Meltbox::buzz http://meltbox.com/user/buzz/ Latest Internet Services of buzz Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:33 +0000 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:33 +0000 Skype http://www.skype.com/ Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:36:31 +0000 Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles....

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Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:58:11 +0000 Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.[3]

Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found o...

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Evernote http://www.evernote.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:58:05 +0000 1. Capture Everything

Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe.

2. Organize it

Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

3. Find anything fast

Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags. Evernote magically makes printed and hand...

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Google Docs https://docs.google.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:58 +0000 Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of two services, Writely and Spreadsheets, which were merged into a single product on October 10, 2006. A third product for presentations, incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems, was released on September 17, 2007....

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Blogger https://www.blogger.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:50 +0000 [Your blog]
Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.

[Easy to use]
It’s easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone.

[Flexible]
Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more....

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Youtube http://www.youtube.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:43 +0000 YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as vide...

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Hulu http://www.hulu.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:33 +0000 Hulu is a website that offers commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. In order to ensure that no international users outside the U.S. have access to the video channel, Hulu has blocked many anonymous proxies and virtual private networks. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format, including many films and shows that are available in 360p and 480p. Hulu ...

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Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:57:26 +0000 Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as a free download. At the time of the acquisition, the company's management team consisted of Lars Perkins as CEO, Mike Herf...

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Google Wave https://wave.google.com/ Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:04:33 +0000 Google Wave is designed as a new Internet communications platform. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave works like previous messaging systems such as email and Usenet, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages, or requiring all responses to be stored in each user's inbox for context, message documents (referred to as waves) that contain complete threads of multimedia messages (blips) are p...

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Windows Live Hotmail http://mail.live.com/ Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:55:13 +0000 Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. Launching in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL" and funded by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, it was one of the first web-based e-mail services. Its original name and capitalization refers to HTML, the encoding language used by the World Wide Web. I...

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Gmail https://mail.gmail.com/ Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:54:54 +0000 Gmail is built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. After all, Gmail has

[Less spam]
Keep unwanted messages out of your inbox with Google's innovative technology.

[Mobile access]
Read Gmail on your mobile phone by pointing your phone's web browser to http://gmail.com/app. Learn more

[Lots of space]
Over 7400 megabytes (and counting) of free storage....

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Jaiku http://www.jaiku.com/ Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:53:03 +0000 Jaiku's goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to have conversations. It offers a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing updates with them on the Web, IM, and SMS - as well as through third-party applications built by other developers using the Jaiku API.

Jaiku is a part of Google. The service is maintained by volunteer Google engineers on their spare time.

Follow the Jaikido blog for updates. For press inquiries, please contact press [at] google.co...

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Twitter http://twitter.com/ Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:35:44 +0000 Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external ...

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Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:49:34 +0000 an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazo...

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