Like Visual Search

Like Visual Search - hmm, it's only alpha at the moment but could be interesting. Select a product on a person's pic online and it will try to find that product and other similar products for you to buy. Very commercial of course but could be something interesting to follow.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search Old Newspaper Articles Online

NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search Old Newspaper Articles Online - It's too bad that only US papers were in this search tool. However, if you have any research you need to do in the U.S. of A. this could be a real time saver. 14 day free trial is also cool.

Spot Runner

Spot Runner - For the small biz that has an extremely limited budget but for some reason seems compelled to run TV ads here is an interesting site to create them. This is the royalty free video version of an istockphoto.

Tempinbox.com - ENGLISH - FREE, RECEIVE ONLY, TEMPORARY, THROWAWAY, E-MAIL ACCOUNTS

Tempinbox.com - ENGLISH - FREE, RECEIVE ONLY, TEMPORARY, THROWAWAY, E-MAIL ACCOUNTS - Well, tired of getting spam after having to give out your email to get a one-time activation email from a website. Tempinbox could be an alternative. Disposable email address that has no registration code (but also no password)

Prosper: The online marketplace for people-to-people lending - Prosper

Prosper: The online marketplace for people-to-people lending - Prosper - Yet another P2P lending site. Kinda modeled like the kiva.org site. This one seems to be more flexible.

Amazon Mechanical Turk - All HITs

Amazon Mechanical Turk - All HITs - Well wow, look how easy it is now to create your own digital sweatshop. Unbelievable how little people are paying for a half hour's work. The rates are worse than one could even imagine. The concept is good but come on people, pay the decent wage.

Social Lending: the big idea

Social Lending: the big idea Hmmm, interesting. I would be interested in finding out the default rating on this type of lending. The concept is simple enough though. Of course I doubt if these folks have deposit insurance so might be a bit risky.