Atomeet Lets You Organize Parties & Events Easily
Posted: November 30, 2008 Filed under: internet, web tools Leave a comment
I love going to parties! Do you? The Christmas festive season is heating up and it would be nice to hold a Christmas party, invite your friends and have fun together!
A new start-up called Atomeet, this useful and free Web tool helps you organize parties and events quickly and easily as there’s not much time left to Christmas. Why I say this service is useful is that you need not to send mass invitation emails to your friends, finding out who’s coming and not coming to your party. Atomeet makes your life easier by allowing people to confirm their presence themselves.
To organize a party or event, simply fill up the form provided with the title, date and location. Next, confirm your email by inputing your email address into the textfield. Start inviting your friends by composing your invitation message, select your friends from your address book in your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo Mail account. Confirm and wait for your friends to reply by clciking directly in the email: yes, no or maybe.
In your dashboard, you can quickly see how many guests are invited and who will be present. Make use of the wall to discuss the organization, location or any other important matters.
Atomeet was launched in Sep 2008 and is currently in beta. The team includes Hugues Jupin, Romain Thiberville and Chris James.
A Microblogging Concept Of Shout’Em: "Ning For Twitters"
Posted: November 30, 2008 Filed under: internet, web tools Leave a comment
Shout’Em is a microblogging social networking platform which enables users to create and manage a micorblogging community that works similar to Twitter, Pownce, Ning and Jaiku.
According to the folks at Shout’Em:”We belive that microblogging concept is more suitable for small comunities looking for simple service to comunicate than existing social networks with tons of features. To our customers Shout’Em enables taking care only of the fun part. Naming, colors, design, promotion etc… We take care of all other technical details and provide scalable and reliable software. We like to call this concept “Ning for Twitters”.”
Creating a microblogging community using Shout’Em is fast and simple. Sign up for an account with Shout’Em, type in the name, title, URL, description and language of your network. Your social networking platform is up and you can sharing your URL with your friends.
Similar to Twitter, it allows only up to 140 characters per message. I personally love this service is because it not only provides you tons of features and themes, you can even customize your own background for your community.
If you want to have your personal domain instead of using the default Shout’Em URL, you can sign up for the premium service. More features include embedding your ads, more bandwidth and storage, unlimited number of followers, mobile browser support and other customization by customer request.
Shout’Em provides an excellent service and maybe one day, it will beat its fellow competitors in terms of number of users. Not so fast, most probably it will take a few years.
No Deeper Price Cuts At Apple’s Black Friday Sales
Posted: November 30, 2008 Filed under: internet Leave a comment
Apple’s Black Friday sales attracted a huge number of Apple fans, trying to make use of the Black Friday event to buy Apple accessories, Mac and iPods at cheap bargains. However, the Californian-based tech company is not as friendly as compared to other U.S. retailers.
Most of the Apple products has price cuts of around 5 to 10 percent, lower than several analysts’ estimations. For example, a 13-inch Macbook was priced at $1,200, a discount of only $100 whereas the iPod Touch was offered for $378, a discount of $21. Unfortunately, the widely popular iPhone was not on the shelves.
For headphones, users can get $52 off Monster Beats by Dr. Dre Headphone and $16 off each of the following: Sennheiser PMX 80 Sport II Headphones, Sennheiser MX 85 Sport II Earphones, and Sennheiser OMX 80 Sport II Earphones.
UBS analyst Maynard Um said in a research note that Apple’s discounts could have some limited impact.
“We believe Black Friday One-Day discounts should help stimulate some demand, though we would think less than last year given the tougher economic environment,” Um said.
According to ShopperTrak, the U.S. Black Friday sales rises 3% to $10.6 billion from a year earlier, the smallest gain for a Black Friday in three years.
“So far, so good,” said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners LLC, a retail consulting firm based in New Canaan, Connecticut. “But a decent Black Friday figure doesn’t predict the whole season. The question is, how much momentum we can keep” in this “challenging” economic environment, Johnson said.
PostRank – Tell Which Of Your Posts Are More Popular
Posted: November 29, 2008 Filed under: internet, web tools Leave a comment
Some online tools just tells you which are your favorite articles in your blog by tracking how many times a particular page is being visited and rank them according to the number of pageviews.
Today, I would like to introduce you a Web-based tool called PostRank which tells you which posts in your feeds are popular by scoring them on a scale of 1 to 10 based on the number of pageviews, comments, bookmarks saved on Del.ico.us, diggs, tweets mentioning the items, Google trackbacks, etc.
By punching in your feed URL, PostRank collects your feeds, prioritize and filters them to reduce the quantity of items a reader is presented. By default, the results shown are ranked according to your recents posts.
You can even download the PostRank Firefox extension which enables you to easily customize your RSS, discover top posts, preview PostRank score and easily mange and update your subscriptions.
Founded in 2007, PostRank is developed by AideRSS and based Waterloo, Canada. PostRank filtering process is indeed a great way to measure social engagement online.
Create RSS Feed Subscription Buttons With iFeedReaders
Posted: November 29, 2008 Filed under: internet, web tools Leave a comment
Want to create RSS feed subscription buttons just like what you see on my sidebar? Using these tiny buttons can significantly boost your feed readers count as whenever a visitor reads your articles and see those icons, they will tend to click on them. Also, you won’t want your potential RSS readers to go through your feed page to subscribe to your RSS feed.
The iFeedReaders chicklet creator enables you to create RSS feed subscription buttons in just a few simple steps. First, choose your buttons and the popular ones includes Google reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines, newsgator My MSN and many more!
Next pick which code type you want. The default version is mainly for basic users. The dropdown menu creates a cool dropdown menu which helps you save some space on your blog. If you want to install this widget directly into your blog, you can try the blog specific option.
Continue the remaining steps and click on ‘Create buttons’. Follow the instructions and you’re done.
Besides the chicklet creator, iFeedReades also provides other cool tools such as the iFeedReaders button, social bookmark link creator and bookmarklets.
PDFHammer – Online PDF Editor
Posted: November 29, 2008 Filed under: internet, web tools Leave a comment
Do you want to edit your PDF documents for free and right from your browser? Well, PDFHammer can help you. Using the nitro PDF software, PDFHammer lets you edit your files online quickly and easily, with no installtion needed.
After uploading your PDF documents to PDFHammer, you can start editing your stuff using many cool features and export your final PDF back to your computer. Using the Web-based PDF editor, you can merge PDF files together, rearrange, reorder, delete pages, lock your PDF files with password-based security, add and edit document information (metadata) fields, including author, subject, title and keywords.
Other Web-based PDF Editors:
– PDFescape: enables you to create, edit, convert PDF files right from your browser
– TouchPDF: allows you to edit, split and re-order PDF files
Follow Everything Expert On Twitter
Posted: November 27, 2008 Filed under: everything expert Leave a comment
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FreeTextSend – Send Free Texts To USA & Other Countries For FREE
Posted: November 27, 2008 Filed under: internet, website review Leave a comment
Send free text messages to friends and family in USA and many other countires for free using FreeTextSend. It has a three easy step procedure, and has an awesome layout, I am sort of a text addict and have had no problems with this website.
Visit www.FreeTextSend.com
Get Huge Bargains At Apple’s Black Friday Online Sale
Posted: November 27, 2008 Filed under: internet, technology Leave a comment
With the recent global financial meltdown, most companies are facing a tight consumer spending environment and Apple is not an exception. Folks at Apple are putting up Apple products on sale online on this year’s Black Friday, a day after Thanksgiving.
It is known that the Californian tech company will offer discounts of up to 15 percent for the online and brick-and-mortars stores and only for one day.
Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu said in a research note that he expects Apple’s Black Friday promotions to be “a little more aggressive than usual.”
“Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only Christmas shopping event,” reads the teaser on Apple’s site. “You’ll find dozens of great iPod, iPhone and Mac gift ideas, all with free delivery.”
Nokia To Stop Selling Mobile Phones In Japan
Posted: November 27, 2008 Filed under: technology Leave a comment
The world’s largest handset maker – Nokia, will stop selling cellphones in Japan except for its high-end brand Vertu due to its small presence of only 1% in the Japanese market. The 1% market share seems pathetic as compared to the Finnish mobile maker’s 40% global share.
The main reason why Nokia phones fail to boost mobile sales in Japan is that phones made by Nokia doesn’t have many cool features unlike the high-performance local-made devices.
“We have judged that we cannot continue to invest in product development just for Japan amid the current tough economic conditions,” Nokia executive vice president Timo Ihamuotila said in a statement.
According to Gartner, huge cellphone makers such as Nokia and Samsung Mobile would expect slow cellphone sales growth next year due to economic woes.
“In the last few weeks, the global economic slowdown, combined with unprecedented currency volatility, has resulted in a sharp pull back in global consumer spending,” Nokia said in a statement.
Cellphone sales in Japan fell 28 percent from a year earlier and were flat from the second quarter, and sales in Western Europe also were down, from 47.2 million to 43.5 million. On the other hand, cellphone makers have seen sales rising in emerging markets such as China and India with great thanks to first-time phone users.
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