Resources

Cooking and Dieting

  • The Daily Plate – Calorie Counter, Diet Tracking, Food Journal, Nutrition Facts as well as iPhone App
  • All recipes – excellent recipe site with robust printing options and recipe box. You assemble and print your own custom cook book.
  • Cooks.com – Recipe search engine covers many categories within a large database. Features a Mastercook recipe export capability.
  • Slash Food – Get breaking food news, serious cooking advice, and the latest reviews and food trends.
  • Smitten Kitchen – A home cooking weblog from a tiny kitchen in New York City, with a focus on simplifying daunting recipes and being fearless in the kitchen
  • Simply recipes – A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions,

Custom Publishing

  • Blurb and Booksmart – Create your own hard or soft bound books: from weddings to cookbooks to photography books and sell them in your own Print on Demad (PoD) Bookshop
  • Kirtas Books – nearly 1,000,000 open copyright books avaialbe for download or PoD in both hard or soft bound versions
  • CafePress – print your photos on just about any kind of merchandise from Twilight t shirts to Obama bumper stickers, you can buy it, design it, or sell it on your own storefront
  • moo.com – Create and customize premium Business Cards, MiniCards and Postcards with MOO’s unique variable print technology
  • qoop.com – mashup and sell custom books, posters and more

Genealogy

  • Ancestry.com – Discover your ancestors with the world’s largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more online at Ancestry.com.
  • Family Search – Search for family ancestors. Billions of free family tree, family history, ancestry, genealogy and census records.
  • My Canvas – Create and customize high-quality photo books, collage posters and calendars.
  • My Tree And Me – These non-traditional family trees beautifully illustrate the family connections that make us who we are.

Photos and Photography

  • Flickr.com – the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Integrates with WordPress as well as Windows Desktop
  • Picasa – software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It’s free, and easy to use.
  • Kodak Gallery – Easily organize, edit and print your photos online. Higher cost bu the only site I found that will not impose cropping on your images.
  • Snapfish – digital photo printing, free online photo albums, free digital photo sharing services, and fun photo gifts
  • Pephoto.com – Full Service Professional Digital Photo Printing Lab, Order Wedding & Holiday Greeting Cards
  • pbase.com – Browse images or create an account with galleries. Add captions and other information.

Productivity and Project Management

  • Google Apps – Get constant enterprise innovation with Google, saving your company the time, money and hassles of managing these IT solutions yourself.
  • www.centraldesktop.com – Central Desktop’s is a web based SaaS solution for businesses to collaborate, manage projects and connect their people. It has great centralized document management and version control capabilities.
  • www.tomsplanner.com – Create and share Gantt charts online with Tom’s Planner Gantt chart software. No more messy excel spreadsheets.
  • www.basecamphq.com – Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.
  • Time Meter – Application designed for time and expense tracking that works under Microsoft Outlook.

Totally Killer Open Source Solutions

  • WordPress – A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
  • Drupal – open source content management system.
  • Joomla! – the dynamic portal engine and content management system.
  • Magento – the eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry because of its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility.
  • GIMP – the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
  • SugarCRM – Commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM). CRM software for sales force automation and customer support deployed on demand or on site.
  • Open Office – A multiplatform and multilingual office suite compatible with all other major office suites.

Visualization

  • Tableau Public – Award-winning data visualization software for faster visual analysis and better business intelligence. No deployment. No waiting. Just incredible ROI.

Internet Marketing Tools

  • Google Website Optimizer – Radically increase your conversion rate with A/B testing.
  • Clickable – PPC Campaign Management
  • Rank Checker – SEO rank plug-in for Firefox
  • Survey Monkey – SurveyMonkey.com is a revolutionary tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.

Web Site Measurement

  • Google Analytics – enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
  • Trakkboard – Trakkboard gives you the opportunity to compare data from several Google Analytics accounts with each other as well as ollow current developments from your desktop. You can also summarize the most important key performance indicators on just one dashboard.
  • Core Metrics – Advanced online web analytics. Powerful, data driven solutions for marketing optimization. Find and retain your most profitable customers.
  • Omniture – Web Analytics and Online Business Optimization Platform by Omniture. Web Analytics, Online Business Optimization, Search Management, and More.
  • Alexa – Free web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, and more…
  • Attention Meter – A tool that lets you triangulate stats across the major stat sites (alexa, quantcast, compete, technorati)
  • Quantcast – a new breed of measurement service helping buyers and sellers quantify the characteristics of digital audiences against which they can activate addressable advertising solutions.
  • Compete.com – Allows you to do competitive site research and helps you benefit from click-sharing by providing free services that create a more trusted, transparent, and valuable Internet.

Website Monitoring

  • Big Brother – Big Brother Professional Edition (BBPE) is a simple way to measure the health of your heterogeneous IT environment at-a-glance.
  • gomez.com – Website and web application performance monitoring tools, services, and solutions.
  • montastic.com
  • WayBack Machine

Usability

  • UserTesting.com – Low Cost Usability Testing. The fastest and most inexpensive way to watch and hear real people using your website.
  • clixpy.com – Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions.
  • ClickDensity.com – clickdensity records the position of every click on a page, creating a virtual heat map of visitor activity – a valuable usability tool.
  • crazyegg.com – Easy-to-interpret “heatmaps” showing exactly where people clicked (even if it wasn’t a link)
  • ethniodev.com – Recruit people from your website to do research.
  • kampyle.com – Allow your visitors to easily give feedback on your webpages.

Web Content Management Systems (WCMS)

  • Ektron - Enterprise Content Management System (Web CMS software) that provides .net CMS. Web content management and document management
  • SiteCore - Web Content Management System (CMS) software helps you create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. We lead the industry in flexibility, scalability and ability to integrate with your marketing organization, systems and developer investment- with an intuitive ease of use.
  • EpiServer - EPiServer is the world’s fastest growing provider of .Net based Web Content Management (WCM) and online social community platforms.
  • Alterian Content Manager – Alterian Content Manager enables organizations to fully leverage the potential for your web site to engage with your audience, through transforming the complex task of building and maintaining your web sites into an easy business user task.
  • DotNet Nuke - the leading open source web content management system (CMS) and application development framework for Microsoft .NET.
  • FatWire – FatWire Content Server™ is a comprehensive web content management (WCM) solution that enables organizations to deliver a compelling web experience by building, deploying, and managing large-scale, persuasive, and interactive web sites.
  • SiteFinity - Meet the web content management system that requires no additional learning. Engineered for extensibility and customization, Sitefinity can help you deliver compelling web applications in a much shorter time than you would ever expect.
  • Drupal – is a free PHP software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
  • Joomla! – is an award-winning open source PHP content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available.
  • WordPress – A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Favorite Blogs

  • Springwise – a network of 8000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds.
  • TechCrunch – Group-edited blog about technology start-ups, particularly the Web 2.0 sector.
  • Mashable – Social Media news blog covering cool new websites and social networks: Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.
  • Get Elastic Blog – #1 ecommerce blog in world with daily posts covering SEO, usability, analytics, email, shopping cart abandonment, social media and video commerce.
  • Video Commerce Consortium -the world’s largest group of e-commerce professionals, online marketers, and technologists dedicated to advancing the use of video in e-commerce.
  • Six Revisions – Six Revisions is a blog that shares useful information about web development and design, dedicated to people who build websites.
  • Noupe – a curious design blog that is always looking for new and interesting stuff on design, jquery, photoshop and more.
  • Flowing Data – explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization.
  • Engadget – a blog about gadgets
  • Gizmodo -another gadget guide
  • Haacked – Phil Haack attempts to infuse technology and software development with humor and a pragmatic eye… Attempts.
  • Lifehacker – software and personal productivity, recommends downloads, web sites and shortcuts that help you work smarter and save time.
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