Doodle, a Zurich based web service like Wuala, helps you to find suitable dates for group events, like a meeting, a conference call, a reunion, etc -- a simple idea that works fine. Using the service is deadly easy: you'll have two options to create a date-time or text poll (of course, you'll need to register and activate your account but ...

I always consider OpenID a great idea eliminating the need to remember and retype my user name and password thousands of times to register/login to online services. However, there is only small portion of sites integrating OpenID for a reason: not many people have created an OpenID (and ever known what hell it means). It would be much easier to ...

Wuala, among many online storage offers like xDrive, Box.net or (to certain degree) Microsoft's Live Mesh, is unique for its own feature: it works like a P2P network. Based on research by ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Wuala's core tech allows files being held in small encrypted pieces distributed across the "Wuala Grid" of users, and unlike BitTorrent, ...

Now you have got a great idea and start a business that is somewhat proved prosperous but you have had no funding yet, what can you do? Surely, you can find funding around friends, relatives or to write e-mails to angle investors/venture capitalists you know they may be interested in. The common scenario then is your friends don't share the same ...

The benefit of keeping eye on sites about online marketing is sometimes you can find out an ad system that suites your better than others like the case of MediaText ads integrated into JTAW blog currently. Previously, I'd once used the same solution provided by Kontera in this blog but I removed it here for several reasons especially due to ...

I'd applied for Woopra beta since the service was introduced in a post from "Web Tools Collection" and just received approval for this blog a few days ago. Running client tool and seeing all info about who are visiting my blog in real-time, I could just say "Wow, so cool!" Woopra provides realtime analytics via a Java-based desktop application so ...

A few months ago, I told one of my friends, Bill Aue, that I was really tired with going tens of websites to read tech news everyday while my RSS reader had been overloaded with hundreds of feeds. Sometimes it's very hard to find what important news is. Idea and Implementation Then, Bill had an idea of creating a weblog which pulls ...

In a recent post reviewing service from WebNode -- one of players in rather a crowded market of online site builder -- I mentioned SynthaSite as a serious competitor in the field. A few weeks ago, Monique sent me a shout about SynthaSite's upcoming release with a lot of improvements in site builder and new widgets like Form, Map and ...

In search to make my blog more popular via link exchange services, I've found BlogRush and registered for the service. BlogRush states itself as a "Cooperative Syndication Network" -- a network of blogs that run a small "widget" on their pages. Each time this widget is loaded it will contain 5 clickable headlines which are the blog post titles to other ...