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Buzz: The proof is in the Thoof.com

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There are now quite a few social (or Web 2.0) websites that are out there. I was excited to find one that was very easy to use, much easier than Digg or Reddit.

Thoof.com offers readers personalized news that allows readers to find, read and comment on stories. Additionally, clicking on the story link takes readers straight to the blog’s website, unlike Digg or many other Web 2.0 which seek to ensnare readers by endless clicking on pages that link to other pages in their trap.

Instead, Thoof.com aims to help readers find traffic, and send that traffic to the website, itself. Now that should be a boon to website creators as extra streams of traffic will be available for your blog.

There are three aspects that new users need to know:

1. You can submit a story without an account. In fact, it’s really easy to do this. Fill in the link, the title, the comments, and choose appropriate tags for your post and you’re done.

2. You can also create an account that is remarkably quick and efficient. Look at the top, create an account name, then add your email address. An email is despatched to your account, and you click on that link to activate your account, AND create your password. Once that is done, you’re already logged in.

3. Once you add your own story, you can add the HTML code to display a kind of ranking in your blog post. It looks like the image below:

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This image is taken from one of my own posts that you can check out by clicking the image.

Overall, the website is well-designed, and well thought out. Adding a story, and creating an account were the simplest of almost all the membership sites I’ve joined in the past six months. Since this website is just out of beta, it will be exciting to see it develop its ranking system, as well as add and improve its usability even more.

Yahoo! Finance: more cool videos

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videos from Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance used to have its own TV station. I still remember the thrill of having my name misread. Well, after its demise, Yahoo! has restored videos on Finance as you’ll see from the screen shot below.

There’s quite a selection of sources, including ABC, BBC, CNN, Fox, Smart Money, etc.. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to share the videos except via email and IM. So it’s not exactly like YouTube’s format, but still you should find some very interesting watching!

 

IBackup.com: essential service for your business, and inexpensive

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Does your business or home business adequately back up its data? Let’s imagine a scenario where one day you go into work, and all your pcs are gone! Not only have you lost the hardware (which can be replaced at some expense, perhaps even with an insurance policy), but your data is likely gone, too. Who’s going to replace your data now? Where is your back up data?

If this seems far fetched as a story. Consider this: it happened to a friend of mine in Taipei. He ran a small school and he had quite an expensive set up for his computing facilities. In addition, he was in the middle of writing a series of text books for his students, one that he was intending to publish once it was gone.

Well the thieves (some young ‘uns with a hankering for pc games) broke into through an upstairs unsecured door and they made off with all the hardware they could find AND all the CD-roms that he had backed up his data on, INCLUDING, of course, his unfinished textbooks. Although his backups were made, they were not offsite, thus negating some of the benefits of making copies. Boom! All gone.

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He had made some printouts of his work, but he had lost almost all of his recent work, including business accounts, email, addresses, etc..

Nowadays, it’s much easier to create an offsite backup with an Online Backup service for your business. It’s certainly much more effective than putting copies of your CD-roms right beside the PC! It even functions just like a drive on your pc:

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Additionally, you can schedule backups automatically to ease the strain and allow you to focus on managing your business, not your pcs. Access is also facilitated via a web-browser, so you can find the stuff, should you not be at your workplace.

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