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Contextured – Real-Time AdWords Monitoring

August 12th 2010

For many businesses Google’s three-hour delay on AdWords is longer than they can wait. These companies want to make real-time adjustments to handle demand, popularity, and market fluctuation. Contextured solves that dilemma with a real-time monitoring app. If you spend more than $720 per month on Google AdWords then you will only get dinged for [...]

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Vendr – Add a Store to Any Site Quickly

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 [...]

mocksup

Mocksup – Share & Annotate Mockups

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 [...]

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Chartbeat – Real-Time Site Statistics

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 [...]

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Plus Panda – Add Testimonials To Your Site

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 [...]

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Ahead – Create a Photo Gallery or Media Wall

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 [...]

feedity

Feedity – Create an RSS Feed From Any Page

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 [...]

stiqr

Stiqr – Make Simple Graphical Additions to Any Site

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 [...]

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Resize Your Photos Quickly at PicResize

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 [...]

freedback

Freedback Competes in Crowded Form-Builder Space

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 [...]

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