Basic Web Tools

MorSystems offers ready-to-go mortgage web sites. Now, the Gold & Silver series websites, plus the Sue Woodard / Mortgage Market Guide web site series allow clients to add PDFs to their mortgage web site for free.

Both company & individual websites can have PDFs easily added to web pages through the newly revamped administration area. Clients can upload their PDF and choose where in their mortgage web site they want it displayed for their visitors.

“So many options now exist for loan agents to add their newsletter, their latest postcard, articles, a Spanish application, or other form they may want clients to print & complete. Our clients can see the benefit from offering PDFs.” Stated Shelly Whitworth, VP of Business Development, MorSystems.

File sharing is easy with Easy File Sharing Web Server. This is a software program that allows user to share files online with friends and co-workers with the use of web browsers such as IE, Netscape and Mozilla. The program also enables users to search files from either party’s computers and download them as well. A Bulletin board system is included for easy communication. The program supports SSL encryption for protection against site spoofing and data corruption. Easy File Sharing Web Server enables easy organization and management of files for web site administrators who work remotely.

It’s one main men himself, co-founder Steve Chen, who has recently stated that the popular video site, YouTube will finally offer a live streaming service sometime this year. This big project will have to utilize vast resources including Google (as you remember G acquired YT not so long ago). I think the announcement of Steve Chen is viewable on the site itself.

Now this is something worth expecting. To tell you the truth, with this latest development, I’ve been thinking of the millions of ways people can make use of this particular service to launch their own online careers. Yikes!

SOURCE: Read Write Web

I had to post something like this to help other readers get familiarized with certain applications and tools available online. Let’s start with Twitter.

This is basically a social networking service that sends text-based posts to update the user’s status and be displayed on a particular site or blog. People who have signed up to receive updates on a particular user are the only ones who can see these updates. Updates can be received instantly after the update is delivered via the service’s website, instant messaging, and even via SMS. Updates depend on the location of the user and receivers.

Yeah a little curious about that one? It’s basically an old Latin text whose origin can be traced as far back as 45 BC. The exact text is from Cicero’s “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil). It has been used since the 1500’s as dummy text so as not to distract people from the lay-out, which is the primary concern for printing. Besides, this specific text has quite a normal distribution of letters so it makes it universal.

“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

See, it�s not just a random text anymore.

Source: Lipsum

Another company, this time a fitness company, has decided to take advantage of the latest technology to market their services. The Snap Fitness Inc. has recently announced plans to launch a new online tool for members of its gyms. This large and still growing chain of 24-hour fitness gyms (based in Chanhassen) has formed partnerships with nutritional supplement company Bioceutica (based in Newbury, Mass.-), Health Solutions - a health care assessment firm based in Wisconsin, and HyperStrike , a California fitness firm. to create a Web site for customers to customize their workout schedule. The new tool will enable customers to design a personalized fitness plan complete with designed customized workouts and nutritional assessments. And all these with the help of wellness coaches.

Source: Biz Journals

If you have a website, whether it be a wiki or a blog, etc., then you better go to the Google Webmaster Tool site and get to know how it will enhance your site. Why is it important? It makes your site more search-engine friendly (actually more Google-friendly).

Get Google’s view of your site and diagnose problems See how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems we’re having accessing it.

Discover your link and query traffic View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.

Share information about your site Tell us about your pages with Sitemaps: which ones are the most important to you and how often they change. You can also let us know how you would like the URLs we index to appear.

If you haven’t been using this free feature, it’s time to head on over there.

Music based social networking site Imeem announced last Monday the acquisition of digital rights and content management company, SNOCAP. Their deal will provide Imeem access to SNOCAP’s content identification technology and digital registry, while expanding the tools available to artist and music labels. And together they would build on that work and would give independent artist’ new ways to promote and sell their music.

Third of a three-part post (doesn�t that sound like a movie?).

This is related to the second post but works mostly for sites that has subscribers such as e-zines and newsletters. In this case, instead of linking articles or posts to a partner, you go directly to advertising. Find another internet marketer with the same influences. If you�re marketing a Web tool site, then look for sites that complement your own. Send the web master an e-mail requesting each other�s solo ad. Once he or she agrees, you both then urge your respective readers and subscribers to subscribe to the other�s e-zine.

Source: MarkFlavinBlog

I just love open source!

And now, MTOS (Movable Type Open Source) is an open source project for a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0. It also serves a resource community for Movable Type developers.

Like the Movable type 4.0, MTOS will contain all its features plus some improvements and other bug fixes.

No worries on the themes, plug-ins, themes, templates, designs and API�s of the MT4 as they will all work with the MTOS.

Like most open source projects, MTOS has a reliable built-in support for an unlimited number of blogs and authors plus a sign-in with OpenID.

Technical support for MTOS is provided by community members.

Paid users of MT will enjoy more benefits added by Six Apart. These will include better technical support and custom add-ons like themes and plug-ins in the future.

MTOS can be downloaded at movabletype.org.

Source: Read/Write Web