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“Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes”, said, QuotesDaddy

Everyone is proficient in something, whether it’s negotiation, gaming, poker or dating, people have some sort of wisdom, humor or views that can be shared around the globe. QuotesDaddy.com is now offering users the ability to learn and become an author or an expert on just about any topic by writing their own words of wisdom, insights and sensible remarks as quotes to this website.

QuotesDaddy was initially launched as the largest online library of famous quotes, featuring over 1,000,000 quotes from different well known personalities throughout history, two months back. Now, they have opened their site for all the users to sign up and submit their own quotes. These user generated quotes are the reason to infuse this site with fresh ideas and new content.

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The event planning service, Evite, has announced its deal with JS-Kit. The later provides features like commenting and polling which lets the planner communicate with guests/attendees or vice versa. The social planning tool will use the commenting and polling features to facilitate its users. Besides this, Evite is expanding features of its social networking site as well, which will include the capability to share stories & photos.

Evite has been in the market for almost a decade. Over the years, it has been challenged by a number of competitors, specially with advent of Web 2.0 companies like Socializr & Renkoo, but it has managed to stay in the mainstream. Currently they have 15 million unique visitors/month.

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Last.fm as finally put up a change; or should I say CHANGES within its aging and dusty appearance by introducing a fresher look, neat design with an iPhone app. That’s not it, there was a partnership announced with Logitech that would enable Last.fm to stream music that is compatible with a wide variety of features including home stereo systems.

The new features (as announced on the blog) let members get instant recommendation by simply naming the artists and groups they prefer instead of the ancient method of having the need to link libraries while the scrobbler went through your collection and analyze what is being heard at present.

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Yahoo has finally taken an a full throttle at dismantling Carl Icahn off the command seat he is trying to be in by reshaping Yahoo and its management board. The chain at anti Icahn-ism began when Icahn voiced his opinion asking Jerry to stop his bullshit; which was Jerry’s stubbornness at not selling off to Microsoft. From there on Jerry stepped up and asked Stock holders to not trust Icahn at any proposal and then he jointly attacked the tag team of Microsoft/Icahn telling them that he has no plans at hanging his boots on Yahoo.

The deal with Microsoft has seen many facets, ones that create a Shakespearean limbo in the web world. The deal was called off by Yahoo in favor of the Search partnership with Google, it breathed fresh air and the blame for previous failure for a no deal situation was put up on the bankers before Yahoo officially declined the Microsoft/Icahn proposal at reshaping Yahoo’s managerial board. Up till now when Yang and Yahoo showed some concern only if Microsoft came with something better. But now it seems obvious that the major issue of concern for Yahoo here is Icahn and that of winning the trust of its stockholders. And today the battle has been brought in the open against the aging investor who according to Yahoo is rocking along the waves trying desperately to mint money out of his stock in Yahoo.

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The online technology company, ‘OrderMotion’, has raised $1.4 million in the current round of funding. The Boston based company serves ‘small’ and ‘medium size’ e-Commerce traders. The company provides order management solution to assist the merchants achieve their targets.

The service specialises in processing orders upto 25/day of companies having employees range from 5 to 10. The service also allows dealers to get orders, manage inventory and process payments using a simple interface.

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When you start taking steps at being a knockoff of a site that is the largest social network and continually expanding its horizons; you are asking for trouble. StudiVZ had done the same and Facebook has taken the matter to court as reported by FT.

StudiVZ claims to be the largest and the most successful social networking site in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with 10 million active users. It has been blamed for replicating almost the whole of Facebook; from features to services. The only difference that appears to lurk around is the Blue theme of Facebook being replaced by Red.

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We had reviewed identi.ca few days ago. The service better known as “federated Twitter clone” soon after its release was covered by majority of blogger because of its true Twitter-ish resemblance. It was indeed a good trial to rescue the refugees of Twitter and is capable enough to beat an over capacitated whale. In addition to its interesting and innovative features, the service has recently implemented a Twitter-compatible API that will provide an ease to developers and users. Now any app that is working with Twitter can also work with identi.ca by following the API root http://identi.ca/api.

The new API seems to be promising as Dave Winer, Blogger and RSS pioneer, (who was really excited on inauguration of identi.ca ) has already tested it by substituting the Twitter’s URL with identi.ca’s. This will really help identi.ca to make itself a concreat micro-blogging platform and to gain huge public confidence. The only thing left is, it has not been tested by rest of the users and therefore, we cant predict anything right now.

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Google Inc. has released its report for the 2nd quarter of 2008, which ended on June 30. The search engine giant reported 35% increase in income making the sum to $1.25 billion in the 2nd quarter. Google failed to keep up to the expectations of the analysts in this quarter. The earnings are $4.63/share which is $0.11 shorter than what was expected in a survey done by Thomson Reuters.

Just after the release of quarterly report, Google’s shares went down as low as $60/share, from $530/share to $470/share. Though the situation of shares didn’t get worse, it still is below $500. The company did very well in the first quarter but couldn’t keep up the pace in the second quarter.

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Searching over the net for content can be pretty tiring if you don’t have the right words to search for and even more irritating if the search engine displays far more results than you ever anticipate; articles containing your search word and when you click all it has is just your search word/phrase once in an entire piece. The idea of having an organized result sounds a big relief and Oriango adds to it with its no-registration just search, advertises and share contents for free.

We had  reviewed this site last month and presently it has undergone a major upgrade and by that I don’t mean they have introduced latest widgets or graphics but more importantly got done with those annoying AdSense ads.

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