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Its not easy to make money with website content. If you're hosting a website, blog, or forum some of the traditional options are advertising trough networks or by selling own slots. Google AdSense tries to leverage the many content providers for this, while ad publishers such as Tradedoubler or ComissionJunction work with more individual agreements and targeting. Facebook strongly implements demographics for ad display, and we don't even want to know what's going on behind the scenes with data collections for advertising purposes… If you want to make honest money from your content, say you have a blog with a few thousand visitors per day, then going with one of the ...

There are a lot of file sharing apps and services available. Dropbox has started the movement by really creating a great app that syncs brilliantly across devices. Google is coming along with it's cloud drive, and even Apple and Microsoft are entering the game. However, sometimes you don't want to add a new file-sharing service just for a little sharing. What about a simple way of sharing some stuff, like holiday photos with friends, or recipes with the family? Social networks like Facebook are already providing wast sharing capabilities, but they are really not so suitable for group sharing. Unless you understand and can use the privacy settings correct, or are ...

Helpdesk software is becoming increasingly popular even for small business since it really adds a value to the customer care process, making it both easier and cheaper for businesses, and at the same time improving the customers' experience. We have earlier described various help desk solutions, and this article introduces another one. It's a very interesting market which changes almost on a monthly basis with new developers and features coming up. Check out, a customer support solution where the developers say: Organize Better. Never miss responding to an email again. A hundred thousand emails all needing your answers yesterday? Tag ‘em, bundle ‘em, categorize ‘em and send ‘em on their way to answerville. HappyFox ...

If you're are busy web developer, or pretty much any other service provider, who has enough work to do with doing actual stuff for customers, then handling quotes and billing is really not the best use of your time. Lots of billing tools have emerged, making it easy to manage and send invoices. But what about the step before that? Most agencies are happy whenever they can send an invoice, but there is a lot of other work leading up to that point which also needs to be handled. I'm not talking about the project management here, but about the first initial draft of an offer sent to a customer, ...

10 years ago syncing data between your mobile and computer was a hassle which often involved sync conflicts, connection problems or even data loss. Today the major systems have cloud based solutions which work pretty great. For example Apple's iCloud. Also Google and Microsoft are having proper solutions with ActiveSync, for example in conjunction with an Exchange server. However, while these services are working increasingly well on their own, it's still a pain to be a user of multiple services and devices. Fruux is trying to make this problem go away by simply going between your cloud services and devices. When switching to Fruxx, you can sync with almost any ...

Services like Skype has brought the phone, and later also video calls into our everyday lives. There are many spinoffs of this concept of communication, trying to enrich the experience with valuable tools and efficiency. Meetings.io offers conference-room style coomunication with team members and coworkers. They say: A place to meet, hangout and get things done. Whether you want to meet with a co-worker, hang with your project team members, get help from your teacher aid or speak to a customer, Meetings.io has made it amazingly simple to meet them face to face online without the need for installing complex software, joining a social network or having to add contacts. Meet face ...

Having trouble keeping all your notes organized? There are many ways of staying on top of the information flow, but constant changes and new ideas make it a highly dynamic task. You're always addind notes, scribbling down comments, working on ideas, and it simply cant stay in you head all at once. So, making simple notes easily and having them available is something great to have. Fetchnotes is an app that tries to help you with that. It will synchronize your notes accross multiple devices and is greatly suited for those small unclassified thoughts you want to scribble down every now and then, when you get a great business idea while ...

Website-builders have been around for a while, growing in functionality and complexity. Breezi is in interesting new builder - still in open beta - which offers some pretty awesome stuff. Everything is editable and extremely easy to use. No complex stuff to learn. Just get going. This is extremely cool for beginners who just want their site up and running, and don't care about the rest of all the technical stuff. The developers say: Stylistic Precision Every pixel, Every corner. Every background. It's all under your control with Breezi website builder. All is Edit-in-Place Nothing to learn. Click on the stuff you want to edit with our in-line WYSIWYG website editor. Apps, Apps, Apps Awesomeness ...

YUI is now available in the third generation. It's a splendid collection of libraries which enrich your web applications. Build dialogs, overlays, display charts, use performance tweaks like image preloading and much more. The YUI developers say: "YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS framework for building richly interactive web applications." Fast YUI's lightweight core and modular architecture make it scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo!, YUI powers the most popular websites in the world. Complete YUI's intuitive and well-documented API takes you from basic DOM handling to building performant and maintainable applications on desktop browsers, mobile devices, and servers. Industrial Strength A thriving community, a carefully architected infrastructure, and a ...

Building forms for your website may be a trivial task for many developers, but if you're not so much into HTML yet, then it might be quite a challange. Also, you may simply find it nicer to build them with a WYSIWY editor. It's easier and nicer than coding HTML by hand. Check out JotForm to boost your forms for your website: "There was a time once when creating web forms was a big pain for webmasters. Then came JotForm, first web based WYSIWYG form builder, and turned into a joy. Today JotForm has over 750,000 users. JotForm is a free web form builder. For basic usage, upto 100 submissions/month, you can ...