The Coolest Image Search Tool
Today, I am going to share with you an interesting web tool which searches Flickr images in terms of visual similarity. The most common way we know how to search an image is using a keyword like how Google Image Search works. But there is another brilliant way of doing it. Idée's Multicolr Search Lab, has created a visual search method using visual attributes such as color, shape and texture. It sounds too geeky but this is so far the coolest and most grandeur image search tool that I have ever seen. It's an amazing application with amazing results!
So how does this Multicolr works?
By choosing up to ten colors, Multicolr will extract those colors from about 10 million most interesting Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using Idée's visual search technology, Multicolr will give you the images of your chosen colors.
Here is a screenshot of how to do an image search.
On the upper right of the screen, you can choose the color you want to search for. I chose the shades of red and green. The images will automatically update and show interesting images of red and green. Oh my, the results were a bunch of flowers as what I guessed. You can also click on individual images to see a bigger view of it.
You can add more colors to search for and see how magnificent the results will be. Click here to try it out.
Read more!Cligs: TinyURL Plus Analytics
I was twittering two days ago, following the followed, and I found this URL shortening service along the way. It's called Cligs. According to its website, its name happen to came from the word clicks with a g (as in go) pronounced at the end. I see it as a creative term actually, and it really caught my attention because of its similarity to tinyURL but with one BIG difference - free analytics.
Cligs is a very useful tool in converting your long URLs into short ones - very much needed when space is a hot resource! It's best to use in your twitter link updates, email and blog links, and even hiding your affiliate links. On top of these, Cligs can give you a detailed traffic analysis and information about your created short URLs like
I created an account and started to create my own cligs, and its giving me a birds-eye view of my links everyday, something I have been looking for. You can also sign-up at the website for FREE and start making your own cligs and see how useful it will work to you. Or you can read more about the The Blog of Cligs for more information on how it works.
Read more!My First dNeero Payment
I'm expecting this payment from dNeero today. This morning, I got $19.94 in my account - product of four months of being a dNeero-ite. I only need just a few more cents until I reach the payout.
And fortunately, I have one discussion waiting to get approved for its fifth day of getting impressions in my blog. It's not a problem because my blog already got a decent number of visitors everyday. I will earn $0.35 with this one today!
About 5PM, as I finish my work for today, my email client pops a message and it says dNeero Cash Award for Me. I have been awarded cash for joining the conversation Your Eyes, Your Mind ... Primetime TV - Fall 2008. I checked my dNeero account and its confirmed I got an additional $0.35 making a total of $20.29. I reached the payout.
I was still skeptical that time if I 'll have the money today. But about an hour ago, my email client pops again, and what do you know... It came from Paypal. dNeero really proved their word, We will pay your Paypal account whenever you accrue $20. No questions ask. No waiting for the calendar quarters.
The image below is the snapshot of the email I received from Paypal. I just want to share with you guys and you might want to consider doing what I did.
If you want to join dNeero I'll be happy to refer and help you along the way. Just click the dNeero logo below.
Here are some other dNeero conversations this week.
Read more!Google Project 10^100 Calls for Ideas
Google is turning 10! And to mark its coming birthday, Google launched Project 10^100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th"), a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible (See video)
If you have a great Project 10^100 idea and you believe it can help the world, you can submit it by filling out this submission form. You can also supplement your proposal with 1 YouTube video (max 30 seconds) explaining your project.
A selection of 100 ideas will be posted by January 27 where the public votes for twenty semi-finalist. Then an advisory board will select up to five final ideas. Google will bring these ideas to life by committing $10,000,000 to implement these projects.
The deadline of submisssion is by October 20, 2008.
If you are wondering about the project's name, it's a numerical way of expressing the number googol, a one followed by one hundred zeroes, where Google happened to get its name.
Read more!Homepages Friends:Get Paid to Search Yahoo!
Homepages Friends - This site is one lovely little earner. You can make a little extra cash just by doing what you already do - searching the internet.
How does this work?
Homepages Friends is a get-paid-to-search site with Yahoo! Search behind as the search provider. They split the advertising revenue generated on bona fide searches with their members 50/50.
What do you do?
In order to use it, you need to have either Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 installed. You can download them from a link on their site.
When you sign up in the site, you will be asked to add to your browsers search box a search plug-in of their own. When you use the search box, it will return results from Yahoo! and you will earn a few cents in return.
How much can you earn?
You will get 1 pence (～$0.02) per search which is not bad. I average about 20 - 30 searches everyday from my work, blogging, hobbies, etc. You can do more because there's no limit on the number of searches you can do.
So,
In theory, you will earn $15.0 a month just by yourself. You can earn more by referring friends to the site.
If you’re a student, blogger or a researcher, this is definitely worth considering. At least try it out for a while and if it doesn't work for you, what have you lost?
Proof of Payment
Please note that all payments are subject to a minimum of £20 and are paid 45 days after the month end on your PayPal account.
Read more!Skype at Five
5 years.
340 million registered users.
100 billion free calls.
1 big thank you.
This was Skype's blurb as it mark its 5th year as a FREE call provider in the internet. Using just your PC and the internet, you can call another person who also has Skype - any time of day, any day of the week, anywhere in the world.
Free calls. It’s what Skype is made for.
Read more!Welcome to myLot!
One of the most popular social forums online which pays its users to participate in discussions, myLot has grown into a pool of more than 140,000 members from its humble beginnings in 2006.
It started as a paid-to-post site and eventually changed its format as a social network because of user demand. It has become a growing community of individuals from around the world who enjoy sharing information, meeting new people and helping each other out.
What is myLot?
myLot is an online discussion and forum which handles a wide variety of topics like:
- Movies that I recommend watching
- Things I want to do with my life
- Websites that I regularly visit
- Books I have read
- Foods and beverages that I enjoy
- Technologies that interest me
- Roles that I play in life
Within these topics, you can spend your time starting discussions, responding to queries, dishing advice, heating up debates or just sharing information and experiences.
In concept, it is structured similarly to Yahoo! Answers. You pop, ask a question or take a look at the disposal of questions and answer them. Interaction with other users is very likely because mylot pays a bonus to members who participate in discussions.
How does it Work? myLot has implemented a system to give everyone who uses the site the ability to make money. The idea is pretty simple - if you contribute to myLot Community - whether it is by starting new discussions, commenting upon other discussions, uploading pictures in discussions and referring others to the site, you earn money.
myLot pays each and every member based on their level of activity. As stated previously all you need to do is sign up for a myLot account.
Here is a blurb from myLot site:
Earn Money using MyLot!
We want our users to help our website explode, and to reward you we will pay you every time you use myLot! We believe users are the most valuable asset to the longevity of any website so why only provide them with a service, why not reward them financially?
Our goal is to provide internet users a place to earn money using the web on a day to day basis. It's easy, sign up and start discussions, post responses or comments to current discussions, news or blogs, or refer friends! Referring friends is a great way to earn passive income on myLot. A myLot account is all you need to get started. Click here to open an account.
Why Should You Join myLot? myLot reports that many of its users spend most of the waking hours of any given day enjoying myLot. "Nothing can be that interesting?" you might ask. Well, then you've probably never experienced a place like myLot.
It can be addicting enough to kill days on end, but also functional and useful enough for the millions of internet users who only have a few precious moments in their busy days for "online time."
How do I get Paid? Once you started participating in discussions in myLot, you will get updates of your earnings everyday. You will see your earnings summarized in a table like shown below.
You will get paid monthly with minimum account balance of $10.00 and carry forward of unpaid amounts. You have the option to increase your minimum payment to $25, $50 or $100.
All payments will be in US dollars and made via PayPal or Moneybookers, depending on the country you reside in. All users will be required to have a valid PayPal or Moneybookers account.
Not a mylot member?
Sign-up! It's free!Do more than belong: participate.
Do more than care: help.
Do more than believe: practice.
Do more than be fair: be kind.
Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward
Read more!Wuala, the Social Online Storage
Say hello to Wuala!
Wuala is a free online social storage service. "What's up with the social word?", you might ask. It just means you can share your files - documents, videos, images, music, and a lot more - with your friends. You can also use this to securely store and backup your files online. That means you can access you files from anywhere at any time, provided you have internet access. 
Wuala boasts several features which are not found in other website of the same genre. On top of those is file security and privacy. All files in Wuala are encrypted and even the people of Wuala cannot see what your files are. You can also store any file of any size. Be it a 100 KB Word file, a 2 MB JPG photo, or a 3 GB video, you can upload all you want. You can read the full features here.
Wuala was in alpha mode for three long years. They allegedly had ”tens of thousands of alpha users and thousands of communities around the world actively sharing millions of files.”Well, let's see what Wuala can do with millions of users and billions of files!
Visit Wuala and start sharing your files online! Click the logo below to go to Wuala website.
Read more!Web 2.0 Logo Creator
Along the way of my browsing to people's blogs, I noticed one cool logo which really caught my eye. It's a simple text with shiny edges and reflection - very clean and nicely made (like the one above). I was in the tip of asking Google what is it called and how is it done until Mashable gave me a straight answer - let the internet do the dirty work, no Photoshop needed!
Mashable gave a particular site which creates the logo I want. But when I visited it the site said:This is meant to be a parody of Web 2.0 Logos. While they are pretty cool, they are all kinda the same. It was created as a joke, not a serious logo maker. But feel free to use it to make a logo. :P
Well, the site knows how to make a joke but that is a damn nice looking logo!
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