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CreativePro Office is an endeavor to have the most complete set of online office management tools you’re likely 
to find at any price – right now CreativePro Office is free! CreativePro is targeted at independent professionals, developer, consultant or manage a small distributed team. With CreativePro Office you can manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, quotes and events from one web-based application.
CreativePro beta was officially launched on March 1, 2007. Some of the salient features are
See the status of projects, tasks, invoices, important events and more in one customizable screen. You can also add widgets to your dashboard like RSS feeds, del.icio.us links and notes, tasks and more. New dashboard widgets will be added throughout the next few months.
View all client details from one screen including contact information, open & closed projects, invoices and quotes. Your clients can access their project information, invoices and quotes from their own secure CreativePro Office interface.
Create an unlimited number of projects for each client. Assign and track project tasks.
Enter billable hours for each project or task within a project. Run time tracker reports to quickly see how many hours were logged on a particular project, in a given month or over a date range.
Quickly create invoices and email them to your clients. Run detailed reports to show you amounts invoiced vs. amounts received for each month, amounts invoiced for each project and which clients are the most profitable. Keep detailed records of expenses associated with projects.
Keep track of appointments and deadlines. Items you enter for projects, tasks and invoices automatically create entries in your calendar so everything is in one place.Some of the recent changes and additions that have been made are
The blog of CreativePro Office also lists the features that are being worked on which is a good sign as it means that the developers really believe in the application
credentials that you assign and view their projects, invoices and public project files.If you believe in Project Management give CreativePro Office a shot as the interface of the application is easy to understand and usually the challenge of implement a project management tool is to get the team to use it. Since the work flow is simple in CreativePro Office there should be less complaints and challenges with implementation.
Tags: blog, email, events, icon, IM, manage, manager, online, project management, RSS feeds, search, webImageChef is a service that can be used by everyone in the family. Imagechef allows you to create custom 
images for your blog, forum signature or just for fun. Without having to register any kind of account, you can modify text in a variety of image templates. The resulting pictures can be easily saved or emailed to friends. If you register Imagechef would hold the images for you. Registration is free.
ImageChef Image Creator has a set of templates, divided into different categories which one can customize. The images are usually of good quality and the personal touch is a feature you can flaunt to impress people. Once you have customized an image you can also now 
quickly place images so they can be seen on a 3rd party services such as MySpace, Hi5 and Blogger. You do not need to register to use this feature. However, if you want to use the picture in the future then you should sign up and save the customized images to your account for later use. Another advantage of registering is that you get access to more templates.
ImageChef can be used to develop content (like wallpapers, screensaver, etc) for your mobile phone. Customized MMS (Multi Media Messages) can be built in ImageChef and used on the mobiles. ImageChef can be used on mobile phones for
•Image-Based Chat
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Give it a try as it is fun to create customized images.
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Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have just announced a venture for new startups to 
showcase themselves. It’s called Techcrunch20. The format of TechCrunch20 is simple: Twenty of the hottest new startups will announce and demo their products over a two day period. And they don’t pay a cent to do this. They will be selected to participate based on merit alone. The dedicated TechCrunch20 blog is published at techcrunch20.com/blog. GigaOm was the first to write about this, followed by Jessica Guynn at the San Francisco Chronicle.
The conference is happening September 17-18 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. 20 startup companies will be selected to participate and demo; similar to the Demo conference run by Chris Shipley which typically includes ~60-70 companies. However unlike Demo, which currently charges ~$18K to participate, TC20 will not charge startups to present. Costs of the conference will likely be subsidized by attendees & sponsors (Sequoia Capital is listed as an initial sponsor). Registration is now live: $2K before July 15, $2.5K thereafter.
The panel which would review the web 2.0 applications consists of:
My guess is this will provide some healthy competition for Demo, however Chris Shipley and folks put on a pretty high-end show that will also be a challenge to duplicate right out of the gate. That said, i would never underestimate Mike or Jason. (also see Mike’s earlier post about TechCrunch20 from January).
While there are similar models out there, Techcrunch20 promises to be a premier event with a very high profile audience and will be accessible for startups looking to make a break but might not necessarily have the financial clout to attract attention. If your company wants the opportunity to present to a panel of experts and a perfect audience at Techcrunch20 then go and fill out and return the application form.
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Egnyte, the automated file management system, is one of the companies that is going to launch (beta) version of their application at the web 2.0 expo.
Egnyte helps you manage your files on a computer. You need to download the application and install it on 
your computer. Once it is installed Egnyte allows you to activate a folder and its contents will be uploaded and tracked on a regular basis (Mac users do not despair it works on Macs as well!) Each time a document is updated Egnyte saves those versions and notifies users if you are sharing a documents with other users. The privacy settings on Egnyte look good and the feedback, till now, has been good. Some of the unique features are
There are other features which are the pipeline but they might not be free. One solution that I would keenly look forward to is allowing users to access Egnyte who are behind firewall.
If you want to use Egnyte to manage your personal documents the system is useful as you instantly have information on the latest versions of all the documents automatically. The interface is easy to use and understand and this is one of the reasons why I think this application has a lot of potential. Since the service is in beta the service is free, so this is the best time to make an account. Egnyte can be used in conjunction with other collaborative tools like Zoho, Thinkfree and Octopz.
Work on Egnyte started back in December 2005 when Vineet Jain, Rajesh Ram, and two others got together 
to built the solution. Before that Rajesh Ram and Vineet Jain had co-founded Valdero, a supply chain software company that was acquired by One Network Enterprises in September 2005. Valdero had raised $23 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Integral Capital Partners. So raising money is nothing new to the founders, but in this case they first wanted to build a solid product and than go around shopping for funds.
The product has a tremendous potential and right now they seem to be ahead than competition and therefore have a great future if everything works out right for them.
Tags: blog, collaborative tool, edit, email, future, generator, IM, manage, message, online, search, web, web 2.0Spock, the search tool for discovering information about people, will launch it private beta on Monday at the Web 2.0 Expo, along with a $50,000 programmer contest. Spock, an industry leading people search 
application, helps users find and discover people on the web. With over one hundred million individuals indexed and millions added every day, Spock is the largest and most comprehensive people specific search application. Spock aims to index every person in the world. The service aims to organize the web’s information around people, and considering the amount of people in the world, and the amount of people-searching that goes on via the Internet, it’s quite a goal. But with the sharing of personal information on social networks, and the shift in placing information on the web in image and video-sharing sites, wikis, and the likes, it will become increasingly important to have a better search that can span the various ways in which this information is spread across the web.
Spock is also conducting a contest to find a programmer or a team of programmers that can offer up the best way in which to cluster the web information found on a given person. The main problem in need of a solution here is of course seeking out a way in which to organize the data in the most accurate way. The contest will have a prize of $50,000 and possible employment at Spock, and is a tried and true way to get the world’s best minds working on one of Spock’s core issues (Netflix did the same when looking for a better movie recommendation algorithm).
From the contest web site I quote
“To improve our technology and to create a better user experience, we decided to share the fun! We have selected one of our most interesting problems, namely Entity Resolution, to share with the community, allowing other leading computer scientists and engineers to compete in an open contest. The winners of this global competition will reap a handsome reward, and perhaps even employment at Spock.
You can work individually and in teams. The competition will last 4 months and the winning team will win a Grand Prize of $50,000! Most importantly you’ll be working on a very important and widely applicable problem. We will also be issuing prizes for 2nd and 3rd place.”
Details of the Identity Resolution problem have also been described on the web site as
“A common problem that we face is that there are many people with the same name. Given that, how do we distinguish a document about Michael Jackson the singer from Michael Jackson the football player?
With billions of documents and people on the web, we need to identify and cluster web documents accurately to the people they are related to. Mapping these named entities from documents to the correct person is the essence of the Spock Challenge.
In order to constrain the problem so that it can be successfully solved by an individual or a small team, we provide you with real world data with ground truth. This data contains 100,000 documents about people, and the challenge is to determine all the distinct people described in the data set. This data can be your training set. Once you’ve got your basic algorithm working against the training set, we let you further tune your code by running it against a second test data set.
We give you instant accuracy feedback in the form of a percentage rank score. The score depends on how many correct unique people you can identify in the data. This way you can continue to refine your work and see how well you are holding up against your competitors.”
So if you think you have it in you give it a shot and try it out if you can resolve it! Go ahead and register at http://challenge.spock.com/register.
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