry…or just have some peace and quiet for a change. Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables. It’s exhausting to put in the effort to make a homecooked meal when all they really want is something from the microwave or the drive-thru. The truth is that today, we have more choices than ever about how we live and eat…but so many of those choices simply aren’t good for our kids. And little by little…sometimes without us even noticing…those choices have started to add up.”
She talked about how at the end of the day, "we have to ask ourselves: what can I do?" to help solve the problem of childhood obesity in a generation.
During her trip, the First Lady also stopped by Burgess-Peterson Elementary School and visited with the students. Check out this Behind the Scenes video of some kindergarteners singing “Apples & Bananas” in honor of the First Lady’s visit and in celebration of the anniversary of the launch of the Lets Move! Initiative:
She talked about how at the end of the day, "we have to ask ourselves: what can I do?" to help solve the problem of childhood obesity in a generation.
During her trip, the First Lady also stopped by Burgess-Peterson Elementary School and visited with the students. Check out this Behind the Scenes video of some kindergarteners singing “Apples & Bananas” in honor of the First Lady’s visit and in celebration of the anniversary of the launch of the Lets Move! Initiative:
Let's Move! Celebrates One Year: First Lady Travels to Georgia to Deliver Remarks and Visit a School
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of Let's Move!, a comprehensive initiative launched by First Lady Michelle Obama that is dedicated to solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.
Before thousands of parents and community and faith leaders in a speech hosted by North Point Community Church and Ray of Hope Christian Church at North Point’s congregation in Alpharetta, Georgia, the First Lady delivered a major address focused on the efforts of the Let’s Move! initiative to meet the needs of parents. Here is an excerpt from the speech discussing being a busy parent and trying to make good choices for our kids:
Before thousands of parents and community and faith leaders in a speech hosted by North Point Community Church and Ray of Hope Christian Church at North Point’s congregation in Alpharetta, Georgia, the First Lady delivered a major address focused on the efforts of the Let’s Move! initiative to meet the needs of parents. Here is an excerpt from the speech discussing being a busy parent and trying to make good choices for our kids:
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