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Mediation : Wiki Free Software

Kur-nia-one — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:35:48 +0000

A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. With this web-based application every user is capable to create a comprehensive knowledge base or an interactive website on any personal, corporate or social topic, and share it with the user’s community.

Mediation is a Wiki engine; that is, it is software which provides a web site that contains pages which can be edited by users. MediaWiki.org is the free software which powers websites like Wikipedia and other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia foundation, as well as many other wikis around the world.. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers.

To use MediaWiki, you’ll need a web server with PHP and MySQL available and some experience installing web applications. Once MediaWiki’s installed, you can start adding and editing pages to your wiki. Wiki pages aren’t made of HTML like regular pages, they’re made of special wiki markup

This site includes pure descriptions, advice, suggestions, and contains how-to’s; this includes tutorials, walk-throughs and instruction manuals related to the subject matter. MediaWiki automatically creates on-page, hierarchical outlines based on page sections with links that point directly to those sections (even if they’re midway down the page).

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Online OCR extracts text from scans for free

Kur-nia-one — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:17:57 +0000

Have a PDF document or an image that you would like to convert to text? OCR, Optical character recognition. It’s a mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text. Online OCR service can help take an image of text and turn it into an editable copy.

You can upload documents in a variety of formats like PDF, TIFF, JPG, and other image files as well as a ZIP of your document. Without creating an account you can convert documents up to 1MB in size and 5 pages long. Creating a free account allows you to upload documents that are 20MB in size and longer than 5 pages. When you signup for a free account you get free 5 credits good for 5 pages of converted documents, so you can try out the service. Credits are as follows 30 pages – $3, 60 Pages – $5, 100 Pages – $7, 200 Pages – $10. Not a bad deal in my opinion and a pretty awesome service

You can convert a PDF with columns into a Word document with columns and so on. Converted documents look exactly like the original – tables, columns, bullets and graphics. With OnlineOCR.net users can process documents in 28 languages including English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and others. Concerning with security, OnlineOCR.net will endeavor to restrict access to the data and files You store or retrieve from Your Account to persons accessing such data and files through use of Your Account or Password. However, no password-protected system of data storage and retrieval can be made entirely impenetrable.

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igniteCAST.com: Broadcast Videos, Courses, Slideshows, Screencasts and more

Kur-nia-one — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:21 +0000

igniteCAST.com is a media sharing web service that gives users the possibility to create, upload, and share content in order to maximize the way they work and collaborate online. IgniteCAST.com was created by SCATE in response to tremendous customer demand for a web-based solution for sharing content created with SCATEs popular Ignite software. Users can create, upload, view and share structured video clips, interactive presentations, PowerPoint, software demonstrations, surveys, quizzes and more. The content named as Ignitables can be viewed by searching keywords and phrases or by browsing through categories. IgniteCAST.com also allows the creator to control access to their Ignitables™ by making them public or private (authorized access only). You can even send invitations to view your Ignitables™ by email. Registered users can also organize Ignitables™ into personal playlists. .

IgniteCAST employs Ignite 4 as the tool to capture a wide variety of media right from the users computer screen. The media is transformed into engaging content, and seamlessly uploaded to igniteCAST where it becomes available for others to find and view.
Users of IgniteCAST.com are allowed to download Scate’s Ignite software for free, which captures screenshots, imports powerpoint files, video files, audio files, music, digital pictures and records user’s voice. IgniteCAST.com free accounts can also be upgraded to one of five subscription levels if more than 25 MB of storage is required.

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OfficeMedium: Intranet for the Small Business User

Kur-nia-one — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:49 +0000

OfficeMedium is a web-based service that provides intranet and collaboration software for businesses and work groups.
Built with efficiency and convenience in mind, OfficeMedium offers a secured, hosted platform for enhanced communication and socialization, effective file storage, management, and sharing, task & event planning, contact management, and much more.
Based on Drupal, OfficeMedium has gone to great lengths to keep things simple yet reasonably secure. OfficeMedium provides an environment to fit with this emerging trend but with enough hooks to satisfy the needs of a business where keeping people in the loop is often mission critical.
Within a sleek, extremely simple and easy-to-use interface, OfficeMedium offers:Task and Event Management, Personal and Group Calendars, File Sharing, Storage, and Organization, Contact and Company Information Management
Automated Organization and Archiving and more.
OfficeMedium uses the concept of Clients, Employee and Super User. Clients have very limited priviledges in order to keep your data secure. Clients can only create tasks, events, and files, and can only view content that they submit, or that is brought to their attention.” OfficeMedium is $8 per user per month and $1 more per gigabyte used. The first 512 megabytes are free.

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Kwanzoo: Celebrity Trivia of the Day Widget

Kur-nia-one — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:34:01 +0000

Kwanzoo is a global media company with unique social trivia games and reviews for entertainment fans.
It offers daily entertainment quizzes and downloadable quiz widgets. Make your own quizzes and widgets, or play our quizzes on Kwanzoo, or on your favorite website, blog or social media site.
Publishers have access to over 50,000 quiz questions — enabling them to sell new advertising inventory offering exceptional contextual relevance, topical content and high user engagement. A free version of the service is available to bloggers, publishers and consumers seeking to add fun, timely quiz content to their sites, including “Election ‘08″, “Halloween Movies” and “Quiz of the Day”.

Soon when you create an account, you can do so for free by visiting the relevant section and supplying the corresponding information. The site also features a lively entertainment blog which can be accessed from the main page. Moreover, a newsletter is part of the premises and you can receive it in your inbox by furnishing your e-mail address when prompted.
Visit Kwanzoo.com for serious fun with daily entertainment quizzes, downloadable quiz widgets and custom quizzes. Kwanzoo’s all-in-one, plug-and-play solution makes it faster to create and brand your poll, easier to make the content shareable, and simpler to measure campaign results.

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MyCloset.com For The Fashionista In You

Kur-nia-one — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:06:04 +0000

MyCloset.com is the newest fashion online craze. In essence, it provides a community for fashion and style conscious individuals. Mycloset.com features community members with their closets and collections, showcases up and coming fashion designers with their collections, introduces unique stores to the public. Its free services also support promotional
merchandising and online commerce opportunities.
MyCloset.com highlights celebrities and personalities by taking a look into their personal closets, giving members a unique and original view into the lives of their favorite celebrities, designers, models and personalities.

“The Outfit Builder” allows community members to upload items from stores, boutiques, designers, personal wardrobes and other community members` wardrobes while mixing and matching to create desired outfits, or looks.

In addition to that engaging social feature, the site includes a section which is entitled “Emerging Designer” that is devoted to new talent, the work they have produced so far, and the direction that they are headed. Users can personalize and organize their virtual closets with specialty named Look Books, photographic images and video albums.

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TechnoBuffalo: Tech Blog Social Network

Kur-nia-one — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:56:09 +0000

TechnoBuffalo features original tech content, a social network, and tools to build and monetize your own tech blog. Concerning with original tech content, with this new platform you will get Professional and original tech content written by staffed professional writers.
People can create their own blogs through TechnoBuffalo, as well as making use of a messaging client in order to communicate.

TechnoBuffalo is built on a customized version of WordPress Multi-User. Users of TechnoBuffalo have the option to create their own blog with a custom URL (TechnoBuffalo.com/username) complete with full WordPress content management. Moreover, they can add writers, and customize the layout of their tech blogs. Amazingly, users have the option to manage their own advertising, or have TechnoBuffalo supply advertising on the site.It was started earlier this year by two journalists; Jon Rettinger and Brandon Miniman. While, BuffaloNet allows users to talk, make friends, groups, and send messages within the tech space.

A full library of training videos is avalaible that teach how to effectively run a tech blog. It makes you easy to find items to review, how to act confident in front of a camera, and more. For the nice video, TechnoBuffalo will feature the content on the home page.
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TaffyBox Combines BitTorrent Search

Kur-nia-one — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:52:48 +0000

The new torrent search engine TaffyBox offers a newbie-proof download service. It provides a browser based Java applet that runs in your browser and downloads files for you.

Perfect for people who find the usual BitTorrent clients too complicated to use.
No need to download a client like Halite and setting it up. You simply key in you search term, and if a legal torrent is available you will be capable of procuring it without batting an eyelid.

With TaffyBox, you can search for the name of the show, song or whatever that you’re looking for, and click a button to start downloading immediately. TaffyBox just ties search and download together, and the search results seem to come from BTJunkie who also host the tracker
BTjunkie cut it off since it was stealing resources without permission. The idea is not entirely new, as Vertor and a couple of other sites also offer a direct download using Bitlet’s Java applet.

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Livestream: Live Video Service

Kur-nia-one — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:52:01 +0000

Livestream formerly known as Mogulus is a streaming Internet television platform for digital broadcasters. One of the good things about this site is the fact that it gives you the chance to create and produce your own broadcasts in a short period of time. Now, with Livestream on your side, the production team can be in locations scattered around the world, and still work together as if they were in the same room. It also allows you to create broadcasts that look very professional without loosing control over the content.

You can do it with your own style and manage your content, by uploading your videos, importing your 3Ds, etc. Livestream has Animated Television Graphics that makes your channel look like a major network broadcast using their graphics library. It gives you a wealth of broadcast graphics including ticker, bumper, lower third name, and logo bug. The goodies, you can customize these graphics using your own logos and colors. Moreover, Livestream features multiuser application with: Multiple Producers, Multiple Locations, One Channel The Livestream studio.

It offers a free, ad-supported service in addition to a pay-per-use “pro” service for media professionals. Livestream has been used to stream content by Gannett Newspapers and by the World Economic Forum, and some local TV affiliates, usually for local news and storm watch.

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Zooloo.com – The Complete Online Environment To Manage Your Life

Kur-nia-one — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:31:48 +0000

ZooLoo is everything you use the internet for in one place. Zooloo provides you one place to create, connect and control your online life, including your own website, dashboard, widgets, blog, news, social networks, photos, and videos. Basically, what ZooLoo does is to create a dashboard that can be used to bring together every single thing that you can find on the web and which has a certain significance to you.
When you set up your ZooLoo account, you are given a dashboard which contains customizable widgets just like iGoogle. But you’ll see along both the top and bottom of the site elements that lead you to the more social aspects. Along the bottom, is your Facebook-style chat bar and options area. At the top of the main page you’ll find the tools to control your site and manage your media (pictures and videos).

ZooLoo provides an impressive array of tools to create the perfect web experience. You can to choose the design (themes, layouts, templates and fonts) and add content (text, photos, videos, widgets and RSS feeds). zSocial keeps everyone up-to-date with your status, your interests and happenings. Simplify your life with zLife, including our integrated calendar, address book, reminders, to-do list, invitation system and more.
With a free Zooloo account, you get a yourname.zooloo.com website for free. Your website includes profile, photo, video, graffiti, blog, and three custom pages. With a $30 annual subscription for Zooloo Plus, you can use it with your own domain name and some extras.

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Stinky Teddy: search engine with a fierce real-time

Kur-nia-one — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:50:11 +0000

Stinky Teddy is a great startup Search Engine which could be called the Real-Time Gossip Powered Metasearch.The search engine is developed by one David Hardtke formerly a physicist at the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. His search engine was named after his daughter’s “trusted (and abused) stuffed bear.” StinkyTeddy collects information many search engines and displays the combined results thus saving from searching multiple Search Engines for your Targeted Stuff to stuff your hungry stomach .

In terms of performance, it all depends on what you are looking for. What you must keep in mind is that this is a meta-search engine that will look at what is being talked the most on the web at any specific time in order to display results back to you. Stinky Teddy combines the old and the new by using tried and trusted meta-tag searches (that engines like Google use) but ordering the results according to real-time buzz, rather than by tag relevance. It combines search results from Bing, Yahoo, VideoSurf, Twitter and Collecta and reshuffles the search results to focus on topics that are trending right now.

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GetGlue, social media toolbar review

Kur-nia-one — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:07:06 +0000

Get Glue is a browser add-on which will enable you to connect with your friends and acquaintances on the web around things you visit.
Glue, created by AdaptiveBlue, is a new social network that literally sticks with you while you’re surfing the web. Powered by semantic recognition, it enables you to connect with your friends on the web around the things you visit online. It automatically identifies books, music, movies, wines, stocks, movie stars, recording artists and more.
It is downloadable and will automatically appear on your toolbar (everything seems to be effortless at Glue) once you are done installing it. Each time you check out a book, read an excerpt, or focus on reviews about it, Glue instantly posts it, telling others that you are looking into something interesting.
Users can also add GetGlue to their browser to more quickly build their taste profile and get suggestions in context, on hundreds of popular sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Wine.com and Citysearch.
Think of Glue as a complement to your other social networks. With just a few clicks you can integrate your Facebook and Twitter profiles, and connect with all your friends who also have Glue.
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Ecwid: E-Commerce AJAX

Kur-nia-one — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:05:36 +0000

Ecwid is a pretty interesting web service that allows us to add a shopping cart to our site / blog using a few lines in html code.Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart from the makers of X-Cart. The company has produced an amazing new shopping cart that can be integrated into your website within minutes, , it’s easy to use, it’s lightening fast, and it’s free.
Ecwid is one of the first e-commerce platforms that are totally based on AJAX. This is a good way for you to stop dealing with the most common problems you face when you work with PHP. You don’t have to install any software on your web server; just insert some ECWID code in a web page and your store is up and running.
Some of the cooler features is the Drag and Drop functionality for items to your basket. Mobile version with static HTML Catalog for SEO purposes as well. It is widget based so it can easily be dropped into any CMS system. When ECWID adds new features or fixes bugs, you don’t need to upgrade. The site you have will be automatically upgraded.Moreover, you can customize the look and feel of ECWID by customizing the CSS stylesheets.

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TC50: ToonsTunes is like GarageBand for kids

Kur-nia-one — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:15:04 +0000

ToonsTunes is a virtual playground for children to hear, create perform and share their own music compositions. Based in San Rafael,California, ToonsTunes is run by Connected Studios, Inc., and is run by a team of musicians, entrepreneurs and techies.
Kids can mix-and-match pre-recorded music loops, pick musical instruments, genres and tempos, and put them together to create completely original mixes. Combine grunge guitar, with punk drums, a reggae base and even add your own recorded lyrics.Then, perform songs for friends on a concert stage, play as background music in your personal pod, or put songs on your iPhone.
It’s got cartoonish characters playing drums. Kids can make games out of songs and chat inside different rooms on the site. They can also share songs through e-mail, MySpace and Facebook along with other sites.
The company has a three-fold revenue model, including: Freemium memberships that enable all kids to enjoy the service with incremental fees for premium services, advertising sponsorships, and merchandise for sale.If you want to learn more about this site feel free to give it a visit at Toonstunes.com and look at some of the songs that have been created so far.

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Socialwok.com: Document Collaboration Easier Using Your Google Account

Kur-nia-one — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:28:36 +0000

Socialwok provides organizations with feed based group collaboration and social media marketing platform within and outside an organizations business processes. Socialwok integrates with popular online business productivity service like Google Apps.
With Socialwok for Google Apps, organizations on Google Apps can enjoy an enterprise microblogging and social networking integrated with online office productivity. Socialwok integrates Google Apps services which helps you share calendars, docs, spreadsheets and presentations amongst users, it even lets you add media from other sites like YouTube and SlideShare.
Every user that logs into Socialwok with Apps (there is no other login method) gets a central feed. Other feeds can be created, such as for different teams in an enterprise, and those feeds can be made private so that you only have access to feeds you’re invited to. Organizations can also selectively invite those outside their Apps domain to relevant feeds.
Socialwok lets you send email to specific feeds on your network, and share those feeds with people outside your domain as you see fit.The basic version of the website is free, but additional administrative services and dedicated services will be available for a price. Socialwok also promises mobile support for iPhone, Android and Blackberry, and integration with the Google Wave.
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Epix HD: Free movies on the Web

Kur-nia-one — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:18:23 +0000

EpixHD.com offers its free, HD-quality videos without annoying commercial interruptions. The site will have similar features to Hulu and YouTube-like crystal clear picture, rewind/fast-forward capabilities, and there’s no need to download any special software. The Epix movie service is a joint venture formed by the content owners; in this case, the service is powered by the movie studios Lionsgate, Paramount, and MGM.
The service has some 175 movies available, including some relatively recent hits like Iron Man and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as a custom-produced recording of a live Madonna show from her Sticky & Sweet tour of last year and an exclusive Eddie Izzard comedy special.
For the beta-test period, though, you still need a user name and password to log in. A bit more technical background: The service is delivered using Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 and Akamai’s HD streaming service. (HBO also has selected the Adobe Flash platform for its “TV Everywhere” play.) Each asset, according to Rensing, is encoded six times with bit rates ranging from 500 Kbps up to 720p HD at 3 Mbps. Every 10 second, the video player automatically detects the bandwidth available and adjusts the rate accordingly for smoother playback. Epix will be bundled directly into cable packages; under the current business model, it will never appear as a separate charge on the bill and will never have to be added to a package.

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GazoPa: similar image search engine

Kur-nia-one — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:30 +0000

GazoPa is an image search engine by Hitach. Unlike regular image search services, GazoPa relies on characteristics such as similar colors and shapes rather than traditional metadata. Since GazoPa use image features such as color and/or shape, users can look for images without typing any words. This gives users easy and unique way of searching images on the web.
You can use GazoPa’s simple drawing tool to roughly outline the type of image you’re looking for, and GazoPa will use its search prowess to find.

GaZoPa enables users to do searches by uploading a picture from their PC/Mac, entering the URL of an image, drawing something within the front page, or using keywords. Moreover, GazoPa can support not only photo but also the search of video thumbnail. GazoPa lets users find favorite video from similarity of video thumbnail. The search results are then filtered, mostly by analzying the color and shape of the object or person in the image
GazoPa for iPhone app also has a search option such as search by color, layout, shape and the ability to filter by size, video thumbnail.The GazoPa for iPhone app can be found by searching for ‘GazoPa’ in the iPhone App Store.

Gazopa competes with Google in similar search, but according to project leader Hideki Kobayashi, Google doesn’t allow users to find similar images of all images displayed and that uploading a picture by yourself isn’t possible.

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Imo.im: Web Based Cross Messenger Free Video Chat & Group Chat

Kur-nia-one — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:26 +0000

Imo.im is a web-based tool to help you log in to multiple messaging and social networks. It currently supports MSN Messenger, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Skype, MySpace, and Facebook. It’s Ajax based online tool. You simply point your browser to the site, plug in user names and passwords for each of the separate platforms you want to log in on (AIM, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk, etc.), et voila, you’ve got one big buddy list for all of your chatting needs.

Messaging windows are all displayed within the imo.im site and denoted by service type and the user name of your contact. There are similar red, green and yellow indicators next to your buddies’ names to tell you if they’re busy, available or idle. The font is also the same, and, on a neat note, you can “star” your favorite buddies just like you’d star a message in Gmail. Starred buddies are considered your favorites and always appear at the top most part of your buddy list, regardless of their chosen platform.

The best feature on the site is the ability to create group chats between buddies from any of your messaging services. This is a great tool for people who use GTalk, since they don´t have a group chat function available
Imo.im enables you to conduct simple and easy-to-use video chat sessions. As long as you and the person you call both have webcams. There are no downloads required, but you will need Flash 8 in order to use the new features. You can chat with two or three people. In addition to the spartan but effective chat interface, imo.im also has a photo sharing tool and a whiteboard system. IMO is also planning to write Java as well as smartphone clients so that imo is accessible on mobile devices soon.

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FarmFoody.org

Kur-nia-one — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:51:06 +0000

FarmFoody.org, a Web site that lets locals and small farmers link up and share information from harvest updates to family recipes. This website, less than a year old, is the brainchild of 68-year-old Virginia farmer Tom Davenport, who raises beef and peaches on the Fauquier County farm where he grew up. Nearly 750 farms and individuals have signed on so far.
A goal of Farmfoody.org was to make posting farm information much easier. The site will be especially useful to Pick Your Own farms and orchards, to vineyards, CSAs, Farmers Markets, hay sellers, and others making direct sales to their customers (foodies). A farm can post a bulletin (you can choose to run it for three days, a week, a month) and instantly all your farm’s friends get an email saying your peaches are ready or you have strawberries to pick.
The site showcases a featured farm, links to an Eat Well Guide, provides a forum for local growers and buyers to interact and arrange meetings, offers recipes, and allows farmers to tag members with foods that they grow and members to tag farmers with foods that they want.
The site also includes “Frequently Asked Questions” so the farmer won’t have to spend hours on the phone explaining his programs.
To get the site started, Tom and Steve seeded it with Virginia PYO farms, farmers’ markets, and vineyards.
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Best Camera

Kur-nia-one — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:10:20 +0000

The Best Camera allows you to creatively edit and share your iPhone images more simply than ever before. Developed by renowned photographer, Chase Jarvis, Best Camera provides a unique set of effects that can be applied at the touch of a button.
There’s a unique set of filters and effects that can be applied at the touch of a button. Stack them. Mix them. Remix them. There are virtually infinite creative possibilities. Once you’ve got the photo you want, the app manages pushing it to Twitter, the Best Camera website, and Facebook for you.
A new online community where iPhone users can contribute to a living, breathing gallery of iPhone photography from around the globe. This virtual exhibition displays images uploaded by Best Camera App users and lets them vote for the images they like.The Best Camera really is about the one you have with you. The Best Camera really is about the one you have with you.
The application can be downloaded here [iTunes link] while the book is available from Amazon.

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