In this day and age with the internet being what it is planning a trip is certainly a lot easier. Gone are the days when you either bought all the guide books yourself or borrowed them from a library. All you need to do now is tap in the destination and a whole mine of information is revealed. Read more
There has been plenty of talk about this travel site in recent months with a successful round of fundraising and a revamp completed in February of this year (2011) and more recently a partnership deal signed with The New York Times. Read more
There are people out there that make it almost a full-time occupation to search the newspapers for coupons and deals from their favorite stores. There have been reports of people following the paperboy as he delivered the morning papers and stealing the insert of discounts and promo codes before anyone could get their hands on them. uDealium saves you the indignity of following the paperboy with its search engine that instantly finds the newest coupons, deals, codes and discounts from hundreds of top stores. Their motto is You search. You click. You save. It’s simple. And it really is ... Read more
CastTV was set up by a couple of entrepreneurs who found it hard to keep up with episodes of Survivor and The Super Bowl when they were away on holiday. CastTV has developed search technology that aggregates, indexes and presents data on millions of TV shows, movies, music videos, news and sports clips and viral videos from more than 1,000 web-video sources. CastTV is a free online movie, tv and video search tool developed in San Francisco, California in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati and their services include a video search engine and the licensing of video ... Read more
Now here's a very useful movie site for the hearing impaired or non English speaking viewers. When I was running DVD stores it was a regular event for people to come in and ask if a certain film had subtitles in a specific language. Sometimes because there was someone at home who was a bit deaf, sometimes because they didn't speak any English. Then there were the people who just wanted to learn a language by watching a movie. All those problems can be solved with the real time subtitle search engine TinySubs which grabs all the subtitles you'll ever ... Read more
If you are anything like me when it comes to buying a car you get it all wrong. Usually I will have this idea in my head of the one perfect car for me and nothing will change that. Then after a week or so I come to my senses and realize there are a good twenty or so cars out there that fit into my demographics. CheapCarFinds is one of those great classified car search tools that hunts through cars for sale on Craigslist, Cars.com and Autotrader to find one of those twenty or so cars that is just ... Read more
For any small company, or even startup, when it comes to hiring good people to help grow the business it’s often a bit of a hit and miss affair. Jobmuncher.com has been developed with these types of business in mind and provides all the tools necessary to give a high level of organization to the process. Read more
One definition of the word mojo is that is an often elusive quality that sets one person apart from everyone else. In the case of mojopages.com the aim is to set businesses apart from each other on account of a rating system based on customer reviews. Read more
The world is our oyster when it comes to travel these days. We can pretty well choose anywhere we want to go in the world and go there assuming we have the the time and money. Well, unless we are in striking distance of Somalian pirates, of course. The time thing is an issue too. Given that we may have limited time to have our annual excursions it would seem a good idea to plan the perfect trip. Tripomatic's is an excellent travel and organize tool that will set you off in the right direction. Tripomatic is a travel ... Read more
Cafesworld is a fledgling travel and social event tool that gives you an idea of the quality of cool cafes in some of the biggest cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, France and even Australia. There are many that actively hunt out the great coffee places in the world and base their holidays around those meccas to caffeine. Cafesworld takes that one step further by encouraging locals and travelers to recommend and share their favorite cafes in their favorite towns and cities around the world. Given that we all travel so much these days it is an added bonus ... Read more