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43 Things

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Joy travels the top Online Travel portal has launched Kerala Package offer in the consequent New Year celebratory season. To contest the celebratory mood and festivities all around 'Kerala Special' series of packages brings enormous news for the Budget Travelers.

These packages are enormous value for currency and never before options to tourists. Niti Batra the Business head of joy travels is very much cheerful about the packages which would continue till January. 'We above all cater to the Budget tourists and dissimilar many established names in the industry; we distribute what we promise without any secreted. Talking of Kerala packages there are many on serving of food. This is to assist the travelers to entirely valve the unique biological probable of Kerala. Attainment a hill station from a Backwater destination in Kerala is an enjoyable without traveling great distances. The tourists are at complete independence to prefer their destinations.

Another big option as part of the packages is expenditure a night at House Boats without which the Kerala experience is incomplete. 'At Rs 5000 per night this is really a steal', avers Niti Batra.

The expediently priced Kerala packages offers different deals ranging from 2 to 5 nights covering some of the most quaint and animated destinations of ' Gods Own Country'. The places include Munnar, Kovlalam, Cochin, Alleppey, Kumarakom, Thekkady etc.In the coming days joy travels promises to bring out more of Kerala with another 10 packages. These would cover innovative places particularly north Kerala. 'Places like Guruvayoor, Kannur, Calicut will soon be part of joy travels packages that were up till now neglected by big names of the industry' Outlines the Business Head of Joy travels.

Serene beaches, emerald backwaters, sprawling plantations and paddy fields, hill stations, waterfalls, and exotic wildlife, ayurvedic health holidays, No wonder why Keralalites call their state "God's own country". With the Arabian Sea in the west, the Western Ghats towering 500-2700 m in the east and networked by thirty four rivers, Kerala enjoys unique geographical features that have made it one of the most sought after tourist destinations in Asia. Kerala is blessed with tropical forests, a fertile coastal plain, fishing, tourism and a relatively stable political situation. Kerala Honeymoon Package: this 6 night's seven days package is perfectly designed for honeymooners attractions include transportation by Ac Cars and local sight seeing at every place. Covers Cochin/Munnar/Kumarakom/ Kovalam/Trivandrum.

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Nextiva

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The idea of having an automated attendant never really hit me until I noticed one of my top local competitors had one. This led me to searching some companies that can offer this to me and rather than just signing up for a virtual pbx style service I went with Nextiva, where I am able to use their service to call people as well as have the pbx. My phone number was transferred by them and all has been great.

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Joyent

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We've tried Joyent as part of our research for web-based CRM, which included at least 20 reviews and test-drives. It's very good overall but our main requirement was email integration with CRM, and they didn't get it quite right.

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Stumbleupon

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Bookmarking
For me switching to an online bookmarking tool (though stumbleupon is more than this) was an immense relief. Bookmarking was selecting to bookmark and then selecting a category which fit (often poorly).
Now all I have to do is click the thumbs-up. Almost any time I want to rate a site another user has been there before and tagged it. Therefore it goes into my favorites in the correct location. If I do happen to visit a site first then I get to know that I'm helping other people not to have spend energy in the future.
Unfortunately stumbleupon does keep your favorites. I haven't seen a way to export them.
I tried using other services such as del.icio.us but found them more cumbersome.

Stumbling
Stumbleupon is mainly built for stumbling- visiting sites that other people have approved of. I haven't done as much of this but when I have I've found that the sites it suggests are entertaining.

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MapQuest

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I use Mapquest on a daily basis as I while away the boring hours at my grinding soul-sucking job. I imagine living in other places and working at other jobs. Mapquest is an invaluable tool that I use to fill in the fantasy parts of my daydream of what my commute would be like, or how long it would take to visit my grandparents from my new imaginary residence. It also gives good party directions.

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Wufoo

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Wufoo rules, plain and simple. Takes just a few minutes to create a form and configure it's attributes. The only drawback is that it makes me agonize over hundreds of dollars we've paid to our graphic designer to hand-code the forms most of which to this day have errors (well, not anymore they ain't because we dumped them).

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Trumba

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I've been using Trumba since it was in beta. Back then, and until recently, it was a good choice for individual users.

However, in the past several months, it appears that Trumba has rebranded itself and is focusing exclusively on the enterprise market. The cheapest available plan listed on their website costs $100 a month!

As a user who paid less than that for a whole year, I'm enjoying it for now (I especially like the Outlook synchronization). But I guess I'll be looking for a new calendar solution once my subscription expires...

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Trulia

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Trulia is a very promising website. If you enjoy window shopping for real estate as much as I do you'll appreciate Trulia's variety and their various map searches. It has some bugs to work out, but unlike realtor.com Trulia lists private sales as well as realtor represented property. You definitely want to bookmark this one.

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Gmail

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obviously gmail rocks.
there is no need to state this but for those of you who have been kept locked in a dungeon for the last few years, get gmail.

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JumpCut

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Positives: The support team is quick to respond to questions. There is a good instructional video on how editing works on the site. The Uploader allows multiple uploads. Email notification of comments say what the comment is- this is unlike youtube and some other sites which merely tell you that someone has left a comment and force you to login to the site.
The site has a very strong community and the developers are very involved. It seems like the developers watch many videos and engage with the community.


Minuses: Experimenting with different start points is difficult. This is something required for editing. There are slight delays when you try to move to a part of clip. The editor is not yet competitive with imovie or other desktop editors. This may be a high bar to set but until it’s met I don’t see a reason to switch. The site doesn’t let you email people directly. You can only send them a public comment.
I mentioned that you can put more than one clip at a time in the uploader. If you do this it wants to package them into one movie. If that is your workflow then it is good but it's not mine. I Jumpcut’s is very editing oriented. So if you are just looking to upload movies there a few extra steps.
The site shows a posting time for clips but this only reflects when it was last edited (even if only the description was changed). This can make understanding how well your videos are doing difficult.

Overall this is my favorite video site, primarily for the strong community and interested, accessible developers.

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Collective X

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I have been using CollectiveX for around 9-months to organize a local discussion/networking group. It is an elegant and simple-to-use social networking platform that is well featured, even at the free end. Recent updates to the platform (May/June 2007) have really enhanced the functionality of the site and the CollectiveX crew have been very responsive to suggestions from users, setting up a specific CollectiveX group for users to provide feedback on the program.

Basic Functions (free) include: member profiles (professional profiles), calendar (all members can add events to the calendar),
discussion forums, file cabinet (free 25mb storage), email invites and notifications.

Advanced features include:site template modifications, extra storage, advanced permission controls.

My experience so far has been that the basic functions are more than enough to provide a communication platform for your group. The openness of the feedback with the development team (which has been a more recent change) gives me confidence that future versions of the platform will be based on users comments/suggestions. A great platform for those with minimal online social networking experience (as I was when I first set it up).

You can see my page
http://phf.collectivex.com/main/summary

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Google Reader

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Google reader is very easy to use. Adding a feed is simple- enter a search term or an approximate URL and it will present a list of choices. If you want to have an item stored click the star. Everything about it seems to work as it should.
It doesn't have the intelligence of some of the desktop apps which pay attention to what you read and make decisions based on that. But it does everything that I need. - Except allow you to search through the archived items. I'm sure that's coming.

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Backpack

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Backpack is by far the best online application I've ever paid for. I use it on a daily basis for my work as a freelance journalist. For me it's a mixture of notepad, storage and organisational tool. Also, I use it all the time to collaborate with partners on ideas and projects. The writeboard function (which is free by the way) is perfect for letting sources and customers read and edit texts, and it let's keep track of all the changes. Highly recommended!

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Crazy Egg

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Awesome application! A marketer's wet dream! Tells you how your pages are being viewed by visitors.

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Facebook

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Does Facebook really need a review? It's huge, and getting bigger all the time. I will say, though, that it's a great site for more than just kids and college students. I'm a thirty-something professional, and have gotten quite addicted to it. It's the first social networking site that has really hooked me. Here are some reasons why: it's a clean and intuitive interface (unlike gross MySpace), the one-line status updates are a great way to keep up with a lot of people, and it is becoming more and more of a platform (and integrating with all your other favorite sites). Once a critical mass of your acquaintances are on Facebook, you'll find yourself trying to bully the rest to come on board.

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LibraryThing

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For anyone who has an inner librarian who loves to organize your book collection, this is the site for you. But beware, it can be addictive!! The site has an excellent cataloging system, and also incorporates the social side of reading, with message boards, book reviews and more. User affinities allow you to more accurately determine if you are going to agree with a user's reviews or comments on a particular book, which is particularly helpful. This is a fantastic site.

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43 Things

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This is more than just another list creation application. Using 43 Things, you can connect with other people who have the same goals. I really like the e-mail reminder feature ("Dear Future Self"). 43 Things is a fun way to keep track of your goals, hopes, and dreams.

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Mindpicnic

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The concept of Mindpicnic is good, but it needs more users before it will become a useful online learning tool. There are not enough courses right now and the ones that are available are not fully developed. Once more people create courses, this could be quite an impressive web app.

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Snapfish

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Love the Fish Food.

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Stuffopolis

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I like Stuffopolis, it's a great idea, and I want to use it more. There's a big obstacle to getting started, which is that you need to enter in your books and movies so that your friends know what you have. If you do that, you get the best experience. Instead, I've been using it in a more ad-hoc way, entering an item when I borrow or loan it. That way, I can at least keep track of who has my stuff.

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BookMooch

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This book swap site uses a system of points to allow you to trade books you don't want for books you do. The user base is large, and the ability to wishlist items makes it easy to find books you want. Browsing for books on the site can be problematic, but if you are like me and already have a million books you want to own, not being able to browse is less of a problem. Bestsellers can be hard to get, as they are on everyone's wishlist, but there is a healthy quantity of good quality titles, and with only a few exceptions, every book I have received has been in terrific condition. Bookmooch also has a great LibraryThing interface that makes mooching books even easier.

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GrandCentral

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Although I think it still could use a few more features, I'm just going to go ahead and give GrandCentral 5 stars. Most of the improvements are fairly small ones and the product is completely usable as is.

This app has been very helpful. I recently switched jobs and have a desk and cell phone for work as well as a home and personal cell phone. A lot of people try to call me and find me hard to reach. With GrandCentral, unless I simply choose not to answer my phone, I'm always within reach.

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Spurl.net

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I love Spurl! It is a centralized location for all of your bookmarks (instead of putting them in your browser on one computer). You'll find this useful if you use more than one computer, such as at home and at work. You can categorize them, and you can also search for keywords to find something if you forgot what category you put it in. To Spurl (bookmark) things, you put a button in your links toolbar. Then, when you're on a site you want to Spurl, just push the button. A small window comes up and you can choose the category and enter other info about the site. Your Spurls can be public or private, so you can share them with others as you choose. The one drawback is that Spurl.net can be a bit slow, which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I occasionally export my Spurls and import them into my browser's bookmarks, because it's faster.

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FitDay

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When I kick off a diet, I start by using FitDay. It's a great place to get organized. You can track your calories, nutrition, exercise, goals, etc. They have calorie and nutrition information for thousands of foods, and you can also enter your own. Using it online is free (that's what I use), or you can buy their client application.

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