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June 28th, 2007

dappit

Dappit is a tool that lets you automatically create extraction routines for any online data (e.g., YouTube, blogs, news, flickr images, etc.) and turn it into a content feed in various formats, including RSS, XML, iCalendar, Google Gadget, Image Loop, etc.)

This free service can also be used to license and distribute content from your own […]

June 27th, 2007

Brainstorm Session #2: Identifying Process Improvements

At the end of each day I make an entry in my ‘Improvement Log’ by thinking about what went wrong, or took longer than it should have, or simply didn’t get done and then consider how it could be avoided (or improved). I keep this info in a systray notepad on my laptop. Once a […]

June 25th, 2007

Create Web Applications Easily with Caspio

Caspio is an online tool that lets you create custom web and database-powered applications without any programming. Building high-quality web forms, data searches, reports and web applications has never been easier. Caspio uses multiple layers of security to keep your data and transactions safe.

Built on Microsoft SQL Server with on-demand data import and export […]

June 22nd, 2007

Make Money with Your Great Ideas - with very little effort!

Invention Concept

If you have ever had a good idea but did not have the time or know-how to get it to market - here is a way to get an experienced company to do it for you and test the idea. They build a prototype of your idea and get it in front of corporations […]

June 20th, 2007

Blogging Toolbox

Mashable has a great compilation of Blogging resources in a recent post titled: Blogging Toolbox

Mashable also has a list of over 120 RSS Resources called RSS Toolbox.

June 19th, 2007

Shop and Compare Everywhere with Mpire

All the best shopping sites rolled into one!
Mpire will search eBay, Amazon, Target, etc. Use it to compare and research any product online.

June 18th, 2007

Free Conference Calling and Broadcast Messaging with Foonz

Foonz lets you do one of two things: (1) Create a conference call on-the-fly; (2) Send a broadcast message to a large group.

Sign-up for an a Foonz account. Now if you want to place a call, just dial the “foonz number” you got when you sign up and start a free group call or leave […]

June 14th, 2007

Informal Market Surveys to Test Small Crowds

Have a new product or business idea? Can’t decide which path to take on a certain issue? Want to identify the next trend? Create a poll or survey and use the wisdom of small crowds to test your idea.
Here is an example: “If you could include one other feature in your cell phone would […]

June 13th, 2007

Outlook Email in iGoogle

If you use iGoogle you can add Outlook email to your desktop.

Here are the stipulations:

To use this Gadget, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later and Microsoft Office XP.
You will also have to enable ActiveX Controls in your browsers security settings.

To use this gadget with FireFox you must have FireFox v2.0 and […]

June 11th, 2007

Webmasters, track and stop email harvesters

Project Honey pot is fighting back against spammers and email harvesters

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of […]

June 7th, 2007

Brainstorm Session #1 - How to Grow a Business

There are only three ways to grow a business:

Increase the number of customers.
Increase the average transaction value.
Increase the frequency of repurchase.

Find a way to maximize each one, and your business will experience an astonishing rate of growth.

Schedule three one hour meetings with those in your company and attack each one of the above. What can […]

June 6th, 2007

A good business resource newsletter

The Internet’s Most Popular Health, Wealth & Success E-zine

Early to Rise: Give us just 5 minutes every morning and before too long the result will be a healthier, wealthier, wiser, and happier you – we guarantee it!

Ever since I read Michael Mastersons book (see below) I have subscribed to his Early to Rise Newsletter and […]

June 4th, 2007

System Monitoring with Monitorix

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool that will let you monitor your servers CPU, RAM, and running processes.

Monitoring system core: CPU load and temperatures, active processes and memory allocation.
Monitoring system time spent by processes (user, nice, system, idle and i/o wait).
Monitoring system temperatures (only HP/Compaq ProLiant servers right now).
Monitoring mounted […]

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