Monitor Your Website

Just one of probably many website monitoring services, UpTrends.com probes your site every 30 minutes and sends you the results via email, for free. Of course they have other paid services with a shorter probing interval.

Mobile Photo Sharing

Two services to keep watch on for sharing mobile photos and adding special effects:

PicPlz.com

Instagr.am

Cimbal: Alternative Payments

Another alternative payments player. This one uses your cellphone to make payments for online/offline purchases.

Cimbal.com

ZeeWee: Free HTML5 Apps

ZeeWee.com offers free HTML5 web apps for your iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

http://j.mp/gkVRP7

Social Micropayments for Rewards

These two services are using social micropayments to reward or support your favorite online contributors by enabling you to reward them tiny amounts.

Flattr.com

Rewrd.com

Zamzar File Conversions

Any file, any type can be converted to another type.

http://www.zamzar.com/

Search By Color

Glancely.com is a very interesting service that currently works with Etsy.com but may soon work with others. Their service will search for a specified product within a specified color range and the results show a spectrum of matching products.

TechCrunch review

Build Your Own Web App

DHTMLx.com

DHTMLX Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web applications. It's not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web applications for mobile and touch-screen devices.

The framework is compatible with the major web browsers for mobile platforms. Applications built with DHTMLX Touch will run smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android-based smartphones, and other popular devices.

SimilarSites.com

Looking for similar sites to some website? I got some interesting results when I searched for "befunky" which is a site for adding special effects to photos.

SimilarSites.com

Protect Your Website

Protect your website from profanity by filtering all the text content via an API from WebPurify.com

Mobile Payments To Explode Globally

Mobile payment systems are about to surge in users across the globe.

NYT's Mobile Banking in the Emerging World

Some of the mentioned mobile payment providers:

Telefónica - Latin America

Globe - Philippines

Smart - Philippines

Orange - Africa

Vodafone Pesa - Africa

Gemalto - Latin America, Middle East, India

Trivnet - Latin America, Middle East, India

Telenor Easypaisa - Pakistan

Book Me Online

This is an awesome service to show your schedule availability and it ties into your existing calendars like Google Calendar, Lotus Notes, Apple iCal, etc.

Tungle.me

The other awesome booking service I've seen is Bookd.com but it is catered more to the services industry.

Photo-Sharing is Growing

Photo-sharing services are growing in number and popularity.

Photo-Sharing Is The Next Evolution Of Social

Instagram

Picplz

Path

DailyBooth

Got Too Many Gift Cards?

If you received too many gift cards this holiday season, you might want to sell or trade them online.

CardPool.com

PlasticJungle.com

Build Your Own Mobile App

Here is a growing list of mobile app builders you can use to make your own mobile app.

MobileRoadie.com

AppBreeder.com

GetCS.com

SwebApps.com

Sencha.com

PhoneGap.com

PyxisMobile.com

Google App Inventor

How Was GPS Invented?

If you are interested in how our modern day GPS technology was invented, watch this short video.

Where Good Ideas Come From

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

These are some of the best talks on the planet.

TED.com
Introduction to TED

Alternative Payments

Here are more alternative payments options for customers without credit (cards).

PayNearMe.com

GreenDot.com

Review of PayNearMe

Review of Green Dot

Among others, Rixty and Coinstar offer similar services.

500 Startups

These might be the coolest super-angel investors on the planet. Dave McClure, the founder, seems to know what he's talking about. I've been reading about him on Fast Company and it's very good stuff. Keep an eye on them if you have a great idea.

500Startups.com

Look in Wikipedia for other super-angels.

The Andreessen Horowitz Fund

Seems like this fund in Silicon Valley would be good to pursue because they will educate you to be a great CEO.

Andreessen Horowitz
NYT's Andreessen Starts 2nd Fund to Invest in Tech Start-Ups