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Eventell - Create, Manage, Connect Events

Eventell isn't just about invites. It's about creating living records for events. Before the event you can find out who's going, what'll be going on, and decide if it's for you. While at the event send photos or video from your phone. When you get home discuss it on the message boards, post photos, link to youtube videos, and more.

eventell.com

Google Notebook is Live!

Google Notebook is now live at google.com/notebook. Google Notebook aims directly at del.icio.us. It enables you to bookmark content (entire web page, url only or excerpt only) via Google search or by using a browser extension (available for both IE and Firefox).

You can add notes and catetogirize your bookmarked content. No tagging. Clean and intuitive AJAX interface also make this latest from Google a hit.

I'll use it for a few days and will post a concise review. In the meantime - what are you waiting for? google.com/notebook - go get it!

Skype for Free in America

Skype dropped a bomb announcing that it's SkypeOut option will be offered for free for calls to landline or mobile phone in the U.S. or Canada, through the end of the year. The current rate is 2 cents/min.

All dialed numbers must be valid U.S. or Canada numbers and the caller must be calling from the U.S. or Canada (regardless of where your account is set up). The offer doesn't apply for callers overseas using Skype to call U.S. and Canada.

Skype has been feeling the heat from popular services from Vonage, Broadvoice and alike. They all let you make unlimited free calls to U.S. and Canadian numbers but for a monthly fee ($15-$40/month) but none are free like the latest from Skype.

Two trends are evident from the latest moves from Skype: VoIP rates are continuously falling as new companies enter the market (Microsoft, VoipDiscount and others); Skype's American owners from eBay want a bigger chunk of the American market since Skype has been extremely popular worldwide but somewhat behind in the U.S. and Canada with it's per-minute offering, inferior to unlimited options from Vonage and alike.

Simpy - Tagging, Bookmarking and Personal Search Engine

Company: Simpy | Launched: May 4, 2004 | Location: New York, NY

simpy.com

What is it?

Simpy is a social bookmarking service that can be compared to del.icio.us, Furl, Yahoo My Web 2.0 and others.

"Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users’ links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private. Simpy also helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc.” Link

Google Notebook Revealed

A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, set to launch next week at google.com/notebook.

Notebook looks like its targeted as a del.icio.us competitor, enabling you to aggregate content form the web, including metadata like categories. It also lets you publish your information to the public. Philip Lenssen @ Google Blogoscoped reports.

DealBundle - Social Shopping for Real Fanatics

DealBundle is a social shopping community created and supported by members (we like to think of them as deal fanatics)! We do not sell anything, instead provide revolutionary tools for members to collect, organize and share deals from anywhere on the planet. dealbundle.com

Jesus Digs Web 2.0: eBible

Just what is eBible? According to TechCrunch:

"Search any of a number of versions of the Bible with eBible by keyword (and switch between Bible versions once you’ve selected text you are interested in). eBible pulls additional information relevant to your query from a library of Bible reference sites, such as dictionaries, topicals, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc. Expert commentary is also included in the margin of Biblical text."

eBible.com | blog | forum

[update] I just received an invitation to the private beta and will take my time to dig in and post a comprehensive review of the service.
 

Rapleaf - find, rate, and evaluate buyers and sellers

Rapleaf is a portable reputation system for e-commerce. It allows buyers and sellers to rate one another. rapleaf.com |

Tagground

Taggound is a social search engine mashup. What does that mean? Tagground searches various social web applications (ex. yahoo my web 2.0, del.icio.us, raw sugar, flickr, You Tube etc) repositories to retrieve relational data (ie tags, urls) that other users have associated to your search text.

tagground.com |

oDesk - The On Demand Global Workforce

oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment. Every day, hundreds of buyers and providers work together through oDesk - a unique company at the forefront of reinventing work.

www.odesk.com | Sunnyvale, CA

oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment. Every day, hundreds of buyers and providers work together through oDesk - a unique company at the forefront of reinventing work.

www.odesk.com | Sunnyvale, CA

EchoSign - You Send It. They Sign It. It's Done.

Web service that facilitates the signing of secure PDF's. E-mail an encrypted document with attached bar-coded cover sheet. Print + Sign + Fax back to a toll-free number. All documents faxed to that number are permanently stored with comprehensive status information. Paperless office dream advancing.

www.echosign.com |

Zimbio - The People's Guide to The Web

Our network of public portals are designed to help people quickly get down the learning curve on any topic of interest by seeing what other people are reading, saying, and recommending about the topic. Public portals are interactive, dynamic websites that offer a range of features including group blogging, member photos, links to favorite websites, RSS headlines, tracking of search results, and discussion forums.

www.zimbio.com | Redwood City, CA

Web 2.0 Megalist Launched

Web 2.0 Megalist lists, profiles and reviews new and established web 2.0 services and companies. Web 2.0 Megalist is written by Stan Stefano - a tech journalist and serial entrepeneur based in Chicago.

Service and company profiles are taken from their own About or FAQ pages. Interviews and reviews are designated [Interview] and [Review] respectively.

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Why so few web 2.0 products and services listed?

Hold your horses! We've been online for a few days now and will religiously add as many profiles and reviews as humanely possible. We'd like it if you helped a bit by suggesting web 2.0 sites to us. Please do so by using the comments option after this post.

I want my company and/or product reviewed not just listed

Well thank you for giving us that opportunity. We'd love to review and publish all information about your project you let us. Please take the time to tell us as much information as possible about your company and product. We will use this information to help us profile your company. Please email us your information.

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