Archive for June, 2008


30Jun

FeedEgo.com: Feeds For You (and No One Else)

Tired of being social, that is web social? Web 2.0 may be all about what your friends like and networking and feeding off of other people’s tastes, but sometimes it’s just good to be you, to do what you like and not have to worry about friends or family. Feedego takes precisely this sort of [...]

30Jun

MySurfPad.com: The Newest Customizable Start Page

Gone are the days of flipping through pages and pages to get all the information you desire. MySurfPad.com, a new start page tool, takes users’ individual online wants and needs, and conglomerates them all into one customized dashboard. Users tweak their respective Surf Pads to reflect the information they want quick access to, whether it [...]

30Jun

Uptimeinspector.com: Website and Server Monitoring

Uptimeinspector is primarily a website and server monitoring service but they also handle such things as search engine rank monitoring and DNS black list checking for mail servers. The website monitor will check the availability and performance of any given URL and you can choose to have your site monitored at intervals beginning at once [...]

30Jun

TagTicket.com: Never Lose Emails

If you’ve ever worked the office cubicle circuit, you know how paramount email is. It can mean the difference between a big sales job or important meaning. It could be your job or the next guy’s. So losing and email, or not getting cc’d is a big deal. TagTicket is a new web based application [...]

30Jun

Improve AdSense Performance: Step-by-Step Video Guide From The AdSense Team

“I want to improve my AdSense performance, but I don’t know how to get started!” The Google Australian AdSense team has just put together an 11-minute introductory tutorial for anyone who is approaching AdSense optimization for the first time. The video provides some very basic concepts and suggest simple strategic approaches to general AdSense optimization. [...]

28Jun

Create An Online Interactive Multimedia Magazine From Any Document With Calameo

If you want to create a slick, highly visual, interactive magazine to publish and distribute online, Calameo, has recently launched a web-based service that allows one-click conversion of all most popular document formats into highly customizable and very attractive full-screen flip-page magazines. Read more on MasterNewMedia

27Jun

Humyo.com: Lots of Free Storage

Online storage sites are a dime a dozen these days. The majority of them give you a gig or two free of storage and then offer variously priced package plans for more storage, more gigs. But it’s not always cheap, which is why Humyo is a treasure chest as far as online storage sites go. [...]

27Jun

Report: Microsoft to Acquire Powerset Natural Language Search for $100M+

Powerset, the much-hyped natural language search engine has been acquired by Microsoft for north of $100 million according to VentureBeat. The search engine, which presently only lets you search Wikipedia articles, works by allowing users to enter in queries the way they would speak them, for example, searching for “what is the numeric value of [...]

27Jun

Microsoft to Acquire Mobicomp: Watch for These Cool Mobile Features

Microsoft announced that it plans to acquire Portugese mobile application company Mobicomp, makers of some very cool mobile tools that we’re excited to get our hands on. One thing’s for sure, though – the iPhone is not the only mobile game in town. We continue to see things that Windows Mobile phones can do that [...]

27Jun

Want a .anything Domain Name? It Could Happen

Finding a good dotcom domain name (without paying a hefty premium for it) has long been a virtually impossible task, leading otherwise obscure countries to offer up domain extensions like .tv, .to, and .fm. to allow you to register something with some semblance of being a real word. However, the domain registration system is about [...]