July 31st, 2010
WordTwit is a new Wordpress plugin that’s would be very useful for twitterrers. A great time saving idea for those of us who use social bookmarking and social media as part of our traffic generation regimen.
WordTwit keeps track of when you publish new posts, and automatically informs all followers by pushing out a Twitter tweet. All links are automatically converted to tiny URLs to save space. Most users see a substantial increase in blog traffic after tweeting their posts on a frequent basis.
Two additional features make the plugin amazing. Users can check a box and have the plugin dynamically convert all content links into short URLs. This could be highly useful for external link tracking, but runs the risk of sites using it not passing link juice to linked sites. The final new feature enables a banner on external sites.
With WordTwit installed whenever you publish new content from WordPress, Twitter will automatically be updated with a brief description of your new content along with a link back to it, bringing additional traffic and visitors to your website.

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July 30th, 2010
Often, when visiting a city for a conference, popular event, or during that area’s peak travel season, it is difficult to find a vacant hotel room. Even if one is fortunate enough to find hotel accommodations the price may be outrageous. Airbnb is a profitable, fast-growing, online marketplace giving everyday people the ability to monetize their most valuable asset: the extra space in their home or apartment.
AirBnB lets you search for accommodations in your city of choice. People with a spare room put up listings complete with photographs, amenities, and ratings from other AirBnB users. You can currently find a room in 77 countries and 1102 cities. Mix in a little flexibility on your part and you’ll be hard pressed to find metropolitan areas short a room or two.
After signing up and creating a member profile, one can search for accommodations or post a listing. A traveler can search by country, city, room type, or price. To lower your risk, choose a place that features an abundance of information, such as a full profile of the host, a thorough description of the property and, most important, a sizable number of guest reviews. Send out queries before booking to be sure the host has availability; the online calendar is helpful but not always up to date. The host has up to 32 hours to respond, though more than half reply within four hours, according to Airbnb.
The creator of the website, Nathan Blecharczyk, described Airbnb.com as “The Ebay for accommodations” because there is such a variety of listings and at diverse price points.

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July 29th, 2010
Irynsoft is a collaborative mobile multimedia platform that enables educators to adapt to the lifestyles and wallets of online learners. Irynsoft offers VIRT2GO, a collaborative mobile multimedia platform that combines social networking, a rich interactive video experience, and online instruction.
This technology enables education institutions to offer learning experiences that meet the evolving needs of students. Students find and “attend” these lectures & collaborate among a social network of peers, all within a rich mobile device interface. Flexibility for students to learn whenever and wherever they want can be gained through collaborative mobile learning solutions. So, students can share their learnings amongst themselves and reduces the burden on time-constrained educators and administrators.
One example is at Khan Academy, a non-profit video channel which has over 1,000 videos covering topics ranging from high school math and science to banking and venture capital.Khan academy has recently been featured on NPR and PBS, and Sal has made appearances on CNN.
This app uses the VIRT2GO mobile video platform created by Irynsoft. VIRT2GO offers a new way to view educational content on your mobile phone. It makes learning a social experience allowing users to update and keep tabs on their Facebook friends, to post to a forum, and to leave ratings and reviews of individual videos.

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