A friend of mine asked me about some project he should work on. To be more accurate, he wanted to start working on something to sell, but didn’t have a clue on the topic. “Some Twitter tool,” I said, and it seems I was right. No, he didn’t become a millionaire yet, but since I see so many Twitter-related tools showing up these days, some of them selling for pretty high prices, I think he has a chance. Anyway, today [...]

Despite the global economic problems, the Internet continues to grow with each day, and this opens doors to people who are willing to spend some time and money to try starting an online store. Some will succeed, some may fail, but if you do things right, your chances are higher than in the “real world,” at least that’s how I see it. While I won’t say anything about the market niche to choose, today I will point you to a [...]

One of the most interesting things I’ve read about the near and not-so-near future is the forecast regarding evolution of commerce. What about it? Well, online shopping becomes more and more popular, especially in emerging countries, and the same happens with ecommerce shopping cart solutions. Today’s choice is called CS-Cart, and if you were thinking about starting your own online shop… this will surely come in handy!

While it’s not free, CS-Cart is “an “out of the box” ecommerce software solution [...]

For me, WordPress is pretty easy to use, but I must be a fool to admit that using it and harnessing its power is something as easy as it gets for someone facing its first blogging script. Sometimes, people simply need to share things online without knowing anything about the script allowing them to do it, and Storytlr may be the right tool to choose…

According to the official page, “Storytlr is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform,” allowing [...]

When we talked about JoobsBox, a comment suggested that I should take a look at jobberBase, but despite the fact I didn’t keep my promise to check it later that week, I never forgot about it. Even more, yesterday, while I was browsing the Web without any special purpose, I bumped into some site mentioning jobberBase, and I decided to go ahead and take a closer look at it, so here we are…

…checking jobberBase, “the open-source
job board software that helps [...]

Having content from a bunch of websites gathered in the same page is nothing new. After all, there are a plenty of startup pages that are doing the job well, like Netvibes or iGoogle, but what about those people who want to have a Netvibes-like page on their own domain? This is where Pubwich steps in, of course!

What is Pubwich? Well, we’re talking about an open source PHP application that can help anyone to display data grabbed from multiple sites/online [...]

I hate CAPTCHA on sites that I use frequently, especially since most of them use only letters, and sometimes I don’t understand the text displayed. If everyone would be nice and switch their text CAPTCHA pages to ones using images, that would really be awesome, at least to me. Well, they can use VidoopCAPTCHA, so there’s no excuse for not doing it… since I know a lot of people like me who would be grateful!

To make a short story [...]

Finally, Friday is here! At the end of each week, I think it’s very important to look back and draw the line – what was supposed to be done, what has been done, and, more important of all, what did you learn from your mistakes. What kind of mistakes? Unfinished tasks, of course! Earlier this week, we talked about Toodledo, and now I think the time is just right for another similar online service, namely Gubb.

Best way to make money [...]

“Focus, focus, focus. Get organized! Stop wasting time!” Nothing new here, right? There are millions of people saying this to themselves each day, but only a small part of this crowd will manage to end the day and accomplish all the tasks scheduled. Or… should I say “the tasks they didn’t schedule the right way,” maybe? Anyway, developer or not, we all need a place to store all our to-do lists, and having a bunch of notes on the desk [...]

Every time I see a CMS that’s even easier to setup and use than everything I knew until that moment, I wonder where is this headed to. After all, we may soon see a CMS that only requires a click on a link, followed by voice input of various parameters needed, and even featuring fingerprint login! Cool enough? Yes, I know, this may not happen at all, in the end, but I think GetSimple isn’t that far from my little [...]