March 24th 2010
Most users like to see testimonials on a product before they buy it, but not for the reasons you may think. Consumers know these quotes have been carefully chosen by the site owner to put each product in the best light possible. So why do users even bother with these testimonial pages? In most cases [...]
March 23rd 2010
Making website building as simple as desktop publishing has long been the Holy Grail of the web. Ahead.com is the latest entrant into this high-stakes sweepstakes. Ahead brands their version as “workspaces for the creative mind,” and they frequently like to compare themselves to InDesign. But in reality there isn’t an offline equivalent to what [...]
March 22nd 2010
If your site wasn’t built in the last couple of years there is a good chance you may not have RSS feeds available for your readers. In fact, you may be thinking you can wait until your next rebuild to add in those feeds. The problem is that your fans and customers are expecting you [...]
March 19th 2010
PowerPoint has gotten to a point where just the mention of its name causes everyone in a meeting room to glance at each other and shudder. We have all sat through one-too-many boring PowerPoint presentations where the presenter used the default template and then went on to read it verbatim. SlideRocket is aiming to change [...]
March 18th 2010
Most small businesses keep a fax machine alive in the far corner of the copy room simply for faxing forms that you’ve had to print out and sign. FillAnyPDF is trying to add even more dust to the fax machine with the release of their web application that allows you to upload a PDF to [...]
March 17th 2010
Everywhere you turn there is another company looking to merge your offline life with your online life. Web application 1DayLater is one of the latest entries into the business market, focusing on time, mileage, and cashflow tracking. This app is purposefully minimal to eliminate the amount of steps it takes to get expenses in and [...]
March 16th 2010
Plan Cruncher is advertised as a service for start-ups, but it seems like a good exercise for any business to go through. The thought behind Plan Cruncher is that they you answer a few questions about your business, select appropriate icons to match your business philosophies, and then sit back and watch it generate a [...]
March 15th 2010
You’ve just paid a web designer multiple thousand of dollars to finish your site and now you have new graphics you want to add. You could go back to the developer, pay them some more money, and get them to finish the job for you. Or you could signup for Stiqr, a beta web tool [...]
March 12th 2010
We’ve previously talked about Phoenix, a web-based image editor that is close to a full-fledged Photoshop replacement. Phoenix works great as an online photo resizer, but its extra features are more than you need when you just need to quickly resize one or a bunch of photos. PicResize aims to simplify that process. PicResize is [...]
March 11th 2010
The builders of yet another form startup claim you can have a form up in eight minutes without any HTML coding. The claim seems valid but just goes to show the marketing tactics you need to take to gain traction in the populated form-creation space. Similar to Formsite and Wufoo, Freedback offers its users a [...]