Most of the time we lost in searching while getting right thing but suppose you want to search online video from youtube or other similarly site. DailyTube is there to help. They find the best videos on the internet and send them to subscribers via free email. They’ve got a team of 25 editors, webscouts, and writers to ferret out the cream of the crop on a daily basis. Each selection is posted and categorized as Humor, Celebs, Sports, Music, Late Nite, Web Stars, or Campaign ’08. Videos can be comment on, rated, and shared.
More at:http://www.thedailytube.com/
Thursday, July 12, 2007
CrossLoop is a free screen sharing
CrossLoop is a free screen sharing utility requiring only a small download and no registration. Any computer user who can install a program can get this software up and running. The greatest thing about CrossLoop is that the service bypasses routers and firewalls. This is an amazing step forward for screen sharing technology, and it should make computer repair and diagnosis more efficient.
CrossLoop is secure, encrypting all data using 128 bit encryption and a random 12 digit access code. CrossLoop is made possible through the use of proprietary VIP Tunnel technology and the open-source VNC viewer from TightVNC.
One user acts as a host and the other user joins the session with the access code displayed on the host’s screen. Simple solutions like this help us solve some of the most frustrating problems. Never again will I sit with a family member on the phone trying to explain how to download software.
More at:http://www.crossloop.com/
Via-rev2.0
CrossLoop is secure, encrypting all data using 128 bit encryption and a random 12 digit access code. CrossLoop is made possible through the use of proprietary VIP Tunnel technology and the open-source VNC viewer from TightVNC.
One user acts as a host and the other user joins the session with the access code displayed on the host’s screen. Simple solutions like this help us solve some of the most frustrating problems. Never again will I sit with a family member on the phone trying to explain how to download software.
More at:http://www.crossloop.com/
Via-rev2.0
Peer-To-Peer Lending
Peer-to-peer lending continues to spread across the globe. Now its spreading its wing in china like Zopa (UK) and Prosper (US), as well as German Smava and Dutch Boober done it earlier.
P2P lending enters a very different market in the People's Republic, where personal credit ratings are virtually non-existent, making lending to strangers riskier business. Which is why PPdai won't be taking on loans and 'reselling' them to lenders. Instead, PPdai primarily aims to standardize and facilitate loans between family and friends, which are more common in China than personal loans from banks.
On a side note: acknowledging that trust is a key issue, another 'bankless banking' venture that's moving swiftly is Lending Club. Just 6 weeks after launching, Lending Club has facilitated over USD 250,000 in loans. What makes Lending Club different? Starting with Facebook, it latches on to an existing social network to leverage human connections that are already in place: "We believe that person-to-person lending will gain faster adoption in an environment where people feel connected to one another." More updates to follow as P2P lending develops!
More at: www.ppdai.com — .www.lendingclub.com
P2P lending enters a very different market in the People's Republic, where personal credit ratings are virtually non-existent, making lending to strangers riskier business. Which is why PPdai won't be taking on loans and 'reselling' them to lenders. Instead, PPdai primarily aims to standardize and facilitate loans between family and friends, which are more common in China than personal loans from banks.
On a side note: acknowledging that trust is a key issue, another 'bankless banking' venture that's moving swiftly is Lending Club. Just 6 weeks after launching, Lending Club has facilitated over USD 250,000 in loans. What makes Lending Club different? Starting with Facebook, it latches on to an existing social network to leverage human connections that are already in place: "We believe that person-to-person lending will gain faster adoption in an environment where people feel connected to one another." More updates to follow as P2P lending develops!
More at: www.ppdai.com — .www.lendingclub.com
Yelp.Com For Promoting Your Business
http://www.yelp.com/
I'm making a ton of money from Yelp, and it's freaking me out." Woe is Christopher Hall, the 34-year-old owner of Splitends, a hair salon in Orange County, Calif. Its chic décor is more architectural firm than beauty parlor. He has appeared on a reality show, in the L.A. Times, and on TV news segments. He's photogenic and has a quick wit. He serves beer to customers. So business, unsurprisingly, was decent as soon as he opened the place last December. Until March 6. That's when things got crazy.
Now he's literally in pain from all the coiffing. "I've been doing hair for 16 years, and I'm busier than I've ever been," he says. "Saturday I came in at 6:30 a.m., left at 8 p.m., and did 22 people. I woke up Sunday and my hands were all swollen. I had to put them in an ice bucket."
Yelp founders Stoppelman (sitting) and Simmons in their native habitat, i.e., a San Francisco club
Most Yelpers give San Francisco's Delfina high marks. But one diner says he found a roach; the owner says sabotage.
Thanks to reviews by Lau (head in sink), Hall has so much business he has to ice his hands on weekends.
What happened March 6? That was the day Anita Lau wrote about Splitends at Yelp.com, an online platform for user reviews of everything from dive bars to funeral parlors. Lau has posted 2,036 reviews and 1,340 photos, has collected 790 compliments on her work from fellow Yelpers, and along the way has amassed the power to put bodies into barbershop chairs. She gave Splitends the maximum five stars, praising Hall and saying, "I absolutely love my haircut."
The review started a logroll of new clients for the stylist and a couple dozen subsequent five-star critiques. "I've taken out ten ads in OC Weekly this year and have gotten maybe one call," says Hall. "I get anywhere from five to 15 calls a day from Yelpers. They come in and then write reviews. Then other people see the reviews, think it must be great, and call. It's its own little biosphere. It feeds itself."
For those outside California, let's back up a bit. Yelp is part social network, part localized review site - think Facebook meets Zagat - and it's fast becoming the web's gift to small business. A platform for ratings of anything with a postal address, Yelp offers the service industry new insight into what the chattering masses are saying. The name "Yelp" comes from a friend of the founders who simply liked the word. But it also serves as a nifty contraction of "yellow pages," which reveals the company's ambitions: a land grab on the $100 billion that's spent every year on local advertising.
"There's an information shortage when it comes to local businesses," says co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. "If you look at the yellow pages, what are you seeing? You're seeing how much money a business spent to buy a big ad. We're a place for a conversation between the prospective customer and the business owner."
Many well-funded companies have tried to tackle local search over the years, using a mix of strategies. There's the directory model, which involves a massive sales force upselling business owners to ever bigger, flashier ads. There's the Citysearch tactic of creating proprietary content and selling ads against it. And then there's the search-engine route of crawling everyone else's content and automating the ad sales. Yelp is taking a different road: crowd-sourcing. For years Zagat has been compiling anonymous user reviews, but Yelpers get to fully express their feelings and make names for themselves.
Employing the same user-generated content model that powers YouTube or Craigslist, Yelp can reach into a city's every nook to reveal hidden car washes, dentists, plumbers - the sorts of unsexy but necessary services that make up our daily lives. When we discover something wonderful (or horrible), we love to tell our friends about it. We also turn to people we trust when we need a good recommendation. Yelp is enabling those conversations to happen on a massive scale.
There's any number of reasons the site could fail. But so far the enthusiasm Yelp has generated indicates otherwise - usage is up nearly 400% to 1.8 million users a month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. In San Francisco the dining and nightlife scene has been all but completely trolled, analyzed, and pontificated upon (or "Yelped," for short), and the site has recently caught fire in Chicago, New York, and L.A. In those cities it has begun changing the way local businesses do their marketing.
The word most often used to describe Yelp - other than some variation on the ever-flexible brand itself, which can be intoned positively, as in "I Yelped that awesome crepe wagon," or negatively, "That bitchy waiter totally got Yelped!" - is "addictive." Anita Lau drives around Southern California in an SUV with a vanity plate that reads I [heart] YELP. The plate is unique. The sentiment isn't.
***
A charismatic 29-year-old with a boyish smile and a self-deprecating streak, Stoppelman started the company in 2004 with longtime friend and CTO Russel Simmons, 28. (No, not the hip-hop impresario. This Russel has only one "L.") After their last employer, PayPal, was sold to eBay (Charts, Fortune 500), the co-founders cashed out and began kicking around startup ideas with a former colleague, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. One day Stoppelman was looking for a doctor but had no clue how to find a good one. That gave him and Simmons an idea for a convoluted automated system in which people could e-mail friends asking for recommendations on, say, local doctors, and the answers would be logged at a communal site for everyone to see. Levchin floated the duo $1 million to build out the plan. It went nowhere. But the co-founders noticed an interesting tendency among the early users. People were writing unsolicited reviews of their favorite businesses just for fun. So Yelp switched tack. "I remember the moment that Russ said, 'There should be a way for you to write your own reviews without asking questions,'" Stoppelman recalls.
Full Text:http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134489/index.htm?postversion=2007071003
I'm making a ton of money from Yelp, and it's freaking me out." Woe is Christopher Hall, the 34-year-old owner of Splitends, a hair salon in Orange County, Calif. Its chic décor is more architectural firm than beauty parlor. He has appeared on a reality show, in the L.A. Times, and on TV news segments. He's photogenic and has a quick wit. He serves beer to customers. So business, unsurprisingly, was decent as soon as he opened the place last December. Until March 6. That's when things got crazy.
Now he's literally in pain from all the coiffing. "I've been doing hair for 16 years, and I'm busier than I've ever been," he says. "Saturday I came in at 6:30 a.m., left at 8 p.m., and did 22 people. I woke up Sunday and my hands were all swollen. I had to put them in an ice bucket."
Yelp founders Stoppelman (sitting) and Simmons in their native habitat, i.e., a San Francisco club
Most Yelpers give San Francisco's Delfina high marks. But one diner says he found a roach; the owner says sabotage.
Thanks to reviews by Lau (head in sink), Hall has so much business he has to ice his hands on weekends.
What happened March 6? That was the day Anita Lau wrote about Splitends at Yelp.com, an online platform for user reviews of everything from dive bars to funeral parlors. Lau has posted 2,036 reviews and 1,340 photos, has collected 790 compliments on her work from fellow Yelpers, and along the way has amassed the power to put bodies into barbershop chairs. She gave Splitends the maximum five stars, praising Hall and saying, "I absolutely love my haircut."
The review started a logroll of new clients for the stylist and a couple dozen subsequent five-star critiques. "I've taken out ten ads in OC Weekly this year and have gotten maybe one call," says Hall. "I get anywhere from five to 15 calls a day from Yelpers. They come in and then write reviews. Then other people see the reviews, think it must be great, and call. It's its own little biosphere. It feeds itself."
For those outside California, let's back up a bit. Yelp is part social network, part localized review site - think Facebook meets Zagat - and it's fast becoming the web's gift to small business. A platform for ratings of anything with a postal address, Yelp offers the service industry new insight into what the chattering masses are saying. The name "Yelp" comes from a friend of the founders who simply liked the word. But it also serves as a nifty contraction of "yellow pages," which reveals the company's ambitions: a land grab on the $100 billion that's spent every year on local advertising.
"There's an information shortage when it comes to local businesses," says co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. "If you look at the yellow pages, what are you seeing? You're seeing how much money a business spent to buy a big ad. We're a place for a conversation between the prospective customer and the business owner."
Many well-funded companies have tried to tackle local search over the years, using a mix of strategies. There's the directory model, which involves a massive sales force upselling business owners to ever bigger, flashier ads. There's the Citysearch tactic of creating proprietary content and selling ads against it. And then there's the search-engine route of crawling everyone else's content and automating the ad sales. Yelp is taking a different road: crowd-sourcing. For years Zagat has been compiling anonymous user reviews, but Yelpers get to fully express their feelings and make names for themselves.
Employing the same user-generated content model that powers YouTube or Craigslist, Yelp can reach into a city's every nook to reveal hidden car washes, dentists, plumbers - the sorts of unsexy but necessary services that make up our daily lives. When we discover something wonderful (or horrible), we love to tell our friends about it. We also turn to people we trust when we need a good recommendation. Yelp is enabling those conversations to happen on a massive scale.
There's any number of reasons the site could fail. But so far the enthusiasm Yelp has generated indicates otherwise - usage is up nearly 400% to 1.8 million users a month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. In San Francisco the dining and nightlife scene has been all but completely trolled, analyzed, and pontificated upon (or "Yelped," for short), and the site has recently caught fire in Chicago, New York, and L.A. In those cities it has begun changing the way local businesses do their marketing.
The word most often used to describe Yelp - other than some variation on the ever-flexible brand itself, which can be intoned positively, as in "I Yelped that awesome crepe wagon," or negatively, "That bitchy waiter totally got Yelped!" - is "addictive." Anita Lau drives around Southern California in an SUV with a vanity plate that reads I [heart] YELP. The plate is unique. The sentiment isn't.
***
A charismatic 29-year-old with a boyish smile and a self-deprecating streak, Stoppelman started the company in 2004 with longtime friend and CTO Russel Simmons, 28. (No, not the hip-hop impresario. This Russel has only one "L.") After their last employer, PayPal, was sold to eBay (Charts, Fortune 500), the co-founders cashed out and began kicking around startup ideas with a former colleague, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. One day Stoppelman was looking for a doctor but had no clue how to find a good one. That gave him and Simmons an idea for a convoluted automated system in which people could e-mail friends asking for recommendations on, say, local doctors, and the answers would be logged at a communal site for everyone to see. Levchin floated the duo $1 million to build out the plan. It went nowhere. But the co-founders noticed an interesting tendency among the early users. People were writing unsolicited reviews of their favorite businesses just for fun. So Yelp switched tack. "I remember the moment that Russ said, 'There should be a way for you to write your own reviews without asking questions,'" Stoppelman recalls.
Full Text:http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134489/index.htm?postversion=2007071003
The Web 2.0 Toolbar "hyperaggregates"
Save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Web 2.0 Toolbar "hyperaggregates" or combines the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video, Web 2.0 Jobs, Web 2.0 Blogs and Social News websites into one place - your web browser!.
Get the latest Web 2.0 news and updates with the Web 2.0 toolbar. The makers of this zeitgeisty toolbar have taken to ‘hyper- aggregating’ all things 2.0, making it all accessible from the 2.0 toolbar.
Power Search, for instance allows you to quickly search for results from multiple 2.0 sites like Youtube or Flickr. Power Submit lets you post pages to several (up to 30) social sites at once.
More at:http://www.web20toolbar.com/
Get the latest Web 2.0 news and updates with the Web 2.0 toolbar. The makers of this zeitgeisty toolbar have taken to ‘hyper- aggregating’ all things 2.0, making it all accessible from the 2.0 toolbar.
Power Search, for instance allows you to quickly search for results from multiple 2.0 sites like Youtube or Flickr. Power Submit lets you post pages to several (up to 30) social sites at once.
More at:http://www.web20toolbar.com/
NetworthIQ is a social personal finance manager
NetWorthIQ , will help you in tracking how much money you have. You can post your net worth publically and compete against others to earn the most. At the site you can trade advice with others that are willing to help you achieve the level of success that they have achieved and the site itself will give you a mountain of advice for making your net worth soar. The service is absolutely free to sign up for and the site boasts articles by the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for credibility.
NetworthIQ is a social personal finance manager designed to make monitoring your net worth easy and, dare we say it, maybe even fun. Heck, it's even FREE!
More at:http://www.networthiq.com/
NetworthIQ is a social personal finance manager designed to make monitoring your net worth easy and, dare we say it, maybe even fun. Heck, it's even FREE!
More at:http://www.networthiq.com/
ValueWiki is an investment site for pooling investment research
ValueWiki is an investment site for pooling investment research. Our Mission is to create a single source for investor information in the most efficient possible format. ValueWiki is dedicated to the Wikimedia Foundation's mission of empowering the world through free and public internet information. ValueWiki combines the collaborative power of message boards with the informative power of investment sites, creating a centralized information hub for investors. ValueWiki is a collaborative Wiki-Project running on the mediawiki platform. The Project Goal is to create a complete catalogue of all Worldwide securities.
More at:http://valuewiki.com/
More at:http://valuewiki.com/
GetCashBoard
Cashboard creates estimates and track you performance, logs times for yourself, your employees and subcontractors, and sends and tracks invoices
Cashboard is the best way to manage estimates, invoices, time tracking and payments for your small business. Cashboard is a hosted application that you access from a web browser. You don't have to install anything on your computer to use Cashboard. Although it's hosted we don't hold your data hostage. Download it anytime you want.
It will helpful for entrepreneurs, students and small business owners manage their time and money. It helps that this site grew out of personal experience and seems tailor made for those users that need it the most. The traffic is decent and the users who submitted testimonials seemed pleased with the service.
More at:http://www.getcashboard.com/
Cashboard is the best way to manage estimates, invoices, time tracking and payments for your small business. Cashboard is a hosted application that you access from a web browser. You don't have to install anything on your computer to use Cashboard. Although it's hosted we don't hold your data hostage. Download it anytime you want.
It will helpful for entrepreneurs, students and small business owners manage their time and money. It helps that this site grew out of personal experience and seems tailor made for those users that need it the most. The traffic is decent and the users who submitted testimonials seemed pleased with the service.
More at:http://www.getcashboard.com/
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