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I have finally ditched corporate life for good. I have embarked on the adventure of small business owner 100%.
Since I will be spending a lot more time getting things started, I fear that daily entries in this blog will suffer.
Here is what I hope to post in this blog going forward-
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Contactify lets you create your own personal contact form for your website or blog with no technical experience needed. People click on it, they can send you a message. And you never reveal your email address. This reduces spam, guards your privacy, and keeps you contactable.

It’s Free.
Technorati Tags: Contactify, form, blog

MySyndicaat is a personalized aggregator that lets you pull content from a a wide array of information sources on the web - automate keyword searches (Google, Yahoo, …), pull in RSS feeds from news organizations, monitor discussions on blogs. News and information can be filtered to ensure relevant, concise content. Remove duplicates, create user-defined rules […]

AirDefense Personal protects the mobile workforce from the wireless-specific risks that could expose private data and confidential transactions. It provides protection for wireless LANs from intruders, hackers, interference and network abuses. So before you connect to that city-wide “free” WLAN in the park, protect yourself and your company’s data.

Benefits include:
Comprehensive […]

Blog Backup Online is a tool I just started using to automatically backup all of my blogs (including this one.) It’s nice to be able to set and forget this maintenance issue.

So far it is free. It says I have a Basic account (see below), but there is no info on what any other account […]

GreenDimes makes it easy to be green. Kermit would be proud.

Did You Know?
To produce junk mail for one year, we use 100 million trees and 28 billion gallons of water.

If your like me you can’t stand all those useless flyers and credit card applications (which are a personal security hazard IMHO) and other junk mail […]

It’s all about collaboration; 2+2 = 22; the sum is greater than it’s parts…

There are dozens (hundreds?) of web 2.0 applications geared toward small team collaboration, but here are 3 that you should have in your utility belt - or at least try out and see if they improve your team interaction.

(1) Big Contacts - […]

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Why buy from Amazon Cell Phones and Service (click logo above)?
Amazon offers the hottest phones, 30-day returns, an easy comparison shopping experience, and some of the most competitive cell phone pricing on the Web.

I got Verizon America’s Choice 450 Minutes at $39.99 per month (saves me about $12/mo). They also have T-Mobile myFaves 600 […]

Think it. Build it. Share it - with Coghead.

Develop custom apps quickly, and share them with your co-workers in real time. The revolutionary Coghead application delivery service provides an intuitive drag and drop development environment so you can build, and maintain, your custom applications yourself… no coding required!

The long list of features includes:
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Most entrepreneurs really hate the money management and accounting side of the business (myself included, I’m too lazy to learn QuickBooks) so anything that can take the drudgery of that task away is a big plus. Here are two Web 2.0 online apps that can help with this…

LessAccounting is a slimline accounting, invoicing app specifically […]

EventWax:
The easier, smarter way to organize special events, from conferences and workshops to parties, gigs, and receptions. Send out invites and collect RSVPs. A customizable, hosted web site for your event in which you can sell tickets via Paypal - ticket types allowed are free, limited, early bird, bulk discounted, and numerous other options.

Lynda.com […]

Here are 3 RSS-based services for small business. These resources show ou how to use RSS for marketing, mashups and and content distribution.

Ploud is an RSS marketing tool which allows you to build a sequence of marketing messages which your clients can subscribe to - this is ideal for tutorials, courses, lessons, marketing campaigns and […]