TradeVibes is the best way to discover, research and discuss hot (and not so hot) startup companies. The community finds cool and interesting startups and adds them to TradeVibes. By leveraging the collective wisdom of the community, TradeVibes separates the best startups from their competitors.

The long term mission is to democratize business information. By increasing transparency around information, they hope to encourage frank discussions and opinions about these companies. Ultimately, they believe this will increase innovation and encourage entrepreneurship globally.

TradeVibes was founded by four early employees of PayPal who shared a passion for entrepreneurship and cool new startups.

Another cool options is the TradeVibes widget which allows you to add a customizable, aesthetically-pleasing widget to your blog or site. The widget itself offers your site’s visitors information about the companies that you mention. You can control what information is visible on the widget, and users can gain access to any additional company data with a single click which directs them to the company’s TradeVibes profile.

Behind the scenes, widget integration gives you access to a dynamic database of thousands of companies. Because company profiles are constantly updated by the TradeVibes members through the easy-to-use wiki format, new companies are added quickly and profiles are kept up-to-date and accurate.

According to a report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013.

According to ABI research, most of these networks will make their money from licensing and revenue-sharing with network providers or handset manufacturers.

Nokia, for example, acquired Plazes a month ago, while GyPSii has deals in place with Garmin and Samsung. Loopt, too, has partnered with virtually all the major US mobile carriers.

The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network.
A ComputerWorld report confirms that worldwide, the number of mobile web users will soar to 975 million by 2012.


10 Mobile Social Networks to Check Here

I am back to the comic thing I always wanted to have on my blog, so today I am officially a ToonDude on ToonDoo.com

ToonDoo is a cool, online comic-creating tool and has the same parent company, AdventNet, as Zoho, a serious online office application startup.
The creation tool is a Flash application that includes a number of options for characters, props, backgrounds and text bubbles. Users can also upload their own images and include them in the comic strip.

The below comic is my first one using ToonDoo, the characters were created using their tool, I will be naming them shortly, the 3 of them, still trying to figure out proper names, they look like Tarzan, Jane and Cheetah but for sure they will be carrying same same but different names ;-)

SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on web. Everyone can publish here their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free.

Your SlideBoom presentations can be viewed by millions of Internet users or just by your closest friends – it’s up to you. With SlideBoom you can embed a PowerPoint presentation you like directly into content of your blog or web site.

The social facilities of the site lets you find people with the same interests, comment and rank their presentations. Also all presentations can have the option of being downloaded or not by the user.

filemail_white_small.png Using Filemail you can send up to 2GB files to others without leaving your browser. The service offers pretty much everything that you would want from similar site, including pleasant interface, large file size limit, multiple file upload, on-server encryption (128bit AES algorithm), unlimited bandwidth, etc. Next time you need send over files that are too large for attachment head on directly to filemail.com.

Free Account Features:

* Send files to as many people as you want.
* Maximum file or upload size : 2 GB.
* Files remain online for 7 days.
* Upload multiple files simultaneously.
* No restrictions on download bandwidth (20 times per file).
* No sign-up or registration required.
* No ads in the emails.
* Premium accounts available.

vidtomp3.gif VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download the audio from uncopyrighted video clips on video sites!

This site implements special technologies to auto detect what site you want to download from. So no more drop down menus to chose from.

To use the service simple paste the FULL link of the page with the video on, into the box on the home page, and click “Download”.

At Photoshop Express you can quickly and easily accentuate your photos with easy-to-use options for resizing, cropping, sharpening, and more. Make your photos pop with fun, eye-catching effects and enhancements. Then share your photos in My Gallery, where you can create customized photo displays, or upload them to your Facebook page, blog, or anywhere else online.

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endeve.gif Endeve is a Spanish startup offering an invoice management program for people and businesses.

With endeve, you can issue your invoices, manage your clients and check your revenues fast and easily. Your clients will receive an invoice copy in PDF, improving your service quality.

You’ll save time. You won’t need to write every email. You just have to write the message you want to send to your clients, and the system will use it in all your mailings.

Endeve will never access your invoices and clients data. Your data will be only accessible to you. Daily backups of all your data.