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Flirtomatic is a social networking website based in Soho, London, UK that sets itself apart from other such sites through its cross-platform strategy. As of Valentine’s Day, 2007, the total registered user base was 265,000 and is growing at around 20,000 users per month. In June 2007, the company received £2m in funding to finance expansion into international mobile networking markets.
Users have the opportunity to meet new people and make friends within the context of a flirting environment. Features include an online chat facility, personal profiles, photos, and videos. …
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Google Analytics (abbreviated GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew.
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
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Google Alerts is a service offered by search engine company Google which notifies its users by email (or as a feed) about the latest web and news pages of their choice.
Google currently offers six types of alert searches: “News”, “Web”, “Blogs”, “Comprehensive”, “Video” and “Groups”. A News alert is an email that lets the user know if new articles make it into the top ten results of his/her Google News search. A Web alert is an email that lets the user know if new web pages appear in the …
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Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows (see Internet Explorer shell) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). It runs on Windows 98 and above, including Windows Vista. Internet Explorer version 6 or 7 must be installed.
As of November 2008, total downloads surpassed 22.5 million.
Avant Browser is currently available in 41 languages.
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Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders.
The service allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes.
Labels and notes are searchable, and users can access their bookmarks from any computer by signing in on one’s Personalized Homepage.
Google toolbar has tools enabling a user to easily create bookmarks and quickly access them. Bookmarks can also be created manually from the web interface, or by use of third-party tools such as Firefox extensions created for the purpose of managing …
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Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. As of January 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular search terms. Mahalo means “thank you” in Hawaiian.
Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as …
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Scour Inc. was a multimedia search engine on the internet, and provided Scour Exchange, an early peer-to-peer file exchange service. Scour was founded by five students (Vince Busam, Michael Todd, Dan Rodriques, Jason Droege and Kevin Smilak) from the Computer Science Deptartment of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1997. It moved into the spotlight in 1999 when former Disney president Michael Ovitz bought about a quarter of its shares.
Bookmarking »
Launched in September 2006, AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again… and again… and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase …
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dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system (wCMS) for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes enterprise CMS features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav (beta) ,structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle, and is available as software that can be installed on a web server or via a hosting provider (dotMarketing is now offering the onDemand virtual hosting service for clients, and has also registered an image available via the Amazon Elastic …
