Buycott App/Spade

Buycott:  App allows you to easily "vote" with your wallet

Suggested by Johnny G's Page.  I tried it, and I like it.  Read the full Forbe's article HERE.

"In early May, then-unknown 26-year-old freelance programmer Ivan Pardo quietly added an app he’d spent 16 months creating to the iTunes and Google Play stores. Then he called Forbes, and all his servers crashed.

Los Angeles-based Pardo hadn’t anticipated the level of interest in Buycott, a simple but clever tool aimed at enabling shoppers to make smarter choices in the aisles with their smartphones.

Use Buycott on your iPhone or Android to scan the barcode on any product, and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company. These include headline-hogging conglomerates like Koch Industries (owned by conservative billionaires and liberal bogeymen Charles and David Koch) and Monsanto, the agricultural biotech giant that’s become a byword for “evil” among those opposed to genetically modified food.

Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen. Scan a box of Splenda sweetener, for instance, and you’ll see its parent, McNeil Nutritionals, is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson 

Even more impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott business practices that violate your principles rather than single companies. One of these campaigns, Demand GMO Labeling, will scan your box of cereal and tell you if it was made by one of the 36 corporations (most of them household names like PepsiCo) that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food."

Spade:  Huge congrats to these guys.  On Thursday, they didn't come out on top in Wormtown's Battle Of The Bands competition, but they proved that they can play with the big boys.  You've got a lot to be proud of, and we'll all be hearing a lot more about you.  And soon!

Today's Link: (and every day until the contest ends) The Rock N Roll Resort is doing a VIP Hotel Package Giveaway in The Catskills April 4-6…Check it out!  First, click ROCK N ROLL RESORT to enter.  Then visit their EVENT PAGE and click "I'm Attending" to complete the contest entry process.  It only takes seconds, and the winners will be announced on 3/20/14.  Dozens of bands will perform, and you'll get the full VIP treatment!    Good Luck!