Cool E-Cards for the Holidays

It's that time of year again when I start receiving lots of generic e-cards from friends and family. The are mostly a photo (warm fire, snowing scene, santa and his reindeer) along with a few words wishing merry and so forth. This year spice it up a notch. HD Greetings is a new site that offers video (stop-motion animation, 3D and cartoons) of interesting holiday themes. But, thats just where you start. You can also add your own photos, select music and of course enter your holiday greeting.

Here are a couple samples:


Give them a try this holiday season...

Free 1Gb Online Drive

There are lots of online storage sites out there but, Ommidrive may work the best. I've tried their service on both the Mac a PC platforms and it seems to work flawlessly. In both environments you install a small OS extension that adds a "OmniDrive" disk icon to your desktop. You can then copy files to your drive and they will be available just like they were on your hard disk. There is also a web interface so you can access your files from any computer. They have several space options from free (1G) to $199.00/year (50Gb). The 1G storage is adequate for storing your critical financial documents but, not for your entire photo and video collections. Once word of caution: The free version does not support SSL so you will want to encrypt your documents prior to uploading. If you need a good free online storage solution for your precious documents this may be the site for you.

Locate all site visitors. Fast. Free.

ClustrMaps is a analytics site that provides a location map of your site's visitors. You'll see I added it to the right sidebar on my main page. It's pretty cool and easy to setup. They provide the HTML code that you will need to paste into your website and that's all you'll need. It takes a day or so for any visitors to appear in your map but, after that you'll start seeing red dots for visits. It's kinda cool. There are currently in beta but, it seems to work well enough. The map is free for less than 2500 visits and they have monthly plans above that starting at $1.99.

Check it out...

GoogleTube - Video of the Day

GoogleTube Video of the Day

This guy picks a different video everyday from You Tube. Some are very interesting. Others just weird. Selections like Skateboarding in a Giant Bowl Filled with Balloons and Deep-Fried Thanksgiving Turkey Disaster.

Who could ask for more...

Social Networking for Millionaires

I suppose we all knew it would come to this. There are social networks for students, executives, pet owners, surfers, grandma's and now the Millionaire/Billionaire types. aSmallWorld is of course by invitation only. The hoity toity like to keep the common fold out of their cliques.

Although us commoners can only guess at what may be behind the curtain, it begs the question. If you are a billionaire, do you really a website to help you network? Apparently Harvey and Bob Weinstein (Miramax Films) think so as they made a minority investment. Various analytics sites report only around 600 visits a day to the site. Wikipedia has some overview information but, nothing too exciting; rules to keep unwanted people out, anti-harassment, etc. The biggest draw seems to be the classified ads. I can see them now.

     Mansion on the Riveria priced to move - 75 million
     Gently used Yacht, single owner - 35 million
     Used Volvo, 30,000 miles - free to deserving person

Ah, if I could only get in, that Volvo would be mine. Reports are you can buy a membership on eBay, but I was unable to locate any. Anyway, I'm sure if the found out you would quickly be ousted. We'll I guess I'll have to stay with Facebook and Linkedin for now.

Anyone have millionaire making stock tips?