links for 2007-03-21
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Zingfu - Fun with photos
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Ever wanted to see yourself up on a giant screen in Times Square? Or on the cover of Fortune magazine or the front page of a newspaper. It can be done! Do not be surprised.
Zingfu a web 2.0 application allows photo sharing, but with a twist. Users upload pix and add them to 
magazine covers, billboards, celebrity photos, holiday frames, and more which are called Zings. There are about 250 zings available at this point of time and more zings are added on a regular basis. Users can also add wacky speech or thought bubbles to their snaps and post them on popular social networking sites. Users can add speech or thought bubbles to their unique Zings and easily post them to MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, or anywhere else that 40-year old men pretend to be 14-year old girls. Trust me the results are good.
Use of Ajax is commendable and the website of Zingfu is a very good example of Ajax being used to enhance the user experience. When you sign up for the service it is done through a Ajax pop up. Since there are 250 zings available using normal html to display them would have been cumbersome and the user would have to go through many pages. Ajax has helped the developers to show all the zings on the same page and what’s more Ajax has been used to give you a preview of the zing on mouse over the link of the Zing.
ZingFu has taken a small piece of functionality, automated it and put a web based interface on it. It is like taking 0.1% of the functionality of Photoshop and making it understandable by 99.9% of the population. How many people do you think could make the following picture in Photoshop? To have an answer search for Zingfu in google or browse the users of MySpace or Friendster.
Accounts and Invoicing online with SimplifyThis.com
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SimplifyThis is an intuitive web-based service to easily invoice your customers and get paid faster online. SimplifyThis takes does not require any installation and since the usage is simple there are no manuals to be ready as well. Since it is Internet based portability is not an issue and your accounts become accessible from anywhere.
SimplifyThis can lets users create
- professional invoices and send them over email.
- Record charges and bill them later, accept payments online using PayPal or Authorize.Net..
- Customized invoices and payment website.
- Easily track your invoices and payments on a per customer basis.
- Set customer specific pricing.
- Apply line item and invoice level discounts.
- Apply overpayment to new invoices.
SimplifyThis is best suited as a payment management software for use in small business, freelancing or 
independent contracting. You can easily invoice your customers using email, get paid faster online and track payments too. It is currently free during its beta stage, be aware though that the trail can end anytime as the developers intend to make it a priced service when it is fully developed.
One of the developers Sanjay Kumar came across an article at http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_guid.php which set him working on SimplifyThis.
The developers of SimplifyThis, Sanjay Kumar and Mauro Lombarda, explain that SimplifyThis “is our pursuit to 
conquer the complexity of overbearing business processes which should have become simple and efficient with the use of technology. We often meet small business owners such as plumbers, electricians, music teachers, math tutors or other professionals who cannot easily remind their customers of overdue balances or track which invoices they have already sent. Technology is yet to come into play for these businesses.”
If you are an owner of a small business or a freelancer SimplifyThis is a service that you must try out.
Tags: customize, email, IM, image, Internet, manage, online, reminder, web
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Twitter is a service that has got quite a few web 2.0 enthusiasts hooked. Twitter is a mashup of social 
networking, instant messaging and wireless communication that lets users post short (140 characters max) notes on what they are up to or thinking at that instant. Various users refer to their blog on Twitter as tumblelog (blog, with entries of 1 line).They can similarly check messages from other users in the network.You can use it with SMS (sending a message to 40404), on the web or IM. A continuous steam of presence messages prompts you to update your own. Fans say it’s an addictive window into a social stream of consciousness.
What Twitter does, is to merge a number of interesting trends in social software usage—personal blogging, lightweight presence indicators, and IM status messages—into a blend of ephemerality and permanence, public and private.
There are two major criticisms of Twitter. The first criticism is the triviality of the content. But asking “who really cares about that kind of mindless trivia about your day” misses the whole point of presence. The answer to this is that Twitter is to let your close friends and family know what you are doing and they do care. The second type of criticism is that updating on Twitter hampers continuity at work. For some people using Twitter has actually reduced the craving for the Internet and it is not necessary that you update Twitter after some time and you can choose to ignore it if you are really busy.
Twitterholic is a service that is based on Twitter. Twitterholic basically scans the Twitter public timeline for new users to watch. A few times a day, they calculate individual statistics for each user user in their database and compile a “Twitter Top 100? list based on the statistics tracked.
Tags: blog, blogging, IM, image, Internet, message, sms, social, trend, trends, TWIT, Twitter, web, web 2.0links for 2007-03-17
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