31 Dec 08 StumbleUpon Guides Your Web Browsing Experience
StumbleUpon.com is a website that offers the StumbleUpon program that helps users find relevant and high quality websites. The program recommends the best websites to visit whenever you need an information on a certain topic or subject. StumbleUpon has “thumbs up/thumbs down” feature that tells you which site is good and which one offers no relevant information. Any topic you want to search on, news, business, environment, travel, music, photography and almost anything, can be searched and the best websites will be recommended to you. Unlike search engines, which display the sites based on the keyword, StumbleUpon suggests websites based on the content. Hence irrelevant sites will be filtered out and the sites containing the relevant content on the topic you want to search is displayed.
31 Dec 08 Create Your Own Online Personal Organizer Through Backpackit.com
Creating your own personal organizer is definitely a must. It is imperative that you have to-do lists both on a daily basis and on longer periods so that you won’t leave anything undone. Backpackit.com let’s you create your own personal organizer very conveniently and easily. Although you may have an intranet at your office and you also have an organizer notebook, Backpack let’s you have a more organized personal organizer. You can fuse your home and office organizer into this site. You can also share your organizer with your co-workers and keep private some of your personal details. The site offers an easy-to-use organizer with every page neatly organized and uncluttered.
30 Dec 08 Hopshop.com Directs Your Way Through NYC
Planning to go to New York but you are not familiar about the place? Hopshop.com can give you directions either by bus or subways. The site offers step-by-step instructions on how to ride the bus or subway to go to your place of destination. So before going to NYC, make sure you have logged on to Hopshop so that you can get instructions in commuting by bus or subway via your phone. Simply type in your starting location and your destination point, and the instructions with possible alternative routes will be sent to your phone through a text message. Directions for San Francisco, Boston and Washington can also be acquired at Hopshop.com.
30 Dec 08 Get Investment Advice at Stockpickr.com
If you want to invest in the stock market, Stockpickr is the right place to start. The site offers advice on best stocks to pick, what portfolio is hot in the market, and other stock market reports and analysis. Stockpickr is now part of TheStreetWatch.com, hence it is a reliable source of stock market information. While other business websites are open only to paying subscribers, that is to say the analysis and reports are sent only by subscription, Stockpickr offers them for free. So you don’t have to talk with George Soros or Warren Buffett at lunch or dinner to get an idea of what is the best move in the market, simply log onto Stockpickr anytime and you can pick the hottest company in the stock market.
29 Dec 08 Toys.com for Your Kids’ Toys
Ask the kid what he would like this Christmas, and for sure he will choose toys. Kids just love toys. And for that reason, it is good to buy him a very good toy this Christmas. Toys.com offers a wide variety of toys for the kids. The website provides good detail of toys. The items are arrnaged by bracket (according to age, gender, brand and character) so that you will not get confused. The site is truly a fuser-friendly site. Browsing through Toys.com is not difficult. The pages are neatly designed, eliminating chaotic arrangements of the toys. So whenever you need to look for an item that’s suited for your child, you can easily look for it as they are categorized in an orderly fashion. Choosing and picking will be just as easy as clicking.
28 Dec 08 Democracy at NowPublic.com
If you think the news sites and their “public opinion” sections are too restrictive, then you may want to look at NowPublic for alternative sources of information. The site is a network of public writers who want to share their opinions freely, without any sort of censorship. Every article posted by the members is will not undergo prior censorship, that is no part of the article is being cut or removed or altered by the site’s resident editors and staff. All articles are then subject to the viewers’ taste. The more vote given to an article, the higher it goes to the lead story lists. Freedom of expression is truly realized at the site and everything is subjected to everyone’s opinion, criticism and vote. Democracy reins at NowPublic.
27 Dec 08 Moneysavingexpert.com Brings Power to the Consumer
Consumer empowerment is what MonesSavingExpert does. The site offers money saving tips and how the consumer can maimise their money. With companies whose objective is to earn more profit thereby mostly ignoring the consumers’ welfare, MoneySavingExpert empowers the consumers by giving advice, suggestions and recommendations on how to save money on purchases. The site offers good advice on almost everything ranging from where to buy and save on grocery items to how to lower interest rates on loan and mortages. MoneySavingExpert is run by a staff of researchers and writers doing research on how to maximise the consumer’s purchasing power. The site is often referred to as the “Consumer Revenge” site.
26 Dec 08 LinkedIn.com, Career-builder Networking Website
LinkedIn.com is a very good site for professionals and career-oriented people. The site is an online social network both for employers’ and employees’ use. Talent recruiters use the site to search for highly qualified people. Job-hunting professionals can also use the network to showcase their qualifications and past works. LinkedIn is definitely a good network in the business sector. In fact, the site is a reputable and respected social networking site that it lands in Time Magazine’s Best Websites for 2007. Almost every large company, Fortune 500 companies, have signed on at the site. So, it is definitely a good place for career-minded professionals to showcase their qualifications and get hired by the big companies.
25 Dec 08 Dcshoes for Extreme Sports
Dcshoes.com is especially designed for extreme sports lovers. The website’s home page alone depicts that the site is exclusively an extreme sports website. Once clicking on the site, you can already feel the atmosphere of the extreme sports depicted in the DCshoes website. DCshoes features sports like skateboarding, biking and the like. The website also offers apparel that are used by extreme sports players. It is really obvious that DCshoes targets the extreme sports industry as its market with its line of footwear and apparel products. The website provides a good glimpse of these products along with some news on the latest events in the extreme sports.
24 Dec 08 Jewelry.com: Everything About Jewelry
The name of the site says it all. Jewelry.com is all about jewelry and everything connected to it. The website has countless collections of fashionable and high-end jewelry items. Right on the home page, the shining items can be seen right away. So if you need a piece of jewelry, the website definitely has it. And more. Jewelry.com also provides insights as to what jewelry is best for you, for your loved ones or for anybody. So for this coming Christmas, if you are still thinking of a gift for your dear one, try browsing at Jewelry.com and get an idea of the perfect jewelry item that you can give to your dearest love.
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