December 5, 2008
Last week I reported gas prices at $1.73/gallon at Irving Oil in New Hampshire and pledged to keep running index of gas prices weekly. Here we offer Week 2 of JeffBennett.Org Gas Price Index. We expand the coverage to include NH, Metro Boston, Metro New York City and Portland OR. JeffBennett.Org is utilizing the MapQuest Gas Tracker to follow prices across these locations and is reporting on the lowest prices available.
Metro Boston
11/30 @ $1.85
12/5 @ $1.69
Drop of 8.7% week over week
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New Hampshire
11/30 @ $1.73
12/5 @ $1.67
Drop of 3.5% week over week
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Metro New York City
11/30 @ $2.00
12/5 @ $1.99
Drop of less than 1% week over week
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Portland OR
11/30 @ $1.75
12/5 @ $1.69
Drop of 3.5% week over week
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All four locations had further declines in Gas prices for this week with the greatest decline of nearly 9% in Metro Boston. We will spot check gas prices again on next week on December 12 for JeffBennett.Org Gas Price Index.
Filed under Gas Price Index
Tags: Gas Price Drop, Irving Oil, JeffBennett.org, JeffBennett.Org Gas Price Index, Mapquest Gas Tracker, Metro Boston, Metro New York City, New Hampshire, Oil Prices, Oregon, Portland
December 3, 2008
Fitchburg High School won their annual grudge match versus Leominster on Thanksgiving Day. One of the oldest rivalries in the country, Fitchburg bested Leominster in their 125th meeting by a score of 20-17 in overtime. This was only the second time in that this game was decided in overtime.
Fitchburg went onto play in the Central Mass Division 1 playoff game last night versus Shrewsbury and the Red Raiders kept their winning ways as they won 33-7 at Arthur I. Hurd Memorial Field in Ashburnham.
Fitchburg now moves onto play Longmeadow on Saturday in the Central-West Division 1 Super Bowl.
Congrats to Coach Ray Cosenza and all of the Fitchburg Red Raiders.
Filed under Good Info To Share, Sports Blog
Tags: Arthur I. Hurd Memorial Field, Ashburnham, Central Mass Playoffs, Fitchburg, Fitchburg Red Raiders, Fitchburg-Leominster Rivalry, Leominster Blue Devils, Ray Cosenza, Shrewsbury, Super Bowl, Turkey Day Rivalries
December 2, 2008
In a story released today in BusinessWeek, Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO, says that the popular news aggregation Web site is focusing on profitability. I would bet that Digg will also move to the acquirer role here as well so that it can deploy some of the $28.5 million it raised from from Highland Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, Omidyar Networkand SVB Capital and this past summer. Digg is great for sharing and also seeing what is hot. Look for more good things on the horizon with this focus.
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Filed under Digital Life, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Good Info To Share, Social Media for Business
Tags: BusinessWeek, DIGG, Greylock Partners, HCP, Highland Capital Partners, Jay Adelson, JeffBennett.org, News Aggregator, Omidyar Network, Online Community, Online Conversation, Online Post, Social Media, SVB Capital
December 1, 2008
Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October. Power.Com wants to be the “dashboard” that we use to interface to one or more social networks.
Power.Com has aggregated over 5 million users in the last year with most of these users outside the U.S. market. Power.Com launched in the U.S. today and got some great press across many outlets including New York Times, CNet, CIO Today, Washington Post, TechCrunch and more.
There have been many services that attempt to do some of the things Power.com is doing such as MyLifeBrand, Spokeo, Loopster, ProfileLinker and others. It will be interesting to keep tabs on how the Power.Com U.S. launch goes. Stay tuned here at JeffBennett.Org.
Power.Com investors include Esther Dyson and Draper Fisher.
Filed under Digital Life, Good Info To Share, News Flash
Tags: CIO Today, CNet, Draper Fisher, eBay, Esther Dyson, FaceBook, FairMarket, JeffBennett.org, Loopster, MyLifeBrand.Com, MySpace, New York Times, Online Community, Power.Com, ProfileLinker, Spokeo, TechCrunch, Washington Post
November 30, 2008
Filled up today and paid $1.73 per gallon for Self-Serve at Irving Oil in NH. This time around I was able to buy the Banana Bread for 89 cents and still got out for under $30. It was a long time ago that happened.
Gas prices are surely dropping like the Red Sox of old in August. Good news as we enter the Winter months.
Many web sites have been tracking gas prices in last year. Check out this cool MapQuest Gas Tracker/Mapper that is tracking prices by location. Another great web site is GasPriceWatch.Com which is built on Google Maps. Both sites allow you to check out prices across the U.S. by location and then you can go buy from the cheapest source.
It will interesting to track this weekly on the JeffBennett.Org Gas Price Index as we go forward to watch pricing fluctuations and also it’s impact on other aspects of the economy.
Filed under Gas Price Index, Good Info To Share, News Flash
Tags: Economy, Gas Prices, GasPriceWatch.Com, Google Maps, Google.Com, Irving Oil, JeffBennett.org, JeffBennett.Org Gas Price Index, Mapquest Gas Tracker, Mapquest.Com, New Hampshire
November 28, 2008
The Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary product for the next generation of book publishing and reading. As an early adopter I can attest that the products functionality is great and the library of titles is expanding rapidly. Some say this is next iPod and I think they are right.
The web has now spawned a social media community of Kindle enthusiasts at KindleBoards.Com. KindleBoards provides a discussion forum for Kindle owners and for people who have interest in or questions about the Kindle. Kindle users have embraced the site and participate actively in its discussion forums. Features of the site include Kindle news, user tips, accessory pictures and reviews, answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), book reviews, and discussion about Amazon’s downloadable books, blogs, newspapers, and magazines.
KindleBoards features an advanced search function, enabling visitors to readily locate discussions of interest. Users can include images and videos in their forum posts. An active team of moderators engages in site discussions, and hosts Kindle-related events in the forums.
The KindleBoards “Link-Maker” function facilitates the posting of clickable book covers in user posts. The resulting discussion threads are populated with colorful icons representing the books being discussed. Those icons may be clicked by readers to immediately access and download books in Amazon Kindle Store.
KindleBoards is an independent, free resource for Kindle enthusiasts. In November 2008, KindleBoards attracted over 500,000 page views with 7,000 unique visitors daily. Not bad for a community that is only twelve months old.
Filed under Digital Life, Good Info To Share, Social Media for Business
Tags: iPod, Amazon.Com, Amazon, JeffBennett.Com, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, KindleBoards, KindleBoards.Com, Book Publishing, Kindle Enthusiasts, Dowload Books, Link-Maker, FAQ Board, Book Reviews, Downloadable Blog, Downloadable Books, Downloadable Newspapers, Downloadable Magazines
