Founded by Yaron Samid and Raphael OuzanBillGuardis a free service designed to solve the problem of possibly overlooking hidden fees, billing errors or fraudulent transactions on your credit cards. It scans and analyzes your card transactions and alerts you if they match charges others have flagged as questionable. BillGuard is personal finance security service that alerts you to unwanted and unauthorized transactions on your credit card and debit card bills. BillGuard is powered by the collective knowledge of millions of consumers flagging and posting billing complaints online and BillGuard’s advanced transaction data mining algorithms. Unless you're vigilant about thoroughly reading your
Read MoreVideoInbox a combination daily newsletter/Facebook app that basically centers around the viewing, sharing and cataloguing of viral videos. The service, as the name implies, delivers a pick of videos to the users' email inbox every day, curated by the team. Sign up for VideoInbox with Facebook Connect / Twitter and you’ll get a daily email with “hand selected” viral YouTube videos. The app uses, amazingly enough, the Facebook API to allow you to share videos with individual friends on Facebook or post them to your Facebook Wall. While the button is there its Twitter OAuth aspect seems to be not
Read MoreCompany meetings are a nearly universally hated thing. No matter what line of work you’re in, most are simply a waste of time. And even when they’re important and necessary, they’re still likely inefficient. MEETorDIE is an online tool that asks you to put in information about your meeting, including what company you work for, what industry you’re in, how big the company is, how long the meeting is, and who is attending, no registration required, no sign in process. When you submit that information, you’re taken to a page that shows how much money your company wasted with that
Read MoreWondergraphs, building Web-based software that lets people do beautiful things with data. Suddenly, analyzing corporate or publicly available data and creating graphs for reporting purposes becomes much more exciting than what it sounds like. The Wondergraphs tool lets you easily and quickly upload data you want to base your reports on and churn out great looking charts in a flash. The tool lets you aggregate, group and filter any data you throw at it, using drag-and-drop, and enables you to create clear charts on the fly. You can import data from Microsoft Excel through copy/paste, via CSV files or straight from
Read MoreHooked to online videos YouTube, Vimeo, iPlayer, Google Video, Metacafe etc. With smartphones, tablets, computers and smart TVs, we have so many different platforms to watch content across, keeping tabs on our favorite videos isn’t easy. You start watching one video on your smartphone, but you want to continue watching at home on your computer, then you have to search for it all over again. Multiple platforms and millions of videos. Check out VideoBee developed by Vidiactive, a company founded in Sheffield, England, in January 2009 by Ben Hookway (CEO), Ken Tindell (CTO) and Jerry Ennis (NXD). It provides a
Read MoreThere’s an interesting reading tool on the nets called BookLamp that might lure you back into a reading habit. BookLamp is an incredibly innovative, high tech system that matches readers with books they might find interesting. It’ll change how you find a book. The BookLamp tool scans books and groups them together based on similar styles and structures. There are six key factors all together, namely: #1 Tone, #2 Tense, #3 Perspective, #4 Action level, #5 Description, and #6 Dialog. It also catalogs things like denseness and length, all of which allow it to take someone’s favorite book and recommend others like it. BookLamp
Read MoreWith our online lives increasingly moving to the cloud, keeping track of all the different communication channels, social outlets and document stores we use can become difficult. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, email, chat, calendars, contacts, browsers we've come to love them on their own but staying on top of them is very time consuming. Among social media aggregators like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Flock, and others comes Israeli startup Zbang's MultiMi. MultiMi combine all of your inboxes, social networking sites, chat applications, calendars, files and contacts in one place. Collects all your accounts and networks so you can connect with
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