August 6th 2010
It’s hard to separate yourself from the multitude of survey web apps available, but Ask500People.com has put a new spin on the way surveys are asked and answered. Whereas most surveys require you to distribute it via email or post on your website, Ask500People engages its multitude of existing users to get your question answered. [...]
August 5th 2010
At one point people started their business name search by opening up the yellow pages and making sure their name wasn’t taken by somebody locally. This progressed to opening up a browser and making sure the name has a good domain available. Now we are at a point where we need to make sure our [...]
August 4th 2010
Builders of web applications always assume that their users want lots of bells and whistles. They assume that everyone will easily hand over their contact info and signup for a free, strings-attached beta of their product. Divvyus has taken a completely different route with their task management software. They don’t collect email addresses, they don’t [...]
August 3rd 2010
QR codes have been around forever, but most businesses have been waiting for the actual demand to start before diving into the QR pool. Based on recent smartphone trends, the industry appears ready for a breakthrough. Companies are cropping up to provide these services, including BeQRious which offers the ability to both create and track [...]
August 2nd 2010
It’s always interesting to see companies go up against features that Google already does pretty well. AgileWords is the latest to attack the Goliath with a product aimed squarely at Google Docs. AgileWords enables you to upload a Word doc to the cloud, collaborate on the document collaboratively, and even speed up the process by [...]
July 30th 2010
Booking an appointment at a doctor, dentist, and many other small businesses has always been a process with very little transparency. You give them a call, they tell you the first available appointment, and you either choose to accept it or go through the whole charade again. One startup is looking to change that entire [...]
July 29th 2010
A few years ago, the prospects of selling your merchandise online usually involved a steep setup fee and a knowledgeable web developer to help step you through the landmines of credit cards. Today, many of the pain points associated with launching a store have been removed opening the door to a whole new level of [...]
July 28th 2010
For the better part of two decades, Powerpoint has been the gold standard when it comes to putting together a presentation. Bosses around the world load it with bullet point after bullet point, throwing in an occasional clip art image to spice it up. Thankfully, that model appears set to change or at least get [...]
March 26th 2010
Unless you are in the same zip code as your web site builder you will likely see some of the early versions of your site via an emailed image. Sometimes this makes it hard to put what you are seeing in context. Mocksup is a new web-based tool that is trying to make this process [...]
March 25th 2010
There’s no question that Google Analytics is an addictive application. It is easy to get sucked into looking at every conceivable nuance of your user base and how they are accessing your site. One common complaint of Google Analytics though is that they don’t do a good job of showing you real-time results. And since [...]