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LuLu.com, aside from meaning ‘ReadRead.com’ in French is a great book self-publishing service which just so happens to be free. You write a book, upload it to LuLu and people can buy it straight away. LuLu does all of the printing, meaning that you just have to set a price. LuLu deduct a percentage of what you make as a fee for the ‘on-demand’ printing service, but you get the majority of the profits made from your book. Your book, [...] |
Archive for October, 2006
LuLu - Book publishing made easy.
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on October 28, 2006
Flickr Style Logo Creator
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on October 28, 2006
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The Flickr Logo Maker from NOSV is nothing more than a simple online tool that lets you create your very own Flickr style logo. Flickr’s simple, yet revolutionary logo changed the face of the internet forever back when it was first released. The simplicity, the style and the elegance combined together in one snazzy package. Although nothing more than the word ‘flick’ in blue and the ‘r’ in pink, it introduced a whole new era of design standards into the [...] |
YouTube Makover
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on October 28, 2006
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YouTube has given itself a rather sleek, new re-design in the past few days. A new logo, new buttons, fonts and colouring, frequent YouTube users are having to adapt to the new, re-vamped design. The ‘channels’ section has gone green, the ‘groups’ section taking a more bright orange. The social filters no longer show up down the right-hand side, but the left and a footer has been added to every page, allowing for quick access to major features of the [...] |
ProjectPipe Management
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on October 28, 2006
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ProjectPipe.com is a brilliant Web 2.0 solution that helps teams of people to easily collaborate, reduce the risk of a late deadline or delivery risk by simplifying management. ProjectPipe has many great and interesting features including RSS, Tagging, the ability to manage any project data as an outline, and some really top-notch Microsoft Project/Excel integration. The integration between the Issue list and in-built subversion source code repository provides an easy alternative to standard methods with its nice automated bugfix workflow. [...] |
Veeker Shares Mobile Video
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on October 27, 2006
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Veeker is a mobile video site which makes Mobile Video Communication fun and easy. The service is free of charge, which is good if they want to capture the teen market. Veeker will let you and your friends communicate instantly using the video cameras in your mobile phones which is called as an instant video communications “video peeks,” or VEEKS. The service catches mobile video clips sent by MMS and delivers the mobile video clips to contacts, public and personal [...] |
All the same. All different. Social Networking Trends.
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on October 27, 2006
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Been tracking an interesting discussion on homophily on O’reilly - the social behavior of tending to interact and get together with people who think the same way. And whether social networking sites emphasise this. |
What’s in a name? Web 2.0 Word-formation.
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on October 27, 2006
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An interesting sidelight to Web 2.0 is the emergence of new names to describe activities. Top of the list is “googled” as in “have you googled it?”, but there are others. |
Bla.st - A new form of advertising.
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on October 27, 2006
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Bla.st is a new form of advertising created only recently by a team of leading experts. Already used by some of the biggest names around. Take Google, Digg, Skype, Mozilla, Flock and 9rules as some great examples. Bla.st lets you upload your own ‘cards’ for free. What are cards? Well, each card comes in a 270px X 175px size and can contain whatever you want. An image with your company logo on the front, some plain old text, whatever. Your [...] |
MediaFire.com Takes Off
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on October 27, 2006
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MediaFire just launched earlier this month and it has been growing at a blistering pace. It is currently one of the top 13,000 most trafficked sites in the world (for today) according to Alexa Rankings. |
A (Modern) Musical Veteran Revisited
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on October 26, 2006
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Having been around for quite some time already (if we’re talking ‘Web 2.0′ years), the noteworthy anomaly known as Last.fm is something special, and I figured now is the appropriate moment to spotlight it here on Profy. |





