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...eager to help you plan ahead - for a fee, of course. Legacy Locker, Asset Lock and Deathswitch are among the firms offering encrypted space for people to store their passwords and other information. "Digital legacy is at best misunderstood and at worst not thought about," says Legacy Locker founder Jeremy Toeman, who came up with the idea for his company midflight, when he was imagining what would happen to his many Web domains if the plane crashed. "I would be surprised if five years from now, it's not common for people to consider their digital assets alongside their wills...
...Artist Katie Pell is using SwebApps to create an app with directions to her gallery showings, news about projects she's working on and dozens of pictures of her drawings, paintings and sculptures. Angela Martinez, co-founder of San Antonio's outdoor Slab Cinema, says her app will update moviegoers about rainouts and schedule changes. Founding Farmers, a restaurant in Washington, D.C., has app buttons for food and wine menus, reservations, directions and feedback. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...SwebApps' AppTracker lets you see how many people have downloaded your app and what buttons they use most. Founder Magaly Chocano says it will eventually enable clients to track where an app is most popular and how long people spend looking at various pages. SwebApps will also enable users to pay for products through the apps they create, so restaurants can take delivery orders and independent shop owners can sell their wares. Nonprofits can use SwebApps for free...
...more pleasant surprises about Pyongyang is that the North Korean capital - surely the most isolated capital city on earth - has a handful of bookshops for foreigners. Less surprisingly, most of the books have been written by either Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader and founder of North Korea, or his son the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Most are stern instruction manuals on how to be a better communist. There are also a number of guides and glossy souvenir books, more than enough for a place than receives less foreign visitors in a year than the Louvre does...
...among India's youth who no longer view a trip to the West as the holy grail of financial and personal success. "In the early nineties, a guy who earned $100 in India would go abroad and make ten to twenty times that amount of money," says Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and CEO of Bharatmatrimony.com, a matrimonial website with a subscriber base of 15 million. "The demand for [ NRI men] was at its peak during that time...