The Resolution Generator displays suggestions from its vast database of ideas which can be used as they stand or adapted to fit your own personal new year’s resolution ideas.

Website: www.resolutiongenerator.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/pages/Resolution-Generator/404157620156
Twitter: http://twitter.com/resolutionideas

Well Pascal Beyeler has the perfect solution for you: Media Converter

Media Converter is an amazing online solution allowing you to convert your video and audio files as well as YouTube files into a respectable list of formats. It is even free to use without any registration but it is capped to 5 files per day which we think is reasonable. The paid for version has a lot of additional benefits including large file sizes and support for Facebook, Vimeo, Daily Motion and many other websites.

Media Converter is definitely worth a look!

Website: www.mediaconverter.org

Good OS is the next generation of Operating Systems utilising existing free or open source tools such as the Google Apps suite (Google Mail/Calendar/Documents etc…) to form a free, easy to use environment.

This means a reduction in the cost of purchasing new computers that have operating systems like this pre-installed and a move forward towards the ever expanding open source market.

Good OS is still in private beta testing of its “Cloud” operating system but there are already systems available to buy that come pre-installed with Good OS!

Website: www.thinkgos.com

Not only was Vertical Response the program l had been searching for over the last god knows how many years but it also had a fantastic support team behind it as well! Amongst the impressive feature list the one feature l have found to be worth it’s weight in gold is the integration with Google Analytics. This feature alone allows me to track the effectiveness of my email campaigns and single out what companies are interested in what both in my emails and on my websites.

The pricing structure is something that l considered carefully when using an email marketing program and again Vertical Response are very cost-effective for me in comparison to other services.

Overall, l would recommend anyone to start using Vertical Response!

Visit: www.verticalresponse.com

Piwik.org is an open source web application specific to the analysis of your website traffic, much the same as Google Analytics, AW Stats, Webalizer and Analog Stats to name a few. All the mentioned packages are free to use an require various different methods to allow them to track your website and it’s visitors.

So what’s so different about Piwik.org? Well, for starters its Open Source which is the favoured phrase across the internet nowadays. This means you can tinker with the code and modify it to your needs. It also has a customisable interface which means you can rebrand it and offer it as a service to your customers. Along with this it has a growing community creating plugins and integrations with such web applications as Word Press.

Aside from this it still provides everything you come to expect and love about web analytic programs but with the open source spin it has a massive potential to grow into a big contender to the already established website analytics software vendors. Watch this space…

Website: http://piwik.org

Make The Tea.com is Cravendales Web 2.0 approach to help settle arguments and calm the tempers of the office with the use of the web. It’s approach is both entertaining and useful. Upon signing up you select your “brewers” within the office and when it’s that time you ask the system to choose a brewer at random and hey presto… your tea maker is chosen.

So sit back, relax and enjoy a decent tea (until it’s your turn)!

Website: www.makethetea.com

Emails are the strongest communication tool that exists today. The majority of any companies b2b, b2c can start, develop and end with emails. They are kept as a record of agreements and conversations from individuals and companies both in the form of just plain text conversation and/or with the use of attached files such as quotes, invoices or product sheets.
If you were to take a look at the last 12 months worth of emails that you have both sent and received you would notice that there is a very large percentage that are business related and have generated either some sort of income for you or have resulted in your purchasing a product or service.

It is because of this that emails are so important and this is only for business communication and thanks to the internet, the entire world is heavily connected together. This means communicating with family members and friends through the internet (more specifically emails) has become part of day-to-day life as well.

So suddenly you can see the importance of email in our lives. Because of this and the drive for accessibility backed by Web 2.0, the time has come to look at emails; their formats and their accessibility. This is where the “Email Standards Project” steps in. The Emails Standards Project was setup to work directly with email client developers to ensure that emails displayed correctly. This means that emails will display correctly no matter which email client you use (Yahoo! Mail, GMail, Microsoft Outlook and so forth). It is a community run project coordinated by 3 individuals (more details about the email standards project can be found here).

Emails are important and thanks to the likes of the Email Standards Project they are now getting the attention they deserve and hopefully the email of the future will more comfortable in our inbox.

Website: www.email-standards.org

It is always interesting to see people try to map out the web for different purposes such as the search engine relationship chart or the not so visually appealing search engine results chart. But Inforation Architects Japan have really done a great job with their third instalment of the Web Trend Map. The two previous web trend maps were based upon the Tokyo train map with 200 popular websites, the latest version has now seen a huge increase in websites to display 300. To make this easier to read they have organised the train lines with less overlapping, making it easier to read as a whole.

Website: http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-3-get-it/

You can also submit suggestions for site inclusions using their anonymous feedback form.

“Until recently there has been online dating—traditionally a matter of photos and profiles—and speed dating, which took the offline dating world by storm. The two were obviously a match made in heaven, though, because in the last few months several new sites have begun offering speed dating online.

WooMe, for example, which launched in November, is an online introduction platform that allows users to meet, see and hear people live in 1-minute conversations.”

Read the full article here: http://www.springwise.com/lifestyle_leisure/online_speed_dating/

Website: www.woome.com