Snipshot Online Image Editor October 1, 2006
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Snipshot is a online Image editing tool..It comes quite handy while resizing & brushing pics just a bit before posting them somewhere online in blogs or any sites.
Key Features :
- No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required .
- Editing Big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 5000×5000 pixels
- Import PDF (first page only), EPS, and SVG files .
- Import pictures from any web site (including Flickr)
- Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
- Nondestructive scaling, rotating, and cropping .
There are many online tools like this.. but the feature what is really cool here is directly exporting your images to Flickr . It comes quite handy to people using photo sharing tools like Flickr [ which I guess there are too many today 
] .
Shutterfly: The online photo sharing Co. shares soar 11 percent on IPO October 1, 2006
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Online photo sharing and printing service Shutterfly raised $87 million in an IPO today, closing up 3.7% at $15.55 per share. VentureBeat points out that the price climbed as high as $16.73 at one point in the day. Shutterfly started business in 1999 and since then has posted about 1 billion photos on its Web photo storage site, filling 12 million customer orders, according to the prospectus of the stock offering. It also has printed 370 million photos.
What does Shutterfly offer in user experience? A product that clearly appeals to mainstream users.
- Unlimited free storage.
- Good bulk uploaders for both Windows and Mac (though not Intel Mac).
- Public and private albums.
- Group collaboration on shared collections.
- Clean URLs, comments on photos, basic crop, border, red eye removal and color change effects.
- They’ve also got business solutions for resellers.
Its hard to say it would succeed or not as it’s gone public but its inflow of cash & strong user base definitely look good . read more..
Yahoo buys Jumpcut Online Video-Editing Company September 28, 2006
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Yahoo has Acquired Jumpcut, a San Francisco video-sharing start-up that offers consumers the ability to not only upload clips, but also to edit them online. Jumpcut is similar to Yahoo Video (and YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Revver, etc…) in that it is a social video sharing site. The part that’s different than any other offer out there is the ability for users to edit their videos right on the web – or Remix others’. Yahoo’s plans likely involve integrating Jumpcut’s editing and Remix software with their own Yahoo Video. Yahoo said San Francisco-based Jumpcut, which will retain its brand name, will become “bunk-mates” with its other Web 2.0 services Flickr, del.icio.us, and Upcoming. Jumpcut also makes out well, gaining access to Yahoo’s 500 million monthly visitors. “As part of Yahoo, we’ll be working on bringing video editing and remixing to everyone with an Internet connection, ” Jumpcut said on its blog today.
Lounge:New kid in Bookmarking Block September 28, 2006
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Yesterday just surfing I came at this bookmarking site Lounge belonging to some Ron , you may argue that there are many like this, whts so special abt it? but wht I just liked in the site was its simple design & looks.. It supports all http://del.icio.us/help/api/ & it has mostly all the features of Del.icio.us/ .
So I feel as time goes by more & more greeks are going to ride on this never ending social Bookmaking merry go round
uplayme an I play you September 26, 2006
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Now there’s a simple way to meet people and find new music just by playing songs on your computer with iTunes (for now – many more players coming soon) and your iPod! As you play music, uPlayMe finds people who are playing the same music and shows you what they’re listening to. You can chat with them, visit their pages on other sites like MySpace, or just find new music to listen to. Learn more at uPlayMe .
Del.icio.us – Now serving: 1,000,000 September 26, 2006
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Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted in the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user.
Moreover he confirms it’s more than triple the number of users it had just nine months ago. Maybe acquired by Yahoo! may have brought some more users to Del.icio.us. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005. I am quite used to use it for my bookmarking & I must say it’s quite a nice bookmarking tool . Nway congratulations to Schachter, del.cio.us and Yahoo! for passing this milestone in social bookmarking.. Infact I also feel excited to be one of the users… They were going to celebrate it’s 3rd birthday bash on October 3 at Yahoo!HQ at Sunnyvale & now I hope the party will be much bigger after crossing this milestone
Yahoo Launches Online Video Service!! September 26, 2006
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As the popularity of YouTube grows, many sites are jumping on the video content bandwagon, after Google & Yahoo now it’s the turn of Yahoo .It announced a joint venture Wednesday with Current TV, the cable network co-founded by Gore. The two companies are launching the Yahoo! Current Network, an online video site featuring user-generated content as well as professional videos from the staffs of the two companies. So the big question is YouTube will continue to dominate the market position or people are going to try out many of the clone sites after being fed up with the poor video quality of the videos. read more …
Y!Q Beta September 19, 2006
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Yahoo too trying to keep up with the Googlisms. Chk out this Y!Q Search Beta http://yq.search.yahoo.com . It’s basically contextual search & returns the exact info. Moreover Y!Q can be added in the site with themes with some coding found at
http://yq.search.yahoo.com/publisher/embed.html . Not a very big concept but well publishers can get something new in the site . Long live the SE wars!! Just serving us better 
Docly Beta! September 19, 2006
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Docly, the new Web 2.0 self-publishing service from Numly, allows authors to draft documents online using an online word processor. Upon final review of a document, the author may publish their digital work online and share it with others or sell it.
Think of Docly as Flickr for documents mashed with Writely for word processing and Lulu for self publishing – plus you get all of the copyright protection and content metrics of Numly Numbers automatically.
Ad Sense Basics September 19, 2006
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Google Adsense is the best pay per click context based advertising programs today. Infact it can be said that Google adsense has really boosted webblogs & web publishers . There are many tips & tricks which helps to increase revenue .
Mainly there are some basic rules which has to be kept in mind. Firstly the theme & the content is very important. Niche sites generate more revenue as it is easier to achieve decent search engine placement for them.As the best way to increase revenue is through increased traffic & so the visitors will only spend time in your site only when your content is really interesting to watch out for .
Secondly before deciding the content check out how much the advertisers are paying for the advertisements.You can try out some free keyword trackers tools like this one http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
Try to target keywords which are moderately priced as the market is quite competitive nowadays.
You can also use Overture bidding tool http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/
to find out how much actually the advertisers are ready to pay you .
