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BookieJar opens doors of opportunity for writers, readers and publishers

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 12, 2011
BookieJar

BookieJar

BookieJar is an open eBook publishing, reading and distribution platform for writers, readers and publishers.

On BookieJar, a reader can browse through thousands of books by independent writers in various genres. Here, you can discover ebooks and writers based on reviews, ratings and friend’s recommendations.

You can get to know about ebook launches, announcements, special promotions from authors, discounts etc. on BookieJar. There’s Read more of this post

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Pubslush: Publishing a Book with a Charitable Side

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 10, 2011
Pubslush

Pubslush

If you are an aspiring author, you can choose from a few publishing sites to circulate your books. WordClay and AuthorHouse are two of the most proficient sites available. In these sites, you could self- publish any book you wrote and you can readily get your name in print, too. But what if you could publish your book and donate some proceeds in each book sold? Pubslush can exactly do that for you. Aside from printing and selling your books, you can also contribute to children who are in dire need of support. Read more of this post

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Link.me, a mobile platform for publishers, is good news for readers too

1 Comment Posted by on December 4, 2011
Link.me

Link.me

Link.me is a mobile platform for publishers that help to track reader interest and build ongoing, direct relationships.

We all know the publishing industry needs to quickly adapt to the fast technological changes if it is to survive and grow. With the advent of e-books, e-readers and online publishers, traditional publishing is finding itself in a crisis. The Australian start-up, Link.me, has come up with creative and affordable ways for publishers to incorporate new digital technologies into their business for mobile users. Read more of this post

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NewsWhip: World’s Trending Stories Rolled into One Site

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2011
NewsWhip

NewsWhip

The daily flow of news can be overwhelming sometimes and you just need some time to digest all of it. But how can you maximize your time and just split up the most important news from those irrelevant for you? The Irish startup, NewsWhip.com helps you to sort out news every day by posting the freshest stories from other sites and prioritizing them in the order of importance based from the interaction it is getting from social media. Read more of this post

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Clude – Group And Events Solutions For Your Networks, Clubs And Communities

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 23, 2011

clude logoclude is a nice platform for creating and managing groups, events and meetings for your networks, clubs and communities. Adding a new group or joining to an existing group in clude is very simple and all the functionality of this platform are revolving around the groups and their activity. Although there are many group and event solution available, clude is awesome because of its distinguishable features.

In the community tab, you can find members and groups with profile, group’s member list, group’s event list along with group’s location with map. You can create public and private group according to your wish. You can also invite your friends to join your created group no matter whether it is a public or private group. Once you have created a group, you can add tags to your group so that other can find and join your group easily.

Creating an event is very easy and takes a few simple steps. Since, all events belong to a group, you must be a group admin to create any event for that group. First go to group events page and click ‘create’ then follow the steps and finally fill in the relevant information for a successful event creation. You can also find events easily using map or searching facility on event directory page for any group.

Achievement Badges award is another interesting features and these award is provided on variety of activities on the site. Golden Clude can win you free subscription periods on clude from 1 month up to 6 months. In addition, you can automatically post event on Facebook, Twitter or Eventbrite from your group, but you need to authorize the connection before doing it. From event tab you can learn about group’s event time, meeting subject with location that helps you to join it easily. You can use clude for various purposes such as your network, club, community or alumni. It also helps you to connect with different groups and people all around from world.

All distinguishable features at a glance:

  • Create a group or join a group
  • Create an event or join an event or meeting
  • Twitter, Facebook and Eventbrite connection
  • Location with map

clude provides a nice interface with a robust architecture for groups and organizations to create meetings, events list easily. clude is now in beta version and soon coming with some exciting features such as paypal integration, event tickets, QR codes, Facebook event integration and more.

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WOVOX – A Social Platform For Discovering Workplaces Around The World

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 21, 2011

wovox-logoWant to get a taste of famous workplaces like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter or the company you are going to visit tomorrow, WOVOX is just for you. WOVOX is a different type of social platform for discovering workplaces around the world through pictures, videos and reviews with the goal of ensuring transparent workplace. It allows you to get real impression about a workplace without even visiting the place physically.

A workplace is a place where people work, it can be any business, office, shopping or commercial center, community facility or even industry. It represents the work environment and culture of the people working there, how they work, how they eat for lunch and how they co-operate each other, their passion and devotion towards their work etc. Workplace plays a vital role as a motivational force for those people who are working for the company to achieve the success and ensure the growth of the company.

What about other people out side of the company? like potential customers, partners, job seekers or well wishers. Workplace also plays a very important role here to earn the reputation for the company and grow their interest towards the business.

WOVOX allows anyone to add pictures, videos and reviews for the workplace of their interest. Anyone can search any workplace around the world by typing company name or keyword and view photos, videos, reviews, comments, location in map along with other detail information about the business. All the data are shown in a smartly organized way with tagging support providing you a realistic view about the workplace.

WOVOX is a free and open platform which supports anonymity of the author or reviewer as long as the information is authentic. It greatly focuses on quality of the information over quantity. According to WOVOX, they care about reality not about the corporate image, so reveal the good, the bad or the different.

Platform like WOVOX can have a good impact on how we evaluate a workplace not by the company name but by the real scenario. So have a look at this wonderful platform and leave us your feedback.

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LoveThis – A Platform To Recommend Anything And Share With Friends

1 Comment Posted by on March 20, 2011

lovethis-logoDo you believe that your friends are your the best adviser for you? Whenever you want to buy a new gadget or want to go for a dinner to a new restaurant or want to spent your recess in abroad by asking your friends you can find a finest gadget or first-class dinner or awesome place. But, is it possible always asking them? No, LoveThis is a fantastic platform to get or give recommendation for friends as well as to get recommendation from experts.

In LoveThis, there are various categories for giving a recommendation or finding a recommendation. The idea behind the LoveThis is straightforward. Suppose that you went to an awesome restaurant and you loved their foods and hospitality. Now you can give a recommendation for the restaurant that your friends also can enjoy their dishes and nice environment. The process is very easy. First you have to register in LoveThis, you can register with your email or you can logon via Facebook or Twitter account. This option allows you to get rid of boring registration process and in addition, if you logon via facebook you can invite your Facebook friends to join here so that they can share their view and thought about a particular thing by giving or getting recommendation from friends.

When you recommend for a particular thing you can easily select category from the categories list and then write a sentence why you are recommending this restaurants or gadget or hotel. The most awesome feature is that you can add map of that place to help your friends finding that place quickly. It also allows you to search your friends in LoveThis to see if they already made an account. Another thing is that you can also comment on friend’s recommendations and discuss or ask question about the recommendation.

LoveThis is a wonderful platform that emphases friends recommendations greatly as well as experts recommendations. But friends’ recommendations may not always be correct. Despite of this drawback, there are enough reason to LoveThis, specially when you need to make a choice out of many options about restaurants, hotels, places, products or services. You also have a chance to justify or compare  friend’s recommendations with expert recommendations. So you can join LoveThis without any confusion and make your life full of love and fun.

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Epihu – Publish The Most Brightness Events Of The Outgoing Day In A Slide

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 15, 2011

epihu-logoEpihu is an interesting micro blogging platform that is different from Twitter or other simple blogging such as Tumblr but have some similarity with 280daily. It allows you to publish the most brightness events of the outgoing day in a slide with various moods, tags, access level as well as an image that you associate with your day.

Each day is unique, full of brightness events, happiness and impressions as well as on the contradictory sadness or sedateness. If you make a record of each day with various events, at the end it will be an album of your life from that you can reminiscence your best and brightest events. Epihu helps to make a description on your outgoing day with 250 characters in a slide as well as giving an opportunity to customize access level in different categories such as open for all, open only for friends and closed for all. Customization in access level is providing more facility from other micro blogging platform.

The usage process is very simple and it has an attractive interface that loads very first.  To make a new slide of your day just click in the Create new slide and then a window will appears to add a description of your day in 250 characters, select a section what is the day about, choose a mood that you feel about this day, tag it with keyword which you’ll help you to find related slides and finally pick an access level that allows you customization in privacy. In addition, you can also upload image that you relate with your day from hard disk or internet. From the live feed you can see other people’s mood, their slides and profiles if the access is open. Using Epihu you can easily share your slide with friends and can learn about their mood.

According to Epihu, it’s service will be especially useful for:

  • Lifehackers
  • Loving parents
  • Athletes
  • Travelers

Now-a-day we are reluctant to write personal diary, some people use blogging as personal diary but blogging is not providing you full privacy where you can write a personal description of day or diary.  Epihu is not only providing an exclusive privacy setting or customized access level but also its interesting features will encourage you to write freely.

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Pressmo – Create Attractive Digital Edition Of Your Publications In Seconds

1 Comment Posted by on March 2, 2011

Pressmo-logoPressmo is offering an innovative digital publication service for professionals and businesses. Currently many publishers, bookstores and businesses publish books, manuals, brochures, marketing materials and other documents online in plain PDF format. Converting these plain PDF files into more attractive digital edition with smart controls will add more values to the product and services.

Pressmo can do the job for you by digitizing the plain PDF file into digital edition automatically in just 5 minutes which you can publish on your own website or download in executable format for off-line use. The digital edition gives your user a change to eye on the content of your document before they decide to buy or download it from your website which will increase the performance of your website and boost incoming traffic for your business.

The process is very state forward, first signup for your account by choosing a suitable price package depending on your need. Then, go to the client panel and upload the PDF file you want to convert into digital format. It will automatically start converting your document and will send you an email confirmation once the conversion process is finished. You can now download the digital version and publish it on your own website or use the executable format for your presentation.

Pressmo allows you to customize the look and feel of your eBooks easily through the client panel. You can choose from different layouts, add your company logo, set password and choose from various navigation and other controls for your digital publication. It is helpful to establish your own branding over your contents.

This is a wonderful service with great potential. It has an trial mode where you can create trial eBook easily and test the integrity of the system. So give it a try and experience this new innovative service. If you feel anything about this great service, please let us know your feedback.

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Spreaker – Create And Broadcast A Personal Radio Show On The Internet

1 Comment Posted by on February 26, 2011

Spreaker-logoSpreaker is a Free online platform for creating and broadcasting a personal radio show across the Internet. It’s a simple, all-in-one solution for hosting a talk show, a music show or anything you wish to create and share with your audience over a variety of distribution channels, including social networks and smartphones.

Using Spreaker is very easy, since no download is required; you simply access a web-based mixing console which lets you record your voice and mix it with music and sound effects. The result can be broadcast live over the Internet and listened through a player widget (wich can be embedded on 3rd party websites, including facebook pages) so that the audience can interact with the host using tools like Skype, twitter and chat rooms.

This exciting live broadcasting platform lets you upload your own musics, Jingles, Loops, Soundtracks and Effects so that you can manage and customize your show the way you want.

All the shows which are created remain stored on the website and can be listened later as podcasts. Spreaker also offers an API which allows third parties to easily create live streaming and recording services.

Spreaker provides a free plan which is more than enough to test the platform and run your personal radio station. So, give this wonderful application a try and let us know your opinion.

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Timely – Schedule Your Tweets For Maximum Impact

4 Comments Posted by on February 20, 2011

timely-logoTimely is a free twitter service that lets you auto schedule your tweets for maximum impact. It’s a web based service, with a stunning simple graphical interface, designed to get maximum response, re-tweets and followers from your tweets. Timely allows you to schedule tweets for multiple twitter accounts from one Timely account which might be suitable for small to medium businesses.

Timely schedules your tweets automatically just like magic. What Timely does is, it first pull your last 199 tweets and analyzes them for re-tweets. It then figures out the best time slots for your tweets and use this info to auto-schedule your tweets. It doesn’t stop here, instead learn as your tweets and followers grow.

Timely provides you analytical information for all of your tweets sent from Timely account. You can view native and classic re-tweets, along with clicks and the reach for each individual tweets. This information helps you better understand the impact of your tweets and optimize your social presence.

To make your life simple Timely provides a bookmark-let which you can drag and drop to your bookmark bar and while visiting a website you can add any link quickly to your Timely queue clicking on Create a Timely button.

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SubHub Lite – A Drupal Based Website Builder And Free Publishing Platform

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 10, 2011

subhublite-logoSubHub Lite is a nice graphical website builder and free publishing platform specially designed for non technical people. It allows a user to design, build and launch a website in just 5 minutes without any technical expertise. It is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform based on the popular drupal 7 content management software with custom website builder and admin panel.

Creating a website in SubHub Lite is very easy, just need to follow few steps during sign-up process and your website is ready. It’s great graphical interface lets you do everything you want to shape up your website. You can choose any theme you like from a collection of themes available. You can change the layout and customize the theme with your favorite color schemes and fonts. It also lets you add your own custom menus to the layout easily.

SubHub Lite has an easy to use apps manager which lets user to add widgets for custom Image/Text Block, HTML block and favorite services including Twitter, YouTube, Flickr. You can drag and drop the selected widget directly to the layout and change the default configurations to work properly.

Since, no technical expertise is required, SubHub Lite is suitable platform for bloggers, publishers, authors, journalists, academics, coaches, consultants, experts and local news.

SubHub Lite hosts your website for free so you don’t have to worry about a separate hosting service or additional configuration. By default, a sub domain is created for your website, but you can use your own domain name to give it a professional branding.

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Buffer – A Smarter Way To Stay On Top Of Twitter

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 2, 2011

Buffer logoBuffer is a cool social media tool for twitter, which lets you stay on top of twitter. You can add tweets to your Buffer and they will then be evenly spread throughout a number of days. It is quite different from existing ways to schedule tweets. There is no hassle of time setting for every time you tweet. They are set once and you can forget about them.

Buffer gives you some helper tools like bookmarklet, extension for chrome and safari browser. These tools are more than enough to make you smart on twitter. All you need to do is top up your Buffer with a tweet right from your browser every time you come across an interesting article you want to share. You do this by simply clicking the Buffer bookmarklet or Chrome Extension icon. Then briefly edit the tweet or take our suggestion according to the site you are on. Of course you can always go back to your dashboard at http://bufferapp.com and edit your tweets or move them around.

It might also be interesting for you to see how people are using Buffer at the moment. Whilst they check their RSS-reader and read news in the morning, they come across many interesting articles, quotes or videos. Instead of flooding their followers with their findings all at once, they top up their Buffer. They know that they are providing high-quality tweets spread out over the course of the day. This guarantees to share genuine content without any additional effort whilst you are reading the news. Whenever you like an article, just click the Buffer Icon and add to your Buffer.

A tool like Buffer can be very handy for individuals as well as for businesses. Specially for those small business who are unable to afford a dedicated social media service to get more follower for their service with a constant presence on twitter.

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Publishedin – Connecting Businesses with Online Publishers By Reward-Per-Click Program

4 Comments Posted by on February 2, 2011

Publishedin logoPublishedin is going to change the way how businesses promote their product online through their patent pending technology and Reward-Per-Click™ program. In recent year, Adwords, Google’s content sensitive advertisement program, almost wiped out all other traditional online advertising systems. Today, the entire internet is filled by ads by Google. The main success for Google Adwords is it’s highly content relevant ads as we know contents is the king. Though, Google’s ads are surrounded by contents, people still try to avoid clicking on ads as a human nature. People still prefer personal recommendations more than advertisements.

Publishedin is going to turn the entire content into advertisements using Reward-Per-Click™ program. Using this program, a blogger or website publisher will get paid for every click on any link referred to a business. And, the process is very simple, get a publisher account on Publishedin and put the tracking code to your website’s or blog’s template just like Google Analytics or other tracking code. Now, every click on your website will be counted for Reward. Bloggers will write more content for businesses paying high rewards. On the other hand, businesses will get better quality traffic than an advertisement. It will also help businesses to get higher search engine ranking and grow their business with more new customers.

Publisher’s account will show all rewards and links to the businesses paying the rewards. Businesses will know which publishers and bloggers are referring their products and services, which will give the business the chance to get connected to the publishers directly. Publishedin will get paid by businesses once in a month and Publishedin will pay back to the publisher using paypal or direct cheque.

This program allows blogger or publisher to focus more on creating rich and quality contents and earn more respect from visitors removing all ads from the page providing clean layout. This is a brand new idea and if applied properly, this new approach may change the entire online advertising industry and improve user experience to the next level. We are interested to know your opinion, please don’t forget to write your comment.

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Grammarly – Automated Grammar Checker And Plagiarism Detection Tool

5 Comments Posted by on January 31, 2011

Grammarly logoGrammarly is an advance automated proofreader tool that can check grammatical errors, detect plagiarism, enhance vocabularies and check contextual spelling errors. It is quite similar to PraperRater but provides more features and checkers to the users.

Grammarly provides 150+ grammar checkers to proofread your contents correctly. And unlike PraperRater, it’s plagiarism detection tool provides reference to the original content so that it can be double checked easily. It’s vocabulary enhancer provides context-optimized word choice suggestions to improve readability.

Automated proofreader tools are getting popular among students, teachers, corporate employees, content writers and bloggers. Constructive feedback from Grammarly can help students to improve their writing skills and become a better writer. It is also important for teachers to detect plagiarized papers submitted by students.

Using Grammarly is very simple and you don’t have to sign-up or register to proofread your content. Just visit the website and follow Check Grammar Now Button. It will give you a summary reports with list of issues. The detail reports are available to paid members only.

Grammarly is already well accepted by educational institutions worldwide and It offers some extra features to educational institutions and their students under .edu site license.

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