2010
02.04
FreelanceSwitch.com has something cool if you’re a freelance graphic designer or web developer, but then again I guess it could be good for a lot of things. I’ll let them explain it best, here’s content I copied from their site for you.
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Hello! We hope you find this calculator useful. Mail us if you have a suggestion or question. And don’t forget to visit FreelanceSwitch
What is This?
We have developed this hourly rate calculator to give you a guide based on your costs, number of billable hours and desired profit. It is a simple tool for you to play with.
Remember your hourly rate should always take into account factors like market demand, industry standards, skill level and experience - things that unfortunately we can’t put into a calculator!
Use these calculations as a guide and then modify to suit your circumstance and conditions.
It will take you about 5-20 minutes to complete depending on how much attention you give each calculation.
2010
02.03
This is a Cool blog post I found and thought some of my followers would be interested in reading about. Katie writes about Google’s Power Meter, which I bet a lot of you didn’t even know about. Check out the post below and feel free to comment what you think.
Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 4:57 pm in
Green IT
It’s still early days for Google’s web-based energy tool PowerMeter. A company spokesperson told us today that Google has “a few thousand users at this point” for PowerMeter. That’s pretty small, but it’s enough to enable Google to start using the collective energy consumption data to make recommendations for how its users can reduce their energy use (see their blog post this week).
It’s been about a year since Google announced the tool, but the search engine giant only started working with its first utility partners later on in 2009. Its first gadget partners didn’t come until October 2009 and those firms are mostly startups with small distribution capacities.
Still I would have expected a bigger userbase by now. PowerMeter has close to a dozen utility partners it’s working with that have millions of customers collectively. The high-profile media attention alone I would have thought would have converted users to a free service.
I would speculate that a barrier for more rapid adoption has been utility customer awareness of the tool. Even if Google has these utility partnerships in place it’s probably up to the utility to make consumers aware of PowerMeter’s availability. But think about it from the utility perspective — many want to own the customer relationship as much as possible, so they don’t have much of an incentive to provide much marketing for the tool.
It can also cost utilities money (in terms of employee/contractor time) to develop feeds of customer usage info for PowerMeter and also to communicate to customers about the program. Pike research predicted it cost “tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars and many months,” to implement the tool. Pike suggests to utilities: “make sure they have the means to measure the impact of the chosen program and to gather information that can be applied in other consumer-focused programs in which they may choose to invest.”
Small numbers isn’t necessarily a big problem for Google’s PowerMeter, as the tool was created as a project and never was meant to have a business model. Some of Google’s other products like Google Voice have only just broke a million users. But I think it’s telling that running the service off the back of utilities seems to be particularly difficult.
2010
02.02
Category:
Cool Stuff, Entertainment, Productivity, Reviews, Technology, Websites /
Tag:
Dyyno, Dyyno instant sharing, free live streaming, instant sharing, stream live, stream live content, stream live sharing, stream live video, streaming video software /
Ok, now this is a cool product. Dyyno.com allows you to create your own Streaming Video Channel and broadcast it out to anyone viewing your Unique URL and the best part of all this, It’s FREE. How cool is that? The possibilities here are limitless really. You can stream anything you want and even in full 1080p HD. So for example, if you’re watching a Movie on HULU and you wanted to watch it with a loved one, or just a friend, but they’re not with you, all you have to do is start up Dyyno drag a small element from your desktop onto the Window for the movie or the webpage or the game you’re playing. Then who ever is viewing your live feed can watch along with you. There’s only one slightly large problem! They don’t currently support MAC, so no I can’t enjoy it..Argggg. That’s a shame too, because this is something I see being very useful for training and for showing clients how to use our CMS or Shopping cart.
Video: Dyyno Personal Channel
Curious about how to get started with the Dyyno Personal Channel?
Click the Link above to the left to watch a video.
Dyyno — Industry’s First 1080p P2P HD Online Video Platform!
Dyyno lets webcasters with any size organization manage their entire online video lifecycle. Dyyno’s Hybrid Reliable Streaming (HyReS™) technology:
- Supports 3 modes of HD online video: Live, Replays, and On Demand (VOD)
- Easy to use, setup and stream in literally minutes without any IT help
- Seamlessly scales from 1 to 100,000 concurrent viewers per stream
Startup of the Day at CES 2010
2010
01.30
I just made a free Hot Calendar with HotPrints. They offer one free HotBook or HotCalendar a month by teaming up with selected partners. I guess there will be some advertisements in my Calendar, but I don’t think I’ll mind since the Calendar is free.
HotBooks
Creating a HotBook is fun and easy! Bring your social network photo albums to life with HotPrints photo books - it’s a snap!
You can share your photographs in a high quality printed 16-page photography book, delivered to your door worldwide, all for the price of a greeting card.
Photo album books are printed with Hewlett Packard Indigos so the print quality is the same as the best online photo books.
This is just the blurb - don’t believe us, try the photo book software yourself. Nothing to download or install, give it a go.
HotCalendars
Make a high quality photo calendar from your pictures.
Add all your local holidays and import your friends’ and family’s birthdays. These make great photo gifts and there is a discount for ordering more than one.
The HotCalendar photography calendar is 24 pages, 8×11 inches (20×25cm), spiral bound, 250gsm paper, with a plastic cover to protect your photos.
Try one today - it is easy and fun with our photo calendar software!
