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Monday, July 9, 2007

NowPos has created a voice email application.

NowPos has been led by a mission of leading the way after having technologically created the next-generation Web Technologies, combining the power of voice and internet, be it new e-mailing paradigms; new approach to disseminate information and content, interact between web users and web sites, and many others, all build on proprietary technology, legally patented (Pending) for maximizing returns, which will impact the entire Internet using community, globally.

NowPos, led by its mission of transforming a large portion of the Web's Text into Voice, has created a unique approach to use voice in a seamless way that can impact, virtually, any and every website. The Company has built this technology into several segments, services and products to demonstrate its wide variety of usage, the potential and has started marketing and branding these services.

Monday, June 25, 2007

WHAT IS SOCIAL DESIGN?

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.

Bokardo is the blog of Joshua Porter,

Sunday, June 24, 2007

PayByCash™ provides services to customers playing Games Online,

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.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

MoMB : a site dedicated to listing webbased applications on a beta trip.

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.

LINK: http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net

Friday, June 22, 2007

Create a Website Now

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.

LINK : http://infogami.com/

Monday, June 18, 2007

FormAlive : a Web-based reporting tool that only requires you to paste a simple piece of Javascript within your HTML forms.

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.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Cebase -- The web-powered database that makes it easy to track your data and share it with others.

When it comes to entering data, nothing beats the freeform style of those little rows and columns. But when it comes to passing that data around for approval and updates, things get bad fast.

That's why they developed Cebase. It has all of the ease of using a spreadsheet, all of the power of a high-end database application, and none of the complexity.

Create Applications

Create powerful database applications with a few clicks of your mouse. No technical skills required!

Explore Your Data
Slice, dice and analyze your data and then display it any way you want to. No technical skills required!

Share Your Data
This powerful collaborative tool makes it easy to share data with anyone, anywhere, any time.

Design Forms
Quickly and easily build powerful and attractive data entry forms using the built-in WYSIWYG form designer. No technical skills required!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

next generation of online collaboration technology.

Octopz is the next generation of online collaboration technology. With an extensive set of easy-to-use markup tools, fully integrated support for text messaging, VoIP and webcams.

Octopz enables team members anywhere in the world to work together securely, either in real time or asynchronously, marking up a wide range of document types. Teams can then save their work for easy retrieval, review and critical feedback. The result is accelerated decision making and speed-to-market — a significant competitive edge.

Friday, April 13, 2007

The new 100 most useful sites of the 21st Century.

In 2004, the internet was a different place: there was, for example, no YouTube, and most Britons online didn't have broadband. That's changed dramatically: now, more than 75% of users have broadband, and the arrival of Web 2.0 has brought sites where the interaction is as fast as if it were on your machine. So we've revisited the "cream of the crop" that we brought you two years ago.

Applications

Why have an application to run in your browser? Because for tasks shared between people at different locations, it makes sense to access password-protected sets of work. 37signals offers Backpack (note the domain is backpackit) for simple tasks and the bigger Basecamp for grown-up projects. Tadalist is simpler, being just to-dos (but isn't that what it's about?), while Google's Documents & Spreadsheets requires a Google account (they're free) and doesn't try to compete with Microsoft Office. Wikicalc is a free online spreadsheet, and developing smartly.

softwaregarden.com/wkcalpha

Blogs: reading

There are millions of blogs out there; you need to pick the best. Step forward RSS (aka web feeds) and blog search engines to simplify things. Technorati is occasionally flaky, but generally a reliable indicator of what's being blogged about. Icerocket runs it close. And you'll need an online aggregator to keep abreast of the feeds you're most interested in: Newsgator and Google Reader are good choices. Bloglines is an excellent alternative feed reader.

Blogs: writing

To do it rather than read it, you need a good set of tools. The open-source and free software project Wordpress has risen to prominence, elbowing aside many rivals with its blog creation, management and (importantly) spam-beating tools. Wordpress.org is the free software; wordpress.com offers paid-for, managed versions of the free package. Blogger is the best of the rest; Vox is neat, easy and free, and plugs into lots of social applications. Statcounter counts, well, statistics for your site; the free Google Analytics (if you can get an account) is good too.

Email

Google's Gmail has become the web-based email system of choice for those who can get access. Its main drawback is that it's still an invitation-only system in the UK. However, Yahoo's free email service is a decent competitor, and Microsoft has Live Mail. Unlike Microsoft's old Hotmail service, none will delete all your old emails if you fail to log on every 30 days. Among the dozens of free alternatives, Bluebottle is a decent option for its focus on spam filtering. The free version offers 250MB of storage and supports the POP3 and SMTP standards, so you can use a proper email program as well as web access. There's also TempInbox, which provides free, temporary, throwaway email accounts with no registration.

tempinbox.com/english

Gaming

There are far too many videogame news sites on the internet today; you need an aggregator like Gametab to filter through to the best. Pocketgamer specialises in handheld games, while Gamasutra is absolutely unmissable. Gamesfaqs has FAQs and walkthroughs (plus cheats, reviews and previews) for loads of games. And the ESRB lets you search by age rating.

esrb.org/ratings/index.jsp

Maps

Maps matter, but once you're past Google's maps and satellite detail, everyone's thrown back on the Ordnance Survey's data, which means there's little to choose between them. Ordnance Survey has improved its site, and can at least now tell you which map to buy for an area; its placename search is nifty. Meanwhile, the New Popular Edition site shows how the country looked in the 1940s. Delightful.

News: mainstream

The BBC marches on, adding more media forms while also letting users add their comments. The New York Times site is vast (though it has shut off some of its content behind a "paywall"). Both sites' (short) RSS feeds can be read on a mobile at bbcriver.com and nytimesriver.com. Google News extends its reach, though the top headline is still whichever site last updated rather than the one which is most accurate. Nowpublic is a US rival to OhMyNews and claims 52,000 (and counting) "mojos" - amateur journalists with mobile phones whose location can be figured out from GPS or phone triangulation.

News: recommendation

One thing that Web 2.0 is really good at is letting lots of people vote on things. It can be (and is) abused, but generally the system works. That's seen the rise of sites which let people vote stories up, or which news stories (and how) bloggers are talking about (at memoerandum).The biggest is Digg, which overtook Slashdot earlier this year. Reddit was recently bought by Wired magazine. Findory is slightly different, learning what you like the more you use it.

Offbeat

Snopes checks out unbelievable tales, scams and urban legends and debunks (or confirms) them. Slightly less useful is the 100-strong webring of Unusual Museums of the Internet. These include the Virtual Toilet Paper Museum, the Old Calculators Web Museum and Signalfan's museum of traffic control signals. You can find links to lots of other offbeat sites via the Weird Site's Other Weird Links page. The Onion is the web's leading satire magazine, though with an American bias. Otherwise, for five minutes of fun, try browsing B3ta. This UK site sends out a weekly newsletter of cool links and runs a message board where people post amusingly manipulated pictures. But be warned: it's often offensive - that's part of the point - and most definitely rated NSFW (Not Safe For Work).

Politics

The MySociety team remains unbeatable for turning Hansard inside out with Theyworkforyou and Publicwhip, but bloggers have begun to expose the unwritten workings of politicians to greater public scrutiny too. Guido Fawkes' blog has the inside gossip from Westminster, while NO2ID agitates on arguably the most important political and technological issue around, while NHS 23 is a wiki outlining the problems with the political, technological and medical drama of the NHS computer- isation programme.

theyworkforyou.com

publicwhip.org.uk

5thnovember.blogspot.com

no2id.net

editthis.info/nhs_it_info

Public action

Now, it's time to bug someone in power. The idea that the web can make a difference is growing; politicians are on the web and there's an online petition site at No.10. Pledgebank and HearfromyourMP are both part of the excellent MySociety (mysociety.org) family of sites enabling citizens to connect to decision-makers - and, one would hope, vice versa. Netaction includes The Virtual Activist, a manual for anyone looking to build and promote a cause online. Those interested in helping out in their area might try Timebank, which finds organisations to which to donate spare time.

Radio

Radio now travels over wires, at least to our homes. The BBC dominates here, but there are thousands of stations to choose from. AOL's Shoutcast is interesting: find whatever's on right now (you can tune in via iTunes or any internet radio-enabled player.) Radio-locator and Live-radio list broadcasters worldwide, so you can find something new to listen to. Reciva does the same, but if you buy its internet radio you can add your own favourites online and they show on the gadget; or just listen online.

Recommendation: music

Another new category: being able to find stuff that's similar to music you like is increasingly important, both to listeners and to record companies trying to profit from niches. Last.fm requires an application that runs on your machine, and shows what other people with the same music like. Pandora says you need a US postcode; so give it one, then enjoy its expert-chosen stations. Liveplasma can search relationships in films as well as music. Tuneglue is a relatively new venture between last.fm and EMI, using data from Amazon and last.fm. Goombah requires a small download and only works on music in an iTunes library, but has been at it for some time.

last.fm

pandora.com

liveplasma.com

audiomap.tuneglue.net

goombah.com

Reference

Wikipedia now dominates the reference side of the web, partly because its pages are ranked so highly in Google. User-written, it's not always reliable, but is usually a good place to start. It competes with the Encyclopedia Britannica, which isn't free. However, another traditional alternative is the HighBeam Encyclopedia, which searches more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. Otherwise Jim Martindale's Reference Desk, started in 1994, provides an astonishing collection of links to reference sources. For words, try Onelook, which indexes more than 7.5m words in 931 dictionaries. It also has a reverse lookup to find words from their meanings. Finally, Teldir (on the infobel site) has links to the world's online phone books.

Science

Alphagalileo gives a view of public-facing science in Europe and is a counterpart to eurekalert, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's press announcements forum. Space.com remains fascinating for all things spacey. Nasa contains a wealth of information. The growing importance of climate change makes the RealClimate blog written by climate change scientists important.

Search

Google continues to tighten its grip on our hunt for information (it now gets half of all searches) but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. Search can now encompass your hard drive, blogs (a separate category - see above), images, peer-to-peer and even what used to be out there. Blinkx remains unique with its focus on video, while Ask (now without Jeeves) has made great strides recently, though it only gets a tiny portion of searches.

Social software

The browser has grown up: now it's the path to meeting people of similar interests and creating your own personal space online in a shared area. Social networks have become a cliche, but that hasn't stopped MySpace becoming the biggest site online. Bebo is popular, Habbo is more tuned to the kids, while Friendster and LinkedIn will appeal to the older user.

Video

The crowds are all over at YouTube, the poster child of online video (a category too niche to merit mention two years ago; YouTube was founded in February 2005). But it's not the only place to find video. Revver offers a revenue-sharing system (people pay to watch your video, you get some cash). You can also start your own TV station at brightcove and currenttv. And Videojug has demonstrations of how to do lots of possibly useful tasks.

Virtual worlds

The key distinction from social sites like MySpace is that virtual worlds give you an avatar - your representation of yourself in the online world. The advent of broadband allied to faster machines has made them usable. When the BBC held a concert in Second Life, it seemed like an anomaly; then IBM's chief executive got an avatar, and suddenly everyone's there. Habbo Hotel is booming with teens. World of Warcraft has millions of users; Everquest, its own culture. Or you can play the Sims online. Whether an influx of new users will make these worlds more antisocial remains open.

eqplayers.station.sony.com/index.vm

Zeitgeist

It's what everyone's talking about. Some of these sites appear above because they're the places to go to find out whatthe webworld is thinking. Watch them whizz by, but don't forget to breathe. YouTube is the moving picture of the web; Flickr the static one. Google Trends shows what the world's looking for; Digg, what it's found. And Technorati shows what it's writing about. youtube.com flickr.com google.com/trends digg.com technorati.com

Readers' suggestions

VideoJug (videojug.com). Videos on how to do everyday stuff such as tying a tie etc. (HiddenAway)

Slideshare (slideshare.net) . For sharing presentations;

Best Tech Videos (bestechvideos.com). Very techie tutorial videos;

TechXtra (techxtra.ac.uk). Has a long enough 'tail' to answer real queries. (RoddyM)

Online apps and desktops: Zoho (zoho.com);

Cosmopod (cosmopod.com);

eyeOS (eyeos.org).

Online video editing: jumpcut.com. (hakluytbean)

Reevoo (reevoo.com) is a very handy site for people looking for honest feedback on products, as it only publishes reviews known to come from customers. (TechMonkey)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A custom made web 2.0 home page solution.

Netvibes.com is a custom made web 2.0 home page solution

This service is free and gives the user the ability :

to create a personalized page with the content they like.
to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 with a very simple interface
to access your page anytime and from any computer .

It is also possible to :

browse, modify, and import your RSS feeds with our integrated RSS/ATOM feedreader. You can easily import an OPML file as well.
to import, download and listen podcasts without any additional software
to check your mail on one or many gmail account, to stick webnotes, weather and many more to come !

Netvibes is already available in French and English, a spanish, german and Chinese versions are on their way.

This service is still beta, and They are look toward your suggestions, ideas to keep this service better.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Your Place Online

etribes is used by thousands of people like you who want a simple, secure personal website.A secure place that only you can access from any PC. Use it to store, backup and manage your photos, videos and docs, as well as your favourite web links.An easy-to-use and professional looking personal website where you can share your photos, videos & news (blog) securely with friends & family.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Tracks the most popular sites that you visit.

REKO is a Firefox add-on which tracks the most popular sites that you visit and uses this information to find similar users who will have relevant links for you.

The Firefox add-on sends REKO the domain names of the sites you visit. It then adds these to your profile and compares them with other users to find people with similar browsing habits. These users are your neighbours, you can view their profiles to see what other sites they are visiting.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

World's first website integrates browsing into a BROWSER-BASED PLATFORM.

ZCubes^TMis the world's first website that seamlessly integrates browsing, searching, editing, painting, freehand drawing, cursive hand-writing, audio-video media management, publishing, and much more into a pure BROWSER-BASED PLATFORM.

ZCubes is your web Kaleidoscope that handles over 30 file-formats. Work, play, research, create, think, browse, organize, and have fun with ZCubes. Loaded with an incredible 300+ features, your creativity may be your only limitation!.

Welcome to Web 3.0. Experience no bounds. Express without limits. Unconstrain your imagination. You are truly at the center of the internet.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Your town, Your News, Your Take.

Topix is the world’s largest community news website. You can read, talk about -- and even edit -- the news on over 360,000 of our news pages. Whatever your interests are, we have a news page for you!

Topix is also a place for you to post your own news stories, as well as comment about stories you've seen on the Topix site. Each story and every Topix page comes with the ability to add your voice to the conversation.

Here are just a few of the types of news pages on Topix:

* All US cities and towns
* Publicly traded companies
* Sports and Professional Athletes
* Celebrities
* Industry news
* Health and Drug

Sunday, April 1, 2007

One World, Many Answers.

Quibblo is also about people who are similar to you and about people who are totally different. It is about friends and strangers and content and knowledge. It is a place for you to create and interact with quizzes, polls, surveys and content around the topics that are of interest to you. Test your trivia knowledge, survey your fellow web surfers for their opinions or quiz your friends to see how well they really know you.

With Quibblo you can:
Create a quiz, poll or survey on any topic that you choose.
Browse through an ever expanding world of content and take a quizzes, polls and surveys created by other members.
Review quiz, poll, and survey results to see how different segments of people responded.
Rate and comment on quizzes, polls and surveys.
Add quizzes, polls, and surveys to your website or social network profile.
Display quiz, poll, and survey results on your website or social network profile.
Find and connect with other people like you or different people.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

ilaaka.com wants to become yahoo of India.

ilaaka.com is an Indian city portal. It is a portal committed to helping Indians have a better real-life experience in the city they live in.

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ilaaka.com provides all the tools you need for remaining networked within your city. Right from maps, people, news, services to events, discount offers and club meets, our aim is to cover the entire gamut of activities needed for you to feel at home in your city.
We hope that this endeavour will bring like-minded Indians together and make India a more vibrant and fun place to live in.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

New CSS gallery launched.

CSS Flavor is a website focused on providing its audience with a vide range database of well designed CSS based & standard compliant websites from around the world.

Its purpose is to showcase designers’ work so that other designers can inspire.

If you are “looking for inspiration”, you are at the right place.

Why CSS Showcase?

With CSS showcases, individual web developers and companies those want to have a presence on the internet and have the ability to analyze the latest designs done in CSS by others.

CSS Flavor welcomes thousands of visitors daily who want to discover and are inspired by the work others have done. Being showcased is a great recognition and visibility for any web designer or developer, but at the same times its importance for companies/organizations that want to have web visibility by showcasing their work.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

A directory of web 2.0 applications and services

go2web20 is :
* A directory of web 2.0 applications and services
* Born around mid 2006
* 922 logos as of Thursday, March 01, 2007
* As a visitor, you are probably active in the web 2.0 community and you are one of those labeled ad 'early adapters'. Are you?
* Thousands of visitors every day
* There's a higher chance that you've been here before than that this is your 1st visit here
* Converges both Flash and AJAX technologies

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Exploring your online potential

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:

* Tyco
* ADT Home Security
* Maersk
* EarthLink
* AOL
* Sun Sports (Sunshine Network)

ZUNGU can revolutionize your business, beat your competitors and realize incredible returns on your marketing dollars by offering the following services:

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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

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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?

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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.