I watched Wolverine tonight and saw the Terminator; Salvation trailer which looked awesome on the big screen. One aspect that I liked so much was the music which was a song from Nine Inch Nails album “The Fragile.” Seems that music from this album is used in many movie trailers for good reason, the music is very cinematic. Check out some places where NIN was used.
Readwriteweb.com started a series that fits the economic hard times called Gritty Entrepreneurs. These are companies that make money the old fasioned way, no not the 90s way of burning through VC cash, but as John Housman once said “They Earn It”. You remember those ideas where VC cash might not be necessary if you had a business model. Contrast the Gritty Entrepreneurs with the profiles on fuckedstarup.com who are failing or cutting their workforce.
Anytime is a good time to start a startup really. It is only up to your ideas and how you run the business. Cash is king no matter what and a startup needs to learn to manage cash flow and be prudent. Tech startup costs are cheap and could get cheaper. Usually tech related businesses help people streamline costs and do things better, which is what people look for during hard times.
The simple use of visited links and javascript can help you find out the browsing history of your users. Taken further you can extrapolate the gender of the user based on each sites gender ration.