CubeTree.com - Enterprise Social Network

In general terms, CubeTree is a network that is looking for a niche in the social enterprise area. Through it, entrepreneurs can connect and interact professionally, as well as collaborating together in different projects. Groups can easily be created and joined, and you can clearly define your business identity and goals. CubeTree comes complete with a blogging platform of its own, and wikis can be created effortlessly too. Furthermore, polls can be conducted anytime and you can learn how the different people that work for you feel on the spot, and change anything that should be changed. In...   read more

Snipi.com - Online Shopping Made Smooth

Snipi is a new online destination that has just become available to the general public. Broadly speaking, it will let anybody have a smoother shopping experience on the web, both by carrying out accurate price comparisons and by finding related items to the ones the user is after. In order to get started, you must create an account. Upon doing so, you will be able to download the existing toolbar. This toolbar is available to Firefox users only, and once you have installed it you will be capable of dragging and dropping anything you like and have the relevant information gathered for you. The...   read more

FreshBrain.org - Where Teens Explore Technology

FreshBrain is a platform that aims to let teenagers explore different technology areas, create projects and then show what they have done to others over the web. I find this resource highly interesting, as both open and sponsored projects are featured, and collaborative tasks are actively encouraged. Projects are listed in the section named “Tech area”, whereas a project of its own can be easily created if you have an idea that is not yet covered by the available categories. Alternatively, you can join any project that is currently in progress. Note that in any case software is available ...   read more

TicketLeap.com - Sell Tickets To Your Events

TicketLeap is a new platform for the selling of tickets to events over the web. Not only the selling of tickets, actually – it lets anybody promote any given event online, and reach a public as wide as can be. This solution is free for event organizers, too. Buyers can use all major credit cards such as Visa, Mastercard and American Express. TicketLeap can be employed when it comes to events of every denomination. Sports and music events top the list, obviously, but you will be able to employ it for business events and any type of academic activity. Facebook is fully supported when it co...   read more

Resizem.com - Editing Images In An Easy Way

If you are looking for a quick and easy way to edit images over the web, then look no further than this site. Basically, it is a wholly browser-based solution that is provided at no cost whatsoever. The site will let you upload a picture in JPG, PNG or GIF format, and then modify it in a wealth of different ways. You can resize it, crop it or watermark it as well as applying different filters such as “Grayscale”, “Blur” and “Sepia”. These are enough options for you to take care of any basic editing task, and come up with something more than acceptable in the end. Again, it is al...   read more

GizaPage.com - A Social Network Organizer

It is not easy being a keen web socialite. One has to keep up with so many identities that no one would blame him if the soundtrack to his life became Leonard Cohen’s song “In My Secret Life”. Solutions like this one are there to bring some sense of stability into the whole premise. Basically, GizaPage will let you not only create a social identity website in order to keep everything in check, but also to discover more about his friends. Profiles of multiple friends can then be compared side by side. The provided platform also lets the user define which parts of his profile others can s...   read more

reMail.com - Email Search For Your iPhone

A new iPhone app that can be procured for free during the existing beta period, reMail will enable you to look up information contained within any e-mail that you have received and retrieve it effortlessly. Once installed, the app works in an intuitive way indeed. It auto-completes names and makes suggestions whenever you are executing a search, and (best of all) it can even work offline. In practice, that means you will be able to find your information wherever and whenever reception is troublesome such as tunnels or planes. Finally, reMail works with any service that supports IMAP – IE, ...   read more

TagDef.com - Twitter Hashtags Defined

A resource that goes by a suitable name, TagDef will let you finally realize what does these obscure hashtags that accompany tweets really mean. As you know, a hashtag is a word or term that is added to a tweet on order to contextualize it and let other people find it more easily. Hashtags are likewise employed for grouping purposes, and gathering together different tweets on the spot. The site is completely user-driven, and every definition has been forwarded by users. This means that you can also submit definitions of your own, or modify any existing definition should the current one miss t...   read more

RoadTwip.us - A Road Trip Gone Twitter

A road trip gone Twitter. That is what this site is all about. Three online friends have embarked on an offline adventure, or if you want to use less poetic words, two guys and a gal have taken their van and started a journey to attend a conference in Omaha. This journey is covered the Twitter way, hence the name of the site. A little background on these journeymen (and woman). Kurt Daradics is a social catalyst that has a startup named Freedom Speaks where he raises civic awareness. Jonathan Dingman is a Wordpress developer and tech scene photographer. Jolie O’Dell is a tech journalist and...   read more

AllTheUpdates.com - Post Updates On Everything

Launched in November 2008, this is a site anyone can access and employ free of charge. It lets any person post updates about everyone and everything. All the posted updates are categorized and a search functionality is likewise included. Registration is carried out by providing a valid e-mail address. On the other hand, there are different levels of membership for corporate users that change the types of updates that are shown on the screen. Four different subscription levels are available, too, and these include branded and premium accounts for companies. There is never any limitation as reg...   read more

MarketRiders.com - Investing Made Easy

Investment is something many people have more than a passing interest in, and owing to the difficulties such an endeavor poses to the layman it never goes beyond that point: something interesting that the person would like to try, but which is never tried at all. Those who do try their hands at it, though, do what is only natural - resort to a CPA. The people responsible for this startup claim that such a movement is wrong since these advisor professionals are depriving them from true control over their investments. The product they have devised to address this shortcoming is named E.Adviser...   read more

Portwiture.com - Your Twitter Status In Photos

A new experiment that can be described as a mashup blending Twitter and Flickr together, Portwiture will enable you to come up with “visual” tweets. That is, this solution grabs photographs from the popular image hosting service and matches these with your most recent Twitter updates, or with the latest tweets of any Twitter user you search for. In any case, when you carry out a search you can tweak with some aspects like choosing the pictures from the words the person uses the most, whereas the photos can be sorted by tags. These include “relevance”, “most interesting” and “mos...   read more

searchCLOUD.com - A Consolidated Search Engine

SearchCLOUD allows you to search various sites using a single search box. Rather than navigating to a site and then performing a search, at SearchCLOUD you enter your search query first, then choose a site from the cloud on your screen. You can customize your searchCLOUD and save it using a unique URL (IE rogerh.searchcloud.com) rather than having to create an account. SearchCLOUD, then, aims to become something akin to an alternative homepage from which you can smoothly surf the web. The approach is certainly interesting. Many people currently use Google or Yahoo as their homepage. To searc...   read more

WebToIM.com - Bringing Web Services To Your IM

A service that goes by a suitable name, Web To IM aims to bring some of the functionalities we all ready associate with instant messaging services to the ones inherent to web browsers and vice-versa. As the team responsible for it explains, one of the main disadvantages of a browser is that the presence of the user is not as prolonged or at least as imminent as that maintained when employing an IM tool. The project is taking off, and the first development that has materialized is an “Answers” service that (for the time being) is available only to Gmail users. Support both for Yahoo and M...   read more

XLHit.com - Translated Twitter & FriendFeed Search

As the title of the review denotes, this new tool will let you search conversations taking place in two of the most popular social services as of late, namely Twitter and FriendFeed. This search tool has the distinct advantage of letting you carry out real time translations into any language of your choice. That is, using the provided drop down boxes you will be able to choose both the source language and the language you wish the text to be translated into (the “Target language” in translation jargon). A nice feature is that you are always provided with the original texts. In practice, t...   read more