Spock

Search for yourself on Spock. According to Nielsen, 25% of searches are for names, whether it be a celebrity like Paris Hilton or yourself. Now a the search engine called SPOCK (Single Point of Contact by Keyword) has been built just around names. Spock gets information from mostly social network websites, but it also goes deep into blogs, directories and news sites. A unique feature of the search engine is that you can become part of a community that rates the quality of the matches. Are you on SPOCK?

http://www.spock.com

Ebay Ratings

I don’t know how often you make purchases on eBay, but I did notice they recently made big changes to their feedback policy. In the past you had three boxes to choose, negative, positive or neutral. You would choose one and then leave a detailed message about the transaction. However, now eBay has removed these settings and added what they call detailed seller ratings (DSRs). This new system is more or less the NetFlix or 5 star rating system.

eBay states, “Now, buyers can leave sellers an overall positive, neutral, or negative Feedback and ratings on four aspects of their transaction: accuracy of item description, communication, shipping time, and shipping and handling charges. The rating system is based on a one- to five-star scale, with one star being the lowest rating and five stars being the highest.”

Furthermore, “The average of each DSR is displayed on the seller’s Feedback Profile page. DSRs do not impact the overall Feedback Score, but provide a more complete picture of the member’s performance as a seller. DSRs are also a factor for eligibility for key seller benefits, including advantage in listing exposure, membership in the PowerSeller program, and eligibility for PowerSeller discounts on final value fees”

I think this eBay’s DSR feedback system is more granular, but I am not sure it is as clear for the consumer as the old system. Now instead of just looking for good or bad feedback, you have to look at a myriad of rating variables.

Share The Care

Be prepared in case your life takes an unexpected turn. It happens. Get counseling, recruit people to spend time with your spouse/relative, run errands for you, bring food, help clean, return phone calls or emails to concerned friends. Share the care is organization setup to help you prepare and deal with unexpected events that pop up in your life.

http://www.sharethecare.org/

VEOH

Watch your favorite TV shows with Veoh! See full-length episodes and clips, full-screen viewing, all on your schedule. Veoh now brings you your favorite TV shows from your favorite TV networks as well as the best original Web Series all in one place. Comment on the best videos from 50 Cent, Cake, Kanye West, 311, Korn, Alicia Keys, Outkast,Johnny Cash,The Strokes and Three 6 Mafia.

Watch free music videos now!

http://www.veoh.com

Minature Golf

Are you looking for a way to waste sometime today? Try out this MiniGolf game.

Play MiniGolf

Jalbum

Looking for a new way to take control of your photo collection? Jalbum is a freeware album creator software that offers free hosting. With Jalbum you can easily create and share your own photo album site.

http://www.Jalbum.com

My Pocket MD

If you are like millions of Americans, you do not have a copy of your complete medical history. Believe it or not, if you jump from doctor to doctor, these institutions may not have a complete picture of your medical history either. My Pocket MD will compile your medical history for you on a wallet-sized CD ROM.

Are there security concerns? Yes, if you lose this CD ROM someone will have your records. However, you must consider the fact that most of your medical information is already vulnerable, so why not possess it yourself?

http://mypocketmd.com/

Spokeo

If you are like me and you are on half a million social networking sites, then you need an easy way to keep them organized. Spokeo searches your friends’ blogs and photos across 22 social networks so you don’t have to visit hundreds of websites one by one.

http://www.spokeo.com

Last.fm

Are you looking for a new way to connect to music? Last.fm connects you with your favorite music, and gives you new music, people, and concerts you’ll like. Look up your favorite band now and let the notes ring in your ear.

http://www.last.fm

PIPL

PIPL is the person search engine. Are you looking for find a lost relative, a classmate or a business contact? Most traditional search engines will search the web, but they don’t search “the deep web”.

PIPL says, “The deep web is a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose search engines cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.”

http://pipl.com/