BEST WEBSITES AND BLOGS

OneLook Dictionary

2009-03-03T04:28:00.000-08:00

Welcome to OneLook® Dictionary Search

Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

What can you do at OneLook.com?

* Define words: Type a word into the search box on the front page to retrieve a list of dictionary web sites that define that word. Be sure "Find definitions" is selected.
* Translate words: Type a word into the search box and select "Find translations" to retrieve a list of dictionary web sites that have translations of that word into other languages.
* Find words: Type a pattern consisting of letters and the wildcards * and ? to retrieve a list of words matching your pattern. The asterisk (*) matches any number of letters or symbols. The question mark (?) matches exactly one letter or symbol.

Pocket Gamer

2008-04-03T00:43:00.000-07:00

Pocket Gamer,is about:
Games you can put in your pocket
Games you can play wherever and whenever you like
Games you can dip into for five minutes (but spend an hour with)
Fun and frantic action
Competing against our friends
No manuals or game degrees needed to make the games work!

AT POCKET GAMER
they love how their phones are always there for them with a quick football match on the bus or a Grand Prix in a doctor's surgery. They love how the GBA can take anything they throw at it and still deliver Tetris at 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, or half a mile below ground in the Channel Tunnel. They love our drop-dead gorgeous PSPs. And they love how the DS has us tapping away with their stylus like demented woodpeckers.

They believe nothing will make games more popular than Pocket Gaming – especially now all the new machines let you play against your friends.

POCKET GAMER'S PROMISE TO

* Bring you honest reviews written by expert gamers
* Cover as many games and handheld formats as humanly possible
* Report on all the news that's worth knowing
* Give you your say, and listen to what you want
* Have a great time!

What's more, join the site and you'll...

* Get a weekly email telling you which games deserve your cash
* Receive free updates on the games you're interested in
* Find a place for your own views, reviews and votes
* Enjoy special offers (including free stuff!)
* Also have a great time!

For more visit: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk//

Sony Online Entertainment

2008-03-20T05:26:00.000-07:00

Sony Online Entertainment supports a growing community of game players and fans through the web. When you sign up, you become part of that active community and can take advantage of all the cool perks that go along with being an official member, some of which include:

* Access to official SOE game Fan Club registration, allowing you to join online communities such as for Star Wars® Galaxies™, PlanetSide™ and EverQuest®. Each has its own community events to participate in, like SWG's developer chats and our EverQuest® II teaser puzzle published in the official EQ Newsletter.
* Registration access for announced beta tests for SOE games.
* The latest news, announcements, and event information for your favorite games from SOE.
* Participation in sweepstakes and promotions occasionally offered.
* Involvement in a community of players and friends who share similar interests.

And there's a lot more to come, so get involved by joining today!. More online games

http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/index.vm

jumpcut

2008-03-03T05:58:00.000-08:00

JUMPCUT - The easiest way to upload, edit, and share your video and photos. FREE.

HOW TO UPLOAD

Directly from your computer or camera
Once you register, you can start making movies right away by uploading your favorite video clips, photos and audio right from your computer or digital camera. Just click on "Upload" in the main navigation bar and choose the files you want to upload.

The uploader will automatically create a movie from the files that you upload. Then you can open up the web-based editor to rearrange the clips and photos, add titles, effects and lots more.

From inside the Editor
You can upload media from inside the Jumpcut Editor. This is an easy way to add media to a movie on the fly. Once you have the Editor open, go to the [+ Add] tab and select [Upload].

By Email (great for mobile)
The site also provides registered users with a personal upload email address. You can send attachments to this email address and the files will be automatically added to your library. You can even give your upload address out to your friends and they can send you stuff.

Import from Flickr Logo
They have provided an easy way for you to import your photos directly from Flickr. Use the link on the "Upload" page.

Import from Facebook Logo
You can also import your photos from Facebook. Use the link on the "Upload" page.

Where do my uploaded files go?
After you upload, your media will be available in your account. Video files will be under "Clips", photos will be under "Photos" and audio files will be under "Audio".

Register now: http://jumpcut.com/

eyeOS

2008-03-03T05:54:00.000-08:00

What is eyeOS?

For users
eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neightboor's house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time.

For developers
eyeOS introduces a new way of developing web applications with the eyeOS Toolkit, a class library to help the application development and a group of functions to interactuate with the system. Forget about HTML, JavaScript, User Management, FileSystem and much more. Introduce yourself at eyeOS Development Team today, eyeOS is Open Source Software!

For more visit: http://eyeos.org/

Reevoo

2008-03-03T05:50:00.000-08:00

Reevoo, an independent company that collect and publish genuine reviews, to help you decide what to buy (and what not to buy).

What makes it a bit different is that their reviews are written by people who have actually bought the product. So there’s no bias, no ‘expert opinion’ and no ulterior motives behind what you find written in the reviews.

So, if you buy a product from one of their partners, you might well get an email from them asking what you think of it. Spend a couple of minutes filling this in and your review will help others decide what they buy, which most people tell them gives them a warm glowing feeling.

The site depends on the feedback they receive from customers.
If you’d like to read a bit more about what they do and how they collect reviews, have a look at their site.
Visit: http://www.reevoo.com/

CosmoPOD

2008-03-03T05:47:00.000-08:00

What is CosmoPOD?

Ever need access to your personal files and applications from work or while on the road? Tired of lugging around your laptop or hard drive?

With CosmoPOD, you get the same desktop, whenever, wherever. Your desktop lives online, so its not glued to the computer you happen to be using!

Great Value. Your online desktop comes pre-loaded with lots of brilliant programs and everything you would expect on a modern desktop. A full Office Suite, for example, allows you to work with Word and Excel documents seamlessly.

Stay Current. Tired of the endless updates, downloads and reboots? On CosmoPOD your applications stay up to date automatically. Killer applications just arrive, ready to use, fresh out of the open source oven.

No More Hassle. Don't cry over broken and outdated software. No more hassels downloading and installing software that never works. Simply login to CosmoPOD and you're ready-to-go.

Everywhere Access. No matter where you are in the world, your desktop, data and applications are an internet cafe or friends computer away.

Travel Light. Don't stress about lugging around an expensive heavy laptop that can be broken, lost or stolen. Your free cosmopod desktop is available anytime, anywhere.

Secure and Anonymous. Work on your private stuff, communicate and surf the web without worrying about whether your company is snooping.

Tired of Viruses and Spyware? CosmoPOD is safe and hassle free, leaving you get on with what you need to do.

Take a Test Drive. Sign up for a Free Account. When you're ready, go Premium and get lightening fast access to a power packed desktop experience.

For more visit: http://www.cosmopod.com

Zoho

2008-03-03T05:45:00.000-08:00

Zoho is an Office Productivity Suite from AdventNet Inc. Founded in 1996, AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. AdventNet focuses on building affordable software for businesses.

AdventNet offerings include software for IT Operations Management (www.manageengine.com), IT Security Management (www.securecentral.com) and database technologies and serve over 8000 enterprise customers worldwide.

Their customers have a choice of many vendors, and they want to earn their business and their trust by working hard for it. And having earned their business, they want to keep them happy so they will choose to do business with them again. These simple ideas have served us well, during good times and bad."

AdventNet has achieved impressive growth, and has emerged as a rock-solid supplier and partner, with sound financials.

Zoho continues to enrich the lives of students, faculty and researchers from all over the world - providing an excellent bridge between education and a broad range of easily accessible online tools for learning, collaborating and the creative process. To date, there are approximately 150,000 educational users of Zoho.

A recent appearance in DePauw University newsletter highlights the successful partnership between Zoho and the education community:

“Zoho writer and presentation allow users to import documents from Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to be edited or shared, and a plug-in is available to work with Excel as well.Like the Microsoft Office suite, all of Zoho’s tools integrate and work better together. Unlike Office, Zoho allows multiple users to share and edit documents simultaneously from any computer with Internet access.

In addition to integrating with each other, all Zoho applications can be integrated with Facebook, an increasingly helpful feature for college students, faculty and staff.”

About the API program:

Zoho is committed to providing open access to as many of its online application services as possible. Through the free API program, partners and the general Zoho community of users can embed the selected Zoho services into other applications, websites, portals and intranets. To date they have API’s for Writer, Sheet, Show, Planner and Creator. Other applications will follow.

They are interested in featuring more integration partners. If you have already done an API integration with Zoho and would like us to share it with the world, please write to them : partners@zoho.com

Best Tech Videos

2008-03-03T05:37:00.000-08:00

What is 'Best Tech Videos'?

'Best Tech Videos' is a user driven social content website dedicated to finding the best educational videos for developers, designers, managers and other people in IT. If you are professional developer, you can find here new videos from recent conferences or interviews with famous people in IT. If you are just started learning some programming language or technology, you can find here lots of interesting screencasts created by really professional people.

So, How it Works?

Well, everything on this site submitted by their community (that would be you). After you submit content, it is being verified and approved by one of their moderators (which are active members of community). After approval, other people can read/watch your video, vote for it, discuss it, save to favorites. Most popular videos are automatically promoted to main page.

Why Register?

If you do not want to post videos on the site yet, it is not a problem. You can watch new videos, look for interesting content using their embedded search engine and collect the best videos in your favorites list. If you don't like to dig in all these new videos and you want to watch new content only related to your favorite languages/frameworks/technologies, you can create your own video feed using their feed manager. Filter out all videos not interesting for you, subscribe to your personal RSS feed and get only the best content in your RSS reader.

For more visit: http://bestechvideos.com/

SlideShare

2008-03-03T05:32:00.000-08:00

What is SlideShare?

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.
- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.

SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!

Some of the things you can do on SlideShare

- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
- Synch audio to your slides.
- Market your your event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original PowerPoint / Pdf file

About the company

The SlideShare team is based in Mountain View, (California, USA) & New Delhi (India). We are passionate about creating compelling web experiences and think that small teams with fire in their eyes can do big things.

EA-Land

2008-03-03T05:22:00.000-08:00

What is EA-Land?

I would like to introduce you to EA-Land, a world that is free-to-play, and based on a re-engineered The Sims Online architecture. Yes, free.

If you played The Sims Online before, we have played together and I would like you to rejoin us in the game: My avatar is MaxisLuc (yes, I work for Maxis/EA). At the beginning of last year I assembled a team to improve The Sims Online. After months of ongoing hard work, we can say proudly that we have been successful and we have made this game fun again!

For more visit: http://ea-land.ea.com/

VideoJug

2008-03-03T05:14:00.000-08:00

Since launching in September 2006, VideoJug has grown into the world’s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online. The professionally-produced, high definition videos cover every conceivable topic and the site is the definitive online "encyclopaedia of life".

The video content on the site takes a variety of formats that include informative "How To" and "Ask The Expert" films that guide you, step-by-step, through everything and anything in life.

The “How To” format delivers easy-to-follow, bite-size tutorials on a wide range of topics from cleaning tips and sport, to relationship advice and recipes.

We search the globe to find leading experts in their respective fields, for the “Ask the Expert” format - be they celebrities, professors, high-flying professionals, coaches, teachers, or consultants - who provide answers to common questions and concerns.

With offices in the UK and US, VideoJug professionally produces literally thousands of videos per month. Each film is carefully researched and produced with high quality production values. VideoJug embraces its mission to be the definitive source for credible answers and wisdom for every conceivable aspect of human life. No matter who you are, no matter what your problem may be, VideoJug is here to help, inform and inspire.

VideoJug looks forward to the continuing expansion of its library of films, growing its global audience and seeking exciting new partnership opportunities.

For more visit: http://www.videojug.com/

Brightcove

2008-03-03T05:01:00.000-08:00

Brightcove is an Internet TV platform.

They are to harnessing the inherent power of the Internet to transform the distribution and consumption of media.

Brightcove empowers content owners—from independent producers to major broadcast networks—to reach their audiences directly through the Internet. At the same time, they help web publishers enrich their sites with syndicated video programming, and they give marketers more ways to communicate and engage with their consumers.

Most importantly, they give people the freedom to easily find, watch and participate in a broad range of video content—when and where they choose.

For more visit: http://www.brightcove.com

Revver

2008-03-03T04:54:00.000-08:00

Revver is..

.. a video-sharing platform built the way the internet really works. They support the free and unlimited sharing of media. Their unique technology tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the web, so no matter where your creativity travels, you benefit.

.. the viral video network that pays. They connect video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best.

.. committed to the artist. You have something to say and they built their network to empower you to say it.

How does it work?

1. Upload your video.
2. They pair your video with a targeted advertisement.
3. Share your video across the web. The more people see it, the more money you can make.
4. They split the ad revenue with you 50/50.

Sharers earn money too! Help spread Revver videos and earn 20% of the ad revenue. The remaining money is split 50/50 between the creator of the video and Revver.

They have built all sorts of cool and easy sharing tools to help you make your work go viral and earn more money. Share and shared alike. Can you feel the love?

For more Visit: http://revver.com/

Reciva

2008-03-03T04:07:00.000-08:00

Reciva is an Internet Radio and Digital Media Player company that provides technology to Industry partners.

Their directory contains 10680 stations (and 21242 on-demand streams) in 271 locations and 65 genres with 30,723 registered users.

They also provide a comprehensive list of validated Internet radio stations used by their partners products.

This web site provides the same list of validated Internet radio stations available to you free of charge via the PC.

We hope you enjoy using the Reciva web site, and welcome your feedback.

If you are a manufacturer or Brand name radio provider and would like to visit out commercial site please select this link [http://corporate.reciva.com/].

Radio-Locator

2008-03-03T04:03:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Radio-Locator, the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. They have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

It lists all known sites on the Internet that publish information about broadcast radio stations. Although they strive for accuracy, the maintainers of this list are not responsible for the information pointed to by these links. While there are several other extensive lists of radio stations available on the World Wide Web, radio-locator is, to the best of their knowledge, the most comprehensive.

Are you looking at the right website? Due to the dynamic nature of the World Wide Web, there will always be a few links that don't work that we have not yet been able to repair or replace. However, most of them should work without any problems. Visit at: www.radio-locator.com.

RingSurf

2008-03-03T03:30:00.000-08:00

Let's start sharing! Join the RingSurf.com Community.
RingSurf helps build communities where people with similar interests can create their own discussions.
Need to discuss? You're at the right place!
Need an answer to a question? Great!
Go ahead and create your own discussion and watch it grow.

So, surf around today to connect to the endless possibilities at RingSurf.com!

Learn new information, and expand your horizons while meeting new people and friends.
RingSurf also allows you to share videos and pictures and direct traffic to your websites by creating your own personal profile.

Join a ring… a community of websites of similar interests and concerns as you! A ring will help more visitors find you quickly and easily. Can’t find a Ring you like? Then, create your own ring and start your own community of interest! New version coming in Fall 2008!

This is how it all began. Rings enable of group of related sites to link together so a user can easily go from site to site. This is a great way to build or be part of a community.

Submit an Article and get Traffic. You can write an article in existing categories or suggest a new one. When your article is accepted we will post it to our site and the author will be given credit for the article with a link. The more articles the more links to your site the more traffic your site gets. It’s that simple! Enter Ringsurf Articles

Megite

2008-03-03T02:56:00.000-08:00

About Megite

Megite is the social news aggregrator for anyone interested in what’s happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs.

Send us the web link for your public OPML file or reading list, and Megite creates the personalized version for you. Megite fetches the OPML file every time when it runs, so the changes in your OPML file should automatically reflect in your personalized Megite.

Memeorandum

2008-03-03T02:48:00.000-08:00

Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken and analyzed in near real-time and away from established news sites.

Memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs.

It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and outsiders, media professionals and amateur bloggers.

For more visit: http://memeorandum.com/

2008-03-03T02:24:00.000-08:00

reddit is a source for what's new and popular on the web -- personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you'll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is submitted and voted on by users like you.

read - user-submitted links, it's more fun than being productive
vote - for what you liked/disliked, democracy in action
explore - what reddit recommends, it's filtering for your tastes
submit - interesting links, gain karma, impress friends

registration
You must register to vote, but it's quite painless (we only require a username and a password) and can be done in that box on the right. Registering lets reddit recommend you personally relevant links, because every vote trains a filter. If you'd like to be able to retrieve your password, make sure to enter an email address in your preferences section.

voting
On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting," not "This should go on the front page."
Once registered, you can vote all links on reddit up or down based on whether you liked or disliked them. Your votes train a filter, so vote up links you liked and vote down links you disliked. Our hope is that instead of just reading a list of links the community thinks should be on the front page, you'll also be reading a list personalized for you (filtered for quality by your fellow redditors, but filtered for relevance by you).

For more visit: http://reddit.com/

Digg

2008-03-03T02:21:00.000-08:00

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.

How do we do this? Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by our community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.

And it doesn’t stop there. Because Digg is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. We’re here to promote that conversation and provide tools for our community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Digg, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. We’re committed to giving every piece of content on the web an equal shot at being the next big thing.

For more visit the Digg Website

NowPublic

2008-03-03T02:00:00.000-08:00

NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.

NowPublic Technologies, Inc. is a Vancouver-based company. The company owns and operates NowPublic.com, which showcases its platform for citizen journalism.

In 2005 NowPublic became a recognized leader in the emerging field of citizen journalism. By harnessing the wisdom of crowds and tapping into the news creating potential of the hundreds of millions of Internet users, bloggers and photography enthusiasts, NowPublic is changing the way news is made and distributed.

For more visit: http://www.nowpublic.com/

Entertainment Software Rating Board

2008-03-03T01:43:00.000-08:00

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a non-profit, self-regulatory body established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). ESRB assigns computer and video game content ratings, enforces industry-adopted advertising guidelines and helps ensure responsible online privacy practices for the interactive entertainment software industry.

Mission
To empower consumers, especially parents, with the ability to make informed decisions about the computer and video games they choose for their families through the assignment of age and content ratings, and to hold the computer and video game industry accountable for responsible marketing practices.

Philosophy
After consulting a wide range of child development and academic experts, analyzing other rating systems and, most importantly, listening to parents, ESRB found that what consumers really wanted in a video game rating system was both age-based rating categories as well as concise, impartial information about what type of content is in the game. Parents felt strongly that a rating system should inform and suggest, not prohibit.

With this philosophy in mind, the ESRB created and implemented the first two-part rating system, which includes both a rating category to suggest age-appropriateness, as well as content descriptors to indicate what content may have triggered the rating and/or may be of interest or concern to the consumer. The result is a rating system that is universally adopted by the industry, supported by retailers and is consistently described by parents and opinion leaders as the best entertainment rating system in the US.

For more visit: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/index.jsp

GameSpot

2008-03-03T01:03:00.000-08:00

GameSpot: The Standard for All Things Gaming

Nobody knows games and gamers like GameSpot. Their love of games combined with their experience, innovation, and commitment makes GameSpot the standard for all things gaming. For 11 years, they have been 100-percent focused on games. They understand that today’s gamers play for many different reasons, and they are able to engage this growing number of diverse gamers no matter why they hit play.

Over the years, their-focused sites has grown to include GameFAQs, Sportsgamer, Game Rankings, and GameSpot Trax, so now they have got every aspect of the gaming world covered. And they must be doing something right, because two million gamers visit them every day and 92% would recommend them
They Entertain, Inform, and Connect Gamers

* Unmatched content including live-event coverage, exclusive interviews, original shows, online tournaments, cinema-quality videos, game previews and reviews, demo premieres, beta tests, strategy guides, and more.
* Dedicated channels for every gaming system (like the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii), as well as specialty channels, such as GameSpot Sports, GameSpot News, and Launch Centers.
* An active, engaged community where like-minded gamers interact via lively forums, user reviews and ratings, blogs, unions, and user-generated video.

They Arm Marketers
* GameSpot Trax—the industry’s most advanced, real-time market-intelligence tool equipping marketers with the insight and analysis required to better understand gamers and the marketplace.
* GamersInstinct—a large, high-quality gamer panel available for conducting gaming or gamer-related market research.

Gametab

2008-03-03T00:35:00.000-08:00

There are far too many videogame news sites on the internet today; you need an aggregator like Gametab to filter through to the best.

Essentially GameTab is a game news and reviews compilation/aggregation site. It's kind of a Google News meets Rotten Tomatoes (and both inspirations behind the site), but for games. The goal is to provide a useful site for anyone who wants to keep up on the latest gaming news or wants to see how games have been received by the critics. And to do it sans the stuff that often plagues gaming sites (big flash ads, interstitials and the like).

bluebottle-bluebottle

2008-03-03T00:25:00.000-08:00

It is estimated that approximately 90 billion spam emails are sent everyday*, and some days it feels like they have all been sent to you. So it's important that you have an email provider you can trust to keep your email spam-free.

Bluebottle Spam-Free Email uses patent pending anti-spam technology to block and stop the spam that is targetting your inbox.

Bluebottle uses a simple challenge/response method to ensure that the only emails you receive are the ones you want to receive.

Their patent pending anti-spam email technology helps keep your inbox free of spam. This is how it works...Simple

Bluebottle Spam-Free Email is easy to use. When Bluebottle receives a message from an email address or domain not on your "Allowed" list, it emails the sender a "verification request". This asks the sender to verify themselves by clicking on a link. Once verified, the system automatically adds the sender's email address to your "Allowed" list and the message is sent through. Future messages are automatically let through until you remove the senders email address from your "Allowed" list.

Effective
To avoid identification, spammers commonly use fake email addresses. Consequently, the verification request is never seen or responded to, so spammers don’t get added to your allowed list and you don’t receive spam email.

Easy to Use
Bluebottle anti-spam email is easy to manage. Simply add your known contacts to your "Allowed" list so they can avoid verifying themselves. And even if legitimate senders do need to verify themselves, it’s as simple as clicking on a link.

If you're sending an email, Bluebottle automatically adds the recipient's email address to your allowed list. This means that you don’t have have to spend time managing your email or configuring your spam settings. It’s all automatic - and best of all, your friends don’t get a verification request when they reply to your email.

Protects You
Bluebottle can filter out the spam from non-Bluebottle accounts too! All you need to do is supply your POP3 and IMAP details. Email sent to non-Bluebottle accounts will go through the verification process, and email from known senders will be delivered to your inbox without delay.

Email from people you don’t know is placed in the pending queue for verification. If you subscribe to newsletters and mailing lists, then these email addresses can be added to your "Allowed" list. As such, they will automatically go into your inbox, without going through a verification process.

Vox

2008-03-03T00:12:00.000-08:00

Vox is a free personal blogging service.

Blogging is fun again. With powerful privacy controls and hundreds of beautiful designs, Vox is a great place to build your online neighborhood. Add seamless integration with popular web services like Flickr and YouTube, and we think you'll agree that...

Vox makes sharing your life with friends and family, easy, safe, and fun.

It takes less time to create a beautiful post than it does to send an email.

Using Vox's built-in editor, you'll easily combine words, images, video and audio to create a vibrant record of your life's moments -- big or small. No more oversized email attachments and bounced messages and worries about overwhelming friends and family with inconvenient intrusions. Let it live on Vox and people will get to see your moments, presented beautifully and ready for them whenever they visit your page or whenever they log on to their Vox neighborhood.

Posting to your Vox blog doesn't mean publishing to the whole world.

Putting material online used to mean putting it up for anyone to see, search, criticize, record, or repurpose. Not anymore. With Vox, you can choose the privacy level for every post, every picture, every sound clip, every video. Put up posts for the world. Put up posts for just your family. Or just your friends. You can control everything. Or simply set a preference once and never worry about it again.

Stay in touch with the people who care about you, whether it's a handful or a hundred.

Blogging isn't about shouting to the world. It's about staying connected to the people that matter to you and the people who you matter to. Vox's privacy, neighborhood, built-in feeds, email notifications, and other powerful social networking features mean that logging into Vox is like walking into a room with a circle of friends. Staying in touch was never this easy or this much fun.

Just because Vox is easy to use doesn't mean Vox blogs don't look like a million bucks.

We've worked really hard to make the visual experience of Vox as delightful as possible. Plus, we've dedicated ourselves to continually adding new themes with great colors, imagery, and details. Of course, the best design feature may be simplicity: Changing the entire look of your blog takes nothing more than a few clicks. If you want to personalize your blog with a banner that you (or the Vox community) created, we've made that really simple, too!

Vox lets you post video and audio with generous storage limits that mean you'll never have to delete a single memory.

Vox is the only service that combines words, images, music, books, audio and video. Your life is more than just text. Finally, a place that makes the "video" setting on your digital camera something more than an extra feature you never use. And, of course, all your rich-media items have Vox's fine-grained privacy options built right in.

Vox lets you use the great web services you already love.

You don't need to upload a single photo you've already added to Flickr or Photobucket. You don't have to use a single byte of storage on videos you've already stashed on YouTube. Your stuff is available whether it's on Vox or one of the services that has conduits within Vox. There are already a bunch and we plan on adding as many as we can.

Create your free Vox account. http://www.vox.com/

StatCounter

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What is STATCOUNTER?

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

*Free, Fast, Responsive, Quick loading and Reliable Service.
*Invisible Tracking - no ads on your website.
*Accurate real-time website statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis.

Invisible Tracking

Have you experienced the 'lets provide a free counter service for a few months then whack them with a charge without any warning', followed closely by the 'free accounts are now worthless we'll just plaster their website with intrusive ads and pop-ups'. This is yet another annoying trend that we've noticed about counter services.

You've spent a long time developing your website, now you want to know who is visiting it. Fair enough. But does that mean you have to subject your visitors to ugly advertising from your counter service? Well we certainly don't believe so - with StatCounter you get what is probably the most configurable free hit counter available in the world, as well as the option to go completely invisible. There are absolutely no ads on your website!

How it works

1. Sign up for the StatCounter service and we'll give you a tiny piece of HTML and Javascript code to insert into your webpage.
2. When a visitor visits your webpage with the installed HTML and Javascript code, their anonymous details are sent to StatCounter to be recorded. Their details are gathered either from the counter the visitor loads from StatCounter, or an invisible image depending on your settings. This action takes place instantaneously and the user is completely oblivious and unaffected by it. StatCounter has invested a great deal of time and money to ensure that this load time is instant. The load time experienced by your visitor is monitored daily and we are continually adding more dedicated servers as we grow to ensure instantaneous responses.

Important Privacy Note: StatCounter.Com respects your privacy, and the privacy of your visitors. Personally identifiable information such as visitor's name, telephone number, postal address and email address are technically impossible for StatCounter to collect and no attempt is made to do so. The information that is recorded consists of the date and time of visit, ip address, browser (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0), operating system version (e.g. Windows 2000), screen resolution (e.g. 800x600), referring link, the current page url and the current page title. A small cookie is created with no personally identifiable information to determine whether a visitor has been to your website before (e.g. a first-time or returning visitor).
3. The data we collect is then processed and analysed by us and stored in our database servers.
4. This is the fun bit! You can then log into your account anytime night or day to monitor and view your visitors and stats in real-time!

Now the only thing to do is to register your very own free account and start tracking your visitors within the next few minutes!

For more Visit: http://www.statcounter.com/

WordPress

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WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.

On this site you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

For more visit: http://wordpress.org/

Technorati

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Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.

Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.

On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.

The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.

Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.

For more visit: http://technorati.com/

NewsGator

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NewsGator helps individuals and businesses improve the way they find information and communicate internally and externally. We offer a wide range of RSS aggregation products and social media tools.

* NewsGator Enterprise Server helps organizations take news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere, premium content providers and internal applications and systems and automatically deliver it to places where their employees can easily find and use it ─ portals, mobile devices, their desktops or preset folders in Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. We also offer Enterprise RSS via an integrated Enterprise 2.0 suite.

* NewsGator Syndication Services provide a widget framework for newspapers, magazines and other online content providers to increase page views and improve audience engagement through the use of interesting text, audio and video content.

* Our award-winning RSS readers for individuals including FeedDemon (Windows), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsGator Inbox (Microsoft Outlook), NewsGator Online (Web) and NewsGator Go! (Mobile) make users more productive and informed by consolidating news and information in one place.

NewsGator and our products have won numerous awards from a wide variety of prestigious magazines and Web sites. NewsGator Enterprise Server was named one of InfoWorld’s 2007 Technologies of the Year and was a Trend-Setting Product of 2006 by KM World. FeedDemon has received significant accolades including a 2006 Editor’s Choice award from CNET, while NetNewsWire received back to back Eddy awards from MacWorld magazine in 2004 and 2005. The company has been named to the eContent 100 list "Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" for four straight years. In addition, NewsGator has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners.

For more visit: http://www.newsgator.com/

Backpackit

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Backpack is web-based service that makes organizing your information incredibly easy. Backpack lets you make pages which can contain any combination of notes, to-dos, images, files, etc. You can keep these pages to yourself or share them with colleagues, co-workers, friends, or family.

Intranets were big five years ago, but fell out of favor because of they were too hard to use. Backpack brings the promise back and delivers real value by keeping things simple. Now you can easily share information, files, and a calendar across your company.

Intranets were big five years ago, but fell out of favor because of they were too hard to use. Backpack brings the promise back and delivers real value by keeping things simple. Now you can easily share information, files, and a calendar across your company.

The Backpack Calendar lets you and your group keep your schedules online and accessible from any computer. Color-coding makes it easy to spot which appointment is for which person. In a glance you'll know when someone's busy or free.

Backpack Reminders allow you to set up text message and email alerts that can be sent to your cell phone whenever you want. It's a great way to stay on-time even when you're away from your computer.

Join over 300,000 people and sign up for a free account today. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. There's no risk.