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Google to Reveal Fastest Growing 100 Search Terms Daily 2007-05-22 04:39:21 Google Inc. introduced a feature that tracks the 100 fastest-gaining U.S. Web queries, an effort by the most-popular search engine to give a snapshot of what Internet users are looking for. Google Hot Trends provides a list of the search terms, updated several times a day, the company said in an e-mailed statement. Users will also be able to see old lists going back to May 15.
The feature is part of Google Trends, a Web site released last year that can chart and compare the popularity of search terms over time. Customers will be able to see news stories, Web log postings and search results for each query on the lists. Before today, Google had released a manually compiled weekly list of the hottest search terms called the Google Zeitgeist.
Source: Bloomberg Read more:Google
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Compete Rankings: New in Firefox Toolbar 2007-05-20 17:02:02 If you use the “Search Status” add-on for Firefox
, you may have noticed recently that the developer has added a new web ranking site to the toolbar. Compete
.com rankings have been added to the toolbar to offer a more diverse and broad ranking system to give a more precise picture of a site’s traffic. Compete ranks websites much like Alexa and gives reports on estimated traffic a site gets. They monitor what sites users of their toolbar are visiting and then estimate based on various methods to determine the amount a traffic a site receives.
If you do not use the toolbar you can still visit their site and get traffic reports on several sites at a time for free. They claim that thier statistics are much more precise than those of Comscore and Hitwise, but yet they give out all their reports for free. (example screenshot below)
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Interview with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales 2007-05-18 15:25:39 This interview with Wikipedia
founder Jimmy Wales
is one of the better ones I have seen come from Wallstrip. The guy is actually pretty funny. Video: 3 mins.
Jimmy Wales on Wallstrip says that making Wikipedia a non-profit was either the smartest thing he’s done or the dumbest and admits that if it were a for profit business it would be “worth billions”.
Source: AVC
Turn Any PC into a Web Host 2007-05-17 01:16:15 Purplenova.com is offering an app for download that allows anyone that owns a computer that is connected to the internet to host files. By making content web-accessible directly from where it resides, Purplenova 3.0 provides an alternative to hosting with Hosting Services, ISPs or Blog sites. Purplenova makes this possible by providing users with a static IP address, generally individual PC’s have a dynamic address meaning that it changes each time it connects to the internet therefore making it impossible to host files. Here are a few of the features they offer.
Securely Communicate, Share or Publish Files – Simply designate the files with a mouse click and send URLs to the readers. No matter how large the file, they can stream it off your computer through any browser. You can publish the URLs on Blogs and Forums too.
Host Web-sites and Web Services – Use standard Web Servers such as IIS and Apache to host from your computer, and make your web sites / web services globally Read more:Web Host
How to Finally Ditch Internet Explorer 6 2007-05-16 00:54:44 Ok guys, we have noticed that many of you are still using InternetExplorer
6. Our site will function in IE 6, but it does not look its best nor do the majority of sites out there. A lot of people all over the internet have put a lot of time into making your browsing experience a visual joy. So please do yourself a favor and either get the new Internet Explorer
7 or use our affiliate link below (the Firefox Icon) to download Firefox. If you have not heard of Firefox it is (in my opinion) the best browser out there for a plethora of reasons, but mainly because of its versatility and ability to render pages so beautifully. Not to mention that it is completely FREE.
Firefox also offers a ton of add ons for your browser, I am currently able to go down to the status bar and completely control itunes, see how many of you Techies are on Teching Me Out, the current Page Rank and Alexa rank, my email in box, and the current weather just to name a few. So please I’m begging you if you d Read more:Finally
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint 2007-05-15 23:30:55 Zerofootprint.net is a go green site dedicated to lowering the carbon footprint of individuals all over the world. They offer a wide range of ways to help visitors to implement their goals for going green. But what we found the most interesting was the “Zerofootprint Carbon
Calculator“, which is a cool tool in determining how many tonnes of carbon you produce each year. Caution: staggering results! They offer statistics that derive from questions you answer from your recent flights, what model of car you have and how far you drive a year, and your monthly bill for heat, electricity, etc.. Chief Executive of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo said, ” This is serious software, serious quantitative methods and social networking technology brought to the green world … and this is a tool that can potentially enable a really massive carbon footprint reduction.”
Note: They do collect anonymous data for analysis by climate change scientists and others. (Below is a screen Read more:Footprint
Word Press 2.2 Offically Released 2007-05-15 21:49:25 If you are a user of Word Press
disregard this entry as I’m sure you already know, it is posted in the dashboard. But for those of you who do not know Word Press 2.2 has been released just over an hour ago. The new version (2.2) will be called “Getz” apparently named in honor of a tenor saxophonist named Stan Getz. The official Word Press site claims to have fixed over 244 bugs and added a handful of new features sure to make bloggers happy. Here are a few highlights.
WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
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Voki: Free Version of Sitepal 2007-05-15 14:19:26 Just released last week Voki is the free version of the corporate offering from Sitepal, both created by their parent company Oddcast. What is it? Voki and Sitpal alike are animated avatars that simulate artificial intelligence by following your mouse around the page and speaking pre-recorded clips of audio. Sitepal was originally designed for businesses that wished convey information to site visitors in a new high tech way. They can be used for customer service or just a quick welcome to a new visitor. But their one drawback was that were not free. Remember internet users don’t like to pay for anything!
To resolve this issue Sitepals parent company released a free version called Voki. Its purpose is to allow users of blogs, myspace or a variety of other social networking sites to embed a customized avatar on their page.
The avatars are highly customizable with the ability to change skin tone, hair color, clothes, eyes and basically every other feature from the chest up.
Free Site Monitoring by: Mon.itor.us 2007-05-15 00:23:32 Mon.itor.us is a highly acclaimed website monitor offering services such as: server performace, availabilty, track page views and visitors, memory and general system resources, CPU, and produces uptime reports. Now usually when you see offers like this there is usually a downside, well not really with one. The UI is very good looking and easy to navigate. And the site even checks and updates 5,095,296 times per day. They are also on the verge of launching some new features that are sure to gain some attention.
Customizable embeddable public widgets to publish user monitoring metrics in any web page. We will provide a wizard for generating HTML code snippets, which user may include for example in his/her home page. In contrast to mon.itor.us current Google, Mac, Netvibes, Yahoo snapshot widgets, it has more customization options (e.g. selection of sites to be included, different monitoring metrics) and it won’t require sing-up. Many of our users were requesting that feature during o
Zoolit: Combine Social Network Profiles 2007-05-28 19:12:56 With all the new Social
Networking websites popping up daily being able to confine all of your profiles in to one space is a necessity. Zoolit offers you a landing page with just your basic information, but allows you add links to all of your Networking profiles from all over the internet. All you do is sign up for a free account and start listing links to all of your spaces, then on each of your various pages you can put a link to your Zoolit homepage and allow your friends in one place to become your friends in all of your places. This a is a must have in this Social Networking forest we have today.
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Turn Pictures to Games: Pictogame.com 2007-05-26 02:11:48 Here is a cool new product by Pictogame that is completely free for you to embed in your blog or social network site. You can upload a picture to their server and they turn it into a cool little flash game for visitors to play with while they check your pictures. This one doesn’t need much more of an explanation than that. Check out the example below.
Put this game on your blog Create your own More games
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Windows vs. Mac + Parallels and VirtueDesktop 2007-06-03 19:46:12 I have been looking for a laptop as of late and the decision between Windows
and Mac just keeps getting harder and harder. I keeping going back and forth as I see pluses and minuses for each, but as I watched this video today it kinda sealed the deal. Mac! Watch for yourself and tell me you wouldn’t choose the same.
Although this video and Virtue Desktop has become dated as Leopard will carry these features, it still shows the versatility and endless possibilities an Apple machine offers. Read more:Parallels
How to Convert Templates to Word Press 2007-06-03 14:07:23 Do you have a working knowledge of HTML and CSS, but haven’t had time to catch up to PHP? Do you want to design a custom Wordpress theme but the PHP is holding you back? If you answered yes, then ThemesPress
is for you. This site helps you convert your HTML and CSS into a Wordpress theme without knowing PHP at all. The membership is $10, but you can sign up for a free 90 day trial.
With ThemesPress, you can create your own WordPress theme in a four simple steps:
Upload the images your design uses
Copy the HTML and CSS of your design into ThemesPress
Replace parts of your HTML with a few short tags
Set your presentation settings and preferences using our simple menus - and you are done.
Preview your design, edit it as much as you want, and if you like it, purchase it and download it.
If this still sounds too complicated they offer a “pro” to convert your template for you. Read more:Convert
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siteMighty: Make Money online through Affliates 2007-06-02 12:13:27 Site Mighty is yet another way to make money online
, within the affiliate market. In case you are not sure Affiliate Marketing is a form of online commerce where you get compensated for directing buyers to a distributors products and for a successful purchase. What Site Mighty does is make is feasible for common people to put together a website full of merchandise and try to sell the products for commission, site mighty takes out the between work for a small cut. They allow someone with no technical ability to create an affiliate marketing Web site. By removing this barrier, siteMighty is enabling just about anyone to become an affiliate. Making a large amount of money through this method is not very attainable, but if you already have a large audience you may be able to make a few bucks.
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Myspace Layouts: Simple is Better! 2007-06-07 13:21:00 A recent front page story on Digg by Mashable about better Myspace Layouts
inspired me to share with you my feelings and experiences on the subject of myspace design. First off back in 2004 when myspace began to gain momentum everyone and their brother was wondering why I had not yet joined, well to say the least I hated it and swore it off forever. I opted for Facebook instead as I was in college and the majority of my friends were there, plus I liked the clean design and more professional atmosphere. Well to help reinforce myspace’s world domination I joined two years later as almost everyone else I knew had joined, so of course I had to too. Yes they told me to jump off a bridge and I did it. Anyway I was never satisfied with the presentation of the myspace default layout and I would never put blinking banners and countless videos on my page so I just put in a little css to get to the point where it looked ok, but I still wasnt happy with it.
Well yesterday I saw a pos Read more:Simple
Trooker: Video Aggregate 2007-06-07 12:59:04 Trooker comes to us via Stumble Upon and it’s an interesting stumble to say the least. The site is a video aggregate of most of the popular video sites out there. Their service allows searches that scour Myspace, Youtube, Metacafe, Live video and Daily Motion to give you just the video you were looking for. Other than being a search engine for videos that all play on their homepage, they also allow what they call “trooking” which basically equates to live chatting about a video. You can also send single videos or entire sets of videos you find interesting to friends and then follow up with some reviews or random chatter via their instant messaging service.
They also allow embedding of single videos or sets of videos. So if you have 3 or 4 videos you want to put on your myspace page but don’t want to take up the space that youtube does, combine them in trooker and have a cleaner page. (screen shot below)
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AGLOCO Toolbar Now Available 2007-06-06 15:18:07 The very elusive and much delayed Agloco toolbar has been released for download today. Now this is not a mass release to everyone who has become a member, they say that they are making it available to users in the order they signed up. If you are looking for a point of reference I signed up in February and just got the email today.
For those of you not sure what Agloco is, basically what they do is give you money for surfing the internet. They have inked deals with advertisers and other companies to send users there way and get paid for it. All you do is download and install a toolbar on your desktop and go about your business, and they will share the revenue with you.
If you are interested in participating in this here is a link to sign up.
*This is a genuine offer that is suppose to revolutionize the internet with the slogan “Own the Internet.”- We will have to wait and see this one!
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New MacBook Pro’s Announced 2007-06-05 14:30:20
The new MacBook
Pro’s where announced today as expected. So whats new? The highlights are that it will be equipped with Intel’s Santa Rosa chipset (for the first time) and that the 15-inch models will ship with a backlit LED display. The chipset is quite an upgrade as it will bump up the bus speed from 667mhz to 800mhz. Also the LED display will no longer take any warm up time to achieve full colors and it is said to increase battery life up to 1 hour. The pricing ranges from 1,999 to 2,799 depending on features, they are shipping now.
iPhone Training Book: A Look Inside 2007-06-10 14:01:05 Apparently an employee of AT&T leaked a copy of the “iPhone
Sales Training
Workbook” to macrumors.com. Each page of the workbook as been scanned and supplied here. The pages breakdown each feature of the phone and then describes in detail the feature, the description of the feature, and what benefit each feature has. If you absolutely can’t wait for the June 29th release date this may be a quick fix for you or maybe just a teaser, either way it is interesting.
Browse in 3D with Spacetime 2007-06-07 20:13:46 Spacetime is a new browser that allows Vista window switcher like layout while you browse. The program puts all your tabs inside of a single window and lets you switch through them just like Vista does with windows. It has another thing in common with Vista it’s a resource hog! The graphics are cool and its neat to show off, but its lacking in function. You gain nothing but visual appeal and when you are surfing hard for something who’s worried about how pretty it is. (screen shot below)
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Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows 2007-06-11 15:40:51
Web developers rejoice, Safari
is now available for Windows
. Today Apple made Safari 3 available for download on their newly designed site. For many site designers out there it has been quite a pain to develop a website to suit mac users without having a mac yourself. Well today that pain is diminished as it now possible to test your website in almost all browsers from just a Windows machine. For non developers this is also a breakthrough as many Windows users try to convert their computers to a Mac without actually buying a one. Objectdock + Windows Blinds + Itunes + Safari = an almost perfect visual clone of Mac os on Windows. Read more:Public
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My Top 5 Firefox Extensions 2007-06-15 09:38:45 Better Gmail - A comprehensive suite of Gmail enhancements, including skins, saved searches, keyboard macros, secure access, attachment icons, attachment reminders, label colors, signature floating and more.
IE Tab - This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page is displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox
.
Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Including source viewer and Css Style viewer.
Fire FTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SSL encryption, file hashing, and much more!
SearchStatus - Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyzer, ke
Techcrunch Owns “Flicker” Competitor 2007-06-19 14:16:51 In a recent post on Techcruch, site founder Micheal Arrington just unleashes on an unexpecting new start-up.
Apparently someone affiliated (Maura Landry) with the new dead pool member start-up Panraven submitted a story to Techcrunch hoping to get some press. Well things could not have gone worse. The start-up is a Flickr competitor that claims to be killing them, but in the email they spell Flickr as Flicker with an E. Well for some reason Mr. Arrington has issues with adding &ldquo
;e’s&rdquo
; by accident, probably an over site considering the person spelled the word by the dictionary. But in Micheal’s defense it is a corporation and thier name is spelled “Flickr” but come on, why ream the guy for the misspelling. Its the internet people spell almost everything worng;). Techcrunch’s post are not immaculate either so who knows why he freaked on that one.
Then to add to the start-up’s misery the Techcrunch founder heads over to the site to check i
Make Your Own Job Board 2007-06-18 11:00:26 J-Board
is a $30 application for download that allows you to easily implement a job board to your own site using PHP and MYSQL. The board allows you to charge listers a fee to post their listing or you can choose “hippie” mode and allow all postings to appear for free. The service also adds many extra including: easy RSS, Tag Clouds, Widgets, Multiple Language Support and the ability to submit listings to social sites. A demo of the board can be found here.
Fix Stuck Pixels on your LCD 2007-06-18 10:43:55 A stuck pixel is a pixel that has become fixed on one color. Typically it will look red when there is a white background. If it is black when a white background is shown it is known as a Dead pixel and cannot be saved. JScreenFix is a program that will bring stuck pixels back to life and help take away screen burn in. What it does is use rapid fluctuations of color to encourage pixels to spring back to life. This can be a very cost effective alternative to replacing a monitor, considering it is a free program it is definitely worth a try. Read more:Stuck
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Start a Web 2.0 Company in 10 Easy Steps 2007-06-22 19:15:07 Have you ever wanted to start a successful Web 2.0 company? Well these 10 steps just might help you.
10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company via This is going to be BIG! Read more:Start
Business 2.0 Name 50 Who Matter Now 2007-06-22 12:26:48 #1- Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin of Google
Why they matter: According to Business
2.0:
For consumers, Google is one of the world’s most beloved companies. For competitors, its a force to be feared. The task of maintaining that balance of love and fear falls to the triumvirate of Schmidt, Page, and Brin. The trio has steered Google past $10 billion in revenue with nary a financial hiccup - and wit profit still growing an average of 40 percent every quarter, they’ve more that earned their place at the top of this list. But what makes Schmidt, Page and Brin really matter is the fact that they seem determined to disrupt every digital business in existence, from software to video to telecommunications. When Google eyes a new market, it always tries to change the rules of the game.
Other Notables:
#2 Steve Jobs - Co-founder and CEO, Apple
#13 Jimmy Wales - Founder, Wikipedia
#22 Michael Arrington - Founder, Techcrunch
#34 Mark Zuckerberg - Founder and CEO, Facebo
Hire a Local through-Hireahelper.com 2007-06-21 14:30:39 Hireahelper.com is bringing back local connections to the globalized internet. They offer the ability to search by zip code to find individuals to help you with a particular task. Although their target market is for college students anyone can join. Just register a free account and submit either the task you need completed or the type of work you are able to offer. Once your job or skill has been searched and found you are able to contact the local and negotiate a price and job for hire. Hireahelper also cuts out the akwardness of payment, when you list your job you give the amount you are willing to pay and they become an escrow service. Once the job is complete you give your hired local a authorization code to access the funds and Hireahelper will deposit the funds directly to the worker.
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New Face of Apple Deemed “iLoser” 2007-06-28 15:12:25 A New York highway maintenance worker has found himself as a new internet celebrity as the new face for the forthcoming Apple
iPhone, although he has been named iLoser by many. His claim to fame? He was the first in line at the New York Apple store in hopes of receiving the first iPhone. He set up camp outside the store on Monday June 25th a full 120hrs early! When asked by a reporter &ldquo
;Whats the first thing you are gonna do when you get your iPhone?&rdquo
;, the most clever thing iLoser could come with to say was “uhhh I’m gonna play with it.” If I was Apple it would be a free iPhone for this toolbox just to get him away from my store.
Anyhow since the launch of the iPhone is just over 24hrs away we thought we would share the latest headlines with you. Enjoy.
Apple iPhone Rates
What the iPhone Doesn’t Have
NY Times iPhone Review (video)
Forbes: Why You May Not Want an iPhone
WSJ iPhone Review
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