i use stumbleupon heavily to research for post ideas. recently i have also found several websites and tools that offer similar capabilities. even though they are not as popular and featurerich one good thing is that they are able to cover some of the smaller niches that are left out by stumbleupon. so here they are the four stumbleupon alternatives that i use to discover new sites and ideas. ......
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headup is a private beta firefox browser addon designed to help you find related content on the web. it is similar in concept to youlicit and sort of a reverse apture with a dash of hyperwords .a when you locate information you like look for a sign to take you deeper into the rabbit hole of related content without leaving the page what i like about apture......
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here are some more of ycombinat ors summer 2008 intake and where appropriate a mention of montreal companies i am aware of that are competitive or complimentary. youlicit youlicit automatically generate simple link only web sites that are supposed to be at least as relevant as those generated by human editors time will tell if the automation as good as a real person produces b......
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incubator y combinator just wrapped the first of its two west cost demo days for its latest batch of startups. as usual their concepts were all over the place from ticket sales to retail polls to job listings. the startups gave demos on the east coast last week y combinators summer session is held in boston and there has already been some debate about whether there were any ......
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the twenty one startups from y combinators summer session are presenting their ideas and creations to investors in boston this afternoon. below are descriptions of the nine startups we havent covered and who dont wish to remain in stealth mode any longer. see our prior coverage of posterous anyvite ididwork popcuts and slinkset all of which are part of this bat......
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as i have had to reinstall my firefox profiles i took the opportunity to tidy things up a bit and install updated extensions it is a good opportunity for me to share with you what i find useful for browsing blogging research and organization. unless listed as otherwise all of the following are firefox extensions. for most of the list below i could only point you to the current extension versio.....
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just found out tonight about a cool new tool. youlicit allows you to use your social bookmarking results to help give you more relevant search results.......
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youlicit search less. find more discover related sites youlicit is your discovery engine its like amazon recommendations for web sites aa find related sites and blogs like facebook youlicit recommends linkedin myspace......
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