Authored by Networking Guru Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz, Never Eat Alone is a great treatise on the positive side of networking. With well articulated mantras and good implementation examples, anyone interested in success should put this on their must read list.

The folks over at trans|alpin are using a material called wood.e to invisibly pipe power through furniture. Let’s ignore the weirdness of electricity piping around your body and imagine combining this powerful wood with some inductive charging technology from the folks over at splashpower. Instant charging of your favorite portable device as it sits on your desk. The killer app.

Investment Instruments has recently released its first service for rental property owners and managers to help them market their properties online for rent and for sale. The service is free and can be found at iiProperty.com

The owner or manager follows a few simple steps to enter in basic information about their property and is then given a website that they can use to help them in their marketing efforts. I use the service and post my links on a local craigslist.org. It works great!

As my friends know, I’m a big fan of Jotspot and other wiki’s as collaborative editing environments, so I’m happy to see that Jotspot is powering the collaborative update of Lawrence Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. You too could participate in the rewrite and become an author.

Next, I’d like to see a collaborative coding effort to finally solve the contact management and calendaring problems that have been plaguing humanity since before the dawn of computers. Perhaps we need to start developing the solution in a wikiesque way. Rampant edits, approved nightly, sounds like fun. I wonder if I can convince JotSpot to include gcc in their wiki.

I don’t think that composting could get any easier. Follow the links below for more info:

Treehugger blog product summary

Naturemill Low-energy Indoor Composter (company website)