When I first met Colin Wright, he was carrying everything he owned into a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It wasn’t much because Wright travels light; the “professional exile” moves to a new country every four months based on reader votes onhis blog. To support his lifestyle, he runs a handful of innovative businesses, and his most recent venture,Ebooklingis due to become the disruptive darling of indie publishing. The bootstrapped business has been pulling in profits since before it officially launched on February 15th....

eBuddy, a company famous for allowing its users to connect to the world’s most popular instant messaging networks from anywhere in the world, has today announced the worldwide launch of its free real-time messaging app foriOSandAndroid. The app is a direct competitor to services like Kik and WhatsApp, expanding the capability of a normal text message to provide a fast, secure and reliable messaging service. Having already launched in The Netherlands and Australia, eBuddy XMS borrows on the company’s experience from serving 17 billion instant messages sent via its supported instant messaging protocols each month....

UberMedia, recent acquirers ofEchofon– one of the world’s top iOS Twitter applications – hastoday announcedthe launch of Echofon 4 for iPad and iPhone, bringing with it iPad user streams, media previews and advanced notifications. The application is now used by over 3 million people worldwide across various platforms, providing a free ad-supported version and a paid download. The premium version is able to synchronise personalisation options and tweet timelines across its iPad, iPhone and desktop applications....

A new concept design by Cho Youg-jo and Jeoung Jun-tae calledECONUTsports a fold out case with a physical keyboard for the iPad. The ECONUT case appears to be ideal for writing and offers an alternative to the iPad keyboard.As we’d mentionedearlier this week, the iPad is great for typing out short messages and tweets but firing off a long email or posting an article is not an easy task using the tablet’s keyboard....

EcoForecourtis a new online marketplace in the UK. Founded byJames Walker, that strictly limits listings to vehicles with emissions of 130g/km C02 or less. The website is easy to use, you just fill in the search tool on the left of the screen and then it populates a beautiful list of cars that are perfect for you. If like me you are a little clueless about cars, then there is a bar which you can scroll and it gives you the option of how friendly you want the car to be, from ‘kinda friendly to ultra fruendky’....