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InDinero

inDinero, an online system to monitor the financial health of your small business or small company, and as the name suggests is focused primarily on small and micro businesses.

If you have a personal company or personal business online then this system can help you manage your money and therefore have the finances of your business or company healthy, financially speaking.

inDinero offers the following features:

1 .- All accounts in one place.

Managing your finances does not require you to download your bank statements as inDinero automatically consolidates all your statements in one place.

2 .- Single account settings at once.

The first time you register all you have to do is add your bank accounts and your credit cards, all on your small business or small business.

The setup process takes less than 5 minutes during which automatically download financial data from your small business or small business.

3 .- Financial update.

inDinero maintains financial information in your small business or small business in automatically without having to enter information, all daily.

This service has three forms of entry, free for 50 transactions per month, unlimited users and access to the meter or person who keeps the accounts in your small company or business. The 2 following registration options are dues-paying.

The bad thing is that this service is currently available only for U.S. and English, but the idea is to emulate this type of system or systems and create a better online business idea for your country or for Spanish-speaking countries.

FourSquare

Foursquare is an interesting social network that has managed to capture the attention of a lot of Internet lately, in large part by its strategy for those who register will be encouraged to remain active in the service. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, whose goal is simply to connect users with friends and keep up much on what happens in the world as what happens in your circle of users, Foursquare is a network in which users perform ‘check-ins’ while sharing local recommendations and opinions on the premises with your contacts.

To do this effectively, Foursquare has available mobile applications capable of using the GPS (which include most devices like the Nexus One or iPhone) device for check-ins as easy as possible. Users are also free to enter all the information in a store in the event that none of the network have been there before.

Each time you visit a room (which can be a bar, a nightclub, an airport, a hotel, a museum, a convention …) you gain a certain amount of points and, on special occasions where it has reached certain requirements, including a medal . We also have some extra bonuses if you go into places not visited and enter data, or if we make a check-in and abroad.

Just for this, users are interested in scoring points, so that competitive instinct is awakened and gets heavy use of the network. Moreover, the fact that Foursquare is based on the location represents an opportunity for a number of fronts. First, the network can display advertisements depending on where we are, a selective basis to promote products and services that is gaining much interest from big companies like Google and Apple, they have acquired mobile advertising firms (AdMob and Quattro Wireless respectively .)

Something positive to say about Foursquare is that the mobile application is available for virtually any mobile phone, tremendously expanding the range of users who can participate in the ‘game’ of this network. We have an application in the App Store for the iPhone, the application in the Android store and a third for BlackBerry phones. Of course, all free.

Integration with other networks like Twitter and Facebook is also a strong point, and that thus all our contacts to realize that we are using Foursquare (attracting attention) and the premises that we visited and we scored.

However, Foursquare has managed to present as a social network that focuses its use in a different way to the simple fact of sharing information between users. Although it is already his detractors and his supporters, check out this service is

Learnboost

LearnBoost is an interesting free web application, aimed at those teachers who wish to effectively keep track of their classes online.

Thus, once registered, we will be able to track students, giving the notes of each, their absences and to its location within the class. The issues are also an important part of LearnBoost, therefore, has a section devoted to them, so we can upload documents and add annotations on the agenda that we provide.

In addition to these features, the tool allows us to import our Google calendars, so we take full control of the classes, festivals and meetings that we have. A simple tool, with a clear interface that will allow us to always have important information from our classes.

Hipmunk

If you’re someone who is looking for online flights, and often turn up using poor search engines, you might want to try Hipmunk. They want to change that with a clear interface and offers a viable alternative, however, is not usable for all.

Hipmunk Description

Hipmunk is a flight search engine that makes finding travel options easy with a sophisticated website design. Instead of overwhelming the competition as the user with extensive information on hotels and rental cars, they focus on the essentials page: departure, arrival point and an easily accessible calendar.

You just have to type a few letters and then find the drop out of the airport of your choice. Frequent flyers enjoy the support of IATA codes.

The result is clearly displayed. Using a time line, the user can immediately see whether it is a non-stop flights, or whether a stop needs a connection. The stops are marked in the bar with the IATA code. It is thus quite helpful if the user knows at least the codes relevant to them hubs of the airlines. People who wants to see the details of the flight, just click on the corresponding bar and looks but the city that belongs to the airport.

Unfortunately, that helps with cities that have multiple airports is limited. Both Berlin airports are identified only as Berlin. Anyone who enters as a flight Berlin-Munich, gets no flights from Schoenefeld displayed. The data base is apparently not complete.

Filters without having to wait

Thanks to sliding time lines, the result can easily filter their own wishes.The filter includes a weighting of price, length of flight and the number of stops. The result should therefore be a most pleasant flight. If you want, with a click, but also sort by price or flight time.

Like, for example, with a longer stopover, but with the same airline to be worse than hiding flights. Extra long transfer times of flifghts are only available if the user take a look on the right side of the website.

The website uses a Tabinterface. Within the browser tab, the user can thus look different flights and so compare.

Diaspora

Diaspora is an open-source Web server that works as a distributed social network that can be developed, it provides an alternative to centralized services such as Facebook or StudiVZ. It is being developed by Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy.

Diaspora is developed in Ruby. The project aims to offer the same range of social network which currently used by Facebook, which means “the games, the bulletin boards and the little chat “. Unlike Facebook, the data should also be our personal web server” (so-called “pods”), so users can “keep full control over the data they share with other users”.

GnuPG pictures and videos are used. Diaspora should also allow that service to work on demand, so that for example when setting a photo on a portal like Flickr automatically update in a micro-blogging service. OpenID, VoIP, distributed and encrypted backups and an instant messenger protocol and the UDP network protocol will also be integrated.

History

The project was on 24 Announced April 2010 on the platform kick and scored her first fundraising goal of dollarsignr 10,000 immediately within 12 days. In the following weeks further dollarsignr 200,642 were taken from 6479 donors. This was Diaspora to successful Kickstart project, had been given at all. A donor had claims to be the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the Diaspora, a “cool idea” called.

The impetus for the establishment of diaspora project had given a speech that Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School on 5 Was held February 2010 the Internet Society. Moglen is designed under the title “Freedom in the Cloud” as spy on the centralized social networks and their users.

Alpha & Source Release

The software was originally on 15 Be published September 2010. On 30 August 2010 featured the developers that announcement, however, the effect on her blog it clear that they at that time only intended to release the source code of the project.

An alpha version of the social network was on 24 November 2010 published. Invitations will be from 23 November 2010 were on the mailing list sent out of the project. The admission of new invitations to the joindiaspora.com-Pod 27 November 2010 initially reinstated. A hint is found in an updated journal. Since the beginning of January 2011, a series of pods to test Diaspora are publicly available.

Security

Diaspora is with the idea of a decentralized distributed system for safe, controlled and easy exchange of data on the Internet to provide a safety extremely challenging project, and because each user himself can operate servers and the software he operates, and ultimately complete controlled. For example, as a result, neither users who access server, other server, communicates with whom is no certain identification can be regarded as trustworthy, because attackers (cracker) can not be prevented, to integrate its own compromised server to the network. There is also the fundamental problem of the uncontrolled proliferation of data, which are intended only for a limited group of other users to prevent, if possible. The importance of compliance with this requirement can hardly be overestimated: For example, it can be for a worker who interacts with family members about a serious disease, its very important that his colleagues and superiors do not experience this.

Diaspora made to ensure this restriction by so-called aspects that seem similar to file permissions on a single computer. This represents a significant innovation for social networks dar. A central function, which is meeting the software Diaspora therefore imperative to have, to be sure, therefore, a secure authentication and authorization of users, which together ensure that users are only intended for them access data and change only with express permission they can.

The extent of the challenges that such distributed systems with the requirement of a restrictable access face, can be for example at the Andrew File System, the 1987 seen to this day developed Coda network file system, distributed file-sharing applications or on the Freenet software, which is extremely large and complex projects represent. Approaches such as Trusted Computing, which are already controversial, and as from experts such as Bruce Schneier be criticized as ultimately impossible, are not applicable in this context. Under these conditions have used the security policy and its consistent implementation of a very high importance.

According to media reports, because of the early phase of development for publication of the source code of diaspora several serious errors and security vulnerabilities in the authorization discovered. It was possible, among other things, to manipulate by errors in the code other user accounts or to take over, contacts without add confirmation to a user account and delete some photos. by experts for the security of Web applications, the project was subsequently criticized hard, as it is almost impossible according to popular opinion, such a fundamental concept of security, which is located in Unlike adjustable capsule-in modules by functionalities almost all aspects of software through moves to incorporate later.

The known vulnerabilities were closed up to the alpha version.

Chatroulette

Chatroulette is a website based on videoconferencing, whose originality lies in the randomness of the participants. Visitors randomly start talking to a stranger, may at any time abandon the conversation to start over.

Chatroulette was created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17 year old student from Moscow, Russia, and became operational in November 2009. Went from 500 visitors a month to 50,000 a month. In March, Ternovskiy estimated 1.5 million visitors, a third of which came from the United States.

The website uses Adobe Flash to display the webcam. Flash P2P network, enables almost all video and video and audio travel directly between users’ computers without having to use the bandwidth of the server. In March 2010, Ternovsky ran the site from his bedroom, with the help of four programmers working remotely. After an initial growth phase funded by a dollarsignr 10,000 investment from their parents, the site is supported by advertising an online dating service.

Controversial Content

According to a survey by RJMetrics, approximately 47% of users showed connections nudity or apareceían committing indecent acts. In response, the site requires users to be over 16 years of age and prohibited pornographic behavior. Users who are experiencing harassment or witnesses of illegal, immoral or pornographic can ‘report’ to the author. After three complaints about the same participant in five minutes the user is blocked for a period of 10 to 40 minutes. In addition, rumors have spread about the existence of hidden video cameras in locker rooms or showers located, both female and male, which introduces the factor voyeur.

And they are speculating recently with the implementation of a system of censorship to block images which appear in the male genitalia, in collaboration with the creator of Napster, Shawn Fanning by which images could be self-censor for adults and also block certain users who abuse the service.

Flipboard

Flipboard is the latest sensation in applications for iPad. The idea is simple but brilliant. We enter our Facebook profile or Twitter network and automatically we will have a “review” of our social profiles and all that is published in them. To view the contents just have to turn the page with your finger and access the contents of photos, photo albums, videos (which all fit perfectly in iPad), shared bookmarks, status changes and any other content.

The rendering engine of the application ensure access to materials and fit of our accounts so that it shows like a magazine. For example, use the latest photos posted by our friends at Facebook, to establish an interactive front page of the magazine, or if someone has posted a link, go to it, retrieves the content to see it as such. As a magazine, it provides different subject navigation and when you click on this, the page is extensive and allows us to see the “news” in full. With Twitter is exactly the same and you will go to the links or pictures posted by links to assemble as complete content.

Apart from these social networks, we can choose to access a range of social “prebuilt” profiles where we can access news of all kinds, generated by the network itself, or access to a variety of contents as TEDTalks, to cite one of several .

Its shortcomings are clear, as it is still a bit green and needs it more shooting and upgrades. For example, the selection of content in Facebook uses a somewhat random approach when we have many friends and lots of content, and confuses the past with current content, so we always going to be things to see if this application use only. For more Twitter is all sorted. Another problem is that in photo albums or goods is impossible to make a vertical scroll and therefore we can not see items or large albums. I said, more shooting, but does not overshadow an application that can become an imperative for our iPad.

In short, an interesting application that we recommend (it’s free) and it is worth. Below these lines you have a promotional video in the language of Shakespeare, where you can see how it works.

eBay

eBay is a site dedicated to auction goods on the Internet. It is one of the pioneers in this type of transaction, it was founded in 1995. Since 2002, eBay owns PayPal.

eBay is an online auction network, the biggest right now and leader in this market. Anyone can register on the eBay website and buy or sell any of the items available, grouped in a of categories. On eBay you can trade a wide variety of products, the only requirement is be a registered user. The operations are carried out with 3 main types.

• Auction: This is the most common transaction on the site. The seller sets a starting price and a fixed for the announcement and throughout that time period, buyers bid for it. The highest bidder takes the property under the terms of delivery and returns imposed by the seller.
• Buy It Now: The seller sets a fixed price and, if the applicant is willing to pay, will be yours.
• Classified ads

The seller can establish their payment: PayPal, credit card, bank transfer or cash at the time of receipt of order and so it is stated in the notice, together with the description and photo, if applicable . In return for your ad, eBay charges a fee to the seller in case of sale, in proportion to the final sale price.

Although lately it has increased security and protection to the buyer, do not forget that any transaction on eBay is a deal does not involve the company, so that the success of the sale depends on good faith the other party. eBay really is an automated brokerage system, which users can rate the other user through a system of positive or negative points depending on the success of the operation. However, this system has often proved easy to manipulate, so that in the past there have been scams for Asian vendors and high-tech products (LCD TVs at bargain prices, etc). To avoid this we must look at the payment of the product purchased, and whether that form of payment provides the “protection buyer” for eBay, which covers up a lot in case of fraud, but with expenditure of 30 € per claim.

History

eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in San Jose, California, the first item sold was a laser pointer unusable, for a price of dollarsignr 14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to see if, indeed, he understood what he had bought. The response was even more amazing: “I like to collect useless laser pointers.”

• In 1999 he began his stock trade on Nasdaq.
• In 2001 the French group acquires iBazar by dollarsignr 100 million, expanding its business to European market.
• In 2002 Acquire PayPal.
• In May 2005 buys Loquo classifieds portal.
• In March 2009 launch in Spain’s new classified ad service, eBay ads (classified ads sales), eBay floors (real estate classified ads), and eBay cars (motor classifieds). These new services are a world first using Spain as a premier platform for the new local strategy for eBay Inc.
• In April 2009, announced it received approval by the South Korean authorities for the purchase of 34.2% of South Korean auction site Gmarket, promising to help small and medium enterprises to sell their products Online. Ebay said it will pay U.S. dollarsignr 1,200 million for the purchase.
• In April 2009, eBay reported that spin off its Internet telephony operation, Skype, through an IPO because Ebay wants to be paid between dollarsignr 2,000 million and dollarsignr 2,700 million. eBay bought Skype in 2005 for dollarsignr 2 600 million.
• In 2010, eBay is considered the most counterfeited website in the world

Instagram

Instagram is an application created by the company Burbn Inc exclusively for IOS, the operating system of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, allowsmaterial apply filters to photos taken with the Apple smartphone and share them through social networks.

Since its launch last October, it has already passed one million users and is still growing at a very high pace. The success of this simple application is its attractive design and its social component. Users not only can share their photos, downloaded to your phone but the best images from your contacts.

This idea has created Instagram, free application that lets you take and share photos in synchronization networks like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Flickr Foursquare. The funniest part is the easy way to get a almost-professional results without having to resort to programs like Photoshop or similar.

Specifics

Instagram menu is divided into 5 parts, each of which are summarized below:

• Feed: Where we have made the catch and those who follow.
• People: Here you can see the pictures with the highest score and comments in the network that Instagram has so far.
• Share: The place where we can make our pictures with the iPhone camera. Once made, we can filter captures up to 12 different effects, add your location and a personalized message, indicating the networks that may be published.
• News: A store updates from our pictures, produced by the reviews or ratings of our friends.
• Profile: As the name suggests, is our profile. In this option we can add more friends from searches in social networks in which we are registered.

Quora

Quora is an online service of knowledge organization, established in June 2009, launched a private beta in December 2009 and remain available to the public from June 21, 2010.

Quora add questions and answers on different topics and allows users to collaborate on them. Co-founded by Adam D’Angelo (former CTO of Facebook) and Charlie Cheever, in March 2010 is funded by Benchmark Capital, with assets of dollarsignr 86 million, according to rumors.

Quora allows service questions and answers and users can discuss the questions and evaluate by voting positive or negative responses. You can create a summary of responses to reflect the consensus of the community: summary of a wiki is editable by any anonymous user.

What differences quora from the rest?

• Follow: In Quora you don’t follow people, you don’t follow accounts, neither companies. Still a mix of everything. You follow conversations, a name, a theme, a tag of the thousands available and the sum of all this on your timeline will generate an ecosystem quickly. Quran can follow me too.
• The search engine is cool, does more than deliver results, has a lightning fast auto-complete, which guides to navigate. Your navigation bar is the search engine suggesting topics, these topics suggests keeping the conversation going.
• They implemented meritocracy in the messages, when you vote. And that we had seen on digg, reddit, in stackoverflow well applied, with the arrows to vote on a topic up, down. And that re-orders messages with your votes, the first responders have the support of readers.
• We live real time on every issue, you can see who is there, what they are doing, it involves the social layer has the answers and gestures out of merit, such as acknowledgments (Thanks & No Thanks to each message). Or also you can leave comments for each response.
• They generated many levels of information. A question, an answer and has the limit that you can only respond once per item. And then the comments to each response, to generate the conversation there and independently to the discussion.