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Web 2.0 Email Services

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  • Showcase Your Artistic Talents

    The Best sites to share your digital art.

    • deviantART – Where Art meets application!
    • Carbonmade – A super simple tool to build and show off your creative portfolio.
    • GFXartist – The web’s finest art at your fingertips.
    • CGsociety – Society of Digital Artists
    • Caedes.net – Desktop Wallpaper and Artist Community
    • Elfwood – Elfwood is the largest science fiction and fantasy art site in the world. Over 400,00 pieces from artists all over the world.
    • Image Making Discussions For Webmasters – Discussed are Web 2.0 applications (web based software) that help you create customized funny (even personalized promotional pictures) images for your own blogs. Great collection of many tools for those of us who cannot afford to hire a web designer or purchase Photoshop!
    • Hiero – Russian photo-art-community.
    • ConceptArt – Let some of the most imaginitive artists on the internet inspire you with their unique visions. Travel through their minds eye and learn along with them.
    • Eatpoo 2.0 – Welcome Ladies!
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  • Need Money?

    Entrepreneurship is quickly becoming one of the most desired and sought after career paths. This list is a compilation of the best web resources for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.

    • Internet Marketing Advisor – Resources of interest to Internet Marketers including IM Basics, Types of IM, IM Services, IM Websites, IM Advertising, IM Scams, IM Sales, IM Research, IM Techniques & IM Strategy.
    • American Inventor Spot – Focused on inventors and invention advice, along with latest news on the coolest inventions, innovations and ideas.
    • SEO Factor – These often overlooked factors are rather small, but in the world of internet marketing, every edge counts.
    • The Magic 3 Essentials Tool for Web Designer and SEO.. JUST THREE! – There are some other important tools you will need to utilize as well if you want to have ea successful website.
    • Home Based Business Ideas & Franchises – A growing collection of home based business ideas, business tips, and a home based franchise directory.
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    • MyWealthPuzzle.com – You’ve heard yourself say things like: I don’t have the time, I don’t have the money, I don’t have the education… I want to help you get to the point where you say “yes, I can do it!” Free wealth newsletter.
    • The Law of Attraction: A Comprehensive Guide – The ultimate geek tool. Use the Law of Attraction to get what you want in life, wealth, love, or peace!
    • Press Release as cost effective marketing tool – The best way of learning to write a top-notch press release is simply to read top-notch press release. In this way, you can gather the essential points in making a good one.
    • Web Design and Search Engine Optimization – It is a blog about web design and search engine optimization. Great web design and search engine optimization will give you traffic and give you better placement on SERPs.
    • Resources for Entrepreneurs at Gaebler Ventures – Hundreds of articles for entrepreneurs written by a serial entrepreneur.
    • Tips in Creating a Web Site That Builds Trust II Trusted Web Site II – Most people view organizations – and web sites – they don’t know with great skepticism. Given all the identity theft and viruses running around, people are understandably cautious and somewhat skeptical when they go to a new web site. What can you do?
    • Proadultoutsourcing – Internet Offshore Outsourcing Solutions – Proadultoutsourcing is the leading provider of Internet Offshore Outsourcing Solutions since 2003 for clients worldwide in need of various web related services. We offer you qualified IT professionals that will work and become one of your employees overseas via the Internet from our office instantly
    • Doing it yourself – Seeing websites online makes you wonder how these people, company and business go about having their own websites. The things that are put into these sites appear so complicated that you may think it takes a lot of time and knowledge to be able to go about having your own site.
    • Entrepreneur Strategy – Squidoo Lens on Entrepreneurship, resources, links and articles. Take the quiz to see if you have what it takes.
    • Online Marketing Advisor – Resources, articles and links of interest to entrepreneurs and online marketers.
    • Small Business Radio by Promethius Consulting, LLC – Business podcast and blog covering technology, ideas, books, software, websites all designed to feed your business brain.
    • TradePals – Free Sales Leads – TradePals provides free sales leads without cold calling to Entrepreneurs across North America
    • Entrepreneur’s Journey – Entrepreneur’s Journey. Yaro Starak an entrepreneur from Australia.
    • Entrepreneur Advisor – Lots of articles, links and resources of interest to entrepreneurs looking to start a business.
    • Stanford Technology Ventures Program – STVP’s Educators Corner is a free collection of entrepreneurship resources including podcasts, video clips, and presentations.
    • Go BIG Network – The BIGGEST network for STARTUP opportunities!
    • Daily Thoughts for Business Podcast – Offers a daily podcast of business tips, quotes, and ideas for entrepreneurs and business owners.
    • Business Performance Coaching – 400 + articles by a business coach.
    • Home Business Success Resources – Links, articles, ebooks and more for small business success.
    • The Startups and Entrepreneurship Spot – A collection of useful links and news articles around entrepreneurship.
    • Frank Team – The FRANK Team provide fun and innovative skills training, guest speakers and resources for young people and grown ups in the area of entrepreneurship and career passion. Our training hits the mark because we’re straight talkers, we speak from experience not textbooks, we’re genuine. We provide only the skills you need to know to make your [ideas, career, business] a reality. We work with schools, uni/colleges, corporates, community groups, councils, individuals, and government Australia-wide. Our trainers are all inspiring young entrepreneurs. Check out IGNITE – our free e-newsletter for enterprising young people, and FRANK – our ad-free diet-free and stupid-free magazine for young women.
    • Microentrepreneur.biz – Many small businesses (all owned by one owner) will equal one decent income…
    • Entrepreneur Success Blog – MlM and Home business success blog
    • Brian Kim.net – Invest In Yourself and Make It Happen – The purpose of this site is to provide you with free high quality articles on personal development for all levels of life, whether it is mental, physical, financial, or social, that you can use to invest in yourself, your greatest asset, and make your dreams come true.
    • Dave’s Free iPod Guide! Renovated! – Dave’s Free iPod Guide! Renovated! A comprehensive guide to getting a free iPod just to argue against all the free iPod skeptics out there. This site contains everything you want to know, including pictures of his free iPod. It also features step by step instructions, proof, and a free conga line to help you get started! Please visit http://www.davesfreeipodguide.tk for more details! Pics of his free iPod are on it too!
    • Steve Pavlina – Personal Development for Smart People.
    • Paul Graham Essays – Essays on starting a start up.
    • GraphicXperiment.com – Free graphic resources for webmasters : original web interfaces and templates, wallpapers, high definition tattoos, logos and Photoshop templates, backgrounds, buttons…and more
    • Signum sine tinnitu – by Guy Kawasaki – Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com.
    • Creating Passionate Users – About the brain and metacognition, most especially–how the brain works and how to exploit it for better learning and memory. Oh yeah, and how to recognize when someone else is applying brain-based techniques to get you to do something.
    • Business Opportunities Weblog – Opportunities, ideas, news, and links for small business entrepreneurs.
    • Escape From Cubicle Nation – How to go from corporate prisoner to thriving entrepreneur – by Pamela Slim
    • Entrepreneur Lens on Squidoo – Entrepreneur hub adding new material on a regular basis.
    • Small Business Brief – Providing small business resources, informative articles, current news, software directory and the small business ideas forum. Additionally offers a free weekly newsletter that caters to small business owners.
    • Seth’s Blog – Seth Godin’s riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.
    • OnStartups.com – Practical Advice for Software Startups.
    • Small Business Branding – Advice for small business owners. Learn how to market and brand your business using online and offline techniques from Australian small business entrepreneur Yaro Starak.
    • Young Go Getter – Blog, forums, interviews, podcast, news and more on entrepreneurship (especially for young entrepreneurs)
    • My Adsense Guide – An internet marketing blog by an online entrepreneur.
    • 52 Reviews – Entrepreneurship, productivty, and GTD, oh, and books.
    • Wuraweb – Find Local Businesses and Services – Find Local Businesses’ exact prices, contacts, ratings and more. Also post your listing for FREE on Wuraweb.com
    • StartupNation – StartupNation is your source for small business advice – participate in our entrepreneur forum, get help starting a business, find resources to work from home.
    • Unusual Business Ideas That Work – Uncommon Business is a blog about people who make money online selling unusual, strange and sometimes bizarre things or provide curious services.
    • Paul Allen (the lesser) – Internet entrepreneur.
    • YE Blogger – World’s Largest Directory of Young Entrepreneur Blogs
    • Small Biz Survival – By and for small business people in rural areas and small towns.
    • Diamond Cut – Offers entrepreneurial advice for fitness professionals and others who want to grow a service business.
    • WorkHappy.net – Killer Resources for Entrepreneurs
    • Cinventure – Cincinnati’s resource for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.
    • Singapore Entrepreneurs – A Singaporean Blog on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
    • NicheGeek.com – Showing you what others overlook.

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  • Photoshop Tutorials

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    WP Plugins March 22, 2007

    FeedBurner SiteStats Enabler allows you to add the code to the theme that allows Feedburner to track your site stats as well.

    Yet Another Photoblog converts your WordPress 2.x installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

    Rob Neville’s Firestats Popular Content Plugin displays your most popular blog posts as tracked by FireStats.

    GenKeep is a plugin which allows WordPress to keep track of your birthday. You can display your current age, your birthday, and lots of other age related things.

    Wiki Syntax allows you to use simple wiki syntax for posts.

    Nike+ iPod Stats plugin for WordPress is a great way to display to the world how you’re doing at your workouts. It uses Nike’s public API (the same one used for the official Nike widgets) to retrieve your personal data and formats it to display correctly on your WordPress blog.

    Flog Maker is an entirely self-contained alternative flash blog system that resides within a WordPress plugin, designed for absolutely seamless integration with your WordPress installation.

    Flashbox is is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page using a combination of Javascript and Flash 8.

    altrugon dropdown categories gives you a function called altrugon_dropdown_categories() which displays your categories in a drop down list and at the same time use the onchange() event to submit the chosen category. (Site in Spanish)

    Weather.com widget – shows forecast information for a city. Displays image related to current conditions.

    Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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  • WP Plugins March 21, 2007

    Noembedder inserts a noembed section into any embedded content (videos, etc.) in your posts. It inserts a customisable message, and for Youtube videos, a thumbnail too.

    Dahnielson’s Footnotes adds footnotes to your posts.

    Language Plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress. The way it works is that you will write the content for your blog in multiple languages, using special HTML tags.

    ScoreRender renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.

    bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML in wordpress pages and posts.

    Skinner adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes.

    Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel.

    Inline Ajax Page displays an excerpt of your post (the same way WordPress does when you use the_excerpt or a <!--more--> tag), but rather than making the user go to another page to read the remainder of the post, this plugin uses Ajax to download and display the rest of it when the user clicks a link to read more.

    Ask the Oracle displays the random answer to a question in Magic 8-ball fashion

    WP-o-Matic create posts from RSS/Atom feeds in the categories you select.

    post thumb revisited automatically generates thumbnails from post content.

    External Identities – Flickr turns WordPress into a Flickr Identity consumer so that users can sign up and sign in without a password.

    GT Post Approval adds Approve/Reject buttoms visible just for administrators and editors in edit » posts.

    The WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin generates a weighted WordPress category-based tag or category

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  • AJAX Tutorials

    A list of good and well known tutorials for AJAX Applications. From simple widgets to entire application. Find it all here.

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  • Like to Take Notes?

    Check these sites out.

    • Google Notebook – Google’s notebook. You are able to make private or public scrap books so that people can see your research and your notes.
    • writely – Best online word processor online. Acquiered by google and is currently by inventation only.
    • dublish.com – Write articles fast, nice layout.
    • Sabifoo – use your instant messanger service to post notes to a web page or rss feed
    • Zoho Planner – online planner with note capiblities
    • Writeboard – from 37 signals the makers of Backpackit create an online message board with comments can create unlimited boards
    • My Yellow Pad – create and store notes online free
    • yahoo! Notepad – Online note taking from Yahoo!
    • Wallnote – an online note taking site as well as a todo list
    • Fly Note – great note site that generates everybodys note on it’s home page
    • Wridea – super online note taking site with mulitiple pages and can add images to notes
    • Sunny Notes – lets your organize your note into folders
    • Your Draft – create and edit notes online
    • Short Text – create notes with there own url must buy url to re-edit notes $2:00 per url per year
    • Pianist – create and store notes online
    • Paste Here – create and store notes online
    • cL1p – the online clipboard allows you to copy and paste between computers
    • Our Note Pad – create and store notes online
    • Change to Link – online note taking app
    • Web Note – online note taking site that lets you HTML and add links and images no sign just create a note space
    • Sync Notes – comes with a downloadable program which can be used to create notes from your desktop free
    • Infogami – create a free web site in seconds can be edited by anyone sort of a mini web site
    • Snapbits – free online note taking and keeping site
    • Stu.dicio.us – for students all notes are public includes a todo list notes etc… free
    • Nottr – Small, tag based, gmail-like interface. Sharing, txt/zip export, html support.
    • stikkit – Intelligent notepad. It feels urls, to-do lists, schedules as you type (e.g., “buy flowers” will be detected as todo). Sharing, exporting, prining, reminders support.
    • Google Notepad – Very basic notepad. Organize with folders and sections (but no tree view). Drag&drop, sharing support. Integrity with Firefox by handy extension.
    • Helipad – Tag based. Textile formatting, exporting, sharing, printing, add-ons support.
    • goowy – if you have a fast computer and high speed connection, this online desktop works well for taking online notes and much more. i’m not a member of the goowy team – just a new big fan of theirs.
    • Protopage – Something like Netvibes but more “note” oriented and somewhat simplier!
    • Deusto – create an editable online e-book free
    • Post-It Note Generator – Post your notes to an image of a “post it”!
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  • Try Your Luck. Search With These…

    • Yedda – People. Sharing. Knowledge. – Yedda connects people looking for knowledge with people who have the knowledge. **Ask, Answer, Explore** Didn’t find what you’re looking for? Ask and get great answers from real people.
    • Vivisimo – Best cluster search site out there. More results than google everytime. :)
    • Exalead – audio, video, rss search results clustering, phonetic search, sites thumbs
    • Clusty – Clusty the Clustering Engine.
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    • Searchbots – Build your own search robot and send it out to search the world by tag, colour, mood and location.
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    • Otavo – The Intention Engine – Search by Questing. Start a quest that interests you and have others join your quest and help you find and gather information faster. Quest for knowledge (Q&A), Quest for achievement (Task/Project tracking), Quest for order (Organize information).
    • Wink – Social search
    • Gravee – Social Search
    • Site Map Engine – Outune is a Web2.0 like service that allows to display the tree structure of a web space, showing title, absolute URL, used protocol, mimetypes, size and relation with the root url. It can be useful to extract a deeper map of a web site or web space. It can also generate a simple Google Sitemap in wml format.
    • Zemnix Metasearch – The most complete metasearch.
    • Mooter – Clustering Engine.
    • PreFound – PreFound – search what people have already found
    • flipnsearch – MetaSearch engine that allows you to save results to del.icio.us.
    • Why is a Logo so Important to Your Business? – Well, a logo for your business. Why is it important? Does it matter what it looks like? Is Yours Professional?
    • Web 2.0 Search Engine – Simply search for a keyword of what your wish to make or work with to see the tools available (example search links: mashups, blogging, viral videos, clipart, designing, social tagging, AJAX apps, file storage/sharing, RSS feeds, anti-spam tools, CSS layout generators, image editors, webmaster tools, calculators, file conversions, blog (URL) submits, web APIs, tutorials, etc). Please submit sites you find useful relating to the topic “WEB 2.0″. Each accepted site recieves a Web2.0 award.
    • Comedy Search Engine (Official) – Over 10,000 funny and time wasting useless sites.
    • Canada Directory – www.FriendlyCanadian.com :)
    • Find-For.US – **American domain names only for the initial search, then it portals out to other niche portals and customized searches.**
    • Multi Web Search – Multi Web Search site with 98 search engines, where you can search on four search engines at a time.
    • Webmunism Video Search – Video meta search engine with playback of videos direct from search results.
    • Traffic From Search Engines – The entire consulting industry is studying based on tweaking web pages to get themto the top of search engine results in the hope of capturing more traffic.
    • Lead2Amazon – Lead2Amazon searches book, music, DVD, etc. through Amazons. The output can include BibTeX, disc track, and related goods.
    • Dealing with an SEO specialist – Our SEO specialist has the required skills to up your bussiness in getting the web site to search engine rangking. make your site as valuable to the search user’s.
    • PicFindr: search the free-stock-photosphere – PicFindr finds photos and images you can use in your commercial (for money) projects. It searches several hand-picked free stock photo sites simultaneously and combines the results into a single page.
    • Be friendly to search engines – The object of search engines is to give their visitors a list of web pages relevant to the search words, in the order of relevance to the search words. So what do they want from websites?
    • Will You Site be a BIG SUCCESS. 7 Reasons Why it Might Not! – With so many new websites going up, it is hard sometimes to tell if your site will be a BIG SUCCESS or an unexpected flop? If you are unsure of whether or not your site will fly with visitors or crash and burn, this article is definitely for you.
    • Sparkl | The Web Designer’s Search Engine – ** A Search Engine Built Just For Web Designers. ** Search over 1400 web design resources to find answers to your questions. If you are a web designer, you’ll love Sparkl!
    • Mojacity – Bright lights, big city, the options are endless in Toronto. So much to do, so much to see, so much to eat and so much to live for that the choices can be overwhelming. This is where MojaCity comes in. We are a comprehensive database designed to let you explore dining, nightlife and apartment ideas. Menus, descriptions, pictures and much more are waiting for you. Take a peak!
    • Quintura – Visual search using a cloud of related words. It dynamically changes search results when you add/exlude a word to search query
    • ePrécis – The ePrécis Web site is an example of a new technology that creates abstracts from any text document. In this search implementation, web sites relevant to your search requests are analyzed by ePrécis and the results are returned to you in typical search format.
    • TagTooga.com – Social bookmarking / Wiki-directory with Search.
    • Sir Seek’s Talking Search Engine – Many features from thesaurus to spell checker (tonnes of advanced search tools)! Free to submit your web site for instant URL inclusion! Try our free toolbar, it’s the best around and let’s you search or add links to over 300 top major search engines!
    • Med Checker (Not A Pill Selling Site) – Look up relevant information pertaining to your medical conditions or medications prescribed. This is not a portal that tries to sell you meds, it’s just a medical search engine. Many university EDU and actual medical websites from goverment sector. Many student doctor/nurse learning resources and reading material. Great way to look up your prescription drugs for side effects or common dosages (per weight/KG).
    • Max Spider – Instant URL Inclusion – Simple and easy to submit your website for free web promotion, instantly have your URL submitted! You page is cached in text format for advanced search techniques.
    • IceRocket – Search blogs, MySpace, Phone pics, and the web in general.
    • surch – very cool
    • Complore – Complore not only provides a huge online repository of bookmarks on it’s site but also various kind on lectures, papers, journals and articles. Should be a first choice for students and researchers.
    • Power Search The Search Engines – Search over 100 search engines from this one simple search page, type in one search term and it is readied on the top search engines (just click the desired links).
    • Crisis/Disaster Search Engine – Learn about natural and man made diasters. Ways of recovering after tradegy and ways to prevent death/injury by disaster planning. Please blog with your helpful ideas too. Make your own disaster plan and ready kit today, it could save lives (even your own)!
    • KartOO – Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map. The found sites are represented by more or less important size pages, depending on their relevance.
    • less goo – Less-goo is a quick search resource with a very simple English interface.
    • WHAK.com edy Search Engine! – Thousands of links to humor and fun web sites, free to submit your favorite funny pages. Stuff like jokes, pranks (prank radio), funny songs, religious slurrs, stupid sites, time wasting, boredom killers, silly links, etc. Please add your favorite funny URLs to this database of comedy links.
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    • Canada/Canadian Search Engine – A portal made by Canadians! Everything Canada from tourism to hunting/fishing! Everyone loves the friendly Canucks!
    • Grokker – Clustering search with circles
    • Homeless Search Engine – Use this free service at any library, search for helpful resources in the largest city closest to you! Tell others, poverty and low income people can benefit from this site too, not just for homelessness!
    • AlltheWeb Livesearch – We are testing a new search experience to make things faster and easier. Livesearch Beta provides real-time suggestions and instant search results as you type.
    • Windows Live Search – Windows Live Search beta gives you instant answers in search categories including news, maps, product and shopping information, items in academic journals, images and more. And you won’t have to click through dozens of pages to see your results—they’re all presented on one clean, easy-to-read page.
    • Kosmx – Vertical search portals with clusters
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  • Sharing is Caring

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    • DC++ – Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it is easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto-connections and resuming of downloads.
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    • MyOtherDrive.com – Great file sharing site. Get 5GB online storage which can be shared with your family and friends. You control who sees what. Ability to share publicly, useful for eBay auctions, MySpace, FaceBook, etc.
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    • Netizen – Like FedEx for digital parcels. This Mozilla based Desktop app allows users to send huge files (over 4GB!) securely and quickly without bogging down email. Uses intelligent relaying to ensure reliable delivery of data. With an intelligent p2p architecture it doesn’t require massive hosting costs as other apps and sites do.
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    • BitComet – Easy to use, nice interface.
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    • KCeasy – Access the OpenFT, Gnutella, and Ares Galaxy networks. Opensource too.
    • Krawler[x] – Good: p2p + Social Network + Content builder + RSS + Friends Network + Full Text Search + Good UI + Easy to use Bad: Windows Based :-(
    • BitPump – AnalogX BitPump is a sophisticated BitTorrent client that supports many of the important features needed to get the most out of torrent files
    • Get all the FREE MP3′s you want CLICK HERE -
    • Satellite TV – 100% FREE – 100% Legal – Over 3000 Channels -
    • limewire – a p2p software
    • Cabos -
    • BearShare Lite – The Best. Make sure you choose lite.
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    • WinMX_Music – Great and easy to use P2P software for music downloads!
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