@xavier – I don’t know, but the owner doesn’t talk about it in his interview there and that interview is 4 years old now. If Sbux was going to move on his idea, he would have made a deal with them by now.

I did find their website, http://mysmartcup.com/

From the looks of it, it appears that they are simply just working hard to get their…[Read more]

Here’s a video for this, an interview with the inventor. I think this is a good idea and could probably catch on nicely. I hope that he is pushing Starbucks on it. Getting them on board (as opposed to only using it in Teavana, which would be a good testing ground) would change the face of the loose tea industry.

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Here are the highlights from the blog post. It looks like the page is going to show the teas an unavailable until they come up for sale through Steepster themselves. I’m under the impression that they intend to warehouse all the teas in the database and sell them directly to their customers.

— Make it quicker and easier to understand…

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There is also a forum thread about it as well, but there is no indication the devs are monitoring the comments in the thread. http://steepster.com/discuss/6947-the-new-tea-page

Yeah, its a little disturbing also because they don’t give any information about why it isn’t available. Are they manually updating the database? It used to be that the buy now button would link to the tea at the vendor’s store (I was surprised that those links were never littered with affiliate links, would have been a great way to monetize…[Read more]

You meant this one?

The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600

It looks interesting. The reviews tend to give it high marks for the photography throughout.