JANUARY 2012
Use Apps to block Ads
By: Ask Bob, Jan 24, 2012
This Startup could lead Startups like ours screaming blue murder. Called OverApps,
it allows Website visitors to replace Online ads with Apps. This
software blocks all the advertisements if a user so chooses, &
replaces them with Apps of the visitor's choice. So poof, out go those
"annoying" ads at the click of a button.
OverApps works on any Website & blocks virtually all sizes of ads. You need to install the software before you can start doing that. The software is Free.
Once you have installed this Add-on (it works on any Browser)
you will see a button on the right hand corner of your Browser. Click
on it & you will be taken to a list of Apps from the bank of Apps
with OverApps.
The Browsers it works on are: On Windows PC: Firefox (3.6 or higher), Internet Explorer (8.0 or higher) & Google Chrome. On Apple Mac: Mac OS 10.4 or higher, Firefox (3.6 or higher). The bank of Apps with OverApps is quite large. You have YouTube, Facebook Photos, Twitter, then Bikini Babes, Yelp, Digital Clock 2..... The list keeps growing every day.
OverApps is a product of Web Widget Works LLC, & is based in California, USA.
Share your email knowledge with others
By: Ask Bob, Jan 13, 2012
So,
what's new on the Internet guys? These days we are seeing more &
more services & Applications revolving around the humble email
coming up. GrexIt calls itself "your shared email memory", or
simply put it's a tool that allows knowledge trapped in your email to be
made available to others, a wider audience.
The guys at GrexIt
are of the view that there is always useful knowledge hidden in your
email's Inbox, which can be useful to others. This will probably die in
your Inbox. GrexIt claims to solve this problem by letting you
add Content from your Inbox to an Online shared repository, which anyone
from your workplace in need of information can then access.
GrexIt is actually an Internet Browser plugin. As of now, though, GrexIt works only for Google Apps users. Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products, including Gmail, under a custom domain name. This also means you can not sign up to GrexIt with email ids like your-name@gmail.com or your-name@yahoo.com etc. It features several Web applications
with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including
Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs & Sites.
Coming back to GrexIt..... You and your colleagues can add email discussions from your Google Apps email Inboxes into a shared area, & all of you can then find "useful stuff" from this shared area. Once you have added a discussion to GrexIt, it automatically adds any follow up emails you receive on that discussion in your Inbox to GrexIt.
GrexIt, based in San Francisco, USA, has several uses: You can use it to create a central archive of all job applications
your company receive, & what you discuss with the applicants; you
can use this product to store all support requests & questions your
team receives from your clients & you can manage your business leads
better.
Test your App before launching
By: Ask Bob, Jan 12, 2012
Many Startups
& new Apps face this problem. Before launching, they need to get
their product tested. Obviously, individual Net surfers cannot be
approached because of privacy issues, spam & also because it is time
consuming. There's a Startup called BetaBait which gets App makers together with early App adapters or testers. So, if you have an untested App, you may well approach this Startup,
which in turn, will put you in touch with consumers who are eager to
try out new Apps, something like tea or wine testing. Alternatively, if
you are an adventurous individual, you can register to try out new Apps.
Launched in 2011, BetaBait provides a "connect"
for Startups to test & try their Web & mobile Applications. It
is pretty obvious that all Startups need a test bed to find out whether
what they had thought of on the design board is actually what the final
product is, & whether people will like it or not. Are there any
glitches that need to be ironed out while the Startup is in Beta.
So, BetaBait
aims to provide a platform connecting these 2 communities - Startups
& end-users. Early adopters & enthusiasts thus play an
important role in helping the Startup work out bugs, create new
features.
The service is
Free & takes a few minutes to register. Once a Tester registers,
he/she starts getting an email daily with the newest Apps listed.
Startups, too, can submit their Apps in a matter of minutes for testing. BetaBait has a section called Apps where all such Apps that have been submitted are also listed under various categories along with brief descriptions. These include Real & Web World products.
Based in Connecticut, USA, BetaBait is a product of co-founders Rory Thompson & Cody Barbierri.
Add a watermark to your photographs
By: Ask Bob, Jan 9, 2012
All
of us like to embelish our Blogs or any other type of Online Content
with photographs. Many of us have randomly used photographs downloaded
from the Web without giving a thought to copyright issues. On the other
side of the fence, if you are a photographer, you would like to protect
your work, Online. Now, to prevent such copyright violations & to
ensure the photographer in you gets his due, there is a Startup called Water Marquee. This allows you to impose a watermark on your photograph or graphic art work to ensure nobody else steals it.
Copyright issues surrounding photographs or other types of images on the Net are a dime a dozen. Every day, we find some one or the other filing a case or complaining about such violations. Photographs are either not attributed or wrongly attributed.
Most photographers or image agencies have started adding watermarks to the images to protect them from theft Online. Startup Water Marquee
provides such a watermarking service.For those of you who do not know
what a watermark means, it is either a smaller image (almost always a
logo or trademark) or text that is underlayed on an image so that
anybody who uses that photo has no option but to use it with this secondary image, clearly showing where the photograph/image has been taken from.
There are 2 types of accounts you can open with Water Marquee -
Free & Pro. Obviously, you need to pay for the Pro account, it's
about US $10 a year. Water Marquee works in your Internet Browser itself
so you do not need to download any software.The other benefits it
promises is positioning the watermark wherever you want on the image & using either an image or text as a watermark. users also have control over the color & size of the watermark.
We could not find an About Us tab on this Startup so are unable to tell our readers where this Startup is located or about the people who run it.
Develop a relationship around your Online Comments
By: Ask Bob, Jan 7, 2012
Every day is a new day in the world of Internet Startups. New
additions to the global Startups' list only adds to the excitement
& thrill of it all. So, we write about these new products, not only
to spread the good word among surfers but also to make other Startups
feel the excitement. Our Web Spiddies (human editors) have brought to our notice a Startup called Engagio or engag.io
as the URL reads. It basically manages your entire Commenting system
from 1 dashboard, right from tracking who responded to you or replied to
your Comments, on which platform, thus saving time & energy.
This Startup launched in the early days of Dec 2011 is in Beta. Called Engagio, it is kind of a one-stop shop for all your Online conversations. You need to just connect your Social Networks & Commenting platforms & start working engage.io. You can handle all your Commenting activity in one place, the replies & get to know the people behind the replies.
The many things you can do here are:
⇒ Save time by tracking & replying to your Comments from Facebook Comments (or Wall)
⇒ Twitter conversations, Google+ posts, LinkedIn Comments or shared links, Disqus-enabled sites
⇒ Hacker News Comments & Foursquare check-ins from a single Inbox
⇒ Reveals the last replies by just hovering over your Inbox
⇒ Automatically tracks who you're interacting with, & the strength of your interactions with them
⇒ Quickly see the sites where you comment the most often & the Top Sites of your Top Interactors
⇒ Browse shared links from your conversation threads, including the comment they appeared in
⇒ Search your Comments and reveal users linked to search results
⇒ Reveal your email to users that are allowed to contact you (peer-to-peer permission)
⇒ See the history of your interactions with any one of your contacts
⇒ Share any Comment on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or Tumblr
⇒ Tag users you want to nurture relationships with
⇒ Invite new users to join your Engagio network
Engagio is a Startup by Content delivery & management platform Eqentia Inc & is based in New York. As of now, you need an invite to become a member but you can go to the Home Page & self-invite yourself. The last call of course is Engagio's.
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