Who needs to buy an expensive travel guide from the bookstore when you can make your own at home? Stay.com lets you do just that, giving users a way to create their own destination guides for 50 of the world’s most popular cities with just a few simple clicks. By browsing through a listing of each city’s top hotels, restaurants, bars, and attractions, users can create customized travel guides that reflect their interests to a ...
Fwix is a web-app that aims to be the go-to destination for up to the minute, breaking news in your local area—wherever that local area may be. Unless you live in a major metropolis, it can often be difficult to filter out the national news and find out what’s going on in your specific town. Now, Fwix does that for you. The application distills the news about your city and lets you choose which updates ...
Open Library is a rapidly expanding website with the goal of making every book that was ever published available to anyone, at any time. The creators behind the site are aiming to reach this goal by getting as many people involved as possible—letting users add books, descriptions, and details to the site’s growing catalog through a Wikipedia-style interface. In addition to the books that users contribute, Open Library features a database of millions of published ...
Forget those template-style start pages that people used to use in year’s past. With overwrought designs and overloaded information streams, these traditional start pages were oftentimes too cluttered with miscellaneous information to ever work effectively. Not anymore. Guzzle is a new application that lets people create their own fully-personalized web browser dashboards that include links to stories about all the topics that interest them most. (more…)
SyncTube is an application that offers up a way to make sure every member of your group is watching the same video clip at the same time, no matter where they’re located in the world. When you use SyncTube to watch a movie with your extended family, friends, or colleagues, there’s no need to worry that Grandma clicked on the wrong clip or that Mom mistakenly paused her video while she was trying to turn ...
TypeWith.Me is an application that lets groups of users collaborate on text files in real time. Without any signups, logins, or email addresses required, users can get started typing documents within the web-based system with one simple click. Each document has its own automatically generated URL, which can be distributed to friends and coworkers to collaborate on the creation and editing process. And because TypeWith.Me is a real time application, groups of users can type simultaneously ...
Planio – Wiki-Style Project Organization
Slidemotion – Turn Snapshots Into Videos
Memrise – A Fun Take On Online Learning
Peecho – Sell Print Products Online
WP Remote – Securely Track WordPress Sites
Xobni – The Automatic Address Book
BrandMyMail – Branded Email Templates
Gidsy – The Local Activity Super-Site
Erly – Publicize Your Event
Hall – An Online War Room For Productive Teams
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