The iPhone Shutter Grip

Photojojo always comes out with some new and inventive accessories, add-ons and inventions for photographers. Now they’ve come up with The iPhone Shutter Grip that will make your iPhone feel like an SLR. The grip turns your iPhone into a familiar camera with photo and video buttons right where you’re used to them being, instead of having to be tap-happy.

Sold for $40, The iPhone Shutter Grip turns your phone into a hand-held camera by “connecting to the charging slot and hugging the sides of your iPhone for a secure hold. (It’ll even adjust to fit over your case!)” The phone add-on even lets you shoot pictures during mid-shoot of a video by tapping the shutting button to capture every moment ant every instance.

If you need an iPhone shutter Grip, you can get one over at the Photojojo store.

Stop Motion LEGO Super Hero App

The marketing geniuses at LEGO have partnered up with Warner Brothers Consumer Products/DC Entertainment to bring us a LEGO DC Super Heroes Movie Maker App.

Available for free at the Apple iTunes store, users can grab their favorite LEGO superhero and develop a stop motion crime-fighting movie. Check out the video above to see the amazing ideas that can be created with the kid friendly app that everyone of any age will love.

This fun, kid-friendly app brings the whole family together to create a LEGO stop motion movie on the iPhone. Simple tools and guides make it easy to shoot, edit, even score your movie with music. Add one of the customizable title cards and share it online and who knows, you may have the next summer blockbuster in your hands…literally! Features:

• Add & delete frames to your movie
• Choose from 5 different soundtracks
• Add a color filter to the camera
• Customize one of 11 different title LEGO Super Heroes cards
• Save your movie to your camera roll then share with your friends

Diagramly Lets You Draw Diagrams Online

Diagramly is an amazing online tool to do diagrams and drawings for almost anything. Built with a multitude of shapes and tools the free to use application lets you create quickly and easily. We’ve tested a few online flowchart applications, but Diagramly trumps them with its simple, quick and intuitive interface to let you create diagram drawings of your choice.

Diagramly is a free online diagram drawing application. You can use it to create UML, entity relationship, org charts, BPMN and BPM, database schema and networks. Also possible are telecommunication network, workflow, flowcharts, maps overlays and GIS, electronic circuit and social network diagrams. It’s like a mini version of Visio in your browser.

You can export your diagram in our raw XML format, PNG or JPG, or as SVG and later re-load your saved XML.

Head over to Diagramly and start experimenting with what you can create.

Groupon to Google: Keep Your $6B

(NEWSER) – Valued at a mere $1.3 billion in April, Groupon last night walked away from Google and its rumored purchase offer of between $5 billion and $6 billion, opting instead to remain independent, sources tell the Chicago Tribune. Neither Groupon nor Google would comment, but insiders say that the 2-year-old tech star may still pursue an IPO, but that it wouldn't make that decision until 2011.

New Startup: Facebook App – SwapSquare

Facebook may just be the undoing of the traditional internet as we know it. Barter is even moving in the direction of an app on Facebook. And with 500+ million users, Facebook has the user base to perhaps pull it off. This app is much like any of the other swap sites we’ve seen so far, nothing revolutionary. Just add what you have and what you want to trade for and hopefully work out something direct. Check it out for yourself at http://apps.facebook.com/swapsquare/

Starting an Online Business:

The only tough part about getting started is that you need an idea! To help with that realize you need to be involved in something you enjoy, otherwise you won't be able to stick with it through the initial slow times.
Use the checklist below to create a plan of action for yourself and then click the titles for more details as this guide will take you step by step to help you get your Internet Startup off the ground!:

1. Brainstorm: Come up with an idea for your site, will it be strictly content based or will you focus on selling products or services. Maybe even a combination of the two to make a truly effective site.
2. Domain Name: Secure yourself a web address. You need at least one and if you want your site to ever make money it can't be hosted on a free server.
3. Professional Web Site: Decide if you will design your website or have someone else do it for you.
4. Web Hosting: If your site isn't available 24/7 you are losing money, take the time to research your options.
5. Unique product: While you can sell products for other people if you don't have one that is  unique you will never be completely secure and independent.
6. Credit Cards: Don't expect to sell much if you don't accept credit cards on your site. There many options, choose the best one for your budget.
7. Effective Promotion: If you don't promote your site on a regular basis in an effective manner you'll never get enough traffic to make it worthwhile.
8. Customer Service: Follow up on all inquiries in a timely manner, as soon as someone sends you an e-mail chances are they have moved on to a competitors site, you don't have much time.
9. Newsletter: Find an opt-in strategy and encourage visitors to fill in their email addresses so you can stay in touch with them.
10. Affiliate program/Diversified revenue: At some point in your online business you will probably want to add an affiliate program to create an online sales force that promote your product or service in return for part of the profit. Also by promoting a couple of quality related affiliate programs you can earn additional income from your site as your traffic increases.

Internet Business Startups

The first step in getting starting in an online business is to forget the media hype, particularly about the big "dot.com" deaths. Your Internet startup business doesn't have to fail the way 95% of online startup businesses are predicted to.
Also don't go for the other extreme of people who believe the Internet is the land of the get-rich-quick and as soon as you throw up a web site your bank account will blossom!
First of all understand any new startup business online or off has a huge failure rate. It is up to you to stick to it to make it succeed.

• Perhaps you have success in a brick and mortar environment and want to bring that onto the Internet.
• Perhaps you have no business experience and simply can't resist the lure of online profits you hear about in the news every evening.