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Zavee – Local Shopping, Selling, and Donating All At Once
Monday, 31 May, 2010 – 8:01 | No Comment
Zavee – Local Shopping, Selling, and Donating All At Once

Zavee is a Florida-local website centering from Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.  The site allows merchants to put up products and special deals for consumers to shop for on the site.  A piece of …

Groupon – The Discount Service
Friday, 28 May, 2010 – 10:25 | No Comment

Everyone loves discounts, and the Groupon phenomenon is spreading from America to the UK to prove that this is the case.
The Groupon idea works like this:  Every single day there is a new offer on …

Swipely – The Social Shopping Site
Wednesday, 26 May, 2010 – 10:16 | No Comment

Swipely, which is still in beta stage, is a new social startup that promises to make shopping a more entertaining necessity. As they state on their website, Swipely’s vision is “to reinvent how people shop, …

Don’t Tell Ashton – Slow Loading (But Worth Waiting For)
Tuesday, 25 May, 2010 – 4:39 | No Comment

This is a new concept and it certainly looks great when it finally loads in your browser.  The idea of the Don’t Tell Ashton website is to create a piece of artwork that has as …

Coffee Finder – A Practical App For Finding The Nearest Starbucks
Tuesday, 25 May, 2010 – 4:36 | No Comment

If you have ever been out and about and desperate for a cup of coffee, you will know how frustrating it can be if you can’t find an outlet anywhere. It is even more …

Family Tracker for iPad and iPhone Lets You Keep Tabs
Monday, 24 May, 2010 – 8:15 | No Comment
Family Tracker for iPad and iPhone Lets You Keep Tabs

Keeping track of stray teenagers, spouses, or your friends is often not an easy thing to do.  Parents, especially, are usually eager to keep track of where their children are (or aren’t).  A myriad of …

Online Pizza Anyone? Fast Delivery is Only a Click Away
Monday, 24 May, 2010 – 4:25 | No Comment

All industries are now tapping into ecommerce, and the food services industry is no exception. In an attempt to keep pace with modern technology, restaurants, fast food and coffee shop chains are adding web ordering, table reservation tools, Facebook pages and iPhone applications to complement their current service

Uruky – Simple Billing, if You Don’t Mind Typos
Monday, 17 May, 2010 – 8:11 | No Comment
Uruky – Simple Billing, if You Don’t Mind Typos

There are certainly no shortage of online billing apps to choose from around the Web.  No matter your need, there is likely an app to fill it.  Uruky is another one of these, focused mainly …

Howtru – User-Generated Truth
Thursday, 13 May, 2010 – 5:45 | One Comment
Howtru – User-Generated Truth

Howtru is a potential solution to the growing problem of how to sort fact from fiction when it comes to news and information found on the internet. With many millions of blogs, news outlets, and …

eDelve – Sharing Deals and Coupons
Wednesday, 12 May, 2010 – 5:04 | No Comment
eDelve – Sharing Deals and Coupons

This site is a goldmine for bargain shoppers in more ways than one. eDelve is a new social commerce startup that enables users to share special deals and coupons with each other and get something …

Shoply – Centralized Shopping with a Decentralized App
Monday, 10 May, 2010 – 8:41 | 3 Comments
Shoply – Centralized Shopping with a Decentralized App

There is no end to the number of places to list and sell items online.  From eBay to Craigslist to your own website, setting up shop to sell online has never been easier.  Getting noticed, …

Facebook to Add Geolocation
Monday, 10 May, 2010 – 7:38 | One Comment

Facebook will soon have a geolocation feature similar to that used by popular sites like Foursquare, and Gowalla. This would give Facebook users the ability to add a location to their status updates by using …