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Tech Update! Alternative Searching and Services

ekepner — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:53:19 +0000

Freeconference.com is a service that allows you to create conference calls for free! You can get a standard number or 800 number that participants dial in to. For additional features such as web-scheduling and recording they have a pricing matrix to cover every aspect. There is also a monthly subscription option!

Rackup.com is a new style of fast and thrilling auctions in which consumers compete for gift cards and for an extra free cash bonus of up to 100%, their model results in a win-win situation for both consumers and sellers.

This is a great search engine that combines the tabbing feature of an internet browser with other major search engines like Google, Bing and Dogpile. You can also specifiy on the search bar what source types you want to look at such as news, lyrics, jobs and social bookmarks.

Forgotten friendships or want to check your own web presence? Pipl.com is the most comprehensive people search available on the web, you’ll get the latest blog posts, social media, and website mentions of the names you search. You can even specify the city!

Yahoo Glue presents lot of different search result formats on the same page. You get to see video, pictures, articles, images and more with each search. The Glue-topic pages help you keep everything organized and streamline the way you view information.

Tech Update! Real-Time Stream

ekepner — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:05:00 +0000

Collecta.com is a search engine that dips into the real-time stream. It does not pull archived data but rather pulls information from Twitter messages, images and video, and social services. The great thing is that you can get to the twitter profile of the content provider from Collecta’s site.

OneRiot.com is another real-time search engine. OneRiot crawls across Twitter, Digg, blogs and comments along with other social posts to give you the freshest and most socially relevant news possible.

Ustream.tv is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand.

Twitturly.com tracks the URLs flying around the Twitterverse and provides a quick, real-time view of what people are talking about on Twitter. Each time someone tweets a URL to their followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes note of it and applies it as a vote for that URL. There is a voting system that ranks topics into a Top 100 shown on the main page giving you a glimpse at the most popular items out there.

Tech Update! Selling Tickets plus Wolfram Alpha

ekepner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:47:47 +0000

Ticketleap.com – sell tickets to your events online! No need for a real box-office, ticketleap provides the platform to setup quickly from any internet connected computer. Ticketleap supports all major credit cards and is customizable to your ticketing system. There are no contracts, setup fees or minimums. Check out the website to request a free demo!

Wolframalpha.com – wolframalpha is an ambitious project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. What does this mean? It is not a search engine, but a computational knowledge engine. Enter any town, date, stocks, calculation, formula, or general idea and see all the computable knowledge associated with it. Comparisons can also be made! Enter two stocks e.g. “IBM apple,” for a detailed comparison of stock performance including P/E ratios and realized returns vs volatility.