If you’ve never looked closely at your 401k plan, you’re not alone. Endless streams of fine print and complicated fee schedules make it difficult for even the savviest of personal finance gurus to understand many of the plans offered by employers these days. Brightscope aims to fix that, though, by introducing transparency to the retirement plans that millions of Americans rely on each year. Continue reading this article —>

It’s the first thing you see each time you open up your web browser, which is why creating a startpage that fits your individual needs is important. Start.io is hoping to make the process of creating a useful homepage easier for people, by giving them a way to create their own customizable and intuitive startpages in seconds. Homepages created with start.io don’t just serve as a place to hold the links you use every day, they actually let you know when those links have been updated and inform you when new posts have been added to your favorite websites and forums, too. Continue reading this article —>

In a profession where connections mean everything, GovLoop has stepped in to fill a void. A social networking site designed exclusively for employees in the public sector, GovLoop is a place for government officials to network among peers, share ideas, and collaborate on projects with others from around the country. Whether you’re looking to find new opinions, new events, or even a new job, GovLoop offers a wealth of information for those interested in nearly every area of local, state, and federal governments. Continue reading this article —>

Fotomoto is a service that lets photographers sell photos directly from own their own websites. Instead of forcing potential customers to leave your blog or website to purchase a particular photo, Fotomoto gives its users the JavaScript code and e-commerce capabilities to do the selling themselves—eliminating the middleman and allowing photographers to have more control over the ways in which their images are distributed and sold. Even better, Fotomoto says its smart-design system is technologically advanced enough to identify the images on a particular website by itself and then market and sell those images based on a predetermined set of pricing and sizing criteria set up by the site’s owner. Continue reading this article —>

For anyone who has ever wanted to share a file with multiple friends at once, File2.ws offers what could hands down be the simplest solution around. Rather than fumbling around with e-mail attachments or complicated file sharing systems, File2.ws turns its users’ uploaded documents into basic web pages that can be viewed by anyone, at any computer, simultaneously around the globe. Continue reading this article —>

Episodic is an online video platform that lets users publish live and on-demand content to the web. While web-based video applications are nothing new, Episodic is working to make a name for itself in the industry by providing users with an easy way to manage, measure and monetize all of the content they put online. Continue reading this article —>