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Longlongago - Online Library for Children’s Books
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, startups on April 22, 2010
Longlongago is an online library for kid’s books which lets them rent books. The books are available in many languages including English, Hindi, Telgu and French.
The portal has variety of books in their collection and it lets you browse the library and then order for the book. The best part is that it lets you create a customized profile as per your kid’s interest.
The website looks simple to use and is made colorful to attract kids and casual visitors.
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BookAngrila - Share Hardcopy of Books among Friends
Posted by whatsupgajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on March 16, 2010
BookAngrila is an intra college or school network for students to share their books among themselves.
Students of the network can publish information about the book they are having and the others in their network can request for the book. This would help in increasing the dialog and developing trust among students.
The web platform looks easy to use and can later be scaled up to share other resources and information among students.
Discover Your Lost Photos on Facebook with Face.com’s PhotoFinder and PhotoTagger
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 25, 2010
Face.com helps you discover photos on Facebook using facial recognition technologies. Their product suit includes Photo Finder and PhotoTagger.
PhotoFinder Apps
Its powerful application for finding lost pictures of you and your friends on Facebook. This application scans photos and detects all faces appearing on them, recognizing and automatically matching names to all faces.
PhotoTagger Apps
Photo Tagger uses facial recognition technology to automatically tag photos of people even if they remained untagged by users.
Once you install this app on facebook, it scans your photo albums and then lets you tag faces it identifies. It groups multiple shots of each person, making it easy to tag large albums, and you can also adjust or remove incorrectly tagged pictures.
Photo Tagger also features its Face Alerts system that continuously scans newly uploaded photos automatically and alerts the user when it detects their photo, or their friends, image whether tagged or untagged.
Company Insight
Israeli-based Face.com was founded by Eden Shochat Gil Hirsch in 2009 and has offices in Tel Aviv and New York in US.
Airbnb.com - Global Network of Accommodations for Travelers offered by Locals
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 24, 2010
Airbnb.com is an online marketplace that allows people to rent out their extra space and and offer travelers a viable alternative to hotels.
How It Works ?
After signing up and creating a member profile, you can search for accommodations or post a listing.
As a traveler you can search by country, city, room type, or price. Unlike other sites that users can use to rent out couches or guest bedrooms, Airbnb.com has a diverse repertoire of accommodations.
After searching through listings and finding a place that matches your destination, price range, and accommodation type, travelers contact the host directly through the website using a message inbox.
Listed Properties on Airbnb
There are listings available for private rooms, bed and breakfasts, boutique hotels, entire apartments, and even exotic locations such as castles, tree-houses and many other traditional and non-traditional accommodations.
AirBnB is also expanding geographically: it now lists properties in over 115 countries and more than 2677 cities.
Chirpio - Great Way to Find Interesting Twitter Users to Follow
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 23, 2010
Chirpio is a new service which aims to stop the twitter spam problem. The basic idea behind this service is to allow you to rate the people you follow, leave comments or just report them as spam.
It’s a great way to find interesting Twitter users to follow. To use this service, just sign up with your Twitter account via OAuth. In the right side column of Chirpio, you can find your own profile to see how users are rating you. You can also watch “Top Rated” rated users across the network.
How to rate users?
To rate someone you like: “@chirpio @username +” or “@chirpio @username good”.
To rate someone you hate:”@chirpio @ username -” or “@chirpio @username bad”
The same works with “spam” and you can also substitute “good” and “bad” for plus and minus, as well bulk rate people by including multiple names in these tweets.
Learn and Play Chess at One of World’s Largest Chess Community Platform - Chess.com
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 22, 2010
Chess.com is the whole world full of chess players; its an online community that provides enjoyable environment where you can learn, contribute, play, and share your skills with others.
Once you join this community, you can create your profile, get your own yourname@chess.com email address, maintain your blog, post articles, participate in forums, etc.
It also keeps track of all of your contributions to the site such as comments, blog posts, forum participation, articles, etc. Each contribution counts for points. This helps you know how involved each other are in Chess.com.
Using this service you can Play Chess on Your Cell Phone, IPhone etc. They do offer some social networking features which lets you play game with your facebook friends, iGoogle friends, or even download games on your computer.
Chess.com Founders
This online community is conceptualized by US based Erik and other team members using some fantastic resources, open source code, service providers, etc.
Quite recently it has expanded its service by merging with another online chess community named Chesspark.
Clicker - Search Engine for TV Content on the Web
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 20, 2010
Clicker is a search engine for TV content on web. Their goal is to give users access to a massive play list of TV to watch on the web.
It provides links to many different content providers on the internet who offer video in both standard and high definition, and in a wide variety of video players and technologies.
Clicker either plays the video on its site or links you to where this content is shown on another hosting site - like NBC or Hulu.
Huge Database of Video Content
As of now it has indexed more than 450,000 episodes, from over 6,000 shows, from over 1,200 networks, tens of thousands of movies, and 50,000 music videos from 20,000 artists.
The service also allows you to search through premium content including Netflix’s Instant Streaming movies and Amazon Video on Demand.
The site also offers music videos, and has started teaming up with schools to index their lectures and other original content.
Sell Your Photos From Your Own Website with Fotomoto
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 19, 2010
Fotomoto is a service that lets photographers sell photos directly from own their own websites in a simple and direct way.
How does it works?
This service works by offering a few lines of java script code, after which the images are automatically provided with a ‘Buy It Now’ link.
Sellers can change the settings so the ‘buy’ links appear completely integrated and branded to match their sites’ look and feel, and the back-end of the tool enables them to set the availability next to the sizes and pricing of the photos.
When visitors click the link to buy photos, a Fotomoto widget pops up and enables them to instantly purchase images. There’s also a sharing link, which lets people send the picture to others as an e-card.
Handles Backhand Processing
Fotomoto also handles all order processing and then prints packages and ships the purchased photos to customers. Its control panel allows users to set the pricing and availability of their photos, manage their orders and even track analytics data such as how many times a particular photo has been viewed or sent as an e-card.
Goodrec - Get Recommendations From Friends About Restaurants, Movies, Books and more
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 18, 2010
Goodrec provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources about local restaurants, movies, books and more stuff.
How does it work?
Goodrec enables fast and informed decision-making with ‘Thumbs Up’/’Thumbs Down’ recommendations and valuable Quick Tips.
Its proprietary technology makes intelligent suggestions based on personal taste and friends’ recommendations and displays “recs” for nearby spots in location-based categories.
How do I make a rec?
When you find something you’d like to rec, click on one of the icons to the right of the item’s name. A text box will pop up - use it to enter your Quick Tip of 160 characters of text.
Goodrec has recently launched an iPhone app which you can use when you’re on the move.
Create Professional Looking Resumes for Free with JobSpice
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 17, 2010
JobSpice is an online service that lets you create resumes for free.
Composing Resume
Composing resume with Jobspice is easy. Just choose the sections that you want to include like contact information, objective, education, coursework, experience, achievements, affiliations, skills, and publications.
You can also add custom sections to complete your resume and then choose a template once you enter all your data in.
JobSpice uses CSS to style the resumes it generates, which means you can totally rework the appearance of your resume with a minimal amount of design skills.
Export and Share Resume
After you have build your resume, you can export your resume as a PDF, print it straight from the browser, or share a link to others.
Because of the modular design of each resume built by the service, JobSpice makes it easy to customize resumes for each person you send them to. Simply check off which sections you’d like to include in your resume depending on what an employer is interested in, and the site will generate a unique URL for that version of the resume.
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