Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogProtect Yourself From Price Drops- January 31, 2007 PriceProtectr is a neat new tool that helps you take advantage of guarantees by many online retailers to refund the difference on purchased items if the price drops in the 30 or 60 days following your purchase (example - Best Buy’s policy). Those guarantees are great, but few people go to the trouble of following up and checking on any price changes for items they’ve purchased. The company has put together a very simple website, even using a vowel dropping name and the generic web...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=84 Google: Find And Compare Local Businesses- January 30, 2007 Over the past few months, Google has been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local businesses and services right from the standard web results page. In addition to providing the basic contact information and map locations for several choices at the top of the page, they will also show ratings and provide one-click access to reviews on the search results page so that you can make more informed decisions about where you want to go. Here are a few specific examples of how you can...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=83 Adobe Releases PDF to the World- January 29, 2007 In 1993 Adobe published the full specifications for its Portable Document Format, or PDF, granting royalty free license to those who chose to build PDF tools into their applications, and helping PDF to become a de-facto standard for document creation. Tomorrow they will announce that they are relinquishing control over the PDF format to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).One of the...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=82 Midomi Names That Tune- January 28, 2007 New startup Midomi, a voice-based music search engine with a social network bolted on, recently launched. If you have a microphone connected to your computer, just sing or hum a few seconds of any song. In theory, Midomi will return a link to the original song for partial playback or purchase, and will also return results from other users who’ve recorded themselves singing that song. The social network aspect to this is what will make it popular, and the search engine will help people...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=81 Zimbra: 6 million Paid Mailboxes- January 27, 2007 Zimbra is an Ajax Microsoft exchange competitor with a webmail service that thousands of businesses and organizations use to handle email, contacts and calendaring. They also offer a great mobile solution. The core product is open source, and Zimbra has a higher end version that sells for $25 per person per year (with various discounts). Since their launch they’ve grown. And grown. They had 4 million “paid mailboxes” in October 2006. Next Monday they will announce that they...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=80 Stalk Your Contact List with UpScoop- January 26, 2007 Today, the reputation network Rapleaf is releasing a new service called UpScoop, which joins a number of startups trying to add a meta layer above social networks. There are a lot of these networks, and a lot of people belong to more than one. Keeping track of your own networks, and those of your friends, is complicated. Upscoop is designed to help you figure out which networks your friends belong to, based on their email address. You give Upscoop your email credentials (including the password).http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=79 Adobe Updates CAD Translators for Acrobat 3D- January 26, 2007 Adobe announced the immediate availability of a free download for Adobe Acrobat 3D software that delivers updated 3D computer-aided design (CAD) translators. As a result, Acrobat 3D now supports many of the latest versions of major CAD file formats, enabling users to easily convert 3D models from those formats to more secure and widely adopted PDF—regardless of whether they have CAD software. The updated translators leverage technology Adobe gained as part of its April 2006 acquisition of.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=78 Yahoo To Launch New Search Marketing Ranking Model- January 24, 2007 Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, announced that it will launch its new search marketing ranking model in the U.S. on Monday, February 5. With the new ranking model, all Yahoo! search marketing ads in the U.S. will be ranked by quality in addition to keyword bid price. As a result, Yahoo! will be able to provide a more relevant search experience to users, more valuable customer leads to advertisers, and additional...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=77 AdSense and IntelliTXT, Together At Last- January 22, 2007 Google has decided that only allowing certain users to run AdSense and IntelliTXT on the same page is not fair to all the other AdSense publishers. Therefore, Google has ruled that AdSense can be used with other contextual advertising services, provided they do not look like Google ads. That means everyone can now run AdSense and Vibrant Media IntelliTXT on the same page! This new rule applies to all contextual advertising service. Therefore, if you’re using Kontara, or any other...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=76 Yahoo! Personal Finance- January 21, 2007 Yahoo! launched a new personal finance website, which brings together the Internet&39;s most useful tools and information to help consumers manage their personal finances. Yahoo! Personal Finance offers consumers a suite of new financial centers, covering every major area of personal finance, ranging from "Banking & Budgeting" to "Retirement." The site continues the company&39;s media strategy of bringing together the best tools and information around a particular topic..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=75 |