Techmambo is a weblog dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Online and Offline products, services and companies.In addition to this, we also profile existing companies that are working hard to make gadgets/services more usable for the rest of us. Techmambo is edited by Gerald Shuma.
With mapAmobile, you can locate employees or family members without disturbing them. Request a mobile phone location using the mapAmobile website or via text / WAP if you’re on the move.
mapAmobile is ideal for businesses of all sizes. Add unlimited departments and phones and assign multiple locating phones. Find the nearest phones to a postcode. Administrators can set up automatic, periodic location reports and request alerts if a phone leaves or enters a postcode area.
Ideal for family and friends. Limited to one locating phone and ten locatable phones.
Safaricom, the telecoms giant, supports inclusive education in Kenya with a grant of £20,000 per year. There are over 10,000 irreversibly blind children in Kenya, a small fraction of whom receive an education. Safaricom supports the inclusion of those children who are blind into mainstream schools. A mainstream school provides a blind child with the opportunity to develop the skills necessary for life. Mixing and playing with sighted children breaks down stigmas and builds friendships and relationships far beyond the classroom.
Safaricom supports the production of Braille materials, and the provision and repair of Perkins Braillers (a typewriter which produces Braille pages) used by children through our partner The African Braille Centre. They also support the training of specialist teachers, who visit a number of schools in their local area teaching visually impaired children skills such as Braille, as well as supporting classroom teachers to help blind children in the classroom.
Zungu is the root word of mzungu, which in Swahili means one who wanders in circles. Mzungu, or wazungu, was also the word used for the first white people who came to East Africa and is still used today.
His name is Erik Hersman, and He is an mzungu raised in East Africa. He bring many years of internet experience as a web marketer in a large corporation and as an interactive marketing agency strategist for Fortune 500 clients, small- and medium-sized businesses such as:
ZUNGU can revolutionize your business, beat your competitors and realize incredible returns on your marketing dollars by offering the following services:
STRATEGY :: Any Marketing Is Only As Good As It's Strategy You might need an email plan, web visibility or usability testing, or a search marketing plan. Whatever your needs are, we will show you how it all works together to create synergy. An integrated marketing plan, bringing together your website, email, search and offline marketing is crucial for your success.
SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING :: Local for Locals google logoLocal search marketing is one of the least understood and most overlooked areas of marketing for small- to medium-sized businesses. Learn how to use Google, Yahoo!, MSN and the Internet Yellow Pages to your advantage. Beat the competition, open new conduits to customers you didn't know you didn't have. Best of all, measure your campaign and it's effectiveness
EMAIL MARKETING :: Attract, Personalize, Stay in Touch Learn how to create effective and meaningful email campaigns. Email is the perfect medium to augment any marketing campaign - offline or online. Email is easy to abuse, it's powerful and has the ability to do great damage or create massive amounts of business
WEB DESIGN :: Usability and Functionality You've got a website already, that's the first step. How do you know if it's working for or against you? Let Zungu show you how to monitor and analyze your website to ensure high returns. Does your website have the type of functionality that your users require? Is it easy to use and navigate through?
AFFILIATE MARKETING :: Multiply Your Sales Force Affiliate marketing isn't for everyone, but it might be just what you're looking for depending upon your business. Contact Zungu for a free consultation on whether this type of marketing will work for you.
Blackboard Scholar® is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It provides an exciting new way for students and instructors to find educationally valuable resources on the Web.
Using the knowledge and power of our network of educational users, Scholar will make it easier for instructors and students to find relevant resources on the Internet for courses and research. Furthermore, by storing and sharing associated information with each resource such as tags, disciplines, other users who have tagged and more, Scholar will allow users to evaluate the resources and find the most relevant and reliable. And it is directly integrated within the Blackboard Learning System(TM) - Enterprise, Vista, and CE Licenses, providing easy access right within the course environment.
It is easy to get Scholar® started and working for you!
CREATE your account.
SET UP THE BOOKMARKLET - add web sites you find to your Scholar bookmarks directly from your browser!
IMPORT your existing bookmarks from your browser or other social bookmarking service.
SEARCH - do simple or more advanced search by tag, discipline, and/or institution. You set the parameters to get exactly what you need.
SAVE & TAG - save your bookmarks and searches to your Scholar collection to use in research or a course at anytime. You can name, classify ("tag") and describe the resources anyway that works for you, including tagging by your courses.
SHARE - you can see what other people have tagged, how they have tagged it and who they are, to help you evaluate and find better resources. They can use yours to help do the same.
Got a cool startup, and looking for a new way to get the word out? Well, if you have a giant pile of cash and plane tickets to LA, not to mention an oh-so-exclusive invite, you can pitch at DEMO 07.
Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.
Brightcove lets you realize the potential of online video with the most comprehensive Internet TV service available today. Brightcove empowers content owners from independent producers to major broadcast networks to reach their audiences directly through the Internet.
At the same time they help web publishers enrich their sites with syndicated video programming, and give marketers more ways to communicate and engage with their consumers.
LinkedFeed is not your ordinary AJAXed homepage, it is an automated and customizable information social network. The more you use it, the most accurate news it brings to you and people sharing your interests.
LinkedFeed is a mix between an AJAXed homepage, an RSS aggregator, and mostly a social network. It gives you control over everything displayed on the site, and pushes content to you and your friends depending on your preferences.
A "Linked Feed" is a feed (RSS or Atom) that is linked to those you already added to your page. Indeed, people that read quite the same feeds as you do might also be reading some interesting feed you did not know so far. LinkedFeed brings these feeds to you, and suggests your feeds to people who share your interests!
Everything on LinkedFeed can be edited : select and add your RSS/Atom feeds, organize them in various tabs, choose the number of items to display, the windows color, their place on the page, etc. You can also add cool modules we made especially for your convenience: web search, feed search, weather forecast, notepad, TV guide ... and much more to come!
questionform is a complete solution for your web surveys or forms, no HTML or programming knowledge required. Creating and publishing complex, multi-page, multi-lingual surveys has never been so easy. it is easy and fun, with drag and drop and a few clicks, you can build powerful online surveys in no time. easily integrate the survey with your web page, blog (click for example) or send by email and track who has responded. track your survey responses in real time, analyse the results, create reports and export the data to your favorite spreadsheet
Whythawk Ratings (white-hawk) promotes economic development by impartially measuring and rating the effectiveness of enterprise, education and health relief interventions of development organisations and charities.
Whythawk also conducts research on behalf of donors to investigate regional development needs and assist in ongoing surveillance and vigilance of their social investment initiatives.
A Whythawk rating is an opinion on a development organisation's future performance. Whythawk’s goal is to provide ratings that embody high-quality and impartial delivery analysis. Whythawk evaluates weaknesses as well as strengths to determine the organisation's ability and willingness to deliver on the needs identified within their target sector.
Ratings components include: A management and accountability rating An effectiveness of service delivery rating A strategic planning and execution rating An overall rating A Rand value statement of funding requirements
MatchActivity.com is an activity – based site that connects people through 1-on-1 activities. It’s for people who like to socialize, date, or simply meet new people for activities such as: bowling, concerts, movies, and sushi. MatchActivity uses shared interests to make finding a quality match much more fun, efficient, and honest.
MatchActivity recognizes a simple fact: people who like the same music, restaurants, sports, etc., already share qualities that will help them connect, and have a more relaxed basis for communication. While other sites make you browse endless profiles, many of which are misleading or outdated, MatchActivity lets you immediately plan an activity; set the time and place; and find someone who shares your interests.
Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.
Gladoo is a career search solution that makes online career search simpler than ever before by offering one stop search for jobs and more. Job seekers don’t have to jump from site to site any more to find that dream job. Gladoo offers single search access to jobs from all major job portals, classified sites, agencies, and company websites
One Reader at a Time One blogger’s experiment in building and engaging with online communities. Ruminate this site Reviews blogs and sites so that we don’t have to. SMogger Social Media Blog The ethical use of social media for bloggers and other web users. SuccessCREEations Blog Consultant bringing the twin passions of business and blogging together. Successful Blog The legendary Liz Strauss, blogger extraordinaire and creator of the SOB award. Troy Worman's Blog Focus on writing, ideas and connections Copywriter's Crucible The importance of copy in corporate blogging Copywriting Tuneups How to measure reading effectiveness and why it is important in the blogosphere Dipping into the Blogpond Blogging about starting an Internet company in the Sutherland Shire. BrandSizzle Broad and deep insight into the branding process. Own Your Brand! Blog to help businesses re-imagine their brands. The Emerging Brand Corporate branding blog focused on leadership. The Engaging Brand Using technology and marketing knowledge to improve business communications. What is Brand? Japanese readers/speakers? Anyone? Presentation Zen (Site in English) Tips for great presentations, marketing, and business communications. Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta Complete help on the new blogger. Blogger Hacks, Blogger templates. Adsense. Search engine Optimization. Bob Sutton Discussions of “jerks” in business. Perspective Health, wealth and the freedom to choose. Archived blog. New one is jugaad (http://www.nitibhan.com/jugaad). Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Views on business life. Simplicity Mary’s Blog Business development, marketing troubleshooting Funny Business Wide ranging discussion on business with a funny and pictorial approach. Creative Think Fun Ideas to stimulate your creativity. The Copywriting Maven Marketing and SEO copywriting tips. Brain Based Biz Tips for stirring creativity in business. Experienceology How to create great customer experiences on the web and in the “real” world. Creating Passionate Users
WorldSpace, Inc. provides digital satellite audio, data and multimedia services primarily to the emerging markets of Africa and Asia.
WorldSpace is the first and only company with rights to the world’s globally allocated spectrum for digital satellite radio. Its broadcast footprint covers over 130 countries including India and China, all of Africa and the Middle East and most of Western Europe – an area that includes five billion people and more than 300 million automobiles. Its two fully operational satellites and ground infrastructure are based on proprietary and patented technology.
WorldSpace’s program directors and radio jockeys operate from studios in Washington, DC, Bangalore, India and Nairobi, Kenya, where 30 original music and lifestyle channels are created for distribution. Four of these stations are also available in the United States, on the XM Satellite Radio network.
The WorldSpace satellite network is comprised of two operational satellites that service three large geographic areas through three beams that are each capable of carrying up to 80 channels. These powerful L-band satellites have traveling wave tube amplifiers and on-board baseband processors that link with WorldSpace radio receivers equipped with a special micro-integrated circuit that processes the satellites’ high-quality audio and data transmissions.
Shared Interest creates the means for US social investors to invest in community-based economic projects that will not only create jobs, but also alternative models of control and ownership."
Shared Interest’s guarantee fund helps low-income South Africans–particularly blacks, women, and people in rural communities. Eighty percent of people who benefit from our programs are women.
Is Shared Interest successful? Since 1994, when Shared Interest was founded, Shared Interest has helped more than 600,000 people in South Africa. Shared Interest built houses—more than 62,000 safe, affordable homes. Shared Interest created jobs—more than 12,000 jobs. Shared Interest launched small businesses—more than 6,000.
How can I help Shared Interest and people in South Africa? You can learn more about the challenges and opportunities in South Africa. You can invest in Shared Interest’s guarantee fund. And you can donate to Shared Interest programs. Visit the “Join Our Partnership” page now!
smart2go™ is a client side global map & search application for GPS-equipped mobile handsets. With smart2go™, users can explore the world. smart2go™ shows the current position and the most interesting points of interest nearby. smart2go™ can be extended with additional content plug-ins such as restaurant guides or events calendars, as well as up-to-date services such as weather and hotspot information. Users can easily upgrade to full navigation including turn-by-turn voice commands
qumana combines a powerfully simple interface, as easy to use as email, with features that make your posts look better, get more traffic, and make you money. Features such as easy image insertion, simple Technorati tagging, and advertising insertion. Qumana's ease of use and added features make it is the preferred publishing tool for all bloggers - new and experienced.
Qumana is an easy-to-use desktop blog editor, enabling you to write, edit and post to one or more blogs.
You can use Qumana even when you are offline. Save your blog posts to your hard drive and upload whenever you like. Great for bloggers on the move.
Qumana features include easy text formatting and image insertion, simple Technorati tagging, and advertising insertion with Q Ads. Make money from your blog content by inserting the ads of your choice with the built-in Q Ads tool.
WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog. Create Post Entries for your Blog from right here, completely free, no membership required, can Post to multiple Blogs simultaneously, manage your Posts, works with all major Blog programs, and is easy-peasy!
Click2Map is a new rich Internet application. It is an easiest way to build and share your Google Maps online. Click2Map goal is to provide an easy to use application for create, manage and publish online maps without any knowledge of programming. You also don't need to know how to use the Google Maps API.
Pipl's query-engine will help you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information in real-time from the deep web
There are various reasons why you might need to search for people, you may need to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact; but if you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people you have probably realized by now that it might work in some cases but in most cases it won't. As if this is not bad enough, even when it "works" you will most likely find articles about the person or pages where he is mantioned but not their personal profiles, contact info, publications or public records.
Also known as "invisible web", the term "deep web" refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.
Established in March 2003,UnlockItNow.com has grown to be one of the leading mobile phone remote unlocking/servicing technology in the telecommunications industry. More people choose UnlockItNow.com to get their mobile phone unlocked/serviced online than any other company worldwide. UnlockItNow.com is under the management of Mobile Gadgets Co. Ltd, a company registered in Malta (Europe).
Noisetap is a music lovin’ community getting together to share the latest news, rumors, opinions—anything at all, as long as it’s music-related. To keep things interesting, we’ve set up a rating system allowing site members to give stories a positive (+) or negative (-) rating. The stories with the most positive ratings rise to the top, and, naturally, the ones with the most negatives sink to the bottom—because here at Noisetap, it’s all about survival of the hippest.
Want some bragging rights if you’re posting fabulous stuff? You got it. All users are ranked according to their level of participation as well as their feedback scores. Post stories, get points. Post stories a bunch of people like—get even more points. That number next to your name tells you how your stories and participation level rate among all other site members.
Noisetap also features news articles, artist interviews and album reviews for your reading pleasure.
Think your music knowledge will give you an edge in climbing up the chain? Think you can handle a bit of friendly competition? Then welcome to the jungle.
Criteo is a technology provider. Based on breakthrough research in collaborative filtering, Criteo provides predictive tools on user’s tastes and behaviors. Our tool opens a whole range of new ways to increase e-commerce long tail issues and social networks. The underlying predictive technology is fully proprietary and patent protected.
Criteo technology is available on a white brand basis for any web site. Integration is very simple through easy-to-use web services. The best way to check our technology is to browse our movies and videos demos. This will give you an overview of the functionalities available with Criteo engine.
Aryty allows people in the United States and Canada to send prepaid mobile phone credit to friends and family overseas either from their mobile phones or online at Aryty.com. It's a great tool to help your friends and family stay connected.
The world "aryty" is a slangy SMS (text message) abbreviation of "all righty." It means 'everything is all right,' 'no worries,' or 'it's all good.' But no matter how you say it, we hope that's what you'll feel once you send mobile minutes to loved ones overseas, Aryty!?
Great uses for Aryty
Stay connected with friends and family. Send phone credit to start an SMS chat with a friend overseas. Just a few dollars will allow your friends to send you all the news from home!
Send a gift. Mobile phones are such an important part of life for many people overseas. Sending a small gift of prepaid credit can go a long way help people connect with information, friends and family.
Send minutes so they can call you. Sending just a few dollars of prepaid mobile phone credit to your family allows them to call you whenever they want to talk to you. They won't have to wait until they get prepaid credit in their country.
Support your family at home. If you pay for their mobile phone, then they can use their pesos for other expenses. This is a simple and easy way to support the folks at home.
No matter how you chose to use Aryty, it's always secure and easy.
reQall is a product that helps you remember events, tasks or even make note of things that you are bound to forget. Using any telephone, you can record your thoughts into the reQall system and recall them at a specified time. reQall with the help of various applications, works as a product that helps make ‘remembering’ easy. All you need are your thoughts, your voice, and your phone.
The reQall experience:
* reQall Access: Using reQall’s toll-free telephone number, users access a simple voice interface to begin the reQall experience. * reQall Memory: Using reQall’s patent pending technology, users capture and tag a note, task or meeting for later use. * reQall Retrieve: Users have the option of dialing directly into the reQall system to retrieve their notes, tasks or meetings. Users can also choose to receive daily email summaries and meeting reminders delivered directly to their desktop or mobile computer. Users can also use reQall when their computer is offline.
LinkedInABox™ is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.
Your log-in details will not be stored and will be used only to retrieve your profile details.
Vested Ventures is owned by Steve Poland.THey provide Web Strategy Consulting and enjoy helping build great web businesses.
Success on the web requires vision (Web Consulting), visitors (Internet Marketing) and conversions (High-end Web Development). We help our clients find, capture, and convert prospects into customers.
Using our vast experience with web technologies to solve real business problems, we also provide high-end custom web application and database programming.
* Internet marketing plan (competition, pricing, differentiators, how to launch, where to advertise) o Competitive analysis (who are your competitors online and how can we better compete) * Managing Pay-Per-Click campaigns with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture), MSN adCenter
Yaplet turns every site on the web into a social network. Yaplet requires no installation and no registration. With the click of a bookmark, you can chat directly with other people viewing the same page as you.
outside.in, the best way to discover the conversations that are going on in your neighborhood—whether that's where you live, where you work, or where you want to be. See what locals are saying right now, and share your own wisdom with your friends and neighbors.
How To Use outside.in
Type in a location or zip code in the "enter your neighborhood or zipcode" field. Click "go" and you'll instantly get a big picture view of what's happening around you. In the left-hand column, the dashboard tells you what neighborhoods you're looking at, and gives you a quick summary of hot topics in the area. The main column shows you the latest information associated with this area: blog posts, art gallery reviews, real estate listings, police reports. Now drag the map, or zoom out. Cool, huh? The screen refreshes to reflect your new perspective. With outside.in you can "drive" through an entire city and see what the locals are saying about each neighborhood.
Now apply a filter. Select one of the options from the pull-down menus at the top of the main and right columns: restaurants, say, or politics. The column refreshes to show you only those topics associated with the area you've selected in the map.
Acorn now has a more recognizable web address: http://www.ManageMyIdeas.com. The name of the service will continue to be Acorn, but you should update your bookmarks and links to point to this new URL. You can continue to use http://acorn.bpugh.net, but in the near future it will redirect you to the new address.
Store your thoughts and ideas. Store your business ideas, inventions, projects, songs, thoughts, poems, innovations, and quotes. Organize your thoughts by category and keyword.
Develop your ideas online. Develop your ideas online rather than on paper. Easily switch from developing one idea to another. Use Acorn's creativity tools if you get stuck while developing an idea.
Share your ideas with friends. Collaborate with business partners, friends, and family. Develop an idea together. You control which people get to see the information or you can keep an idea private.
Acorn is getting visits from people all over the world: France, Denmark, England, Spain, Poland, India, China, Egypt, Canada, and 19 different states in the U.S. Invite your friends to use Acorn. It is a fun way to share thoughts and ideas. To invite people to share your ideas, you can use the "Manage Associates" link under the "Sharing" tab. Just type in the email of the person you wish to invite and wait for them to accept the invitation. It's easy!
Ugenie has developed an algorithm that searches about 40 web sites for information about prices of books, movies, music, and games to come up with the cheapest bundles that consumers can buy from these shopping sites.
More web sites and other items will be added to the basket as the team ramps up. Electronic goods, computers, home appliances, and other goodies will be added in the next three to six months.
While searching for the cheapest bundles, the Ugenie engine takes into account discount coupons currently on offer by merchants as well as shipping costs per delivery.
A clean and easy to use interface, Web 2.0 features such as pop-up screens showing details of a selected item in a blurb, a virtual coupon-gathering mechanism, and a user-generated tagging facility make Ugenie “a neat solution,” according to Promod Haque, a partner at the venture firm Norwest Partners.
“Still, it’s a crowded arena,” he added, wondering how Ugenie would stand out from the pack.
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.Easily navigate the numbers that matter.Track links to see who sends you traffic.Find out what people do at your site.Setup is a breeze — it only takes a minute Measure Map is a production of Google.
Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.
MIT OCW would not be possible without the support and generosity of the MIT faculty who choose to share their research, pedagogy, and knowledge to benefit others. We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2008. Between now and then, we will publish the materials from virtually all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses.
We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of MIT OCW. With 1,550 courses published as of November 1, 2006, we are still in a learning stage of this MIT initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback, as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible for our users.
Sxip pronounced \skip\ Sxip Identity is the market leader in Identity 2.0, an internet-scale approach to identity and access management that is simple, secure and open.
The online world has no equivalent. Yet as more online transactions connect enterprises and users, this is precisely the model we need -- a system that makes it effortless to provide verifiable identity and reputation data issued by a third party.
Sxip addresses this by providing Identity 2.0 solutions that operate at an internet-scale enabling individuals, organizations and web services to communicate and transact in a manner that is simple, secure, and open. With current barriers to data exchange removed, users and online organizations will finally have the ability to engage in identity interactions as seamless and safe as showing that photo ID or affinity card.
Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC)was established in 1997 by the Tanzania Investment Act No. 26 of 1997 to be "the primary agency of Government to coordinate, encourage, promote and facilitate investment in Tanzania and to advise the Government on investment related matters". All Government departments and agencies are required by law to cooperate fully with TIC in facilitating investors.
TIC is the focal point for investors. It is a first point of call for potential investors. It is an efficient and effective investment promotion agency, a "One Stop Facilitative Centre for all investors", engaging in the business of marketing Tanzania as an investment destination.
As a primary agency of the Government in all investment matters, TIC is charged with the following functions: -
* Assist in establishment of enterprises e.g. incorporation and registration of enterprises; * Obtain necessary licenses, work permits, visas, approvals, facilities or services; * Sort out any administrative barriers confronting both local and foreign investments; * Promote both foreign and local investment activities; * Secure investment sites and assist investors to establish EPZ projects; * Grant Certificates of Incentives, investment guarantees and register technology agreements for all investments, which are over and above US$ 300,000 and US$ 100,000 for foreign and local investments respectively; * Provide and disseminate up to date information on existing investment opportunities, benefits or incentives available to investors; and * Assist all investors whether or not registered by TIC.
In order to strengthen and expedite facilitation services, 8 Senior Officers from Government or its Executive Agencies have been permanently stationed at TIC to serve investors under the general direction of the TIC Executive Director. Presently these officers include those from: -
* Lands Department * Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) * Immigration Department * Labour Division * Directorate of Trade * Business Registration & Licensing Agency (BRELA)
For further information, please contact;
The Executive Director Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) P.O. Box 938 Dar es Salaam Tanzania Tel: 255 22 2116328 Fax: 255 22 2118253 Email: information@tic.co.tz
Acex Systems Limited (ACEX) was founded in late 1999, began as a computer sales company and in 2001 began an ambitious project to install a wide area wireless network in Dar es Salaam in order to offer wireless services such as wireless internet and wireless networking.
Today, Acex specializes in 802.11x wireless solutions for homes, home offices, small businesses, and large corporations. In addition, Acex offers services such as LAN installations, Web Design, Web-hosting, Graphic Design, and Computer Repair and Maintenance.
In the near future, Acex will be able to offer voice services as the regulations change in addition to video on demand offerings.
Focused on providing the best customer care and service, we have become the fastest growing Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISP) in East Africa.
Acex Systems is dedicated to making it as easy and affordable as possible for you to take advantage of the technology revolution.
Syntactica has developed a new concept in Internet browsing that lets users mouse-over any web link and extract the essence of that web page - displayed as a "preview window" - without ever clicking the link. This new tool, called the iReader™2.0 Web Previewer, is based on linguistic technology the company has been developing for several years and was released in a limited beta version in February 2007.
Syntatica is also making available other applications and tools using this linguistics, or text-analysis, technology. The iReader 2.0 API (application programming interface) is being offered by the company on an “Open Source” basis, whereby free source code has been published that makes its iReader 2.0 XML Web Services easy to use. Information for developers available at http://www.syntactica.com/developers.html.
Micro-multinationals are small companies with a presence and people in multiple countries:
When most people hear the phrase “multinational corporation,” they think of large, established firms with subsidiaries in major markets around the world. But a new breed of entrepreneurs is now creating “micro-multinationals” that are global from day one. Vast.com, for example, has 25 employees across five time zones, four nations and two continents. Its executive team is in San Francisco, its CTO is a Serbian who lives in the Dominican Republic, and its development team is in Belgrade. According to the CEO of Vast, “We are building a company in a way that wouldn’t have been possible even two years ago.”
The report goes on to note that not only is a global attitude and approach the right move to find staff to grow the business, but it is seen increasingly as a prerequisite for getting venture funding:
Particularly since the bursting of the IT bubble, venture capitalists have encouraged start-ups to implement global strategies to reduce costs and get to market faster. According to a USA Today survey of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40 percent have employees outside the United States. And the global firms received more than twice as much funding from venture capitalists as firms with U.S.-only operations.
Entrepreneurs could not have created many of these companies if they had been unable to leverage global talent. And as these companies grow, they create more jobs in the United States. * * *
The ability of even small start-ups to go global offers unprecedented opportunities to U.S.-based entrepreneurs. But it also means that having a supportive environment for entrepreneurship will become even more important. Entrepreneurs can increasingly choose to develop and finance their new ideas anywhere in the world. Regions whose regulatory systems do not support the creation and growth of new businesses will find entrepreneurial activity (and the jobs that it creates) moving elsewhere.
I’ve observed this trend blossoming in the past few years, particularly among technology and Internet businesses. This idea of the world transforming into one global village is happening before our eyes. The numbers of companies that can be characterized as micro-multinationals is still small, but they are out there.
In fact, in my role as entrepreneur-in-residence (official title Executive Editor) of Creative Weblogging, I participate in a startup that runs 110 content-based websites, in five languages, with writers from over two dozen countries. If it were not for the ability to tap into the talent of people in countries outside the U.S., the Creative Weblogging group would look very different today. Creative Weblogging has benefited hugely from the ability to (1) find skilled highly-qualified people in parts of the world where the U.S. dollar goes farther, keeping costs low, and (2) to develop a global audience by hiring local writers who know the culture and the language.
AlertPay.com, a privately owned and managed company founded in 2004, offers an internet payment system enabling any business or consumer with email to send and receive internet payments securely, quickly and cost-effectively. With its office headquarters in Montreal, Canada, AlertPay is available to users all around world.
AlertPay's internet payment system provides a secure method to facilitate financial transactions across the Internet, without exposing your personal, bank, or credit card information to anyone. AlertPay's mission is: to provide its services in a honest and trustworthy manner to keep its clients up to date to respect the rights of our members and their accounts to offer competitive services for competitive rates
There are 299,968,595 people in the United States of America. If everyone in the U.S. lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost 7 times. That's a lot of people.
The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 88,799 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others.
There are 49,535 people named John Smith in the United States. There are 1,048 people named James Bond, 113 people named Harry Potter , 503 people named George Bush, and 31 people named Emily Dickinson. However, Johnny Cash (39 people) songs aside there are, statistically speaking, no boys named Sue.
SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages 'tuned' to that channel.
Web2.0Slides is a self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites. It's categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically.
What's cool about it? You can click on any site in the left-hand column to pause the slide show and surf around. When you're done, simply click PLAY, and it will begin right where you left off. Perfect for Web 2.0 couch 'taters. But if you're antsy and want to click around on sites, go right ahead—it won't stop the show.
Fleck allows you to interact with pages on the web just as if it were pages in a magazine. You can save your annotated page for yourself, send it to friends or colleagues or use it in your blog.
You can start using Fleck right now. It's free and what's best: you don't have to install anything on your computer. Try the search box at the top of this page or add Fleck to your browser with a Bookmarklet or Extention.
Soocial is software that lets you use your contacts anywhere you need them. It's a system that synchronizes your contacts between your mobile, pda, home pc, work pc, and third party applications. Soocial intends to make your life easier by simplifying contact management.
Todays average person uses so many different communication devices, all of them using their own pool of contacts. Soocial aims to create a solution to unobtrusively synchronize them behind the scenes.
Zimki is a server-side JavaScript engine - based on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey engine - that allows you to quickly develop complex web services and web applications.
Zimki's development environment consists primarily of a WebDAV service, a library of includable code and the ability to clone your software and data. With these tools you can achieve just about any development task you need. We know this because we are also building our own systems with Zimki (parts of this service are built with Zimki itself)!
if you are a manager of programmers, you don't want your team to care about things that need to happen in order for them to have a chair, a computer, a desk etc. All these things are requirements for programmers and its your job to take care of those things. You don't want your programmers worrying about anything other than programming. With Zimki your programmers:
Don't worry about hosting
Don't worry about high availability
Don't worry about backups
Don't set up a database or any other software service
TrialPay is a new payment method that allows customers to pay for products simply by trying or buying something else.
Their network of merchants and trusted advertising partners work together to enable you to buy online products and services without directly paying for them!
With TrialPay, everyone wins: you get the free product, our advertisers get a new customer (that's you) and we pay the merchant.
TrialPay is a rapidly growing online payment company backed by the investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai.
Cherryflava is the flagship title of the Cherryflava Media - South Africa's first micropublishing company.
Edited by Jonathan Cherry, Cherryflava is a web magazine dedicated to hot new trends emerging in business, marketing, advertising and fresh thinking that's igniting a creative revolution. Compulsory reading for entrepreneurs, trend junkies, billionaires and venture capitalists who are frankly, just too busy to read anything that sticks to any rules.
It's the local go-to site for the latest global trends marked for cool, new brand thinking, Business 2.0, blog reporting which relates back to South Africa and now and again...our own mix of photography, which earned us a South African blog award for 2005 and again in 2006.
WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
MySpace is officially “Web 2.0″: a holding page has been added to MySpace.cn, the future home of MySpace China, reading “China’s leading Web2.0 website is under construction.”
1. Comment on Related Blogs - raising4boys writes - “Commenting on related blogs is probably the most effective strategy early on in the process. And responding to comments when people leave them on your blog (this encourages them to keep coming back).” And from Brody - “I visit other blogs in my niche, add them to my feed and participate in the discussion on their blogs via the comments. Writing interesting comments often gets people to click through to see your site.”
2. Join Forums - elprezidente writes - “I’ve found that one very quick way to infuse readers to a new blog is to be active in discussion forums related to your blog topic. Locate posts that ask for help with something you are familiar with and share your experience.”
3. Write Effective Post Titles - Aziz writes - “Simple and to the point. The title should create an instant urge to read the entire post… But of course it should be related to the topic of your blog”
4. Interviews - Ollie writes - “One example being to interview fellow bloggers who are in the same niche as me. This has gone down well, and has been great for both myself and the interviewee as traffic flows between us.”
5. Persist - Dan Norman writes - “Persistence is key. After starting up a new blog last month and letting go of another this month, I notice that traffic (quality traffic) doesn’t happen over night. On my last site, I think it took 6 months before ASK.com found me.”
6. Connect with Local Bloggers - Rob O writes - “The other thing I’ve been doing just recently is connecting up with other bloggers in my city and the neighboring towns. We’ve got something of a link exchange going and a nice side-effect to this is that I/we have discovered that there are quite a few more bloggers and/or website authors in the area than ever expected.”
7. Give Away Free Stuff - Peterandrej writes - “I’ve had some success with giving away free stuff, like free templates for WordPress. It doesn’t give me lot of new readers, because my blog is written in Norwegian, but the templates give lots and lots of new links to the blog, giving it a much better pagerank in Google, which in turn should mean more readers from search-engines.”
8. Be Opinionated - Trent writes - “Be opinionated, but encourage opposing viewpoints in the comments. Opinionated makes you interesting - encouraging other perspectives makes you essential.”
9. Ask Questions of Other Bloggers - Trent also writes - “Ask questions of other moderately successful bloggers and try to network. If you shoot too high, you’ll often get blown off because these people have so much stuff to read and deal with.”
10. Use Trackbacks - Maki writes - “Sending highly creative and penetrating trackbacks about a blogger’s original post.”
11. Advertise - Mike Panic writes - “Buy advertising space on related websites.”
12. Educate Readers about RSS - Mike Panic writes - “With the most recent blog I launched I created a page in WordPress called Feeds which not only has the RSS icon on it but a description of what a “feed” is and what are some of the most common ways to subscribe and use feeds, mostly pulled from a CC article.”
13. Offline Promotion - Mike Panic writes - “Talk to friends, family and coworkers about them… you’d be surprised how much the traditional way of “networking” really does work…. also Business cards, depending which blog I’ll post on a community board at a grocery store.
14. Search Engine Optimization - Michelle writes - “Properly optimizing my blog has been a big boost to my readership. Once I figured out how to play around with SEO I started getting a regular 25-35% of my hits from Google.”
15. Quality Content (mentioned by many) - ilker writes - “Posting only quality content.. obviously! Better posts are discussed more, increasing both the number of comments and references in other blogs.”
16. Blog Carnivals - Slade writes - “submitting posts to Blog Carnivals”
17. Memes - Leanne writes - “I’ve picked up a handful of wonderful friends and readers through initiating the “Thursday Thirteen”. Yeah, a meme. Bloggers want to know about bloggers, not just the business aspect of it but the *person* writing the blog. Reading a quick list of “getting to know me” type tidbits gives me instant inside information on whether or not I will become a regular visitor. Some participants have used it solely to gain business, but frankly I think that turns people away. People are interested in people first, and what they do second. It works.”
18. Frequent Posting - baggage writes - “I also try to post frequently. I find that the more I post, the more readers I have. The less comments, but the more readers.”
19. Guest Bloggers - Random Good Stuff writes - “I invite other bloggers to guest blog and allow always one link back to their site. I have 3 active guest authors … and in return they link to my site from time to time.”
20. Get Links from Other Blogs - Jamdo writes - “Getting mentioned on other sites and blogs in the same niche, I think, has been the best way to get a readership who keeps returning to a blog. Make contact with other bloggers in yoru niche via comments, email, AIM, skype, homing pigeons - whatever.”
21. Newsletters - Adrian writes - “The Zookoda newsletter provides nice spikes and people tend to forward the newsletter to their friends.”
22. Social Networks - Ilya writes - “Submit your story to Digg and reddit and, regardless of whether it makes the front page or not, you get 50-100 free hits. The easiest way to generate quick exposure. Failing that, comment frequently on blogs that you like. With any luck, the blog author will want to find out more about you, follow the link to your blog, and perhaps write a post referencing one of your posts.”
23. Pitch Your Posts - Marty Weil writes - “I view other bloggers as a PR pros view journalists working in traditional media. I reach out to bloggers using tactics successfully employed in the world of professional media relations. For instance, I “pitch” specific posts that they might find adds value to topics they are writing about. I also send email introducing them to my blog, but only if there’s a good fit between my blog and theirs. The key is to be very selective in approaching the “media gatekeeper”–just as successful and smart media relations people do.”
Sparter is the world's first company devoted to enabling global Gamer2Gamer™ (G2G™) trading of virtual currencies. Our mission is to create a fully transparent marketplace that allows gamers to trade with other gamers.
Sparter users are gamers who wish to buy virtual currency and gamers who have currency to sell. Millions of gamers buy virtual currency. They do so for many reasons including to avoid repetitive and "grinding" tasks, to catch up with in-game friends and in general to get more out of their gameplay time. Sparter makes it possible for these gamers to trade with each other rather than go through the currently prevailing model wherein large companies aggregate gold and resell it at a significant mark-up. We call this revolutionary approach G2G™ or Gamer2Gamer™ trade. We think by enabling Gamer2Gamer™ commerce we allow more of the value of virtual trading to remain in the gaming ecosystem.
How do I make a purchase on Sparter?
Making a purchase on Sparter is fast, easy and secure.
Step 1: Start on the Sparter home page by selecting the game in which you wish to buy virtual currency.
Step 2: Next, you will be prompted to select the realm (or server) where you play, and your faction if appropriate.
Step 3: You will then be prompted to select a currency quantity and delivery period. You'll notice that prices vary based upon quantity, delivery time and seller record.
Step 4: Select the offer which is right for you and add it to your cart. When you're done shopping and are ready to checkout you will be prompted to register for a free Sparter account. You will then be asked for your game account information so that the seller can deliver the currency directly to your in-game account. The whole process only takes a few minutes.
Infolust is a new context search engine. We deliver the value of inspiration and bigger pictures. It's for all those moments when you sit in front of a website and think "Now that's interesting" and would like to know more. Now this "More" is just a single click away.
The technology behind it is based on System One, an enterprise collaboration and search platform. Over the next weeks we want to tweak and optimize it for larger scale consumer usage.
Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.
XOne8 introduces a new and refreshing model that breathes life into one of the Internet’s most popular platforms, the world of online dating.
In a word, welcome to freedom, genuine freedom:
· Free membership – Joining the XOne8 dating community costs absolutely nothing. Not initially. Not ever. Period. Case closed.
· Free content creation tools – We are proud to provide you with the most useful, eclectic, functional and friendly state-of-the-art content tools available on the Web today.
· Freedom of expression – Create profiles that reflect who you are and make plain who and what you seek. Make yourself accessible to scores of potential love interests, partners, dating companions and friends by uploading photos and videos, as well as general information about yourself and your interests, blogging, live messaging and more.
· Free access to thousands of potential companions – Log in as often as you want – there are no lengthy registration or authentication processes, no hype trying to get you to “upgrade to a premium package”. At Xone8.com its all gold; Simply enter your password and you’re in. Check your mail, chat online, update your profile, refine your searches, greet new members – the channels of communication are all open and they are all free and accessible.
PlayInterChange is a powerful exchange platform where members can rent, buy and sell their movies and DVDs. Unlike other "trading" systems out there, our interactive trading/renting platform allows members to set their own prices for each listed item and allows the item to be either for rent or sale. Our low fee allows members to legally rent, buy and sell movies and video games.
Plus a portion of the fee will be donated to various charities via the Network for Good organizations (www.networkforgood.org). We have over 43,000 video games and 90,000 movies to choose from and members never pay membership fees plus all transactions are protected against loss, damage or theft. Give us a try, we guarantee you will lots of fun using our system and also will be helping a good cause.
Uvouch.com gives you one easy web site where you can search for the best in online videos and websites, collect the videos and links to sites, create playlists of your favorites and organize your collection in a way that makes sense to you. With a single click of the mouse, Uvouch.com's easy-to-use browser tool lets you add videos, selected text and links to your account-just surf and click! And, unlike your browser favorites, your Uvouch.com favorites are accessible anywhere, anytime, as long as you have internet access. This new site�s easy to use features include one-click video importing, one-click link importing, custom playlists, customizable tags, a user-driven search engine, message boards and tools to share your favorite videos and links directly from your personal website or blog.
With Uvouch.com, You can:
Find and save videos, links and other information with one simple click. View other profiles to see what videos and websites like-minded people are viewing and recommending. Search by keywords, popularity, recent additions and user-defined tags. Import videos and links from YouTube.com and nearly any other video-hosting web site with a single click. Create playlists and send them to your friends and network. Discuss opinions and socialize with other Uvouch.com users. Easily add links to your website or blog to display your favorite videos and links to your site�s visitors. Watch your favorite videos and access your favorite links from any computer connected to the Internet. Organize your videos and links using tags and categories that YOU define. Meet and network with new people. Invite friends to view your collections and connect with them. Help others find the best videos by vouching for the ones you like and making recommendations. Customize your Uvouch.com profile to fit your tastes and personality.
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article abstracts and their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Because WorldCat libraries serve diverse communities in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages.
FileHo.com is an online one click file-hosting service. It allows users to upload, host and share files for free. We offer unlimited speeds, unlimited file-size, unlimited lifetime of files and unlimited disk space for any of your needs. Also, FileHo.com is an ad-free site! That's why downloading process has never been so easy and fast.
Artslant is the brain child of three women - catherine ruggles, amber noland and georgia fee. the concept for this site has been brewing since 2004 but the actual development began in may, 2006.
Artslant is built on a ruby on rails platform with web 2.0 enhancements. it is designed to encourage and depend on input from our community. it is our fervent wish that this site becomes a reflection of our contempory art world: its faces, images, triumphs and falls.
membership is free and completely secure.
It includes:
Complete control over your online Venue Showcase Contact info, description, web links, and full exhibition coverage Ability to add or edit your events, openings, exhibits or data at any time Customizable text fields Unlimited slideshow capabilities Artist Pages featuring your artists with slideshows and much more Additional backend services
Pingsta is a collaborative online community exclusively for Internetwork Experts. Pingsta membership is by invitation-only. If you are an internetwork expert, you should have received an invitation, otherwise, ask your colleagues for one.
BoostScores.com is the only free "do it yourself" credit repair application of its kind on the internet! You can draft, print and track the entire credit repair process online. Boostscores is completely web-based, so there is no software to install on your computer and you can access it from anwhere with an internet connection.
Opportunity Alert provides a forum where companies can present their projects, search for the best business partners, and begin a discussion with companies from around the world.
osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 128,500 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 3,800 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.
osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.
With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 11,900 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.
vSocial, powered by vCONNECT, is a social networking for video platform that enables content owners, site operators and online marketing organizations to custom brand, target, virally distribute and monetize their message via video.
vSocial.com is our showcase video community, and it’s built for individuals like you. Tell us how to make it better and we will
What is social networking for video?
Social networking is all about enabling like minds to find and communicate with one another in a contextually meaningful fashion. It’s about users, their profiles, their content and their extended network. Whether this network is formally organized or loosely and opportunistically coupled around common interests matters not.
Online video can deliver a monologue, cultivate a conversation, convey a position or just entertain.
We believe that integrating the power of social networking with the digital spark that is online video is destined to be a game changer for you personally and for your business or organization.
Why? Two reasons. One is that it is hard to argue against global reach carried on the wings of viral distribution models. Two is that the concept of delivering rich messages that can be brand-active and monetized (via advertising) in a self-serve fashion opens the doors to a lot of different applications
Vidipedia is the first wiki on the internet to feature unlimited, streaming video as a media option. Users can edit any page or video they like, creating an organized archive of digital media.
KushCash service, powered by SWT, allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated, timely account history and transaction alerts.
Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment available today.
Txtms, Inc. is dedicated to the mobile exchange and management of information. It boasts powerful features that can support the needs of any businessperson, while still remaining simple enough for anyone to use. Txtms provides a free service that gives you the ability to exchange information using a mobile phone and manage it by mobile phone, email, and/or Txtms.com. It is a practical and accessible service that will forever revolutionize old-fashioned business card as we know it; Txtms is the ultimate way to exchange and manage information.
Diarised is a simple to use web application that will help you arrange meetings. It’s completely free to use and doesn’t require any registration.
Diarised is free – You can schedule as many meetings as you like, and suggest unlimited dates for your meetings.
Diarised is easy to use – The clutter-free interfaces make organising meetings with Diarised straightforward.
Diarised is productive – Diarised will figure out who can attend and on which dates and notify you with a list of the best times and dates, leaving you more time to get stuff done!
Diarised is fast – There's no signup required, you can start using Diarised immediately.
We've striven to make Diarised as easy to use as possible and worked hard at finding the correct balance between providing information (good) and nagging (bad). Why Diarised?
It’s an application that we wanted ourselves. An application we intend to use. There doesn’t appear to be anything else that provides a service like this - certainly not without registering or paying - so we built it ourselves. We need to arrange meetings constantly and the endless batting around of possible dates between email CC lists just drives us crazy. We think Diarised will reduce the headaches we associate with this process and that is the reason for its development. We hope you like it. How does it work?
Well, as the home page explains, it’s a five step process. Enter the details of your proposed meeting into Diarised, including the meeting invitees and the possible times and dates for the meeting. Diarised sends out emails to all invitees. The invitees choose the times that suit them best. Once the invitees have chosen their preferred meeting dates, Diarised will tell you the best dates for your meeting. All meeting invitees will be sent an email confirming the chosen date and time
Want to attract and keep more visitors to your site or readers to your blog? Now you can have dynamic weather right on your site or page with netWeather v2.0. AccuWeather.com's netWeather v2.0 is free, and easy to add to any page or blog. Features: Choose from one of six sizes and eight colors Choose from locations around the world Display current conditions, five-day forecast, temperature maps, and radar or precipitation maps Available in English or Spanish Now available for your MySpace® page
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Learn more or organize your own Barcamp!. If you write code at BarCamp, consider licensing it under the BarCampLicense. The name BarCamp was inspired as a complement to FooCamp.
What should you expect when attending a BarCamp? * Pre-register on the wiki. There's a signup page for your local event. Please put your name and any organization you represent on the form, to give coordinators an idea as to how many people are coming (and to get your nametag printed, instead of Sharpie'd!)
* Bring a laptop - It's great for showing off that program you mentioned in your session. Plus, there are many hotspots provided, and plenty of downtime to browse around and look into everything you've learned.
* Come early, but not too early - Showing up at the announced starting time will be fine. Show up earlier, and you'll get drafted for setup work (much appreciated!). Show up later, and you'll miss some social activity and your T-shirt.
* Be ready to participate - come with an idea for a session you can lead. You don't have to be an expert at your topic; as long as it's not too specific, there'll probably be someone else present who can help you out. You can also contribute to the conversation during a session. This is a great way to participate, since it spreads knowledge from everyone, instead of just the leader.
Feedity (formerly FeedTier) is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format like RSS or Atom. Feedity performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing syndication. Feedity (beta) is an experimental service and free for personal use.
Healthline Networks offers the easiest way for consumers to quickly and easily find consistently excellent health information on the Web. By utilizing its robust search and navigation platform, Healthline is focused on becoming the global leader in intelligent health information services, enabling consumers to make more confident, informed decisions about their health.
Healthline's taxonomy-driven Medically Guided Search platform provides consumers and business partners with a powerful portfolio of online health search, content, and navigation services. This "semantic taxonomy" - the only one of its kind currently in existence - is built from multiple medical databases and uniquely connects interrelated concepts to provide a semantic organization and contextual presentation of health-related information.
PicksPal.com has created a virtual gathering place for sports fans to prove who really knows their American sports.
PicksPal.com is a free, national competition for sports fans to compete daily in a pick'em game, earning points by correctly predicting sports outcomes. PicksPal then displays the picks of the best of the best in its own "Genius Picks" service. In a way, like an "American Idol" for sports fans.
For centuries, fans have made impassioned picks about impending sports events. Today, fans are bombarded with "experts" providing guaranteed picks with no accountability. Now, PicksPal says, "You think you know sports? Prove it."
Each member's success is tracked to determine the members with the greatest sports IQs. PicksPal honors the best with a Wall of Fame designations and prizes.
TextMarks is an early stage company focused on making text messaging more powerful and more accessible. We empower individuals and organizations to "text message enable" their information and their web pages.
Send an automated response when users text your keyword to 41411. Let users subscribe to receive your text alerts on their phones
Sxipper is a free plug-in for Firefox that lets you log into any website with a single click. Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and the personal data you share every day over the web. Sxipper logs you in securely and helps to prevent you from being victimized by phishing sites and phony logins.
# Always Available - appears when needed, so you can login or fill in forms with a single click # Trustworthy - encrypts your personal data and stores it on your computer # Accurate formfill - learns from its own users how to complete forms with 100% accuracy with our unique semantic mapping too # OpenID provider - registered users receive a free OpenID to use as a Sxipper identity # Easy to install - gathers data from your address book and web browser so that you have a running start
NetworthIQis the first production of Fourio, a startup based in Portland, Oregon, with a lot more than personal finance up its proverbial sleeve ... just you wait and see.
Inspired by the personal finance bloggers who feel liberated enough to share their net worth with the world, and the wonderful sharing sites (Flickr, 43things, del.icio.us, upcoming.org), NetworthIQ was conceived as a place where people can track, share and compare their financial status. We like to think of it as a social personal finance tool.
Vanco is another combined merchant account and payment gateway — in the same vein as PayPal Pro and IATS — that also primarily serves nonprofits. Vanco offers particular flexibility to programmers through its API for recurring gifts, and is especially affordable for EFT transactions. Its percentage-based transaction fees for credit-card payments may be a little higher depending on your transaction volume, but it's a strong option if you want integrated credit-card and EFT transactions.
CharityWeb has been serving the non-profit sector for nearly a decade. As an industry pioneer –
we’ve watched online giving grow from a novelty to a necessity. At CharityWeb we are passionate about serving the non-profit sector because we truly believe in the vital role charities, churches, and colleges play in strengthening our communities and lives.
With a passion for client satisfaction, CharityWeb is known for the customization and flexibility we bring to online giving. We listen to what you want to accomplish and then help you achieve it. From donations, registrations and purchases to complex walk-a-thons – we can help you build the solution you need.
SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others' presentations, and comment on individual slides. It's a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it's free.
SlideShare Inc is a startup based in Mountain View, California (USA) and New Delhi (India). It was founded by Rashmi Sinha, Jon Boutelle and Amit Ranjan
This is meant to be a parody of Web 2.0 Logos. While they are pretty cool, they are all kinda the same. It was created as a joke, not a serious logo maker.
Tezaa is an online community that is driven by polls. Any member can create, modify and participate in a poll. It aggregates public perception and opinions allowing everyone to benefit from information sharing. Visit Tezaa Blog for latest project news and updates.
Betterlabs is a software company with a focus on creating elegant web-based applications targeted at large market opportunities. We focus on creating new services that blend vertical search and social collaboration for shopping, video, news and more.
Tree-Nation is a project aiming to get 8 million trees planted in the shape of a heart in the Sahara - yes you heard that right. This sounds like a colossal process, but is inherently feasible… via the web of course. You can join and buy a tree for as little as 10 Euros. By planting your tree, you can help combat desertification and regenerate the productivity of the land. This in turn will have a major impact on the livelihoods of the poor in the region. Positive effects on the environment
- Helping the soil to re-regenerate itself - Creating a root system which allows the water to surface - Increasing land's productivity - Encouraging agricultural forestry - Off-setting CO2 levels - Counteract the Global Warming - Counteract Deforestation
Positive effects on the local communities
- Fighting poverty, 'desertification is potentially the most threatening climate change impacting livelihoods of the poor...combating desertification can therefore contribute significantly to a reduction in global poverty.' www.unccd.int 12/07/2006 - UNCCD - Fruits, medicine, alimentation and gum production for local communities - Alimentation for animals - Park as a meeting point and shelter - Encouraging more education and efficient farming practices in local communities - Centre for agro-forestry research and development
How does it work?
Stage 1: the trees will be planted in local nurseries for the initial period until they reach a suitable point of growth to be planted in the park. This varies depending on the type of tree that you choose. Stage 2: your tree will be planted in the park location that you have virtually selected where it will receive continual care and maintenance. Stage 3: our local experts will nurture the tree (providing water and nutrients but no chemical fertilizers) on a regular basis using agro-forestry techniques in order to maintain its condition. Stage 4: our local experts will manage the harvesting of the fruits and medicines that the tree provides. Stage 5: your tree grows happily and the local community benefit from its produce (gum, fruits, alimentation, medicines, etc) Stage 6: finally, a hug a day and the tree will grow! You will be able to follow its progress through photos and through the hi-tech facilities on our website.
Webaroo provides technology that helps you search and browse web pages on the go. The software is fast, free and can be used on laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, U3 devices and even desktop computers. We aim to give people the convenience of browsing the web from just about anywhere with the choicest of web pages.
Founded in 2004 by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs, the company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with offices in Santa Clara (California), Mumbai (India) and New Delhi (India).
Ibibo.com - "Ibibo" stands for "I build I bond". Quite clearly another social networking site but backed by MIH group which also has two other gaming sites known as chotafish.com and motafish.com.
So what exactly is ibibo? Ibibo.com offers two things - blogs and photo sharing along with a social sharing concept.
Whats hot? Good interface and blogs and photo sharing options.
Whats not? Its nothing special infact Ibibo in its current avatar leaves much to be desired. Its in beta as of now so hopefully we can look forward to more. One can read more about ibibo here.
To enhance social networking to higher levels, Minglebox is getting ready to launch online events (like a national music talent hunt where users can participate by uploading their music on the site) and enablers (print-delivery of photos posted on the site from a PC or a mobile handset).
Tall Street is a Social Recommendation Engine. That is a Web Directory where you control the results.
What does this mean? When searching our directory if you find useful results you can give them a 5/5 rating. Alternatively if you see results that don't belong then give them a 1/5 rating. These ratings help us to promote good sites, and remove spam. Membership is instant and free. Anyone can sign up.
It doesn't take money, or having a search engine optimized site to get a good ranking in Tall Street. You just need to be able to inspire your users to make investments in you.
Tall Street wants to change the way you search for websites and allow everyone to see what are quality websites. At Tall Street we think any website should have a fair shot at getting a good ranking. There are millions of quality websites that never get to be seen, this is the opportunity those websites can achieve the success they deserve.
What tips do you have to succeed on Tall Street?
* Invest in quality sites. Find sites that people are likely to rate 5/5. * Once a day you will get ¢1000 if you keep your balance below ¢1000, so come back every day and invest your balance. * Invest in a wide range of sites. * If you own the site you are investing put a link back to TallStreet.com, every click you refer through helps increase its ranking.
stocktickr is a collaborative web site that promotes information sharing about stocks. We like to call it "social trading". You add stocks to your stocktickr and assign tags to each stock. Unlike other portfolio trackers on the web, stocktickr captures the current price as you add a stock. When you go back to view the stocks your tracking, you see when you added it, what tags you used, any comments you added, and the price when you added it.
As you add stocks to your stocktickr, your performance is automatically tracked. You can view your performance by stock or by tag. You can also view reports across all of stocktickr. For example, you can view the most profitable stocktickr users or the most profitable tags across the entire site.
When you add a stock to stocktickr, you are presented with the most popular tags that other users have used on the stock and the most popular overall tags on stocktickr. Just click the tag name to add or remove it from your tag field. Concentrate on coming up with a small number of tags per stock.
Each page has its own RSS feed. Let's say you want to follow any stocks that get tagged with "greatearnings" or "lowpe". At the bottom of those pages you'll see an orange RSS icon that is linked to the RSS page for those results. You can add that RSS link to your favorite news reader (we use Bloglines) and track activity on that tag.
The stocktickr pro subscription offers this as well as a ton of other features that will help you be a better trader.
aniBoom is a cross-media, cross-platform animation content project which addresses wide audiences through a range of genres, techniques and means. In order to get things started we chose the most democratic medium, the Internet.
In their next phase they intend to cross over to other mediums as well as TV, Cellular, PC games etc. They're also deeply proud at the fact that aniBoom is the first content project of its kind which focuses solely on animation in the hyper world of user generated content and Web 2.0.
The Web 2.0 Workgroup is a network of premium weblogs that write content about the new generation of the Web. Combined, these sites reach a large readership of influential technology and media professionals. If you would like to subscribe to all of these blogs, download and import the OPML file into your favorite RSS reader. NEW! Check out an OPML mash-up of the Workgroup, by J Wynia using our OPML file plus the Yahoo Search API.
Teqlo is a mashup platform unlike anything else you have seen. they are committed to giving non-technical users the capability to create mashup applications that help them get things done without knowing anything about APIs, coding, and scripting. You simply snap together the pieces to do what you want to do and they'll take care of the rest, or better yet just grab something prebuilt out of the marketplace and go.
Web application developers have been building sophisticated services interfaces and protocols into their applications for years as a means of stimulating third party developer activity, we are taking that one step further by enabling non technical users with the capability to drag-and-drop components to a web page and enable reliable communication between services. Through enabling co-creation of process and task automation applications we unleash a wave of new applications that really do represent the way people work, because they are built by the people who use them!
Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.
Choose the service that best meets your needs:
The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your original web page, and Copyscape does the rest.
The powerful Premium service provides professional grade coverage, plus an unlimited number of searches. It also includes integrated case tracking to manage your responses to multiple instances of plagiarism.
The advanced Copysentry service provides ongoing protection for your entire website. Copysentry automatically scans the web every day and alerts you to copies of your content. It also includes integrated case tracking.
The Global Web Rights campaign provides the tools and information you need to defend yourself against content theft and copyright violations on the web.
Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.
AdsBackList is a unique, one of a kind websites more like an extension to your Adsense account but not affiliated with Google, Inc. Connection between ABL and Google Adsense is that tiny little window called "Competitive Filter List". Consider it as your battle station, and ABL as your high-tech weapon from the future. Our mission at ABL is to sound a wakeup call for all Adsense publishers, to give you a state of the art tool which connects you to thousands of other publishers with one common goal: find, report and block MFA ads!
This website is dedicated to Google Adsense Publishers, and to all those who want to become one. To find out how can ABL help you, please read on.
Adsense used to be a very clean way to make money online while doing what you like (managing your blog or website), but then, out of nowhere, Made for Adsense sites started massive advertising campaigns using our adsense accounts. When we say massive, we really mean it because Adsense is kind of turning into Wallstreet's Stock Market, where it's all about ROI (Return of Investment).
If you're not familiar with term MFA (Made for Adsense), the shortest explanation is this: it's a website with content that is primarily made of adsense ads, or any other advertisement system. So you might ask yourself, what does this have to do with me? Well, these webmasters pay loads of money to advertise their MFA sites on Google Adwords which then serves their contextual ads on your own website(s) through Adsense program.
Co-founded in 2005 by database research and technology pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker and serial entrepreneur Andy Palmer, Vertica has developed a new column-oriented database designed from the ground up to provide blinding performance in query-oriented analytical environments involving hundreds of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes of data where end-user requirements change rapidly.
The Vertica Database gives more people the freedom to answer more questions faster.
The column-oriented, grid-enabled Vertica Database offers unmatched performance, scalability and flexibility for real-time, read-intensive analytical applications in financial services, telecommunications, retail, Internet, and government.
Compared with other database management solutions, the Vertica Database Executes queries 100x faster than traditional row-oriented RDBMS Runs on clusters and grids of inexpensive Linux hardware Is 20x faster and 70% less expensive than data warehousing appliances Requires up to 90% less table storage space than traditional RDBMS Has dramatically lower administrative overhead
Nenest Form Server is built on Nenest Web Application Framework, which enables users to easily build online forms, then use them to collect information, organize, store and display data. Nenest Form Server creates many unique features:
Building form is easy - It is just like writing Word documents. Filling form is smart - It automatically performs data validation. All kinds of form templates Pre-programmed controls for input fields, such as Email, Address, Phone Number, Credit Card, Picture, Table Editor, Rich Text Editor etc. Rich text editor - The form can be composed of complex document including pictures, tables, formatted words. File Attachment - Files can be attached to forms. Email notification - Email can be sent to receipts when new entries are stored. Customizable entry lists - You can choose what fields to be shown. Full-text search. Seach by fields. Search shortcuts. Page shortcuts. Integrating with your website - You are able to use IFRAME tag to embed forms, entry list, enry view in web pages on your
Tujuane is an Exclusive online social network which is open to 25 - 50 year old professionals. It is designed for professionals who already have strong connections in Nairobi or interested in establishing such connections.
Tujuane allows its members to connect, network and interact more effectively with like minded individuals who share same professional, economic and social interests. We have imposed certain criteria in order to keep Tujuane private and exclusive.
Web 2.0 Expo is an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. The Web 2.0 Expo is co-presented by CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media.
The Web continues to be an engine of economic growth, fueled by a host of new business models, development models, and design patterns that collectively fall under the umbrella of Web 2.0, a term coined at the birth of the Web 2.0 Conference, a joint venture between O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology.
To meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader Web 2.0 community, O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology have launched the first Web 2.0 Expo on April 15-18, 2007 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Web 2.0 Expo, a companion event to the Web 2.0 Conference (recently renamed Web 2.0 Summit), is the first conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.
The program will spotlight experts, leaders, and under-the-radar innovations, and in the spirit of Web 2.0, there will be ample opportunity for attendees to connect, contribute, and collaborate. Web 2.0 Expo will be a place for creativity, engineering, and innovation, focusing on four conversations:
* Education: a vetted, cohesive conference program to maximize the sharing of knowledge and expertise around creating the next generation web * Tradeshow: a traditional tradeshow floor introducing builders of the Web to providers of tools, technology, services and infrastructure * Networking: a meeting ground fostering face-to-face business development for entrepreneurs, VCs, partnerships and recruitment * Launch Pad: a platform for notable companies to debut
Conference Tracks will Include:
* Web 2.0 Fundamentals * Web 2.0 Services & Platforms * Marketing & Community * Design & User Experience * Strategy & Business Models * Products & Services
Network for Good is the Internet's leading charitable resource, bringing together donors, volunteers and charities online to accomplish good. At www.networkforgood.org, users can donate to more than one million charities and search from among more than 36,000 volunteer opportunities.
In addition, non-profits can access tools for fundraising, volunteer recruitment and donor communication. Founded in 2001 by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!, Network for Good is an independent 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Bethesda, MD.
Since our inception in November 2001, more than 430,000 people have donated more than $100 million to over 20,000 charities through Network for Good. Another 232,555 people have found volunteer opportunities through Network for Good. We've also helped more than 6,000 nonprofits raise funds, cultivate donors and recruit volunteers through our online tools
Your Open ID resides on your personal address on .name, for example, peter.morgan.name. When you need to log in to a service or website, just type in your personal .name address, and the website connects to the OpenID servers, asking for authentication for you. You may be asked (if you want) which information can be sent to the website. You only need to log in once to your OpenID.
Your .name email address is a lifelong email address that is memorable, attractive and personal. Give it to your friends and family and impress them with the fact that you will never need to change it again - ever!
They will always reach you on the same, personal address, whether you use Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, your ISP or any other email host.
PatentMonkey.com offers a free patent search engine that allows users to see up-to-date status information on a patent identified as Active, Abandoned or Expired. Key PatentMonkey.com features: # Fully searchable US patent text database # Front page navigation with user-selectable Claims, Abstract or Description section in quick view window # Patent status is presented on each patent page so you know which ones are abandoned and expired # Create, save and share lists of patents (folders) with your colleagues via the web as well as on blogs # Download any single patent PDF for free or bulk download PDFs from a folder as a time saving upgrade
Urbis is a community of creative people that offers sophisticated tools to help advance creativity and expose it to an audience.
How do I Use Urbis?
1. Create an account 2. Submit an item to the Creative Review Engine. 3. Build a network by inviting friends and fans and meeting new ones. 4. Connect with Seekers who wish to expose your work.
Completely web-based control panel so you can create and configure forms with a web browser (supports Internet Explorer 6, Firefox and Safari). No need to install additional software. Easily create multi-page forms with skip/branching logic to hide non-applicable questions.
Use the FormSpring form importer to automatically generate forms from an external webpage or HTML file.
Babelgum is a desktop client that allows their users to watch videos on their computer in a very TV-like experience. You can browse through the channels and choose your favorites show. You can rate the movies, add them to your favorites and watch them later on the video channel.
Babelgum provide you with an AWESOME movie player which have some great innovative navigation tools. You can also watch a full screen movie with high quality streaming in it.
Create your own TV channels with niche-to-mainstream content from around the world tailored to your interests. As you use it, your TV learns what you like and just gets better.
Babelgum uses cutting-edge peer-to-peer technology to stream video to your PC safely and efficiently at near-TV resolution.
Ajaximis a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript to send and receive commands to and from the server. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this web application to work, as everything is updated in real-time via JavaScript.
Kisscafe genuinely wants to bring you a useful site, let you connect with as many new and interesting people from all over the world as possible, and invite open conversation about issues people are passionate about.
With this site KissCafe want to help you to make fast, real connections with people from all around the world so you can start developing relationships for new friends, casual contacts, dates, or serious commitments.
* The fastest growing free dating community in Us MI. * Safest community site on the internet. You control your privacy. * Completely free for life! No catch, No BS, we mean it! * Dating advice from the real professionals, YOU! - Eureka * STOP SPAM! Advanced filters and algorithms eliminate all spam. * Blinding fast features, cutting edge Instant Messenger, + much more. * Our site grows and adapts to what you find important!
Skemma is a 100% web Business Process Management software (BPM) that lets companies improve their overall performance by automating communications between internal areas, clients, vendors and existing systems.
* Highly secured data * Seamless integration with other systems * Full control over the organization * Continuous business performance improvement * Extremely easy to use interface * Huge ROI
Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. With more than 32 million users, Photobucket is a creative hub linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites--including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga.
In addition to linking, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners, and advertisers.
Photobucket was named the fastest growing site of 2005 according to Nielsen/Netratings and now ranks as a Top 50 site by traffic according to ComScore.
* 15.7 Million unique site visitors/month (Comscore 01/07) * 300,000 different sites with image links from Photobucket * 32 Million registered users * 80,000 new registered users daily * 3 Billion images/slideshows/videos served daily * 7 Million images uploaded daily * 35,000 videos uploaded daily
The Texas Startup Blog is authored by Alexander Muse and features profiles of Texas startups with a focus on entrepreneurship, venture capital, open source and Web 2.0 technology.
Loudblog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you’re done!
Loudblog is not a fully featured weblog system like Textpattern or Movable Type, although it does offer the basic weblog functionality. Use Loudblog if you’re publishing media data on a regular base and do not need sophisticated features other systems may provide much better.
Loudblog makes Mediablogging and Podcasting easy. There are a variety of ways to put your media content into the system. You can upload it via your browser, use a free FTP client like filezilla or – get the files from the web! (Before you do that you have to ensure you have permission to publish them in your site!)
With SponsoredReviews, you set your own price. Depending on the size of your readership and the quality of your blog posts, you can earn anywhere from $10 to $1000 per review. If you are a major site, you might be able to get even more.
Why buy a Sponsored Review?
* To launch a new product or service. * To create buzz about a new website. * To get honest and constructive feedback from professional reviewers and their audiences. * To build high quality links in order to increase your websites search engine rankings. * To create direct traffic from a highly targeted audience.
Slash My Search is a brand new search engine that is designed to get you the best results out there on the internet quickly and effectively. Using our proprietary algorithms, we are able to "slash" through more of the junk and find you the most relevant results. We filter results from Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, the Google search engine, our databases and several other sources. We also track what results are visited the most and refine our database with that information.
The GAAC network provides advanced technical support and professional services to Google Analytics customers beyond the free email support offered by Google. GAACs are entrusted with the important responsibility of helping Google Analytics customers measure and get the most value from their marketing and websites. The program has become a big success and has helped many of our customers.
If your company would like to become a GAAC, now is the time to apply. We have a group training coming up in March that is mandatory for GAAC partners, so if you think your business is a fit, let us know you're interested by emailing gaac-requests@google.com and we'll reply letting you know more about the requirements and asking for some specific information about your company.
We're also looking to hire a new full-time candidate who has the partner management skills to take the GAAC global network to the next level. In-depth knowledge of the web analytics industry and experience managing a channel program are important. To meet Google's exacting hiring standards, you'll need an outstanding academic record from a highly ranked university and have a history of professional achievement. You'll spearhead an expanding program at Google and be visible as a thought leader and evangelist in the web analytics space. Read the full job description and apply here.
Jambo Networks is the first company to design technology to let you see these invisible opportunities, letting people who share something in common to directly find each other and network face-to-face, when they want to. You don't even need to be on the Internet to use it. You just need Jambo, a WiFi device and a common interest. You join Jambo through an affiliation you already have -- your school, alumni association, a conference you attend, an online social network -- any trusted network based on a common interest, and Jambo's mobile social software will find people from your network when they are nearby.
A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
The term "morgue file" is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile.
Collaboradate is all about finding you that special someone. Think of it as an online "little black book". Collaboradate is compatible with all major dating and social networking sites, and if we don't support your favorite dating site you can simply add it yourself. Dating on the web has never been easier. No signup needed to browse singles on the site, stop searching and start finding the love of a life. Romance awaits you, sign up now for our free online dating!
emailing singles online for free.
-Free Online Dating - 100% Free - No Cost Ever! -True Dating 2.0 with Date MappingTM -Talk via IM, free email, chat, phone, skype, aol, yahoo -Choose what online dating information you share -Find and talk to singles on any dating site for free -Post links, special txt, bulleted lists, html, video -Post unlimited private or public photos on the site -No Credit Card Required - No Fee Dating! -Post content from youtube, Google video, etc. -No other online dating service like us. -Low pressure internet dating.
ZiXXo provides the most cost-effective advertising available, bar none. And unlike every other form of advertising, you receive immediate feedback on their effectiveness through their redemption. Best of all, you can create and distribute coupons!
Regardless of the business you are in, and your business objectives, you can use a coupon to achieve these objectives. What are your objectives? Promote new items, drive business during slow times, reward long-time customers, bring in new customers - the list goes on and on. Whatever your business objective is, we can help you create a winning coupon that achieves that objective.
Once you create a coupon in ZiXXo, or upload an existing coupon, you’ll start getting feedback on how effective it is through redemption, click-through reporting and user-generated ratings. This enables you to fine-tune your promotion to maximize sales. No other type of advertising offers this level of insight into its effectiveness.
With ZiXXo, even the smallest local business can compete with the major national companies on an even playing field.
Crowdstorm is a social shopping network that helps you find what to buy by measuring the buzz around products. You can also see recommendations from friends and people you trust.
On Crowdstorm, the users add and edit the products. If the product you want to see is missing, you can add it to the site.
MySite provides free hosting and affordable premium web hosting services to over 100,000 satisfied customers. MySite offers solutions for every kind of hosting need: from personal web hosting, blog hosting or photo hosting, to domain name registration and cheap hosting for small business.
Gizmo Project is the baby of the team who built the SIPphone VoIP platform. SIPphone builds and operates all the servers and services on which hardware, software or web community can offer free VoIP services. However, as VoIP began to take off, companies tried harder to look like AT&T rather than inventing a new way to use voice, a way where calls were free.
At the core of Gizmo Project is a commitment to open standards, which is critical to deliver the true potential of VoIP. SIPphone believes that like web pages, email and IM, calls should be free. And we believe the more people you can call the better. Which is why we use the industry VoIP standard, SIP.
Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential.
Fahamu supports the struggle for human rights and social justice in Africa by:
Supporting social justice advocacy through the innovative use of information and communication technologies
Stimulating debate, discussion and analysis
Distributing news and information
Developing training materials and running distance-learning courses
Fahamu focuses primarily on Africa, although we work with others to support the global movement for human rights and social justice.
The word Fahamu means ‘understanding’ or ‘consciousness’ in Kiswahili.
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Goals of the Consortium
Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.
Taskforce - A wiki for the capture of government best practices using open source software * WG - A wiki for the facilitation of South African government working groups on FOSS
The lack of trust has always been an issue on the Internet and it will not get better with the emergence of new collaborative services particular to Web 2.0. More and more people are blogging, sharing, publishing or selling but what about the quality and the reliability of the published material ?
The community is well aware of this problem and has consequently developed a variety of methods to be applied with the aim of inspiring sufficient trust in users by reassuring them of the quality of material or of proposed services, thereby turning them into readers or buyers.
Reliability rating, as established by C2C exchange platforms, is certainly the most significant advance regarding compensating the lack of trust that the majority of users feel when faced with the unknown. It is, however, insufficient to prevent users from being drowned beneath waves of information, recommendations, suggestions and solutions whose relevance it is no longer easily possible to judge.
Indeed, the number of contributors is dramatically increasing and it would help to have access to a unified and standardised measure of the reputation of each active user. And that is all about the Venyo Project - to build a free and universal online reputation management tool.
The reputation would be expressed in the form of a personal reliability index - the Vindex™ - guaranteed by an impartial and independent organisation. It is precisely this organisation that Venyo seeks to become.
Swahili is the most commonly spoken African language — it is the chief trade language of East Africa and is the first language of at least 70 million people living in areas such as Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Uganda, according to the team working on Kilinux, the Swahili Localization Project.
Alberto Pascual, the technical project coordinator for Kilinux, said the release is primarily focused at Tanzanians, as there are strong regional differences in Swahili, but the team is working with groups in Kenya to make modifications for Kenyan Swahili.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said that Windows and Office are not available in Swahili at present. Infrastructure problems have posed more of a challenge to the project than have technical problems, according to Pascual. “Infrastructure is more of a challenge than the technical things,” said Pascual. “Internet access is slow and we have three power cuts every week. It is even difficult to make a phone call.” Transferring the OpenOffice.org code over the Internet only takes minutes in Europe, but can take hours in Tanzania, as high-speed internet connections such as ADSL are not yet available. Instead Web users have to rely on slow dial-up connections, said Pascual.
The cost of Internet access is also an issue. Cats-net.com, an ISP in Tanzania, charges around $36 per month for 33.6Kbps dial-up Internet access, according to the company’s Web site. This is more than 10 percent of the average income of an educated professional. Professors at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania earn $300 per month, Pascual said. Another challenge for the project has been translating computer terms into Swahili.
Computer terminology is not included in the Swahili language and the team has found it difficult to find people who understand enough about computers to do the translation. To translate terms, such as bookmark and download, the translators first needed to understand what the physical result of carrying out this action was and then find a word in the Swahili language which could describe this. “If you translated download directly it would mean to unload food from a truck,” said Pascual. “We needed to understand the concept, and then go back to the language and match the concept — this took a long time.” The initial release of Jambo OpenOffice, which follows four months work, is a test version.
This initial version will only work on the Linux operating system, but the final release, which is due in February 2005, will also work on Windows. Once the final version is available, the Kilinux team may have a difficult job explaining the advantages of open-source software as software piracy is rife, said Pascual. “People here don’t buy Microsoft licences, so free software is a difficult concept to explain as they think Microsoft is also free,” said Pascual.
As Internet access is slow and expensive, distribution of Jambo OpenOffice is likely to be manual. The team plans to hand deliver CD-ROMs of the February release to primary schools, so that Tanzanian school children can use the software, said Pascual. The Swahili localisation project has been funded by the Swedish International Development Agency and the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). The project has been coordinated by the Department of Computer Science at UDSM, the Institute of Kiswahili Research and Swedish consultancy IT+46.
Web 2.0 Expo is an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. The Web 2.0 Expo is co-presented by CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media.
Web 2.0 Expo is explicitly designed to address the needs of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals building the next generation web, including:
* Business strategists * Web and UI designers * Product managers * Marketing professionals * CxOs and IT managers * Business managers * Developers in established companies * Grass roots developers and hackers * Companies and organizations tracking emerging technologies * VCs and entrepreneurs
AFIG is currently raising the Atlantic Coast Regional Fund (“ACRF”, the “Fund”), a $100 to $200 million regional fund focused on 28 countries on or near the African Coast of the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Angola (the “Region”). The Fund will target strong growth companies operating in West and Central Africa, preferably with a regional scope. ACRF will consider investments in all sectors, with particular focus on industrial firms, financial institutions and companies investing in infrastructure and other related sectors.
Target companies will be mature and cash-flow generative companies operating in sectors with high entry barriers and/or enjoying market dominance. In addition, target companies will exhibit a proven track record in terms of managerial competence, satisfactory and measurable performance and a solid business plan. ACRF expects to generate a net Internal Rate of Return of 20% - 25% in US$ terms, resulting in returns in excess of two times invested capital.
Geographic Focus The Region targeted by ACRF is defined as follows: * Western Africa encompassing the 15 Economic Community of West African States (“ECOWAS”) countries, plus Mauritania and Morocco * Central Africa encompassing the 6 CEMAC countries, plus the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Angola.
The new product is called In Video. Adbrite has created an embeddable video player similar to YouTube, Photobucket, etc. (see video below using their player). If we choose to show a video on TechCrunch, we can use this embeddable player, and at our option it will include Adbrite ads and our logo as a watermark. Anyone who takes the content and embeds it on their own site will show the same video, with the same ads and watermark (revenue goes to the original video creator). And all click backs on the video go to the original site (whereas with YouTube all click backs go the original YouTube site)
LeapTag allows you to define the things you’re interested in using tagging. For each interest you create a tag for, LeapTag will produce results that include news and blogs, websites and books. Even the ads you see will be relevant to your interest. You can use LeapTag to share your tags with friends.
TextHQ allows you to send text messages from your PC to mobile phones in over 150 countries and over 550 mobile operators worldwide. Send text messages to one phone or group or phones instantly.
Upload pictures to your gallery and send them to mobile phones worldwide. Find out whether your text message arrived or not and receive replies to your text message via email.
PictureSync is a convenient utility that simplifies annotating and batch uploading your photographs and video clips to online services—directly from your albums in image-management applications, or files, and whilst preserving metadata.
With PictureSync's great ease of use it couldn't be simpler to publish your pictures to web-based galleries and photoblogs. Manage your annotations in your favourite image management application, or with PictureSync's integrated editor you can simple add captions and keywords directly to your files.
Cellblock is a real-time collaborative photo/video blogging widget that works with any email-capable device (cell phones, computers, PDAs, etc.)
Many of Cellblock users embed them on their blogs or web pages to connect with their audience through rich media. Cellblock owners have complete control over content publication so there is no need to worry about inappropriate or unwanted material.
locr allows to automatically add georeferences to photographs. This makes it easier to organize photographs. The geographical position is displayed on digital maps, aerial and satellite pictures. Photographs can also be uploaded to the locr community and shared with friends and family.
locr aims to change the way we display and organize photographs by adding automatically generated geographical descriptions.
locr was founded in September 2006 by a group of four web enthusiasts in Braunschweig/Germany. The team is already in the software and internt business for many years and has formed successful companies.
Snoozester Reminders are automated telephone calls that play a short message containing a reminder or notification. You can leverage Snoozester reminders to market a new product or inform customers about an upcoming sale. If your organization interacts with customers during scheduled appointments, you can use Snoozester reminders can to decrease your "no show rate" by helping customers remember their appointments. Snoozester also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used to integrate Snoozester's services with your existing systems, including Customer Relationship Management Applications (CRM) and Practice Management Software. By integrating Snoozester's service with your existing applications, you can eliminate the need to enter, store and update customer data in multiple systems.
