Promometer offers two different options for creating promotions. You can use either the Promotion Editor to create promotions based on our library of “themes”, or the image uploader to upload your own graphics that you turn into promotions. The possibilities are endless.

When you create a promotion with Promometer, you have the ability to tell the Promotion Editor the URL of a page that you would like that promotion to display on. You can also tell it to display on all pages that contain a portion of a URL. If you do not define specific URLs for the promotion, it will display on all of the pages that contain your configuration code. Inactive promotions will not be displayed on any of the pages.

Activating or deactivating your promotion is instant. The control to that are a simple checkbox tick and the “Save This Promotion” button. Easy. This allows you to keep the promotional content on your website timely and pertinent.

Promometer is currently running under BETA, which means you get to use it for free. In the near future, it’ll cost between $15 (for a personal site) and $250 (for the full suite of tools and privacy options) per month. So, try it and see for yourself the benefits that it could bring to you and your company.

Simply Hired is a Californian based-company that specialist itself in indexing job vacancies across the nation. What it does is actually pulls job listings from all of the major job sites and filters them for you based on your search criteria. Currently, it has indexed over 5,300,000 jobs.

You can search by using a combination of keywords and zip-code. Or go a little deeper and use Simply Hired advance search engine and drill down to a very specific location and job type by position, company, city, and the job’s proximity to your house. Built on AJAX, you don’t have to create an account to start your search in the Simply Hired website. This allows you to save your search.When you decided to create an account later, those same jobs you saved earlier on will showed up under it after logging in.

Also, with its partnership with LinkedIn, Simply Hired is able to provide more than just a job search service. It helps you to reveal whether your old cube-mate back at that awful job you used to have is now the hiring manager for the job you want!

WorldTechLogic has reviewed a similar search site in the past: HostCareers – that deals more into internet-based jobs.

Compared to Monster.com and Yahoo! HotJobs, Simply Hired is certainly unique in its own way.

ZoomAndGo.com is a travel Web site boasting the world’s largest online collection of hotel video captured by travelers, and a unique loyalty program allowing travelers to earn money each time they book a hotel, review a hotel or post a video or picture to the site. Through Zoom And Go, travelers have the opportunity to share with other travelers and make money for their submissions.

Travelers submit their photographs, video images, video interviews, 360-degree panoramas, accommodation reviews, and travel advice online to ZoomAndGo.com, identifying the best and worst features of places to stay around the world. Travelers also highlighted specific travel safety and security issues at a time when these issues are increasingly important.

Zoom And Go screens submitted content for its quality and accuracy, and then pays travelers a one-time fee for their reviews and 50% of any net fees received from licensing accepted images to a wide range of travel industry players including accommodations. Content accepted to the site is posted for the benefit of other travelers who can use the site’s interactive maps and search engine to zoom in on the information they need and go to the place that best meets their specific interests.

Membership to Zoom And Go is free, as is access to the company’s web site — one of the most sophisticated rich media sites available to consumers in any industry following two years in development at a cost of millions of dollars. In addition to earning money for their images and reviews, travelers can make money simply by referring others to Zoom And Go to sign up as members. Those referring friends earn an extra 5% of that friend’s lifetime earnings, over and above what is normally paid out to a given member. Other similar services that WorldTechLogic has reviewed are: LogMyJourney and Trippet that are social traveling news sites.

So, who ever said traveling is a waste of time and money? Satisfy your wanderlust today and get paid for it.

Tripology.com is a new kind of travel website that lets you get in touch with specialized travel agency of your choice. This is definitely fresh for travelers whose vacation dreams go beyond the usual online air/hotel packages. On the site, consumers fill out a trip request describing the geographic location, purpose of the trip, number of people traveling, activities from outdoor pursuits to sports, leisure and cultural diversions, plus approximate dates that suit them, and Tripology.com’s sophisticated algorithm finds agents with matching expertise. It has more than 4,500 agents who can help, with more signing on every day.

Tripology’s quality control assures travelers they can have confidence in agent referrals. Travel agents who register with Tripology.com must provide valid contact information including telephone number and email address. They complete a profile indicating their regions, cities or countries of specialization, the budget level they serve best from economy to luxury and the types of travel they plan and book, including flights, cruises, hotels, rental cars, activities and tours.

It is free to consumers. Only the agents are charged a small fee for each lead they select and travelers are under no obligation to work with any of the three agents referred to them. Neither a brick-and-mortar nor online travel agency, Tripology simply brings together travelers who need help planning trips with agents who have the right expertise - and even helps travel agents find potential clients who actually want to talk to them. Another similar services that WorldTechLogic has reviewed are: cFares and Farecast that deals specifically for flight reservations service.

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WikiSeek is the newest search engine (officially launched today) that indexes only Wikipedia sites, plus those sites which are being referenced within Wikipedia. In case you don’t know, Wikipedia is an online free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Overall posts’ contents are being monitored by a lot of people / contributors, so therefore, the level of accuracy of the posts can be maintained. As any articles are editable in Wikipedia, WikiSeek hopes to have a better and very little spam chances. Developed by SearchMe, Inc., WikiSeek utilizes SearchMe’s category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia. Search results include a tag cloud on top of the page, which contains Wikipedia categories containing your search term. You can filter the results further by clicking the appropriate tag (if any). You can help spread WikiSeek to others by embedding the search engine to your sites. According to WikiSeek (available on the footer side):

The majority of the revenue generated by WikiSeek advertising will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation

To show our online support, we are adding the embedded search engine below. You can do so in your website by visiting HERE for the code!

Overall, WikiSeek provide a nicer way of searching terms by making the world’s biggest collaborative encyclopedia as its source. Unlike Yahoo or Google, WikiSeek is not the place to find key words in the internet, nor it’s a place to gain web popularity. Rather, it’s a place where you can find specific contents / posts / articles that you REALLY want to find. WikiSeek is a search engine where results are being created and edited by the people around the world.

Geni is a web2.0 ajax-based online service that allows families to collaboratively build their family tree. Simply click the arrow of an existing relative in the direction you want to add new relatives, define your relationship and add their names. When you add a relative’s email address, he or she will be invited to join your tree. That relative can then add other relatives, and so on. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives. Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share information and work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Below is the screenshot of the mock-up Geni family tree that I’ve built. It’s a made up data for review purposes only.

Overall, Geni offers the easiest interface we’ve found so far. Built heavily using Ajax, everything can be added by simple clicks. Another added advantage, Geni is a private network, so you can maintain your family’s and your privacy, as well. Only people in your tree can see your tree and profile. Creating your family tree does not require you to fill in any registration form. When you first start creating your tree, Geni will email you a temporary password, which you can change to a permanent one once you’ve logged in for the first time. Still in its beta phase, we are very impressed on what Geni can do. The bottom line is, Geni is perfect for you to collaboratively create and maintain your family tree. So be sure to try it out and create your very own family tree!

MyPunchBowl is a new web2.0 ajax-based service (just launched for Public from its Beta phase) that allows you to plan, create, and send out online invitations for parties or similar events. With MyPunchBowl, you can create customized invitations page, import your contact email addresses (AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, Outlook/Outlook Express, Plaxo, and other contact managers), send your page to family and friends, socialize with your invitees using the party message board, and create an after-party photo gallery or forum. If your invitees want to bring out their friends, they can simply forward their email invitation to their friends. The friends will then need to click the link that says “I’m not [original guest]” to add their name to the guest list. As a host, you can identify these guests in your Guest List by the blank “Date sent” column.

Overall, MyPunchBowl offers a very easy to use interface to create, customize, and send your party invitations. In fact, we couldn’t find a web service in the similar niche that does it better than MyPunchBowl. Unfortunately, images and pictures can only be shared using Flickr. WorldTechLogic has reviewed another similar service in the past, called EventWax. EventWax is more suitable for events that requires tickets, while MyPunchBowl is excellent for party invitations. Although in a different niche, compare to EventWax, MyPunchBowl has better templates and interface. EventWax’s strength lies in their ability to create our own CSS (suitable for more advanced users). At this time, for its ease of use, we would recommend MyPunchBowl to create and send out your party invitations.

To signup for a MyPunchBowl account, you can go to their website and click on the “SIGN UP NOW” badge.

Fleck is a web2.0 annotation service that allows you to add notes and bullets to webpages and share these annotated pages with friends. With Fleck, you can interact with pages on the web just as if it were pages in a magazine. You can save your annotated page for yourself, send it to friends or colleagues or use it in your blog. You can start using Fleck right away without anything to install. Simply add Fleck to your Bookmark Toolbar and you can start to use it immediately. To annotate a page, just click on the Fleck link in your Bookmark Toolbar and it will create a new layer for you to put your annotations on. You can also put your Fleck page in your WordPress blog (other blog services will be added soon), share your annotated page via emails, see your history, and save the annotation to your Fleck account. To start annotating our page right away, please click on the below button, made by us (you can use it freely, but please do make the appropriate credit and link to us):

Overall, Fleck is a very cool web application and provide an easier media for us to share our thoughts and comments on websites. As an added info, you don’t need an account to use Fleck. You might want to signup for an account if you want to access your personal page from another computer. Also, to share your pages to others via email, you will need to verify your email address for anti-spam purposes (thanks to Patrick for pointing that out). Fleck does add a new meaning of web interaction. WorldTechLogic has reviewed a similar service in the past, called TrailFire. TrailFire allows you to do the same thing as Fleck, but it needs to install an extension to your browser. The fact that Fleck doesn’t need to install anything has made us pick Fleck over TrailFire.

To signup for a Fleck account (optional), you can click HERE!

FootNote is a web2.0 ajax-based archiving service that allows you to find millions of images of original source documents (many of which have never been available online before). You can find Papers of the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention Records, Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs, Civil War Pension Index and many many more. You might be wondering how they are able to do that. Well, in January 10, 2007, FootNote had made an agreement with the National Archives to digitize and store historic documents (4.5 million pages so far) which permits them to publish the documents on the net. With FootNote, you can view and enlarge documents to add or discover hidden annotations (People, Places, Dates, and Text - which then become searchable), print documents, add documents to your scrapbooks, save document images to your FootNote Gallery, and upload any image from your computer that you want to share with others. FootNote also gives you an opportunity to share your story, ideas or research with others by creating your own “Member Pages”, a place where you can share your knowledge and research with others. You can write what you know, attach original sources that support your story and invite others to collaborate and contribute. You can also embed your own FootNote member card to your website, blog, or external web account(s). Simply copy and paste the code generated by FootNote and embed it to your website. Below is ours.

Overall, FootNote provides an easy to use interface as well as an extensive collection of documents. Unfortunately, not all documents can be freely viewed. Unlimited access to all documents is available only with the paid accounts. The monthly fee is currently $ 9.99 and the annual fee is $ 99.99. You can also opt to pay for only $ 1.99 per premium document image viewing. I believe what FootNote and the National Archives are doing is a noble cause. Papers don’t last forever, and it’s imperative that our descendants have access to these documents in years to come. As an added info, by February 6, the digitized materials will also be available at no charge in National Archives research rooms in Washington D.C. and regional facilities across the country.

To signup for a FootNote account, you can click HERE!

CarbonMade is a web2.0 ajax-based Portfolio creator that allows you to create your portfolio and publish it on the web. With CarbonMade, you can add projects, pictures, Flash files, add captions, add a Google Analytics code and provide feeds your project listings. You can also create project categories, choose how your portfolio page will be displayed in the Settings Section (background color and fonts), choose how your thumbnails will be shown (1,2 or 3 thumbnails project per row, no thumbnails, horizontal, vertical or a list view) and set your project to be visible or hidden. In the “About” section, you can create your profile, add image profile, set your portfolio as “Available for Freelance” if you want to do some freelancing work, and add Tags for both your projects and Skills. Your portfolio will be published at anythingyouwant.carbonmade.com. Check out our simple portfolio HERE!

Overall, CarbonMade is a simple and powerful portfolio tool. Built extensively using Ajax, CarbonMade is fast and easy to use. There are currently two version of CarbonMade which you can choose from: The free version (or the “meh” version) which allows you to have up to 5 projects and 35 images, and the paid version (called the “Whoo!” - $12/month) which allows you to have up to 50 projects, 500 images and 10 videos. Pretty nice. If you want to publish your portfolio on the net, CarbonMade is the perfect place for you.

To signup for a CarbonMade account, you can click HERE!