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LiquidID

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-18T17:57:00-08:00

This is an OpenID provider that distributes aliased information (such as email) to OpenID enabled sites instead of your actual information. You still receive all email (but not spam) as LiquidID provides an automatic redirection service. URL: LiquidID.

Startups Send Bat Signal to San Francisco

Emily Chang — 2008-07-18T04:29:01-08:00

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Posterous

Emily Chang — 2008-07-17T07:55:00-08:00

A simple blog - just signup and start emailing anything you want to your blog. URL: Posterous.

Busuu

Emily Chang — 2008-07-17T07:09:00-08:00

An online community for learning languages where our user can improve their language skills by directly having access to native speakers from around the world using our video-chat application and peer-to-peer learning features (e.g. writing reviews etc.). Users can also use picture based learning material covering a wide range of topics. URL: Busuu.

Come2Play

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-17T07:07:00-08:00

An open source application program interface that allows developers to create, enrich, distribute and monetize multiplayer network games, without requiring them to apply any complicated programming techniques. [Beta] URL: Come2Play.

Wisdomap

Matthew Murphy — 2008-07-17T07:04:00-08:00

Wisdomap is like mind mapping on really healthy organic vitamins. In addition to creating traditional bubble or mind maps, Wisdomap lets you bring in photos, text, videos, and even links to downloadable files to support the content of your mind map. Future developments include more flexible editing of map features, the ability to export maps, and more. Both limited free and unlimited premium accounts are available. URL: Wisdomap.

Trazzler

Emily Chang — 2008-07-17T02:49:00-08:00

A travel site that helps you answer the question, "Where should I go?" The site starts by recommending weekend trips close to you. All of the trips are crafted by experts - they don't include poor-quality writing and they don't scrape third-party websites. URL: Trazzler.

Jigsaw

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-16T07:20:01-08:00

A points-based system where members earn points for the contributions to the online business directory databases that they make. They then use those points to acquire data that they need, such as company information and more than 9 million business contacts. URL: Jigsaw.

Alltop

Emily Chang — 2008-07-16T07:06:00-08:00

A content aggregation site or "digital magazine rack" that provides headlines from site and blogs covering a wide range of topics. [Disclosure: Emily Chang is featured on the Twitterati and Frienderati Alltop sections] URL: Alltop.

Govit

Emily Chang — 2008-07-15T07:30:00-08:00

A non-partisan site built by a regular citizen to help you interact with the government and each other. You can find all the legislation, including the Net Neutrality, Climate Change, and FISA Bill. You can vote on legislation, and have your vote sent directly to you reps. Compare your votes to your reps to see if they've earned your vote. URL: Govit.

RecipeGnome

Emily Chang — 2008-07-15T07:01:01-08:00

An online community for recipes. Submit your own recipes or vote/comment on other people's recipes. Only the best recipes make it to the front page. URL: RecipeGnome.

Arkiva

Emily Chang — 2008-07-14T07:20:00-08:00

Store, access, and share any type of digital files in one place. Will also convert any old media such as videotapes, film, photo prints, slides, negatives, record albums, cassettes, or documents to digital DVDs. URL: Arkiva.

Sweetcron

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-14T07:02:01-08:00

A free and open source solution for creating a self-hosted Lifestream, a blog-like site that automatically shows your activity across the various websites you visit. [Alpha] URL: Sweetcron.

Ask500

Emily Chang — 2008-07-11T07:41:00-08:00

A poll service and voting site that helps gather input and opinion data quickly on the web. Has embeddable widgets, geo-location specific polling and other customization options. URL: Ask500.

iPhone App Store

Emily Chang — 2008-07-11T07:13:01-08:00

Apple's new iPhone app store has free and paid applications of all types for iPhone running 2.0 software. URL: iPhone App Store.

IdeaFry

Matthew Murphy — 2008-07-10T14:29:00-08:00

Want a free blog? How about a free blog that can earn you a few bucks? It might be time to try IdeaFry. IdeaFry helps you set up a Wordpress blog in just a few clicks. Unlike Wordpress.com hosted blogs, which are also free, IdeaFry allows you to earn money from Google AdSense. With over 100 templates to choose from and an easy three step setup, IdeaFry just might be on to something. URL: IdeaFry.

Widgenie

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-10T07:01:00-08:00

This data visualizer allows uploads of .csv and excel files, gives you numerous options of visuals to personalize, and makes it easy to publish your widget onto various places on the web, social networks, blogs, websites, iGoogle, etc. The site also allows its users to have a statistics page for their widgets to see how many time their widgets have been viewed, as well as how many of those views are from unique visitors. URL: Widgenie.

The UnTapped Source

Emily Chang — 2008-07-09T07:20:00-08:00

A new online art gallery with a focus on promoting only the best quality art from undiscovered visual artists from around the globe. Artists are added on an ongoing basis and are all pre-screened for quality before inclusion. The site will also be adding free resources for artists in the near future. URL: The UnTapped Source.

Garlicoon

Emily Chang — 2008-07-09T07:05:00-08:00

A new food and wine network. Do you love to cook? Or maybe youre attempting to learn how to, but don't know where to start. Or, maybe you're simply hungry and need inspiration to decide where to eat out. URL: Garlicoon.

Privnote

Emily Chang — 2008-07-09T04:40:01-08:00

Web service that let's you send notes that will self-destruct after being read. URL: Privnote.

MadMimi

Emily Chang — 2008-07-08T07:20:00-08:00

A free, simple and powerful email marketing utility that anyone can use. Makes email marketing easy for the creator and receiver. Uses web-based technology to create branded, well-designed newsletters and promotions. URL: MadMimi.

Konsulted

Emily Chang — 2008-07-08T07:03:00-08:00

A website that aggregates electronic product reviews from credited websites, along with images and videos. It also helps you ask questions directly to people who own the electronic items, and ask your friend circle for their opinion on that item. [Currently accepting alpha signups.] URL: Konsulted.

SwarmShopr

Emily Chang — 2008-07-08T01:24:00-08:00

A website and mobile service that allows consumers to post deals or specials they have found while out and about. These posts are then available to other consumers while they are viewing the site, using their GPS device, or 3G enabled mobile phone. URL: SwarmShopr.

Fluid

Emily Chang — 2008-07-07T03:25:00-08:00

A Mac OS X application creator. You can easily make Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) to run each of your favorite Web Apps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies. URL: Fluid.

Tweetdeck

Emily Chang — 2008-07-06T01:08:00-08:00

An Adobe Air desktop application that enables users to split their Twitter into topics or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. URL: Tweetdeck.

Matt

Emily Chang — 2008-07-06T01:05:00-08:00

Matt is multiple account twitter tweeting. It's a free service that makes it easy to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time. URL: Matt.

Streetfolio

Emily Chang — 2008-07-03T07:22:00-08:00

A property management toolkit to help investors manage their portfolios. It's a safe, secure and easy way to manage your own property or multiple properties. URL: Streetfolio.

Devunity

Emily Chang — 2008-07-02T07:20:01-08:00

Online collaborative development platform that aims to be the first social development platform with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Currently accepting alpha signups. URL: Devunity.

Swurl

Cesar Castro — 2008-07-01T13:30:01-08:00

A place to bring all the things you do online together to share in a blog-like format. It aggregates your online activity into a blog formatted template. URL: Swurl.

PostalMethods

Emily Chang — 2008-06-30T07:11:00-08:00

A convenient web-to-post gateway which makes it easy for businesses to automate the sending of postal mail from their business processes. The service can be used easily from any email program or through a powerful SOAP XML or HTTP POST API. The service makes it effortless to post invoices, send confirmations, or send any other type of message via postal mail. Additionally, letters can easily be generated from any online service or legacy application. No more manual printing, folding, and inserting, sealing, stamping, or hauling. PostalMethods does it all for you. URL: PostalMethods.

Mikogo

Emily Chang — 2008-06-27T07:06:00-08:00

a free online desktop sharing tool with many features for you to host web conferences or online presentations. With Mikogo, users can host smooth-running screen sharing sessions and invite up to 10 participants simultaneously to any one meeting. URL: Mikogo.

reboot10

Emily Chang — 2008-06-26T23:39:01-08:00

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BlitzTime

Matthew Murphy — 2008-06-26T13:00:00-08:00

Make new connections and talk to new people faster than ever with BlitzTime. Their patent-pending combination of internet reach and high-speed conference calling introduces you to new people and allows you to actually talk to them. Set up a free BlitzTime profile, including education, interests, etc., then log in, join an event, or start one of your own. URL: BlitzTime.

Planzone

Emily Chang — 2008-06-26T07:05:01-08:00

Offers online collaboration and project management solution for project teams: project timeline and calendar, to-do lists, milestones, collaborative workspace, wiki, document and file sharing. Users can register for a free trial. URL: Planzone.

Wedding Planning Made Easier

Kim Lau — 2008-06-25T19:01:01-08:00

Weddings can be a stressful time for the bride and groom (mostly the bride), and the entire project can seem overwhelming, especially when trying to balance expectations, ambitions, and limited budgets. Luckily for them, the web is here to help, with many useful tools that engaged couples (and occasionally, their families and friends) can rely on to make the process much smoother. Unluckily for them, the wedding industry is also a minefield of advertising gimmicks, with as many ploys to get couples to spend as much as possible in as little time as possible. I've tried to keep this list focused on less commercial sites, and where necessary, inform if a paid investment is worth the money.

Structure 08

Emily Chang — 2008-06-25T17:00:00-08:00

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iWidgets

Matthew Murphy — 2008-06-25T07:07:00-08:00

Create custom widgets for your website or your brand with iWidget. Using their online wizard, you can easily create widgets that your website visitors or customers can add to their iGoogle start page, Facebook profile, or their own blog. Your widget is customizable by your users so that it fits right in with their design. iWidgets only charges for promotion. Other services are free. URL: iWidgets.

WorldWideScience.org

Matthew Murphy — 2008-06-24T07:04:00-08:00

Search 44 different science portals from different 32 countries. Works to speed access to current science research from many sources and is aimed at both citizens and scientists alike. Users get the most current findings in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic sciences, published by contributing nations. URL: WorldWideScience.org.

MagCloud

Matthew Murphy — 2008-06-23T13:38:00-08:00

Web 2.0 just made it easier to publish your own magazine. With MagCloud, you upload a pdf file and set the subscription price, and the rest is taken care of for you. That means no worrying about printing, mailing, or managing subscriptions. MagCloud is currently in beta. Anyone can create an account to view and purchase magazines. Publishers must apply via the MagCloud website. URL: MagCloud.

EmailtoID

Emily Chang — 2008-06-23T07:10:01-08:00

A simple mapping service that enables the use of email addresses as OpenID identifiers. URL: EmailtoID.