I see loads of blogs copying John Chow dot Com (Style, design, evilness, etc.). Sadly, many of them failed. Honestly, I am one of those. I am one of the victims who copied John Chow’s marketing tactics. But why did my blog became successful? What did I do to make my blog more interesting?
I’m not self promoting here guys. I’m just here to share the things that I learned from this great blogger that helped me through my blogging difficulties and marketing.
So, I’ll just go straight to the point. Here are the 5 things I learned from John Chow that made me a successful blogger.
1. Be Unique
“What the heck Carl? You just said you copied John Chow’s marketing strategies and now you want us to be unique?”
Yea I copied, but not literally! I just get the thought on how John Chow became successful and revised some of it.
Like for example, John Chow is the evil one right? That’s why people love him, he’s unique in some kind of way. John Chow uses branding for people to love him. So if I say, who is the root of evil again? What comes up in your mind? Of course, John Chow!
2. Socialize with famous bloggers
To those loyal John Chow readers here, did you remember the time when John Chow is chatting with Darren Rowse through Adwords? The “I love Darren Rowse” ad? That was the perfect idea that caught Problogger’s eyes and noticed JohnChow.com
3. Leverage Your Knowledge
There are so many great bloggers out there with great and useful post. Some are guru’s blogging just for popularity. But how did John Chow established himself as the make money online authority to many people?
As stated in the guest post of Adii from my blog:
I doubt that he knew anything about making money online and monetizing blogs when he first started blogging. But John Chow has persisted with his goal to be regarded as an expert (see the wording, his readers thinks he is the expert, although he might not even think so himself) and he had the self confidence and arrogance to back up these goals.
4. Don’t Play with Google
If you could recall, remember when John Chow edited his robots.txt? Then after a day or two, his rank went down in Google for the keyword “Make Money Online.”
Yeah… I know if you want to be an SEO expert, you gotta experiment. But please, not on your main blog that gives you 5 figure monthly. I hope John Chow gets some Google love soon.
Oh yea. I told Google that I hate them because you’re not in the top search results for the keyword John Chow! Though I’m not switching to Yahoo
5. Never, Never Give-Up
Even though John Chow is still not showing up number one in the search results today. He still have this sportsman spirit (John Chow used to hold the 100 meter dash in his High School) that keeps his blog alive and his community active. He even reached another blogging milestone by breaking the 6,000 RSS mark!
This is also a reason on why people don’t make money online. They give up. After few months they give up because they are not earning or they’re earning not enough. Remember, Blogging is like planting a tree. It takes years to harvest the fruits.
Via-Carl
Friday, July 13, 2007
vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution
vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution. Thousands of clients, including many industry leading blue chip companies, have chosen vBulletin - It's the ideal choice for any size of community. Making your site a hub for information and discussion encourages visitors to return again and again. It's also a highly effective way of improving your service to customers or users of your website. Our dedicated development team constantly strives to keep vBulletin at the forefront of new Internet innovations, while always keeping an eye on security and performance.
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PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data
PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market. Our patent-pending real-time profiling system indexes custom employee attributes (such as industry-specific certifications) and specific job titles for every industry. PayScale Professional provides employers with accurate, reliable compensation detail never before available. My PayScale and PayScale Premium give individuals the accurate facts and negotiation know-how they need in order to make smart, informed career decisions.
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More at:http://www.payscale.com/
Tv-Reality BusinessShow Inspiring Entrepreneurs
Millions of Britons are hatching new business ideas and inventions, with popular reality TV business shows such as ‘Dragon’s Den’ inspiring one in twelve wannabe entrepreneurs.
NatWest reveals that nearly 17 million Brits* harbour a business idea, with 30 per cent planning to turn their ambition into a reality – a quarter (26 per cent) within the next year. Of those wishing to set up in business, nearly half (43 per cent) view being their own boss as the ultimate reward.
Whilst some may resent reality TV dominating our screens, these ‘start up’ shows are already having a positive influence on UK plc by encouraging new business. One in five (19 per cent) young entrepreneurs (aged 18-34) who set up a company in the last five years was inspired by reality TV. However, how accurately such shows represent everyday working life is another matter, as those running their own businesses warn they make ‘starting up’ look glamorous (45 per cent) and easy (32 per cent).
Motivations to go solo include the ability to work more flexibly (77 per cent), the feeling of freedom and independence (70 per cent) and frustrations with their current boss (37 per cent) - nearly a quarter (22 per cent) had their ‘eureka’ moment at their work desk.
Whilst famous entrepreneurs like Alan Sugar represent the massive financial rewards to be had, those dreaming of owning a business have more achievable financial goals.
They expect to earn up to £40,000 annually from their business, just above the £28,000 that is actually earned by the average UK entrepreneur. In fact, making a fortune isn’t why most get into business, of those already set up, only one in ten (11 per cent) small businesses stated a desire to make a fortune as the original motivation for deciding to go it alone.
The entrepreneurial spirit is at its strongest within the IT and telecoms sectors, of all those considering having their own business, over one in ten (11 per cent) originate from these industries. Whether they want to stay in these industries may be a different matter as over half of all business owners (58 per cent) set up in a completely different sector from their previous career.
Life-changing moments also play a part in fuelling a spirit of enterprise. Redundancy (30 per cent), illness (17 per cent), having children (10 per cent) and career breaks (10 per cent) provided a trigger for the three in ten entrepreneurs prompted to go it alone.
According to the NatWest findings reality can far outweigh ambition when it comes to going it alone. Almost a quarter (23 per cent) of entrepreneurs starting out in the last five years were tempted to give up on their dream, with cash-flow problems, lack of finance and poor marketing knowledge the biggest practical hurdles to getting up and running. The fear of failure, stress and lack of confidence in their abilities were the greatest emotional challenges cited.
Launching a new package to get small businesses off the ground, Steve Pateman, Chief Executive, Business Banking, NatWest said: “Whilst it’s encouraging that TV programmes can inspire an army of armchair entrepreneurs into action, they only really scratch the surface of what it takes to run a successful business.”
Pateman continues: “Although over half (52%) aren’t confident they have the skills and financial know-how to get started straight away, with advice from an experienced local business manager offered by NatWest, plus useful money saving benefits, these initial hurdles needn’t be a barrier to getting a good business idea off the ground.”
NatWest reveals that nearly 17 million Brits* harbour a business idea, with 30 per cent planning to turn their ambition into a reality – a quarter (26 per cent) within the next year. Of those wishing to set up in business, nearly half (43 per cent) view being their own boss as the ultimate reward.
Whilst some may resent reality TV dominating our screens, these ‘start up’ shows are already having a positive influence on UK plc by encouraging new business. One in five (19 per cent) young entrepreneurs (aged 18-34) who set up a company in the last five years was inspired by reality TV. However, how accurately such shows represent everyday working life is another matter, as those running their own businesses warn they make ‘starting up’ look glamorous (45 per cent) and easy (32 per cent).
Motivations to go solo include the ability to work more flexibly (77 per cent), the feeling of freedom and independence (70 per cent) and frustrations with their current boss (37 per cent) - nearly a quarter (22 per cent) had their ‘eureka’ moment at their work desk.
Whilst famous entrepreneurs like Alan Sugar represent the massive financial rewards to be had, those dreaming of owning a business have more achievable financial goals.
They expect to earn up to £40,000 annually from their business, just above the £28,000 that is actually earned by the average UK entrepreneur. In fact, making a fortune isn’t why most get into business, of those already set up, only one in ten (11 per cent) small businesses stated a desire to make a fortune as the original motivation for deciding to go it alone.
The entrepreneurial spirit is at its strongest within the IT and telecoms sectors, of all those considering having their own business, over one in ten (11 per cent) originate from these industries. Whether they want to stay in these industries may be a different matter as over half of all business owners (58 per cent) set up in a completely different sector from their previous career.
Life-changing moments also play a part in fuelling a spirit of enterprise. Redundancy (30 per cent), illness (17 per cent), having children (10 per cent) and career breaks (10 per cent) provided a trigger for the three in ten entrepreneurs prompted to go it alone.
According to the NatWest findings reality can far outweigh ambition when it comes to going it alone. Almost a quarter (23 per cent) of entrepreneurs starting out in the last five years were tempted to give up on their dream, with cash-flow problems, lack of finance and poor marketing knowledge the biggest practical hurdles to getting up and running. The fear of failure, stress and lack of confidence in their abilities were the greatest emotional challenges cited.
Launching a new package to get small businesses off the ground, Steve Pateman, Chief Executive, Business Banking, NatWest said: “Whilst it’s encouraging that TV programmes can inspire an army of armchair entrepreneurs into action, they only really scratch the surface of what it takes to run a successful business.”
Pateman continues: “Although over half (52%) aren’t confident they have the skills and financial know-how to get started straight away, with advice from an experienced local business manager offered by NatWest, plus useful money saving benefits, these initial hurdles needn’t be a barrier to getting a good business idea off the ground.”
Online backup services can be a great, great way of keeping your data secure
Online backup services can be a great, great way of keeping your data secure.You could buy a 300 gig’er hard drive from Best Buy and use it, but nothing beats having a copy of a file directly on the Internet — it’s accessible from anywhere, and you never have to worry about waking up to find your hard drive corrupt. With broadband speeds increasing, it’s also getting faster and faster, and there is no doubt it’ll eventually be the preferred option for backing up data.
backup.com is"it’s simply letting a software/web service model automatically backup your data over the Internet so you never have to worry about doing it — that is of course, until you lose it, in which case it’s a simple one-click-restore.
It isn’t too processor intensive, and presents a clean look and feel. One downside to backup.com is the absence of a free plan and the high, high cost of storage — their plans are priced like it’s 2002! On the other hand, you get what you pay for, and its customer support service to be responsive and caring. If you’re the person who likes to get what he pays for and no strings attached, backup.com is probably your best solution.
more at:http://backup.com/
backup.com is"it’s simply letting a software/web service model automatically backup your data over the Internet so you never have to worry about doing it — that is of course, until you lose it, in which case it’s a simple one-click-restore.
It isn’t too processor intensive, and presents a clean look and feel. One downside to backup.com is the absence of a free plan and the high, high cost of storage — their plans are priced like it’s 2002! On the other hand, you get what you pay for, and its customer support service to be responsive and caring. If you’re the person who likes to get what he pays for and no strings attached, backup.com is probably your best solution.
more at:http://backup.com/
Managment Tool
VersionOne is an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise project and lifecycle management solutions for agile development. Enabling today's leading agile methodologies, VersionOne helps companies simplify the process of delivering software. By offering powerful, easy-to-use planning and management tools, VersionOne enables: Faster delivery cycles, Greater business adaptability, Reduced project risk, and Enhanced project visibility and predictability. The days of long, bureaucratic software projects are limited. Rapid return on investment drives today's business decisions, leaving traditional methodologies scrambling to address current business dynamics. VersionOne's agile project management tool offers flexibility and integrated support for next-generation software development methodologies which helps deliver the competitive advantage leading-edge technology organizations need to survive in today's markets.
More at:http://www.versionone.com/
More at:http://www.versionone.com/
Yoomba
World’s only open communications experience, where any email address can be instantly contacted by you for free - simply by calling or chat. Everyone has an email address, and with Yoomba, every email address becomes a phone or messenger. So why not email call or email chat with friends, family or colleagues around the world for free? There is no need for a new email address, a new ID, or another phone number - you just activate and Yoomba! Yoomba offers unique one-touch buttons which appear in your preferred email application, making connecting to anyone just one click away, and with Yoomba you also have access to your most popular contacts, at a glance. Whether it’s Outlook, webmail or simply from your browser – don’t change a thing – just Yoomba.
More at:http://www.yoomba.com/
More at:http://www.yoomba.com/
Thursday, July 12, 2007
DailyTube
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/
More at:http://www.thedailytube.com/
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/
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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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