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.
Friction.tv, a video sharing site focused on hot button issues is set to launch in the US. Previously the site has been focused on UK users, who upload videos commenting on controversial topics like global warming, immigration, and the war in Iraq. Friction.tv also reaches out to cause-oriented organizations such as Stop the War Coalition to use the service to distribute information about their focus issues.
While users can always just upload the same videos to YouTube, Friction.tv caters to the controversial by offering up a dozen issue-oriented channels, such as Politics, Local Issues, and Environment. They also take a page from the YouTube playbook and feature “Hot Debates” (those with lots of plays) and “Fresh Debates” (the most recently uploaded).
A European 3G version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK on Vodafone, T-Mobile Germany, and virtual network operator Carphone Warehouse. Shipment of the device, which hit stores in the US today, is expected by the end of the year.
The iPhone has faced some criticism in the US for only being available on AT&T, whose network is not highly regarded for its high speed capabilities. iPhone, with its heavy focus on multimedia, is designed to work best on faster networks. Thus, the European strategy is a sharp contrast, offering multiple carriers and taking advantage of the higher quality data network enjoyed by those across the pond.
The American version of the iPhone utilizes 2G technology.
Host.123Flickr is a newly launched slide show creator that generates a hosted solution from your Flickr URL. This company is not affiliated with Flickr in any way.
This service is from the same folks that brought us 123Flickr, and both sites offer the same general service. With Host.123Flickr, it looks like all of a user’s galleries are pulled in order to create several slide shows, whereas 123Flickr only pulls the most recent. This new release has a clean interface and pretty cool Flash implementation, though there’s no way to click through images in their full size. You’ll have to return to the thumbnails view to see the next image. Unlike the original 123Flickr, the new release does not offer the embed code for the gallery to be exported elsewhere.
myWdot is a new social network that is looking to let you create the type of online presence most people are going for with their existing communities.
You get five pages for your profile, and each page is fully customizable. Insert photos, videos, text, slide shows, and profile information, among other modules. You also have the choice for which kind of profile you’d like: artist, musician, etc. In this sense, myWdot is essentially enabling you to create your own website. While you can do some nifty things for your personal site creation, the goal of making it easier than customizing your MySpace profile hasn’t quite been achieved.
TVTonic is an on demand Internet television service that comes in the form of downloadable channels that you can watch at any time.
You can select from TVTonic’s 250+ channels for content you’d like to see, which is pulling programs from video podcasts, music videos, AP news, cartoons and more. You’ll need to download this service, and the channels you select are automatically updated, like a feed. The videos are downloaded, though, so you can watch them anytime, on or offline. You can specify the parameters for the amount of content you’d like automatically downloaded, to save space, and you can connect TVTonic to your television set using the Media Center PC or Xbox 360.
Jaman, the YouTube for filmmakers, has launched a plug-in that gives Apple TV users access to the Jaman library of movies and shorts for rentals.
This cross-platform application gives you more options for programming that’s been optimized for HD televisions. Once the Jaman plug-in is installed, it will appear as a menu option along with other media choices for music, pictures and television, which currently includes YouTube as well. Jaman content will auto-sync with your Apple TV and you can rent the movie of your choice. Rentals expire after 7 days. The only catch is that you may need a bit of technical knowledge in order to actually modify your Apple TV to work with Jaman’s high-def content.
In addition, Jaman is in talks with other Internet TV device companies to expand its distribution options for those looking for set-top boxes in order to view online content on their televisions.
iHipo is an International community for college students and business professionals looking for networking opportunities.
There are two different types of profiles available for iHipo: business profiles and professional profiles. As a business you can post jobs and utilize iHipo’s user database to search for new talent. As a professional, you can search for jobs and others in your industry. The profile options leave a lot be be desired, though the community forums are laid out in a more practical manner. You can search for jobs on a global map or by tag word, though there aren’t enough ways to filter out your search, and every time your search is modified, the global map reloads, slowing down your search overall.
Google Answers, Google’s Q&A service that was killed off after being decisively beaten by Yahoo Answers (in terms of traffic, at least), has been relaunched in Russia. An entry on Google’s Russian blog says that Russia is the first to get the new service, leaving open the possibility that an English version could return. A rough Babelfish translation:
Today we start the beta version of “questions and answers”. This is the new service Google, where it is possible to pose complex question on the theme interesting for you and to obtain answer from other users, and still it is possible to earn marks, answering strange questions…We are especially glad to report that Russia - first in the world country, where we start this service; she is not thus far accessible even to English-language users….Answering different questions, you collect marks and you gradually become expert in one or other region or another.
Baeble Music, the online site for finding professional videos of live concerts, is partnering with online video site Babelgum to syndicate its catalog of live music performances.
Babelgum will stream several selections from Baeble’s music library, which currently has over 70 videos of live concert footage for up and coming indie band across a handful of genres (indie-rock, pop and heavy metal). This is a good way for Baeble to get its content out and spread further. It’s niche service is still appealing to enough people across the board for it to be able to leverage a deal with Babelgum in order to improve its distribution channels. This is also an interesting move for Babelgum, which has spent a lot of time garnering relationships with other media companies for the provision of premium content through its service.
Feedster is an established and rapidly growing pioneer in RSS-based technology and services. The company helps individuals and organizations harness the rich information available in the universe of RSS feeds, which includes blogs, traditional news services, e-commerce sites, and entertainment properties. Feedster's widgets enable individuals and web publishers to aggregate dynamically-updated content (text, audio, video) that can be customized for their own site visitors. Solutions include customized platform creation, editorial provisions and metrics monitoring. Custom solutions include:
* Dynamic delivery of relevant and timely syndicated content * Commercial search and notification services * Integration with existing ad servers and ad targeting * Online behavior monitoring and reporting
Feedster was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in the SOMA district of lovely San Francisco, California.
Like.com is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items.
We believe that there are literally millions of items that are difficult to describe via text-based search and where individual tastes are all over the map -- think of your favorite pair of earrings or shoes and what an ordeal it can be to find something new but in a similar style.
We created Like.com to solve the challenge of finding "the perfect you" for a broad range of aesthetic and soft goods.
Like.com utilizes our Likeness Technology™ to create a digital signature that describes the photo's contents and enables a more accurate search for similar looking items and products. Our initial launch focuses on handbags, jewelry, shoes, and watches - allowing users to search and purchase items from thousands of leading and boutique brands. We will very quickly add clothing and a number of other aesthetically oriented product categories.
Nirvino.com is a collection of wine reviews and wine ratings from certified wine critics around the world. We attempt to catalog every review and rating available for the wines in our database. These reviews and ratings are then calculated into an overall score, The Nirvino Rating, for each wine. In addition Nirvino provides relevant information on appellations, grapes, vineyards, vintages, winemakers, wineries, wine stores, and other terroir.
What is the Nirvino Rating? The Nirvino Rating is a representation of whether wine critics overall liked or disliked a particular wine. A wine is considered GOOD when 60% or more of the reviews for a wine are positive and BAD when lower than 60% are positive. To calculate whether an individual review is positive or not, each type of wine scoring system is taken into account:
Who are certified wine critics? Certified wine critics are individuals or oganizations accredited by the wine industry or with the experience and number of reviews necessary to meet our guidelines. Please contact us for more information on our critic guidelines. To synopsize, the Nirvino Rating is calculated from an experienced and unbiased set of wine critics.
What are some of the other features at Nirvino? - There are over 4802 wines and 469 reviews in our database. - Detailed information on each wine from alcohol content to winemaker's notes. - Standardized naming convention and label graphics for each wine. - Google search of all our wines and other information. - Browse for wines in our db by rating, price, region (appellation), grape (varietal), winery, winemaker, vintage, vineyard, and wine stores - Ability to sort wines by rating, price, winery, title, and vintage. - Wine critics pages with review and ratings history plus biographical information. - Information on how often critics agree with each other. - Detailed information on thousands of wineries, regions (appellations), vintages, grapes (varietals), winemakers, wine stores, and other terroir.
When you give us your Twitter credentials we supply you with a TwitterMail email address. For instance abcdef1234@twittermail.com. If you send an email to that address it will be posted to Twitter.com
Scooplive aims at creating the world's largest amateur and/or independent reporters community with a commercial goal, thanks to an easy to use and transparent system, and a commission rate much more important than traditional agencies.
Scooplive was created in 2006 in Paris, France, by three founders with a common passion for information and a complementary experience to offer the best service.Scooplive was born thanks to the alchemy of these three experiences crossed: a convergence point which leads to an easy relationship between people and media.
Auctionpayis dedicated to helping nonprofits automate and improve benefit event fundraising. Auctionpay's solutions help local, regional and national nonprofit organizations and schools create better donor experiences, while saving organizations time and money.
Auctionpayoffers a complete event fundraising solution that includes event management software, an online registration and donation service, and on-site payment processing the day of the event. Products and services are available separately or as an integrated solution.
Dooniz is a new way to help the world with the power of Internet. Dooniz goal is to redistribute a part of the money made on Internet to charity foundations. Who can make it happen? You. You can make a difference by using dooniz to search the net or to shop online.
A simple click can help children in difficulty or bring more money to cancer or climatic changes researches... On this website, you can search the web for anything, shop for goods, for travel or for online music. You can even sign up for a new credit card or a new cell phone plan... everything is possible.
Ziki, the digital life-aggregator, has finally released its latest release, incorporating more ways to centralize your personal information from around the web, and is also building up a bit of a community around its own service.
With Ziki Version 2, your search queries will turn up results from Ziki as well as the web, offering a broader view of what’s going on with a particular person. Similar to Wink, you can now get information about others without them having to create a Ziki profile first. Ziki results will show on top, and if the person you’re looking for doesn’t yet have a Ziki profile, there is the option of creating one. The benefits of having a free, “official” profile on Ziki is that you’ll get a bit higher on search engine results, such as Google.
Tubes™ is your personal social networking application. Tubes instantly creates private sharing spaces for home, work, school and play. Simply Create, Invite, and Share your stuff! Tubes creates personal private 'spaces' for your friends, family, colleagues, teams, communities or just yourself, across your various PCs and devices, empowering you to manage your digital life. With Tubes, you can now easily share and distribute your digital content with everyone you know
Social design is a subset of design that focuses on the social lives of users. It deals with the activities, behaviors, and motivations of people who work and play together through software interfaces.
In the early days of the Web, most sites were read-only, focused on providing information to a single person at a time. Then the Web became read/write, allowing people to save information but still mostly for them acting alone. Now, we're seeing a tremendous amount of social software that allows many people to collaborate and share what they're doing with others. Designing for this social world is social design. and that's what Joshua Porter, a web designer/developer, researcher, and writer is expaining.
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
Zimoz is a website that allows you to create Web2.0 style postcards and publish them as a blog, or send them by email. The idea is based on the concept that ‘everyone likes to get a postcard‘. Hence you can tell your story or discuss issues in a format, that is the electronic equivalent of postcards.
You can add images, videos, clipart et al to it and thereby add another dimension to that storytelling. Check out these postcard samples- they certainly do justice to the concept.
Internet Payment Solutions, Inc. (“PayByCash™”) has been empowering non-credit-card customers and the Internet businesses that want to reach these customers since April, 1998. In that time, PayByCash™ has established relationships with Electronic Arts, Sony Online Entertainment, Mythic Entertainment, and some of the largest subscription game providers in the world.
PayByCash™ provides services to customers playing Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Runescape, Ragnarok Online, Everquest, Everquest II, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, and many others.
Internet Payment Solutions is dedicated to ensuring that merchant adoption of PayByCash™ services is nearly frictionless and that our customer support is unmatched in the payments industry.
PayByCash™ offers the only service where customers paying without a credit card bring merchants GREATER margins than credit card customers! Most merchants pay no transaction fees to PayByCash™, and PayByCash™ handles the account management and customer service for customers paying via PayByCash.
Growing up in Africa, Matthew Herren saw that many children in cash-strapped rural schools have to make do with textbooks that are decades out of date. Inspired to find a low-cost solution to the problem, he hit on the idea of using satellites to transmit up-to-date educational materials. He aims to establish the technology not through programs run by traditional aid organizations but through a series of self-sustaining businesses.
"We figured there had to be a way for technology to lower the cost" of providing books and other materials to children, Herren says (see "Development Powered by Education"). Herren, who is Swiss, turned to one-way satellite radio transmission because Internet access is unlikely to reach much of the African interior anytime soon. In a test last year, a Swiss foundation called BioVision installed a satellite receiver in a grade school in Mbita Point, Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. The receiver downloaded textbooks onto its hard drive. The information was then transferred to handheld computers rigged with simple Linux-based software for book viewing. Sixty students received current classroom materials.
Herren is now trying to implement his scheme on a grander scale. Working with Bridgeworks, a venture capital firm in Zürich, he has already raised most of the $650,000 needed for seed money. With that capital, Herren hopes to launch a network of businesses across Africa that will sell and service the satellite receivers and handheld PCs. A country's education ministry would hire one of these companies to provide and maintain its educational-download system--and slash the per-pupil cost of providing classroom materials by more than 20 percent.
If delivering educational materials by satellite works as hoped, the basic system could be used to provide remote villages with health and agricultural information. Herren notes that in many villages that lack even roads, all paths literally lead to schools.
HomeStars is an online community for homeowners seeking the latest, hard-hitting reviews on renovators, retailers & repairmen.Read reviews, or write your own.Homeowners are already sharing some of their experiences.
The MoMB means Museum of Modern Betas,The MoMB is a site dedicated to listing webbased applications on a beta trip.This site is in early alpha, I still need to figure a few things out.
V.UP is a high-end and affordable solution for the uploading, management, and publishing of video on the Internet. With V.UP, you control the branding, programming and distribution of your video and rich media content. With V.UP, browsing and viewing web video is a lasting experience. Using standard web technologies, V.UP successfully delivers on-demand video to your audiences without delay or interrupted signals.
timeXchange.net" is a member-based, on-line timesheet exchange for individuals and teams who are required to submit, route, approve and collect project time-tracking details. timeXchange.net is focused on improving business performance by providing a single application that can serve multiple organizational affiliations and back-office applications simultaneously.
Their approach of providing a "generic" or "one-to-many" timesheet application uniquely resolves two business inefficiencies - redundant time entry and re-keying of data. After all, it is not uncommon today to find project teams that consist of workers from both inside (employees) and outside (contractors) the organization.
It is also not uncommon to have various functions within an organization that require the same data be reported (HR, accounting, project management). The old answer was a timesheet application for each organization or departmental application. The new answer is timeXchange.net.
BikeSpace.net is an online social network for cyclists. We have recently just released an alpha version of our site; it is free to all, and offers some serious tools. Some of our current features:
-User profiles with bio, photographs, and a section to show off your gear -Map, store, and share your favorite riding routes with other cyclists -Create a friend list, and send out invitations for rides. You can make your rides public (all riders in your area) or private (only people you spcifically invite) -Form groups of riders, post news and pics, and send ride invitations to your group
BikeSpace.net is just getting started, and we are asking cyclists to check it out and let us know what you think. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. We are hoping to have an official beta release by the end of the year, and look forward to meeting you online, as well as on the road.
StreamBase Systems, a leader in the fast-growing complex event processing (CEP) market, has pioneered a remarkable new approach to processing and analyzing real-time streaming data. Founded by data management experts who have been driving industry innovation for decades and backed by top-tier investor firms, StreamBase has developed a new class of stream processing software. Global organizations are witnessing StreamBase's high performance coupled with intuitive graphical development, eliminating costly, inflexible custom-coding.
infogami lets anyone build good-looking, easily-editable web sites. One-click editing lets you fix typos instantly. With customizable templates your site looks just the way you want it to. Detailed graphs let you see how many people are visiting your site and many more.
Comwat members create their own meta profile including links to all of their other community and network profiles, blogs or homepages. When they enter a webpage by using one of those links, all friends or all Comwat members or the whole world will know where they can be found at that moment.
TANGAZA.BIZ is a technology consultant providing world-class services, customer interaction in varied application areas and focused on BPO & Knowledge industry. TANGAZA.BIZ assists in the identification and development of business opportunities in the emerging BPO & Knowledge Services markets.
PHOTOlinko provides free image and photo hosting. Upload any image from your computer and get instant html linking codes for your images. You can share your images with friends, post them on blogs, forums, social networking sites like myspace, tagworld, friendster and more. Create your online photo albums and slideshows.
Searchforvideo.com is a leading video search engine that indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources.
Searchforvideo.com do not host or stream online video, we index rich meta data about video clips and provide direct links to video clips around the web.
Searchforvideo.com works with over 100 brand name video content providers,If you are interested in featuring your video content on Searchforvideo.com, you can submit your video RSS feed. Alternatively, if you do not have a video RSS feed, you can submit information about your contact.
MoodMill is a social mood management website. It's a personal mood management, a log, a quick 'n easy website for managing and sharing your short logs with your contacts.
Create Personal Libraries from your Favorite Services on the Web Second Brain allows you to create private or public libraries and collections from your favorite services on the Web such as: Flickr, Del.icio.us, Youtube, Picasa web, GoogleDocs, Blue dot and Zoho. Also, you can upload your documents and files to your library and share them as well. (you'll get 1 GB of free storage to start with)
WeFi makes it easy for you to find and connect to WiFi networks. With WeFi, each user contributes to the rest of the community by using the client and discovering more networks around. All this is reported to a centralized server and shared seamlessly among all users, resulting in easy connection. With WeFi software you can also map your favorite hotspots, find your friends, share your WiFi with other WeFi members and do many other cool things.
VUVOX is an online service that can enable you create personal, collaborative & emotive slideshows using your own digital media - including video, photos, music and text.
There are lots of question and answer sites out there- Yahoo Answers, Microsoft QnA, Askville, Answerbag, Yedda, and soon to be Uclue. All of these sites try to do roughly the same thing- questions and answers.
YcantI.net is my humorous take on Q&A- "Q w/o A". Questions without Answers. Anyone can ask a question, no one can provide an answer.Did you ever wish you could ask a question and have no one answer it? . This website won't help you get answers, but it will let you, ask the question- why can't I?.
This site is now in beta, we will post new updates later on.
In early 2004, Shahar Smirin struck upon the underlying concept for Trusted OpinionTM while attending a birthing class with his expectant wife. The daunting prospect of becoming a first-time father had Shahar's head swimming with questions for which he needed quick reliable answers. Contacting trusted friends and relatives was proving to be "hit-and-miss" and time consuming, and while there was plenty of information on the Internet, it was often impossible to determine its reliability. What was needed was a way to combine the trustworthiness of his friends with the efficiency of the Internet. Realizing the profound potential of the idea he had stumbled upon, Shahar quickly gathered his team and got to work. The result was a uniquely intelligent online platform for sharing ratings and recommendations between trusted individuals, which serve up commercially untainted and personally tailored recommendations.
FormAlive is a Web-based reporting tool that only requires you to paste a simple piece of Javascript within your HTML forms. Then as users visit your newly tracked form, our FormAlive will begin recording data in real-time. You will quickly begin decoding the mystery behind the most critical element of your web site - your web forms.
FormAlive™Beta measures field-to-field abandonment on Web forms, indicating where users lose interest on your page. By understanding where users abandon, more specifically, the field they abandoned, you can begin adjusting your page to improve conversion. FormAlive is here to help you maximize your media spends and convert traffic into business.
SuccessFactors provides state-of-the-art Performance & Talent Management solutions that help organizations of every size and category realize their potential through their talent. Serving customers in 156 countries and 18 languages - 2+ million employees at 1,200+ organizations.
SuccessFactors provides an affordable, integrated, on-demand Performance & Talent Management suite for companies of every shape and size. It ranges from recruiting to performance, compensation and succession and everything in between. Our solutions are designed to be easy for anyone to use but powerful enough to uncover critical insights that help drive never before seen business performance from your most valuable asset: your workforce.
wis.dm is an online community where you ask questions to the wis.dm crowd and get back useful answers. It is for people who are looking for something more meaningful than they get from “popularity” based social networks. It’s a place to engage around asking, sharing, growing and learning. It’s where you get to question everything.
Getting Business Done Businesses and projects don't fail from a lack of reports, charts, graphs or stats. They fail from a lack of clear communication and transparent information. Actionize takes a fresh, simple and integrated approach to contact and project management. It improves the communication and collaboration between all the people working on your internal and external projects.
Free Classified Ads Search Engine GoSasa.com is a metasearch engine for free online classifieds which crawls more than 52,000 sources and presents results in real time (while deleting expired listings). Users can search for merchandise, jobs, real estate, rentals, services, and vehicles
ProfileMine is the ultimate MySpace companion site that lets you completely customize your MySpace profile without having to touch a single line of HTML code. We love MySpace as a forum for self expression. But, if you weren’t born knowing HTML, it’s almost impossible to customize your MySpace profiles exactly the way you want it. Now, ProfileMine allows you to find and save your favorite MySpace layouts to your account, easily switch between different MySpace layouts, and make changes to your MySpace profile – all without having to cut and paste any HTML.
Here’s what you can do on ProfileMine: * Save your favorite MySpace layouts to your My Layouts page, regardless of where you find it – on ProfileMine, on other layouts sites, or by copying layouts you find on other people’s MySpace profiles * Update your MySpace profile with a new layout automatically, without cutting and pasting layout code * Delete, resize, edit, or add widgets, slideshows, pictures, text, or anything else to your MySpace profile using our intuitive, simple to use, drag-and-drop MySpace Editor * Upload all profile changes automatically to your MySpace account with just a single click
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats.
QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost.
Zooppa is involving the consumers in the creative process, Zooppa.com has the purpose to transform the “making of” of ads in an advertising campaign itself purely web-oriented.
The site, which launched officially today, is a venue for user-generated advertising. The site stages contests sponsored by big name brands, and users upload creative ads for those brands to win prizes. It’s a similar idea to Brickfish, another brand promotion site
Sharogle is a search engine that allows anyone to search the web and possibly earn income. Anyone with a Google Adsense account may become a member for free and receive a share of the revenues from searches done on Sharogle.
Sharogle is free to use by anyone, but only members have the opportunity to earn money through Google Adsense. Users get proven search results and there's no need to do anything different from the ordinary. Use sharogle search just as you would use google, yahoo or msn search.
TheNewsRoom is the premier source for news content online. It's all free, fully licensed and available for you to embed, or "mash," onto your website or blog!
When you join, you automatically share in the advertising revenue every time a mashed story is viewed on your site. It's free, but you have to join to participate!
* Build your audience * Keep them on your site * Make money * It's all free!
Reactee is a project of TextMarks Inc. - a leading provider of text messaging services for consumers, corporations and non-profits. they partnered with Revel Industries, a leading provider of apparel - as well as services to the apparel industry.
Their shirts are meant for individuals as well as organizations. Individuals can make shirts with their own unique keyword and response - which they can update as frequently as they want. Organizations can make many shirts with the same keyword and use them to promote their causes.
Synthasite is about revolutionising Web Publishing.
Synthasite is building an awesome browser based AJAXified website construction / mashup tool that allows you to assemble your website from any PC. No more are your applications and files stuck on the office PC. Ever lost a file? Not with Synthasite.
# they believe the social web publishing is better Team has (burst / emerged / sprung into the spotlight) from the PPC giant Incubeta # Best environment for software teams to build amazing applications in Cape Town. And since Cape Town is the best city in the world... # Proudly South African # BIOS - Vinny ( visionary ), Brent ( architect ), David ( software developer horticulturalist ) - with characatures? to give personality
Sightsavers works to combat blindness in developing countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. We also support people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counselling and training. We help the people who need it most - those living in poverty in some of the world's poorest countries. Poverty and blindness
Poverty and blindness deprive people in developing countries of basic human rights. Loss of sight often leads to social exclusion, leaving people who are blind vulnerable to abuse, poverty and early death. Less than half of all children who lose their sight will survive to adulthood. Restoring sight and hope
In partnership with local organisations in 33 developing countries, we are working to provide services that are tailored to meet the needs of people who are blind or have low vision. In this way we have helped restore sight to more than five million people and treated over 70 million for potentially blinding conditions.
* every five seconds a person goes blind * 37 million people in the world are blind * nine out of ten blind people live in the developing world * 75% of global blindness can be prevented or cured
Zimbuyer.Com is a new shopping facility for Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, offering easy access to purchase groceries and other services for their loved ones back home. Zimbuyer.Com is a company dedicated to serving the needs of families, friends, and communities all over the world.
They understand that when you are abroad it is often very difficult to make sure that your loved ones are taken care of. They are here to provide you with an easier, more convenient way of shopping and taking care of your family and friends.
Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality , design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype. Once you have signed up with Protonotes, all you have to do is share your unique Protonotes url with your project team members and they can begin adding notes to the prototype - they do not have to sign up.
Discussion Board + Wiki * (Prototypes) = Protonotes Protonotes is also a great tool for recording your findings in usability tests and heuristic reviews.
What's so great about Protonotes?
* Everyone on your team can easily add notes to your prototypes - helps the entire team collaborate quicker and easier. * You don't need to install anything. * Once you've signed up, all you have to do is email out your Protonotes link - nobody else has to sign up. * It's free.
Book a Lesson allows you to enhance your lesson experience by giving instant access to your favorite instructors and their schedules. No waiting for voice-mail, callbacks, dropped cell phone calls and other annoyances of the old ways. Book A Lesson is like having your instructors schedule in your hands at all times.
MeraSnap is a subsidiary of Knowledgeworkz Consulting, an information management company based in Bangalore. The parent company specialises in Email newsletter management and have major clients across IT, banking, biotechnology and other sectors.
MeraSnap's services are targetted to the digital camera users who would also like their family members in India to enjoy the photographs, in a printed form. Quite often, while the digital camera owner finds it effortless to shoot and see photographs on the computer, his/her dear ones located elsewhere may not have the facility to see the the photographs.
MeraSnap attempts to bridge this gap and by enabling printing and delivery of the digital photographs in a seamless manner. Moreover, the joy of holding a photograph is irreplaceable
Created by gamers, for gamers. Gamefray.com is an online community specifically designed with gamers in mind. Create unique profiles, make friends to play with online, create a clan, manage, and recruit additional clan members. Through Gamefray.com you will be able to organize like never before.
Location Based Mobile Dating MeetMoi has developed a service that allows you to identify your location from your cell phones and determine whether there are any other people whose profiles meet your search criteria and are within a certain specified distance of you. If MeetMoi finds a match, they will send you the person's or persons profiles via SMS. If you like what you see, you can text message the person you like anonymously and eventually arrange a meeting.
Deligio is your search engine for software, shareware and freeware. They have a mission: to create the largest download exchange worldwide. With some enthusiastic independent developers they created a platform where you can discover, add and share your favorite software on the web.
SpaceTime™ is a free application you can download for your PC. Although not currently available, the Mac version is coming soon.Because SpaceTime™ is a 3D application that relies on high bandwidth and powerful graphics, not all computers will run it.
Twango, the feature-rich media sharing site, is integrating Google Earth into their user offerings.
With this new feature, you can now see Twango media and members on Google Earth. From a user’s channel page, you can choose the Subscribe link and click on the Google Earth icon. For Windows users, this will launch Google Earth, and for OS X, this will put an alias to the KML feed on your desktop. The feed ensures that the information from Google Earth is always updated. In order to utilize this feature, you must have Google Earth already installed. The feature currently only works on channels that have existing geocoded media. Twango hopes to have the geo location of media automatically inserted in the future.
The new Google Earth feature allows users a new way to explore Twango and find new users. I’m sure Twango is hoping that the inclusion of this feature will encourage users to geotag more of their content as well. In related Twango news, they released their video webcam widget earlier this year.
Zude, the fastest, easiest way to build and manage your web presence. Its innovative use of drag-and-drop technology makes it easy for anyone to build a personal website.
Poptopus is a brand new way of enabling artists, bloggers and advertisers to work together to share music, as well as information on new products and services, while generating income.
Flirt Frenzy is an AJAX web application that was designed so people could meet, one on one in an anonymous environment.
This site is Free and Anonymous. After logging in, you are presented with several rooms based on a geographical location in the world. After selecting one of these rooms, you can select a Flirting partner, and if they accept your invitation, you have a 10 minute time limited conversation with each other.
Finfo is a fresh approach to consumer finance. We provide easy-to-use tools that will guide you through common financial scenarios and a network of banks waiting to send you competing offers. With the information you need and the deals you want, Finfo is your one-stop shop for financial service.
MobaTalk is a multimedia comment system which allows you to send and receive comments in the form of audio, video, and text.
The MobaTalk system offers the integration of audio comments, video comments, dial-in comments, MMS comments from cell phones, and comments via email with audio and video files attached.The MobaTalk system was developed using HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, ActionScript, Flash, Java, MySql, SQL, and Visual Basic. Whether you are a large news organization that has an audience of millions or a blog writer that gets 3 visitors a day, MobaTalk will help you keep the conversation “open”.
Respectance is the place to instantly create a personalized website where our family and friends come together to share their favorite memories and relive those irreplaceable moments.
Respectance understands how hard it can be when a loved one passes away. With an aging population, this is becoming more relevant than ever. People need to express their feelings, especially at this tragic time. A good memorial experience makes us feel better about ourselves and each other: it’s all about respect, and acceptance. Respectance is there to help people take control of the memorial experience.
Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.
If you are not a blogger, we give you a great way to share and show off your projects, participate in -alongs, and socialize with other crafters. If you are a blogger than Ravelry is the perfect complement to your online journal; it provides structure and organization. All of your information is easy to enter and easy to find. You will not need to update your own FO album again- it is all here on Ravelry!
Wikispaces has been integrated with SourceForge.net, offering its wiki collaboration tools to the repository for open source software and is now available to all users. This is the largest wiki integration of its kind to date.
This of course offers more social networking capabilities for users of SourceForge, in an arena that already lends itself to a collaborative nature. The integration of Wikispaces will aid in documentation and multi-authored notes, and will enhance the communication tools that are more than necessary for ongoing open source projects. Bringing this level of communication tools directly into SourceForge is probably a much needed integration, and will hopefully improve the efforts of SourceForge users, reducing the need to go elsewhere for documentation purposes.
Snooth is a social network of sorts, created to provide a peer review system for wine.
Snooth has claimed to have cataloged more than 300,000 wines with over 1 million ratings that you can search. You can read others’ reviews of particular wines or leave your own reviews and ratings. Snooth does not sell wine diretly but has partnered with companies such as Astor Wines & Spirit and wine.com to offer retail resources for the wine you’d like to purchase. You also have the ability to search by tag words, which could range from food to texture, and narrow search by price range and shipping availability.
Visual Refresh Netscape Navigator 9's theme has been updated to save screen-space and leave more room for the websites you visit. URL Correction Navigator 9 will automatically correct common typos in URLs. For example, if you accidentally type googlecom, Navigator will fix it be to google.com. News Menu and Sidebar The latest news is built right into the browser, under the News menu. Provided by Netscape.com, you can customize the menu to only contain the news sections you want to monitor. Link Pad The Link Pad is a new sidebar feature that allows you to save links/URLs that you want to visit later without cluttering your bookmarks. News Tracker The Netscape Tracker sidebar lets you monitor breaking news as it happens, via Netscape.com. In-browser voting Share your opinions with the world! The icons in the Navigator address bar let you share interesting stories you find and vote on stories shared by others. Extension Compatibility Navigator 9 shares an architecture with the latest Mozilla technologies; as such, Navigator 9 will let you install extensions that are compatible with Firefox ® 2.
ViaVol is a user generated demand web site.It's a free web service to provide a unique place for people to manage their shopping needs and web favorites online. Like user generated video web site YouTube, which enables people to post their videos (changing the dominant structure of the traditional media industry), ViaVol enables individuals to post their specific shopping needs to deliver values to both individuals and businesses.
ViaVol exists to solve one common frustration. As online shoppers, too often we have to exhaustively search from site to site to look for the best offers, or we are forced to wait out the time for online auction results. Even though we know there are many better options in this world, they are simply difficult for shoppers to dig out.
ViaVol gives people a place to voice out their needs for more efficient and convenient online shopping.
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a fresh user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3D extreme. In this physics-driven universe, important files finally get the weight they deserve via an oddly satisfying resizing feature, and the drudgery of file organization becomes a freewheeling playground full of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls." Worried your laptop's desktop will descend into the same disorder as its coffee-mug-strewn real-life equivalent? Fear not: BumpTop has a snappy solution for that messy problem, too.
The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush, and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos offers historical evidence showing how similar they were: from the riches made by pioneers to the media hype that attracted luckless speculators. But a better analogy can be found in the early days of the electric industry, he says. In the late 1800s, the U.S. was first wired to support lightbulbs; the following century saw a long procession of new appliances, life-changing advances, and of course some amusing failures. His conclusion in 2003: "I believe there's more innovation ahead of us than behind us."
Gwimgrafx Studios Limited is a video game development company located in Nairobi, Kenya. they are likely the first or one of the first video game development companies in Africa. The main goal of the company is to bring fresh game play ideas into the video game industry by adopting African mythology and folklore into the video games we develop.
They are about to release their first developed video game titled, 'Adventures Of Nyangi'. It is a 3D action-adventure video game where the main character, Nyangi, has to find some rare African artifacts. The images above are screen shots from the video game.
The ALIPR (pronounced a-lip-er), launched officially on November 1, 2006, is a machine-assisted image tagging and searching service being developed at Penn State by Professors Jia Li and James Z. Wang.
The ALIPR automatic image annotation engine has a vocabulary of 332 English words at the moment. However, thousands of English words can be used to search for pictures. ALIPR version 1.0 is designed for color photographic images.
Ten Reasons to ALIPR your pictures: (tell us about your own thoughts) Make your pictures visible to the search engine and hence to Web surfers and stock photo agencies; Let your intelligence be incorporated in ALIPR as she grows up; It's just fun to see how childish ALIPR can be some times; See the potential of machine intelligence first hand; Motivate students to learn about mathematics, science, and information technology; Support science research through your action; Demonstrate your creativity with unusual pictures; Search for, view, and rate other alipred pictures; Discover the imagination power of ALIPR; Teach others or learn about certain concepts through pictures.
SimulScribe converts your voicemail into text messages and then sends them directly to your mobile phone, Blackberry, Goodlink enabled phone and/or your email account.
You can instantly see who has called and what they said, whether you are sitting in a business meeting or traveling on the road. Your voicemail functionality does not change; it can still be listened to and stored for later use. Benefits
Read voicemail on your mobile phone, portable device and/or e-mail
Whether you are in a meeting, traveling, or on the golf course, you can instantly see who called, what they said, and you won't have to listen to all of your messages to find out about an important missed call
Use the SimulScribe online user interface to search, sort, archive and delete voicemail like email
You won't have to write down the information from a voicemail; important numbers, names and addresses are easy to find, easy to access and will never get lost
Respond in text or forward the message to another person
Delivering voicemails as text when you are roaming saves you money
If a message is inaudible, you can still listen to the message as an audio file that is sent direct to your e-mail or dial in to the voicemail system
Keep the same voicemail functionality that you are used to; all dial-in voicemail functionality stays the same
Share your creations. Tell everyone a story. Send a card to someone, anywhere. Share the latest news with the world. This is mostrips.
With mostrips you can be a mobile star. Play with any occasion of your life and show it to your friends anywhere - even at a bar table, on a friday night. mostrips is the first service in the world to provide the exchange of picture or image albums using e-mail, the web or a mobile phone.
mostrips. A quick and easy way to join:
1 - Register. You’ll only have to create an account at the mostrips’ website. It’s easy and simple;
2 - Gather your images and pictures. They can be anywhere, uploading is as fast as one two three;
3 - Assemble your mostrips. It’s easy. Add captions to your images, change the order and create your own story;
4 - Share. Send it to your friends by e-mail, web or mobile phone;
5 - Categorize. There are lots of mostrips tags, just find one that fits you better: comedy, animation, movies, TV shows, news and personal.
Lumos Labs is the company that researched, developed and tested the Lumosity brain fitness program. Lumos Labs specializes in creating innovative applications of the latest developments in brain science in order to help people lead better lives. Since its formation in the spring of 2005, Lumos Labs has been consistently focused on researching and developing the most effective cognitive training applications.
The Google Mashup Editor provides simple tools and features that allow you to create mashups in minutes.Mashups created with the Google Mashup editor can be published to a hosted environment. You choose your subdomain and we’ll host your feed-based mashups at googlemashups.com. You can go from creation, to testing to publishing in one click of a button.
BeAGoodBuzz has been created to promote the exchange of anything and everything that can make people feel good. they want to build an online resource of Good Buzz culture, and a network of Good Buzz people.
It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, or what you do, just Be a Good Buzz™
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline.Google Gears consists of three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline.
* LocalServer – Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally * Database – Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database * WorkerPool – Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously.
GeoCommons is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data.On GeoCommons you can:
* Explore an open geodata repository with over 2 billion location attributes, 35,000 variables & 1,500 data sets (and counting!). * Create intelligent maps to answer questions, gain insight and make decisions. * Share maps and data to tell stories, collaborate and influence.
GeoCommons includes a wide range of data in areas such as, population, environment, recreation, schools, crime, employment, traffic, politics, shark attacks and whatever wacky or edifying information the community contributes. * Search for demographic data like age, income, occupation and ethnicity to determine the location of your target market or future customer base.
* Find neighborhood information on crime rates, school spending, the number of school-age kids, and traffic congestion in order to choose the best place to buy or rent a home.
* Educate both yourself and others about critical issues as you easily visualize and share environmental data on toxic dumping and water contamination.
You can help build the data bounty on GeoCommons, by uploading and contributing your own data. The value of geographic information multiplies the more of it you have covering different topics, places and time periods.
