SwissDNABank – Live Forever
This would have been science fiction a couple of decades back but with the advancement in technology, you can preserve your memories and yourself for generations to come.
SwissDNABank is a new service which claims to hold your actual DNA and your life memories in a secure location in Switzerland. The DNA collection procedure is very easy and simple and can be done by any adult person. Besides the DNA, they also provide you with an electronic lock box for personal documents, pictures and anything of importance which a person will want to present to the next generations.
The service is fairly cheap at $99, a one time fee. If you want to never truly leave this world, try this service and you can live on forever.
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.
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.
Trunk Club – Shopping Revolutionized
Trunk Club
A great idea; letting experts pick your clothes for you. The service allows men to get in contact with a Trunk Club expert and discuss with them their tastes which in turn allow them to get recommendations from the TC expert on which clothes to buy. The service even buys and delivers the clothes to the customers.
Here’s what you have to do. Sign up and you will have a TC expert contact you. Then its either emailing back and forth or setting up a video conference. The TC representative will then recommend a wardrobe for you which you can try and if you find something useful, keep that and pay for it. Simple, ain’t it?
So if you are looking for some professional advice in picking clothes that look good on you, give Trunk Club a try.
PutACart – E-Commerce Solution
Let me tell you: using custom built shopping carts for your online stores can be very expensive or a headache if you have them created by an amateur. Now you can get the putacart service running for you in no time which is essentially a shopping cart already built and usable by anyone on the Internet.
Whether you are using a social networking site like FaceBook or MySpace or you like to blog, putacart can quickly display your product on your profile pages or anywhere you want for that matter and places a secure, easy to use and virtually hassle free shopping cart at your fingertips.
Your visitors can either go directly to PayPal. the only payment method available as of now, or they can go to your storefront located on putacart.com to make their purchases.
The service is in beta and its free at the moment. They may ultimately start charging so it might be a good move to get an account.
StudyLance – Guiding you on the right track
A new and upcoming website in the questions and answers market with a specialized theme. Helping students in their studies by pointing them in the right direction. StudyLance has just launched and by the look and theme of this site, it will surely get some followers quickly.
The site is easy to use. Post your question relating to topics that are usually taught in schools and the tutors on the site will help you with the answer. The purpose is not to give the answer outright but to guide them in a way that will help the students in grasping the subject. Questions and answers can be posted freely but to view a full answer, a fee must be paid, which will be credited to the tutor.
I hope that the site will enforce the policy of plagiarism and will not allow students to make it their homework place. Keeping my fingers crossed.
TicketLeap – Free Tickets Management
Signing up is free if you are an event organizer. The site charges a nominal flat rate per ticket which changes depending upon whether the ticket is under or over $10. If you want to give away free tickets, the site won’t charge a dime. The service is open for USA, Canada and Mexico for the moment although we’d like to see it expand to other regions like Europe. Moreover the site advertises your event through a host of web sites across the web.
Both printed and electronic tickets are supported and the customers are free to use any major credit card for purchases. A nice innovative play in the crowded ticketing space.
Creative.gd – Professional Designs Today
Another entry in the world of outsourcing but this time specializing in graphic and design content. Creative Graphic Design (CGD) is a company from Germany providing a place for designers and buyers to interact. The designs can vary from ad and banner to illustration and t-shirts designing.
If you are looking to have something designed and you want to approach a huge pool of designers to choose the best one for the job at hand, look no further than CGD. You can signup for free, then provide a design brief and an amount for the project and you will get to meet designers from all over the world willing to work on your project. You can then choose a final winner by checking the designs they post and getting the work done at the price you want.
As a designer, it is easy to sign up, review briefs posted by clients and then submit designs. The funds are escrowed before work so both the clients and designers can do their respective jobs securely.
Wobook allows anyone to create professional ebooks
France based Wobook allows users to publish their own ebooks. Noone has really managed to bring ebooks to the mainstream in a profitable and intuitive way yet, so this could be one to watch. Wobook allows users to upload PDFs, Word documents and Powerpoint files to be transformed into ebooks, which are then hosted by Wobook. You can then embed them on Facebook, a blog or wherever you like.
As ever, the major barrier to a service like this is getting the userbase to upload quality content that people actually want to read. The phrase “everyone has at least one book within them” doesn’t necessarily mean they are actually good. A quick browse of the service’s frontpage yields some interesting results, Orson Welles’ 1984 in Spanish, a racy lingerie calendar and a tourist guide to Brussels in French. It would be interesting to see how they work out what ebooks to display to whom, as currently their homepage is a bit eclectic.