OnlineBannerGenerator – Create banners on the fly
Banners are an effective way to communicate your message across to thousands of visitors on the Internet. A good banner can attract visitors to your site. Of course creating them can be a pain but if you are not a graphic designer or just want to preview or show some people your ideas quickly, onlinebannergenerator can help you.
This is a really good free solution which lets you design and create banners effortlessly in a WYSIWYG editor where you put the text, drag and drop images and create the banner which is instantly downloaded to your computer. The whole exercise takes only a couple of minutes. Once you are satisfied with the preliminary design you can polish it in your graphic package or just publish it. Worth a try.
Gloveler – Find Accommodation Across the World
Gloveler is a site offering rental estate services to people around the world. The service is free for both the travelers and hosts in the way that the owners can advertise their accommodations and prospective customers can search and rent the same.
The owners can post ads detailing all the facilities and perks which would be expected by a customer. There are no up front charges for posting ads. The site works on a commission basis of 10 percent which will be collected once a booking is made by a customer. Once a booking is made, the contact details are released and the parties can contact each other directly.
The site uses a secure payment system like paypal which allows the funds to be transferred to the owners in an efficient, fast and secure way. This could well be the next big idea in the travel industry.
Sitepie – Helping virtual companies
Sitepie is a recently launched website targeting potential businessmen and entrepreneurs who are planning to have their presence on the Internet but don’t want to be bogged down with legal or administrative tasks. This will lead them to focus on their ideas and monetize them to the maximum.
The entire process is user-friendly and allows anyone to quickly launch the idea using the expertise and tools provided by the site. The site holds templates to quickly build social network sites, blogs or video channels.
The pricing is affordable although the site is in beta and doesn’t allow direct signups yet. You can contact the administrators via signup link and they will review and invite you on board. There is not much activity and no demos to look at the moment but the idea looks promising. We will have to see how they fare in the crowd sourcing niche.
Missouri.me – Community Portal
A resource which could become indispensable if you are in the great state of Missouri or are planning a visit there. This community portal offers a smorgesboard of services like ads, information and email.
As soon as I opened the site, I found a wealth of information which included business ads, travel information, weather reports and even lottery and carrier information. The email service caught my eye and I checked it out to find that they offer around 500 MB space with a .missouri.me account.
The classified section is free and sellers can put anything under the sky up for sale. Let’s see if this site is able to monetize their presence by offering services to the local community and make itself a one-stop-shop on the Internet for Missouri citizens.
payperlive – Monitizing your streams
Payperlive is a video streaming service aimed at professionals to allow them to create, run and monetize their events all from the comfort of their homes and using custom plans offered by the company.
This is an all paid service, which means no freebies. The pricing is low if you consider all the perks which are thrown in. Even the cheapest account gets you 100 GB data download, a customizable site and a subdomain for only $19 per month.
All you have to do is sign up, get a site set up for youself, price your events, use the tools to promote your event through channels and let people watch while you earn. All you need now is a fast Internet connection.
feedmil – Serving feeds real-time
With so many blogs and news services sprouting over the Internet every day, it is becoming difficult to keep on top of a favorite topic. Feedmil is the equivalent of having a secretary who collects all the important stuff for you to review in your own time.
So, how does this work? Simple; you enter the topic you are interested in the search box and feedmil provides you with the results based on whether you want the most popular or a more surprising result. The search is done on the RSS feeds which most services nowadays provide. This will allow you to unsubscribe all the feeds you have and just check for the important stuff when you want from far more sources than your RSS client can digest.
Bliipa – A Search Engine with a Twist
Bliipa is a new search engine recently launched in 2009. Its not the usual run of the mill engine but rather has a nice and clean interface and provides two types of results based on the query submitted.
The main results are gathered using Yahoo’s API and social site content. Sites such as Twitter are probed for the search query and the results displayed column wise next to the normal results. Its somewhat similar to universal search in Google. The added benefit is that its sort of a multiple site-wide search and the normal search merged into one clean package.
I should point out that with competitors like Google, Bliipa has to come up with some really cool stuff if it wants to place itself near the top in the search engine market.