SWFObject: Best Flash Detection

The best way to detect for a Flash Player on a web page and have an easy fail-over is using the SWFObject.

My favorite option with this is: SWFObject has full support for the Adobe Flash Player Express Install feature. Your users never have to leave your site to upgrade their player.

BlinkSale: Easy Online Invoices

The easiest, fastest way to send invoices to anyone online. Send elegantly formatted invoices to anyone with an email address. Send a bill to your clients with these professional-looking invoices or design your own with CSS.
BlinkSale.com


Another easy invoice solution is at:
SimplyBill.com

3Jam: Group Text Messaging

Now you can send a text message to a group of friends (up to 15) and they can reply to all the friends very easily. The replies always go to all the members of the group. When you initiate a conversation you choose which friends will be in the group.
3Jam.com

Go Big !!!

The Go Big network can connect you with the right investors. They have a nice site.
GoBigNetwork.com

Moo Card & Stickers!

These people may have cracked the holy grail of unique printing. No more ordering one design in minimum quantities of 100's. If you have anything to market, try doing it with their minicards (half the size of a business card).

Moo.com

Magento: Easy eCommerce Platform

This is a feature-rich eCommerce solution for any website that enables you to give your visitors some common Web 2.0 experiences, such as tagging, auto-completion of searches, and easy product comparisons. It sounds very promising.

MagentoCommerce.com

T-Mobile's WiFi Service

Just think this is cool and shows how some companies are rapidly responding to Apple's threat.

T-Mobile is now giving away free WiFi wireless routers and a special phone that will automatically switch between your cellular service and any available WiFi service so you won't be charged minutes when using VoIP on WiFi.

NYT review

Nifty Shopping Cart

Free and very easy to add to any site. It works with both Google Checkout and PayPal. Too bad it is not multi-lingual, yet.
TechCrunch review
FatFreeCart.com

Here is another one called BlinkCart.com

JS-Kit: Threaded Comments

Add threaded comments to any site for free with just one line of code with JS-Kit.
js-kit.com

Social Shopping

Find out what other people are recommending or recommend something to others. Get your product listed here so others can learn about it.

NYT article: Like Shopping? Social Networking? Try Social Shopping
ThisNext.com

Turnkey Social Networking Solutions

Here are some of the players in providing easy solutions for creating your own social network. Hopefully I can develop an e-commerce social network with one of these.
KickApps.com
Pringo.com
SmallWorldLabs.com
Ning.com
CommonGate.com
CrowdVine.com
OneSite.com
Another List

Here is a nicely done comparison between Kickapps and Ning.

Here is TechCrunch's Comparison Chart

Build Your Own Web App

Here are some of the players in this crowded space of drag-n-drop web apps:

LongJump.com
DabbleDB.com
CogHead.com
BungeeLabs.com

TechCrunch review of this industry
StartUpSquad review
8 Start ups to watch for in 2007

Ten CSS tricks you may not know

This guy does a good job of discussing a few CSS tricks that can come in handy from time to time.

CSS Tricks

The Threadless Story

Read Guy Kawasaki's interview of one of its chief officers

Record Your Calls

Here an easy way to record all your calls, just buy the Ipevo Free.2 phone for about $45.

Ipevo.com
NYT article

The DYI Phenomenon

Dion Hinchcliffe's take on what widgets, badgets, etc, all means.

DYI Phenomenon Part 1
DYI Phenomenon Part 2

Product Life Story Labels

If you sell a product, you will want to add labels to it by which a consumer can know the history behind it. One way is to put a code on each label by which the consumer can retrieve the product's history on your site. This is a growing trend which we will see across many more products.

Product Life Stories

Guide to CSS Support in Email

Here is a very good writeup on what CSS support is included in various email clients.

CSS Email Guide

eBook Retailers

Sometimes I have a hard time finding an eBook for a book I want to buy. Here is a list of some possible retailers that may carry your eBook.

AcademicMaterials
BooksOnBoard.com
CONNECT
CyberRead
Diesel-ebooks
eBookimpressions
eBookMall
eBooks
eBooks About Everything
eBookwise
eChapterOne
eFollet
eReader
Fictionwise
Franklin
Mobipocket
PaperbackDigital
Powells

The Ten Day MBA

This book claims to teach you in ten days what an MBA learns in college. It may be worth the time. Can MBA programs be compressed, allowing a reader to "get at least $20,000 of MBA education at 99 percent of the list price," as the author promises?

The Ten Day MBA @ Amazon.com
The Ten Day MBA @ eBooks.com