Large companies tend to get their products/services reviewed by other Web sites/blogs benefitting from the traffic, viral nature of reviews, and valuable feedback. This trend doesn’t seem to fit the new market players who will definitely find it hard to get the word out about their products. Connecting with many bloggers who would be interested in talking about or reviewing your products and services could take a long time. Worse yet, even requesting a review from some of the wrong bloggers might inspire them to call you a spammer of some sort. So how do the new players promoted their products/services, then? Here’s one alternative by ReviewMe.

ReviewMe is a marketplace of bloggers who review your products or services on their blog sending your site traffic, viral buzz, and invaluable feedback. However, there’s a big difference between ReviewMe and the other paid advertisement: The advertiser is paying to get reviewed — NOT paying for a positive review. Bloggers will have the priviledge of accepting/declining the review requests (depending on the relevancy to their blog contents) and they WILL review what they find interesting. If the blogger finds something interesting, the odds are it is going to be well in tune with what readers of that channel like. By letting the authors choose, they are more inclined to give a deep, receptive, and insightful review. ReviewMe network helps you find bloggers relevant to your products/services’ niche, and avoiding you from the headache of trying to track down 100 different bloggers to review your products/services.

Overall, ReviewMe has proven to be a great idea to bloggers AND advertisers. Reviews at ReviewMe are not formatted to look like ads. This gives the publishers the ability to deliver more attention and value to their products/services than through advertising via any other marketing channel. Feedbacks are definitely more sincere and genuine since it comes from the people who are dealing with their own specific niche everyday. Of course, advertisers must be willing to take a small risk and engage their audiences instead of paying hundreds of dollars to do other advertisements. Depending on who you talk to, honest feedback from the blogosphere can be a very, very, very good thing. People who read blogs will be at least curious whether they agree/disagree with the reviews, and chances are, they will visit your site to check on your products/services.

Advertisers can signup for a free ReviewMe account HERE, while bloggers can signup for a free account HERE!

Word spelling can be hard at times, especially if English is not your primary language. Well, EVEN IF English is your primary language, English words do seem hard to spell sometimes. Spell Checker tools do available on the internet. But, none have the Ajax implemented to it. Fortunately, there’s Spellify now.

Spellify is an automatic spell checker that displays misspelled words and their suggestions soon after you stop typing. Spellify is based on the Google spell checker and it currently corrects text in English language only. For the moment the application can be used in Spellify website only, but soon it will be possible to download it. It will also support multilanguage texts which will be worth to wait on.

Overall, Spellify is a nice Ajax application and it certainly is faster than any other “old-fashioned” word checker tools. With its ease of use, we are sure that Spellify will be the main tool people will use.

In response to user demand, Skype, the global Internet communication company, has updated its new beta version for Mac users. These new features are the results of Skype Mac’s users demand, and it makes it even easier for Mac users to keep in touch with friends and family using Skype. Here are the update Skype has for its Mac users:

• One-on-One Video Calls
  Users who have a broadband Internet connection can enjoy free one-on-one video calls, viewed within the Skype window or on the full computer screen. Simple and elegant, it’s all available through the sleek and intuitive interface that Mac users have grown to expect.
• Skype SMS
  This latest version of Skype for Mac offers the ability to send an SMS message to any mobile phone number in the world. Users simply select a SkypeOut™ contact, enter a mobile phone number or select a Skype contact’s mobile phone number in their profile. Friends, family and colleagues can now be reached instantly, whether they are offline or on the move.
• 10-Way Conference Calling
  Users can now hold conference calls with up to nine other people. Calls can be made to Skype contacts for free and to landlines and mobiles for a fee, via SkypeOut. Whether your contacts are in one city or scattered around the world, you can now get together to share a laugh or hatch the next killer business idea without hassle.
• Audio Device Controls
  Users can now choose which audio device they want to use for incoming and outbound calling. If you prefer to listen to calls you receive through headphones but make a call using a speakerphone, it’s now possible in the latest version of Skype.

As with all Skype releases, Skype for Mac users can talk with the more than 136 million registered Skype users across the world without worrying about the cost, distance or length of the call. WorldTechLogic has posted several Skype related posts, such as SoonR, EQO, etc.

The latest version of Skype is available for download at Skype Download Page.

ImageKind is one of the fastest growing online art sites on the internet. It brings almost unlimited options in the world of framed art, poster art and wall art. ImageKind had received several upgrades and update this month. The new member admin area at ImageKind looks better, works better and is just easier to navigate. We, at WorldTechLogic, believes that this is the most powerful platform for selling art on the internet. With the new admin, you will be able to:

• Get immediate notification in your admin when an item is sold (for Artists)
• Send your contact information to the artist at the time of check out to allow the artist to know who bought their work (for Customers)

Additionally, ImageKind had formed a partnership with EBSQart, a very well respected online art association, on November 9, 2006. EBSQart provides tools and services to a host of talented, independent artists. Selling art online will be easier for EBSQ members with Imagekind accounts, who will be able to easily link directly to their Imagekind portfolios from their EBSQ gallery. This will increase the amount of Wall Art and Framed Art available for sale.

With this major upgrade and update, ImageKind is sure to have a significance presence in the world of arts marketplace. Here is our previous post on ImageKind. If you are an art lover or if you just want to see great arts, be sure to check out ImageKind!

Google Desktop has been updated several times during the past few weeks of November 2006. In case you have forgotten, Google Desktop is a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more. It doesn’t just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web Sidebar and Google Gadgets, which can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, stock information, photos, personalized news, RSS/Atom feeds, and more.

Here, we will be posting them within one post. Here are the new Google Desktop gadgets:

• NPR Now Playing - Are you a fan of NPR? Well, they’ve created a new gadget for you. You can keep the NPR Now Playing gadget in your Sidebar or on your desktop for easy access to NPR programming. You’ll never be far from your favorite programs and you can start listening with just a push of the button.
• Moon Phase - Google Desktop now has a gadget about phases of the moon. This latest gadget tells you where we are, lunar-phase-wise, on your desktop. Simply place this virtual moon anywhere you want and hover your mouse over it to get more details.
• Wikipedia Search - With this new gadget, whenever there’s a topic you want to explore or just something you don’t know about, theWikipedia search gadget lets you quickly search Wikipedia. It also shows results and suggestions while you type, and saves your recent searches for easy access.
• The Google Desktop Sidebar has been updated to Google Desktop 4.5, featuring a Sidebar with a new look. The new Sidebar look is now transparent, so it fits seamlessly with your desktop environment. Gadgets that fought for attention now look right at home, and content-heavy gadgets get new frames and icons that make it easier to tell them apart.

Furthermore, if you want to customize your Sidebar, there are several ways to do it. From the Sidebar options menu, you can turn off the “Always on Top” feature to allow it to go to the background (easily bring it to the front by pressing shift twice). Or select the “Auto-hide” feature from the same menu to hide the Sidebar off the screen when your mouse isn’t near it. And just drag the edge of the Sidebar to adjust the width.

Here is our previous post on Google Desktop. To find out more about Google Gadget, please click HERE!

With the advanced technology on the internet, Developers are now getting more and more spoiled with the latest addition of the source engine codes searches. As all developers are aware of, a significant portion of application development involves a process of find, copy, paste, and integrate. This process can be greatly accelerated when you can find existing source code that provides a solution to the task at hand. Now, there’s Koders.

Koders is the leading search engine for open source code. Our source code optimized search engine provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications. Koders makes it easy for software developers to find existing source code that solves many common development problems with our vast index of working source code from a variety of open source projects. In many cases you may find code that solves the exact problem you are working on, and in other cases, you can find an 80% solution - where existing code can be suited to your needs with minor modifications.

Koders is designed to deliver easy access to source code and other highly relevant technical information in a single, convenient, clean, easy-to-use interface, according to the company. WorldTechLogic has posted a similar application before, called Krugle. Both Krugle and Koders have similar functionality and popularity (Both are ranked 6 in Google). It’s going to be hard to choose between the two. So be sure to check out both and see if you like any of them!

Playing with stocks are sometimes dangerous IF we don’t have all the necessary information regarding the behavior of the stocks. There are 2 kinds of behavioral analysis in stock markets, namely: fundamental and technical method. Fundamental deals with outside forces that affect stock changes (news, policy change, etc), while the technical deals with internal forces that affects stock changes (graph analysis, pattern analysis, trades analysis, etc). Of course you can just guess without using any tools, but that’s plain gambling. If you’re thinking how complicated it is playing stocks, you are absolutely correct. Fortunately, there’s a tool that will help you do it. It’s called Wikinancial.

Wikinancial is a FREE website that is dedicated to help investors to get more information for free. It is a community to share their picks on stocks. Using Wikinancial is easy: after you have logged in to the system, you can enter the stock symbol that you want to pick in the left corner form of every page (must be familiar with stock symbols). Returns and ranks will be calculated several times a day during weekdays. Wikinancial will combine all calculations whether your picks is for LONG (Bullish) or SHORT (Bearish). The LONG icon “(” is for LONG/BULL, that means you are expecting the stock to go up. On the other hand, the icon SHORT/BEAR “)” is for SHORT/BEAR, that means you are expecting the stock to go down. Here’s how it works:

• For LONG, Wikinancial will calculate it as follows: ((current price - bought price) / bought price) x 100
• For SHORT, since we want the current stock price will be lower than the price when we bought, then Wikinancial will calculate it as follows: ((bought price - current price) / bought price) x 100,
• Wikinancial will then combine them all to get how big is your return.

For the stock prices, Wikinancial gathers information from Google and Yahoo Finance databases. It updates these information every 1-2 hours during business hours. Your profits will be calculated by multiplying the price differences (your picked prices and current market prices) to its default calculation which is $10,000 for each stock.

Wikinancial is not dedicated for fundamental nor technical, as it provides both information. Graphs are generated from Yahoo, Google and Bigcharts. Players are encouraged to get information from everywhere. Again, this website will teach members who are active picking, selling, discussing, and sharing stocks.

WorldTechLogic had covered several wikis in the past, such as: JobberWiki, CogMap, WikiCars, WetPaint, etc, and each one serves their niche very well. For Wikinancial, overall, we’ve found this website to be very useful if you want to start making money from stock changes. For a Wikinancial account, you can click HERE!

Not so long ago, WorldTechLogic provided a review about NinjaWords, the Ajax Online Word Dictionary on the web. Last night (november 27, 2006), we had an update from Phil Crosby, the owner and the developer of NinjaWords, that NinjaWords has been updated to have better and faster search results.

NinjaWords (a really fast online dictionary - No Kidding) has received some much-needed upgrades. The biggest update for NinjaWords is that it is not using Wiktionary as the default source of words, and it is served locally (meaning very fast). Previously NinjaWords relied on the Princeton Wordnet dictionary, which is outdated and incomplete. When Wordnet didn’t have the word (which was quite often), NinjaWords will fetch the word directly from wiktionary.org. Going to wiktionary.org is very slow. Since Wiktionary is now local, definitions are served up much more quickly. So, rather to have Wiktionary as the backup search Database, Phil had reversed the main-secondary routines for the word search algorithm. Now NinjaWords will lookup words in Wiktionary first. If it doesn’t have it, NinjaWords will look in Wordnet. This results in a faster and better word search engine.

Why use Wiktionary? Here’s what Phil has to say:

What does Wiktionary bring to ninjawords? Tons. There are more words, and the definitons are usually much more complete than those in Princeton wordnet. In NinjaWords, you can now look up prefixes and suffixes (like -ism and -ity), interjections (like yo-ho-ho and lol), phrases (“kick the bucket” and your mileage may vary), acronyms (MMORPG) and even colorful Austrailian expressions like “pavement pizza.”

Additionally, some words in the definitions are now links, so you can quickly look them up if you need to, just by clicking on them. They appear on the same page, without a refresh. If you look up for the word “ninja”, it will show the result “(n) a person trained primarily in stealth, espionage and assassination” with “stealth”, “espionage” and “assassination” treated as links to their own respective definition.

Aside from some bug fixes, another improvement is in the Random Words algorithm. Random words are now cached, so if you click the random button, a random word appears instantly. It’s so fast, it’s unnatural. We’ve checked it ourselves, and Phil’s not kidding. Oh, and there’s an easter egg. The site consists of one textbox and two buttons. Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. Nice one, Phil. On the whole, NinjaWords is now much faster. So check out NinjaWords and see if you agree with us.