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Thursday, July 12, 2007
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/
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
BuyBlogComments
BuyBlogComments is the first of its kind. Finally you can purchase quality blog comments without the stress of finding someone to write the comments, or buying some high priced automated program. We specialize in selling blog comments for blackhatters who are looking for good quality backlinks. We have three different types of packages, you can either buy 100 blog comments, 500 blog comments, or 1000 blog comments at a time.
The main aim is to get a site more backlinks from the URL link that generates after leaving a comment. This has to be by far the most sick idea I’ve ever seen. Buying forum posts is one thing as it stays all on one forum. But buying comments across 100, 500 or a 1000 blogs just means that now I have to delete even more spam, or worse mark someone who looks legitimate as spam.
Those blogs that use do follow with their comments will have to be more vigilant now, as those using the Top commenter plugin for WP {as I do}.
I’m writing about this so that other bloggers get to know about this virus spreading around them, the better prepared you are the better off you’ll be.
More at:http://www.buyblogcomments.com/
Via-Pro
The main aim is to get a site more backlinks from the URL link that generates after leaving a comment. This has to be by far the most sick idea I’ve ever seen. Buying forum posts is one thing as it stays all on one forum. But buying comments across 100, 500 or a 1000 blogs just means that now I have to delete even more spam, or worse mark someone who looks legitimate as spam.
Those blogs that use do follow with their comments will have to be more vigilant now, as those using the Top commenter plugin for WP {as I do}.
I’m writing about this so that other bloggers get to know about this virus spreading around them, the better prepared you are the better off you’ll be.
More at:http://www.buyblogcomments.com/
Via-Pro
Litepost Is a New StartUp That Aims To Re-Invent E-mail
Litepost is a new startup that aims to re-invent e-mail.
What they say:
We designed Litepost from the ground up, to provide more functionality, to be more efficient—completely different from, yet superior to, all others' [existing email services]."
Inspired by 37signals (37signals.com), Oddpost.com (acquired by Yahoo! in 2004), and, especially, the free and open source software movement (FOSS), Litepost aims to include "no unnecessary features," and yet provide all the functionality a user could possibly need.
While focused on simplicity and ease-of-use, Litepost incorporates several powerful new features not found in any existing email client.
Litepost's new and improved features include:
—a fully skinnable interface
—mail merge, a completely new function
—tag cloud organization
—improved autosort and automerging capabilities.
More at:http://www.litepost.com/
What they say:
We designed Litepost from the ground up, to provide more functionality, to be more efficient—completely different from, yet superior to, all others' [existing email services]."
Inspired by 37signals (37signals.com), Oddpost.com (acquired by Yahoo! in 2004), and, especially, the free and open source software movement (FOSS), Litepost aims to include "no unnecessary features," and yet provide all the functionality a user could possibly need.
While focused on simplicity and ease-of-use, Litepost incorporates several powerful new features not found in any existing email client.
Litepost's new and improved features include:
—a fully skinnable interface
—mail merge, a completely new function
—tag cloud organization
—improved autosort and automerging capabilities.
More at:http://www.litepost.com/
Watch And Be Rewarded
AdPerk is a company that helps magazine publishers make more money, by putting its advertisers' videos in front of readers and potential subscribers. Readers also get paid to watch the videos.
On the magazine's Web site, you're given a pitch to "Watch and be Rewarded." You're presented with a collection of videos, and can select which ones you want to watch. You earn credits for watching. On the Dwell magazine site, for example, advertisers include Rheem furnaces, Delta faucets, and so on. Their promo videos are short -- 30 seconds to 2 minutes -- and you get one credit for each 30 seconds you watch. These credits are then applied to your Dwell subscription. Six credits (three minutes) is good for three issues of the printed magazine.
They also get a nice payback on their time: a free subscription extension for 2 minutes of watching videos you like is not bad. Also, there's no onerous step to earn the credits. There's no blocking of content (see Ultramercial), quizzing, or anything awful like that, although you do have to enter a Captcha at the end to prove you've played the video through.
Advertisers get a very good outlet for promotional videos they already have. That's key -- AdPerk is not recommending that advertisers create new vids for their products.
more at:http://www.adperk.com/
On the magazine's Web site, you're given a pitch to "Watch and be Rewarded." You're presented with a collection of videos, and can select which ones you want to watch. You earn credits for watching. On the Dwell magazine site, for example, advertisers include Rheem furnaces, Delta faucets, and so on. Their promo videos are short -- 30 seconds to 2 minutes -- and you get one credit for each 30 seconds you watch. These credits are then applied to your Dwell subscription. Six credits (three minutes) is good for three issues of the printed magazine.
They also get a nice payback on their time: a free subscription extension for 2 minutes of watching videos you like is not bad. Also, there's no onerous step to earn the credits. There's no blocking of content (see Ultramercial), quizzing, or anything awful like that, although you do have to enter a Captcha at the end to prove you've played the video through.
Advertisers get a very good outlet for promotional videos they already have. That's key -- AdPerk is not recommending that advertisers create new vids for their products.
more at:http://www.adperk.com/
Rezgo Is For Online Booking Website To Sell Your Goods Or Services
Rezgo allows you to set up a online booking website to sell your goods or services. You can organize your products, customize your booking website, accept credit cards payments, track and respond to bookings all in one simple to use system.
Rezgo includes product management tools, customer contacts, product info, and booking management all within one simple system.
Rezgo is easy to set up and requires no additional software. You can customize your Rezgo booking site with templates, or have Rezgo do it for you.
More at:http://www.rezgo.com/
Rezgo includes product management tools, customer contacts, product info, and booking management all within one simple system.
Rezgo is easy to set up and requires no additional software. You can customize your Rezgo booking site with templates, or have Rezgo do it for you.
More at:http://www.rezgo.com/
Monday, July 9, 2007
Keegy Is RSS mashup site
Keegy is a RSS mashup site that spiders selected web 2.0 type of blogs for the posts that they write. When you visit the site you are immediately taken to your own separate country sub domain and shown the relevant content based on the sum of all the site users from your own location.
The site then kicks it’s Artificial Intelligence algorithm in and analyzes the behavior of all the visitors from your locale and ranks the posts from the various blogs according to an ever updated local preference. The site constantly generates tags and a new home edition based on the interaction coming out of the City/Country.
So, say you’re in India and if all those people every read and click on is hindi music, cricket and Indian hot girls than that’s what you’re going to see.
Clicking on a story’s link it opens up with in a frame of the keegy site itself. You can return back to keegy with a click, rate the article for the benefit of others or visit the actual site/blog by clicking on the “close frame” option.
The tags on the left let you filter the stories by your interest. Also you can visit any of the country’s sub domains to have a look at what viewers from there are reading.
The categories seem broad enough, you can suggest your own feed and hopefully they’ll accept it. They were just launched recently so it might be beneficial for blog writers to get in now. Feeds have to approved by their admin to be displayed.
More at:http://in.keegy.com/
The site then kicks it’s Artificial Intelligence algorithm in and analyzes the behavior of all the visitors from your locale and ranks the posts from the various blogs according to an ever updated local preference. The site constantly generates tags and a new home edition based on the interaction coming out of the City/Country.
So, say you’re in India and if all those people every read and click on is hindi music, cricket and Indian hot girls than that’s what you’re going to see.
Clicking on a story’s link it opens up with in a frame of the keegy site itself. You can return back to keegy with a click, rate the article for the benefit of others or visit the actual site/blog by clicking on the “close frame” option.
The tags on the left let you filter the stories by your interest. Also you can visit any of the country’s sub domains to have a look at what viewers from there are reading.
The categories seem broad enough, you can suggest your own feed and hopefully they’ll accept it. They were just launched recently so it might be beneficial for blog writers to get in now. Feeds have to approved by their admin to be displayed.
More at:http://in.keegy.com/
Google Now Coming With "Socialstream"
What They Say:
"Socialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other:
Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking
Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.
Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project's scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications."
SocialStream is a project created by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and funded by none other than Google, which tries to really unify all the social networks in one place. This means that not only you will be able to gather bits and pieces of your digital life in one place; you’ll also be able to update your social networks directly from SocialStream. See the screencast below for an overview of the project in its current stage.
The application is not actually live yet, and there’s no word on when it will be launch. From what I can gather from the screencast, the idea is great, but the actual implementation seems a bit too complex for the average user.
More at:http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2006/SocialstreamProject/index.php
"Socialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other:
Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking
Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.
Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project's scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications."
SocialStream is a project created by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and funded by none other than Google, which tries to really unify all the social networks in one place. This means that not only you will be able to gather bits and pieces of your digital life in one place; you’ll also be able to update your social networks directly from SocialStream. See the screencast below for an overview of the project in its current stage.
The application is not actually live yet, and there’s no word on when it will be launch. From what I can gather from the screencast, the idea is great, but the actual implementation seems a bit too complex for the average user.
More at:http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2006/SocialstreamProject/index.php
Get Paid For Giving Advice
If you are expert at anything but still you have nothing to do or you have some extra time in hand after completing your work then now your times could utilise well by giving advice to someone and in return you can earn money.Here is a site which provides users what they want I mean if you are registered users of this site you will earn money for giving your advice to their clients.
Users register with username and email, price per minute and areas of expertise like digital photography or fashion. Skype, an Internet phone service, is required for both parties.
Payment system was more sophisticated than on other sites. The adviser and client can talk free of charge until they agree upon the terms of the call. The customer is charged only for the amount of time they actually spend on the call.
More at:http://www.bitwine.com/
Users register with username and email, price per minute and areas of expertise like digital photography or fashion. Skype, an Internet phone service, is required for both parties.
Payment system was more sophisticated than on other sites. The adviser and client can talk free of charge until they agree upon the terms of the call. The customer is charged only for the amount of time they actually spend on the call.
More at:http://www.bitwine.com/
TeleMoose Is For Browsing Amazon Products On Your iPhone
TeleMoose is the latest development with this latest application, you can browse through Amazon products on your iPhone.
The design is sleek, and you can easily access reviews, the product descriptions, and the ever-important related products. These are all available in a variety of categories, from DVDs to games and music. You can also send an Amazon product to a friend via email directly from the iPhone application, and of course, purchase the product from Amazon from your iPhoneYou can still use the service even if you don’t have an iPhone, as it’s created a web-based simulation online.
You won’t get as many search results with TeleMoose as you would with Amazon itself, and I’m not sure this new application is necessarily better than going to Amazon directly on your iPhone. It’s nearly impossible to do another search once you’ve pulled up the details on a particular product, as there is no longer a search bar once you’ve navigated away from the main TeleMoose page. In related news, Apple has recently released the iPhone Developer’s Guide.
more at:http://telemoose.com/
The design is sleek, and you can easily access reviews, the product descriptions, and the ever-important related products. These are all available in a variety of categories, from DVDs to games and music. You can also send an Amazon product to a friend via email directly from the iPhone application, and of course, purchase the product from Amazon from your iPhoneYou can still use the service even if you don’t have an iPhone, as it’s created a web-based simulation online.
You won’t get as many search results with TeleMoose as you would with Amazon itself, and I’m not sure this new application is necessarily better than going to Amazon directly on your iPhone. It’s nearly impossible to do another search once you’ve pulled up the details on a particular product, as there is no longer a search bar once you’ve navigated away from the main TeleMoose page. In related news, Apple has recently released the iPhone Developer’s Guide.
more at:http://telemoose.com/
Free Video Editing Tools
JayCut is a new video mixing service that is aimed to provide video editing tools for free, with your own content.
You can upload photos and videos to be included in your personal gallery, and create folders that can be set as private, for friends only, or public. When you’re ready to mix a video, you’ll use the content from your personal gallery to do so. The video editor provided by JayCut is rather simplistic, with some core funtionality and a few effects options. There are also groups you can join, and share videos within these groups.
While mix videos can be downloaded, regular videos and photos cannot, and you cannot bookmark or “favorite” other users’ content, or include it in your own mixes. I’d like to see some channels as well, for better organization of JayCut content for search and site navigation purposes, and maybe some group collaboration tools for groups as well, enabling multiple users to contribute to the creation of a video mix. Similar sites include JumpCut, YouTube and Photobucket, and mojiti.
more at:http://jaycut.com/
You can upload photos and videos to be included in your personal gallery, and create folders that can be set as private, for friends only, or public. When you’re ready to mix a video, you’ll use the content from your personal gallery to do so. The video editor provided by JayCut is rather simplistic, with some core funtionality and a few effects options. There are also groups you can join, and share videos within these groups.
While mix videos can be downloaded, regular videos and photos cannot, and you cannot bookmark or “favorite” other users’ content, or include it in your own mixes. I’d like to see some channels as well, for better organization of JayCut content for search and site navigation purposes, and maybe some group collaboration tools for groups as well, enabling multiple users to contribute to the creation of a video mix. Similar sites include JumpCut, YouTube and Photobucket, and mojiti.
more at:http://jaycut.com/
BIDernet Is New Online Auction Industry Which Pays You For Trading
If you like eBay and enjoy trading online, than you will definitely be excited to learn more about how BIDernet is revolutionizing the online auction industry. BIDernet, Inc. has developed a unique, patent pending, multi-tiered Affiliate Referral Program, which allows everyone to share in the profits of one of the internet’s fastest growing online auction websites."
It's FREE to join and you can refer others and get paid up to 40% commission on all auction fees collected monthly on 6 referrals past your initial referral. There is unlimited income potential in this affiliate program. Theyr unique 3 minute flash presentation is encoded with your referrer ID and if you send the email and a user clicks to view the presentation, you get the referral if they join.
More at:http://www.bidernet.com/
It's FREE to join and you can refer others and get paid up to 40% commission on all auction fees collected monthly on 6 referrals past your initial referral. There is unlimited income potential in this affiliate program. Theyr unique 3 minute flash presentation is encoded with your referrer ID and if you send the email and a user clicks to view the presentation, you get the referral if they join.
More at:http://www.bidernet.com/
Own Your Football Club Team And Earn Money
Sometimes I think how this world has been change since Internet came into our daily life.New addition is football club which you can own and sell and could earn nice profit it will be virtual football club.
You can buy a football club to help promote and advertise your website. When you do buy a club you will be given personal banners to place on your site to help boost your clubs value. Also using real time- real life stats, scores and achievements will all add value to your club depending on how well your club performs throughout the whole football season. The greater the value of your football club, the higher the position it will appear advertised on the homepage.
More at:http://www.footballclubtycoon.com/
You can buy a football club to help promote and advertise your website. When you do buy a club you will be given personal banners to place on your site to help boost your clubs value. Also using real time- real life stats, scores and achievements will all add value to your club depending on how well your club performs throughout the whole football season. The greater the value of your football club, the higher the position it will appear advertised on the homepage.
More at:http://www.footballclubtycoon.com/
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Slamdot Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Webhosting For You
Slamdot aims to take the pain out of web hosting for you. All your account functions are available from a central dashboard which is really easy to get used to. What impressed me was that the information which is most important to each relevant section of the account is displayed in the right sidebar, making navigating quicker than usual.
Some of the special features that Slamdot has are -
completely integrated billing, support, hosting, and domain management
ability to manage multiple hosting plans (great for web design clients)
built-in FastCGI control so you can restart Rails applications
The hosting provider’s state of the art servers are located in the SoftLayer datacenter near Dallas, TX. The RAID servers come with at least 2GB of RAM and all data is backed up nightly. See here for a full set of hosting features and signing up for their web hosting service.
Right, now let’s have a look inside. You dashboard is where you can do all of your billing and account-related management, clicking through to the main plan management you see a tabbed interface which is very…well 2.0 if you will. Each tab has their own respective sub categories to further manage your hosting plan.
The hosting control panel shows you the amount of bandwidth and disk space you have used and how much you have left, handy information to always know for customers. You can jump to the most important areas straight away from the welcome page, which can save you a lot of time if you have many domains to manage or work as a hosting manager.
My one main gripe that I’ve always had with my current host is the absolutely retarded way of collecting stats. Instead of showing me unique visitors, they show me the number of server requests each of my visitors has made. Which in effect makes for totally useless stats. Slamdot though does things differently.
The first thing you see when you click on “Website” are your web stats and you are greeted by an Alexa chart for your domain, along with a month by month comparison, followed by a daily visit log of unique and total visitors. It also shows the amount of data transferred. You can see more detailed stats by clicking on the “Webalizer Stats” button. More help is only a search away.
Each hosting plan offers you a bunch of features, at $11 a month the Personal plan gives you the option to host up to 3 websites, MySQL databases, domain pointers, subdomains, email accounts, FTP accounts and more. Which if I look at it comes out around a $1 cheaper than where I currently host. But I have to say the ease of use makes the price I pay seem much much higher. Though personally I wouldn’t host 2 websites on one plan itself, let alone 3.
Uploading files via Slamdot’s file manager is very easy, you simply click on the directory you want to upload to and browse for your file to upload and do it, that’s it.
Advanced Features
Going into the advanced features, you see a bunch of options, again the ease of use in navigation was just very pleasing. From manging your databases, backups, Perl Modules, FastCGI and Cron Jobs. Setting up an SSL will need you to get a dedicated IP, which costs an extra $1 month.
More at:http://www.slamdot.com/
Via-http://www.everybodygoto.com/
Some of the special features that Slamdot has are -
completely integrated billing, support, hosting, and domain management
ability to manage multiple hosting plans (great for web design clients)
built-in FastCGI control so you can restart Rails applications
The hosting provider’s state of the art servers are located in the SoftLayer datacenter near Dallas, TX. The RAID servers come with at least 2GB of RAM and all data is backed up nightly. See here for a full set of hosting features and signing up for their web hosting service.
Right, now let’s have a look inside. You dashboard is where you can do all of your billing and account-related management, clicking through to the main plan management you see a tabbed interface which is very…well 2.0 if you will. Each tab has their own respective sub categories to further manage your hosting plan.
The hosting control panel shows you the amount of bandwidth and disk space you have used and how much you have left, handy information to always know for customers. You can jump to the most important areas straight away from the welcome page, which can save you a lot of time if you have many domains to manage or work as a hosting manager.
My one main gripe that I’ve always had with my current host is the absolutely retarded way of collecting stats. Instead of showing me unique visitors, they show me the number of server requests each of my visitors has made. Which in effect makes for totally useless stats. Slamdot though does things differently.
The first thing you see when you click on “Website” are your web stats and you are greeted by an Alexa chart for your domain, along with a month by month comparison, followed by a daily visit log of unique and total visitors. It also shows the amount of data transferred. You can see more detailed stats by clicking on the “Webalizer Stats” button. More help is only a search away.
Each hosting plan offers you a bunch of features, at $11 a month the Personal plan gives you the option to host up to 3 websites, MySQL databases, domain pointers, subdomains, email accounts, FTP accounts and more. Which if I look at it comes out around a $1 cheaper than where I currently host. But I have to say the ease of use makes the price I pay seem much much higher. Though personally I wouldn’t host 2 websites on one plan itself, let alone 3.
Uploading files via Slamdot’s file manager is very easy, you simply click on the directory you want to upload to and browse for your file to upload and do it, that’s it.
Advanced Features
Going into the advanced features, you see a bunch of options, again the ease of use in navigation was just very pleasing. From manging your databases, backups, Perl Modules, FastCGI and Cron Jobs. Setting up an SSL will need you to get a dedicated IP, which costs an extra $1 month.
More at:http://www.slamdot.com/
Via-http://www.everybodygoto.com/
User Generated Captiond Video
dotSUB provides users to create captions for online videos. After uploading a video to dotSUB's website, it’s first transcribed in the original language. Sentence by sentence, a user can then translate the resulting text into his or her own language. Subtitles are automatically imbedded in the video and can be viewed on dotSUB in everything from Korean to Ukrainian. The system also allows for collaborative captioning on a single video. If a work is still in progress, the amount of speech that's been subtitled is displayed (e.g. Italian 12%), and other users can pitch in to finish the work. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit or add to the captions.
Project ReadOn which is like this but it doesn't embed captions, showing them in a separate frame instead. While ReadOn's captions are rendered in large type and therefore easy on the eyes, they're prone to falling out of sync with videos, since both are loaded separately.
As web video's popularity continues to grow, making it accessible to both the hearing impaired and speakers or students of other languages is a worthy cause that could grow into a substantial niche market. One to look into if you're involved with online media, accessibility or education.
More at: www.dotsub.com — www.projectreadon.com
Via-Springwise
Project ReadOn which is like this but it doesn't embed captions, showing them in a separate frame instead. While ReadOn's captions are rendered in large type and therefore easy on the eyes, they're prone to falling out of sync with videos, since both are loaded separately.
As web video's popularity continues to grow, making it accessible to both the hearing impaired and speakers or students of other languages is a worthy cause that could grow into a substantial niche market. One to look into if you're involved with online media, accessibility or education.
More at: www.dotsub.com — www.projectreadon.com
Via-Springwise
Dollors Diggers
About: Hip-hop community website and e-newsletter
Who started it: Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel of SOHH.com
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
When: Started in 1993
Startup costs: Less than $500
A lot has changed for Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel since they started SOHH.com in 1993. Back then, the site was known as Support Online Hip-Hop and was simply a place where the two could post newsletters and run an online bulletin board about hip-hop music and the community. Using Samuel's home computer, they built the site themselves from scratch. "We picked up a book on HTML and pretty much figured out how to launch the site in a week," Samuel, 35, says.
Now SOHH.com is a vibrant urban media company boasting 2006 sales of more than $1.5 million. Palmer says the company owes its growth to word-of-mouth popularity and a resurgent interest in online companies from advertisers after the dotcom bust. "We never really spent any money [on marketing]," says Palmer, 37. It was unique and interesting content, such as hip-hop awards when the hip-hop scene was still emerging, that drove visitors to SOHH.com--and kept them coming back.
More at:http://www.sohh.com/
Via-Entrepreneur
Who started it: Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel of SOHH.com
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
When: Started in 1993
Startup costs: Less than $500
A lot has changed for Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel since they started SOHH.com in 1993. Back then, the site was known as Support Online Hip-Hop and was simply a place where the two could post newsletters and run an online bulletin board about hip-hop music and the community. Using Samuel's home computer, they built the site themselves from scratch. "We picked up a book on HTML and pretty much figured out how to launch the site in a week," Samuel, 35, says.
Now SOHH.com is a vibrant urban media company boasting 2006 sales of more than $1.5 million. Palmer says the company owes its growth to word-of-mouth popularity and a resurgent interest in online companies from advertisers after the dotcom bust. "We never really spent any money [on marketing]," says Palmer, 37. It was unique and interesting content, such as hip-hop awards when the hip-hop scene was still emerging, that drove visitors to SOHH.com--and kept them coming back.
More at:http://www.sohh.com/
Via-Entrepreneur
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Some Resources For Online Entrepreneurs To Help Them Get Up And Going Fast
Some resources for online entrepreneurs to help you get up and going fast. From legal, to design, and development - these websites can shave weeks off your schedule and save you thousands of dollars. (I concentrated on Internet-based businesses for this post.)
FindLaw
Findlaw.com has a special section for small business. It is located at http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/.
There are tips on everything from naming your businesses to business plans. They will also tell you the differences between a S-Corp and a LLC, if you need a refresher on the finer points of incorporating a small company.
BizBuySell
If you want to get going fast, you can buy an existing, operating online business at BizBuySell. Also, if you are ready to sell out of your small business, you can sell a small business here, too.
GotVMail
Get that big-company phone number for a small company price. They provide a 1–800 number and answering service.
LogoYes
A good looking logo can separate the serious business from the people that are just playing business. Customers pick up on professionalism. You need a great logo. Design and create your own logo online. LogoYes has on online interactive design studio to let you play around with designs until it is just right. If you are so inclined, this tool can help you build that perfect logo for your next enterprise. If you don’t want to do it yourself with LogoYes, and you are not artistically inclined, then see number 5.
Basecamp
Collaboration is crucial. Basecamp is a cost effective way to manage a dispersed group of entrepreneurs. Bootcamp facilitates project management online.
eLance
When you need some code written or any other jobs done for your startup, you can post the job to eLance. Freelancers will bid you your job. You can then select the best person for the price and get some work done.
Highrise
Keep track of who you talked to and what you said with this online CRM system. Organize your sales calls, or your contact with contractors. You can also do things like review each other’s notes, see follow-ups, and set reminders to contact clients later.
A Good Web Host
I recommend HostMySite, but there are many good hosts out there. The host and plan you need depends on what you need to build. If you think you will need a little more horsepower than a shared plan can provide, but don’t want to pay the price for a dedicated server quite yet, you can check out the newer VPS (Virtual Private Server) plans that give you some of the benefits of a dedicated server without the price of a dedicated server.
A Domain Name
There are many good sites to register your domain name. I recommend GoDaddy or Network Solutions. These companies both have control-panels that let you manage multiple domains. This gets useful when you end up managing several domain names.
Legal Zoom
LegalZoom lets you set up your corporation online for a relatively low cost. They can also file trademarks for you. This site can save you a bundle of money and time when you need to get the legal paperwork done.
More at:http://www.findlaw.com/
http://www.bizbuysell.com/
http://gotvmail.com/
http://www.logoyes.com/
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.elance.com/
http://www.highrisehq.com/
http://www.hostmysite.com/
http://www.godaddy.com/
http://www.legalzoom.com/
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FindLaw
Findlaw.com has a special section for small business. It is located at http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/.
There are tips on everything from naming your businesses to business plans. They will also tell you the differences between a S-Corp and a LLC, if you need a refresher on the finer points of incorporating a small company.
BizBuySell
If you want to get going fast, you can buy an existing, operating online business at BizBuySell. Also, if you are ready to sell out of your small business, you can sell a small business here, too.
GotVMail
Get that big-company phone number for a small company price. They provide a 1–800 number and answering service.
LogoYes
A good looking logo can separate the serious business from the people that are just playing business. Customers pick up on professionalism. You need a great logo. Design and create your own logo online. LogoYes has on online interactive design studio to let you play around with designs until it is just right. If you are so inclined, this tool can help you build that perfect logo for your next enterprise. If you don’t want to do it yourself with LogoYes, and you are not artistically inclined, then see number 5.
Basecamp
Collaboration is crucial. Basecamp is a cost effective way to manage a dispersed group of entrepreneurs. Bootcamp facilitates project management online.
eLance
When you need some code written or any other jobs done for your startup, you can post the job to eLance. Freelancers will bid you your job. You can then select the best person for the price and get some work done.
Highrise
Keep track of who you talked to and what you said with this online CRM system. Organize your sales calls, or your contact with contractors. You can also do things like review each other’s notes, see follow-ups, and set reminders to contact clients later.
A Good Web Host
I recommend HostMySite, but there are many good hosts out there. The host and plan you need depends on what you need to build. If you think you will need a little more horsepower than a shared plan can provide, but don’t want to pay the price for a dedicated server quite yet, you can check out the newer VPS (Virtual Private Server) plans that give you some of the benefits of a dedicated server without the price of a dedicated server.
A Domain Name
There are many good sites to register your domain name. I recommend GoDaddy or Network Solutions. These companies both have control-panels that let you manage multiple domains. This gets useful when you end up managing several domain names.
Legal Zoom
LegalZoom lets you set up your corporation online for a relatively low cost. They can also file trademarks for you. This site can save you a bundle of money and time when you need to get the legal paperwork done.
More at:http://www.findlaw.com/
http://www.bizbuysell.com/
http://gotvmail.com/
http://www.logoyes.com/
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.elance.com/
http://www.highrisehq.com/
http://www.hostmysite.com/
http://www.godaddy.com/
http://www.legalzoom.com/
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LiveRail Is Video And ad Distribution Network
LiveRail is a site for video and ad distribution network, looking to marry the video ad industry with those that create their own video content.
This inline advertising model is quickly taking shape amongst the user-generated video services such as Blinkx and YouTube. Advertisers pay only when a viewer clicks on the ad, which is displayed according to LiveRail’s algorithm determining the best videos and audience with which to attach ads. As an advertiser, you also have the opportunity to indicate your target demographic as well. For those who want to monetize their online video content, sending it to LiveRail for hosting and embed the video into your website, which now had ads.
For its beta test phase, LiveRail is allotting $1000 daily budget for advertisers, granting them the chance to familiarize themselves with the LiveRail product. Other companies that utilize ad distribution networks include Flixya, Google and Metacafe.
more at:http://www.liverail.com/
This inline advertising model is quickly taking shape amongst the user-generated video services such as Blinkx and YouTube. Advertisers pay only when a viewer clicks on the ad, which is displayed according to LiveRail’s algorithm determining the best videos and audience with which to attach ads. As an advertiser, you also have the opportunity to indicate your target demographic as well. For those who want to monetize their online video content, sending it to LiveRail for hosting and embed the video into your website, which now had ads.
For its beta test phase, LiveRail is allotting $1000 daily budget for advertisers, granting them the chance to familiarize themselves with the LiveRail product. Other companies that utilize ad distribution networks include Flixya, Google and Metacafe.
more at:http://www.liverail.com/
OneDump
OneDump is for those people who were till then worried about uploading, use it to upload pictures, text files, and audio files so that you don't have to worry about losing them or cluttering your computer's memory. What distinguishes OneDump from other similar services is that it is extremely simple and requires no registration. You can upload files and grab the URL for sharing directly on OneDump's home page. There are more perks if you register: OneDump offers file folders, slideshows, and an easy interface to upload and manage your stuff. The startup will soon be offering the ability to upload files directly from cell phones like the T-Mobile Sidekick or by just emailing it from your mobile phone.
More at:http://www.onedump.com/
More at:http://www.onedump.com/
Discovering Your Match
Matchmine is a media discovery platform, meaning we help match video, audio and textual content with you based on a sophisticated understanding of your personal tastes. The media discovery platform gets to know what you like, and then finds the movies, video, music, news and other content you'd love to find yourself, if only you had the time. Kind of like having a best friend whose full time gig is to send you great stuff. Behind the scenes, we're a Boston-based startup that brings together top people from the disciplines of technology, science, mathematics and media in service to a three part vision.
More at:http://www.matchmine.com/
More at:http://www.matchmine.com/
Razz
Razz, Inc. is a global publisher of entertainment software and services for mobile phones and other voice communication platforms. The Company's proprietary audio distribution channel, the Razz, enables consumers to mix sound content into their phone conversations and onto their personal web pages. Leveraging this patent-pending technology, mobile content distributors can now offer their consumers a new voice-centric entertainment service, and content owners can further monetize their branded properties. With the company's flagship mobile handset application, the Razz Player, consumers can interject stored sound clips into live conversations, outgoing messages and voicemail. In short, the Razz provides a complete publishing and distribution solution for this new category of media: "in call entertainment".
More at: http://www.razz.com/
More at: http://www.razz.com/
LessonBites
LessonBites provides a marketplace for people with skills to sell their knowledge using internet-based video. Many instructors now give away their skill to video sharing sites. We believe that if your skill is truly valuable you should be able to sell it. LessonBites.com enables people to upload their lesson videos, setup their online store with ease and sell their skills.
More at:http://lessonbites.com/
More at:http://lessonbites.com/
Friday, July 6, 2007
Open Forum For Small Business
American Express' OPEN credit division for small business has just launched Openforum.com. With a growing article database, regularly updated business stories, event postings and industry forums, the new social networking site for small business owners is worth bookmarking. AE is kicking off its launch on June 26 with a panel of well-known directors, writers and producers who will share how they used "power networking" to make it in the entertainment industry.
More at:http://www.openforum.com/
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More at:http://www.openforum.com/
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Don't Worry And Share Your Any Business Idea At......
When aspiring entrepreneurs come to my office for help, many of them are very hesitant to share many details about what they are hoping to do.
“They are afraid to share any specific aspect of their business for fear that someone will steal their idea and beat them to the punch,” said Jeff Cornwall, director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship.
Just how real is this fear?
To attract potential financing, suppliers, employees and so forth, and to get help from advisers, the entrepreneur needs to become comfortable with sharing their idea.
Follow these five tips:
1. Always keep in mind that success comes from sound execution and implementation much more than the idea itself. Ideas can be a dime a dozen.
2. Entrepreneurs should always be prudent about whom they talk with about business.
3. When in doubt, have people sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement.
4. Patents can help, too, but that’s never completely foolproof and it can get expensive.
5. Finally, trust your instincts. If someone makes you nervous with questions concerning your idea, back off. You don’t have to share information if you don’t feel comfortable.
More at:http://www.tennessean.com/
“They are afraid to share any specific aspect of their business for fear that someone will steal their idea and beat them to the punch,” said Jeff Cornwall, director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship.
Just how real is this fear?
To attract potential financing, suppliers, employees and so forth, and to get help from advisers, the entrepreneur needs to become comfortable with sharing their idea.
Follow these five tips:
1. Always keep in mind that success comes from sound execution and implementation much more than the idea itself. Ideas can be a dime a dozen.
2. Entrepreneurs should always be prudent about whom they talk with about business.
3. When in doubt, have people sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement.
4. Patents can help, too, but that’s never completely foolproof and it can get expensive.
5. Finally, trust your instincts. If someone makes you nervous with questions concerning your idea, back off. You don’t have to share information if you don’t feel comfortable.
More at:http://www.tennessean.com/
Podango will offers all that you need to start Podcasting and and start profiting.
Podango will offers all that you need to start Podcasting and and start profiting. It is a media hosting, publishing and advertising platform all in one, allowing you to create content, make a Podango site and utilize their suite of tools, APIs, blog plug-ins, and remote players From there, you can start generating profit and then take 50% percent of the cut off of your Podango hosted site with your syndicated podcasts.
More at:http://www.podango.com/
More at:http://www.podango.com/
Flogd is basically a flash-based tool that allows you to create shops stocked with your own products and put them anywhere
Flogd is basically a flash-based tool that allows you to create shops stocked with your own products and put them anywhere using the tried-and-true method of cut and paste. It’s sort of like Photobucket, Slide or RockYou, but for products you want to sell, rather than photos of random stuff. The shops include built-in shopping carts, and a buyer can safely and securely purchase anything from a seller's shop right then and there, rather than being redirected to another page- significantly reducing the rate of drop off, and potentially leading to increased sales and exposure.
Flogd’s main point of difference is their extreme usability, both for buyers and sellers. On the marketing end, it is simple for those wanting to sell their products to easily put their products on their blogs, websites and social networking communities, using their flash-based tool. For sellers, it’s less likely that they’ll abandon their shopping cart because transactions are not redirected to another page.
More at:http://www.flogd.com/
Flogd’s main point of difference is their extreme usability, both for buyers and sellers. On the marketing end, it is simple for those wanting to sell their products to easily put their products on their blogs, websites and social networking communities, using their flash-based tool. For sellers, it’s less likely that they’ll abandon their shopping cart because transactions are not redirected to another page.
More at:http://www.flogd.com/
"Qoof " generate solid revenue from their partnerships with online retail affiliate programs.
Qoof is real good for those people who catch things in camera and for now they can make money by just putting their videos on Qoof which will give them few dollors for uploading after uploading they would provide you code and people can copy and paste those code on their websites and blogs and that will generate revenue for you. Usermercials is a consumer software application that leverages the power of broadband video content to enable users to finally generate solid revenue from their partnerships with online retail affiliate programs. Make a video of a product, upload it, insert affiliate code, profit?
More at:http://www.qoof.com/
More at:http://www.qoof.com/
Imagekind represents a new kind of marketplace where prospective customers can be reached across the globe
Imagekind represents a new kind of marketplace where prospective customers can be reached across the globe. The service is always free to use and the artists set their own retail prices. It is one of the most powerful new platform for selling fine art prints from digital files.
What They Claim:
One community for creating, buying, and selling art, Imagekind introduces a new development in print-on-demand services. Artists of all types including, digital photographers, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, printmakers and draftsmen, can sell their work online with a free Imagekind online art gallery. Customers can readily find a wide variety of wall art, framed art, digital photography and poster art on our site. Imagekind fine art prints can be ordered with millions of combinations of frames, papers, canvas types, and sizes. Look through our large collection of photography and giclee prints.
More at:http://www.imagekind.com/
What They Claim:
One community for creating, buying, and selling art, Imagekind introduces a new development in print-on-demand services. Artists of all types including, digital photographers, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, printmakers and draftsmen, can sell their work online with a free Imagekind online art gallery. Customers can readily find a wide variety of wall art, framed art, digital photography and poster art on our site. Imagekind fine art prints can be ordered with millions of combinations of frames, papers, canvas types, and sizes. Look through our large collection of photography and giclee prints.
More at:http://www.imagekind.com/
WebScriptLab Which Help You To Change Your Ideas Into Script
This site is simple yet utterly practical. The first tool out of the lab is a gif generator; if you haven’t already got a little round icon to indicate your Ajax is loading you can create one; simply pick an indicator type, background color, foreground color, speed, and presto, you’ve got yourself a handy yet elegant loading icon.
To create favorites icons upload a picture (150KB max.), convert it to the 16×16 Favicon standard and hit generate. The same goes for your web domain, just click generate and see what’s available. WebScriptLab may not have tons to offer, but what they’ve got so far is pretty useful.
As They Say:
“Create your own ajax loading gif easily” “Create a favorites icon for
your site” “Create your own web 2.0 domain easily” .
More at:http://webscriptlab.com/
To create favorites icons upload a picture (150KB max.), convert it to the 16×16 Favicon standard and hit generate. The same goes for your web domain, just click generate and see what’s available. WebScriptLab may not have tons to offer, but what they’ve got so far is pretty useful.
As They Say:
“Create your own ajax loading gif easily” “Create a favorites icon for
your site” “Create your own web 2.0 domain easily” .
More at:http://webscriptlab.com/
Sitevolume Is For Those People Who Want To Know How Popular They Are And How To Find It
Sitevolume is a tool that tells you how many time was a certain term mentioned on Digg, MySpace, YouTube, Flicker, or Twitter. It comes from the creators of Tweetvolume who decided to expand the concept a bit.
While Tweetvolume wan’t much more than a toy for Twitter fans, Sitevolume can be put in the “useful SEO tools” category. It works fast, it lets you compare the results 5 different sites, and it has a nice visual representation of the results. So, if you want to know how popular you really are, you know where to go.
More at:http://www.sitevolume.com/
While Tweetvolume wan’t much more than a toy for Twitter fans, Sitevolume can be put in the “useful SEO tools” category. It works fast, it lets you compare the results 5 different sites, and it has a nice visual representation of the results. So, if you want to know how popular you really are, you know where to go.
More at:http://www.sitevolume.com/
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Zazzle
Zazzle combines innovative manufacturing, a robust community, the largest online collection of customizable digital images and unmatched personalization tools to empower you to create apparel, posters, cards, stamps and more.
You can earn money from your photos, designs and ideas by creating products such as custom t-shirts and publishing them into the Zazzle.
More at:http://www.zazzle.com/
You can earn money from your photos, designs and ideas by creating products such as custom t-shirts and publishing them into the Zazzle.
More at:http://www.zazzle.com/
DirectMediaExchange Will Help You Make More Money
Most Of the people who first starts blogging or website don't know how to manage or generate more revenues from ads its always headache for us how to manage ads networks.But don't worry now with DirectMedia your ads networking problem will be solved. DirectMediaExchange has a solution: they’ll manage your ads for you so that you can make more money. It’s free for publishers. Input your payment and contact info as well as your sites; the Exchange completes your inventory. Set your ad classifications and input prices. DirectMedia will supply you with adtags to place on your site. Advertisers than compete for impressions in real-time. You’ll get the highest paying advertisers with little effort. Direct Media features nine built in ad networks including Accelerator and Active Response Group; you are, however, free to include outside networks like Adsense in your auctions.
If you’re looking to make money from your blog or website, Direct Media Exchange is a good way to go. You can potentially double your revenue by having advertisers compete for adspace. This means your profits from ads can go up according to the prevailing price of your site inventory.
More at:https://direct.rightmedia.com/
If you’re looking to make money from your blog or website, Direct Media Exchange is a good way to go. You can potentially double your revenue by having advertisers compete for adspace. This means your profits from ads can go up according to the prevailing price of your site inventory.
More at:https://direct.rightmedia.com/
Trackvia is an online database management platform with unique and simple features, nocomplex features to match
Trackvia is an online database management platform with unique and simple features, nocomplex features to match. Businesses can easily import their existing spreadsheets which can be filtered, mapped and sorted with Trackvia. Creating a database doesn’t require any technical wizardry. Select your field types to match your data reqs. Because it’s all web based updates don’t have to be purchased and back-up is automated. Other features include attachments, track changes automated history, user permission, email receipts for database creation, and email blasts. Users can collaborate through simultaneous access. Trackvia makes database management painless. There’s a free trial version with support included available now.
Trackvia has a strong feature set for small to medium sized businesses. It’s user-friendly and reactive. With free back-up and scaled prices, it’s also affordable. Users don’t have to worry about using disk space or computers crashing either.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
Trackvia has a strong feature set for small to medium sized businesses. It’s user-friendly and reactive. With free back-up and scaled prices, it’s also affordable. Users don’t have to worry about using disk space or computers crashing either.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
uPlayme
uPlayme is a novel service that integrates with your media player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) and records your habits. As you play a song or video, you are connected to other users playing the same thing.
After signing up, uPlayme requires a fairly small software download (3MB). The software asks you if it should monitor Windows Media Player, iTunes, or your preferred media player and automatically starts tracking your media habits. As you watch or listen, it you matches you are making with other users. The other users’ profiles include their name, age, social network pages (MySpace, Facebook etc.) and the recent media they have played. If users listen to music on their portable device, the software syncs with your device and gathers the media history.
Facebook users can also add the uPlayMe application and immediately access a top 10 list of songs on Facebook, their songs, their friends’ songs and uPlayMe news. Additionally, they can invite others to join the service to begin sharing as well.
More at:http://www.uplayme.com/
After signing up, uPlayme requires a fairly small software download (3MB). The software asks you if it should monitor Windows Media Player, iTunes, or your preferred media player and automatically starts tracking your media habits. As you watch or listen, it you matches you are making with other users. The other users’ profiles include their name, age, social network pages (MySpace, Facebook etc.) and the recent media they have played. If users listen to music on their portable device, the software syncs with your device and gathers the media history.
Facebook users can also add the uPlayMe application and immediately access a top 10 list of songs on Facebook, their songs, their friends’ songs and uPlayMe news. Additionally, they can invite others to join the service to begin sharing as well.
More at:http://www.uplayme.com/
HyperInvite
Hyprinvite is a web application which complements the way we invite friends and manage the attendance, we do not require all the email of all your guests. Sending a party no. + the password to your friends is much more elegant than a long messy email or sms. Best of all, you get to interact and pass messages to them before they attend.
Hyprinvite takes advantage of the ease and privacy of using open ID technology to create a group for an event.
More at:www.hyperinvite.com
Hyprinvite takes advantage of the ease and privacy of using open ID technology to create a group for an event.
More at:www.hyperinvite.com
txtDrop
Its goal is to make web based text messaging free and as easy as possible. Which is why they let you do everything in one easy step, on one simple webpage. Using our database driven technology, txtDrop enables users in the United States and Canada to send text messages with instant delivery. No more need to pay your cellular provider up to 10 cents for sending your friend a text. Just enter your name, your friends mobile number and your message and we'll send your text instantly. Completely free of charge.
There is txtDrop, a free service that you install as a widget on your computer so you can send text messages to your friends' cell phones, easily, and for free. This is great for people who go over their cell phone text message limits. Also your friends can reply to you and you can receive their text messages in your email.
More at: www.txtdrop.com
There is txtDrop, a free service that you install as a widget on your computer so you can send text messages to your friends' cell phones, easily, and for free. This is great for people who go over their cell phone text message limits. Also your friends can reply to you and you can receive their text messages in your email.
More at: www.txtdrop.com
RingCentral Online is a Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses
RingCentral Online is a Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses. It provides a toll free or local phone number and advanced features not found in traditional phone systems. RingCentral Online business telephone service makes every business better: more professional, more efficient and more profitable. We help our customers grow their businesses through easy-to-use features that improve productivity and give the business a professional telephone presence.
With this service you feel as you’re employees are spread out across the country RingCentral makes it look like you have one integrated office. Customers will get more attention. No extra hardware is required.
More at:www.ringcentral.com/
With this service you feel as you’re employees are spread out across the country RingCentral makes it look like you have one integrated office. Customers will get more attention. No extra hardware is required.
More at:www.ringcentral.com/
Zend is for the usage of PHP for business development.
Zend Technologies is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. Our mission is to provide solutions that make PHP a viable language for large-scale enterprise development. Deployed at more than 20,000 customers worldwide, Zend’s product suite provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire PHP application lifecycle.
Zend is the PHP company. Their goal is to up the usage of PHP for business development.
More at:www.zend.com/
Zend is the PHP company. Their goal is to up the usage of PHP for business development.
More at:www.zend.com/
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Ikordo is a meeting planning service
Ikordo is a meeting planning service that does all the heavy lifting for you.
Enter in the contact information of people you’d like to invite to your meeting, indicate which attendees are required to come, set the schedule parameters, and let ikordo go to work. The service will contact your attendee list via email to inform them of the meeting you’ve set up, and attendees can simply reply to the email in order to negotiate the perfect time slot that fits everyone’s schedule. Ikordo will keep negotiating with the contacts on your attendee list until a meeting time is agreed upon. The meeting organizer will get one of these emails as well, which may seem redundant at first, but is the best way for the organizer to stay abreast of how negotiations are progressing. Once the meeting time nears, ikordo will send out email and SMS reminders (if you’ve entered the mobile phone number of the attendees).
While the hands-off approach is great for meetings that need to be scheduled for a group of people, I wouldn’t recommend using this service to schedule a same-day meeting. The response time is a bit slow for negotiating meeting times. I’ve tried to trick the system by entering an incorrect date as an email reply to see how ikordo negotiations would handle this mistake, but have yet to get my response. Alternatively, attendees that also have an ikordo account will have an easier time scheduling with the organizer for meetings. Otherwise, this is a very handy service that can branch out in several directions, from iCal integration to address book management and task list delegation.
More at:http://ikordo.com/
Via-Mas
Enter in the contact information of people you’d like to invite to your meeting, indicate which attendees are required to come, set the schedule parameters, and let ikordo go to work. The service will contact your attendee list via email to inform them of the meeting you’ve set up, and attendees can simply reply to the email in order to negotiate the perfect time slot that fits everyone’s schedule. Ikordo will keep negotiating with the contacts on your attendee list until a meeting time is agreed upon. The meeting organizer will get one of these emails as well, which may seem redundant at first, but is the best way for the organizer to stay abreast of how negotiations are progressing. Once the meeting time nears, ikordo will send out email and SMS reminders (if you’ve entered the mobile phone number of the attendees).
While the hands-off approach is great for meetings that need to be scheduled for a group of people, I wouldn’t recommend using this service to schedule a same-day meeting. The response time is a bit slow for negotiating meeting times. I’ve tried to trick the system by entering an incorrect date as an email reply to see how ikordo negotiations would handle this mistake, but have yet to get my response. Alternatively, attendees that also have an ikordo account will have an easier time scheduling with the organizer for meetings. Otherwise, this is a very handy service that can branch out in several directions, from iCal integration to address book management and task list delegation.
More at:http://ikordo.com/
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Clickable is an online solution for advertisers and marketing agencies, to offer a centralized service for ad analytics and campaign modification.
Clickable is an online solution for advertisers and marketing agencies, to offer a centralized service for ad analytics and campaign modification.
With Clickable, advertisers can manage their ad campaigns across the major ad networks, including Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter, among others. Clickable will give you metrics regarding your search marketing performance across all of these networks, and extend the options of self-managing your ads, from buying to pausing keywords within your campaign.
For advertising agencies, Clickable lets you manage your clients’ advertising campaign. With the aggregate analytics tools provided in a centralized service, the goal is to make each account manager can be more effective for more clients. The service is designed for advertising on a large or small scale, and promotes its tool set for agencies to be able to provide services to smaller companies that may otherwise not be able to afford third party research, analytics and execution.
Clickable currently only supports pay per click ad campaigns but will soon incorporate additional advertising options such as banners, rich media and online video as well. While the service has yet to add more types of advertising campaigns to its metrics capabilities, the service goes up against in-house offerings from ad networks, such as Google Analytics.
More at:http://www.clickable.com/
Via -Mashable
With Clickable, advertisers can manage their ad campaigns across the major ad networks, including Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter, among others. Clickable will give you metrics regarding your search marketing performance across all of these networks, and extend the options of self-managing your ads, from buying to pausing keywords within your campaign.
For advertising agencies, Clickable lets you manage your clients’ advertising campaign. With the aggregate analytics tools provided in a centralized service, the goal is to make each account manager can be more effective for more clients. The service is designed for advertising on a large or small scale, and promotes its tool set for agencies to be able to provide services to smaller companies that may otherwise not be able to afford third party research, analytics and execution.
Clickable currently only supports pay per click ad campaigns but will soon incorporate additional advertising options such as banners, rich media and online video as well. While the service has yet to add more types of advertising campaigns to its metrics capabilities, the service goes up against in-house offerings from ad networks, such as Google Analytics.
More at:http://www.clickable.com/
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Bloglinker Is For Making Your Blog Ads Into Revenue Generators
What if you had advertising that your readers actually wanted to click on? That's exactly what they'll get when you use bloglinkr because all of the advertisers on bloglinkr are other blogs. You select the categories that you want your readers to see, and instead of content-less sales pitches and discounted products, your readers will see links to blogs in the categories you've selected ...and you'll get paid for each click. You'll even get paid when people click ads on blogs that you've referred to bloglinkr.
It looks better than other ad revenue generators like adsence,paypal etc because its concept is new and different.Its main driving factors is, it is suited for your readers and they bound or would drawn to click on linker.
Bloglinkr’s advertising model will appeal to bloggers who aren’t so sharp on ads yet still want to make an income. Rather than featuring meaningless product placements, bloggers need simply point to other blogs, something they probably already do anyways. You’re more likely to get a better income and even more traffic.
More at:http://www.bloglinkr.com/
It looks better than other ad revenue generators like adsence,paypal etc because its concept is new and different.Its main driving factors is, it is suited for your readers and they bound or would drawn to click on linker.
Bloglinkr’s advertising model will appeal to bloggers who aren’t so sharp on ads yet still want to make an income. Rather than featuring meaningless product placements, bloggers need simply point to other blogs, something they probably already do anyways. You’re more likely to get a better income and even more traffic.
More at:http://www.bloglinkr.com/
The Tech Buzz Game is like the stock market for technology
The Tech Buzz Game is like the stock market for technology. Tech geeks can purchase stock in technological products and services while speculating who will flop. The markets featured in the game reflect companies, products, etc. Keep tabs on game winners and losers and see what the future of technology has in store. Once you’ve registered you’ll get a handsome sum of $10,000 dollars (play money, that is) to begin. Predict how popular technologies will behave. Buzz or popularity is measured by Yahoo Search frequency over time. Winners will foresee trends and invest in technologies that are undervalued relative to their potential. Of course this is all play, but you can get an idea of the future of technologies and contribute to the wisdom of the crowds.
More at:http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/
More at:http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/
Smarkets.net is a browser-based stock market game which will allow you to pick a product from Amazon and allows you to predict their popularity
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Smarkets.net is a browser-based stock market game which will allow you to pick a product from Amazon and allows you to predict their popularity. The worth of each product on the site is determined by its Amazon rank.
Why It Could Works:
Users add products listed on Amazon, as a cds,music system, furniture, and so on. Each item added becomes a "stock" which has a value. If a product's Amazon's sales rank improves, its stock price goes up. And vice-versa. Traders buy, sell, short, and cover. Products are grouped with tags and compared to other tag groups. Just for signing up you get 10,000 smarket dollars to being trading. It's free to join, and it's a good way to learn about stocks and prediction.
More at:http://www.smarkets.net/
Smarkets.net is a browser-based stock market game which will allow you to pick a product from Amazon and allows you to predict their popularity. The worth of each product on the site is determined by its Amazon rank.
Why It Could Works:
Users add products listed on Amazon, as a cds,music system, furniture, and so on. Each item added becomes a "stock" which has a value. If a product's Amazon's sales rank improves, its stock price goes up. And vice-versa. Traders buy, sell, short, and cover. Products are grouped with tags and compared to other tag groups. Just for signing up you get 10,000 smarket dollars to being trading. It's free to join, and it's a good way to learn about stocks and prediction.
More at:http://www.smarkets.net/
Driveway.com, an Online File Sharing site, that lets users upload files without registration.
About:
Driveway.com, an Online File Sharing site, that lets users upload files without registration.
Why It Could Works:
You select the files that you want to upload, and if you want to get a download and delete link by email then you provide your email address. If you do not provide an email address then just a download link would appear on the confirmation page. You then save the link generated for your file to download it in the future or send it to others if you are sharing it.
You can upload multiple files, up to a maximum limit of 500MB. You have the option of entering a recipient’s email address if you want someone else to be able to download the files. They then get an email with the download link automatically. Best of all, the service is FREE!
More at:http://www.driveway.com/
Driveway.com, an Online File Sharing site, that lets users upload files without registration.
Why It Could Works:
You select the files that you want to upload, and if you want to get a download and delete link by email then you provide your email address. If you do not provide an email address then just a download link would appear on the confirmation page. You then save the link generated for your file to download it in the future or send it to others if you are sharing it.
You can upload multiple files, up to a maximum limit of 500MB. You have the option of entering a recipient’s email address if you want someone else to be able to download the files. They then get an email with the download link automatically. Best of all, the service is FREE!
More at:http://www.driveway.com/
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
PlanHQ allows for easy online collaboration
PlanHQ allows for easy online collaboration. In the start-up phase, this means partners can work on a plan together from anywhere they can get online. Later on, investors and other stakeholders can easily keep track of how the business is developing.
The online application takes what is often a static text document or spreadsheet, left for dead once banks have been convinced or investors wooed, and turns it into a tool that can be used well beyond the planning stage. Besides walking a user through the process of creating a business plan, PlanHQ lets entrepreneurs manage key business and financial information online, track finances and monitor timelines, comparing forecasts with actual performance. All in a friendly Web 2.0-style, reminiscent of online applications by 37signals.
New Zealand-based PlanHQ offers a free 30-day trial and premium plans are priced from USD 9 – 49 per month.
Website: www.planhq.com
The online application takes what is often a static text document or spreadsheet, left for dead once banks have been convinced or investors wooed, and turns it into a tool that can be used well beyond the planning stage. Besides walking a user through the process of creating a business plan, PlanHQ lets entrepreneurs manage key business and financial information online, track finances and monitor timelines, comparing forecasts with actual performance. All in a friendly Web 2.0-style, reminiscent of online applications by 37signals.
New Zealand-based PlanHQ offers a free 30-day trial and premium plans are priced from USD 9 – 49 per month.
Website: www.planhq.com
Unusual Business Idea Which Made Him Millionaire
Thirteen years ago, as an animal- control officer in Tampa, I started Animal Capture of Florida. It was a removal service, mostly trapping stray cats at apartment complexes. We didn't make much of a profit, so I increased margins by doing repairs-fixing holes raccoons made in the attic, etc. Five years ago we jumped at the chance to become the state-contracted alligator trapper for Hillsborough County. It looked like fun.
Our revenues come from a mix of gator and other animal removal and damage repair, and in a good month we'll gross up to $30,000. Revenue from catching gators depends entirely on the animal. The state contracts with one trapper for each county, and we make money by exhibiting or selling what we catch.
A processor will pay as much as $1,000 for a big gator. The hide and meat are used commercially, but if the meat's bad from an infection, it cuts the price. Sometimes a gator's in such bad shape from fighting that we can't sell it, and we lose money removing it-as state agents, we are required to respond to each call at no charge.
In the warmer months we'll show live nine- or ten-footers at company headquarters and charge a few bucks for admission.
Customers worry that when they call an alligator catcher, some smelly, sweaty guy in coveralls is going to track mud on the carpet. Impressions are important. We have five employees, and we all wear uniforms. We start with the simplest means of removal and work up, using lethal methods only if we have to. With a small gator -four to six feet-you've only got one chance to nab him, because he's fast. We get as close as we can, armed with a snatch hook attached to a big-game fishing line, and cast it with a heavy rod and reel. There's a tug-of-war before we get a second rope around him to tape his snout and legs. If we have our act together, my partner and I can rope one in two minutes.
Weight is an issue with the big guys. We have to tow them up the bank with a truck. I once caught and lost a 12-footer five times the same day. There's one alligator out there-a very elusive 12-foot bull. He lurks in a chain of lakes near a housing development. Someone will see him and call us, and we go running. By the time we get there, he's always gone. Someday we'll catch him.
Contact:http://www.animalcapture.com/
Via-CNN
Our revenues come from a mix of gator and other animal removal and damage repair, and in a good month we'll gross up to $30,000. Revenue from catching gators depends entirely on the animal. The state contracts with one trapper for each county, and we make money by exhibiting or selling what we catch.
A processor will pay as much as $1,000 for a big gator. The hide and meat are used commercially, but if the meat's bad from an infection, it cuts the price. Sometimes a gator's in such bad shape from fighting that we can't sell it, and we lose money removing it-as state agents, we are required to respond to each call at no charge.
In the warmer months we'll show live nine- or ten-footers at company headquarters and charge a few bucks for admission.
Customers worry that when they call an alligator catcher, some smelly, sweaty guy in coveralls is going to track mud on the carpet. Impressions are important. We have five employees, and we all wear uniforms. We start with the simplest means of removal and work up, using lethal methods only if we have to. With a small gator -four to six feet-you've only got one chance to nab him, because he's fast. We get as close as we can, armed with a snatch hook attached to a big-game fishing line, and cast it with a heavy rod and reel. There's a tug-of-war before we get a second rope around him to tape his snout and legs. If we have our act together, my partner and I can rope one in two minutes.
Weight is an issue with the big guys. We have to tow them up the bank with a truck. I once caught and lost a 12-footer five times the same day. There's one alligator out there-a very elusive 12-foot bull. He lurks in a chain of lakes near a housing development. Someone will see him and call us, and we go running. By the time we get there, he's always gone. Someday we'll catch him.
Contact:http://www.animalcapture.com/
Via-CNN
For CEO Of Home
Are you the CEO of a home? Do you make multiple decisions on just about everything, for multiple individuals, and then you have to turn around and worry about yourself? Oh, and have you noticed how some of the biggest decisions are for the smallest people and some of the smallest decisions are for the biggest ones? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you're definitely the CEO of a home. Just like us. We started Neighbor.com because we felt there had to be a better way to find the best local knowledge that helps with the many daily decisions you make about your life, your family and your home. What we do is capture and organize precious nuggets of local insight and knowledge, and make them accessible to everyone.
More at:http://www.neighbor.com/
More at:http://www.neighbor.com/
Flippid Is Connecting Buyers And Sellers
Flippid is a site that helps people find whatever product they are looking for by connecting buyers with sellers. When you post something you want on Flippid--say, an Xbox, for example--you are creating a "buyoff." You give details about what you're looking for, including some tags to help categorize it, the maximum price you want to pay, the maximum shipping cost you want to pay, and how long you want it to last. Flippid makes it easy to acquire what you need. They will help you find a picture of what you're looking for. Sellers (retailers or anybody, really) then see your BuyOff and can offer to sell you what you're looking for. When they do, Flippid will send you an email to keep you up to date.
More at:http://www.flippid.com
More at:http://www.flippid.com
ExpertNerds.com helps users find expert providers
ExpertNerds.com helps users find expert providers. Users can ask questions from many different areas of interest and get answers from experts. Users can also submit website related projects that need developed, it could be anything from a simple logo they need to a full blown website they need created. ExpertNerds.com is here to help anyone with a question or a website development project.
More at:http://www.expertnerds.com/
More at:http://www.expertnerds.com/
VideoIPO Stock Exchange
Do more than watching video at the VideoIPO Stock Exchange. Everbody dream of earning millions of dollars like those traders on Wallstreet? Or sometimes we dreamed of investing our money in the stock market and seeing it double in size? Well most of us have these dreams but the reality is investing is scary business. Most people have no training. And if you invest and are wrong - you can really lose. Know anyone who lost money during the dot.com bust? Well the VideoIPO Stock Exchange is designed to combine entertainment and learning to give you an exciting interactive experience, while also making players more knowledgeable investors and money managers. By playing this game, you will learn about budgeting, forecasting, and stock market investing - but not in a classroom. This game teaches these skills while you are hanging with your friends, riding the bus or relaxing at the beach. And what's more - it requires you to watch cool videos - its paradise.
More at: http://www.videoipo.tv/
More at: http://www.videoipo.tv/
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