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Melissa Data Launches IP Address Locator Tool

Although most Web browsers can return general IP information to the server so that site owners can target ads, products, etc. towards visitors, these are usually relatively general and non-specific. Melissa Data, based in California, hopes to fix that with their IP Locator Object.

Available as an API or Web service, the tool identifies user’s geographic location down to country, region, city, latitude and longitude, and even ZIP code. It does this without invading privacy, as all of this information is public when parsed.

Several uses for an object like this are ...

StuffBuff – Social Auctions Off the Bay

Startup StuffBuff.com premiered at TechCrunch50 2009 as another eBay alternative, but with a twist. Unlike other online auction sites, StuffBuff is a spoke on your social hub, allowing for viral networking or, as they put it, Viral eCommerce.

That explanation sounds nice, but doesn’t really convey much. It’s hard to explain StuffBuff in a short sentence without sounding too Web 2.0 propagandist. You have to experience it. Lucky for us, StuffBuff just went into private beta on November 11, and we got in ...

Givv.org – Charity Giving Without Any Hassles

There are a lot of non-profits out there and most of them are struggling for economic survival. For those of us who donate to charity, it’s sometimes hard to figure out the best way to do so. Our own finances may not be in a position where a regular monthly donation of a fixed amount (the most common choice) is possible and after a couple of months of one-time giving, we may forget.

Givv.org was started by supporters of Texas Republican Ron Paul as a website to gather donations ...

LocaFollow – Find Twitter-ers in Your Area or Interest

Look ma! A Twitter tool that actually does something useful! I can hear the chorus and relieved sighs as I type this. Like me, I suspect most of you are tired of seeing the waves of useless Twitter and iPhone apps that keep flooding the Web hoping to glob onto the social buzz wagons.

LocaFollow.com is a Twitter search tool that searches profiles to find people by location or interests. You can also search names and tweets for things as well, but the tool is most useful for finding ...

Obama, Twitter, and Chinese Censorship

So President Obama has a Twitter account (@barackobama) that is rivaled in popularity only by Oprah Winfrey’s (@oprah). The breaking story yesterday on TechCrunch and this morning in the Wall Street Journal, however, is that all of those followers on Obama’s Twitter account are being fooled. He’s never used Twitter.

It’s not a conspiracy, folks. He admitted it himself, publicly, and on the record. Instead, the tweets on @barackobama are coming from his Twitter Czar, an unnamed White House press agent. The worst part is that ...

Wedding JoJo – Build a Website for Your Big Day

So you’ve made the commitment and now the preparations for your big day are beginning. The Web is all about finding a niche and excelling in it. Weddings are no exception. Your preparations for your wedding and the Web can work hand-in-hand. More and more couples are going online to set up gift registries, book venues, hire planners, and more.

WeddingJoJo.com caters to those couples who want to build an entire website dedicated to their big event. Why not, right? It’s the 21st century. It’s also convenient, as it ...

Twitter Feed – Publishing Your Blog to Twitter in Real Time

Twitterfeed.com is probably the most well-known and used feed apps for sending site information (mostly blogs) to Twitter. A lot of people use it, including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the White House, and myself. It’s considered the best tool for this job and it recently got even better.

At its most basic, you set up an account at Twitterfeed with your Twitter information, ad your RSS feed (or feeds), and the app will publish your feeds to Twitter automatically, as they’re received. That’s nice, but most blogging software like ...

Musefy – Social Media Networking for Musicians

If you’ve ever wanted to be in a band, then you know that most of the job is walking around looking at poster boards and phone poles looking for a group to audition for. You also know that it involves a lot of stapling those kinds of things up to promote your band or look for a replacement member.

Musefy.com wants to take that part out of the equation so you and your band can concentrate on what matters: drugs and women. I mean music. Ya, music.

The site is ...

Google’s 3D Building Maker

This is another one of those apps that should have a giant warning sign on it when you go to get it: WARNING This app is extremely addicting. Clear your calendar!

It’s the latest experiment from Google. Building Maker’s idea is to create three dimensional buildings from Google Earth aerial/satellite photos, street views, and simple geometric shapes. Sound simple? Ya, right. If you’ve ever played SimCity or a sim(ilar) game, you know that simple doesn’t mean boring. After a couple of hours of building building (ha), you start to realize that ...

See Click Fix – Helping People and Neighborhoods Connect

Back in September, I wrote about Fix My Street and was pretty bummed that such a great idea was only available in the UK. Sure enough, though, free enterprise comes to the rescue with an iPhone app for Americans that is basically the same thing.

SeeClickFix.com is a free app for your mobile (also usable online) that lets you report problems to the proper authorities or the community at large. Of course, it’s for non-emergencies, so don’t go surfing to this instead of calling 911.

Now people out and ...