AutoMD – A Revolutionary Way to Get Auto Repairs
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Launching in January, AutoMD bills itself as the most complete and unbiased free online automotive repair resource.  It’s goal is to empower car owners with the best and most affordable way to repair vehicles with …

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Chargify – Billing for Small Companies and SaaS Enterprises
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 7:27 | View Comments
Chargify – Billing for Small Companies and SaaS Enterprises

Offering automated billing, simplified (and compliant) APIs and portals for collection and repeat billing is nothing new.  Even PayPal does it.  So why would someone want to build another app to do what’s already being …

Rackup – Gift Card Auctions With a Twist
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 7:43 | View Comments
Rackup – Gift Card Auctions With a Twist

This startup launched at TechCrunch50 earlier in September and seeks to take the gift card market and online auction scene and turn them on their heads.  The aim is to give more to the auction …

RefMob – Social Media For Referrals and Bonuses
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 7:41 | View Comments
RefMob – Social Media For Referrals and Bonuses

RefMob.com is a new refer-a-friend marketplace that combines (non-sleazy, legitimate) network marketing with referral bonuses and social media.
The business owner can offer incentives, like referral bonuses, to clients and friends who promote their business for …

RedBeacon – Find A Local Service and Book It
Friday, 25 Sep, 2009 – 7:56 | View Comments
RedBeacon – Find A Local Service and Book It

RedBeacon.com is a service that allows consumers to find local businesses or service providers, get a price quote, and schedule an appointment with them.  The site officially launched earlier this month at the TechCrunch50 event …

VapURL – Shortening Service For Temporary Use
Thursday, 24 Sep, 2009 – 7:59 | View Comments
VapURL – Shortening Service For Temporary Use

There is literally no end to the number of URL shortening services out there right now.  If you’ve got a link, bit.ly, short.ie, pie.im or any of a thousand others will make it shorter so …

DabbleBoard – Sketching Saves Your Time
Wednesday, 23 Sep, 2009 – 8:56 | View Comments
DabbleBoard – Sketching Saves Your Time

Collaboration is the new way of doing business today.  Many businesses and task groups find themselves not only diversified in talent, but spread across the continent or even the world.  For this reason, tools that …

Twitres – Share Your Resume Via Twitter
Tuesday, 22 Sep, 2009 – 7:18 | View Comments
Twitres – Share Your Resume Via Twitter

Alright, there are definitely two ways to look at this one.  Either this is the dumbest idea to hit Twitter since auto-following apps or this is the greatest new way to find a job.  I’m …

inDegree – LinkedIn For Graduates Without a Network
Monday, 21 Sep, 2009 – 9:17 | View Comments
inDegree – LinkedIn For Graduates Without a Network

Probably the most obvious analogy to illustrate what inDegree.com is would be to compare it to LinkedIn–it’s most obvious competitor.  The two sites aren’t really quite the same, though.  While LinkedIn is the current standard …

Harvest – Time Management, Tracking, and More for Far-Flung Offices
Friday, 18 Sep, 2009 – 7:22 | View Comments
Harvest – Time Management, Tracking, and More for Far-Flung Offices

GetHarvest.com, or Harvest, is basically a time tracking application. It does more than that, obviously, but when you boil it down that’s the core of it. The big advantage of Harvest, though, is …

Sortuv – Related Location Searches Without the Relativity
Thursday, 17 Sep, 2009 – 7:19 | View Comments
Sortuv – Related Location Searches Without the Relativity

When you go to a standard search engine, like Google or Bing, you are presented with a search box and must enter some terms. That’s basically the interface on every search engine out there, …

Snippee – Relevant News, Socially Networked
Wednesday, 16 Sep, 2009 – 7:13 | View Comments
Snippee – Relevant News, Socially Networked

New aggregation is nothing new and neither is building your own Web portal to access your most-used stuff. What’s unusual is the ability to both aggregate a Web portal and integrate that with your …

Silentale Brings Communications Channels Together
Tuesday, 15 Sep, 2009 – 7:11 | View Comments
Silentale Brings Communications Channels Together

The goal of many of the latest wave of Web apps to hit the market is to consolidate all of the various social network channels we have into one stream. Some, like the desktop …