Vox

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

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

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

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

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/