ThingFling.com

Another Woot like website. I blogged about Woot before and still believe that their service is superior but I do like that more companies are doing this business model. Selling one item till it sells out at below retail pricing. I think that Woot still sells better stuff but it is good to see that they sell different stuff, cause we are always looking for better deals.

Take a look

illumino.com

Now there are so much information out there from your favorite sources like Facebook, Myspace, RSS and your favorite blogs. How do you keep up? I would like to see say that Illumino.com is a great service and that it serves the purpose but I am sorry to say that it doesnt.

What they are trying to accomplish is great, a better way to interact with sites that you normally visit and spend time on. If you are like me, you always want to be update with the sites that you visit and would like a good way to get that information. However, having another application on your computer is not the solution. A web applet or web 2.0 start page might be a better option. Here are the reasons why I dont think this app is worth it.

1. Having another app that takes up CPU power and wants to run in startup is just plain annoying. There is so many things that slow your computer down already and this would be just another thing
2. You can join groups that you have similar interest in, at first this was a cool idea. However, who really has the time to spend on this app to get to know more people with your interests. You probably have groups that you are probably part of that you dont spend a lot of time with already.
   
3. RSS feeds, you can load your favorite feeds but doesnt every web 2.0 site offer this already. Why do I need an app for this.
   

All in all I just dont think it is worth it to have another program that doesnt do much compared to Google desktop.

FeedM8.com

FeedM8.com makes it easy for your sites rss feed to be made into a mobile webpage. You can get your content as well as users can get other feeds from their favorite blogs or pages.

I have signed up for it for nobrainerdeals.com and here is the screenshot of what it would look like for your mobile.


Look at Feedm8 content is super easy.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8.

1) Go to feedm8.com on your phone's browser. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you're looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)

2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Enter your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.

3) Add this button to your bookmarks

Internet Explorer: Right-click the button above, choose "Add to favorites."

Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar

Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"
To send a website you're browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you've just added.

If you are looking for nobrainerdeals.com feed on your phone type in http://www.feedm8.com/nobrainerdealstop10deals

Plus you can have the option of advertising with FeedM8 "

Mobile feeds and blogs are the fastest growing areas of mobile web. FeedM8 features high-quality, unique and independent mobile content. Join the hundreds of advertisers using FeedM8 to reach their audience!

To help you take advantage of mobile advertising, we offer both CPC and CPM solutions, in text-link and graphical banner formats. To find out more about our solution, please contact us."

The best part of this if you get web on your phone you can access pretty much any feed at any time with no or little more than what you are paying per month with your wireless carrier.

Take a look

Compusa Web 2.0

Compusa has added some web 2.0 tools which I think are worth pointing out.

They have recently added the quick add buttons of Facebook, Digg and del.icio.us. This is the first that I can tell that any major company has added these buttons to their sites. I think it is a wonderful way for them to promote their products but also embrace the modern technology that is coming out. Since more and more people are using Facebook, Digg and del.icio.us to get their information I think it is a strong move for them.

Lijit.com

Lijit.com is a new way for your users to search your blogs, rss and your social bookmarking sites. The setup is pretty easy, all you have to do is follow a couple of steps and you are all set.

At first I thought it was going to be another blog search app but I really like the fact that it will search my blog, rss feeds and also my social bookmarking sites. It really allows you to get the content that would be most relevant to what you blog about.

Lijit.com

How big companies are changing their approach in SL

A little from Reuters

The buzz around virtual worlds now is shifting from simply building a virtual headquarters to how companies can help employees work together or with customers more effectively.

Instead of declaring virtual worlds a failed experiment and pulling out, companies are rethinking their approach, much as they did on the Web a decade ago, when sites began evolving from little more than a few pages with brochure-style photos and information.

Some $200 million in investment has flowed to virtual world companies over the past year, and many of the three dozen or so efforts are focusing on corporate uses.

It is amazing how things are evolving so fast on SL

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Zonbu.com

Zonbu.com is a new way to look at computers. There is no need of expensive hardware (you do still need a monitor), free software and its green.


Hardware:

• Intel-compatible ultra-low power CPU - less than 10W power usage
• 512 MB RAM + 4GB flash-based local storage
• Graphics up to 2048 x 1536 (16 million colors, 75 Hz). Hardware graphics and MPEG2 acceleration.
• PC-compatible ports for keyboard and mouse
• 6 USB ports to plug-and-play all compatible USB accessories
• Broadband ready: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet built-in or add-on wifi adapter available to purchase
• Dimensions - 4.875" x 2.175" x 6.675" or 124mm x 56mm x 170mm

Software: Surf. Shop. Burn music. Trade stocks. Write letters. Crop photos. Calculate profits. Watch videos. Talk to friends. Zonbu comes with all the software you need to work hard, and play harder. There's nothing to buy, configure or troubleshoot — the world-class OS and 20 open source applications come installed and ready to go. When the latest application upgrade is released we automatically and transparently install it, keeping you up-to-date without you lifting a finger.

Green:

• 10W computer compared to 175W standard PC
• 1 ton of CO₂ emission saved
• $6 monthly saving on your electricity bill
  (based on 12 hour average daily usage)

Friendly to the environment

• First consumer desktop computer to receive EPEAT gold
• Lead-free device — RoHS compliant
• Small footprint — four time fewer chemicals during manufacturing
• Free recycling program to reduce electronic waste

Here is my opinion of this green machine. Now if you a user that just surfs the internet then this machines for you. Now it comes with 2GB of free automatic backup and if you need more they offer a plan for more storage space. For the $12.95 a month plan you get 25GB backup, unlimited internet support and -$150 discount off the hardware. For the $14.95 a month plan you get 50GB storage, everything else plus remote access. The $19.95 plan you get 100GB storage, plus everything above and overnight free hardware replacement with limited warranty.
Zonbu.com

Interesting report on Linden Dollar

Reuters reporting that "Linden Lab Chief Financial Officer John Zdanowski said last week the company makes US$5 million a year printing virtual money and injecting it into the Second Life economy.." They also reporting that the gambling ban halved the money spent initially in SL.


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ESC Reporting That They Will Be Launching A New Ad Campaign For SL

Coming, from The Electric Sheep Company

An ad network for Second Life and other Virtual Worlds.

For the entrepreneur in all of us: a way for anyone to earn in-world money, whether or not you own land, by displaying ads in-world and on the web.

For advertisers and agencies: a way to reach an audience that watches less and less TV.

The ad network is currently under construction. Fill out the form below to get on our mailing list. We'll let you know our progress and invite you into our beta program.

So I signed up so we will see what happens, I am very curious to see what their campaign will look like.

Electric Sheep Company

Truphone Makes VoIP Call on the iPhone

It doesnt seem unreasonable to think that you will be able to make VoIP calls on your iPhone using the wifi but until now it wasnt. Truphone demostrated this at DEMO07 where they took two iPhones and using the just the wifi to talk between the two handsets.



This is not a commerical release but hopefully in the near future they will have it for all iPhone.

Truphone.com

*Apple has already updated their software so this does not work anymore =(