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Love to Share Tips and Tricks? – TipsBase

Posted December 30, 2008 by Sam

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Lets’ face it, we all consider ourselves to be the “GURU’s” to everyone’s problems and give tips and tricks every now and then to people. TipsBaset Love to Share Tips and Tricks? TipsBase  is a new social network centered around sharing tips and tricks about a wide variety of topics, helping you unleash the “Guru” within you, on the web!

But you would now say, there are millions of “How to do” websites, what makes this one unique? Well the answer is simple; Social Networking! The site not only provides you platform to get and share answers to a variety of topics but also perform social networking stuff like befriend people, subscribe to their tips, comment on articles, send direct messages, rate content, etc.

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Yahoo+Intel= Net-Enabled TV Launch – This January at CES

Posted December 29, 2008 by Sam

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We all saw the Net-enabled TV prototypes shown to us by Intel and Yahoo back in August. The product was quite spectacular. And as the CES(consumer electronic show) nears by, several companies such as Toshiba have been signed up as official launch partners for the product.

Some of you might be thinking what are Net-enabled TV’s, so to answer that question lets see some things that people want their TV’s to do in the future:

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Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore…

Posted December 27, 2008 by Sam

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Does the word Cuilt Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore… make you remember something? Yeah that’s right the search engine made by ex-googlers which aimed at changing the way people searched, and yes the same search engine claiming to have more than 10 billion pages indexed. Today we saw a severe drop in the use of the much hyped search engine based on the numbers and graphs we gathered from Google Trendst Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore…, Alexat Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore…, Competet Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore… and Quantcastt Cuil – Not So Cool Anymore…,.

Released in July 2008, the search engine was massively criticized and even was accused that its indexing methods brought down many websites.

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Facebook Get’s Voicemail – VoiceTag

Posted December 27, 2008 by Sam

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A new application just emerged on Facebook called Voicetagt Facebook Get’s Voicemail VoiceTag that gives the option to send voicemail to your groups and contacts on facebook.You may say that what’s the new thing that the startup Ringfult Facebook Get’s Voicemail VoiceTag has given to you by making the app?

The application enables you to leave a voicemail in a rather unique but more productive way. You type in your recipients number, then the app calls you, and after that you record your message and Voila!, your message is delivered to your friend or group which can be played back on the recipients browser. Good to use when you don’t have a microphone available there and then. What I found rather interesting was the support for SMS messages within the app which you don’t find in other apps.

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Have A Great Entrepreneurial Idea? – Charles River Ventures is the right Place to Go

Posted December 26, 2008 by Sam

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In today’s economic crunch time, finding a venture capitalist is hard, but what if the venture capitalist comes to you asking to prove your worth to shed out the green notes? Venture fund Charles River Venturest Have A Great Entrepreneurial Idea? – Charles River Ventures is the right Place to Go  is using the facebook platform to advertise its VC services and looking for hot startups to invest in.

Are you the lucky one to be teh next hot startup? What are you wiating for, apply now.

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Something for Microsoft to Rejoice About this Christmas

Posted December 26, 2008 by Sam

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We all know about the Apple iPod competitor from Microsoft; Zune. Although not as much popular but this Christmas Microsoft would be dancing and rejoicing that its product was being searched as one the most popular gift items.

Zune related searches peaked in the top 20 most searched for terms Christmas morning (in the US) on Google then settled mid range at 40-50 as it came off its peak.

The strategy for Microsoft seems to be working as it is aggressively marketing the latest Zune and pricing it competitively against the iPod. If you are looking to set up your Zune, click here.

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Project Gutenberg Goes Mobile

Posted December 24, 2008 by Sam

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Project Gutenberg has just released its mobile site Called PG Mobile, or Project Gutenberg’s Mobile Edition. Gutenberg Project is long recognized for its free e-books and huge stock of research texts. The project was created in 1971, when founder Michael Hart, author of the book The 100  keyed in The United States Declaration of Independence and informed the first 100 internet users.

As we know today, everything is fast migrating to mobiles, the Project would again get a boost in the  number of users it has. All you need is an app based on Java to turn your handset into a mobile booklet. Sorry iPhone users, you cant use this one as your phone doesn’t support Java based apps.

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CURBSIDE Pickup – The new Service from BestBuy

Posted December 24, 2008 by Sam

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Online retailer BestBuy has launched Curbside Pickup service today. It will allow you to just relax in your vehicle and just like having pizza brought to your car, you get your items delivered to your vehicle. Quite a simple but powerful idea to increase sales, especially for people on the move.

Best buy has allotted specific Pickup locations where you can get the items you need without standing in long queues within the store.

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NORAD and Google on Tail of Santa

Posted December 24, 2008 by Sam
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I simply love this time of the year, not just because its Christmas and the holidays are up, but also because every year I see NORAD coming up with a plan to identify and locate Santa Claus himself.

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Broadcast your Media Galleries to Twitter – 2Tweet

Posted December 24, 2008 by Sam

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2padt Broadcast your Media Galleries to Twitter – 2Tweet has launched 2tweett Broadcast your Media Galleries to Twitter – 2Tweet, which is a new startup made for twitter fans that enables you to send photos and videos via email at  twitter@2pad.com which then sends automatically created media galleries as tweets to all your followers. So if you are on the look out for an easy way to share a few pictures or a video with many of your friends then this is what you need to try.

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