Most Influential Biztech Products Of 2008
Here is a synopsis of the 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008 as seen by Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz and Tom Steinart-Threlkeld of ZDNet's Between the Lines, fame.  Check out the complete source article for more detail on each product: 10. HP EliteBook laptops. Hewlett-Packard has already overtaken the top spot for worldwide PC sales, but the company is making a stronger run than ever at the business notebook market.

Date: 2008-12-23

Text Message Chat Available In Gmail
Gmail is coming out with a lot of innovations! After the introduction of Gmail Tasks they have added another feature which would allow the users who have Gmail accounts, to send SMS text messages through Gmail chat.

Date: 2008-12-11

Listen To Twitter News With Twitter Search
For listening to conversations on Twitter about your brand, your client's brand or anything else you need to be paying attention to online, you are literally spoiled for choice. I think one of the simplest yet more effective tools available is Twitter search (known as Summize before Twitter acquired it), shown in the screenshot above (click for larger image).

Date: 2008-11-26

Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
You don't have to be a big company or hire a market research team, simply use VerticalResponse surveys to understand what makes your customers tick. Choose from a range of pre-built survey templates, or create your own!

Date: 2008-11-18

Backtype Could Be A Blogger's New Best Friend
As someone who works predominantly in the online field, Backtype might be the most useful social media application I've come across yet. Why such a bold claim for an application as new as Backtype? Simple - like any business, I need to use all the social media tools I can to keep on top of both my market and what my competitors are up to. I also need to know what my clients are thinking, since it may not always be prudent of them too tell me directly - particularly if it's a negative view or opinion!

Date: 2008-11-06

Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
You don't have to be a big company or hire a market research team, simply use VerticalResponse surveys to understand what makes your customers tick. Choose from a range of pre-built survey templates, or create your own!

Date: 2008-10-28

Create Online FlowCharts With Mind Maps
With a host of projects to complete for clients, how do you capture your ideas? A platform I use is software for mind mapping is Mindgenius as you can integrate your mind map into a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation,save as a PDF or even a web page.

Date: 2008-10-23

Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
With your busy schedule in mind, VerticalResponse offers an easy-to-use, web-based marketing tool that helps you grow your business through email marketing, online surveys and postcards. Let us help you check Marketing off your to-do list!

Date: 2008-10-13

Wordpress Plugins You Must Have
Here is the list of the most important plugins for Wordpress. Keep in mind, however, that there are many, many plugins available for a wide variety of tasks, so feel free to check them out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.

Date: 2008-10-09

Mailtrust: Hosted Email Provider Saves Businesses Time and Money
Mailtrust is a premium email hosting provider that offers two world-class email systems that are supported 24x7 by certified email specialists.

Date: 2008-10-06

New Advertising Platform By Yahoo!
Yahoo! has launched a new advertising platform in the market! It was launched at a media event in New York City with Jon Hamm, star of TV's Mad Men. Here is what the official blog of Yahoo! has to state on the issue: "Today we launched our new advertising platform, APT from Yahoo!, at a media event in New York City with Jon Hamm, star of TV's Mad Men.

Date: 2008-09-25

Easy Malware Diagnostics For Your Site Using Google
Interesting little handy trick for seeing if your web site has been listed as malware, with a nice diagnostic screen for you to use on any web site out there. If you have been tagged as a malware delivery site, this diagnostic can give you a very good idea of what to look for.

Date: 2008-09-11

Free Secondary Ticketing On Live Stub
The internet has created an expectation of free - from music and movies via P2P to Google's latest application or service. Free, however, did not extend to the re-sale of concert tickets; the so called secondary ticket market. Sites like StubHub tacked on as much as 20% for the privilege of reselling your extra seats.

Date: 2008-08-28

Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
You don’t have to be a big company or hire a market research team, simply use VerticalResponse surveys to understand what makes your customers tick. Choose from a range of pre-built survey templates, or create your own!

Date: 2008-08-28

Mailtrust: Full featured hosted email for your business
Noteworthy Hosted Email securely stores, manages, and delivers spam and virus free email to your inbox. Best of all, Noteworthy allows you to access email from Outlook, Blackberry, webmail, or any other email client or wireless device.

Date: 2008-08-18

Apture Adds Valuable Pop-ups To Your Blog
I detest pop-ups on websites, especially the ones that so obtrusively steal your mouse whenever you move it across a web page and unexpectedly pop up something in a window. Ads are the worst although those pop-ups with either RSS text or a screenshot of another website or blog run a close second (I'm thinking of you, Snap).

Date: 2008-08-14

Switching From Old IPhone To New 3G IPhone
I just upgraded from a first generation Apple iPhone to a shiny new 16GB white iPhone and am excited to switch over completely. All my data, phone book, etc are on the old system, though, and I am perpetually anxious about first sync as I'm afraid that the empty phone address book will overwrite my huge address book data already on the computer?

Date: 2008-07-31

A Premium Email Service for Your Business
Along with webmail, mobile email, shared calendaring, you’ll also enjoy premium protection against spam and viruses. Best of all, Noteworthy allows you to access email from Outlook, Blackberry, webmail, or any other email client or wireless device. With Noteworthy there are no start-up fees, no costly add-ons, and
no hidden fees.

Date: 2008-07-21

Google Docs Templates Directory Launches
Via the Official Google Blog, Google has announced the launch of 'Google Doc Templates Directory'. Google Docs is an application suite that consists of Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations.

Date: 2008-07-17

Firefox 3.0 Full Screen Mode
Firefox 3.0 Looks Much Better Full Screen. That was written by Geoff Fox of PC Magazine and I think he has got it exactly right. If you are a Firefox user and have upgraded to Firefox 3.0, then just hit that F11 key to see what he means. If you are working with a 1024 x 768 screen, then the effect is particularly good. The whole screen is taken up with the window content of the webpage you were visiting.

Date: 2008-07-03

ClickTale Launches Form Analytics
ClickTale has just launched a new analytics product called Form Analytics. Form Analytics reveals how visitors interact with online forms and provides recommendations that can increase form completion rates and shopping cart conversions.

Date: 2008-06-19

Is Your Story Hated Or Loved?
Sadly this isn't possible on Digg, though it would be interesting if they provided a page with the most buried or hated stories. After all, just because you don't like a story doesn't mean it is spam, but it is still news. Jack Spirko has knocked together an interesting site where your story can appear on the front page because it is "hated" and I feel the idea is worthy of a mention.

Date: 2008-05-29

Watch VmcNetFlix On Your Media Center Extender
vmcNetFlix - Official Site: My pal Davis Freeberg tells me that he has intstalled the vmcNetFlix plug in for Media Center and has successfully been able to watch Netlifx "Watch Now" content through his XBox 360 as a Media Center extender.

Date: 2008-05-08

Geotargeting With Google's Webmaster Tools
Analyst Susan Moskwa explains how to leverage Google's Webmaster tools in order to specify your website's target region. How do I use the geographic target tool to specify my site's target audience? If your site targets users in a particular geographic location, you can use our geographic target tool to provide us with information that will help us determine how your site appears in our...

Date: 2008-04-24

Firefox Based Rank Checking Tool
Aaron Wall has come up with a very simplistic tool used as an extension for Firefox. Known as 'Rank Checker', this extension allows a user to check the rankings of websites by grabbing data from major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Search Engine Result Pages.

Date: 2008-04-03

Google Docs Suite Update
Google Spreadsheets as part of the Google Docs suite added several new features; better revisions comparison through color highlights, change notifications, and a Google spreadsheet gadgets directory.

Date: 2008-03-20

ManagedQ: The Next Step In Search
The field of Search is years behind where it should be, as it hasn't fundamentally changed in more than a decade. Results may have improved a bit, but people Search in literally the same way they did in 1995. With this lack of innovation, Results have essentially become a commodity.

Date: 2008-03-06

MyBlogLog Community Widget
MyBlogLog have introduced a new interactive widget. With the recently introduced API still in closed beta, I can only imagine they are going to add a little more to the information panel in the future to expose your activities in the "social cloud".

Date: 2008-02-14

Top Feed Readers For Serious Readers
I consider myself one of those people that monitor 100s of RSS feeds daily and actually read a large portion of the articles I see a day. So when it comes to using a feed reader, you need it to be very good at what it does. At one point I used Opera's built-in reader but with the amount of feeds I had it wasn't running very fast and so I ditched it.

Date: 2008-01-24

A Ton of New Office Live Features
The Office Live Small Business blog announces a ton of new features for users running their website, free or paid, under Office Live. All accounts, even the free ones, get the ability to integrate a Windows Live Spaces blog into their website, as well as the ability to more deeply customize and personalize their website with custom headers and the ability to use your own custom HTML, import or edit XSLT code, and customize headers and footers on every page.

Date: 2008-01-10