14 May 07 Encyclopedia of Life
Imagine a wiki-style project where you could find absolutely all the living species in the planet with extense description, photos, videos, maps and location, etc. Well, this is what the new project EOL ( Encyclopedia of Life ) will try to do in the coming 10 years.
The idea has been launched by the Harvard University, the US Field Museum, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and will count with an assigned budget of aprox 100 million dolars over the next years. The plan is to catalog about 1.8 millions of known species on the Earth, although it has been said that what we know now is just a tiny portion ( around 10%) of the real number.
If you want to know more about the project, you can subscribe to their newsletter in the website, and follow the evolution of this big and interesting initiative!
13 May 07 ThinkBigsites, and make buzz about your webpage
We have reviewed, in the short but intense life of Review the Market :-), several companies that helped us to improve the way our website looked or the traffic it was getting, but never so far an entreprise we have seen got as a slogan the promise to design your page on a way that it would create a buzz on the net :-).
We are talking about ThinkBigsites, a website optimization firm that focus in offering to you more website traffic and website optimization services to boost your visibility on the net.
On this last point in which I was particularly interested, they offer blog design optimization, SEO, webdesign and hosting, custom webprogramming, link building and even designing newsletters for you to reach potential customers or readers by email.
There is also a Blog marketing section where they work with us on improving and/or giving a more profesional look, to create a plan and strategy for your blog ( which is something I actually did not know was something it had to be done….mmmm…. :-)) or increasing the presence of your business in the blogosphere.
If all that was not enough, we can also get online support in the form of a webmaster to do the maintenance of our pages, or to fix quickly any problem that may arise. In summary, I guess the whole offer sums up as a good and complete package for bloggers like us, that may be passionated about blogging and writting, but sometimes may need some help in the rest of necessary work to keep the blog live and kicking all the time. 
11 May 07 Found you Online, new free personal dating system
# Sponsored Post #. It has been some time since we haven’t had the opportunity to review a new dating service on Review the Market. Have you found already your dreamt partner since last time we talked about it? ;-). Ok, as some friends of mine say : “tidak apa-apa” ( do not worry :-)), because we have just been asked to review a brand new and free website that may finally deliver to you what you are looking for. We talk about Found you Online, which is in fact, not only a dating website, but a combination of social network and meeting facilities with dating features. :-).
Let’s go then to explain. As soon as you land in their home page, you have three options, depending if you are single looking for a free dating, if you are searching for former free classmates or if you want to get in touch with old military colleagues doing a quick military friend search. This last one is for me pretty new and innovative, as I have not seen anywhere else a place to find friends you served with in the army (US we are talking). As said, all this is for free and whatever category you click on and register, you will be able to find and add photos, contact details, videos, etc.
Just try it out, go to singles ( for instance ) and enter some data ( age, location, gender), then click search ( you can select only ads with photos ), and voila! you get a pretty nice list where you can see all possible candidates and their contact info. Just let us know what happens next, ok?
