Selling basic goods online doesn’t have to be so hard. Instead of wasting time and energy trying to create an account and post your items on a secondary sales site like Craigslist or eBay, why not just sell items on your own? Finally, Tinypay.me gives you a way to do that. The web-based application lets users host online sales on their own turf with the use of embeddable product links that can be posted onto ...

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HootSuite is a Twitter client developed especially for businesses and professional users. Whether you’re interested in allowing multiple editors to have access to your Twitter account, automatically posting links to all of your most recent blog posts, or tracking your influence on the web, HootSuite’s seemingly endless features make it the go-to Twitter client for anyone looking for a better way to manage the surge of Twitter communications. (more…)

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You’re already posting messages, links, and photos on Twitter, and now a web-based application is making it easier-than-ever to post your own videos, too. Developed as a way to let Twitter users create screencasts for their followers, Screenr offers up a straightforward way to record videos on your computer and upload them directly onto Twitter, in a format that will play on nearly any web-enabled device. (more…)

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Savvy Auntie claims to be for “all women who love kids.” Obviously it’s not the first website for women, so how aunt-centered is Savvy Auntie? There are a number of articles for aunts and aunts alone – how to buy a present for a niece or nephew, running a baby showed as an aunt, and so on. So it really is aimed at aunts – not just women in general. (more…)

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There are other timeline apps that seem better suited for promoting a personal project by creating a timeline of all internet activity, including videos, blog entries, and the like. Xtimeline is more of a traditional timeline program and isn’t really breaking any new ground in terms of timeline usability. If Xtimeline had a comparison, it would be to a site like Wikipedia – a place for people to find factual information about a certain topic. ...

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Plinky has brought new life to the microblogging arena. Launched in May 2008 and open to the public in 2009, it’s a twist on Twitter’s ‘what are you doing’ question. Instead, Plinky helps you to find something to microblog about by providing daily prompts such as questions or challenges. Look around the site and you will find answers to questions as diverse as ‘have you ever gone a day without a mobile phone’ and ‘what’s ...

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