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Start Your Own Online Business!

March 21st, 2008 by Gerrit Tebrake

Mark Zuckerberg did it and many others! They build successful websites and applications, and you can do the same! The first and most important thing is the idea. If your idea has potential then why not give it a try! Many people haven’t thought of becoming famous and rich by their websites but they were wrong.

What do you need to start your own website, blog or web application?

The idea - it’s the A and O to be successful! Are there already sites that do the same as yours? Is it possible to make money with your idea (sell premium content, banner advertising) or do you just want to be popular?

The website - do you master (x)HTML, PHP and JavaScript and maybe another language like Java? The point is - make yourself clear what is possible with your capabilities and what not. Maybe hire a professional programmer, but keep in mind that they are very expensive. Also nowadays it’s essential to permanently keep an eye on your sites’ security.

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Firefox The Rise Of A Browser

September 8th, 2007 by Gerrit Tebrake

Now, three years after the release of Firefox v1.0, the revolutionary browser has been downloaded over 400 million times!

When the first version of the browser hit the internet back in 2004, it took only 99 days for the Firefox to be downloaded by more than 25 million delighted users. After 1 year the number quadrupled and passed the 100 million downloads mark.

This time was the starting signal for a never-ending, striking success of a web browser - it is free, has tons of good extensions and themes, has a huge community and made us feel the web2.0!

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Zooomr’s Way To Become A Better Social Network

September 4th, 2007 by Robin Tebrake

Zooomr has recently added a people search to it’s site. Now you can find other users and friends on Zooomr by searching for their names or email addresses. After starting your search you will be prompted to the normal photoresults-page. But you can click on a ‘People’-tab and it displays you all the people found in their databases.

All-in-all the people search is a useful update and leads Zooomr closer to social networking.

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Reddit Media And Now Digpicz Launches

September 4th, 2007 by Gerrit Tebrake

Peteris Krumins’ did it again! After building a Reddit clone with integrated picture previews (Reddit Media) he now coded a photoversion of digg.com - digpicz!

All he needed was the digg API and a bit code, to create a service many users were waiting for. Until now just a short announcement has been made on the official digg-blog that a picture page will be added to digg in the following weeks.. and he did it in about 7 hours!

To get more details on how Peteris build the site, see his blog.

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FotoFlexer - The Future Of Online Editing?!

September 2nd, 2007 by Gerrit Tebrake

Over the last few months a lot of photo editing services launched. To name a few popular sites: Picnik, Fauxto, Phixr, picture2life. And now a new startup wants to beat’em all - FotoFlexer.

With FotoFlexer you can easily import and export pictures from social networks (Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, MySpace) and edit them on the go. It seems as if FotoFlexer combines all the great functionalities of other existing sites and bundled them into one masterpiece! I don’t want to say that desktop photo editing is dead, but it has another big competitor. Professionals will probably stick to Photoshop or GIMP however normal people can make use of this sites to edit,share and store photos with ease.

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