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DailyLit - Read Stories in Short Installments via Email and Feeds
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 24, 2009
There are so many like us who love reading stories in short stints, especially when we read them on our computer or mobile screens.
As the problem arises, so does the solution. This problem is now being tackled in a totally innovative way. A new service ‘DailyLit’ lets you read entire books in short and customized installments. These will be sent to you by email or feeds (which can be read using Feed Readers).
Their service currently offer over 1000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis. It includes bestselling and award winning titles, from literary fiction and romance to language learning and science fiction.
DailyLit - Read Books Online by Daily Email and RSS Feed
You can opt to receive these packets (installments) on your Blackberry and iPhone too. This makes you read on the go. You can even schedule the delivery of these packets.
You can read each installment in under 5 minutes and if you have more time to read, you can receive additional installments immediately on demand.
How Does it Works
Getting started is really easy. If you’d like to be a part of the community, you can register for a free account.
If you just want to read a book, there is no need to register. You can browse books by title, author or genre. When you find a book you like, click on it to go to the details page.
The details page will display all information related to total installments, the cost, members ratings and reviews, etc. Here you can opt to subscribe for yourself or even request to gift this book for someone else.
When subscribing for yourself, you can choose how frequently, what time and the mode through which you want to receive your installments. Enter an e-mail address and hit submit.
More Features on DailyLit Website
You can discuss your favorite books and author on their twitter groups and forums.
The gift service offers you to send books to friends, with installments starting on any date you choose. Each installment can be sent with a personalized message written by you.
visit website - http://www.dailylit.com/
StyleHop - Fashion Made Fun | Shopping Made Easy
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 3, 2009
StyleHop is a fashion rating site that asks users to browse and rank their favorite outfits by playing interactive fashion games. Their aim is to be a fashion destination for unbiased wisdom-of-crowd consumer advice and industry analytics.
StyleHop - Fashion Made Fun | Shopping Made Easy
StyleHop present style in a forum outside of magazines, advertisements, and celebrity-endorsed trends. Members will provide information about themselves (age, gender, location, etc) and regularly play style ranking games.
These games will determine style preferences and trends as expressed by the populace, rather than by select style editors.
The social games are part of StyleHop’s effort to provide a different experience for its users as it asks for a few ratings at a time. The site’s app will soon be on popular social networks as well, giving a boost to the number of users, though for now StyleHop’s focusing on general clothing trends at certain universities.
It’s easy to share your style preferences by playing their fun style rating games, which help both you and the entire StyleHop community get even smarter about fashion.
Most importantly, their fashion games will prompt women to provide a five-star ranking for each style presented. Playing StyleHop games will create the star ranking data that feeds StyleHop’s shopping engine and helps consumers shop styles based on the product rankings of people just like them.
Additionally, Stylehop allows results to be filterable not only by brand and product attributes but also by whom you want providing your five-star rankings.
StyleHop’s low-cost access to highly screened, predictive fashion consumers will allow them to sell fashion companies wisdom-of-crowd demand forecasting.
visit website - http://www.stylehop.com/
PhotoJoy - Do Magic with Your Pictures | Create Collages wallpapers , Animated widgets and 3D Screensavers
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 2, 2009
PhotoJoy is a free downloadable application that uses your photos to produce neat desktop widgets, 3D photo screensavers and wallpaper collages.
You can either use photos located on your computer, or ones uploaded to your Flickr account. PhotoJoy can also use your Flickr stream to keep your photos fresh.
Do Magic with Your Pictures | Create Collages wallpapers , Animated widgets and 3D Screensavers.
With Photojoy you can do lots of very cool stuff with your photos.
Uploading your photos to PhotoJoy is quick and simple. You can choose to upload photos saved on your computer or any photos from your Flickr account.
In addition, PhotoJoy also offers a Web streaming option that automatically updates your PhotoToys (their widget), screensavers and wallpaper collages with new photos from Flickr as soon as they become available.
PhotoJoy runs well on most Windows setups, but Mac is not supported right now.
visit website - http://www.photojoy.com/
Smibs - Software and Networking for Businesses that Aim to Grow Smart
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 29, 2008
Smibs, a web based software company which provides businesses with practical lessons from a diverse group of entrepreneurs, is devoted to help businesses ‘Grow Smart’.
They offer web based software which enables businesses to establish extensive and effective contact networks and allows users to view the past experience and skill sets of prospective business partners.
Smibs - Software and Networking for Businesses that Aim to Grow Smart
They have designed a suite of business applications with one simple login, allowing you to access their entire suite of products in rich and intuitive interface.
Smibs provides two products.
Doorbell allows companies to manage their sales process through a slick and simple interface without the clutter of a ton of features. The application seeks to help small businesses track contacts, follow sales leads and keep up to date on who needs to be contacted and for what reason.
SmibsNet is a social business network that enables professionals to connect with one another. Smibs is trying to differentiate from other similar offerings by providing tools for small and medium sized businesses to “get things done”
For most professional service providers there is always too much going on to stay on top of everything. Smibs and Doorbell allow you to keep on top of things, without having to learn a complex system to be able to do it.
In addition, SmibsTV and the Smibs Blog highlight the innovative business practices of local entrepreneurs and provide much-needed coverage for bootstrapped businesses.
visit website - http://smibs.com/
visit blog - http://blog.smibs.com/
Chegg - An Online Textbook Rental Service for Students
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 24, 2008
Chegg.com provides a revolutionary online textbook rental service, offering over two million used books and 800,000 new book titles for students to rent, rather than buy.
Chegg helps college students save hundreds of dollars on textbooks each semester. With savings from 65-85% on millions of rental textbooks to choose from, finding the textbooks you need at discounted prices is easy, not to mention their fast delivery and free return shipping means you’ll never have to stand in a bookstore line again.
Chegg - An Online Textbook Rental Service for Students
Here’s how it works: students find the books they want by searching by ISBN, author, title or keyword. The rental price for the semester or quarter is just 20-30% of the full retail price, and are delivered within eight business days. At the end of the term, the students receive a pre-paid shipping box to return them.
Chegg offers great prices, free return shipping, over one million titles to choose from, flexible rental periods. You can order books from home or work, have them delivered to your door, and not have to worry about where to put them or where to sell them when your class is over. They take the risk on whether those books will be worth anything next semester, so you don’t have to!
Chegg is also committed to preserving our forests both by reusing textbooks and by planting a tree for every textbook you rent, buy, sell or donate.
More than 20 million trees a year are destroyed to make books. Renting helps make sure we get the most out of our resources, and by planting a tree for every book that’s rented, together they are giving a little back to Mother Nature.
Chegg is delivering this program in partnership with the newly founded Eco-Libris, an organization that seeks to balance out the trees cut down for the production of books by planting trees in developing countries.
visit website - http://www.chegg.com/
UVLayer - Collect and Share Videos with Friends Across Social Networks
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 22, 2008
UVLayer allows user to search for videos and organize them in a Minority Report fashion. Do a search for any video and uvLayer will instantly provide you with a handful of videos matching your keywords in a collection. With the results, you can drag videos outside the collection and onto your canvas to play with them in a variety of ways.
The service revolves around a video player and sharing tool, letting you search for clips across the web, and share them with friends with drag and drop capabilities. Share with AIM, GTalk, Yahoo!, MSN, GaduGadu and Facebook. Now with Flickr and YouTube Favorites and Playlist Support. Once you’ve downloaded Adobe AIR and the UVLayer application, you can login and begin watching clips.
UVLayer - Collect and Share Videos with Friends across Social Networks
There’s a lot of features for you to play around with and interact with the videos you choose. While the default size for each video you play is small, you can easily resize the video boxes on the fly.
A URL is provided for sharing with friends including an embed url for the video. You can watch any one of these, see related clips, leave a comment or see the activity going on around this clip.
You can group videos into a collection or organize them around one another in a really cool fashion. Just drag and drop videos right on top of one another and they’ll instantly be grouped together. You can also watch all the videos in a collection as a playlist.
uvLayer has a great UI and ran smoothly even with the plethora of videos spread out all over the place. Other features include an inbox and activities box to keep track of videos sent and received and the ability to watch a video on your desktop instead of in the application.
visit website - http://www.uvlayer.com/
Memiary - Record Your Daily Memory in Online Web Diary
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 19, 2008
Memiary is a simple diary service that prompts you to enter up to five sentence fragments about what you did today and lets you look back by date at what you did in the past.
It’s really simple, from the gracefully implemented account creation process to the AJAX item editing. Basically, it’s like a diary for your memory - hence the name, Memiary.
Memiary - Record Your Daily Memory in Online Web Diary
The site built by developer Sid Yadav over the course of a weekend, is looking to help you remember what you’ve been doing with your life. Record up to five memories of your day and make them memorable forever. As they quote “Memiary is the weightless pocket diary.”
The entire process, from start to finish, is ridiculously easy. Choose a username, a password, and write down five things you’ve done today. These should be things that you may want to remember later, but which may not be important enough to warrant an entire blog post. You can post up to five activities or thoughts on any day.
You can come back and edit/delete them anytime today. But chances are, you are doing this at 11am, so you probably won’t need to. Tomorrow, you’ll have a fresh blank list, and you can do the same to things which happened to you or you did tomorrow.
These will take two minutes to do each day, and a year later when you look back, you’ll be glad you did.
visit website - http://www.memiary.com
visit blog - http://blog.memiary.com/
OpenStreetMap - Create and Provide Free Geographic Data to Everyone
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 18, 2008
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way.
The maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography and other free sources. Both rendered images and the vector dataset are available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
OpenStreetMap - Create and Provide Free Geographic Data to Everyone
The availability of aerial photography and other data sources from commercial and government sources has greatly increased the speed of this work and has allowed land-use data to be collected more accurately.
OpenStreetMap is inspired by sites such as Wikipedia — the map display features a prominent ‘Edit’ tab and a full revision history is maintained.
With this great site, you’ll be able to see a user-generated map of almost every city in the world. Many users keep diaries on the site. These deal with the travels they’re taking which allow them to complete these maps. It’s very interesting to see to what lengths some people go to provide this site with accurate data.
If you have a GPS device, you will know that the maps of your home town are probably not too accurate. Even you can collaborate with pretty simple steps - Let your GPS device track your way to work, export the data as GPX, and upload on openstreetmap.org. Then go into the editor and start adding as much detail as you can.
visit website - http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Amuso - Create An Online Next Generation Game Show
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 17, 2008
Amuso.com brings the reality game show craze to the web. Next Top Models, Pop Idols, Comedy Kings - anyone can create a show. Users can browse everything from photo contests to high glamour talent shows.
Create a show and make money when it takes off, or be a contestant to showcase their talent. If they want to take part in any number of games, they are charged £1 per entry. Channel categories include Lifestyle, Comedy, Music, Beauty, and Impact.
Create an online Next Generation Game Show
Not only can anyone create a show, anyone can win real prizes too. The winners are determined by the votes of registered users only. Presenters also get the opportunity to win awards—every time a new contestant joins, they’ll get 15% of the total prize pool of the show.
Unlike game shows on TV, Amuso provides everyone with simple tools to create personalised shows for their audiences.
Users can customise their show for their network from a Next Top Baby contest on thebabywebsite.com, karaoke contests for music fanatics with their Chinese partners iKala or, like Stephanie from Paris, a fashion show for her design class.
Co-founded in 2007 by ex-Yahoo Jordi Bartomeu and media business strategist Barak Rabinowitz, Amuso’s ambition is to be one of the first interactive and content-rich game platforms on the Web to become monetarily self-sufficient and allow users to reap some of the profits.
Amuso network is based on the popularity of the likes of American Idol and YouTube celebrities.
visit website - http://www.amuso.com/
Genwi - Social Network of Feeds and Bookmarks
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 15, 2008
Genwi is a content sharing site that provides everyone with their own content channel. Genwi lets people follow friends, favorite sites, magazines, videos, anything in their Wire. When their sources post something new - their Wire displays the update.
The site also has a directory for popular content that appears to be based solely on what is being shared the most. You can browse most-shared items by the week, month, content type and category type.
Genwi - Social Network of Feeds and Bookmarks
Its central focus is on supporting social networking dedicated to the easy sharing and promotion of online media RSS feeds.
The aim of the service is to provide you with a single location from which you can browse incoming news, blogs, podcasts and videos, subscribe to those that interest you, and recommend the ones you select to both your social network of subscribers as well as to all of Genwi users.
It’s better than checking email for shared links and videos. Genwi lets your friends share what they like directly with you on the site. Each time you check your Wire at Genwi you’ll see new content your friends have shared with you.
Genwi is a combination of Google Reader and FriendFeed with sophisticated search, auto-categorization, and filtering features.
In Genwi, Each member gets a profile page where they can also upload their favorite blogs, videos, etc via RSS. Their content is then indexed and available for searching, browsing and subscribing within hours.
The most shared content gets a higher rank. Genwi simply facilitates media/content sharing. You could use a social bookmarking service or aggregate your RSS feeds, but Genwi does it all in one place.
visit website - http://www.genwi.com/
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