Sunday, September 30, 2007
AjaxWindows - a Web OS with a Lot of Promise?
AjaxWindows, the ambitious web-based OS project may not ready yet for adoption by the world at large, but the idea behind it are too interesting to write off as just yet another science project, says this post @ Webware...
It goes on to say, "The AjaxWindows environment is a very convincing (if slower) simulation of a real desktop OS. It lets you (or simulates, I can't tell) open multiple applications in different windows, and if you expand AjaxWindows to full-screen, it really does look a lot like a real OS, with no visible remnants of the underlying Web browser. But there's more to it than just looking and feeling like Windows or a Mac. AjaxWindows' cool tricks are its storage capabilities, its synchronization to your local PC, and its support for other applications and widgets.."
Full post @ Webware
It goes on to say, "The AjaxWindows environment is a very convincing (if slower) simulation of a real desktop OS. It lets you (or simulates, I can't tell) open multiple applications in different windows, and if you expand AjaxWindows to full-screen, it really does look a lot like a real OS, with no visible remnants of the underlying Web browser. But there's more to it than just looking and feeling like Windows or a Mac. AjaxWindows' cool tricks are its storage capabilities, its synchronization to your local PC, and its support for other applications and widgets.."
Full post @ Webware
Anonymous Surfing Widget - Secure Web with Proxify
Anonymous Surfing Widget
Proxify is a web-based proxy service which allows you to surf the web privately and securely. The Proxify widget provides easy access to the Proxify service directly from your Dashboard. Using the widget enables you to hide your IP address prevent the outside world from monitori of your network traffic
Via: Cool OSX Apps
Proxify is a web-based proxy service which allows you to surf the web privately and securely. The Proxify widget provides easy access to the Proxify service directly from your Dashboard. Using the widget enables you to hide your IP address prevent the outside world from monitori of your network traffic
Via: Cool OSX Apps
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Personalised Chat Rooms Created by You
Create your own chatrooms in a few minutes @ Meebo Rooms
Blogger Forums, Communities, Online Discussion Boards
A good list of online communities and forums for bloggers...if you are a blogger, you will certainly find at least a few of the forums to be of good use to you either for developing your blog to much higher levels or making more money from your blog
From Mashable
From Mashable
PermaLink - Blogger Forums, Communities, Online Discussion Boards posted by Ecacofonix : 7:11 PM
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Enterprise Web 2.0 - How Corporates are Using Social Networks & Web 2.0
An interesting post on how web 2.0 has invaded the corporate space and how various companies are implementing Ciigs - company-wude diigs...from Dovetail Software blog
PermaLink - Enterprise Web 2.0 - How Corporates are Using Social Networks & Web 2.0 posted by Ecacofonix : 7:03 PM
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Web Conferencing Open Source Tool - WebHuddle Video Conferencing
Video-conferecing is becoming more and more important in the corporate circles owing to its obvious benefits...and there are a number of web-based video conferencing tools making their entry..
WebHuddle is one such application, which just requires a web enabled PC to start your web conferencing session. It is affordably priced, is relatively more secure & reliable...
Via: WebTools blog
WebHuddle is one such application, which just requires a web enabled PC to start your web conferencing session. It is affordably priced, is relatively more secure & reliable...
Via: WebTools blog
PermaLink - Web Conferencing Open Source Tool - WebHuddle Video Conferencing posted by Ecacofonix : 6:57 PM
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Online Poll & Web Survey Tools for Blog & Website
Nice list of 10 easy-to-use polling & survey tools for your blog & web site...from the Wild Apricot blog
PermaLink - Online Poll & Web Survey Tools for Blog & Website posted by Ecacofonix : 6:46 PM
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bitTorrent Search, email Unifier, Web-based music, Sketch with Voice, Travel Organizer...
A cool list of web sites & web tools - ten of them, to be precise, from Make Use Of - some really interesting ones (imho): a bit torrent search engine, a mail unifier, an intelligent travel organizer...enjoy!
PermaLink - bitTorrent Search, email Unifier, Web-based music, Sketch with Voice, Travel Organizer... posted by Ecacofonix : 6:32 PM
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App2You - Create a Web App without Coding & Programming Skills
App2You lets anyone create a cool web app without having to write out code or access databases. Users can make up their own apps right from the start, or they can take use of premade designs for specific businesses & domains
App2You
Similar services: Zoho, Coghead
Via: Killer Startups
App2You
Similar services: Zoho, Coghead
Via: Killer Startups
PermaLink - App2You - Create a Web App without Coding & Programming Skills posted by Ecacofonix : 10:53 AM
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100+ Web 2.0 Generators Online - Badges, Stripes, Gifs...
100+ Web 2.0 & Online Generators
Check out some popular web 2.0 generators. These make it easy to add stuff like badges, stripes, loading gifs, rounded corners and more to your site
Check out some popular web 2.0 generators. These make it easy to add stuff like badges, stripes, loading gifs, rounded corners and more to your site
PermaLink - 100+ Web 2.0 Generators Online - Badges, Stripes, Gifs... posted by Ecacofonix : 10:43 AM
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viewAt - for Panaromic Photo Fans
If you're into panaramic photos, viewAt is a really slick panoramic photo service where you can browse through other people's panoramic photos, and upload your own. Panaromic shots are hard to enjoy unless you have a large, widescreen monitor. viewAt attempts to solve this problem with its specially designed Flash viewer that lets you pan around and enjoy big, panoramic shots in their full glory.
Via: Webware post
Via: Webware post
Matchmine - Set Your Preferences Once, and It Works Across the Web
"Matchmine is trying create a universal preferences system. The pitch is that instead of rating the movies and music and blogs you like on each site you go to that has ratings, you rate your preferences once, and then any future sites you go to can grab those prefs immediately to serve you recommendations that will be good for you."
Via: Webware post
Via: Webware post
PermaLink - Matchmine - Set Your Preferences Once, and It Works Across the Web posted by Ecacofonix : 6:46 AM
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Prezentit - Collaborative, Online Presentation Tool
If you're looking for something with a lot of pizazz, there's Prezentit, a Web-based presentation maker. Like Vyew and others, Prezentit lets you build, and work on a presentation with several collaborators at once, all in your browser.
Via: WebWare
Via: WebWare
PermaLink - Prezentit - Collaborative, Online Presentation Tool posted by Ecacofonix : 6:42 AM
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Zingku - Mobile Social Network, Care, Share, Mashup on Mobile
Zingku - Mobile Social Network
You can do a lot of cool social networky things on your mobile using the Zingku service...it appears that Google has acquired part or all of Zingku - things happen pretty fast in the cyberworld, don't they!
You can do a lot of cool social networky things on your mobile using the Zingku service...it appears that Google has acquired part or all of Zingku - things happen pretty fast in the cyberworld, don't they!
PermaLink - Zingku - Mobile Social Network, Care, Share, Mashup on Mobile posted by Ecacofonix : 6:39 AM
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Plusmo: Cool Mobile Widget, Mash-ups App
Plusmo: Cool Mobile Widget, Mash-ups App
Plusmo's mobile widgets application is a cool way to read RSS feeds on your cell phone or PDA...
Plusmo's site also offers the chance to publish and share widget mash-ups and create an iPhone widget from templates. Users can also make personal blogs available as a Plusmo widget, and can install a browser bookmarklet or Yahoo plug-in to snag feeds while they surf.
Via: WebWare
Plusmo's mobile widgets application is a cool way to read RSS feeds on your cell phone or PDA...
Plusmo's site also offers the chance to publish and share widget mash-ups and create an iPhone widget from templates. Users can also make personal blogs available as a Plusmo widget, and can install a browser bookmarklet or Yahoo plug-in to snag feeds while they surf.
Via: WebWare
Chat Box & Message Box Widget for your Site & Blog
Get a Cbox tagboard for your website or blog and let your visitors leave you messages or chat with each other. Getting started couldn't be easier – sign up, get your code, and start chatting!
And the best part... the Basic Cbox tagboard is absolutely free! Well, they ask for a reasonable $2 per month for a premium version...and why not, it looks like an excellent product!
And the best part... the Basic Cbox tagboard is absolutely free! Well, they ask for a reasonable $2 per month for a premium version...and why not, it looks like an excellent product!
PermaLink - Chat Box & Message Box Widget for your Site & Blog posted by Ecacofonix : 6:30 AM
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Useful Tips for Writing Bookmarkable Content
Useful Tips for Writing Bookmarkable Content
I liked the post (with 10 tips) though it does not strictly belong to the aweBsome category, simply because the ideas discussed are so easily implementable...
I liked the post (with 10 tips) though it does not strictly belong to the aweBsome category, simply because the ideas discussed are so easily implementable...
Make Money Online-100+ Tools, Resources @ Mashable
Make Money Online-100+ Tools, Resources @ Mashable
Wow, a really good and useful list
Wow, a really good and useful list
PermaLink - Make Money Online-100+ Tools, Resources @ Mashable posted by Ecacofonix : 6:13 AM
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Million Dollar Wiki - Money Making Wikipedia?
Million Dollar Wiki - Money Making Wikipedia?
A student at the University of Connecticut has launched a new website to make him one million dollars. The Million Dollar Wiki, is a website similar to Wikipedia.com but with one important catch: every page costs one hundred dollars. The pages are public for everyone to see, but only the owner of a page can add content to it.
Essentiall, one person will own the page for "business," one person will own the page for "newspaper," and so on for every key word. The goal of the site's creator, Graham Langdon, is to sell ten thousand pages thus making one million dollars.
The pages will remain online for at least 15 years
A student at the University of Connecticut has launched a new website to make him one million dollars. The Million Dollar Wiki, is a website similar to Wikipedia.com but with one important catch: every page costs one hundred dollars. The pages are public for everyone to see, but only the owner of a page can add content to it.
Essentiall, one person will own the page for "business," one person will own the page for "newspaper," and so on for every key word. The goal of the site's creator, Graham Langdon, is to sell ten thousand pages thus making one million dollars.
The pages will remain online for at least 15 years
Micro-Blogging Web Tools List, Microblogging Tool Comparison
Micro-Blogging Web Tools List, Comparison
Micro-blogging is a term described by Wikipedia as "a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user"....
This post @ Readwite Web provides an excellent list of microblogging tools / platforms...the tools discussed:
Twitter
Pownce
Tumblr
Jaiku
MySay
Hictu
Moodmill
Frazr
IRateMyDay
Emotionr
Micro-blogging is a term described by Wikipedia as "a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user"....
This post @ Readwite Web provides an excellent list of microblogging tools / platforms...the tools discussed:
Pownce
Tumblr
Jaiku
MySay
Hictu
Moodmill
Frazr
IRateMyDay
Emotionr
PermaLink - Micro-Blogging Web Tools List, Microblogging Tool Comparison posted by Ecacofonix : 5:22 AM
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Screenshot Web Tools - A Cool List
Screenshot Web Tools - A Cool List
Some cool screenshot tools:
Snissa
Screengrab
PrintKey
InstantShot
Thumbalizr
Via: Webtools blog
Some cool screenshot tools:
Snissa
Screengrab
PrintKey
InstantShot
Thumbalizr
Via: Webtools blog
Widgetbox - lots of useful & fun widgets for site and blog
There are many useful and fun widgets for your blog or your web site in Widgetbox.
Almost Widgets are based on Flash. So they are smart, cool and pretty.
Via: Alones World
Almost Widgets are based on Flash. So they are smart, cool and pretty.
Via: Alones World
PermaLink - Widgetbox - lots of useful & fun widgets for site and blog posted by Ecacofonix : 5:04 AM
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Oddflower - using traffic flows to connect folks, an odd idea or an obvious idea?
Oddflower - an odd idea or an obvious idea?
Oddflower is a place to keep your favorite web pages, read your favorite webfeeds and share them.
Oddflower uses traffic flows on the site to connect peoples' changing interests to each other and then shares related links & news items between them.
I tried it for a while, was interesting but can't say I found it terribly useful, perhaps with time things will evolve to something much better...
Oddflower is a place to keep your favorite web pages, read your favorite webfeeds and share them.
Oddflower uses traffic flows on the site to connect peoples' changing interests to each other and then shares related links & news items between them.
I tried it for a while, was interesting but can't say I found it terribly useful, perhaps with time things will evolve to something much better...
PermaLink - Oddflower - using traffic flows to connect folks, an odd idea or an obvious idea? posted by Ecacofonix : 4:32 AM
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The 3D Web - Will it be a World Wide Virtual Web in Future?
While I was reading this article I began wondering how the web interfaces of the future will look and whether there will be more and more of 3D and virtual interfaces that will start appearing...
PermaLink - The 3D Web - Will it be a World Wide Virtual Web in Future? posted by Ecacofonix : 4:23 AM
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LawTube - Law firms get a la YouTube to recruit students
LawTube - Law firms get a la YouTube to recruit students
Law firms have discovered YouTube, or at least they have discovered that the law students they are trying to recruit as summer associates watch YouTube, the popular video Web site. Several law firms are creating recruiting videos and Web sites with the look and feel of YouTube. They hope to persuade students that their lawyers and, by extension, the firms, are young-thinking and hip....says this article @ IHT
Law firms have discovered YouTube, or at least they have discovered that the law students they are trying to recruit as summer associates watch YouTube, the popular video Web site. Several law firms are creating recruiting videos and Web sites with the look and feel of YouTube. They hope to persuade students that their lawyers and, by extension, the firms, are young-thinking and hip....says this article @ IHT
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
200+ RSS Things - Widgets, Reades, Wizards, Directories
200+ RSS Things - Widgets, Reades, Wizards, Directories
An excellent list of everything RSS - readers, widgets, wizards, directories, java scripts, reminders, buttons
Everything 2.0 - RSS @ Bob Stumpel blog
An excellent list of everything RSS - readers, widgets, wizards, directories, java scripts, reminders, buttons
Everything 2.0 - RSS @ Bob Stumpel blog
PermaLink - 200+ RSS Things - Widgets, Reades, Wizards, Directories posted by Ecacofonix : 8:34 AM
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RSS Reader Widget Your Can Embed in Your Site
Cool rss reader widget from Spring Widgets
See another widget in scrollbar form here fom Widgets.cc
Here's another RSS Widget from MuseStorm
See another widget in scrollbar form here fom Widgets.cc
Here's another RSS Widget from MuseStorm
Gabbly - Get Your Site Visitors Chat with Other Visitors!
Gabbly - Get Your Site Visitors Chat with Other Visitors!
Gabbl is a real cool idea...if you have a web site, say abc.com, then all you need to do is to type gabbly.com/abc.com and you will be able to chat with those who are currently at abc.com - of course they need to be on Gabbly too...real cool
Gabbly
Gabbl is a real cool idea...if you have a web site, say abc.com, then all you need to do is to type gabbly.com/abc.com and you will be able to chat with those who are currently at abc.com - of course they need to be on Gabbly too...real cool
Gabbly
PermaLink - Gabbly - Get Your Site Visitors Chat with Other Visitors! posted by Ecacofonix : 6:39 AM
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Veodia - TV broadcasting meets SAAS
Veodia - TV broadcasting meets SAAS
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Veodia offers the first live TV broadcasting and publishing Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.
Using MPEG-4 / h.264 technology, Veodia’s high-end video broadcasting service caters to both professional bloggers and business users in search of a simple way of creating and distributing TV-quality video while preserving full control and ownership of their content. That makes it a perfect tool for broadcasting through the Internet: independent TV shows, interviews, music or dance performances, auctions, training sessions, HR and executive announcements, product reviews, marketing events, lectures, conferences, speeches, panels, and many more.
The Veodia SaaS platform replaces the expensive in-house video publishing solution that previously required multimillion-dollar budgets, inter-vendor operability headaches and extensive IT support. Veodia also makes the production and publishing of video blogs and video podcasts a single-step process.
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Interesting!
Veodia
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Veodia offers the first live TV broadcasting and publishing Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.
Using MPEG-4 / h.264 technology, Veodia’s high-end video broadcasting service caters to both professional bloggers and business users in search of a simple way of creating and distributing TV-quality video while preserving full control and ownership of their content. That makes it a perfect tool for broadcasting through the Internet: independent TV shows, interviews, music or dance performances, auctions, training sessions, HR and executive announcements, product reviews, marketing events, lectures, conferences, speeches, panels, and many more.
The Veodia SaaS platform replaces the expensive in-house video publishing solution that previously required multimillion-dollar budgets, inter-vendor operability headaches and extensive IT support. Veodia also makes the production and publishing of video blogs and video podcasts a single-step process.
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Interesting!
Veodia
Friday, September 28, 2007
Ten Awesome Ideas for Yahoo, Google and other Big Internet Sites
Ten Awesome Ideas for the Big Internet Sites
10 fun ideas by Nick Douglas, some of them actually are thought provoking, if one indeed is inclined to provoke one's thoughts...
From the ValleyWag blog
10 fun ideas by Nick Douglas, some of them actually are thought provoking, if one indeed is inclined to provoke one's thoughts...
From the ValleyWag blog
PermaLink - Ten Awesome Ideas for Yahoo, Google and other Big Internet Sites posted by Ecacofonix : 10:52 PM
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Upload and Download Speeds Finder - Is Your ISP Giving You What You Want?
Performance @ Toast - provides a tool to determine your upload and download speeds. Useful in determining if your ISP is providing you / your site the speeds that you want
PermaLink - Upload and Download Speeds Finder - Is Your ISP Giving You What You Want? posted by Ecacofonix : 10:43 PM
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All about Domain Names & IP Addresses - DNS Stuff
DNS Stuff - anything you want to know about a domain or IP address
PermaLink - All about Domain Names & IP Addresses - DNS Stuff posted by Ecacofonix : 10:42 PM
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Finding Out Your IP Address
Social Shopping Sites Reviewed - Kaboodle, CrowdStorm, Zebo, Etsy...
A good list of 18 social shopping sites reviewed
@ Mashable post
The list of sites reviewed:
1. Crowdstorm
2. Etsy
3. Zebo
4. ThisNext
5. Kaboodle
6. Wists
7. ShopWiki
8. Wisheus
9. Woot
10. BzzAgent
11. Wishpot
12. Buzzilions
13. Stylehive
14. Glimpse
15. StyleFeeder
16. ShopStyle
17. Reesycakes
18. Osoyou
@ Mashable post
The list of sites reviewed:
1. Crowdstorm
2. Etsy
3. Zebo
4. ThisNext
5. Kaboodle
6. Wists
7. ShopWiki
8. Wisheus
9. Woot
10. BzzAgent
11. Wishpot
12. Buzzilions
13. Stylehive
14. Glimpse
15. StyleFeeder
16. ShopStyle
17. Reesycakes
18. Osoyou
PermaLink - Social Shopping Sites Reviewed - Kaboodle, CrowdStorm, Zebo, Etsy... posted by Ecacofonix : 10:35 PM
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Web 2.0 Usage Stats - Visits, Pageviews, Session Duration
Here's some interesting stats on Web 2.0 usage: (thanks to Poker Affiliate Programs & seoMoz blogs)
* In August 2007, 158 million people (87% of the online population) visited web 2.0 sites
* Over a three month period, the entire online population engaged with web 2.0 sites
* The average time spent on a web 2.0 site was 210 minutes per person, and the average page views were 516 per session
The breakdown of web 2.0 traffic in August 2007 was as follows:
* directories = 121 million
* video = 93 million
* social networks = 81 million
* photo = 56 million
* blogs = 48 million
* In August 2007, 158 million people (87% of the online population) visited web 2.0 sites
* Over a three month period, the entire online population engaged with web 2.0 sites
* The average time spent on a web 2.0 site was 210 minutes per person, and the average page views were 516 per session
The breakdown of web 2.0 traffic in August 2007 was as follows:
* directories = 121 million
* video = 93 million
* social networks = 81 million
* photo = 56 million
* blogs = 48 million
PermaLink - Web 2.0 Usage Stats - Visits, Pageviews, Session Duration posted by Ecacofonix : 9:03 PM
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Google Bookmarks - Email it, Share it, Book mark it!
Google has launched a new service that lets people share bookmarks - Google Shared Stuff.
Using this sevice, you drag a button to your browser toolbar, using which you have the option of e-mailing the link or a preview of the Web page you are visiting to someone, as well as sharing it on social networks such as Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Social Poster or Reddit etc..you can also share this link with other by posting it in the shared stuff section...
Via: Webware Google Operating System Blog
Using this sevice, you drag a button to your browser toolbar, using which you have the option of e-mailing the link or a preview of the Web page you are visiting to someone, as well as sharing it on social networks such as Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Social Poster or Reddit etc..you can also share this link with other by posting it in the shared stuff section...
Via: Webware Google Operating System Blog
PermaLink - Google Bookmarks - Email it, Share it, Book mark it! posted by Ecacofonix : 8:56 PM
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Facebook is the New Face of Web, Cos Pitch in with Apps
As Facebook Becomes the New Face of the Web, Companies Pitch in With Apps
Three years from now, if Facebook succeeds with its strategy to cultivate Facebook versions of typical Internet applications from e-mail and photo-sharing to games and music playlists, Facebook will be the Web, or at least a self-sufficient microcosm of it, says this post...
Companies eager to siphon off a bit of Facebook’s audience are happy to help it grow. Some, like streaming-music provider Finetune, have created so-called Facebook “apps” that merely tap into their existing core services or put a social spin on them, while others, such as Cambridge-based ride-finding service GoLoco, exist entirely inside Facebook.
This phenomenon of writing apps for Facebook started in May 2007 when Facebook launched the application programming interface or API that allows outside software developers to build programs that interact with Facebook’s personal profiles. Suddenly, it became a really powerful idea to use the Platform to turn your service into a Facebook app.
read the full post here
Three years from now, if Facebook succeeds with its strategy to cultivate Facebook versions of typical Internet applications from e-mail and photo-sharing to games and music playlists, Facebook will be the Web, or at least a self-sufficient microcosm of it, says this post...
Companies eager to siphon off a bit of Facebook’s audience are happy to help it grow. Some, like streaming-music provider Finetune, have created so-called Facebook “apps” that merely tap into their existing core services or put a social spin on them, while others, such as Cambridge-based ride-finding service GoLoco, exist entirely inside Facebook.
This phenomenon of writing apps for Facebook started in May 2007 when Facebook launched the application programming interface or API that allows outside software developers to build programs that interact with Facebook’s personal profiles. Suddenly, it became a really powerful idea to use the Platform to turn your service into a Facebook app.
read the full post here
PermaLink - Facebook is the New Face of Web, Cos Pitch in with Apps posted by Ecacofonix : 8:49 PM
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Widgetoko - what's new in widgets
Widgetoko - Daily dose of widgets
A good blog that gives a continuous dosage of what's new and interesting in the world of widgets
A good blog that gives a continuous dosage of what's new and interesting in the world of widgets
Web Marketing Options - Jeremiah Owyang
Various Options in Web Marketing - Jeremiah Owyang
A good list by Jeremiah Owyang at his Web Strategist blog....gives about 30 different tactics and ideas for web marketing...a useful read for all web marketing professionals
A good list by Jeremiah Owyang at his Web Strategist blog....gives about 30 different tactics and ideas for web marketing...a useful read for all web marketing professionals
FlickIM sas Chat is now a platform
FlickIM sas Chat is now a platform
"Now you can chat with all your buddies on every chat network available and use your favorite internet applications at the same time. Install applications built to communicate with your buddies through video, audio, events, or social networks without ever having to leave IM"
See FlickIM
Via Widgets Lab
"Now you can chat with all your buddies on every chat network available and use your favorite internet applications at the same time. Install applications built to communicate with your buddies through video, audio, events, or social networks without ever having to leave IM"
See FlickIM
Via Widgets Lab
Joost Goes the Widgets Way
Joost is the latest Web 2.0 outfit to get widgety. The online TV service has opened up its API, allowing developers to create their own Joost plug-ins. There's a dedicated website with all the documentation and tutorials eager coders will need.
Via: Tech Digest
Via: Tech Digest
OneGreatFamily - your geneology database online
OneGreatFamily is a cooperative effort between you and the rest of the world. It is an online genealogical service which allows everyone to combine their knowledge and data to build one huge, shared database. OneGreatFamily is more than a simple collection of different family trees, it is actually linking all of the family trees together into one great family.
This way, each individual is able to leverage the effort and research of all OneGreatFamily users rather than wasting time duplicating research that others have already done.
OneGreatFamily
This way, each individual is able to leverage the effort and research of all OneGreatFamily users rather than wasting time duplicating research that others have already done.
OneGreatFamily
PermaLink - OneGreatFamily - your geneology database online posted by Ecacofonix : 9:24 AM
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Amazon Widgets - Cool Stuff for Amazon Affiliates
Amazon Widgets
Amazon has come up with a good number of widgets for its affiliates...it is only natural fo the pioneer in affiliate programs to come up with something like this...
Amazon has come up with a good number of widgets for its affiliates...it is only natural fo the pioneer in affiliate programs to come up with something like this...
PermaLink - Amazon Widgets - Cool Stuff for Amazon Affiliates posted by Ecacofonix : 8:09 AM
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Your Truman Show - search videos by who is watching them
Your Truman Show - describes itself as "YouTube meets FaceBook", it is a video blog platform that lets users search for videos according to who is watching them, rather than based on content tags.
PS: well, actually a long PS...
As this post had a comment fom YTS personnel (my guess), thought I'd cut and paste what YTS says about itself at its web site...
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What is Your Truman Show?If there are a million stories in the naked city, then there are billions out there on the Web.
Your Truman Show extends personal storytelling into a compelling social network of tomorrow's online reality stars and their fans. Anyone and everyone ready to share their thoughts, feelings, aspirations and observations now has a powerful and targeted online outlet for doing so.
The programming is as wide and varied as the personalities of the people who create channels on the network. It is theirs to express individual creativity and share first-hand accounts of personal dramas, hilarious tales, current events, behind-the-scenes coverage, special interests and almost anything that comes to mind. As more people capture their special moments on video, Your Truman Show empowers them to become real-life producers and stars.
The Place for Personal Video Stories
Your Truman Show is the only Internet video service solely dedicated to collecting personal stories.
Especially yours.
We believe six billion stories are waiting to be told, and you are the best person to tell your own. We want to give you a place to express your talent, to share your thoughts and dreams, to pass on your memories…to tell your story.
Connect with Your Favorite Storytellers
Rate, review, comment and connect.
On Your Truman Show you can vote for your favorite videos and rate specific qualities about them. You can write reviews and leave written and/or video comments. Other users can rate your videos and reviews. And you can even connect your stories together with our cool and intuitive visual V-linking tool.
Your Ticket to Celebrity
Rate, review and get rated
On Your Truman Show you can easily upload your videos and share them with your friends, your family and the entire world. By adding videos to your storyline, you can string episodes together to create your very own online TV series. Your Truman Show viewers rate the videos and comment on them. The highest ranking videos will feature prominently on the site, and a few will be promoted to some Hollywood bigwigs. That's right…with the help of Your Truman Show, you could be the next overnight star!
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PS: well, actually a long PS...
As this post had a comment fom YTS personnel (my guess), thought I'd cut and paste what YTS says about itself at its web site...
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What is Your Truman Show?If there are a million stories in the naked city, then there are billions out there on the Web.
Your Truman Show extends personal storytelling into a compelling social network of tomorrow's online reality stars and their fans. Anyone and everyone ready to share their thoughts, feelings, aspirations and observations now has a powerful and targeted online outlet for doing so.
The programming is as wide and varied as the personalities of the people who create channels on the network. It is theirs to express individual creativity and share first-hand accounts of personal dramas, hilarious tales, current events, behind-the-scenes coverage, special interests and almost anything that comes to mind. As more people capture their special moments on video, Your Truman Show empowers them to become real-life producers and stars.
The Place for Personal Video Stories
Your Truman Show is the only Internet video service solely dedicated to collecting personal stories.
Especially yours.
We believe six billion stories are waiting to be told, and you are the best person to tell your own. We want to give you a place to express your talent, to share your thoughts and dreams, to pass on your memories…to tell your story.
Connect with Your Favorite Storytellers
Rate, review, comment and connect.
On Your Truman Show you can vote for your favorite videos and rate specific qualities about them. You can write reviews and leave written and/or video comments. Other users can rate your videos and reviews. And you can even connect your stories together with our cool and intuitive visual V-linking tool.
Your Ticket to Celebrity
Rate, review and get rated
On Your Truman Show you can easily upload your videos and share them with your friends, your family and the entire world. By adding videos to your storyline, you can string episodes together to create your very own online TV series. Your Truman Show viewers rate the videos and comment on them. The highest ranking videos will feature prominently on the site, and a few will be promoted to some Hollywood bigwigs. That's right…with the help of Your Truman Show, you could be the next overnight star!
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Filmaroo - Sharing Videos Among a Private Group
Filmaroo - a website for sharing videos among a private group of friends or associates. Automatically delivers videos to groups, designed with workgroup applications in mind.
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Diigo - Virtual Highlights, Sticky Notes on Web Pages
Diigo - has a system for users to mark up Web pages with virtual hiliting and sticky notes, then store or share those annotations.
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CoComment - a Tool for Tracking Blog Comments, Conversations
coComment had a tool for tracking and analyzing conversations on the Internet in the form of blogs and comments.
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RelevantMind - search web conversations on specific products
RelevantMind is a special-purpose search site, specializing in finding Web conversations about specific products.
A close relative is Attendi, a search engine which identifies expert individuals rather than websites.
A close relative is Attendi, a search engine which identifies expert individuals rather than websites.
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FixMyMovie - Enhance your Mobile Phone Images
FixMyMovie, a website that uses image-enhancement algorithms to clean up video from low-resolution sources such as camera phones
MetaRADAR's Media Masher for rich media searchers
MetaRADAR - MetaRADAR's Media Masher focuses on the user interface, giving rich media searchers a consistent interface for all sites.
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ClipBlast - Web Video Search Platform - Search, Store Videos
ClipBlast - a Web video search platform, they've been crawling the Web building their search index since 2004. Easy-to-use user interface lets users search, browse, view and store videos.
ClipBlast
ClipBlast
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GoYaar.com Launches Indian Social Networking Site
GoYaar.com Launches Indian Social Networking Site
In a clear sign that social networking is likely to become more and more verticalised, GoYaar launched a social networking site for India. The site also claims to have a lot of integrated content aggregation and search features
I had hardly finished reading about GoYaar when I came across QuePasa spearheading Citizen Journalism for Latinos...
In a clear sign that social networking is likely to become more and more verticalised, GoYaar launched a social networking site for India. The site also claims to have a lot of integrated content aggregation and search features
I had hardly finished reading about GoYaar when I came across QuePasa spearheading Citizen Journalism for Latinos...
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IdeaBlob - Where Entrepreneurs List their Ideas
IdeaBlob
ideablob.com is Advanta’s newest website where aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners (aka “Blobbers”) can share and compare their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000!
IdeaBlob
ideablob.com is Advanta’s newest website where aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners (aka “Blobbers”) can share and compare their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000!
IdeaBlob
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Cool & Interesting HTTP 404 Error Pages
Collection of Awesome HTTP 404 Error Pages
Here are some nice graphics and creative ideas to make that frustrated visitor who visits an HTTP 404 page on your browser actually happy that he ended up at a non-existing page...
Many of the HTTP 404 ideas are quite cool - from the Best Article Everyday site
Here are some nice graphics and creative ideas to make that frustrated visitor who visits an HTTP 404 page on your browser actually happy that he ended up at a non-existing page...
Many of the HTTP 404 ideas are quite cool - from the Best Article Everyday site
Marthapedia - Martha Stewart's Social Networking Site
Martha Stewart launches social networking site
Martha Stewart is becoming web 2.0 and will be launching her own social media web site - Marthapedia.
The site initially will be seeded with existing content from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia - Homekeeping Handbook and the like, but will open for information and suggestions from the public. Editors at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia are reportedly checking to see if the public's ideas are better than their own.
Via: Craig's New Business
Martha Stewart is becoming web 2.0 and will be launching her own social media web site - Marthapedia.
The site initially will be seeded with existing content from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia - Homekeeping Handbook and the like, but will open for information and suggestions from the public. Editors at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia are reportedly checking to see if the public's ideas are better than their own.
Via: Craig's New Business
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Bill Gross' Bets Not on Bits, but on Atoms
Bill Gross' Bets Not on Bits, but on Atoms
One of the world's great serial entrepreneurs, Bill Gross' track record includes both winners such as CitySearch, Cooking.com, NetZero/United Online & losers such as eToys, Eve.com, Free-PC. He's best known for inventing the pay-per-click advertising model behind Overture Services, the pioneering search engine he sold to Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.6 billion.
Now, after more than a decade of launching dotcoms, Gross' company Idealab's current lineup is crowded with companies that make actual products: robots, 3-D printers, electric cars, rooftop solar collectors. As Gross puts it, he's much more interested today in "atoms businesses" than "bits businesses." He recently sat down with Business 2.0 Editor-at-large Erick Schonfeld to talk about why.
Read the full intervew from here @ CNN Money
Via: Fast Company
One of the world's great serial entrepreneurs, Bill Gross' track record includes both winners such as CitySearch, Cooking.com, NetZero/United Online & losers such as eToys, Eve.com, Free-PC. He's best known for inventing the pay-per-click advertising model behind Overture Services, the pioneering search engine he sold to Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.6 billion.
Now, after more than a decade of launching dotcoms, Gross' company Idealab's current lineup is crowded with companies that make actual products: robots, 3-D printers, electric cars, rooftop solar collectors. As Gross puts it, he's much more interested today in "atoms businesses" than "bits businesses." He recently sat down with Business 2.0 Editor-at-large Erick Schonfeld to talk about why.
Read the full intervew from here @ CNN Money
Via: Fast Company
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Men are from Microsoft, Women are from Apple
Men, Women Use Software Differently
Interesting article here that details experiments that appear to show that men and women use software quite differently...while one might want more research done on specifics, the main thrust of the article is that designing software with women's perceptions and preferences also taken into account could lead to more women becoming comfortable with sophisticated features of a software, and could even lead to more women being interested in being computer scientists
Interesting...
Interesting article here that details experiments that appear to show that men and women use software quite differently...while one might want more research done on specifics, the main thrust of the article is that designing software with women's perceptions and preferences also taken into account could lead to more women becoming comfortable with sophisticated features of a software, and could even lead to more women being interested in being computer scientists
Interesting...
Embeddable Slideshows, Online Video Editing - Flektor & More
Embeddable Slideshows & Online Video Editing
A recent phenomenon, or perhaps this has been going on for a while while I had been busy dozing...
One of the recent successes though is Flektor (acquired by MySpace)
A recent phenomenon, or perhaps this has been going on for a while while I had been busy dozing...
One of the recent successes though is Flektor (acquired by MySpace)
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CloakPass - Make Your Passwords More Secure
It is harder to crack complex passwords, but it is harder to remember them as well! Solution? CloakPass, a smart, free utility that handles the job of making your simple-to-remember password something very difficult for a hacker to break.
Here's how it works: Say you are at a web site that requires a login. Type an easy-to-remember password into the password field - say abcdefgh. CloakPass automatically transforms your simple password into one that is difficult-to-crack. Whenever you visit the site, provided CloakPass is in your Systray, your simple password is transformed into something fa moe complex - something on the lines of 4gag66sg2#$6KYb8.
CloakPass
Via: PC World Blog
Here's how it works: Say you are at a web site that requires a login. Type an easy-to-remember password into the password field - say abcdefgh. CloakPass automatically transforms your simple password into one that is difficult-to-crack. Whenever you visit the site, provided CloakPass is in your Systray, your simple password is transformed into something fa moe complex - something on the lines of 4gag66sg2#$6KYb8.
CloakPass
Via: PC World Blog
Finance, Auto, Health Vertical Search Markets to Grow
Finance, Auto, Health Vertical Search Markets to Grow
The vertical search market could see significant growth by adding new features, improving content and forming partnerships with existing Web sites according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "Vertical Search: Learning Lessons from Shopping."
While categories such as retail and travel will continue to lead vertical search spending, the report says the best opportunity for vertical search is in growth categories such as financial services, automotive, and health, in which combined search spending will grow more than 94 percent to $3.4 billion in 2011.
Full report @ WebProNews
The vertical search market could see significant growth by adding new features, improving content and forming partnerships with existing Web sites according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "Vertical Search: Learning Lessons from Shopping."
While categories such as retail and travel will continue to lead vertical search spending, the report says the best opportunity for vertical search is in growth categories such as financial services, automotive, and health, in which combined search spending will grow more than 94 percent to $3.4 billion in 2011.
Full report @ WebProNews
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Web Sites Get Social - Social Networking in Traditional Web Sites
Web Sites Get Social - Traditional Web Sites Include Social Networking
Web users who want to find community with like-minded people no longer have to sign up with traditional social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, or Facebook. They can build ties with friends and family on the sites they're using every day.
A broad array of online players, from major media companies like Viacom to e-commerce providers such as eBay, are adding networking features to their online destinations, letting users create detailed Web identities, connect with people over common interests, share content, and, above all, socialize...says this report @ Yahoo Finance
Web users who want to find community with like-minded people no longer have to sign up with traditional social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, or Facebook. They can build ties with friends and family on the sites they're using every day.
A broad array of online players, from major media companies like Viacom to e-commerce providers such as eBay, are adding networking features to their online destinations, letting users create detailed Web identities, connect with people over common interests, share content, and, above all, socialize...says this report @ Yahoo Finance
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E-bay Widgets - Useful Ebay Widget List @ Ecommerce Guide
For those eBay sellers looking to send off-eBay traffic to their eBay listings, customizable Web widgets are a free and popular solution. This article at E-commerce Guide scoured the Internet to find 10 widgets that can be used to help online merchants. These free mini-applications help you promote your listings in your personal publishing space, incorporate site search functions and manage your eBay activity. In a few clicks, you can "widgetize" your e-biz...
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Self-Expression to Media Companies - Evolution of Widgets
From Self-Expression to Media Companies Written - The Evolution of Widgets
"Media companies see widgets as an important new method of reaching audiences both inside and outside their domains. It seems that widgets cover array of tasks ranging from brand propagation to instant transactions and customer tracking. In this post we will take a look at how web widgets have evolved from cool, viral toys of self-expression to important big media tools."
Interesting article at the ReadWriteWeb. Full article here
"Media companies see widgets as an important new method of reaching audiences both inside and outside their domains. It seems that widgets cover array of tasks ranging from brand propagation to instant transactions and customer tracking. In this post we will take a look at how web widgets have evolved from cool, viral toys of self-expression to important big media tools."
Interesting article at the ReadWriteWeb. Full article here
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RockYou hitches its wasgon to MySpace, Facebook
RockYou hitches its wasgon to MySpace, Facebook
Jia Shen wanted to make a big splash with his new photo-sharing site, RockYou, so he targeted users of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. RockYou's pitch: easy-to-share slideshows and decorations, including floating hearts and glitter text.
In May 2007, red-hot social network Facebook added RockYou to the list of outside applications Facebook fans can add to their personal pages; 15 million have signed up.
I have posted at a couple of other posts how folks have hit the big dollar route by hitching their wagons to stars...there can be no bigger stars today than MySpace & Facebook...so if you are an entrepreneur looking to make your small idea big, check out if there is anyway you can hitch a ride to stardom with these fabulously famous social networking sites...
Via: Yahoo News
Jia Shen wanted to make a big splash with his new photo-sharing site, RockYou, so he targeted users of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. RockYou's pitch: easy-to-share slideshows and decorations, including floating hearts and glitter text.
In May 2007, red-hot social network Facebook added RockYou to the list of outside applications Facebook fans can add to their personal pages; 15 million have signed up.
I have posted at a couple of other posts how folks have hit the big dollar route by hitching their wagons to stars...there can be no bigger stars today than MySpace & Facebook...so if you are an entrepreneur looking to make your small idea big, check out if there is anyway you can hitch a ride to stardom with these fabulously famous social networking sites...
Via: Yahoo News
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Amung.us launches cool Web site visitor map
Amung.us launches cool Web site visitor map
A new widget @ Amung.us: A mapping plug-in, maps.amung.us you can add to your site to show you where your site's visitors are coming from, updated in real time. @ this wedget, Amung.us also collects interesting stats...
Via: Tech news blog
A new widget @ Amung.us: A mapping plug-in, maps.amung.us you can add to your site to show you where your site's visitors are coming from, updated in real time. @ this wedget, Amung.us also collects interesting stats...
Via: Tech news blog
Where MySpace and Facebook are headed
Where MySpace and Facebook are headed - By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
David, in this interesting article, takes a look @ MySpace & Facebook and tries to figure out where they are heading...more interesting (for me that is), I found some interesting web 2.0 ideas he has mentioned in the article
Gather.com - for grown-ups...'a scholarly MySpace with less hook-ups and more intellectual stimulation.' "
TeeBeeDee - "the place for people over 40 who believe that life is still to be determined."
Respectance - "a communal grieving space...[to] share memories of loved ones."
Marketocracy - "has built an army of tens of thousands of investing fanatics who trade stocks on their Website using virtual money."
LawLink - "a new professional and social networking site for attorneys."
Reunion.com - "the leading web site...to reconnect and stay connected with family, friends, lost loves, and colleagues"
David, in this interesting article, takes a look @ MySpace & Facebook and tries to figure out where they are heading...more interesting (for me that is), I found some interesting web 2.0 ideas he has mentioned in the article
Gather.com - for grown-ups...'a scholarly MySpace with less hook-ups and more intellectual stimulation.' "
TeeBeeDee - "the place for people over 40 who believe that life is still to be determined."
Respectance - "a communal grieving space...[to] share memories of loved ones."
Marketocracy - "has built an army of tens of thousands of investing fanatics who trade stocks on their Website using virtual money."
LawLink - "a new professional and social networking site for attorneys."
Reunion.com - "the leading web site...to reconnect and stay connected with family, friends, lost loves, and colleagues"
Web 2.0 Badges - Get or Create Web 2.0 Badges for Free
Web 2.0 Badges - Get or Create Web 2.0 Badges for Free
You don't need any expensive graphics editing tools, or perform complicated procedures to generate those cool Web 2.0 style badges. You can do all of that online quickly and for free with Web 2.0 Badges.
You can select from pre-created badges templates and tweak them to your satisfaction
Web 2.0 Badges
You don't need any expensive graphics editing tools, or perform complicated procedures to generate those cool Web 2.0 style badges. You can do all of that online quickly and for free with Web 2.0 Badges.
You can select from pre-created badges templates and tweak them to your satisfaction
Web 2.0 Badges
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Phone Number Geolocator
Phone Number Geolocator - give the phone # (US/Canada) and the geolocator will provide the location of the exchange for the number
COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved?
COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved?
It is currently such a pain to pull off cross-site web applications that it's simply infeasible (installation, maintenance, resources). COWS Ajax makes this cross-site, asynchronous, tri-directional communication (the user, your site, the application host) a no-brainer.
With COWS Ajax, cool 3rd party tools can now be created to integrate with your web site. Your users will love the cool tools. You'll happily take the bonus functionality intergrated into your site. And in exchange for making the cool apps, the application host can create branding, drive traffic, or employ serveral revenue streams
COWS Ajax @ SourceForge
It is currently such a pain to pull off cross-site web applications that it's simply infeasible (installation, maintenance, resources). COWS Ajax makes this cross-site, asynchronous, tri-directional communication (the user, your site, the application host) a no-brainer.
With COWS Ajax, cool 3rd party tools can now be created to integrate with your web site. Your users will love the cool tools. You'll happily take the bonus functionality intergrated into your site. And in exchange for making the cool apps, the application host can create branding, drive traffic, or employ serveral revenue streams
COWS Ajax @ SourceForge
Answer & Expert Sites - Excellent Market Research Tools
Answer & Expert Sites - Excellent Market Research Tools
Those of you who have used the Q&A services @ sites such as Yahoo Answers or AskVille know that these are great ways to get answers to important questions, as well as get a few good links back to your site if you happen to be the answerer and got a relevant site to give a link back to
But as this blog post says, "even if you don't have the time to answer questions, Q & A sites like Yahoo Answers are fantastic research and product development tools. They're a great way to discover the questions that are on the minds of your target market, so you can make sure you address those questions in your salescopy--or maybe even come up with new product ideas!"
Very true
Those of you who have used the Q&A services @ sites such as Yahoo Answers or AskVille know that these are great ways to get answers to important questions, as well as get a few good links back to your site if you happen to be the answerer and got a relevant site to give a link back to
But as this blog post says, "even if you don't have the time to answer questions, Q & A sites like Yahoo Answers are fantastic research and product development tools. They're a great way to discover the questions that are on the minds of your target market, so you can make sure you address those questions in your salescopy--or maybe even come up with new product ideas!"
Very true
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When Comics Met Web 2.0
Top 10 Tools for Web Analytics
Top Tools for Tracking Web Site Statistics - from BrainFuel
List includes:
Google Analytics (and Urchin)
FeedBurner
Mint
AWStats
MyBlogLog
WebTrends
Site Meter
CoreMetrics
WebSideStory (HBX)
Clicky Web Statistics
Crazy Egg
Reinvigorate
Measure Map
W3Counter
List includes:
Google Analytics (and Urchin)
FeedBurner
Mint
AWStats
MyBlogLog
WebTrends
Site Meter
CoreMetrics
WebSideStory (HBX)
Clicky Web Statistics
Crazy Egg
Reinvigorate
Measure Map
W3Counter
Context Sensitive Mobile Ads Using Speech Recognition
Context Sensitive Mobile Ads Using Speech Recognition
A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about movies might see ads to movies being displayed in local theaters etc...Relevant unsponsored links also appear...
See The Pudding
A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about movies might see ads to movies being displayed in local theaters etc...Relevant unsponsored links also appear...
See The Pudding
PermaLink - Context Sensitive Mobile Ads Using Speech Recognition posted by Ecacofonix : 6:04 AM
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Mashups to Get You Up & Running
MapMyRun & WalkJogRun - mashups that make running & jogging more fun! These use Google Maps or other map apps to help you plot your running...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Google gadget ads - create mini-web sites to promote your business on Google Gadgets
Google gadget ads - create mini-web sites to promote your business on Google Gadgets
Google Gadget Ads™ now available across Europe...this is an interactive, online advertising format which can support real-time feeds, animations, flash, video, audio and images. Run on the Google Content Network, Gadget Ads are designed to feel more like original content than a typical ad. They are essentially mini-websites within websites, which compete alongside text, image and video ads for placement. Gadget Ads are very flexible so advertisers can use them in a myriad of different ways...
Read more from this post here @ Creative Match
Google Gadget Ads™ now available across Europe...this is an interactive, online advertising format which can support real-time feeds, animations, flash, video, audio and images. Run on the Google Content Network, Gadget Ads are designed to feel more like original content than a typical ad. They are essentially mini-websites within websites, which compete alongside text, image and video ads for placement. Gadget Ads are very flexible so advertisers can use them in a myriad of different ways...
Read more from this post here @ Creative Match
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Web Sites that Help Track Charities
"Is there a Web site where I can check to see if a charitable organization is legitimate? And where can I check to see if they are using the money responsibly?" - thus asks a member @ this AJC page
Answer: "There are two terrific sites where you can check out charitable groups. Go to www.give.org or www.guidestar.org. You can see whether a group that claims to be a charity is legitimate, and you can see how it spends its money"
Nothing exciting about these sites, except that these are unique and clearly address a problem for a niche market...interesting, at least to someone like who is obsessed with finding interesting web niches...
Answer: "There are two terrific sites where you can check out charitable groups. Go to www.give.org or www.guidestar.org. You can see whether a group that claims to be a charity is legitimate, and you can see how it spends its money"
Nothing exciting about these sites, except that these are unique and clearly address a problem for a niche market...interesting, at least to someone like who is obsessed with finding interesting web niches...
The Unnecessary Quotation Marks Blog
The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks - making fun of bad punctuation since 2005.
Talk about niches...
Talk about niches...
SnapVine - Leave Voice Messages on Social Network Pages
Snapvine, is a service that allows people to add and receive voice messages directly on their MySpace pages. It has been growing fast since it started last summer, with more than 5 million installations on MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 and other sites...
The company recently landed $10 million in a deal led by Bridgescale Partners, a new Silicon Valley firm.
Snapvine
The company recently landed $10 million in a deal led by Bridgescale Partners, a new Silicon Valley firm.
Snapvine
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Web 2.0 as an enterprise knowledge management platform
Web 2.0 as an enterprise knowledge management platform
Here's someone trying to use web 2.0 for enterprises...
It's interesting to see what he says about knowledge aggregation in large organizations - "did some research a couple of years ago on expertise in the organisation that found 70 to 80 per cent of expertise is learned informally and known to a circle of people immediately surrounding the individual"...his company's Sonar platform tries to capture this knowledge using processes similar to those in web 2.0...
Full article here
Here's someone trying to use web 2.0 for enterprises...
It's interesting to see what he says about knowledge aggregation in large organizations - "did some research a couple of years ago on expertise in the organisation that found 70 to 80 per cent of expertise is learned informally and known to a circle of people immediately surrounding the individual"...his company's Sonar platform tries to capture this knowledge using processes similar to those in web 2.0...
Full article here
PermaLink - Web 2.0 as an enterprise knowledge management platform posted by Ecacofonix : 12:26 PM
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Search Engines Becoming Obsolete in Web 2.0 Frenzy?
Web 2.0 vs. Search Engines: Are Search Engines Becoming Obsolete in the Web 2.0 Frenzy?
A detailed answer, and useful data and info given on web 2.0 and search engine usage trends, with a focus on travel & hospitality industry
From Hospitality Net
A detailed answer, and useful data and info given on web 2.0 and search engine usage trends, with a focus on travel & hospitality industry
From Hospitality Net
PermaLink - Search Engines Becoming Obsolete in Web 2.0 Frenzy? posted by Ecacofonix : 12:02 PM
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk - Earn Small Money from Small Work
Amazon's Mechanical Turk - a small business opportunity...one of Amazon's Web Services in which it offers things like infrastructure, computing power and storage on an outsource basis to start-ups. With Mechanical Turk, companies that have small computer-based tasks can get quick access to a large labor pool.
Anyone with a computer and Internet access can serve as the human intelligence behind all sorts of tasks that computers can't perform on their own. The Web site promises a way to make easy money...though from what the author says at this post, it looks like very small amounts of money...
All the same, worth checking out for us when we have a couple of hours to laze around
Anyone with a computer and Internet access can serve as the human intelligence behind all sorts of tasks that computers can't perform on their own. The Web site promises a way to make easy money...though from what the author says at this post, it looks like very small amounts of money...
All the same, worth checking out for us when we have a couple of hours to laze around
PermaLink - Amazon's Mechanical Turk - Earn Small Money from Small Work posted by Ecacofonix : 11:34 AM
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Innovative Greeting Card for Businesses
Innovative Greeting Card for Businesses
Not sure if this will rock, but it appears like an idea that has excellent potential...read an excerpt from their press release:
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Soulize Greetings creates a new and revolutionary type of greeting card for businesses, called Business Video Greeting Card (BVGC). These cards enhance the greeting card experience for card senders and recipients. Many powerful features provide greater opportunities for businesses to develop lasting impressions with customers and potential customers via online and traditional means such as mail.
Soulize Greetings introduces a new type of greeting card for businesses, called Business Video Greeting Card (www.businessvideogreetings.com)...
Business Video Greeting Cards (www.businessvideogreetings.com) offer smart and practical features that are not available with other types of greeting cards. An exciting feature of the Business Video Greeting Card is the ability to add a promotional offer, which helps companies lower their advertising expenses and increase their sales. An external web link placed at the end of the card provides customers and potential customers direct access to the promotional offer. Another exciting feature is the option of creating a 30-60 second personalized video closing. Now a company representative such as a Chief Executive Officer, can personally thank customers via video. This option adds credibility and a more personal touch. Each professional card contains business appropriate effects, music, imagery and inspiring messages, which play simultaneously."
Business Video Greetings
Not sure if this will rock, but it appears like an idea that has excellent potential...read an excerpt from their press release:
"
Soulize Greetings creates a new and revolutionary type of greeting card for businesses, called Business Video Greeting Card (BVGC). These cards enhance the greeting card experience for card senders and recipients. Many powerful features provide greater opportunities for businesses to develop lasting impressions with customers and potential customers via online and traditional means such as mail.
Soulize Greetings introduces a new type of greeting card for businesses, called Business Video Greeting Card (www.businessvideogreetings.com)...
Business Video Greeting Cards (www.businessvideogreetings.com) offer smart and practical features that are not available with other types of greeting cards. An exciting feature of the Business Video Greeting Card is the ability to add a promotional offer, which helps companies lower their advertising expenses and increase their sales. An external web link placed at the end of the card provides customers and potential customers direct access to the promotional offer. Another exciting feature is the option of creating a 30-60 second personalized video closing. Now a company representative such as a Chief Executive Officer, can personally thank customers via video. This option adds credibility and a more personal touch. Each professional card contains business appropriate effects, music, imagery and inspiring messages, which play simultaneously."
Business Video Greetings
SpiralFrog - Free Music, well not exactly free
SpiralFrog - Free Music, well not exactly free
SpiralFrog.com has finally arrived
The online music service, which started making noise a year ago when it announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group has starter offering free music...
Not entirely free...because you pay with your time...spending your time watching advertisements.
At SpiralFrog you're not spending any money. Instead, you watch an ad, then download a song. Checking in with SpiralFrog at least once per month to watch more ads keeps your downloads rocking.
SpiralFrog
SpiralFrog.com has finally arrived
The online music service, which started making noise a year ago when it announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group has starter offering free music...
Not entirely free...because you pay with your time...spending your time watching advertisements.
At SpiralFrog you're not spending any money. Instead, you watch an ad, then download a song. Checking in with SpiralFrog at least once per month to watch more ads keeps your downloads rocking.
SpiralFrog
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Video Resumes - A Cool Way to Impress Your Employer
Guess this has been happening for a while, but got to know that this could become mainstream - having your resume as a video, where you tell your prospective employers who you are, what you do and the value you bring to the table...
A search on YouTube for video resumes does bring up a few interesting attempts
A search on YouTube for video resumes does bring up a few interesting attempts
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Don't Click It - Navigate without Clicking Buttons
Don't Click It
an interface in which you navigate without clicking...
I did not find it extremely intuitive, though I did find it interesting...
Dont Click It
an interface in which you navigate without clicking...
I did not find it extremely intuitive, though I did find it interesting...
Dont Click It
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Legal watchlist for web 2.0 startups - a beginner's guide
Legal suicide for web 2.0 startups - a beginner's guide
Web 2.0 by its very nature can run afoul of "standard" law many times...even without the owners of the startup realising it most of the time...this is a brief but neat guide for things to watch out while starting and running a web 2.0 startup...
Web 2.0 by its very nature can run afoul of "standard" law many times...even without the owners of the startup realising it most of the time...this is a brief but neat guide for things to watch out while starting and running a web 2.0 startup...
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Getting that Bright Web Idea & Kicking it Off
Here's an article from TimesOnline UK on how to get fresh entrepreneurial ideas - lots of web resources on brainstroming, getting that eureka moment and more...
Also provides neat resources for business plan creation and the other formal stuff required to get your idea off the ground
Also provides neat resources for business plan creation and the other formal stuff required to get your idea off the ground
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Web Design for Mobile - A Big Niche?
Designing for Mobile - A big niche?
Well, it is no news that mobile browsing is becoming big and bigger...and existing web pages need to be tweaked in order to fit into mobile phones, and in order to be deemed by search engines to be mobile adapted...the question is, is this market (designing and redesigning web sites and web pages for mobile) a great niche?
This post @ SEOCog discusses this issue as well as provides guidelines for implementing mobile web pages
Well, it is no news that mobile browsing is becoming big and bigger...and existing web pages need to be tweaked in order to fit into mobile phones, and in order to be deemed by search engines to be mobile adapted...the question is, is this market (designing and redesigning web sites and web pages for mobile) a great niche?
This post @ SEOCog discusses this issue as well as provides guidelines for implementing mobile web pages
Sunday, September 16, 2007
All the latest buzz on one page - Popurls
Popurls
All the latest popular stories and pages from the news & social networking media, on one page...interesting
Popurls
All the latest popular stories and pages from the news & social networking media, on one page...interesting
Popurls
Saturday, September 15, 2007
A future, interactive Google search
An interesting video of a future hypothetical interactive Google search
Video @ YouTube (2 mins approx)
Video @ YouTube (2 mins approx)
Fotoflexer - online photo editing with a difference
Online photo editing isn't new, of course not, but Fotoflexer has a unique feature that could set it apart from the rest
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The real claim to fame however, is Fotoflexer's Smart Cutout and Recolor effects, which can help you cut out various pieces of a photo, or recolor them to match the tone of your choice. The cutout is the more useful of the two, and lets you cut people or objects out from a shot without having to trace their outline." (quote courtesy this post)
Fotoflexer
Via: Webware post - more details on online photo editors at this post...
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The real claim to fame however, is Fotoflexer's Smart Cutout and Recolor effects, which can help you cut out various pieces of a photo, or recolor them to match the tone of your choice. The cutout is the more useful of the two, and lets you cut people or objects out from a shot without having to trace their outline." (quote courtesy this post)
Fotoflexer
Via: Webware post - more details on online photo editors at this post...
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RottenNeighbor and CareerTour - Unique uses of Web 2.0
RottenNeighbor and CareerTour - Unique uses of Web 2.0
Came across a list of 10 cool sites, thought two of them are quite unique
RottenNeighbor.com - a community-driven site whereby you can search or add to a database of "rotten" neighbors, could be useful to home buyers to use before moving to a new place.
CareerTours.com - employers create virtual tours of the organization and the job specific day-to-day tasks that are expected; could be useful for prospective folks wishing to join a company to see what a day in their life at the company would be
Thanks to the post @ Computer Tips from a Computre Guy blog
Came across a list of 10 cool sites, thought two of them are quite unique
RottenNeighbor.com - a community-driven site whereby you can search or add to a database of "rotten" neighbors, could be useful to home buyers to use before moving to a new place.
CareerTours.com - employers create virtual tours of the organization and the job specific day-to-day tasks that are expected; could be useful for prospective folks wishing to join a company to see what a day in their life at the company would be
Thanks to the post @ Computer Tips from a Computre Guy blog
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Link U Link Me - from Blog Rush
Blog Rush - Blog Syndication Network
BlogRush provides a service (and widgets) to display other people's blog posts on your blog and in turn get links from those blogs to yours...
I don't think this is new, has been around since the beginning of the blogosphere, but perhaps widgets such as the one proposed by BlogRush could make link-love and cross blog traffic more useful and relevant
BlogRush
BlogRush provides a service (and widgets) to display other people's blog posts on your blog and in turn get links from those blogs to yours...
I don't think this is new, has been around since the beginning of the blogosphere, but perhaps widgets such as the one proposed by BlogRush could make link-love and cross blog traffic more useful and relevant
BlogRush
Egnyte - Web 2 app that syncs apps sharing online & with desktop
Came across this post on Egnyte @ Sadagopan's blog post. It describes a web 2.0 idea Egnyte that provides powerful sharing & web-desktop synchronization capabilities...
I will nick Sadagopan's quote, since I can't anyway write it better myself:
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Egnyte is a Web 2.0 content sharing solution that combines sharing, automatic organization and a powerful search capability. Using continuous synchronization, Egnyte seamlessly integrates the desktop with the web....Egnyte has drawn on web 2.0 concepts like tagging and search and blended them with traditional concepts like file versions and folders to deliver a powerful, yet easy to use application....It is in the same space as the likes of Microsoft Groove or Tubes: applications that helps users categorize information in the desktop, back it up into the internet cloud when it changes, and upon need make it accessible across multiple computers."
Egnyte
I will nick Sadagopan's quote, since I can't anyway write it better myself:
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Egnyte is a Web 2.0 content sharing solution that combines sharing, automatic organization and a powerful search capability. Using continuous synchronization, Egnyte seamlessly integrates the desktop with the web....Egnyte has drawn on web 2.0 concepts like tagging and search and blended them with traditional concepts like file versions and folders to deliver a powerful, yet easy to use application....It is in the same space as the likes of Microsoft Groove or Tubes: applications that helps users categorize information in the desktop, back it up into the internet cloud when it changes, and upon need make it accessible across multiple computers."
Egnyte
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Interesting Sounds
Interesting Sounds
Ravi Vora lists 14 interesting "sounds" - such as popping bubble wrap, rain on a window, kittens purring and more...to me, some of the sounds possibly are not best of breed, but an interesting and unique idea to post on...I could not see links to the sounds, just pictures, perhaps Ravi will update this post soon!
Link here @ Ravi Vora blog
Ravi Vora lists 14 interesting "sounds" - such as popping bubble wrap, rain on a window, kittens purring and more...to me, some of the sounds possibly are not best of breed, but an interesting and unique idea to post on...I could not see links to the sounds, just pictures, perhaps Ravi will update this post soon!
Link here @ Ravi Vora blog
10 Future Web Trends - Semantic Web, AI, Mobile...
10 Future Web Trends - Semantic Web, AI, Mobile...
Richard MacManus @ Read Write Web provides an interesting list of future web trends at this post (Sep 5 2007). The list includes:
1. Semantic Web
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Virtual Worlds
4. Mobile
5. Attention Economy
6. Web Sites as Web Services
7. Online Video / Internet TV
8. Rich Internet Apps
9. International Web
10. Personalization
A must-read for everyone looking for the next big thing on the web
Richard MacManus @ Read Write Web provides an interesting list of future web trends at this post (Sep 5 2007). The list includes:
1. Semantic Web
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Virtual Worlds
4. Mobile
5. Attention Economy
6. Web Sites as Web Services
7. Online Video / Internet TV
8. Rich Internet Apps
9. International Web
10. Personalization
A must-read for everyone looking for the next big thing on the web
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Top 10 Author Website To-dos
How to Create an Amazing Author Website
Agreed, this is not an amazing web idea or whatever...it is a simple to-do for authors putting up web sites...but I found the ideas really useful (even if obvious to veterans)...
Given that many authors might not be web (at least web 2.0) savvy, thought this was a useful article...
Link here @ Infomean blog
Agreed, this is not an amazing web idea or whatever...it is a simple to-do for authors putting up web sites...but I found the ideas really useful (even if obvious to veterans)...
Given that many authors might not be web (at least web 2.0) savvy, thought this was a useful article...
Link here @ Infomean blog
Friday, September 14, 2007
Google Romance - Let Math Find Your Love
Google Romance - Let Math Find Your Love, at least so says Google
This is what Google has to say about its latest venture into the field of - ugh - romance...
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When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romance™ is our solution.
Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual DateTM, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.
With Google Romance, you can:
1. Upload your profile – tell the world who you are, or, more to the point, who you’d like to think you are, or, even more to the point, who you want others to think you are.
2. Search for love in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic matchmaking software.
3. Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate multimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date.
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"When you think about it love is another search problem"...yeah? it used to be that love required chemistry, now it appears it requires math
Google Romance
Via: this post
This is what Google has to say about its latest venture into the field of - ugh - romance...
"
When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romance™ is our solution.
Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual DateTM, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.
With Google Romance, you can:
1. Upload your profile – tell the world who you are, or, more to the point, who you’d like to think you are, or, even more to the point, who you want others to think you are.
2. Search for love in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic matchmaking software.
3. Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate multimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date.
"
"When you think about it love is another search problem"...yeah? it used to be that love required chemistry, now it appears it requires math
Google Romance
Via: this post
Walk a Web Page, Don't See It!
Explore the web by walking through the site by seeing a page and all its links visually. It is an interesting way to explore the website. (requires Adobe flash player to be installed)
Walk2Web
Via: A 2 Z informative
Walk2Web
Via: A 2 Z informative
Web Enabled Coffee Machine
Folks @ O2m8 we decided to take a common coffee machine, enhance it a little and connect it to a web interface. This page provides detailed descriptions of how they went about their task...
You might need to electronically inclined to enjoy this page, but try this, who knows what abilities you actually have but never knew you had!
See details of the web enabled coffee machine here
You might need to electronically inclined to enjoy this page, but try this, who knows what abilities you actually have but never knew you had!
See details of the web enabled coffee machine here
330 things I know about the Net @ American Digest
330 things I know about the Net @ American Digest
Tell you what, the first few things (of the 330) I read, I thought this was another general list...but when I started paying attention to the contents in the list, I realised some of them held grains (OK, perhaps even big grains) of truth & insights...
Useful list to browse and think about
See the list here
Tell you what, the first few things (of the 330) I read, I thought this was another general list...but when I started paying attention to the contents in the list, I realised some of them held grains (OK, perhaps even big grains) of truth & insights...
Useful list to browse and think about
See the list here
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Local Web Advertising to Grow Fast, Triple by 2011
Local Web Advertising to Grow Fast, Triple by 2011
Spending is forecast to triple by 2011, to $7.8 billion
In 2007, online will account for only 3 percent of all local ad spending, equal to about $2.9 billion of the $97 billion spent yearly. But as local sites begin to incorporate more sophisticated tools like online video and national advertisers start looking to local sites to peddle their products, that number is set to soar. A new report predicts that local online advertising will hit $7.8 billion by 2011, or more than three times the $2.1 billion generated last year. David Hallerman, senior analyst at eMarketer and author of the report, talks to Media Life about the importance of paid search, how local web advertising growth compares with national, and what steps newspapers must take to remain competitive. Read the full interview from here @ MediaLife Magazine
Spending is forecast to triple by 2011, to $7.8 billion
In 2007, online will account for only 3 percent of all local ad spending, equal to about $2.9 billion of the $97 billion spent yearly. But as local sites begin to incorporate more sophisticated tools like online video and national advertisers start looking to local sites to peddle their products, that number is set to soar. A new report predicts that local online advertising will hit $7.8 billion by 2011, or more than three times the $2.1 billion generated last year. David Hallerman, senior analyst at eMarketer and author of the report, talks to Media Life about the importance of paid search, how local web advertising growth compares with national, and what steps newspapers must take to remain competitive. Read the full interview from here @ MediaLife Magazine
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You could Launch Your Own Web TV Channel
You could Launch Your Own Web TV Channel
Finnish startup, Floobs, to offer a free Internet TV channel for everyone
Helsinki - All you need to launch your own television channel is a mobile phone with a camera, Finnish technology startup Floobs said on Thursday.
Floobs plans to offer a free television channel for everyone, enabling people to run live shows or pre-recorded material, for no charge, starting later this year.
Full report here @ MSNBC
Floobs
Finnish startup, Floobs, to offer a free Internet TV channel for everyone
Helsinki - All you need to launch your own television channel is a mobile phone with a camera, Finnish technology startup Floobs said on Thursday.
Floobs plans to offer a free television channel for everyone, enabling people to run live shows or pre-recorded material, for no charge, starting later this year.
Full report here @ MSNBC
Floobs
New Social Networking Sites Cater to Older People
New Social Networking Sites Cater to Older People
September 12, 2007, New York Times
Listen to the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and graying computer users.
The sites having names like Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Maya’s Mom, Boomj, and Boomertown could be considered Facebook — with wrinkles(!), says this NYT article
These sites are seeking to capitalize on what may be a profitable characteristic of older Internet users: they are less likely than youngsters to flit from one trendy site to the next.
Read the full report from here @ NYT
September 12, 2007, New York Times
Listen to the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and graying computer users.
The sites having names like Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Maya’s Mom, Boomj, and Boomertown could be considered Facebook — with wrinkles(!), says this NYT article
These sites are seeking to capitalize on what may be a profitable characteristic of older Internet users: they are less likely than youngsters to flit from one trendy site to the next.
Read the full report from here @ NYT
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Citizen Journalists Tastes Differ from Mainstream Media
Citizen Journalists Tastes Differ from Mainstream Media
The news topics of traditional media & news websites have little overlap with news sites based on stories selected by web users themselves (so-called citizen journalists), according to a new study comparing the content of mainstream sites in the US with popular user sites such as Digg.
The news topics of traditional media & news websites have little overlap with news sites based on stories selected by web users themselves (so-called citizen journalists), according to a new study comparing the content of mainstream sites in the US with popular user sites such as Digg.
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New Web-Based Reality Series Taking Travel to the Extreme
New Web-Based Reality Series Taking Travel to the Extreme
'Amazing Race' Winner Alex Boylan Sets Off Sept. 18 on a Global Journey Armed Only with His Wits and an Interactive Internet-based Fan Network as Currency
Show to Promote American Red Cross Preparedness Actions and Showcase International Relief Projects; Equipment Sponsors Include Sony, Remote Satellite Systems, and Tilley Endurables ...
"Amazing Race" winner Alex Boylan and Emmy-nominated editor/director Zsolt Luka hit the road September 18 from New York to launch the web-based travel reality series Around The World For Free. Developed with former "Survivor" finalist Burton Roberts, the series is the first multiplatform interactive reality travel show to debut from the team's recently formed Around The World Productions.
Read the full press release from here
Site: Around the World for Free
'Amazing Race' Winner Alex Boylan Sets Off Sept. 18 on a Global Journey Armed Only with His Wits and an Interactive Internet-based Fan Network as Currency
Show to Promote American Red Cross Preparedness Actions and Showcase International Relief Projects; Equipment Sponsors Include Sony, Remote Satellite Systems, and Tilley Endurables ...
"Amazing Race" winner Alex Boylan and Emmy-nominated editor/director Zsolt Luka hit the road September 18 from New York to launch the web-based travel reality series Around The World For Free. Developed with former "Survivor" finalist Burton Roberts, the series is the first multiplatform interactive reality travel show to debut from the team's recently formed Around The World Productions.
Read the full press release from here
Site: Around the World for Free
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Offshoots of the Web 2.0 Revolution - Law 2, Library 2, Media 2...
A pic of web 2.0 offshoots - identity, law, library 2.0, media, advertising, democracy 2.0...
See a post on the same here @ Social Computing blog
See a post on the same here @ Social Computing blog
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List of Free Online Applications and Free Software
100+ List of Better Free Online Applications and Free Software
Cool list here @ Entreprenuts blog
Cool list here @ Entreprenuts blog
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myYearBook - FaceBook or MySpace for Schools
myYearBook - FaceBook for Schools
myYearBook was started by Catherine Cook & her brother Dave Cook, school students, a couple of years ago. While it is pretty much similar to FaceBook or MySpace, it has had an excellent growth...what interests me is the concept that by taking an already existing idea to a new market, you create a new idea...As Catherine itself says in this article, when she started myYearBook, FaceBook had not penetrated the school demographic...interesting
myYearBook was started by Catherine Cook & her brother Dave Cook, school students, a couple of years ago. While it is pretty much similar to FaceBook or MySpace, it has had an excellent growth...what interests me is the concept that by taking an already existing idea to a new market, you create a new idea...As Catherine itself says in this article, when she started myYearBook, FaceBook had not penetrated the school demographic...interesting
Student Project Needs Matched with Donors - DonorsChoose
Web site matches student needs with willing donors
DonorsChoose is a web platform that allows anyone to donate as much or as little to a project of their choosing. People who need funds for their projects lisg at DonorChoose and the potential donors can evaluate the listing and choose what they wish to fund.
When it's fully funded, the site purchases and sends the materials to the teacher. It includes a camera to take photos of students using the donated material and instructs teachers and students to write thank you notes to the donors.
How to give - Proposals on DonorsChoose.org can be searched based on the keyword, region, subject, cost, school and more.
To submit a proposal - Public school teachers can submit proposals for resources that directly benefit and are used by students. Initially, teachers can submit up to three proposals.
DonorsChoose
DonorsChoose is a web platform that allows anyone to donate as much or as little to a project of their choosing. People who need funds for their projects lisg at DonorChoose and the potential donors can evaluate the listing and choose what they wish to fund.
When it's fully funded, the site purchases and sends the materials to the teacher. It includes a camera to take photos of students using the donated material and instructs teachers and students to write thank you notes to the donors.
How to give - Proposals on DonorsChoose.org can be searched based on the keyword, region, subject, cost, school and more.
To submit a proposal - Public school teachers can submit proposals for resources that directly benefit and are used by students. Initially, teachers can submit up to three proposals.
DonorsChoose
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An Awkward Dance that Went Viral
An Awkward Dance that Went Viral
How does one get an idea to go viral online? If this is the question you have been asking yourself, reading this article about Matt's awkward dancing phenomenon might just about give you a hint - "Be natural". Perhaps not just that, but it might well be the starting point
Really nice idea of someone travelling the world and doing his bit of amateur dancing, and the world joining in it, thanks to YouTube.
How does one get an idea to go viral online? If this is the question you have been asking yourself, reading this article about Matt's awkward dancing phenomenon might just about give you a hint - "Be natural". Perhaps not just that, but it might well be the starting point
Really nice idea of someone travelling the world and doing his bit of amateur dancing, and the world joining in it, thanks to YouTube.
40 Unusual & Useful Websites you Should Bookmark
40 Unusual & Useful Websites you Should Bookmark
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If you’re a long time makeuseof reader, at one point or another you may have seen several of these websites before. We have covered lots of lists and round-ups but this one is quite different: it lists undiscovered webservices that are original, rather unique, unusual, useful, free, and must-be bookmarked type. You won’t find any collaboration, storage or ToDo service here. Enjoy!"
So says this post from Make Use Of & gives a list of interesting web apps / sites...
Don't miss the comments sections...there is an equally good list of ideas given there by visitors!
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If you’re a long time makeuseof reader, at one point or another you may have seen several of these websites before. We have covered lots of lists and round-ups but this one is quite different: it lists undiscovered webservices that are original, rather unique, unusual, useful, free, and must-be bookmarked type. You won’t find any collaboration, storage or ToDo service here. Enjoy!"
So says this post from Make Use Of & gives a list of interesting web apps / sites...
Don't miss the comments sections...there is an equally good list of ideas given there by visitors!
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10 Cool Web Sites That are Missed - Mashable
"Unfortunately, people are slowly accepting the fact that some cool things are gone- and they’re not coming back, because someone somewhere needs to make more money. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and remember some of the things that were taken from us," says this interesting post from Mashable, and discusses a list of (dead) web sites (well, not all of them are entirely dead, but...)
Sites discussed:
1. Olga
2. Napster
3. Lik-Sang
4. Fonpods
5. Grokster, i2hub, WinMX…
6. SuprNova
7. MP3.com
8. SingingFish
9. (the original) Alexaholic
10. Pandora (for international users)
Sites discussed:
1. Olga
2. Napster
3. Lik-Sang
4. Fonpods
5. Grokster, i2hub, WinMX…
6. SuprNova
7. MP3.com
8. SingingFish
9. (the original) Alexaholic
10. Pandora (for international users)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Kim Komando Cool Sites Index
The Kim Komando Cool Sites Index...
a good list of cool sites (regularly updqated) on a range of categories - from fun to business - at the Kim Komando Show site
a good list of cool sites (regularly updqated) on a range of categories - from fun to business - at the Kim Komando Show site
Power the Web - Aggregator of Niche Web Businesses
The Power the Web company aquires, builds, operates & monetizes a wide variety of niche web based business - ranging from anywhere from Celebrity Birthdays to Myspace Avatars, Jokes (Clean Funny Jokes), Baby Names & their Meanings, Dog Names, Lyrics, Cocktail Recipes...
It appears that this is a rather new venture, and none of the ideas/niches that is listed is dramatically new, but as an overall idea (a company acquiring a lot of niche web sites and trying to monetize them), I felt perhaps it was quite interesting
Power the Web
It appears that this is a rather new venture, and none of the ideas/niches that is listed is dramatically new, but as an overall idea (a company acquiring a lot of niche web sites and trying to monetize them), I felt perhaps it was quite interesting
Power the Web
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Adobe Air - Web Site Always On thru Applets
Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Run-time) is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Uhh...English please?
Adobe is trying to put could put a mini application on your desktop using which you'd be able to do some useful things while not connected, and the web site is "always" with you - whether or not you are connected.
Adobe Air enables websites to break out of the browser with applets. These applets don't have the full power of a traditional desktop application, but they are much quicker and easier to write, and web developers create them using familiar tools such as HTML (JavaScript, CSS, XML), Adobe Flash (ActionScript, Flex, XML) etc...
Interesting, though one needs to wait and see whether this one finds more acceptability than similar efforts in the past with Java applets...
Via: Guardian UK article
Uhh...English please?
Adobe is trying to put could put a mini application on your desktop using which you'd be able to do some useful things while not connected, and the web site is "always" with you - whether or not you are connected.
Adobe Air enables websites to break out of the browser with applets. These applets don't have the full power of a traditional desktop application, but they are much quicker and easier to write, and web developers create them using familiar tools such as HTML (JavaScript, CSS, XML), Adobe Flash (ActionScript, Flex, XML) etc...
Interesting, though one needs to wait and see whether this one finds more acceptability than similar efforts in the past with Java applets...
Via: Guardian UK article
Fox News Daily Round Up of Interesting Things on Web
This section of Fox News has a daily round up of interesting web sites - not really great or cool ideas, most times the listings are about interesting web sites / content, but is fun read, and that too updated everyday
PermaLink - Fox News Daily Round Up of Interesting Things on Web posted by Ecacofonix : 11:21 PM
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Find Unused FM Frequencies in Your Area
Find Unused FM Frequencies in Your Area
If you have an FM transmitter for your iPod, here's a service that helps you find the best unused FM radio frequency in your area quickly and easily.
The Find Unused FM Frequencies in Your Area Web page offered by radio-locator.comis easy to use and is free. Just type your zip code or city and state and in seconds you'll be offered a list of the best vacant channels, the next best channels, and some other channels that may work well...
Via iPod Observer
If you have an FM transmitter for your iPod, here's a service that helps you find the best unused FM radio frequency in your area quickly and easily.
The Find Unused FM Frequencies in Your Area Web page offered by radio-locator.comis easy to use and is free. Just type your zip code or city and state and in seconds you'll be offered a list of the best vacant channels, the next best channels, and some other channels that may work well...
Via iPod Observer
Some music-related web 2.0 communities
Some music-related web 2.0 communities
imeem is an online community where millons of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.
Mog - discovering people thru music and music thru people
imeem is an online community where millons of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.
Mog - discovering people thru music and music thru people
Yugma - Skype - Online Collaboration Made Easy
Yugma - Skype - Online Collaboration Made Easy
* Instant desktop sharing
* Collaborate in any program
* Free forever
* Skype revolutionized real-time communication online
Yugma enables real-time collaboration by enabling quick and instant sharing of ideas by letting you conduct virtual meetings or share desktops spontaneously. Yugma works across platforms - working seamlessly between Windows, Mac and Linux, and is easy to use.
The Yugma Skype edition allows you to do all these with your Skype contacts.
Yugma lets you connect with up to 10 other people for free.
You can upgrade any time to host meetings with up to 500 other people.
Yugma Skype
* Instant desktop sharing
* Collaborate in any program
* Free forever
* Skype revolutionized real-time communication online
Yugma enables real-time collaboration by enabling quick and instant sharing of ideas by letting you conduct virtual meetings or share desktops spontaneously. Yugma works across platforms - working seamlessly between Windows, Mac and Linux, and is easy to use.
The Yugma Skype edition allows you to do all these with your Skype contacts.
Yugma lets you connect with up to 10 other people for free.
You can upgrade any time to host meetings with up to 500 other people.
Yugma Skype
PermaLink - Yugma - Skype - Online Collaboration Made Easy posted by Ecacofonix : 12:19 PM
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Mobile Glu - Mobilising Your Mobile Life
mobileGlu - Mobilising Your Mobile Life
Do you ever wish you had access to your life on the web when you were on the move ?
mobileGlu brings together your life online into one place on your mobile:
mobileGlu will pull the data from your life online and optimise it for your mobile device automatically
mobileGlu will allow you to post to your online services from your mobile
mobileGlu currently supports del.icio.us, Flickr, moblogUK, upcoming.org, Blogger, and RSS feeds with more being added as time goes on
mobileGlu
Do you ever wish you had access to your life on the web when you were on the move ?
mobileGlu brings together your life online into one place on your mobile:
mobileGlu will pull the data from your life online and optimise it for your mobile device automatically
mobileGlu will allow you to post to your online services from your mobile
mobileGlu currently supports del.icio.us, Flickr, moblogUK, upcoming.org, Blogger, and RSS feeds with more being added as time goes on
mobileGlu
MiniMobs - site-to-site chat
MiniMob - site-to-site chat
MiniMobs is a neat new way to chat with your friends without downloading a software.
How it works
It dosen't need to be downloaded and installed on to your computer like other instant messengers, it runs straight from your web page use it on your Myspace, Friendster, Freewebs, Piczo and more!
More from MiniMobs site
MiniMobs is a neat new way to chat with your friends without downloading a software.
How it works
It dosen't need to be downloaded and installed on to your computer like other instant messengers, it runs straight from your web page use it on your Myspace, Friendster, Freewebs, Piczo and more!
More from MiniMobs site
Birthday Bios - Create a certificate and factfile for a birthday!
Birthday Bios - Create a certificate and factfile for a birthday!
This is not a web idea but an offline software idea, but a cool one I thought
"Birthday Bios creates attractive, personalized certificates, newspapers, and web pages that reveal interesting information about the day you were born, or any date between January 1st 1900 and December 31st 2005. When you own Birthday Bios, you can create an unlimited number of "The Day You Were Born" certificates. You can also create pictures of the prints to send in emails, or post on the web. You can even create your own templates! Owners of Birthday Bios can download free upgrades that include updated information and features."
Birthday Bios from Symphonic Software
This is not a web idea but an offline software idea, but a cool one I thought
"Birthday Bios creates attractive, personalized certificates, newspapers, and web pages that reveal interesting information about the day you were born, or any date between January 1st 1900 and December 31st 2005. When you own Birthday Bios, you can create an unlimited number of "The Day You Were Born" certificates. You can also create pictures of the prints to send in emails, or post on the web. You can even create your own templates! Owners of Birthday Bios can download free upgrades that include updated information and features."
Birthday Bios from Symphonic Software
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Dabble - del.icio.us for videos?
Dabble - del.icio.us for videos?
"Dabble's mission is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
What does this mean? Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
With all of these different sources for online video, we knew people would need one place where they could collect videos from all over the web. Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media. Our records keep track of the shortcuts ("bookmarks" or links) to wherever the media is stored on the web, right along with all the rest of the metadata about the media.
At the end of the day, Dabble is a place where you can find videos of interest to you, no matter what your taste, and gather all the media you've seen elsewhere into one organized collection. Enjoy!
"
Cool!
Dabble
"Dabble's mission is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
What does this mean? Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
With all of these different sources for online video, we knew people would need one place where they could collect videos from all over the web. Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media. Our records keep track of the shortcuts ("bookmarks" or links) to wherever the media is stored on the web, right along with all the rest of the metadata about the media.
At the end of the day, Dabble is a place where you can find videos of interest to you, no matter what your taste, and gather all the media you've seen elsewhere into one organized collection. Enjoy!
"
Cool!
Dabble
Wridea - Manage Your Ideas Online
Wridea - Manage Your Ideas Online
Never forget your ideas again. Save them as you have them. Create categories and organize your ideas. Have brainstorm sessions with your friends. Use wridea as a basic project management tool. Create a page for each project and different categories for each work type.
Wridea
Never forget your ideas again. Save them as you have them. Create categories and organize your ideas. Have brainstorm sessions with your friends. Use wridea as a basic project management tool. Create a page for each project and different categories for each work type.
Wridea
Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop.
The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets. Works on both Windows and Mac OSes.
Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop.
The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets. Works on both Windows and Mac OSes.
Yahoo Widgets
Wishlistr - Create a wishlist. Share it! Keep track!
Wishlistr - Create a wishlist. Share it! Keep track!
Wishlistr - Create a wishlist. Share it with friends and family. Keep track of the things you want.Wishlistr is an easy to use web-based application that will help you collect, organize and keep track of the things you want. It also lets you share those things with friends and family. What's on your wishlist?
Wishlistr
Wishlistr - Create a wishlist. Share it with friends and family. Keep track of the things you want.Wishlistr is an easy to use web-based application that will help you collect, organize and keep track of the things you want. It also lets you share those things with friends and family. What's on your wishlist?
Wishlistr
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Firedoodle - Turn the Web into a Whiteboard
Firedoodle - Turn the Web into a Whiteboard
"When you install Firedoodle, you add a whiteboard to every web page you visit using the Firefox Browser. This is great for reviews, jotting ideas, or just goofing off. You can also mark your place on looooong pages so if you need to leave and come back, you can easily pick up where you left off. It's easy to use and you can even save your highlights or placemarks if you register so they don't disappear when you close Firefox. You can find help in our forums, if the User Guide doesn't answer your questions. You can also track development on my personal blog."
Neat!
Firedoodle
"When you install Firedoodle, you add a whiteboard to every web page you visit using the Firefox Browser. This is great for reviews, jotting ideas, or just goofing off. You can also mark your place on looooong pages so if you need to leave and come back, you can easily pick up where you left off. It's easy to use and you can even save your highlights or placemarks if you register so they don't disappear when you close Firefox. You can find help in our forums, if the User Guide doesn't answer your questions. You can also track development on my personal blog."
Neat!
Firedoodle
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
PostSecret - Post Your Secrets Anonymously
PostSecret - Post Your Secrets Anonymously
This idea might sound a bit strange, but I think this blog has been extremely successful because it taps into a big need - the need for people to share some of their sorrows, humiliations or regrets in an anonymous manner.
Any one can send in their "secret" anonymously to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
Secrets are posted by mail (snail mail) to an address given at the blog...
Read the blog, this sure is a different idea that will find resonance with every one of us in some small way at least
Post Secret
This idea might sound a bit strange, but I think this blog has been extremely successful because it taps into a big need - the need for people to share some of their sorrows, humiliations or regrets in an anonymous manner.
Any one can send in their "secret" anonymously to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
Secrets are posted by mail (snail mail) to an address given at the blog...
Read the blog, this sure is a different idea that will find resonance with every one of us in some small way at least
Post Secret
24 Ways - to Impress with Cool Web Design & Web Page Concepts
24 Ways - to Impress with Cool Web Design & Web Page Concepts
This site - or is it just only one page? - has a cool list of 24 ideas to jazz up your web page, focus on simple, neat things you just didn't know and more
24 Ways
This site - or is it just only one page? - has a cool list of 24 ideas to jazz up your web page, focus on simple, neat things you just didn't know and more
24 Ways
PermaLink - 24 Ways - to Impress with Cool Web Design & Web Page Concepts posted by Ecacofonix : 9:54 PM
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43 Things - What do you want to do with your life?
43 Things - What do you want to do with your life?
Interesting web 2.0 idea in which people share what they want to do with their lives...and a community is built around members' interests
Of course, the concept sounds a bit trivial at first sight, but who knows...
It's interesting, that's for sure
43 Things
Interesting web 2.0 idea in which people share what they want to do with their lives...and a community is built around members' interests
Of course, the concept sounds a bit trivial at first sight, but who knows...
It's interesting, that's for sure
43 Things
PermaLink - 43 Things - What do you want to do with your life? posted by Ecacofonix : 9:43 PM
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LifeHacker - blog on tips & downloads for productivity
LifeHacker - a blog on tips & downloads for getting things done
A popular blog that provides interesting and useful info on software and web sites that can speeden up your business and life
Will help if one keeps in touch with this blog regularly...
Lifehacker
A popular blog that provides interesting and useful info on software and web sites that can speeden up your business and life
Will help if one keeps in touch with this blog regularly...
Lifehacker
PermaLink - LifeHacker - blog on tips & downloads for productivity posted by Ecacofonix : 9:39 PM
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8Apps - A Social Networking Platform with Multiple Apps
8apps
Currently by invite only. It is made up of 4 applications: Handshake - a social networking application, Pinpoint - a meeting organizer, Orchestrate - a personal to do list manager, and Blueprint - a bulletin board that allows users to combine ideas… on a … bulletin board…
Via this post
Currently by invite only. It is made up of 4 applications: Handshake - a social networking application, Pinpoint - a meeting organizer, Orchestrate - a personal to do list manager, and Blueprint - a bulletin board that allows users to combine ideas… on a … bulletin board…
Via this post
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Everything Web 2.0 - Large List of Web 2.0 Sites
Everything Web 2.0 - Large List of Web 2.0 Sites
"Most comprehensive index of Web 2.0 companies (well over 5,000 listed)", says the blurb on the post, and I completely agree...a massive link list of all web 2.0 ideas and sites...
You might want to be selective in what you click and read because else you could spend a lot of time on things that are interesting but are of no use to you!
The links are given in multiple posts, first set of posts here
Ah, here's another...was told that Go2Web20 was another good directory for all things web 2.0, but on my (IE) browser all I saw was a blank home page...perhaps it works only on Firefox? Will check it out later, got to download a new version of FF
"Most comprehensive index of Web 2.0 companies (well over 5,000 listed)", says the blurb on the post, and I completely agree...a massive link list of all web 2.0 ideas and sites...
You might want to be selective in what you click and read because else you could spend a lot of time on things that are interesting but are of no use to you!
The links are given in multiple posts, first set of posts here
Ah, here's another...was told that Go2Web20 was another good directory for all things web 2.0, but on my (IE) browser all I saw was a blank home page...perhaps it works only on Firefox? Will check it out later, got to download a new version of FF
PermaLink - Everything Web 2.0 - Large List of Web 2.0 Sites posted by Ecacofonix : 12:22 PM
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WebSnapr - Capture Screenshots of Web Pages
WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness
Interesting idea, though I guess similar to what Snap offers
Interesting idea, though I guess similar to what Snap offers
Find Your Web Niche for Fun and Profits
Find Your Niche for Fun and Profits
A nice article detailing the experiences of some niche business ideas on the web.
I liked the Beerbelly example in particular...it appears these simple (almost crude) but rather unexplored ideas are those that have enormous potential online for small businesses
Read the full article from here @ AdSense Alligator
A nice article detailing the experiences of some niche business ideas on the web.
I liked the Beerbelly example in particular...it appears these simple (almost crude) but rather unexplored ideas are those that have enormous potential online for small businesses
Read the full article from here @ AdSense Alligator
Monday, September 10, 2007
Search for Study Experts Just Got Easier - StudyCurve
Aaron Allina has created a business and Web site, StudyCurve.com, to make the search for expert help much faster.
StudyCurve melds social networking with education to help school students find experts to answer questions and to form virtual study groups. Users create online profiles with a list of their classes, interests and subject areas. They can post photos, form groups on various topics, and designate "study buddies."
Users can ask questions that StudyCurve sends out only to other users who tag themselves as having expertise on that topic. People whose answers get a certain amount of high ratings become listed as experts.
StudyCurve
Source: Business Week article
StudyCurve melds social networking with education to help school students find experts to answer questions and to form virtual study groups. Users create online profiles with a list of their classes, interests and subject areas. They can post photos, form groups on various topics, and designate "study buddies."
Users can ask questions that StudyCurve sends out only to other users who tag themselves as having expertise on that topic. People whose answers get a certain amount of high ratings become listed as experts.
StudyCurve
Source: Business Week article
PermaLink - Search for Study Experts Just Got Easier - StudyCurve posted by Ecacofonix : 11:43 PM
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Microsoft's idea of Web 2.0: interview with Michael Platt
Microsoft's idea of Web 2.0: interview with Michael Platt
James Bannan, APC Mag
What is Web 2.0? Can it even be accurately defined?
James Bannan of APC Mag asked Microsoft's Michael Platt -- a Web Architect with the Architecture Strategy Group, about where the future of the internet lies, and how people are shaping the net as well as being shaped by the net.
Interesting post in which Michael gives useful insights into his perspectives on what web 2.0 and the internet's future could be...
Read the full post from here
James Bannan, APC Mag
What is Web 2.0? Can it even be accurately defined?
James Bannan of APC Mag asked Microsoft's Michael Platt -- a Web Architect with the Architecture Strategy Group, about where the future of the internet lies, and how people are shaping the net as well as being shaped by the net.
Interesting post in which Michael gives useful insights into his perspectives on what web 2.0 and the internet's future could be...
Read the full post from here
PermaLink - Microsoft's idea of Web 2.0: interview with Michael Platt posted by Ecacofonix : 11:38 PM
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Site Kreator - A Cool Web Site Creation Software
Site Kreator - A Cool Web Site Creation Software
SiteKreator was designed to help businesses to easily create stylish, interactive, and effective Web sites. SiteKreator is a fully-hosted online application that eliminates the need to download, install, or upgrade software.
Rather than customers hiring a designer or agency or using generic tools for site design and/or blogging, SiteKreator lets you create a site easily; it also pulls together the best of the Web’s most important features and capabilities, without the high price tag. SiteKreator is Web 2.0 ready, enabling businesses to easily implement interactive features, such as blogs, Web forms, and discussion forums...
SiteKreator
Via: Cool Business Ideas post
SiteKreator was designed to help businesses to easily create stylish, interactive, and effective Web sites. SiteKreator is a fully-hosted online application that eliminates the need to download, install, or upgrade software.
Rather than customers hiring a designer or agency or using generic tools for site design and/or blogging, SiteKreator lets you create a site easily; it also pulls together the best of the Web’s most important features and capabilities, without the high price tag. SiteKreator is Web 2.0 ready, enabling businesses to easily implement interactive features, such as blogs, Web forms, and discussion forums...
SiteKreator
Via: Cool Business Ideas post
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Freebase - a more structured open source encyclopedia
Have you heard about Freebase, a new open encyclopedia?
Like Wikipedia, Freebase is an open encyclopedia that most anyone can edit. But alongside each free-form article in Freebase, there are database fields for relevant data points. For example, if the article is about a movie, you'll find fields for its release date, director, producer, screenwriters and so on.
The benefit of such an arrangement is that all the information in Freebase can be searched and sorted in every conceivable way. Looking for cities with populations of more than one million? Freebase can pull it all out for you. Moreover, these fields aren't fixed: Users can create their own, or petition to have existing ones changed.
This has to do with the way information is stored in Freebase - while in Wikipedia most content we put in go into specific fields in a lumped form, in Freebase I'd imagine content included into specific fields are more structured...
Will need to keep an eye open on Freebase's progress...
Freebase
Like Wikipedia, Freebase is an open encyclopedia that most anyone can edit. But alongside each free-form article in Freebase, there are database fields for relevant data points. For example, if the article is about a movie, you'll find fields for its release date, director, producer, screenwriters and so on.
The benefit of such an arrangement is that all the information in Freebase can be searched and sorted in every conceivable way. Looking for cities with populations of more than one million? Freebase can pull it all out for you. Moreover, these fields aren't fixed: Users can create their own, or petition to have existing ones changed.
This has to do with the way information is stored in Freebase - while in Wikipedia most content we put in go into specific fields in a lumped form, in Freebase I'd imagine content included into specific fields are more structured...
Will need to keep an eye open on Freebase's progress...
Freebase
PermaLink - Freebase - a more structured open source encyclopedia posted by Ecacofonix : 12:42 AM
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Kids, Commerce & Online Money Making Games
Kids, Commerce & Online Money Making Games
Money in kids' games is nothing new. The difference in some of the new online sites for children is that these interactive tools provide a richer way to let kids play with ideas such as money and trading.
Kids are increasingly spending playtime in online worlds like Webkinz, Club Penguin and Barbie Girls where they take on virtual personas or play with virtual pets, says this interesting article from Cape Cod Times. While mostly meant for chatting and games, some of these sites also let kids and their online avatars mimic real-world financial activities like saving and spending.
Money in kids' games is nothing new. The difference in some of the new online sites for children is that these interactive tools provide a richer way to let kids play with ideas such as money and trading.
Kids are increasingly spending playtime in online worlds like Webkinz, Club Penguin and Barbie Girls where they take on virtual personas or play with virtual pets, says this interesting article from Cape Cod Times. While mostly meant for chatting and games, some of these sites also let kids and their online avatars mimic real-world financial activities like saving and spending.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia
Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia - from Neomeme...
Nice post giving a good list of no-so-well-known things you could do with Wikipedia
See the post here
Nice post giving a good list of no-so-well-known things you could do with Wikipedia
See the post here
PermaLink - Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia posted by Ecacofonix : 9:34 AM
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15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity
15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity
While there are thousands of gadgets available for Google, this post has done the nice job of sorting through hundreds of gadgets and selecting 15 which (in its opinion) will be very useful for productivity...
See the list from the post here @ Web Worker Daily
While there are thousands of gadgets available for Google, this post has done the nice job of sorting through hundreds of gadgets and selecting 15 which (in its opinion) will be very useful for productivity...
See the list from the post here @ Web Worker Daily
PermaLink - 15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity posted by Ecacofonix : 6:53 AM
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The Strangest Sites on the Web
The Strangest Sites on the Web
If you thought only awesome sites got a lot of mention and links from other sites and blogs, you couldn't have been more wrong...
Check out some of the sites listed here as the strangest sites of the web...I may not agree these are the strangest, but these sure are some of the dullest...
Examples: A site on hyperbolic cosine functions (whatever they are), another on tying laces the right way ( I did not know there was a wrong way until I read it)...you get the idea
One wonders what one needs to be to succeed - superdumb or super-brilliant
If you thought only awesome sites got a lot of mention and links from other sites and blogs, you couldn't have been more wrong...
Check out some of the sites listed here as the strangest sites of the web...I may not agree these are the strangest, but these sure are some of the dullest...
Examples: A site on hyperbolic cosine functions (whatever they are), another on tying laces the right way ( I did not know there was a wrong way until I read it)...you get the idea
One wonders what one needs to be to succeed - superdumb or super-brilliant
Top 1000 Searches for Each Week - Google, Yahoo, MSN
Top 1000 Searches for Each Week
A useful utility from Search.com, gives you the top 1000 search terms for each week
Top 1000 Searches
A useful utility from Search.com, gives you the top 1000 search terms for each week
Top 1000 Searches
PermaLink - Top 1000 Searches for Each Week - Google, Yahoo, MSN posted by Ecacofonix : 4:34 AM
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Simplespark.com - Cool Web Apps Search Engine
Simplespark.com - Cool Web Apps Search Engine
Simple Spark is a vertical search engine for cool web applications. So, if you want a new cool functionality to your blog or web site such as a poll or to start a group listing of favorite books, Simple Spark can help you find the tool through their listings, indexes, and intelligent searches. They hope that this site helps web app developers build a fan base of users to get more noticed...
SimpleSpark
Simple Spark is a vertical search engine for cool web applications. So, if you want a new cool functionality to your blog or web site such as a poll or to start a group listing of favorite books, Simple Spark can help you find the tool through their listings, indexes, and intelligent searches. They hope that this site helps web app developers build a fan base of users to get more noticed...
SimpleSpark
Bubbl.us - Online Brainstorming Made Simple
Bubbl.us - Online Brainstorming Made Simple
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
With bubbl.us you can:
* Create colorful mind maps online
* Share and work with friends
* Embed your mind map in your blog or website
* Email and print your mind map
* Save your mind map as an image
And it's free
Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
With bubbl.us you can:
* Create colorful mind maps online
* Share and work with friends
* Embed your mind map in your blog or website
* Email and print your mind map
* Save your mind map as an image
And it's free
Bubbl.us
Instructables - How to Make Cool DIY Projects
Instructables - How to Make Cool DIY Projects
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others. Read more about the history...
To create a new Instructable, comment on someone else's Instructable, or do lots of other cool things, you need to create a free account.
You can get to see a sample of the excellent DIY projects contributed from the home page
Instructables
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others. Read more about the history...
To create a new Instructable, comment on someone else's Instructable, or do lots of other cool things, you need to create a free account.
You can get to see a sample of the excellent DIY projects contributed from the home page
Instructables
Web 2.0 Company Cool Name Generator
Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator.
Some of the names it generated for me:
Innoify
Kwivee
Aimm
Twitterbug
Oble
Dabbridge
Realopia
Topicbeat
Riffster
Youdog
Blogstorm
Cool isn't it? It also gives a simple click with which you can check if the name is available...
Via: The Daniel Richard blog post
Some of the names it generated for me:
Innoify
Kwivee
Aimm
Twitterbug
Oble
Dabbridge
Realopia
Topicbeat
Riffster
Youdog
Blogstorm
Cool isn't it? It also gives a simple click with which you can check if the name is available...
Via: The Daniel Richard blog post
Real Time GPS Tracker with Google Maps
You can create a real-time GPS tracker using Google Maps API. Don't worry about having a GPS device, you can emulate a garmin using GPSGate...
Read this post @ the Conversations with Myself blog to see how you can create a real time GPS tracker using GMaps
Read this post @ the Conversations with Myself blog to see how you can create a real time GPS tracker using GMaps
Saturday, September 8, 2007
WhateverLife - Layouts, Graphics, Site Builder & Millions of $!
WhateverLife - source for hot Layouts, Graphics, Site Builder & Millions of $!
Came across this interesting post at DoshDosh.
Ashley Qualls is a "17 years old high school dropout. Made more than $1 million. Earns as much as $70K a month. Owns a website that attracts more than 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views.
Her first Adsense paycheck was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer...Ashley Qualls, the founder of Whateverlife.com, a free MySpace layouts website.
Fastcompany recently published a fascinating feature article on Ashley, a teenage entrepreneur from Detroit who has made a substantial amount of money online by targeting a niche market (girls on Myspace/social networks) and fulfilling their needs."...
Read more from the post at Dosh Dosh as to how Ashley hit it big on the Net by identifying a great niche and hitching her wagon to a star (MySpace)
WhateverLife (page takes a while to load, at least it did for me)
Came across this interesting post at DoshDosh.
Ashley Qualls is a "17 years old high school dropout. Made more than $1 million. Earns as much as $70K a month. Owns a website that attracts more than 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views.
Her first Adsense paycheck was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer...Ashley Qualls, the founder of Whateverlife.com, a free MySpace layouts website.
Fastcompany recently published a fascinating feature article on Ashley, a teenage entrepreneur from Detroit who has made a substantial amount of money online by targeting a niche market (girls on Myspace/social networks) and fulfilling their needs."...
Read more from the post at Dosh Dosh as to how Ashley hit it big on the Net by identifying a great niche and hitching her wagon to a star (MySpace)
WhateverLife (page takes a while to load, at least it did for me)
PermaLink - WhateverLife - Layouts, Graphics, Site Builder & Millions of $! posted by Ecacofonix : 11:39 AM
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All Online Money Making Methods
Thought I'd start a post in which I aggregate all the (legal & ethical) business / money making methods online...this post will be a work in progress...
List
1. Google AdSense - and Yahoo Publisher
2. Affiliate Marketing - Amazon, Commission Junction, Click Bank
Linkshare, Performics
3. Domain Name Trading - check out SitePoint
4. Virtual Jobs that Make Use of Your Skills - Bitwine, Ether, Just Answers, Jyve
5. Creating your own product and selling it - check out Lulu
6. Paid Blogging Web Sites - check out this post @ Dosh Dosh - other references - Pay Per Post (a bit controversial I understand). List of blog ad networks that will pay you for writing posts about products & sites - blogtoprofit.com, bloggingads.com, blogitive.com, blogsvertise.com, buzzbyblog.com, creamaid.com, linkylovearmy.com, paymetoblogaboutyou.com, loudlaunch.com, payperpost.com, reviewme.com, smorty.com
7. Making Money from AdSense - create video channel related to your site’s content and monetize it with Google ads. For more information on making money online with YouTube take a look at the YouTube Adsense Learn page.
8. Making Money from Online Auctions - a nice article here
9. Dropshipping - Dropshipping is another online business option you can consider. If you like to sell high quality products like cosmetics, apparel, health supplements, watches, toys with your own brand name on it using the internet you can use dropshipping. Dropshiping allows you to start your online store that requires no handling of inventory, warehouse space, shipping or receiving of product. The drop shipping company does that for you.
10. Taking part in online surveys
Other aweBsome posts on making money online: this...
Lots of resources here
A useful blog in the context is Dosh Dosh
Other useful links
Millionaires League Club blog
Top 100 Money Making Blogs list from 45n5
101 Forums for Making Money Online - from TalkGold
WidgetBucks is a shopping widget that you can place on your website or blog. You earn money every time someone clicks on it.
63 Constructive Opinions on the Best Way to Make Money Online
List
1. Google AdSense - and Yahoo Publisher
2. Affiliate Marketing - Amazon, Commission Junction, Click Bank
Linkshare, Performics
3. Domain Name Trading - check out SitePoint
4. Virtual Jobs that Make Use of Your Skills - Bitwine, Ether, Just Answers, Jyve
5. Creating your own product and selling it - check out Lulu
6. Paid Blogging Web Sites - check out this post @ Dosh Dosh - other references - Pay Per Post (a bit controversial I understand). List of blog ad networks that will pay you for writing posts about products & sites - blogtoprofit.com, bloggingads.com, blogitive.com, blogsvertise.com, buzzbyblog.com, creamaid.com, linkylovearmy.com, paymetoblogaboutyou.com, loudlaunch.com, payperpost.com, reviewme.com, smorty.com
7. Making Money from AdSense - create video channel related to your site’s content and monetize it with Google ads. For more information on making money online with YouTube take a look at the YouTube Adsense Learn page.
8. Making Money from Online Auctions - a nice article here
9. Dropshipping - Dropshipping is another online business option you can consider. If you like to sell high quality products like cosmetics, apparel, health supplements, watches, toys with your own brand name on it using the internet you can use dropshipping. Dropshiping allows you to start your online store that requires no handling of inventory, warehouse space, shipping or receiving of product. The drop shipping company does that for you.
10. Taking part in online surveys
Other aweBsome posts on making money online: this...
Lots of resources here
A useful blog in the context is Dosh Dosh
Other useful links
Millionaires League Club blog
Top 100 Money Making Blogs list from 45n5
101 Forums for Making Money Online - from TalkGold
WidgetBucks is a shopping widget that you can place on your website or blog. You earn money every time someone clicks on it.
63 Constructive Opinions on the Best Way to Make Money Online
And Now, Social Shopping from ThisNext
ThisNext is a shopcasting network where you can recommend, share and discover great products. Its goal is to help people discover great and deeply gratifying products.
Every product on ThisNext is picked by the ThisNext community (you and me). You can organize your picks into product lists.
Shop/product lists can be about activities (like climbing or cooking) or things (like fashion or food). They can even be about lifestyles (like being green). Shopcast lists and picks are tagged and searchable on ThisNext for easy discovery by other people.
When you make a shopcast list, you are letting the world know what you think is great and worth spending money on.
I think this is an interesting experiment, extending the social networking concept to specific concepts such as shopping.
Let's see how this evolves...
ThisNext
Every product on ThisNext is picked by the ThisNext community (you and me). You can organize your picks into product lists.
Shop/product lists can be about activities (like climbing or cooking) or things (like fashion or food). They can even be about lifestyles (like being green). Shopcast lists and picks are tagged and searchable on ThisNext for easy discovery by other people.
When you make a shopcast list, you are letting the world know what you think is great and worth spending money on.
I think this is an interesting experiment, extending the social networking concept to specific concepts such as shopping.
Let's see how this evolves...
ThisNext
411Song - ID Songs Anywhere, Anytime Using Your Mobile
"How many times have you heard a song and wished you knew who it was or wished you could get it before you forget it?
Now you can, just call (866) 411-SONG, here's how:
Hear a song you love.
Call (866) 411-SONG.
Wait for the beep and hold your cell near the music for just 15 seconds.
We identify the song and send you a text with all the song info (artist and song name) and a link to GET it.
"
Cool, isn't it? I understand the service doesn't work perfectly all the time, read that it is not able to identify the songs about 10% of the time, but well, any service is a bit clunky to begin with
411Song
Now you can, just call (866) 411-SONG, here's how:
Hear a song you love.
Call (866) 411-SONG.
Wait for the beep and hold your cell near the music for just 15 seconds.
We identify the song and send you a text with all the song info (artist and song name) and a link to GET it.
"
Cool, isn't it? I understand the service doesn't work perfectly all the time, read that it is not able to identify the songs about 10% of the time, but well, any service is a bit clunky to begin with
411Song
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MuseStorm - create and distribute widgets simple & easy
MuseStorm - create and distribute widgets simple & easy
For all the site owners and bloggers, MuseStorm provides a simple widget creation and distribution service. So we call all create our own widgets for our sites.
Nice!
MuseStorm
Other sites that offers a similar service are SpringBox & Clear Spring
For all the site owners and bloggers, MuseStorm provides a simple widget creation and distribution service. So we call all create our own widgets for our sites.
Nice!
MuseStorm
Other sites that offers a similar service are SpringBox & Clear Spring
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PageFlakes - a la Netvibes
You'd have likely heard about Netvibes - the site that allows you to put together a personalised starting point that encompasses all your regular Net activities
A similar service is PageFlakes.
Its blurb says:
"
Pageflakes is the easy and fun way to customize the Internet and make it yours - personalize your homepage with your favorite news, weather, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email and more...all in one place..
"
PageFlakes
Ah, came across a few more of these:
WebWag
A similar service is PageFlakes.
Its blurb says:
"
Pageflakes is the easy and fun way to customize the Internet and make it yours - personalize your homepage with your favorite news, weather, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email and more...all in one place..
"
PageFlakes
Ah, came across a few more of these:
WebWag
Creating Your Own Social Network - Ning
Creating Your Own Social Network - Ning
Of course you can be a part of many social networks today, but in all those, you are part of a large network that someone else has created. What if you could create your own social network?
Ning allows you to do that.
Their blurb @ their About page says it aptly:
"
...founded Ning in October 2004 to give everyone the opportunity to create social networks. Two and a half years later, Ning powers over 80000 social networks and counting.
From eBay sellers in Upstate New York to bead store owners in Maine, aspiring hip hop artists in New Jersey, pop culture junkies in New York City, college professors in Germany, young deviant artists in North Carolina, and even a few big media companies in LA, with Ning anyone can create the perfect social network for them.
What makes this all possible is the Ning Platform.
As a platform, you don't have to appeal to Ning for the features you want. If you have the time and the inclination, you can build them yourself."
Ning
Well, guess what, a few minutes after I first posted this, I came across a number of such services (courtesy a post at Ventureblogalist) that allow you to create your own social networks. Am providing the list below:
coRank
Magnify.net
Smallworldlabs
KickApps
SNAPP
Five Across
Social Platform
Invision Power
elgg spaces
ThePort
SkinnyCorp
LiveWorld
Heights Media Group
iBelong
Sparta
Community Server
RareFace
Civicspace
Of course you can be a part of many social networks today, but in all those, you are part of a large network that someone else has created. What if you could create your own social network?
Ning allows you to do that.
Their blurb @ their About page says it aptly:
"
...founded Ning in October 2004 to give everyone the opportunity to create social networks. Two and a half years later, Ning powers over 80000 social networks and counting.
From eBay sellers in Upstate New York to bead store owners in Maine, aspiring hip hop artists in New Jersey, pop culture junkies in New York City, college professors in Germany, young deviant artists in North Carolina, and even a few big media companies in LA, with Ning anyone can create the perfect social network for them.
What makes this all possible is the Ning Platform.
As a platform, you don't have to appeal to Ning for the features you want. If you have the time and the inclination, you can build them yourself."
Ning
Well, guess what, a few minutes after I first posted this, I came across a number of such services (courtesy a post at Ventureblogalist) that allow you to create your own social networks. Am providing the list below:
coRank
Magnify.net
Smallworldlabs
KickApps
SNAPP
Five Across
Social Platform
Invision Power
elgg spaces
ThePort
SkinnyCorp
LiveWorld
Heights Media Group
iBelong
Sparta
Community Server
RareFace
Civicspace
Emurse - Online Resume Maker & Resume Builder
Emurse - Create, share and store your resume online for free
Creating a quality resume is a difficult task. Keeping track of your various versions is a hassle. Once you have it all figured out, there's the worry of formats, hard drive failure and viruses.
Emurse allows you to focus on what's most important — writing quality content and selling yourself.
Emurse
Creating a quality resume is a difficult task. Keeping track of your various versions is a hassle. Once you have it all figured out, there's the worry of formats, hard drive failure and viruses.
Emurse allows you to focus on what's most important — writing quality content and selling yourself.
Emurse
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What makes an idea viral? Seth Godin answers
What makes an idea viral?
All of us would like to initiate a viral idea that spreads as fast as - what else - a virus. But many of us could make the mistake of thinking that a viral idea needs to be a very important idea. Seth Godin feels it need not be a profound idea - in fact he feels most viral ideas are shallow. This is what he says at this blog post (old post but idea is as relevant today)
"
For an idea to spread, it needs to be sent and received.
No one "sends" an idea unless:
a. they understand it
b. they want it to spread
c. they believe that spreading it will enhance their power (reputation, income, friendships) or their peace of mind
d. the effort necessary to send the idea is less than the benefits
No one "gets" an idea unless:
a. the first impression demands further investigation
b. they already understand the foundation ideas necessary to get the new idea
c. they trust or respect the sender enough to invest the time
This explains why online ideas spread so fast but why they're often shallow. Nietzsche is hard to understand and risky to spread, so it moves slowly among people willing to invest the time. Numa Numa, on the other hand, spread like a toxic waste spill because it was so transparent, reasonably funny and easy to share.
"
Interesting...
All of us would like to initiate a viral idea that spreads as fast as - what else - a virus. But many of us could make the mistake of thinking that a viral idea needs to be a very important idea. Seth Godin feels it need not be a profound idea - in fact he feels most viral ideas are shallow. This is what he says at this blog post (old post but idea is as relevant today)
"
For an idea to spread, it needs to be sent and received.
No one "sends" an idea unless:
a. they understand it
b. they want it to spread
c. they believe that spreading it will enhance their power (reputation, income, friendships) or their peace of mind
d. the effort necessary to send the idea is less than the benefits
No one "gets" an idea unless:
a. the first impression demands further investigation
b. they already understand the foundation ideas necessary to get the new idea
c. they trust or respect the sender enough to invest the time
This explains why online ideas spread so fast but why they're often shallow. Nietzsche is hard to understand and risky to spread, so it moves slowly among people willing to invest the time. Numa Numa, on the other hand, spread like a toxic waste spill because it was so transparent, reasonably funny and easy to share.
"
Interesting...
Want to Know the Time? Ask Google
Want to Know the Time? Ask Google
This is cool...just type in "time in 'your city name'" into Google search box and bang you get the time! I tried this for my city (Chennai) - query
Neat
This is cool...just type in "time in 'your city name'" into Google search box and bang you get the time! I tried this for my city (Chennai) - query
Neat
Capture, Edit & Share What's On Screen - TechSmith SnagIt
Capture, Edit & Share What's On Screen - TechSmith SnagIt
SnagIt lets you capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen - fast
1. Capture anything on your screen - from an area to a scrolling web page
2. Edit your screen capture using the built-in image editor
3. Share, save, and print your screen capture in the format of your choice
Cool isn't it!
More about the software (there is a shareware version) from here @ SnagIt
SnagIt lets you capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen - fast
1. Capture anything on your screen - from an area to a scrolling web page
2. Edit your screen capture using the built-in image editor
3. Share, save, and print your screen capture in the format of your choice
Cool isn't it!
More about the software (there is a shareware version) from here @ SnagIt
PermaLink - Capture, Edit & Share What's On Screen - TechSmith SnagIt posted by Ecacofonix : 9:41 AM
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Cool Business Ideas Blog
Cool Business Ideas Blog
Well, this blog is not about online ideas (alone), in fact most of the business ideas discussed are more offline / off the web in nature, but many posts are just cool. Some of the ideas discussed are just trendy, some of them extremely useful, but all of them are really interesting...
Cool Business Ideas
Well, this blog is not about online ideas (alone), in fact most of the business ideas discussed are more offline / off the web in nature, but many posts are just cool. Some of the ideas discussed are just trendy, some of them extremely useful, but all of them are really interesting...
Cool Business Ideas
Monday, September 3, 2007
Lotsa Cool Google Gadgets for Web Site
Lotsa Cool Google Gadgets for Web Site
Perhaps you are already aware, perhaps you are not, am giving you the link from where you can download lots of Google gadgets and jazz up your web site: Google Gadgets
Includes gadgets for:
Time and Date
MP3 Player
Live TV channels
Bejeweled
Date & Time
What's my IP address, ISP, country, proxy
Google Talk
Midi Music Jukebox
Google Calendar
Search YouTube
MP3 Player
Crystal Ball
World Clocks
Chat Gadget
Driving Directions
Send A Video Message
Mini Web
Countdown till... Bush is gone!
Mario is Back!
AccuWeather.com Weather Forecast Gadget
StockChart
Weather Station
and (wow! how could you guess it?) more...
Perhaps you are already aware, perhaps you are not, am giving you the link from where you can download lots of Google gadgets and jazz up your web site: Google Gadgets
Includes gadgets for:
Time and Date
MP3 Player
Live TV channels
Bejeweled
Date & Time
What's my IP address, ISP, country, proxy
Google Talk
Midi Music Jukebox
Google Calendar
Search YouTube
MP3 Player
Crystal Ball
World Clocks
Chat Gadget
Driving Directions
Send A Video Message
Mini Web
Countdown till... Bush is gone!
Mario is Back!
AccuWeather.com Weather Forecast Gadget
StockChart
Weather Station
and (wow! how could you guess it?) more...
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Most Popular & Most Watched Blogs
Blo.gs' Most Watched Blogs
A list of the 20 most watched blogs, as determined by the number of people who have added these to their favorites.
See link here @ blo.gs
A list of the 20 most watched blogs, as determined by the number of people who have added these to their favorites.
See link here @ blo.gs
Kartoo, the Graphic & Visual Search Engine
Kartoo - a graphic & visual search engine...looks really cool, try it
GoogleDuel - Compare Key Words Based on Popularity
GoogleDuel - Compare Key Words Based on Usage
Keywords play a big part in search engine optimization. We all know picking the right key words if very important, and at the same time, we cannot use too many key words, which means many times we will have to choose amongst key words. Google Duel helps you do this choosing - by allowing you to input two similar keywords and comparing them.
Google Duel
Keywords play a big part in search engine optimization. We all know picking the right key words if very important, and at the same time, we cannot use too many key words, which means many times we will have to choose amongst key words. Google Duel helps you do this choosing - by allowing you to input two similar keywords and comparing them.
Google Duel
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Cool sites for finding content for your blog posts
Finding content for your blog posts
Well, came across this recent post that provides web resources for finding themes and content for your blog post...
The list provided was so huge I thought I should make a note of the URL here...well, many of the links provided at the post are cool sites in themselves, whether or not they will help you find content for your blog...
See the link here from the Increase Your Site Traffic blog
Some of the links I liked from the above list:
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them.
Joe Ant - Top Search Keywords Live
CodeCubed - del.icio.us most popular treemap
Newzingo - Google News Tags, based on latest newsy items @ GNews
Well, came across this recent post that provides web resources for finding themes and content for your blog post...
The list provided was so huge I thought I should make a note of the URL here...well, many of the links provided at the post are cool sites in themselves, whether or not they will help you find content for your blog...
See the link here from the Increase Your Site Traffic blog
Some of the links I liked from the above list:
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them.
Joe Ant - Top Search Keywords Live
CodeCubed - del.icio.us most popular treemap
Newzingo - Google News Tags, based on latest newsy items @ GNews
PermaLink - Cool sites for finding content for your blog posts posted by Ecacofonix : 10:20 AM
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Little Miss Matched - Get as Mismatched as You Can
Little Miss Matched - Get as Mismatched as You Can
You might call it just a clever idea and nothing more, but I'd think simple ideas that stand out like these have an excellent chance to grow from being just a fad to creating massive changes. What am I talking about? Am talking about this site (and business) that sells only mismatched items. Read about it in Seth Godin's "Small is the New Big," and it appears that starting with mismatched socks for little girls (when Seth wrote about them), they have grown to sell many many other mismatched items.
Is this just a question of being different for the sake of being different or is this something that can create an entirely new kind of fashion industry in future? I'd like to think the latter (mainly because then guys like me who end up wearing mismatched socks most times won't need to bother being looked down upon!)
LittleMissMatched
You might call it just a clever idea and nothing more, but I'd think simple ideas that stand out like these have an excellent chance to grow from being just a fad to creating massive changes. What am I talking about? Am talking about this site (and business) that sells only mismatched items. Read about it in Seth Godin's "Small is the New Big," and it appears that starting with mismatched socks for little girls (when Seth wrote about them), they have grown to sell many many other mismatched items.
Is this just a question of being different for the sake of being different or is this something that can create an entirely new kind of fashion industry in future? I'd like to think the latter (mainly because then guys like me who end up wearing mismatched socks most times won't need to bother being looked down upon!)
LittleMissMatched
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