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Lovendar : Take Out For Love!

lovendar-logoWith such a hectic schedule, one hardly finds time for recreation and take out some time for their loved ones. One surely needs a supportive hand to help them rejuvenate their diminishing love. Lovendar is the right solution for this! It helps the busy couples to stay in love. Surely, it is an exciting and easy way for both the people in a relationship to share the things you want, enlist the things to-do, share the gifts they want for one another and things they wish to try together. Lovendar reminds the couples of the important dates of their relation. So, guys and girls, if an event is present on Lovendar, it is highly important.

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Memplai: Create Unique Videos Easily And Share

Memplai

Memplai

Memplai is a service that allows you to assemble digital content form many sources and quickly creates high-quality videos that you can share with others.

The service is social, easy and free. You can connect with friends, upload your content, and create and share your videos with whomever you want to. You can invite your friends to upload their photos and video clips too.

Through Memplai, you can create memorable videos that tell a story or capture the best of an event. You can also celebrate memories or gather research from around the world. Read more of this post

WhatsNextUp: Find Personalized Entertainment at a Single Website

WhatsNextUp

WhatsNextUp

WhatsNextUp is a great place to find all kinds of entertainment- music, movies, T.V. episodes, games, sports or books.

When we want to relax a bit after hard work, we look for something entertaining to do or watch. Although there are a score of things you could do, like watch television or play a game, sometimes we just cannot find the perfect entertainment according to your mood at the moment. WhatsNextUp is a service that can solve this problem because here you will find personalized entertainment that is suited to your taste. Read more of this post

Let your imagination free, remix images with Canvas

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Canvas

Do you like to play around with images? Then Canvas is the place to be. This amazing resource for those interested in twisting photographs has all the tools through which you can easily alter a photograph to suit your imagination.

The goal of Canvas is to create an environment where people can have fun with images. A user can create their own group on the site and share their images with friends and others.

Images on Canvas have been categorized into the following categories: everything, gif-bin, pop-culture, cute, photography, video games, funny, abstract and politics. If your images do not fit into any of these categories, you are free to create your own group.

Visitors can explore images without signing up. They can vote for images they like, and make their own image remixes, as the Canvas team calls it, using the inbox browser.

Images speak better than words. On Canvas, you can communicate with other images fans through visuals that they and you upload to the site. Well, if you are a cat lover and have uploaded many remixes of the photographs of cats, you sure will get the attention of other cat lovers on the site. It is a great way to meet like-minded people.

The Canvas team keeps a tab on what is published on the site and what is not. Any image that violates the code of conduct of the site is immediately taken off. To maintain the quality of the site, an image that does not suit their guidelines is rejected.

You need to only register to the site in order to start uploading images. There is absolutely no payment required to use the site. Photographs and web designers will particularly find Canvas exciting.

Canvas is based in New York City. It is financed by Union Square Ventures, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Chris Dixon and Joshua Schachter.

Master speed-reading the fun way with Readfa.st

Readfa.st

Readfa.st

Readfa.st teaches people to read faster and better. Speed-reading is something that is of immense value in life, both online and offline. Up till now, it was not being adapted to the Internet, so the team at Readfa.st did exactly what was needed. They train you to read fast.

Unlike books on speed-reading, Readfa.st actually forces you to read fast by making a single line appear on the screen for a few seconds, enough for you to read it and grasp what is being written. You can see the reading score of what you are reading on the side. The pace of the lines can be altered as you start to read faster and faster.

It might not be apparent how speed-reading saves time, but with Readfa.st you can see how much faster you are reading.

You can practice speed-reading on any content across the Internet with the help of Readfa.st. Just sign up at Readfa.st and you get an icon on your computer. Just click on that button whenever you want to convert an ordinary article into a Readfa.st speed-reading article and start to practice. This way you will be reading the content you want (unlike reading what they want you to read), get the information you need and at the same time practice speed-reading. It doesn’t get better than this.

Readfa.st is free of cost and it adds a skill that can be used for a lifetime. The game element of Readfa.st is a little limited right now, but the company will soon update it in future releases.

With Readfa.st, you can also keep a tab on what your friends are reading. You can socialize with people on the site, who are also learning to speed-read. You can make your reading score public and discuss the progress with friends, and mutually motivate one another.

Readfa.st surely is a great resource for those who read a lot online and offline. It not only trains you to save time, but also allows you to grasp all the necessary information at the same time.

PopuGamer – Discover New Video Games Reviewed By Real Gamers

popugamer logoBeing a real game lover, gaming is always exciting to you, but you aren’t sure which game to buy next, PopuGamer is a wonderful crowd-sourced video game review website dedicated for real game lovers like you. It can help you to discover awesome games based on normal users reviews and votes.

You will get imperial game recommendation in PopuGamer, because all the video games in PopuGamer are reviewed by the real gamers like you and me. Unlike other game review websites, PopuGamer discourages professional game reviews because they believe professional game reviewers or editorial teams are never impartial and greatly influenced by the game company promotions.

Since, its a open platform, anyone can join PopuGamer either by using their existing Facebook account or signing up for a review account. You can browse games by popularity or reviews and easily find top games people are playing with and having fun. PopuGamer allows you to filter the games list by Genres, Platforms and Years making it more easy to get to your gaming segment of interests. Moreover, you can search for games and add new games if its not available, when adding a new games you can add related tags to more categorize the games.

PopuGamer offers a wide range of badges as motivational force for gamers depending on their activity they do on the platform, which is very helpful in building the gaming community. In addition, user can make friendship, follow other gamers, send messages, share photos and videos making it an extensive social networking platform for real gamers.

Those who are looking for user based video games review website, PopuGamer can be a great alternative for finding latest and greatest games online. Have a look at this wonderful website and let us know your feedback.

Tadagraph – Amazing Real-Time Online Collaboration Platform

Tadagraph LogoThere are tons of platforms developed by many people to deal with project management matters. Tadagraph, a distributed collaboration via micro-messaging which is a fun place to work nicely, is not such a thing. It is a very different platform that makes your tasks management easy through a real-time micro-messaging interface. It comes with a lot of features like chatting, projects management, team intranet, work space sharing, ensuring security for your group and so many more.

To try this awesome platform, you need to sign up first with your name and email address. Once logged in, you will get an instant video link from where you can easily get an overview of how to use the system. You can easily add a project by clicking (+add new) in the header, each project is a secure and private space for team members. You can now extend your team by inviting new member to your project. Click the (add new) button just bellow the members section on the right side, you need to enter an email then you will be shown a window to write a message, write a personal message then click the send button and you are done. On the other hand, you can also join a project accepting invitation and make a tweet or re-tweet easily by using Tadagraph updater. #Hash-tags can be added to your tasks and status updates for organizing the work smoothly.

Each project in Tadagraph have some applications to manage the flow and tasks properly. These applications can be activated using #hashtags from Tadagraph updater. The Flow application consists of all the updates by the members in reverse chronological order. To-do application provides light weight tasks management and can be activated on any status adding #todo hashtag. The Ideas application provides brainstorming and voting ideas and can be activated using #discuss tags. Similarly the Notes application provide wiki-like store of documents, notes, code, comments etc and can be activated using #note hash-tag. More applications are coming soon and in the future 3rd party developers can build their application around this Tadagraph platform.

Tadagraph is also providing day-wise task list (todo) facility from where you can easily add a task specifying the predefined day tags. It has a nice calender option from where you can drag and drop the tasks easily and edit your task very elegantly. For your kind information, you can share your updates as like as chatting and mention your partners with @username format just like Twitter. Each message has detail view and related conversion with multi-level treaeded reply. You can note your important things like topic wise and Ideas wise or expressed by listing. Tadagraph is a real time online collaboration tool that means if you update any data at your end, all team members will see the changes instantly without any page refresh.

Features at a glance:

  • Dissecting tadagraph’s topics
  • Co-work In location
  • SandBox Project – your private micro-messaging playground
  • Free Team Intranet with micro-messaging way
  • Free project management with micro-messaging style

Tadagraph is an excellent and fun platform which helps people to overcome the work complexity easily. We welcome you to try it yourself and let us know your feedback.

Tpstry – Discover And Share Family Events And Memories

tpstry-logoTpstry comes with a completely innovative idea that allows you to know, to add and share your family event as well as you will have an opportunity to know past about your family. Because you will not find your family‘s history or event in any other place or in the Internet,  Tpstry provides a way to collect individual family memories and combine them into a larger, richer picture of the past. You know better about your family as well as family event or past about your family. So only you can create and share your family memories.

Tpstry is a place that allows you to discover or find out and share not only past family memories, but also helps you to add or share the new memories. By using the combined knowledge of your living relatives, you could learn so much more about your deceased relatives. You could ask them the some questions and learn even more about everyone in your family.  Using Tpstry you could know about your grandfather, what jobs had he worked at or did anyone from your family attend an Elvis concert? Or what food did your dad refuse to eat as a child. Moreover what was your grandmother’s first job? Answer of these types of question enriches knowledge about your family and it also builds a strong bond among family members. In addition it is as well helps to know more about your relatives and their ancestors. Another facility is that you can invite your friend and other family person in your account.

After the registration process you have to fill up your profile such your family’s name, your eye color and many other answers. From the People tab can add other people in different tag, such as you can add him or her as a family member or friend of your family. In the Place tab, you can have the opportunity to add different places and custom question/ answer about that place.  Event and image tab allows you to create event and upload various images respectively.  Clicking on the Invite Friends & Family option, you can send invitation to your friends and family members. Moreover you also can connect with them via Facebook.

Some awesome features of Tpstry at a glance:

  • Discover Family Memories
  • Organize Family Memories
  • Share Family Memories

The most beautiful feature of Tpstry is that you can Share Family Memories and it will automatically create a Family Memories website.

Skinnyo – A Social Community To Help You Losing Your Weight With More Fun

skinnyo logoSkinnyo is a new kind of social network to help you lose your weight with more fun. It’s a very exciting community for those people who really want to lose some weight. Skinnyo has a nice user interface, easy to use and seamless in terms of functionality. It aims to keep yourself healthy and enjoy your life with more fun.

Skinnyo allows you to track your progress with awesome graphs, maintain your dairy of weight loss, update your photos of different stage in weight losing process, earn badges and points and more. Its really different.

In Skinnyo, you can create or join to different challenges and compete with others in losing weight. A challenge is like a team of people following a kind of approach to lose weight. Each challenge has its own wall where team mates can share their progress and statuses, it binds all teammates for one goal. In challenge wall, team mates usually share tips, congrats a mate when doing good, shout or sympathize on other when getting heavy. As a result, a new kind of friendship grew among the team members.

Skinnyo provides nice graphs for you to instantly see the progress you’ve made, including the trends and patterns, making it easier to manage your weight and keep track of how much you’re losing. Here you can battle with your friends, colleagues or strangers in more exciting way and don’t worry Skinnyo will reward you with more badges and points. All rewards and points are shown in your profile to keep you motivated toward weight losing game.

So, why not become one of the founding members and help shape an exciting and motivational community.

Gamify – The Gamification Platform

Gamify is a promising Gamification Platform to provide enjoyment out of any gaming machine. Using this new platform, any website or Internet connected device can be gamified providing a new level of experience, fun and engagement.

A wide variety of applications and services in field such as web, mobile, e-commerce, entertainment, education, work, social good can be powered through this robust, flexible and expandable platform. Individual user by himself/herself or with the help of a community of Gamify Experts can interact to the platform.

Gamify‘s games will seamlessly convert your users to players by adding a “game layer” to your site, service or application.

Gamify has a variety of widgets to interact with users and get feedback on your website or mobile apps. It also has reward programs to generate engagement and loyalty to your application and brand.

Gamify is also building a Gamification Encyclopedia to collaboratively document their new movement. Currently, some best game designers of the world are also collaborating with this movement to define, document and provide example on best practices, terms and patterns of this Gamification Platform.

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