"He was a man of few words" is a phrase you don't hear so much these days. It seems that everyone has an opinion on everything and no one is afraid to express those opinions. But half the trouble there is that where Twitter restricts it's tweets to 140 characters that is sometimes even too much. It would be interesting to condense that to a smaller figure to make one's opinions virtual soundbites of your thoughts. Hycku is a Nano-blogging service where you can deliver your ideas and thoughts in just seven words or less. Read more
My word how school life has changed! At the risk of giving my age away I was at school in the days before even photocopiers were a widespread part of a teacher’s kit. I can still remember the smell of the duplicating ink on the History hand-outs. As for the excuses about why a particularly nasty piece of homework was missing well, leaving it on the bus was about as original as I got. It follows then that a site like Schoolrack would have seemed as far away as a manned expedition to Mars but educational software has now got one ... Read more
I’m sorry but I really don’t get this one at all. When I first saw the title I assumed it would be a useful educational source of famous questions throughout history such as "how do you like your omelette cooked Mr Bennett?" Read more
If your website is getting a bit long in the tooth and is basically just the company brochure but available online then radium3 might be the option you need to drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Read more
Trying to think of something both catchy and relevant to use as your domain name is not the easiest thing to do. Some people can knock twenty out an hour while others struggle to think of anything memorable. PickyDomains is a domain advice blog tool for business that has 46,000 people working for you trying to think up the perfect domain name for your business. If you like one of the options and decide to register the domain then it'll cost you just US$50 and it's all yours. Simple. If you need a memorable and easy to pronounce domain ... Read more
Information is time sensitive. When you find content that you want to syndicate onto your own blog or website you want the process to be instantaneous. Not next week or tomorrow...you want to repost the information now. Equally, if you are a publisher, you will want to take your quality posts to a wider audience. If you receive a request to repost some of your content you want to know that you are being compensated. RepostUs is a blog tool that allows any publisher's content to be instantly syndicated to another publisher and takes care of any monetary compensation at ... Read more
The message seems to be a very clear one on this site. Advertising revenue alone cannot continue to keep free sites free for much longer. Read more
SplinterMe is like the X-Factor for people who want to express themselves. It's for people who are a bit different to the mainstream and have problems getting across their true character. It's for talented people who don't believe in standard boring CV's detailing their past experiences. SplinterMe tracks your online activities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn as well as your blogs and technical forums (and anything else you have going for you) and uses these activities to represent you in an original way. If you are having problems expressing yourself SplinterMe is an innovative social Twitter and Facebook platform ... Read more
Here’s a writing site that follows similar lines to others in that contributors can earn royalties from a share of the associated advertising revenue. There is a slight difference to Squidoo however in that writers, or lensmasters to give them their proper title, are pretty much encouraged to donate any proceeds to a worthy cause. Read more
Figures released recently suggest the future of personal computing will be more to do with the mobile versions rather than the home computer. They sell more tablets these days than they do laptops. And mobiles have gone through the roof. So it makes real sense these days to have a mobile version of your regular website. Moably is a domain design tool for your blog or mobile that enables you to create a mobile version of your website and blog. And you can do it for free. That's right, it's free and with no monthly charges either. Moably is ... Read more