BEST LEAST KNOWN WEB TECHNOLOGIESHenry Van StynIntelliTree Solutions

November 18th 2009

YOUMAIL.COM

Replacement cell phone voicemail service Free Works with nearly all carriers Cool features:

E-Mails voicemails as Mp3 attachments Custom greetings per-caller Ditch-mail

Enhanced pay features: Long messages (free service limits to 2 minutes) Voice-To-Text Transcriptions

TINYURL.COM

Turns any long URL into a “Tiny” URL Example:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=11320+Chester+Rd+cincinnati,+OH+45246&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.240201,58.095703&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=11320+Chester+Rd,+Cincinnati,+Hamilton,+Ohio+45246&z=16&iwloc=A

http://tinyurl.com/cincicrowneplaza

PANDORA.COM

“Personalized” Internet radio Based on the “Music Genome Project” Tell Pandora a few songs/bands you like Give Pandora feedback (like/dislike) as you listen Pandora plays songs you are likely to like based

on the “Genome” of songs you like and dislike

DROPBOX.COM

Online file storage service Automatically continuously synchronizes among

multiple computers Supports PC, Mac and Linux Provides access via the web as well Share with other Dropbox users 2GB of space (free)

50 GB ($9.99 /month) 100 GB (19.99 /month)

BITTORRENT

Ultimate p2p (peer-to-peer) file sharing protocol Estimated to account for 27-55% of all Internet traffic No centralized server Files downloaded from multiple “peers”

simultaneously Use

Find and download “.torrent” files Open .torrent file with a BitTorrent client uTorrent.com

EFFECTIVE WEB SEARCHING

Search for the answer, not the question Search for phrases, not words Use minus (-), plus (+) and quotes (“) Three main search engines:

Google: 65% market share Yahoo: 18% market share Bing: 10% market share

Don’t overlook YouTube

QUESTIONS?