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January 31st, 2007

SalesWorks Takes On Salesforce.com With Hybrid Web/Desktop App

SalesWorks and is similar to Salesforce.com, in that it’s used to manage contacts or sales leads. In fact it’s being billed as “a Salesforce.com for the SOHO market”, but without the cost or complicated features.

(tags: CRM Software Business Service)
Gizmo Call Launches, Browser-based VoIP

Gizmo Call – an online service that makes VoIP phone calls possible from any web browser. It works via a Flash plugin, which enables users to make calls simply by typing a phone number into a text-field in a browser.

(tags: VOIP Gizmo phone Browser Flash SIP)

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links for 2007-01-30

January 30th, 2007

Seth’s Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint

“…thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets.”

(tags: Business presentations howto tips marketing powerpoint productivity)
Scott Rosenberg – At Microsoft, a Sad Software Lesson – washingtonpost.com

“Why did it take the world’s biggest and most successful software company so long to revamp its flagship product”

(tags: Microsoft Windows Vista development Business)

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links for 2007-01-26

January 26th, 2007

Official Google Blog: A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube

YouTube, as we’ve stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, when/where YouTube launches internatio

(tags: google youtube video business search)

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links for 2007-01-25

January 25th, 2007

Wii helps Nintendo year-end profits soar – USATODAY.com

“TOKYO — Booming year-end sales of the wand-wielding Wii game console sent profit at Nintendo soaring 43% for the nine months ended December, the Japanese manufacturer of Pokemon and Super Mario games said Thursday.”

(tags: Business Games)
EasyEclipse | Free, open source, easy-to-use Eclipse distributions and plugins for Windows, Mac and Linux – Easy Eclipse downloads

“EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins.”

(tags: eclipse java ide programming development tools software Windows opensource)

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links for 2007-01-24

January 24th, 2007

Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007

“Web 2.0″ expert Dion Hinchcliffe elaborates on eleven ideas he considers valuable for SOA architects in 2007, most of them connected to merging Web 2.0 and “classical” SOA concepts.

(tags: SOA Enterprise2.0 architecture web2.0 AJAX JSON REST Technology)
Parentography to Launch Map-Based Parenting Community – Mashable!

“Parentography, falls somewhere in between: it’s a social network that helps parents to organize family-friendly excusions”.

(tags: Kids Parenthood Parenting web2.0 socialsoftware)

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links for 2007-01-23

January 23rd, 2007

mb3DEngine – RSS in 3D

digg in 3D … dizzying, but cool.

(tags: digg rss flash visualization interface 3D mashups mashup fun tags)

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links for 2007-01-21

January 21st, 2007

Dugg Space

“A collaboratively created social network created by users of the collaborative social news phenomenon: digg.com”

(tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware Collaboration community opensource)
IMEEM – what’s on your playlist?

“IMEEM is an online community where people and groups can upload, share, tag, and playlist the media they care about.”

(tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware P2P collaboration community media Audio Music Video)

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links for 2007-01-20

January 20th, 2007

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet – Apache – ILoveJackDaniels.com

“The mod_rewrite cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about mod_rewrite.”

(tags: apache reference regex development lamp webdev)
WorkHack.com Tasks Management Tool

“With WorkHack, simply visit the site, and instantly drop in your tasks and specify a level of importance. When you are done with your task list, turn a special visualizer that will set the font sizes of more important ones larger.”

(tags: gtd Hacks productivity web2.0 tools)

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links for 2007-01-19

January 19th, 2007

http://www.google.com/ads/audioads/index.html

“Google Audio Ads allows you to broadcast your message to thousands of listeners and brings simplicity, efficiency, and accountability to radio advertising.”

(tags: Google Advertising Audio radio Business Service)
Dreaming in Code

"Why is software so hard? Hard to make well. Hard to deliver on time. Hard to use."

(tags: Books programming Dev Software publishing Development)
openkapow

"On openkapow web developers can freely download and use our RoboMaker visual scripting tool, which allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL."

(tags: API mashup tools webservices Web2.0 rss REST integration development Collaboration mashups)

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links for 2007-01-18

January 18th, 2007

David Seah : The Printable CEO™ Series

“Here you’ll find a series of printable forms that help manage the day-to-day chore of achieving your goals.”

(tags: Business gtd HOWTO lifehacks management tools organization productivity templates)
Shycast: Social Network for People & Brands

Congratulations Drew! Keep the buzz going! “New Jersey based Shycast will be launching later this month and will put a new spin on brand promotion and paid contests.”

(tags: SocialNetworking marketing socialsoftware web2.0 video media youtube)
ProgrammableWeb.com: Blog Archive: What are Tools for Mashups?

List of development tools for building Mashups

(tags: mashup development Dev tools services mashups)
RSSBus – A Really Simple Service Bus

“Easily create RSS feeds from Databases, Spreadsheets, Emails, Directories, etc. Use RSS feeds as Simple Web Services to communicate with your partners, vendors, and customers – not just text, but data and services.”

(tags: RSS framework mashup mashups Data feeds web2.0 tools)
Get More From Google Reader Guide – Mitchelaneous

“more than a few external tools to help you get more out of Google Reader.”

(tags: RSS aggregator atom blogging feeds Google extensions Search tips)
Bill Burcham’s memeRocket :: Gordita = del.icio.us Tagging for Google Reader

“Google Reader Del.icio.us Tagging bookmarklet — a Gordita.”

(tags: bookmarklet del.icio.us Google RSS aggregator)

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links for 2007-01-16

January 16th, 2007

Fight Cholesterol – 10 Top Foods To Help You Fight High Cholesterol

“What follows is a listing of the most potent foods to add to your diet if you want to fight high cholesterol and drive your levels down using your diet as a primary tool.”

(tags: HOWTO nutrition tips useful diet cholesterol Food Health Cooking)

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links for 2007-01-14

January 14th, 2007

activeCollab – open source project management and collaboration tool.

“activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool”

(tags: Collaboration opensource PM management project software tools workflow)
The Corporation Film

Part film and part movement, The Corporation takes its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?”

(tags: film Movies documentary Business corporation culture DVD)
TV Jersey

“TVJersey has no broadcast towers, no satellites. It doesn’t even have a studio. But it has you. And what you produce, we’ll promote.”

(tags: video tv NJ youtube news media Social_Networking blog)

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links for 2007-01-13

January 13th, 2007

Test-driven development – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Test-driven development requires that an automated unit test, defining requirements of the code, is written before each aspect of the code itself. These tests contain assertions that are either true or false. Running the tests gives rapid confirmation of

(tags: TDD Agile testing development programming methodology XP Dev QA software)
IT Conversations: Werner Vogels

“Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com, believes that uptime and scalability are dependent on how you build your application architecture and your hardware infrastructure.”

(tags: podcast Amazon architecture SOA Enterprise Business IT)

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links for 2007-01-12

January 12th, 2007

NewTeeVee: Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla

“The founders of Kazaa and Skype4 are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as their earlier efforts turned the music and phone businesses on their respective heads.”

(tags: media TV video p2p IPTV online SocialNetworking Technology)

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links for 2007-01-09

January 9th, 2007

Privately funded Congressional travel database: Top Congressional Travelers

“Congressional Travel Maps: View where your congressperson has traveled, how much it cost and which private interest paid for the trip. Part of the OpenSecrets.org Congressional travel database.”

(tags: Search web2.0 mashup congress government googlemaps)
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a “Slave Strobe”

Design News shows you how to make a “slave strobe” for your camera … plus other strobe related how-tos

(tags: HOWTO Photography strobe lighting Hacks)

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