1. opera-mini/”>Opera Mini 4.2 – Browse the Web quickly with your mobile device.
2. youtube-mobile-downloader-12/”>YouTube Mobile Downloader 1.9 – Download YouTube movies and watch them with your Windows Mobile device.
3. ActiveSync 4.5 – Synchronize your Windows Mobile-based device with a Windows powered desktop PC.
4. Quran Recitation for Mobile Phones 2 – Listen to the Quran recitation on your mobile phone.
5. Mobile Number Locator 2.0 – Trace the location from where the missed call was made.
6. Mobile Messenger 0.9 – Use a single instant messanger to chat across MSN, Yahoo! and AIM networks.
7. Pocket Dictionary 2.5 – Translate any word into preferable language on your Pocket PC.
8. BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.3 – Customize synchronization and configuration between your PC and BlackBerry device.
9. Slacker Radio for BlackBerry 1.0 – Listen to all your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry.
10. 99 Names of Allah for Mobile Phones 2.3 – Read 99 names of Allah on your mobile device.
11. Yahoo Go for Mobile 3.0 – Bring Internet content, including e-mails, news, and Flickr photos to your phone.
12. Google Maps for Nokia/Symbian S60 1.2 – View maps and satellite imagery and get driving directions on your Symbian.
13. PocketMan 1 – Play a classic PacMan game on your PDA.
14. Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta – Experience high-quality voice communication over the Internet via your Pocket PC.
15. iPint 1.0 – Play a beer mini-game and toss back a virtual pint with this free iPhone app for users 17 and older.
16. Adobe Reader (Pocket PC) 2 – View PDF files on your Pocket PC device.
17. Psiloc Infrared Remote Control (Symbian) 2.1 – Turn your mobile phone into universal remote control.
18. ColorPearl 1 – Recolorize trackball on your BlackBerry Pearl.
19. Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith Pro for Mobile Phones 2.3 – Read the complete collection of Sahih Al-Bukhari Ahadith on your mobile.
20. HotSync 3.0.4 – Update the HotSync manager on your Palm.
21. Google Maps for Windows Mobile 1.2 – View maps and satellite imagery and get driving directions on your Windows Mobile device.
22. bPhone for BlackBerry – Add custom-made icons to fit into your iPhone theme.
23. Google Earth for iPhone 1.0 – Put a planet’s worth of geographic information right into your iPhone.
24. iSkoot for Skype (BlackBerry) 1.1.60 – Make and receive Skype calls on your mobile device.
25. Acrobat Reader 2.0 – Read PDF files on your Palm OS device.

Download it to your phone to get the best chat experience on MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, all in one single buddylist. It remembers your username and password for quick login, supports sound notification of a new message, reacts fast and has many more advantages: Fast response Minimal data usage Low Battery usage Easy to use Sound & Vibration Group-chat.

Contact Information

• License: Free
• Requirements: Symbian/OS Series 60/Series 80/UIQ
• Date Added: May 18, 2008

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1. opera-mini/”>Opera Mini 4.2 – Browse the Web quickly with your mobile device.
2. ActiveSync 4.5 – Synchronize your Windows Mobile-based device with a Windows powered desktop PC.
3. Quran Recitation for Mobile Phones 2 – Listen to the Quran recitation on your mobile phone.
4. youtube-mobile-downloader-12/”>YouTube Mobile Downloader 1.9 – Download YouTube movies and watch them with your Windows Mobile device.
5. Mobile Messenger 0.9 – Use a single instant messanger to chat across MSN, Yahoo! and AIM networks.
6. Pocket Dictionary 2.5 – Translate any word into preferable language on your Pocket PC.
7. BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.3 – Customize synchronization and configuration between your PC and BlackBerry device.
8. Slacker Radio for BlackBerry 1.0 – Listen to all your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry.
9. Yahoo Go for Mobile 3.0 – Bring Internet content, including e-mails, news, and Flickr photos to your phone.
10. Google Maps for Nokia/Symbian S60 1.2 – View maps and satellite imagery and get driving directions on your Symbian.
11. iPint 1.0 – Play a beer mini-game and toss back a virtual pint with this free iPhone app for users 17 and older.
12. 99 Names of Allah for Mobile Phones 2.3 – Read 99 names of Allah on your mobile device.
13. Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta – Experience high-quality voice communication over the Internet via your Pocket PC.
14. Mobile Number Locator 2.0 – Trace the location from where the missed call was made.
15. Psiloc Infrared Remote Control (Symbian) 2.1 – Turn your mobile phone into universal remote control.
16. PocketMan 1 – Play a classic PacMan game on your PDA.
17. Adobe Reader (Pocket PC) 2 – View PDF files on your Pocket PC device.
18. Google Maps for Windows Mobile 1.2 – View maps and satellite imagery and get driving directions on your Windows Mobile device.
19. ColorPearl 1 – Recolorize trackball on your BlackBerry Pearl.
20. HotSync 3.0.4 – Update the HotSync manager on your Palm.
21. Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith Pro for Mobile Phones 2.3 – Read the complete collection of Sahih Al-Bukhari Ahadith on your mobile.
22. Viigo for BlackBerry 3.0.446 – Get the mobile gateway to customizable content and services on your BlackBerry.
23. NetQin Anti-virus for S60 3rd 2.2.40 – Detect and remove mobile viruses.
24. Windows Media Player (Pocket PC) 7.1 – View integrated audio and video content on your Pocket PC.
25. Acrobat Reader 2.0 – Read PDF files on your Palm OS device.

1. Resumizer – reate, edit, and manage resumes with a free online tool.
2. Free SMS – end SMS to your friends for free.
3. Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner – Scan your computer for any virus without uninstalling and installing antivirus software.
4. Yahoo Mail – Check for messages you get via Yahoo! mail.
5. MSN – Use MSN messenger from your iPhone.
6. MSN Hotmail – Send and receive personalized e-mail messages from any computer in the world.
7. Veoh – Broadcast videos online.
8. RapidShare – Upload and share files online.
9. JumpCut – Create, edit, and share your own movies online.
10. Adobe Photoshop Express – Upload, edit, manage, and share digital photos for free online.
11. Picnik – Remove red-eye and apply effects to your photos online.
12. Facebook – Upload and share photos and videos and connect with your friends.
13. Shazam – Find music information using your mobile phone.
14. Meebo – Chat with your friends in popular IM networks via Web-based interface.
15. Downloadyoutubevideos – Download YouTube videos.
16. eBuddy – Chat with your MSN, AOL, and Yahoo buddies without any program or Java applet.
17. Mii Editor – Create or modify Mii avatars online.
18. Google Maps for iPod Touch – Access Google Maps on your iPod Touch.
19. Facebook for iPhone (Web) – Access your Facebook profile, status, message, and friends with your iPhone.
20. IONBowling – Play a virtual bowling game on your iPhone.
21. Boxhead: The Zombie Wars – Kill demons and reach levels with the “expert” difficulty.
22. Xbox Live Gamer Tag Generator – Access and view your gamer tag and information.
23. Trend Micro HouseCall – Check, identify, and fix malware infection.
24. Smilebox – Modify and share your digital photos.
25. iTouch – Test and develop your iPhone-ing abilities.

At meebo.com, millions of people every month keep in touch with friends on an any IM network (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and Gmail, MySpace IM, Facebook Chat, and more!) and chat with people in Meebo Rooms. Meebo also enables live communication integrated into any website with Meebo Rooms, Meebo Community IM, and Meebo Me. Meebo is the Web’s live communication platform – instant messaging from absolutely anywhere, no downloads or installs required, and free!

Meebo launched in September 2005. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JAFCO Ventures, Time Warner Investments, and KTB Ventures. We have over 75 corporate partners, including major record labels, global media companies, social networks, games portals, and some of the world’s most-talented application developers.

Meebo Services

• Meebo Repeater is a software download for people who want to chat safely when their IM access is restricted. Just install the repeater on a computer that can access the Web freely, and then use that computer to bounce the signal to Meebo. It’s simple and secure.
• meebo me - turn your web page into a chat page. Meebo Me lets you chat with anyone who comes to your blog or Web page. Visitors show up in your Meebo buddylist so you can strike up a conversation, answer questions, or just keep tabs on guests. Publish your online status so friends can see if you’re available when they visit your site.

Competitors

• MSN Web Messenger
• AIM Express
• Google Talk
• Yahoo! Web Messenger
• Heysan
• KoolIM
• IMUnitive
• imhaha
• eBuddy
• orgoo
• iloveim
• imo.im
• Soashable

Links

• meebo Website
• Meebo Firefox Extention
• meebo repeater
• Meebo Me

As of November 2008, total downloads surpassed 22.5 million.

Avant Browser is currently available in 41 languages.

Avant Browser was largely inspired by Opera, the first major browser to have a multiple document interface. The developer’s objective was to wrap a comparable interface around the layout engine used by Internet Explorer, thereby achieving Opera-like ergonomics without suffering the frequent problems that browser had rendering pages tested only in IE. In fact it was initially released under the name “IEopera”, though this was soon changed due to the obvious trademark issues.

Latterly, Avant’s developer Anderson Che has concentrated on adding user-requested features, and Avant was among the first browsers to have popup blocking, advertising server blocking, and one-click disabling of potential security vulnerabilities such as ActiveX, Java, and scripts.

In the Avant Browser, unlike most other “alternative” browsers, the default search engine is not Google. Instead it uses a version of the Yahoo! search engine, given a custom look and renamed Avantfind, and it is not immediately evident how to change it. However Google and many other search engines are available via the address bar “Quick Search” facility, and instructions on how to change the default to an engine of the user’s choice have been posted by the very active Avant Browser user community.

The community has also created other tools and extensions for Avant, including registry files which allow it to use the Information Bar and other security enhancements of XP SP2.

Alongside Avant, the developer has a sister project known as Orca Browser, an Avant-like shell of Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine as used in Firefox 3 and has similar approaches as Flock. It is in the final testing stage and a public release candidate version is available.

Other Information

• Developed by Avant Force
• Initial release 2004, 4–5 years ago
• Stable release 11.7 Build 19
• Preview release none (n/a) [+/−]
• OS Windows
• Type Web browser
• License Proprietary EULA
• Website http://www.avantbrowser.com

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Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as well as other media, such as photos and video. Each Mahalo search results page includes links to the top seven sites, as well as other categorized information, and additional web pages from Google. The company also pays freelancers to create pages for piecework compensation in the Mahalo Greenhouse – the pages are approved by a full time staff member prior to appearing in the main index.

Mahalo’s approach is similar to that employed by Ask.com in 1998. At that time, both Ask.com and Google were up-and-coming search engines. Ultimately, Google prevailed because Ask had trouble scaling up its human edited directory, while Google’s search results were generated by software

Mahalo has started with the top 4,000 search terms in popular categories like travel, entertainment, cars, food, health care and sports and is adding about 500 more terms per week with a goal of covering the top 10,000 by the end of 2007. This goal has been exceeded when, in December 2007, Mahalo announced that its index has reached 25,000 pages, a year earlier than it was expected.

Mahalo also offers “how to” guides offering instructions on popular topics in an editorial fashion. Mahalo will deliver results for less popular searches from Google.

Search results quality

Mahalo’s goal is to improve search results by eliminating search spam from low-quality websites, such as those that have excessive advertising, distribute malware, or engage in phishing scams. Webmasters have a vested interest to see their sites listed. Calacanis has said that algorithmic search engines, like Google and Yahoo, suffer from manipulation by search engine optimization practitioners. Mahalo’s reliance on human editors is intended to avoid this problem, producing search results that are more relevant to the user.

Mahalo Daily Video Show

Veronica Belmont was hired by Mahalo.com to produce a daily video show for the site. Her first video was an interview with Leeroy Jenkins. Belmont left Mahalo Daily to co-host the Revision3 series Tekzilla. After a month-long search, Belmont’s replacement was announced on June 5, 2008. Former cable sports show host Leah D’Emilio won Mahalo Vlog Idol and now co-hosts the show with Mahalo.com employee Lon Harris. The show format remains predominately the same as when hosted by Belmont – shows around five minutes long, intended to be both entertaining and generally educational. Shows regularly feature interviews, particularly of people in the local area, and “in 60 seconds” clips of major events (Apple Keynotes, US Presidential debates, and so forth) regularly feature. Harris and D’Emilo have introduced two new features to the show lineup – a “This week on YouTube” show each Friday, covering (in a disparaging fashion) viral videos on Youtube for that current week, and a “Mahalo Mondays” Q&A show each Monday.

Mahalo Answers

On December 15, 2008, Mahalo launched a new service called Mahalo Answers. The service is similar to Yahoo! Answers in that it allows users to pose questions regarding a wide variety of subjects, and those questions will be answered by other users. A key difference between the two services is that Mahalo Answers allows questioners to give a monetary reward (called a “tip” on the site) to the user who provides the most helpful response. Tips are paid using “Mahalo dollars,” which are bought using PayPal, and, once earned, can then either be used to tip other users or be cashed in at a 75% exchange rate.

Critics

Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com said, “Just like a lot of people who watch movies think they can be scriptwriters, there are a lot of people who use search engines who think they can build a search engine.” Lanzone cited the fact that about 60% of search inquiries to Ask are unique as just one of the challenges of running a search engine. Google claims that 20% to 25% of its search inquiries have never been used before.

At the SMX Conference in June 2007, Google software engineer Matt Cutts explained that while he supports different approaches to search, like Mahalo, it is untrue that humans have nothing to do with Google’s search results. As examples of human involvement he cited Google’s use of hyperlink analysis, toolbar voting, and user reporting of spam. Cutts suggested that Google would evolve to take advantage of social media.

Ownership and funding

Lead investors in Mahalo.com include Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz, an early investor in both Google and Yahoo; Elon Musk, founder of PayPal; and News Corporation. Other disclosed investors include Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and AOL chairman Ted Leonsis Jason Calacanis has said that he has enough funding to run Mahalo for four or five years without making a profit. Mahalo eventually hopes to make a profit by selling ads next to search results.

Traffic and growth

Mahalo has experienced moderate growth since it was launched in May 2007. Mahalo.com traffic has increased from roughly ten thousand visitors a month in July 2007, to two million visitors a month in January 2008. In the three month period leading up to the date of February 23 2008, the number of global internet users who visited Mahalo.com rose by fifty percent, and the site is currently ranked by Alexa in the top 3000 most visited websites. On October 22, 2008, Calacanis announced that he was laying off 10 percent of Mahalo’s employees due to the economic downturn. Conflicting reports suggest that the percentage of employees let go was much higher, with reports stating that it was a third of staff.

Other Information

• Genre Search Engine
• Founded 2007
• Founder Jason Calacanis
• Headquarters Santa Monica, California, USA
• Key people Jason Calacanis, Founding CEO. Elliot C.R. Cook: COO, Mark Jeffrey: CTO
• Revenue Unknown, Startup May 2007
• Employees 20
• Slogan “We’re here to help.”
• Type of site Web directory
• Advertising Google AdSense
• Available in English
• Launched May 30, 2007

Links

• Website Mahalo.com

F lickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, B.C., Canada-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp’s Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.

Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found on the web rather than photographs taken by users. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr’s backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending’s codebase.

Some of the key features of Flickr not initially present were tags, marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is pending.

In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr. During the week of June 28, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States, resulting in all data being subject to United States federal law.

On May 16, 2006, Flickr updated its services from beta to “gamma”, along with a design and structural overhaul. According to the site’s FAQ, the term “gamma”, rarely used in software development, is intended to be tongue-in-cheek to indicate that the service is always being tested by its users, and is in a state of perpetual improvement. For all intents and purposes, the current service is considered a stable release.

In December 2006, upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100MB a month (from 20MB) and were removed from Pro Accounts, permitting unlimited uploads for holders of these accounts (originally a 2GB per month limit).

In January 2007, Flickr announced that “Old Skool” members–those who had joined before the Yahoo acquisition–would be required to associate their account with a Yahoo ID by March 15 to continue using the service. This move was criticized by some users.

On April 9, 2008, Flickr began to allow paid subscribers to upload videos, limited to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size.

Yahoo! Photos

Yahoo announced that they would shut down Yahoo! Photos on September 20, 2007, after which all photos would be deleted. During the interim, users had the ability to migrate their photos to Flickr or other services (including Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, and Photobucket). All who migrated to Flickr were given three months of a Flickr Pro account. AT&T Internet Services customers were given a free Flickr Pro account, which originally was planned to be for the duration of the customer’s subscription to AT&T Internet Services, but AT&T has recently decided to drop the Pro account services, with most customers’ Pro accounts ending next year unless they subscribe to Flickr Pro. This generated some negative feedback amongst AT&T customers. Flickr users who do subscribe to Pro before their term runs out will be given an extra two months of the service free of charge.

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In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

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ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget.
The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. … Click on our sidebar to test..

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…Click on our sidebar to test

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. ..Visit our Delicious Page

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button… Visit Our stumble Upon Page

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. check out sharealink on friendfeed

Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to “fave” a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot. While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, .. ShareAlink on Faves

Google Bookmarks – 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. Visit Our Sharealink Google Bookmark

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Cuil’s privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power. The CEO and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others. The company raised $33 million from venture capital firms including Greylock.

Name

The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson’s husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character called Finn McCuill. The company says that Cuil is Irish for knowledge and hazel.

Some linguists are unsure of this derivation and pronunciation, and note that the modern Irish word for hazel is spelled coll (coill or cuill in genitive form, the former spelling having superseded the latter as a result of the Caighdeán Oifigiúil reforms of the mid-twentieth century). Foras na Gaeilge, the official governing body of the Irish language, doubted the assertion that ‘cuil’ means ‘knowledge’. “I am unaware myself of the meaning ‘knowledge’ being with the word ‘cuil’ in Irish,” Stiofán Ó Deoráin, an official on Foras na Gaeilge’s terminology committee, said.

The company name had previously been spelled Cuill.

Launch

Cuil’s launch (with an index of 121,617,892,992 web pages) received widely critical press coverage. Concerns were expressed about the website’s slow response times, irrelevant or wrong search results and in at least one case, inappropriately pornographic images displayed alongside search results. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch questioned the validity of Cuil’s claim that it had the world’s largest search engine index and criticized it for focusing on size rather than relevance. Despite reported problems with search results, Net Applications reported that for the last three days of July, Cuil beat Google and Yahoo in the amount of time spent on a site after referral from a search engine, a key metric for relevancy of search results.

According to an interview with a Cuil representative, while other Web 2.0 launches using massively parallel processing might fail with a slow down or crash, Cuil’s architecture was responding with incomplete, “less-than-relevant results that then appear at the top of users’ pages.” Cuil’s VP of communications Vince Sollitto said the search engine was experiencing heavy first-day overloads and they were “busy putting out fires.” Sollitto said Cuil “will only improve with time. It’s day one. Traffic is massive. We’re new. There are bugs to fix, results to improve.”

After the initial critical press coverage Cuil was alleged to have caused issues for some websites, owing to how the Cuil indexing robot polled certain sites. Website owners were reportedly saying the method was not “scientific in any way” and “actually quite ‘amateurish.’”

According to the Alexa web information company, the site reached a peak of just over 0.2% of worldwide internet users in late July 2008 and by September 12, 2008, it had dropped to 0.02% and ranked as the 5,340th site by traffic. By October 13, 2008, it had dropped to 0.005% and ranked as the 21,960th site in traffic. About one month after launch, Cuil’s Product VP and renowned search technologist, Louis Monier, quit the company citing disagreements with the CEO, Tom Costello.

Criticism

Since launch, Cuil’s search results tend to display seemingly random images. This was noticed by several bloggers. Even months after its launch, incorrect images appear with some web sites as they did at launch. A Gmail logo is still shown for a blogging site, TechCrunch.

Contact Information

• Type of site search engine
• Available language(s) English
• Owner Cuil, Inc.
• Launched July 28, 2008

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