09 Jul 07 Goshme, a search engine of search engines

Although they are still in their Beta version, Goshme can be considered the next search engine of search engines.

What is this about? Simply, it helps you find specific information about a very specific topic in an specific search engine of that topic. So let’s say you need to find something very detailed about movies, or music, or ancient art, you create your account in Goshme and go check in the multiple categories and subcategories it has available for you which search engine is specialized in that subject.

Then you can run your normal search in the engine and get better results than doing it in a general search like Yahoo or Google. Useful, don’t you think? You can find search engines about topics you would never though could be such specialized info :-).

 

05 Jul 07 Flare9, creating a website from scratch

It’s been some time since our last review of interesting applications to help create websites with absolute zero knowledge, from scratch to a nice and good looking personal or professional webpage.

Now, thanks to Sponsored Reviews (this blog profile here :-) , we get the chance to discover a new one that promises to provide even to the most novice user, the possibility to create a professional quality website without having to know any HTML code whatsoever.

We are talking about Flare9, a website builder with an integrated content management system where every page is editable via a simple to use WYSIWYG ( What You See is What You Get ) editor and that will help you provide that very important good image for your business or company on the web ( and we all know how important it is to have a well designed page, don’t you agree? :-), at least I am trying it with this blog , LOL ).

It is actually pretty easy to start the process and make it work, all sum up in a few steps. The sign up of the account will take you only 5 minutes and then you are ready to start building the website. You can select first one of the many themes available for you, and later you can customise according to your preferences. If you do own already a domain you can use it or you can register one via their system, where you have also hosting facilities.

Also, the website packages come with a full set of features that most probably you will be willing to have ( Google Analytics support, management of feeds, integrated blog, control of your meta tags to do some SEO and improve your presence on the net, etc). By getting the whole package here you get the chance to have everything integrated from the beginning. The idea is good, no need to work further to improve the pages you have created, everything comes at once. 

So, if you are one of those willing to start your own professional website, with plenty of features and not willing to get a headache in the process, get a look at this service cause it may be interesting for you

23 Jun 07 MindMeister, organising your ideas

Thanks to MaxGlaser we have just discovered a nice online application to organise and share your ideas in the form of several graphic schemas that can be shared among colleagues. We are talking about MindMeister, that joins the group of several tools already in the market to create mind maps, some of them  already well known as FreeMind. I like this kind of tools, but at the beginning I found difficult to understand how to use them effectively. The logic behind is that you have to be able to convert your ideas and thoughts in something that can be easily explained and shared to people, so new projects or brainstorming sessions can have a well defined estructure in a graphic chart. The good thing about MindMeister is that you can also import previos mindmaps in other formats ( it supports the most common ones) so you can continue editing something someone else started in another program, or your own ideas when you just want to upgrade the software you use to draft them :-).

04 Jun 07 Oficezilla, a new online virtual office

After having searched the net for a good online virtual office, I’ve come finally with a good product that comes with everything I have been looking for. I am talking about the brand new Officezilla, a free an easy to configure application that provides the flexibility and capabilities to work from every computer on the world like if you were working at your own office.

Once you have created your free-account, the first thing to do is to enter in the Admin panel, located on the left sidebar, from where our initial configuration can be done for all the different services. From there you can manage your calendar, to-do list, email, forums, files, contacts and so on. You have the option also to invite from an standard email (that can be edited) whoever you want to invite to your office.

The email comes with a mailbox size of 100mb, which is not much for a medium size business, not even for a small one if we take into account that Gmail gives you more than 2Gb and many people is starting to fill it up completely, but I presume there will be in the future options to upgrade to more space. For the moment everything is free and ads-free, the look and layout is simple but confortable to work with, which is a very good start to gain customers and start growing fast.

 

 

22 May 07 Mobopic, mobile wallpapers in seconds

Thanks to Mashable we discover a nice and cute application to allow users create their own wallpaper for their handsets. The application is named Mobopic,and it is pretty simple and straight forward. The only thing you have to do is to upload the image you want to use, or to indicate the url of the image on the web, then crop it and adapt it to the size of your screen.

Nothing else to say, just try it! You will see a cute and easy service that will help you customize you phone a bit more!

 

 

11 May 07 Map my name: locating everyone on the internet

Using the popular Google Maps, the project Mapmyname is a new and interesting online application pretending to locate everyone on the internet by adding simply your name to their database. The tool is a project from a couple of portuguese students where you can register and add your location and personal data, then it will appear on the global world map where people can locate you easily.

 

Let’s say you are on a business trip to Barcelona, and you want to see if anyone from the online community is located there, you then simply zoom in the map and you will see the name of the registered people who lives in the area. Should you wish to contact that person, you just need to click on their names to see their profile.

 

I can think of several useful applications for social networking involving this tool, although still requires many people to register their geo-locations, but give it time and we may find out that a complete map of internet users built around Mapmyname!

08 May 07 ShareThis, tell everyone about your favourite sites

Not to be confused with AddThis, the application to submit your blog posts to several social sites and readers, ShareThis is a new useful tool allowing you to share with your group of people the websites you like most, you find interesting, or you simply want to share for the sake of making someone aware of it :-).

Although we are being invaded by tons of ways to sharing content, and most of us finally end up sending the typical email with the url included, at least Sharethis is quite simple and does not make it complicated to spread the word about interesting stuff you found out surfing the web.

To use it you basically need to create an account, where you can import your contacts, and use the toolbar they provide. When you find something interesting, just use the features in the toolbar to send it to whoever you want. It is as easy as that :-).