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newsbeet12 NewsBeet: Get your News BEETing at one placeYou must have heard the phrase “beat about the bush� or let’s beat him up. I thought this was all I would come across, when I stumble upon NewsBeet, developers using beetroot to name their service :s.

A platform for you to put up all the news that interests you; at last all the news you want to cover at one place. Just pull in all the feeds, plug them and publish and you have your own news beating.

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photostreamlogo1 Photo Stream: Every picture has a news  Delivering net-worthy content to the masses? I say it comes with a lot of distraction, yes photos streaming all over the page.

Photostream, comes buzzing with its motto to promote your content over the web. It does so with photos all over the place and they require images in your feed descriptions (and everything else you have for a promo).

It is very specific in defining its objectives which include total annihilation of boredom by providing interesting and relevant news via an innovative photo interface. Along with this it has an easy and automatic content submission.

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pixyu1 Pix Yu: Get paid for clicks on pix!From grouping photos by events; Pix-Yu now comes with an announcement to pay users for the clicks each image receives.

With an immediate implementation; one can earn €0.25 ($.39) for every 1000 image views. So what?  Can we go on clicking our own images the whole day? Pix-Yu does the calculation based on the unique visitors so no matter how many times the same person clicks; they are counted as one (Useless then for quick buck makers).

The site focuses on uploading images of large events (this doesn’t mean corporate meetings or presidential dinners ONLY); pretty reachable if you pass on the address to all the attendees of your event. How do you get paid? All the funds are transferred via PayPal and the cash transferred once your account touches €25.00.

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rockyou RockYou: Big Widget, a mere $1million raise?Deals, rounds, funding negotiations, that’s what the news is about on the web and RockYou is another participant in the race.

RockYou, a widget maker to help you build slideshows has raised $1million round of funding to level out some issues. Concerned?

Matt Marshall at VentureBeat thinks that the present action is a measure to keep things flowing smoothly while they try to sort some valuation concerns. The company had desires to raise up to $70 million on valuation of $400 million but changes in the market have caused a swing in tides (and numbers not to forget).

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zunetv ZuneTV: Goodbye to reformatting Web VideosMicrosoft’s Zune media has launched a new video site after a pretty slack response since their portable media launch late 2006

Created by ZuneBoards, ZuneTV is appealing to the web video fans as it who like to enjoy their video clips without the necessity to reformat the downloaded files (they are setup as *.wmv files), The purpose lies in making the media portable in every sense; just download, sync and play!

Resembling YouTube in layout, except for the very limited content and the pallet, it has a mere 201 videos from 69 individuals. Will it grow further? Well according to Paul Glazowski; even if 70% of the Zune users move to ZuneTV, it will still be very far behind YouTube (even its competitors).

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macro2 Macroaxis: Macromized solutions for Finacial institutionsIt must be difficult to manage your portfolios and look out for software that enables you to ease wealth management analytics?

Macroaxis is the name for you, with enhanced user experience, accessibility and simplicity.

The corporation excels in enhancing and facilitating software solution catering to varied audiences with consolidated productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.

Inclined at providing investors and institutions with the ability to define, analyze and present portfolios in a way that increases return on everything, from managed assets to intellectual property.

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penzulogo Penzu: Journal with ease

Ever thought of finding the easiest way to keep an online journal?

Penzu has arrived with a simple web based journal for its dear journal keepers.

 Developed by a team of consumer web evangelists, it comes with very straightforward and easy to use features. It’s fast, accessible and offers all that an online journal could offer minus unnecessary add-ons etc (I personally don’t like them).

Penzu is in its beta stage and allows you to save, share, print and attach pictures to your daily record with simple clicks. What else do you need?

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hobnox Hobnox  Artists home on the webIsn’t it frustrating for artists to roam about with their creative work and no one pays heed? Feel like throwing up all your work?

STOP! Hobnox is here to give you a chance to share, create and connect with the like minded artists, a place where your work is bound to be (promising isn’t it?).

hobnoxsnap Hobnox  Artists home on the web

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microsoft2 Microsofts Live Search goes Dead for BooksGreat strides have been made in utilizing the potential of Internet; indexing various things from simple filing to scientific journals and books.

Traditional publishers have somehow shown little interest in adapting to this tool but Microsoft and Google did take an initiative to change the picture.

The two were hopeful on creating something on the search and research aspect of shared knowledge from the academic and publishing world. But just when things seemed to be heading the right way, Microsoft calls it a day and plugs out its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects, effective from next week.

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veedow3 Veedow; Your virtual shopping mallFeel like buying something of your interest, but uncertainty always lurks around; you need opinions; reviews on the product before you spent those precious bucks on it and at the same time you don’t know how to get an honest opinion.

Partial information at the wrong time to the right person; a WASTE WITHOUT A DOUBT!

There needs to be a solution and Veedow appears just when it is needed with an objective; no information is useful unless it is delivered to the right person, at the right time and place. It therefore offers a very unique method; tailored specifically by individual interests.

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