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Archive for May, 2008

logo thumb Got Stuck Creating Icons? Make Your Life Easy at Bradicon Creating an icon is not that easy specially with images. Bradicon helps you create icons in two easy ways according to the versions.

There are two versions of this site i.e. a simple and an advanced one.

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croppercapture5 thumb Walmart launches Classified listings, powered by Oodle Classified listing service is up at the Walmart site, powered by Oodle.

The classified provides listings for free; meaning that Walmart has done this to generate page views and advertising impressions and at the same time getting into a competition with Craiglist and eBay owned Kijiji.

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croppercapture3 thumb AdSense for RSS feed: Launching next week After ages being bought by Google, FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week, as reported on the company’s blog.

Similar to AdSense for websites, it will display text advertising in the RSS feeds of the publisher. Meaning that if you a post in your Google Reader regarding anything (lets say mobiles); you will see ads related it (Verizon etc).

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groovesharklogo thumb Free music was never so cool before Grooveshark.

 Free music is one of the most attractive phrases on the Internet. Grooveshark not just offers this but it does so in great style. This is one of the coolest Web 2.0 website offering free music I’ve seen to date, and it matches what last.fm has to offer. According to their website:

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pressreleasegrader logo Wana Grade Your Press Release? Check Out PressReleaseGraderPress release is a routine for various organisations. If you’re new in this business, you might get a little shaky while releasing. Stop worrying and get your press release graded at PressReleaseGrader.

It grades your release based on a certain criteria and returns you the result accordingly. (Grading is out of 100).

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woopra logo 2 thumb Monitor your traffic in military style   Use Woopra. When I say Military style, I don’t mean that you can carpet bomb your visitors too. But Woopra is the next best thing to Google Analytics ( dare I say even better? ) traffic monitoring. Apart from the usual integration in your website, it provides you with a Java desktop application which shows you realtime tracking of your visitors and live statistics of your website.

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trainhero thumb Train and stay healthy with TrainHero (Startup) With junk food adding weight to our bodies with its cheap and easy availability, our lifestyle has become very unhealthy. All of us begin to think of doing something for the obesity we carry around, but how to begin? TrainHero has come up with a platform to keep a track of everything that helps you maintain yourself as a healthy person.

I thought of this to be just another startup trying to make I big, but it offers quite a lot. The major reason being it keep track of your health and help improving it.This is done by recording daily workouts, become a part of fitness groups and search out a diet plan that suits you the most. All in all the site promises help to anyone who is determined to cut the fat, maintain fitness and at the same time keep a social network with those who desire achieving the same goals.

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microsoft thumb Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us. Say hello to Microsoft. As if we didn’t have enough social bookmarking websites already, Microsoft has decided to jump in. John Martin, the Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online (STO) at Microsoft, made a post on his blog announcing the release of a preview version  of Social Bookmarks for both MSDN and Technet and they’re going to showcase it at TechEd North America next week.

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google new favicon thumb Googles favicon changed!

Just came across this on Google Blogoscoped, showing that Google has changed it’s favicon (For noobs, a favicon is the icon shown before the URL in the address bar of the browser).

The favicon now sports the letter g but in small letters now, and without the borders of the old one.

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brandoozielogo thumb BrandDoozie: an easy way to create your brands SMBs who can’t or don’t want to hire a designer to create marketing material can now be use BrandDoozie, a flash based tool to rid you of this problem.

It follows an easy 3-step process to help you create a sales sheet, business cards, letter heads etc, all that you ever require to market your business that too without having to download anything. All this is available online for use and once completed, the work can be downloaded in PDF format, email them, print them, do all that you want to sitting right where you are.

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