SmartyPig Is an Online Savings Account for Single-Shot Savings Goals

Posted by Kyle Cameron Studstill

 
 

If you need a new laptop, or should really start saving for your wedding or anything else, try SmartyPig. It's a legit online savings account, but it's focused on motivating you to save for your big purchase or event.

SmartyPig's accounts are FDIC-insured and offer a fairly competitive 1.75 percent APY (at the moment), but they're set up a bit differently than your standard account. You make an initial deposit of at least $25, then choose which accounts to draw from on a regular basis. You can then share your savings goals through Facebook, Twitter, or a group email, and those people who have long, long since told you to get a new car can contribute. In other words, it might just stave off nice but useless birthday gifts in favor of real progress.

When it comes time to draw out your money, SmartyPig also offers cash bonuses if you go through Amazon, Travelocity, or its other purchase partners. If nothing else, SmartyPig isn't in the same online bucket as your banking, so it's a semi-hidden space to stash away money a little at a time.

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mob reading

Posted by Kyle Cameron Studstill

 
 

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Copia tells us it is the first social eReading experience designed so you can discover, connect and share what’s meaningful. Michael Wolf at Gigaom.com has a round-up of projects arriving now to turn the trendy eBooks into social experiences. Here are some of Wolf’s thoughts:

. . . I think this is only the beginning as book platforms will integrate more social e-book elements over time. Some potential social features we’ll likely see in e-books include multimedia annotations from your own social network, crowdsourced wikis linked within the book (to provide context and information around book elements), and in-book, location-based information about current and past readers of the books and their social commenting and interaction.

I also predict many will resist the social e-book. Book reading in particular tends to be a solitary exercise, and I can see a passionate resistance to what some will view as an invasion of what I call the social smog to their e-book paradise. Not only that, but chances are, many poor early implementations of social e-books may turn some off to the idea, as seems to have been the case with some early social TV implementations.

That said, there’s no doubt that more people will eventually embrace social reading. The college market will see the most enthusiastic early adoption, as social-media-savvy students look to collaborate, comment and even chat within their books as a way to help them engage more with the text and with their classmates. . . .

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I Move You - microfitness built on expected reciprocity

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The influence friends have over each other is ridiculously powerful—more than 50% of challenges get completed by both friends, even more if you're persistent! Let's use this opportunity to make each others' lives better (or at least more fun).
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Peer-to-peer recruiting, with prizes for referrals - Springwise

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It's been a while since we've come across a new referral-based job site, but recently we stumbled upon evidence that the idea still has merit. Connecticut-based JobPrize is an online referral network that allows job seekers to pay corporate employees who have the right connections to help them land a job.

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reminds me of the online dating concepts where friends refer/write the single's profile

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