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HireVue.com – Hiring capable people efficiently

With the growing usage of internet and its corresponding advancement in the broadband bandwidth, video streaming on the net is a very common thing now. HireVue uses this advancement to benefit on hiring employees efficiently. It has changed and enabled a way where companies can prefer to interview prospective employees through recorded video interviews – as good as going through a real interview!!

This eliminates a lot of unnecessary expenditure and effort on both the employers as well as candidates.  Cut down on costs of  phone screening, second interviews, travel and so on.

The candidates can either be screened, or set up a live interview, saving time and money. Interviews can be conducted without disrupting ones daily routine which again is a blessing in disguise.  The same applies to the candidate, who can go home a happier person.

HireVue provides web cameras too, making it all the more convenient to hire people.  Holding interviews do incur some costs, which can be avoided through video screening. Candidates have an added advantage of sharing their interviews with colleagues.

Joining hands with HireVue.com, comes with the benefit of choice of candidate with greater efficiency levels, thereby clients too can make their better choices faster!!!

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Zirr.us – To Do List in Web 2.0

An online simple to use To-Do list management solution is what  Zirr.us is about. They incorporate various web 2.0 features to achieve marking your tasks, setting priorities, due dates, dump of what ever is on your mind currently.

Zirr gives  its users the benefit of marking and keeping track of all their tasks- most important as well as the not so important ones.

This gives him the idea as to what order the tasks have to be marked. It allows the viewing of the items and changing their font size according to its importance.

Instead of breaking your head over which task is to be put where, this is an easy and simple method to help  you work faster and better.

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Chegg.com- Online Book Rental Service

Chegg.com has a transformative concept of money-saving and  rental access to textbooks. This concept has made it one of the Internet’s fastest growing new companies and the number one online textbook rental company.  It was launched nationally in 2007 and has saved students more than $78 million dollars at over 6,400 colleges. With a growing inventory of more than 2.4 million titles, Chegg puts textbooks into the hands of students when they need them arriving in the brand’s iconic orange box. For every book rented, Chegg plants a tree through American Forests’ Global ReLeaf Program. To date, Chegg has planted more than 1.5 million trees.

The Local Place For Students To Buy And Sell. Here is an on-campus online resource, for the where and how on cheap stuff, and also an open way to make a few easy bucks, with things you don’t need any more, or with your old books, reference books. Which student will  not want to save a few bucks or make quick money? Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

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Quantcast.com – Open Internet Ratings Service.
It is regarded as the world’s first Open Internet Ratings Service.

Advertisers can look for reports of the audience of various web sites and publishers can be sure their sites are represented accurately by tagging them for direct ratings. Quant cast boasts of free service.
Earlier, when the use of computers was still in its beginning stages, email was a relatively new process too. But now, with rapid advanced technology, everyone is a computer freak,  and young and old alike are confident surfing the net, sending emails, face book, chatting, Twitter and so on.
This has created quite a challenge for all business, including all major brands. So, Publishers need to sort out and biforcate their audience according to their ratings. And that is exactly what Quant cast does – measure and organize the world’s audience in real-time so that the advertisers can buy and connect with them in order of their ratings. Based in San Francisco and New York, Quant cast has its centers all over the world.

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Cellswapper.com – Get out of your cell phone contract.

This is apt for those of you already locked into a cell phone contract and want a way out by way of short term contracts with absolutely no activation fee. Too good to believe!! But true and simple. Post your cell phone details online and grab the attention of buyers. Somebody takers over your wireless contract and you are 100% contract free!!
Now all you have to do is look for a short term contract, through Cellswapper, which offers you no activation charges along with a free cell phone. This site took form in 2003, as a solution to a major problem plaguing millions of cell phone customers who got stuck in cellular contracts in spite of unsatisfactory service.

This spelt trouble for the cellular industry as they ranked lowest in the field of customer satisfaction. Hence cellswapper.com has come up with a system to keep both cellular customers and carriers happy, allowing transfer of unsatisfied customers’ contracts to others for the remaining contract period.

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3 Bubbles.com- Embracing Conversational intelligence.

This is a unique site which brings together chatting and blogging at the same time to create real time conversations in the blogosphere.

People visiting will be able to save a lot on time, as both chatting and blogging are done at once.

Smart people looking for smart online conversation are sure to spend a great amount of time at this site.

You can say it is one of the most informative and useful sites!

LeaseThis.com-  Domain Name Leasing.

Basically LeaseThis.com is a new way of monetizing from a domain for a domain owner besides the traditional Parking domain way and Pay Per Click Google Adsense. Instead Leasing the domain will be a new option to making money from a website. LeaseThis.com seeks to change all of the hassles of lease contract negotiations and make leasing a primary monetization option that will be as simple to use as today’s popular domain parking programs.

They function on both sides of the transactions- allow the lease to take place and to protect all the interested parties.

LeaseThis.com has the innovative Patent Pending Technology, which brings the Internet’s Premium domains to individual and biz!!

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Pixpo.com  -  Personal broadcasting.

This site offers video/photo/audio sharing but with a difference- that is- files are served from your own machine,
saving the headache of uploading files and allowing them to be delivered at full confidence.
 All users have a choice of whether their files can be public or they want it to remain private.
This works as an additional bonus point for they have the choice to share their files with only those whom they prefer.

But with the new P2P photo-sharing apps, you needn’t spend time uploading. Instead, photos move seamlessly from desktop to desktop.
The rub is that you have to convince your friends and family to download and install the client.

To set up a “private” album, simply enter an e-mail address for each recipient. Existing PiXPO users receive a message alerting them to the new album, and they can then pull your pictures straight into their PiXPO client. Non-PiXPO users receive a link to a private Web page—hosted by How2Share Technologies—where they can view low-resolution copies of your pictures in any browser or, if they like, download the PiXPO client. To share an album with the entire PiXPO network, you simply uncheck an option in a dialog box, giving anyone with a PiXPO client access to it. This is a surprisingly popular feature among PiXPO users.

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Slide.com- slide shows for the internet.

Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook.

You are looking at the world’s leading social entertainment company, where they take fun seriously.
Such social networking benefits from frequent users and advertisers benefit from a highly engaged audience.
This is one place for exposing their favourite pictures in a more creative way.

Slide was formed to develop and run a service users would download for their network browsers that would organize photos on their computers and post them to personal blogs. Later, Slide began to make application widgets for online social network platforms.  Several of Slide’s plugin applications such as “FunWall”, “Fortune Cookie”, “My Questions”, “Top Friends”, and “SuperPoke!” became at various times among the most popular applications on Facebook.
These slideshows can be added to websites, put in RSS feeds and sent to you desktop as a screen saver too.
A Slide Toolbar IE can be added for easier uploading and hosting. Whenever you want extra control over what you are viewing,
then you can make use of Skins to put round your YouTube videos.
What’s more? News clippings and various other information can also be added along with photos.
Viewers can make any comment in your guestbook and you can view them all through a map, which indicates each person’s location.
Users can send comments, even gifts and literally speaking, they can even throw sheep at each other!!

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Plugoo.com – IM chat integrator for your blog.

Here is a wonderful opportunity to chat directly with any visitor to your blog, personal or website page or e-sales site.
It is a great chance to meet old friends, make new ones from any corner of the world and chat with them instantly.

One can then directly discuss on the comments of the reader and take feedback for the future blogs.
Instant messages can be sent through Plugoo Buddy, when you are online.
You have no cause to worry about downloading software, as there is no need for that. And you can be rest assured that any conversation is strictly private.
Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo members Community, where contacting  and chatting is made easy.
Plugoo.com also features Plugoo Widget, which enables you to communicate with your visitors by just using your Instant Messenger.
Messages  sent and received are so quick that you feel like you are in live conversation.
Now, you have the provision of chatting with 5 friends at a time. If in case you are already chatting with 5 people, then the next visitor gets a busy message, wherein he can leave offline messages !!!

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