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Polish your events with Eventwax

Event Wax makes organizing events quicker, easier, and an all round more pleasurable experience. It establishes an online presence for any event, allowing people to accept payments, manage the event attendees’ registration, keep track of their tickets, all via a simple web interface. Though the initial system was built as a way for a company to organize and manage a conference Event Wax is perfectly suited for workshops, courses, seminar and any other event where communication with the attendees is key to its success.The EventWax system is simple to use and can be customized and hosted on your own web site or through EventWax. You can accept payments though PayPal and quickly search the attendee details. All data that the systems captures can be exported as a spreadsheet or XML for easy archiving or referencing. If you organize events, or are thinking about organizing events, try this tool out–you’ll love its simplicity, and power. Go ahead organizing an event now is not that tough.

Online thumbnail creater

“Quick thumbnail The fastest way to resize your pictures and images. Choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server, resized and then any or all of the resized images. Not only can you get simultaneous generation of different sizes but you can enlarge your images too.”

I particularly like the number of resize options with this tool. Resize by percentage (reduction or enlargement), specific sizing or standard sizing. I also like the no nonsense interface which makes the tool easy to use without any knowledge.

Create logos for your business free

Web2.0 STYLr is another logo creator for website. Giving another option for users create their web logos. Web2.0 STYLr is giving more options than other online logo creators to its users to create their website logo. Users are not only can key in the logo text, there also can select their preferable logo font from the list, an options to key in the URL of icon image, select the background color, color gradient and the gradient blend type.

Web2.0 STYLr is very easy to use where the user puts in the text of the logo. Next a font of the logo needs to be selected from the drop down menu. Next the URL for the logo needs to be given. Next part is the interesting part where you need to select the start gradient and the end gradient color. You can also define how the gradient needs to be blended (there are two choices). Last you need to select the background color for the logo. Once this has been done hit the Web 2.0 Styl It.

Niche jobs - Crunchboard

Now new Web companies can both staff their startups and watch what’s going on with new Web apps via TechCrunch. Mike just announced a new job board, Crunchboard, as another new piece in the TechCrunch suite of sites. Our goal with CrunchBoard is to build the ultimate web insiders network. A thirty day ad costs is what Mike has to say. A thirty day ad costs $200. Crunchboard was launched in August 2006 and after one week Techcrunch had gathered some interesting statistics - here have been a total of 75 jobs posted on the site, or about ten per day. Both large and small companies are using it for their hiring needs - customers include Fox (including listings for Myspace, Fox Sports, IGN and other properties), NBC, Six Apart, Pandora, Sharpcast, MobiTV, Photobucket, Piczo, Meevee, Simply Hired, Browster, Flock, and many others. To read the full article go here.

Indeed.com reports7 that there are 121 job listings per 1000 people in San Jose, and 74 job listings per 1000 in San Francisco. The online jobs segment is attracting a lot of entrepreneurial attention. From vertical search plays such as Indeed, to new players such as TheLadders, and Jobsters are trying to address some of the inefficiencies of the current online job model.

Amberjack - Make website tours for your site for free

Amberjack is a light weight open source project to out up quick tours of your website without needing any programming knowledge. It has a very good interface which is simple to understand. Basically you provide the URLs you want to include in your tour, select a skin for your narrative boxes and determine what all the button text and links will be for the interface. The tour wizard then provides a code snippet that you place in the template of your website and code for a button to launch the tour. If you are a CSS geek then you can further tweak your presentation and make it unique.

links for 2006-11-26

• How to Complete Things on Time
  (tags: GTD self improvement personal development)
• Pile of Indexcards - Selection
  (tags: Gtd personality development self improvement lifehacks lifehacker)
• Techcrunch » Blog Archive » The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat
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  (tags: blog blogging content chat new rules web based applications)

links for 2006-11-24

• WebSnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Site
  (tags: screenshots tools web2.0 Web images webdesign online)
• How To Write Great Headlines
  (tags: writing tips blogging headlines howto blog copywriting)
• Leading Average: Top Blog Trends
  (tags: blog blogs trends statistics blogging web marketing)
• Moveover Slideshare and Zoho Show
• Chat on all protocols from one login!
• My 50 favorite blogging resources
  (tags: Blogging blog Resources tips howto Blogs list)
• Blogging Blues? 10 Tips for Dealing with Blogging Burnout | Working Blogger
  (tags: blog articles blogging content successful blogs)

Chat on all protocols from one login!

Mabber is a web 2.0 application that allows you to integrate all your profiles on the popular IM services namely AIM, ICQ, MSN, Google and Yahoo. I know there are some existing services which allow you to log into your identities on different IM’s but Mabber plays a little different though when compared to other Instant Messaging software or web applications, like Meebo. Since it uses Jabber it does support Google talk and will also support other messaging services that use Jabber. Mabber supports all the protocols in-line, meaning that once you have the account setup you see your contacts on that network along with your other contacts from other networks and the primary mabber network.

There are two parts to the mabber application. The first is the web application which can be accessed from any browser. As with Meebo, these guys have spent a lot of time on refining the user experience. The first thing I noticed was that the chat windows did not have any re-draw effects and seemed to work seamlessly – no weird delays with the client polling the server, just instant reactions. Second what I noticed is all the rich features. They have extended through all the popular features of desktop IM clients such as chat history (which can be fully searched later), grouping (and group chat), and context menu’s to bring up the options.