Thursday, January 31, 2008

Top Five Sites of the Week for 1/28/08

  1. Kayak - A travel search engine started by "founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia who believed in a better online travel experience". The founders definitely give the site a world of credibility. For more on Kayak, read this page from their site.

  2. Garlik - A company specializing in internet security, they offer a service called DataPatrol, which is an online identity protection service, and, additionally, they offer free advice relating to internet security.

  3. 23andMe - A modern genetics company that will analzye your DNA and "discover your genome". Find out about your ancestors, family inheritance, and much more. Find out how the process works on this page from their website. Also, see Wired's take on the new, revolutionary genetics service.

  4. Snap - A company that targets blogs and websitesEssentially, by putting your cursor over a link, Snap lets you visually preview the target of the link, whether it is a video, website, or etc.This is too complex of an idea to explain in one or two sentences. So, to fully comprehend the idea, try it out and read more about it at Snap's FAQ section:
    Snap Shots makes it easier for site owners to empower their readers with enhanced hyperlinks that display previews, text summaries, videos, stock charts, MP3s, product info, and much, much more. Just roll your cursor over this link to see how it works."

  5. Deyey - A company that lets people create and design business cards for free. They also have an online application for file management. Their goal is to help small businesses. More on them as quoted from their website:
    Deyey.com aims to help small company and individuals to save their cost to run and promote a business. We provide two FREE online applications now. One is for designing a Name Card, another one is for File Mangament. Besides, our web platforms can share your name cards and files with other people. It lets more people in the world to know more about you and your business. We know that they are not enough to help in your businesses, so it is just our starting point. We have plenty of ideas want to do and we will try our best to get it done!

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