Concerned about the environment, or just like trading your clothing and accessories for some cool new ones? Remember, “One mans trash is a other mans treasure”. This is where Rehash Clothes comes in. Think of it as an online thrift store, in a social environment.

Each American throws away an average of 67.9 lbs of clothing and textiles per year. In total, that’s over 20,370,000,000! Billion; with a “B”. The vast majority of that, roughly 95%, can be recycled. The best way to recycle that clothing, a way that uses very little resources and manpower, is by having someone else wear it rather than shipping it off to the nearest landfill. By Rehashing, you become a part of a worldwide movement to lower your consumption and create a greener Earth for everyone.

Rehash Clothes is a project by Orpheux Design, and was developed by Appsy Daisy. It’s built in Ruby On Rails, and the site launched back in 2007.

Once you’ve joined the site, you can start putting up items you would like to trade, as well as items you’re interested in finding. Rehash isn’t involved in the shipping process. It’s solely done through the members.

The community behind the site seems extremely friendly, and motived in helping the success of Rehash. Make sure to check this site out if you’re interested in recyceling and helping the environment. You might even find that long lost jacket you’ve been looking for!

Some of you may have already heard of Desktop Nexus. They’ve been around for a while but this morning they released a new version of the site with some sweet new features. Building on top of the basic format the site now has a much higher emphasis on the community.

If you hadn’t already guessed the site boasts a massive selection of free to download desktop backgrounds. I spoke with 21 year old Harry Maugans this morning and found out a bit more information about the origins of Desktop Nexus.

A long time ago I ran a BMW forum, and we had a small wallpaper section. Well, that section grew shockingly fast, and I realized the demand out there for good wallpaper sites (not many exist). After that realization, I set out on a two year campaign to create the top source for computer wallpapers online. We want to become the household brand name, where everyone goes first (and last) whenever they get tired of their computer background.

This new version has taken almost a year to complete (the first, basic version took roughly two months). I’ve been messing around with the system for the past little while and there are some really quality wallpapers over there. It’s also a very useful site for finding twitter backgrounds.

If you feel your desktop background is a little un-inspired, head over to Desktop Nexus and change it.

No More Notebooks is an online wishlist website with a social aspect. Twenty year old Luke Harrison, the owner of No More Notebooks is currently in his final year of studying New Media at the University of Leeds, UK. He built the entire website from the ground up himself, which means low to no development costs!

The App

You start off by adding a the plugin they provide you with to your browser. This gives you the ability to add items to your wishlist from the item page you’re browsing (amazon, etc) . Since this method isn’t quite 100% full proof, there’s also the ability to add in items manually.

You’re also not limited to having just one wishlist. You can have wishlists for different categories such as “Books I want for my birthday” or “Things that make me giggle”.

The second part of No More Notebooks is the social aspect. You can view other members wishlists, add them as a friend and comment on their “notepad”.

Another nice feature is that they have a built in price comparison system (kelkoo.co.uk) to help members find the best deals available. Two other notable features are the ability to subscribe to other users wishlists via RSS feeds, and the option to take another user’s wishlist and use it as your own.

Over the next couple of months there will be more features added, and the existing features will continue to be perfected. I think integrating No More Notebooks into existing social networking sites could be extremely beneficial for them. This looks like a promising young startup, and I’ll be curious to see how everything pans out.

This is the first look at a soon to be released facebook app based around a new concept “social dressing”.

After the application is installed you can “add outfits” which your friends can then view and rate. You can also view, comment and rate your friends outfits for different occasions.

The app is still in development but I managed to get a look at the basic layout and features. I must say that it is one of the best design for a facebook app i’ve come across. I’ve attached a screen shot below.

It’s the brain child of Aron Gotwalt, he started work late last November and should be ready for launch in around two weeks.

It was 7:30 AM and I was dressing for work.

There’s nothing worse than wearing the same thing more than once a week. (Some will argue once a month, but, frankly, I do consulting for a living. That I shower and wear different things every day puts me above the median.) Dressing in the morning’s blurry, though. I should probably write it down. Write down what I’m wearing so I know not to wear it again. I bet my friends had their own opinions about the outfit. We always talk about clothing anyway, so it’d be cool to track their responses.

By the time I had a cup of coffee and half-mile walk to the office, the idea had evolved into the the basis for What U Wearin’, a Facebook application that lets you share, look, and rate fashions with your friends.

It’s shaping up to be a really solid, interesting application. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

There are many studies being performed about colors and color psychology, and one theory I enjoy agreeing with is that colors have effects on one’s mood. Have you ever taken a look at a color, and imagined further? As in, for example, you’re looking at a blue billboard and think of the sea, which in turn yields you to think in calm terms? Here, a quote from Bloomberg University:

Color, without our realizing it, can have a profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically. Dr. Morton Walker, in his book The Power of Color, suggested that the ancient Egyptians as well as the Native American Indians used color and colored light to heal.

The article then goes on to list examples of a variety of colors triggering moods or thoughts, like blue, for example: “Blue represents peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.”

So how does one utilize this? Or, even more, how can you turn something involving something as common as color and mood into anything worth venturing into and profiting?

Guitarati seems to have figured all of this out, as founder Sonal Pandey puts it, “Guitarati provides an offbeat, intuitive way of music discovery based on music-color co-relation. Amidst a world of music discovery dominated by tag clouds, 1-10 rating systems and so forth, we wanted to create something that enabled users to easily find music that others had ‘felt’ the same about.”

The thing that impresses me most about Guitarati is the creativeness of the idea, and how well they’ve pulled it off. Just recently launched in public beta, the service works well with not many visible bugs.

So how does Guitarati make money, and how is it legal? 

Guitarati provides multiple means of revenue for bands and labels, as they get
paid for song downloads as well as streaming. They (bands and labels) decide the
price of their music and retain 75% of the earnings. Record labels can manage
their entire roster and earnings through a single dashboard. Artists can upload
their unsigned as well as released albums. The website is free to use and there
are no hosting or registration fees. We also aim to offer a plethora of
unconventional tools to artists and labels to promote and sell their music.

All in all, a wonderful start-up, a creative idea turned into a profitable new pit-stop for finding music online. Check it out @ Guitarati.com

P.S. - No funding or expenses were disclosed in the e-mail we received, though check back in the comments for something from Pandey possibly.