There used to be a time when most people got their news from the radio. You must have seen those pictures of mum and dad with their ears cocked to the bulky old bakerlite radio with the kids playing at their feet. These days we get our news from so many different sources. Newspapers, TV and the Internet. The only trouble now is that we don't have as much time as we used to and much of the news that would be of interest to us is lost in the maelstrom. We've turned into a nation of headline readers and ... Read more
The theory isn’t rocket science, if you buy something at well below its real value then you not only have a bargain but the potential to make a hefty profit when the rest of the world catches up. The theory may well not be rocket science but the number crunching required to analyze the treasure locked away in a business’s financial statements could be viewed by some as such. Read more
If you fancy contributing to the world of financial journalism, but in common with most budding hacks find the "staff job" door firmly closed, fwisp.com could be the place to get heard. If you happen to be a blogger too then exposure to a much wider audience could be just one of the other benefits. Read more
While it looks and sounds like just a bit of fun, Piktochart really does have a place as a design share tool in the business and blogging community. It manages to find a way of turning the story you are trying to tell into an infographic picture. It is said that viewers comprehend and remember six times more information from an infographic picture than they do from a printed word version...something to think about. Piktochart is a stress free way of getting your message across to an audience that has sat through thousands of boring presentations littered with graphs ... Read more
If you’re a business owner that’s happy just looking at the bottom line when the bookkeeper hands you the accounts then fine. If however you’d like some detail on what the figures mean in relation to all the other data plus their likely impact on the future of the company then you should look at this site. Read more
Billed purely as a worldwide cost of living comparison site, numbeo.com clearly has ideas to expand beyond that, more of which will be touched on later. Read more
Imagine being able to take a financial adviser around with you all the time, and one that talks in plain English too. RateRush.com is a great one-stop-shop for all of the questions you might have from the best credit card and payday loan deals around to the more worrying subject of serious debt problems. Read more
So how's your popularity on Twitter? FusionTweet is the latest Twitter analysis that give you the means to see just how you stack up against your guineas competitors or political rivals, if it comes to that. It allows you to see, via a serious of detailed polls and graphs, just how well you are received by your adoring public. Read more
Everyone loves sites like these. You know how it goes, you search for a video called biggest crocodile ever caught and you'll find it here. Four hours later your mouth will be dry and you'll have watched everything from a story about Fighting Obesity With Marijuana to Pics of Pippa Middleton topless. BuzzFeed is a free and very cool looking tool that features all those weird and wacky videos and crazy stories that have the potential to go viral. Read more
Most food sites are a collection of unrelated recipes. Pages and pages of recipes from one source. Punchfork offers a new take on the traditional online food site by taking top quality recipes from the best culinary sites like Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, The Kitchn and 101 Cookbooks and using customer tweets and Facebook recommendations to rate them. Then they are presented in a beautiful magazine-style easy to use interface. Read more