Irehab.com: Let doctors pay to give you health care

The new start-up Irehab.com tries to take a different approach to health care. Patients can get free advice on how to treat specific complaints. By answering a few questions and looking at several 3D animations, these users should be able to diagnose themselves. To treat for instance ‘back pain’ they can follow step-by-step instruction videos [...]

Posted on August 17, 2009 in Other-industries Read more

Nexicon, turning fear into cash

The business concept of Nexicon is quite exceptional. Their monitoring service tracks down IP’s of illegal content distributors on bittorent and other peer-to-peer networks. I suppose that this service towards copyright owners like movie studies and record labels can be bought with a some form of subscription. Once identified Nexicon’s system will automatically send out [...]

Posted on June 29, 2009 in Banking & professional services Read more

Will EA embrace the Free Pirate game Business model – iPhone like?

For years game publishers could rely on the sales of relative expansive game discs to gain their profits. But then together with internet the peer-to-peer networks came up which made it easier for consumers to find cheap alternative solutions to play their most favorite games. After years of fighting against this change in consumers behavior [...]

Posted on June 24, 2009 in Entertainment & tourism Read more

Super Chirp Launches Freemium Twitter Model

Get paid to tweet! Yesterday Super Chirp was launched as a tool for twitter users to get paid for their content stream. The application allows twitter users to send direct messages to people who pay to subscribe. Adding new vocabulary, a ‘chirp’ is a direct message sent via twitter to a paying subscriber. Any twitter [...]

Posted on June 8, 2009 in Internet & media Read more