Just when you thought that FriendFeed with support for a huge number of services, is full of noise, here comes a comments aggregator, BackType that is going to replace FriendFeed and bring a lot of noise. And by a lot, we mean, comments from a huge number of blogs being aggregated into a single stream.
Here’s how backtype works
Cisco System is going to acquire a private email startup, PostPath for $215 Million. Being a Networking giant, Cisco has always strived to create Internet solutions that can make networks possible and foster people with an easily accessible information without any time and place restriction.
PostPath, Inc., is a Linux based innovative e-mail and calendaring software provider. Incubated at Mountain View, Calif., the company runs its additional development operations at Sofia and Bulgaria. Being compatible with AJAX web client and various mobile clients, it provides collaborative solutions that are secured enough to cater the needs of large entrepreneurs. Its acquisition by Cisco shows its efficiency and scalable working capability.
If you’re a seller and use eBay or PayPal for your transaction, then Scrobbld is like a gift for you. It is a complete management system that lets you track your eBay or PayPal orders. It gives you an overview of your transactions, their details, provides you with notifications and stats as well.
It provides a very nice interface complete with filtering options for completed, refunded, reversed and various other transactions. You can export order information to print shipping labels or to import in other software. There is also a search option to quickly access your desired transaction. The right half of the screen shows you the transactions, with the customer names, status, transaction date and export date. Memos can also be attached to orders letting you attach handy information to them. The transaction statuses are also color coded for easy understanding in a quick glance of the table. Stats let you track your sales and revenue progress, geographics of your buyer base.
dukaDial lets you make calls to North America for absolutely free. All you need to do is sign up, enter the number you want to dial, enter your own phone or mobile number and dial. This will create a phone call between the 2 numbers without any charges to either party. Indeed, a dream come true.
This all may sound too good to be true, but it really is. Straight from their FAQs:
Harvesting the web: is what OutWit is about and for those who are clueless as to what harvesting has to do with the web and how is OutWit related to it, well OutWit simply a collection engine that eradicates the need to scroll down page after page to collect all the information that you need to gather from the page.
In points OutWit eases the task of fetching:
FriendFeed has provided a new badge and widgets for every user. They are your normal embeddable types, which look similar to what you see in FriendFeed when you hover on someone’s name. There is also a Chiclet widget, status widget, "Share on FriendFeed" Link as well as the already available Feed Widget, which you can see by scrolling down on this website.
Here’s a rundown of the various new widgets:
Blogger has just rolled out another new feature called Blogger Buzz. It basically is Blogger’s own feature that replaces Bloglog that is used by so many bloggers nowadays. It basically shows you the fan following of your blog, and also lets you become fans of other Bloggers, letting you track them straight from your Dashboard.
Text to Gift is a merchant that lets you make cardless pay transactions. This means that it allows you to use your mobile phone for payment transactions. You can also gifts for your friends, so that they can buy anything they want from their online store using just their mobile phone.
Although the online store doesn’t have a lot of items at the moment, the idea behind the website is a very interesting one. It is sort of like the iTunes gift cards you can give to your friends, which they can use for buying music and videos from the iTunes store. Google Checkout and Paypal are the only ways that you can deposit money to your account and once you gift someone, they automatically become a cardlesspay.com customer, letting them see the balance in their account.
We all can watch movies and talk about hours on them, even if they are the most ridiculous movies like Hancock or The SuperHero Movie! But ever tried to sum up a movie in 255 characters? Think of it as summing up a movie in a couple of text messages or the game where you act out the name of the movie and the other team tries to guess which one it is.
Moviestring would bring these thoughts to your mind. It is the ‘Twitter’ of movie reviews, and requires you to sum up a movie in 255 characters, which though is more than 140 characters of Twitter, is still not enough for a movie. The website has a clean and simple interface, with the search option strangely hidden in another page in a link on the top left which says Find Movies. With websites providing search on their front pages nowadays, this seems to be a bit weird. The latest reviews are shown in reverse chronological order, whether the movie is old or new. The movie title along with it’s tiny cover image is shown next to the review, and the author’s name is shown on the left, without any display image. Turns out there is no option to upload a display image for any user yet. Your profile has a shelf too, where you can add your favorite movies.
Glassdoor, a website offering insights into salary reports and the ‘zeitgeists’ of wide range of companies (and reported earlier in our blog), announced recently that it has added multi-currency information increasing it’s tally of coverage to more than a 100 countries. That actually is a good move for them, since now employees can view salaries in their local currency, instead of viewing in American dollar, and then figuring out how much it amounts to.
Glassdoor, founded by some of Microsoft and Expedia’s veterans, is based on making salary reports and workplace-quality information as public as possible. It is a free service, where users have to provide information to get some in return.
