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Looking for some cool online marketing tools? Thanks again to my ongoing collaboration with Italian future-looking magazine 7thFloor for which I have been producing a small multi-part content section called “Yellow Pages for explorers and innovators“, I am bringing to you the extended and upgraded version of a small collection of useful online marketing tools [...]

The vast majority of web sites today are not monetizing their advertising to their fullest potential.

Here is a company, a rare one I must say, that not only has spent serious time trying to understand and match my needs with their specific services, but has had enough integrity and courage to openly recognize its strengths [...]

psd2css online converts your fantastic, creative, artistic, no holds barred web page designs into strict XHTML compliant CSS web pages automatically. Use Photoshop or The Gimp to express yourself and create the most professional, aesthetically perfect and functional designs you can think of, then upload your .psd designs, download your .html file and images. It’s [...]

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The open source model has, over the last 20 years, proven that collaborative development is one of the best ways to incorporate the newest ideas and latest concepts into design.
In fact, the open source model, which began with programmers, has been so successful that it is currently being applied in government, media, education and private [...]

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Online Image Editing

Project Draw
Project Draw is an online sketch tool from the makers of AutoCAD and Revit.
Resizr Resizr allows users to upload a picutre (currently .jpg format only) and have it resized for them. The site also has a Firefox plugin.
Splashup
Splashup is a Photoshop-esque Flash based online image editing tool. Very easy to use and [...]

The Social Bookmarking and Voting Site Graphic Design Links has had a complete makeover. With a new logo and colour scheme the site has been bought up to date running the latest Pligg release.

Sign up for a free account today so you can add your interesting Design related links and vote on the others people [...]

Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge.

Everything you want in one window.
Zenbe includes a calendar, task lists, an address book, even your Facebook friends, at a glance.
All your email addresses in one place.
Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address.
Ad-free email.
Zenbe is free, but we don’t show ads with your [...]

A Four Billion Dollar Pie
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace.
What’s a product placement, you ask? It’s a movie, TV show, or computer game where a company has paid for their [...]

BRITT LOVETT + TALIA LESAK (hello) believe that FOOD and DRINK keep us alive – spiritually as well as physically. We started this website because we ourselves wanted to get back into the kitchen – we wanted to cook more for our families and friends and we wanted our friends [...]

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ESTABLISHED TURNKEY COMPUTERS ONLINE WEBSITE BUSINESS
US $0.99 (1 Bid)

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Skydeck turns your phone bill into a map of your relationships with friends, colleagues, and customers - your true social network. We show you who called you, whom you need to call, and who never calls back. And since we also keep track of how much you’re spending, you’ll never get a surprise bill again.
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Lifetick is about helping you develop purpose in your own life. Humans tend to feel happiness and contentment when we have a reason for our being i.e. a sense of purpose. The working toward and achieving of goals has long been regarded as a fantastic way to gain that purpose. Ultimately, it comes down to [...]

LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links you’d like to have a second look at, but don’t have time for now.
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Social Networking Idea
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Zecter is the simple way to share, protect, and track files that matter
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PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT TEMPLATES PACKAGE 2CDs
US $9.95

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50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers
Published on Tuesday April 29th , 2008
By Christina Laun
With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it . And if [...]

A while back I wrote “Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration “, where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I’m looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: “Where do you go for design inspiration?”, and asked that you contribute suggestions. This [...]

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.
read the whole article here - It’s great!

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While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or [...]

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Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Max Gladwell, of MaxGladwell.com , as a regular guest writer on sustainablog. Max Gladwell covers the nexus of social media and green living. We feel that these two trends and technological developments hold tremendous promise for improving quality of life for everyone on the planet.
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Again, another great post that I found.  Be sure to check out their site for more amazing resources…
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Windows Recovery - this utility will backup your entire Windows, partition table and so on. So you can recover your corrupt Windows and partition table. You can also use this utility to backup your important data before [...]

I found this very useful post that I thought you all might like to know about.  The site itself is worth checking out.
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Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

OSWD - is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge. Currently has 2080 free designs.
OpenWebDesign - [...]

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7 Days to MASSIVE WEBSITE TRAFFIC eBook CD! Improve [...]

BADGES
Web 2.0 Badges - A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs.
Fresh Badge - Quickly generate your own badge.
adClustr - Starburst badges.
Deziner Folio - A collection of different badges.
BittBox - Free vector badges.
Official Seal Generator - An alternative to the typical badge.
Photoshop Tutorial - A [...]

I found this great list of resources that would help any blogger or web maven out. I’ll be reading them all week!

How To Talk To Bloggers
52 Post Ideas To Help You Stay Inspired Throughout The Year
90 SEO Wordpress Themes
Good Advertising Deals At A Sharp Looking Blog
Wordpress Tips Part 1
Wordpress Tips Part 2
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Here is a super-fantastic list of Applications I found at the Unofficial Web Applications List website while stumblingUpon… I plan to devour this list this weekend some time. Check out the source here.

Cownter: Allows website visitors to see how many people are currently looking at different pages within a website. When a [...]

This is isn’t the newest list in the world, but I still refer to it ALL THE TIME. Don’t forget to check out the source’s site, it’s chock full of great info!
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Here are 15 handy web developer tools. Some are very well known others not so, however, one thing they [...]

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There are tens of millions of sites to visit. Not forgetting telegraph.co.uk, here are the only ones you actually need. Compiled by David Baker
TECHNOLOGY
1 Google
www.google.com

Haven’t found what you’re looking for? Use our website guide to [...]

Free Stock Photos
Websites where you can find and download free stock photography. Be sure to review usage restrictions, though, as many of these sites require that you give credit, a link back, etc.

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Free Resources for IT people: CSS Tab generators, Mobile phone applications, Business slogan generator, stunning CSS free templates, mobile video search tools and many other fantastic free resources and applications to bling your website or mobile. Let’s get started…
Daily Colorscheme
An every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh color schemes that are downloadable for use [...]

Have a voice conference while co-browsing any web site and whiteboarding with your team. Better yet: connect to all major instant messaging networks from one new service, share Flickr pictures in real-time while you are chatting, and send any type of file or document without using email. All in this week collaboration tools focused Sharewood [...]

Publish your recorded video lecture next to your PowerPoint original slides while keeping everything in sync, compare and convert images, download videos, and browse your image library like you have never done before. All in this week Sharewood Picnic and more.

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Here my selected visual communication tools for this week:

Vcasmo: Combine PowerPoint files with [...]

I was surfing the web looking for what’s out there in terms of competition to Design Shrine and I stumbled upon a really cool site that sold templates. They have a web 2.0 category, Oscommerce, logos, etc. Their site is clean, fresh and easy to use. But when I found the FREE [...]

I’ve found some interesting resources that might be of interest to home business owners and webmasters alike:
Press Release Generator
Let the World Know! This press release generator will walk you through the steps of writing your own press release. You can create [...]

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One of the main reasons we started the One Month App is because people always seem to be interested in our development process. One of the aspects of our development process is naturally the software and tools we use. The following is a list of the tools that we have used on this project and [...]