MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC, CANADA (PRWEB) July 13, 2006 — A virtual community can crash and die, but the people behind the data live on. On June 27th, CouchSurfing.com, the most active hospitality exchange website, where members offer their couch (or other free accommodation) to traveling members in 205 countries worldwide, experienced a major crash which resulted in the loss of most of its user database. However, with the support of its membership community and a renewed passion from its core volunteers, CouchSurfing version 2.0 returned on July 6th with a refocused mission to include more robust user participation in the maintenance and growth of the site and community.

Motorcops.com announces the first DVD -- Basic Motor Officer Class -- in a new line of motorcycle educational training videos. "With the high cost of fuel, there are many new motorcycle owners that haven't gotten proper training. Although this DVD is meant for police motorcycle officers, civilian riders will get a lot out of this DVD," said Mark Kopang the owner of Motorcops.com, the number one web site for police motorcycle officers.

Basic Motor Officer Class DVD Cover

The 90-minute DVD includes approximately 30 minutes of classroom instruction and 60 minutes of field training. During the classroom portion, you're introduced to riding concepts and then you see these concepts put into practice during the field training.

Award Winning Blog Publisher, John Jantsch, announced today that readers now have the ability to easily subscribe to his weblog, Duct Tape Marketing, via RSS and other well-known Aggregator services. RSS (Real Simple Sydication) has quickly become the syndication tool of choice for blog publishers and now small business marketers can receive small business tips and resources by simply subscribing to the Duct Tape Marketing Feed.

Duct Tape Marketing features almost daily doses of real-life small business marketing tips, tactics and resources taken from working with thousands of small business owners. Quick subscription links for XML, My Yahoo, Feedburner, Bloglines and NewsGator are available on the site found at www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/weblog.php

A. Vernon Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Dynoil LLC, (“Dynoil”), a Delaware Limited Liability Company, today announced its intentions to build a 1,500,000,000 (1.5B) gallons-per-year refinery to process traditional vegetable oil feedstock into environmentally friendly bio-diesel.

Dynoil has selected for its refinery a site near the US traditional center of petroleum refining, Houston, Texas and the US Gulf Coast. The refinery will process conventional vegetable oil into bio-diesel fuel that will contain zero sulphur and nearly zero nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. Dynoil’s bio-diesel can be blended into various grades of diesel fuel that may contain from five percent (B5) to twenty percent (B20) bio-diesel to meet market demand requirements.

Dynoil’s refinery of alternative energy fuel, which is traditionally referred to as “green” or renewable energy, will process approximately 100,000 barrels per day of vegetable oil into fuel that can be utilized as a blending stock with petroleum diesel. Bio-diesel can also be used for home heating or electric power generation.

Dynoil is committed to the utilization of state-of-the-art technology to convert vegetable oil into consumable fuel oil. Dynoil believes that the construction of its 100,000 barrel per day bio-diesel refinery may have positive effects on the current high price of oil by reducing the amount of the traditional importation of crude oil and/or refined petroleum products. As a side effect, the refinery should have a positive, although small, influence on the nation’s balance of payments to OPEC or other oil exporting countries.

QuotesAuction.com recently hit a major milestone after receiving over 1 million insurance leads from a Google advertisement. Visit www.quotesauction.com/awards.htm for proof. QuotesAuction.com is the leading insurance leads provider who supplies more than five thousand insurance agents with real time qualified insurance leads.

With more and more consumers turning to the Web to learn about and find insurance, more and more insurance professionals need to the way they find customers. The days of door-to-door insurance salesmen drumming up business have been replaced by modern, savvy agents buying insurance leads.

melslife.com, a multi-media, advertiser-supported, healthy living social network, which targets echo boomers, was launched by Los Angeles-based Richmel Productions. “I’m thrilled to be part of this new media venture, and I want to congratulate everyone on the melslife team worldwide,” commented Richmel CEO Rich Melcombe.

melslife has many of the functionalities of social network leaders facebook and myspace, but its emphasis is on food, health and life philosophy. melslife is for people who want to live healthier lifestyles. “This site targets my generation. With so many people focusing on their health and the environment, melslife comes at the perfect time. I am excited to be a part of something that I am so passionate about and cannot wait to share this healthy information,” according to melslife’s 24-year-old founder Melissa “mel” Melcombe.

Regenersis, Europe's largest mobile phone recycling and reuse provider, is demanding new standards be set for mobile phone recycling across Europe which include the removal of all data from handsets received, a ban on the export of non-working handsets which could end up as waste, and a zero landfill policy.

The company has produced a research paper as a first step to setting industry standards for the reuse and recycling of unwanted mobile phones, of which there are an estimated 15 million replaced each year in the UK alone. The standards focus on three main areas:

New York was buzzing when life long resident and entrepreneur, C.Scott Clark started his "Internet marketing business", C.S.Clark Marketing. Scott Clark, an entrepreneur and expert Internet marketer joins an already power packed line-up of entrepreneurs at CarbonCopyPRO.

When co-founders Jay Kubassek and Aron Parkinson were asked for their opinion on Mr.Clark they answered:

"We could not be more excited about Scott's decision to join us. Scott's "Internet marketing business" brings a unique, high energy approach to our community. Scott will be an asset to every other member from the first day he arrives".

CarbonCopyPRO has been on a tear lately. Their turn-key "business in a box" has been the talk of the online world this year. The members of CarbonCopyPRO have set a challenging goal of creating 100 millionaires by 2012. Their unique approach of providing their members with pre-designed websites, auto responders, qualifying filters, and a high quality call center has dramatically increased the general success rate. People with little or no marketing experience are getting results they never thought possible.

Leading property investment website www.offplanpropertyexchange.com has launched a new property news page and blog in response to the demand for timely news which is tailored to the new homes and real estate investment market. The website deals exclusively in new homes for sale and property investment and is the first of its kind to put buyers directly in contact with sellers across the globe.

Its new real estate news page features updates from around the world on new homes for sale, and the market for real estate investing as a whole. The new blog includes opinions and advice from property investment experts.

Cross-cultural Christmas books like How the Russian Snow Maiden Helped Santa Claus (ISBN No.0972502742, Vernissage Press, $16.95) by Gail Buyske, illustrated by Natasha Veronina, are increasingly popular with parents beginning to broaden the world-view of their kids, even at grades K to 3. These books are particularly popular with parents of adopted children, who wish to instill a knowledge and love for their child's cultural heritage.

In this magical tale, Santa Claus needs help one Christmas and asks his friend Father Frost, the Santa for Russian children, if the Snow Maiden can come to the North Pole while Mrs. Claus is away with a sick sister. The Snow Maiden (Sne-GUR-och-ka in Russian, and a giggle to say) makes the journey and in a heart-warming twist of the story, becomes a great help to Santa. Along with the introduction to these Russian folk characters, readers learn a few folk traditions and even a few words in Russian. A simple pronunciation guide helps readers say the words with ease.

Attending business school can prepare students for any number of careers. Business school is an excellent resource for managerial and analytical training, as well as a stepping stone for numerous career opportunities. But finding the right business school can be a challenge, and prospective students should know their options before selecting a school. All Business Schools' Business School 101 Resource Guide is the definitive directory that provides the information undergraduate and graduate students need to get all their questions answered--including finding the right business school.

As investors bail on the large brokerage firms, a new book helps them navigate the shark-filled waters of financial asset management.

"Wall Street Money Management Secrets: 12 Financial Asset Management Strategies That Professionals Use to Succeed in Declining Stock Markets" has just been published by The Wall Street Institute For Stock Market Professionals. The print version is available at amazon.com, while the electronic version is available for free download at http://www.thewallstreetebook.com.

A newly launched Web site, LENDLeaders.com, is a mortgage lender filtering company providing those seeking mortgage loans with a fast, effective way to find a reliable mortgage broker.

Designed for consumers and professional real estate agents seeking mortgage loans, LENDLeaders.com offers a national listing of pre-filtered mortgage lenders, banks and brokers, all of which meet the site’s strict standards.

In short, LENDLeaders recommends only lenders or brokers that have the ability to offer consumers the best opportunity to obtain the best rates, terms and solutions for purchase, refinance, home equity, and debt consolidation loans.

iXi Bike (www.ixibike.com) was featured on the Fox Networks Good Day LA Style File as a celebrity gift bag item for the 2005 Oscars. The iXi has been selected by Donum Gifts (www.donumgifts.com) for inclusion in its Oscar Gift bag programs. All of iXis unique design features attract the cool and hip -- celebrity gift bags are an obvious outlet for our innovative new iXi Bike. We are thrilled to be associated with such a high profile event." says Jeff Greenstein, director of Marketing at Delta Cycle, iXi Bikes US distributor.

The recent debate and media frenzy over the racist bullying of Shilpa Shetty in the Celebrity Big Brother TV show illustrates the importance of educating future generations to be culturally-savvy.

This is the opinion of Kwintessential's Managing Director Neil Payne, a consultant to multinational businesses and organisations. Rather than see it is primarily an issue of racism, Payne suggests it reflects a lack of knowledge of other cultures, their beliefs, worldviews and especially how to interact with them effectively. It is this lack of intercultural skills that could see the UK lose its place as a world economic powerhouse.

CPAPtalk.com is now enrolling participants for a new Product Challenge featuring the ResMed Sullivan Chinstrap and the Respironics Premium Chinstrap.

This challenge is conducted by CPAPtalk.com to address varying preferences among chinstraps, particularly correlations between minimal design and functionality. Beginning today volunteer participants, who currently use the Respironics Premium Chinstrap, can enroll in this challenge. Once enrollment is complete, 50 participants will be chosen to evaluate a ResMed Sullivan Chinstrap. After a two-week trial period, volunteers will be required to fill out a detailed survey to determine which chinstrap will be declared the CPAPtalk Product Challenge winner.

Medical Spa Consultant & Laser Hair Removal Authority Provides Expert Advice on medi-spas and Medical Spa franchises in Skin Inc. Magazine. "Laser Hair Removal can be the most profitable procedure in any medical spa.," says Kile Law, owner of Blue Water Spa, a plastic surgery medical spa in Raleigh, North Carolina. "The key", Law continues, "is the right laser." In the November 2005 issue of Skin Inc. Magazine, Law offers physicians and prospective medical spa owners some valuable tips on running a successful medical spa. First and foremost, according to Law is safe and effective technology. The article discusses all technology in a medical spa including computer software, LED systems and of course aesthetic lasers for a variety of indications.

Net32, Inc.(Net32), developer of the leading business to business electronic marketplace for the dental industry, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued Patent #7107226 for Net32’s “Internet-Based Online Comparison Shopping System and Method of Interactive Purchase and Sale of Products.”

Net32’s technology patent embodies a number of ground breaking new methodologies including a unique method of fully integrating product offerings from multiple competing vendors into a single proprietary database. This, in turn, enables search results that allow price comparison across all vendors instantly. An order can be comprised of products from many vendors and executed with a single mouse click.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the foremost causes for deaths globally. Sudden cardiac arrest survivors are prone to arrhythmic disorders, calling the need for defibrillation. If done within minutes of cardiac arrest, defibrillation can be life saving. Rising to the need, more number of defibrillators are being implanted in patients and deployed at public and private places.

Cardiac defibrillators market is mainly governed by technological advancements and intense competition. The market is highly influenced by adoption of new technologies, demand for quality medical care, and addition of implantable defibrillators in the reimbursement scheme. Though growth in the implantable cardiac defibrillators market market remained slow in the recent past owing to product recalls and adverse media publicity, the outlook remains positive due to an under penetrated large patient population, as reported in a recent study published by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

HourTown today unveiled a new brand and announced a strategic partnership with Webs.com. Now BookFresh, HourTown rebranded to better reflect the company’s service and mission of helping small businesses harvest more customers with less overhead by enabling them to easily book appointments on the Web.

BookFresh Logo

“Appointments at service providers like spas, salons, dentists and contractors are much like grocery store produce – perishable,” said Ryan Donahue, CEO of BookFresh. “Failure to sell appointments by expiration translates to money lost by the business. The name ‘BookFresh’ better represents our service -- a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to sell their perishable time while attracting and engaging new customers online.”