Useful e-commerce Websites

Ever since e-commerce giants started tasting the success on various products like books, Electronic goods, many startups focussed on providing variety of services that range from video share, photo share, music share and also a way to purchase and sell the products. Today, I wanted to mention of those service providing sites which I liked most for reasons that are obvious...

• pepperjam The Pepperjam Comparison Shopping Blog embraces our dynamic e-commerce tradition and is powered by the most cutting-edge tools available, including applications such as AJAX and Python...
• ZoomBlast View and rate videos from other online video services.
• loomia Loomia Recommendations is the quickest way to add personalized recommendations to your web site.
• zapzap ZapZap is a user-managed podcast episode directory. At ZapZap you can find the world's most popular podcast episodes and channels, as voted for by listeners.
• pluggd Discover podcasts based on your interests and the interests of others. Listen to podcasts online, on your computer, or on your MP3 player, and also share your opinions.
  
• Attensa The intelligent RSS reader for Outlook - Automatically receive critical information from the web, blogs and wikis - Secure subscriptions to internal and external RSS feeds
• Tripmates Tripmates is a social network for people interested in travel. You can meet people to travel with, find people traveling to the same destination...
• flipadisc flipadisc.com is a website for trading music, movies, games and books, in three easy steps...
• TicTap Search Amazon.com products from a mobile device such as your PDA or smartphone, anywhere in the world! View prices, reviews and recommendations before purchasing.
• MOG Share your musical tastes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The world can see what you listen to. For real. For free.

The list do not end here, of course many startups were taken over by the Giants in the pursuit of taking the No:1 position.

Learning Ruby in 15 minutes? This actually works.

Using some friendly copy even Google would adore, this web application integrates a live Ruby compiler and holds your hand through ever step of the way.Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.
Try out Ruby code in the prompt above. In addition to Ruby's builtin methods, the following commands are available:

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PHP - Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities

The Open Web Application Security Project released a helpful document that lists what they think are the top ten security vulnerabilities in web applications.
These vulnerabilities can, of course, exist in PHP applications. Here are some tips on how to avoid them.

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What websites others are Visiting?

No one can invest their precious time on browsing and finding later which is a good site to browse. I already mentioned in my earlier post to use World Wide Web effctively. If you get a chance to see what websites exactly being visited right now and comparing the stats to figure out the most visited site you can save a lot of time. Isn't it? But is it really possible?
Swarm show you what websites people are visiting, right now. It is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, that connect each other. Where they get this info/stats ? Know more here. If you are excited about this you also can contribute by downloading this firefox extension which is the lifeline of Swarm, through which it sends the details of your browsing.

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Mozilla Extensions #3

I surely think the previous posts of mine Mozilla Extension #1 and Mozilla Extensions #2 was of some help and this link was dugg good number of times. I got inspired by this and I am continuing to post two more extensions that I felt very useful, and of course you surely love them.
Many are interested in becoming members of many sites we all are aware when regestering to any site it surely requires name or E-mail id. I have both my user names and mail id's long. So I found this extesnion PasteEmail which saves the mail id and up to 15 text fields, and you can paste them by right clicking on the field while filling up the form. Thanks to ChuckBaker You can preview the PasteEmail.

Cool iris - why clicking?

When we search through ask.com, we find a binocular icon that gives a preview of the content without actually clicking on it.

Cooliris is a set of free browser extensions that give you the power to quickly preview the underlying content of links without clicking. Simply rest your mouse over a link and see the content immediately. No more clicking back and forth!
Check out more previews.
Get one for your Mozilla browser and say bye to clicking!

Free your mind - Wridea

It is good to keep all our ideas in a place and comfortably export, share, print and many options! Exciting isn't it!
Now Wridea made it possible. This beta version is open for Signing up which takes hardly a minute.
Why wridea?

Get Your ideas organized

Create ideas.

Create Categories.

Create Pages.

Export the Ideas.

Print the Ideas.
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What users hate about Web sites

The statistics show that on an average every web user would spend just 2 minutes time on each website. So how best we can represent well in those 2 minutes will become crucial part of web designing. Be it Flash, be it Ajax or any thing that aims in increasing the usability should not annoy the user of the web user...


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Diigo: Digest of Internet Information Groups and Other stuff

Very interesting a combination of social bookmarking, clippings, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions. This Diigo offers a personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users...

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Tagfetch - Fetching Tags across multiple sites

A search engine that lets you search for tags across multiple “web 2.0” sites. It’s a great way to expand one’s search across multiple people powered sites. Fetches tagged content from trusted sources like flickr, technorati, youtube, digg, del.icio.us and more.

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