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by S.M. Schrama on September 12, 2007
Typos can be very nasty, making you look bad. Therefore most people use spellcheckers on their computers. When people sell stuff on ebay, things get a little bit different. Typos are killing on eBay :...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 13, 2006
Latest addition to the growing list of foodrelated websites is )
So how is it revolutionary ? Simple. When you enter the site, it allows you to choose a number of characteristics of the diet you'r...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 10, 2006
PayPerPost is a terrible site that pays bloggers a fixed fee to write about certain topics or products. Where PayPerPost doesn't require disclosure of this information, newcomer ReviewMe does :
...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 7, 2006
Food seems to be popular these days. Last week I wrote about Yahoo! Food, a Yahoo! site that's all about food, recipes, health advice and is decorated with major cutie Rachel Ray.
Gone Raw is the...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 2, 2006
Vertical searching is hot these days, and several sites opened their doors offering this kind of service. In the travel business, Kinkaa offers this service to it's visitors.
Based in Germany, K...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 24, 2006
If you want to host your images free, you can choose from a lot of different sites to do that. Flickr might be best known, but Zoto is pretty impressive and has a lot of features. Where Flickr is mean...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 23, 2006
Scrybe is a new startup, yet not publicly released, that will become a major threat to the current companies that offer office suites online such as Zoho and Google. Why ? Simple. Where most companies...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 10, 2006
It is very frustrating when you buy something and need some help, little or no help or assistance is available from the website of the manufacturer. And as internetsales grow, I often buy stuff from o...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 12, 2006
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And that last sentence is funny in regard to the terms and conditions of the site :Users cannot convert any winnings into real, tangible monetary benefits. A User's winnings (or losses) are simp...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 31, 2006
Podzinger is YASE, Yet Another Search Engine. Podzinger indexes audio and video podcasts, calling searching 'zinging'.Trying to find podcasts that are of interest to us is reminiscent of the e...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 21, 2006
Thisnext is a startup in the social networking category that launches today. The site is currently in private beta and I was fortunate enough to obtain an account to the site. What is it ?
Our shopca...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 14, 2006
Bix is a site where you record your online karaoke song. Karaoke is horrible. Therefore this is shit. But it is popular shit : You can win 50.000 USD in their comtest.
And that will make them even m...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 20, 2006
Vox is the latest brainchild of Sixapart, home of the famous blogging platform Movable Type and more. Vox is released in preview, resulting in the fact you cannot register for an account, you have to ...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 11, 2006
Koolim is an IM service that compares to eBuddy and Meebo. As Meebo is Superior to eBuddy, Kool IM is a real competitor as it offers the same IM platforms as Meebo does. Advantage of both Meebo and Ko...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 10, 2006
Unthirsty is yet another application that uses google earth. This time it is used to find bars near you that feature a happy hour so you can get rid of your thirst cheap.Unthirsty is the work of a gro...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 10, 2006
The Renewable Planet uses Google earth to map green projects around the world.The Renewable planet is a free and accessible resource that highlights the number and variety of renewable energy projects...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 6, 2006
Wufoo offers the online creation of forms and reports.Wufoo makes it easy. There are no long term contracts, no sign-up fees and no termination fees.Okay, but what can it do ?Available on All Plans
*...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 6, 2006
LinknSurf offers to carry your favorite websites on your mobile. As they use rss technology this is obviously limited to sites that offer rss functionality. Currently MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, MSN ...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 5, 2006
Multiply is an innovative social network that allows you not to shahe only your images, but to share all you've got.
* post digital photos, videos and music
* publish your own blog
* schedule e...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 27, 2006
Blogr is a fairly new blog service that allows you to blog, create image galleries and post video. It was created by Knallgrau, Vienna, Austria. Weblogs are called spaces. If you don't have a log...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 29, 2006
Auctions are not new on the net. They have proven to be succesfull - just think about ebay for example. A new one on the net however is Limbo, where the lowest bid wins:A Salt Lake City woman named So...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 16, 2006
Morfik, an australian web development company that uses AJAX to develop software, has released the Webos Appsbuilder, an application that allows you to develop webapps (webbased applications). The a...
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by bob on March 23, 2006
European start-up company Netvibes announced today it raised funds from several investors, including European Index Ventures, co-founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen, founder of Kelkoo and Wikio, Pier...
