BookSmith – the blog to book tool

Bangalorebased Pothi.com has publicly launched its Blog to Book Conversion tool BookSmith. The tool takes the URL of a blog and converts it to a print ready book in few simple steps. The print book can, then, be ordered via Pothi.com’s Print on Demand (POD) platform. It also provides free download of an e-book that can be used for on-screen reading and circulation on Internet.


Pothi.com already hosts a Print on Demand backed self publishing platform which lets individuals and organizations publish their books. 
The tool is available for free use at http://blog2book.pothi.com.

TinEye - Image Search Engine

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 1,546,003,573 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for.

When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match. Our fingerprinting technologies have been developed by Idée Inc..

http://www.tineye.com/

Gechi!!! Basic Mobile + SMS + Twitter = GonGechi!!!

Gechi is a unique mobile - online user interface that is facilitated via SMS (Short Message Service).
This application enables TWITTER account holders to tweet (receive & send) messages via SMS from the comfort and convenience of their mobile phones.

What are the pre-requisites to avail the benefits of Gechi?

• Register with our website Gechi.in.

• Have a mobile phone. No GPRS required

• Have a valid mobile number.

• Have a valid SMS facility.

• Have an account with Twitter.com.

http://gechi.in/

Follow Finder

Don’t know whom to follow on Twitter?

Well, Google Labs is currently working on a device that makes your task simple. Go to http://followfinder.googlelabs.com/, key in your Twitter username and click “search”. 

You get two options: one, a list of tweeps who are popularly followed; and two, a list of tweeps who have followers similar to the one you have. According to Google, “Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.” The application also shows you when did the tweep last updated his or her Twitter, which gives you an indication of how active or dormant the tweep is. 

http://followfinder.googlelabs.com/

Ten Word Wiki

Want to learn a new thing, but don't want to learn that long Greek definition...?.
Welcome to Ten Word Wiki - The encyclopedia for the ADD  generation.Ten Word Wiki, a Twitter style version of Wikipedia that only describes stuff in under ten words but they also add a pinch of humor to all their definitions.
Here are some :
»Twitter - A virtual social network service with tweets posted by twits.

»The iPad - Essentially a giant $500 iPod Touch. No Flash, no porn.
» Internet – A series of tubes filled with porn and kitten pictures.
» Email – Electronic messaging medium for sending funny pictures of cats worldwide.
» Yahoo! – 1990’s website we used for search before we discovered Google.
» Wikipedia – A wiki project like Ten Word Wiki, but more verbose.
» Facebook – Website where children give out personal details, a paedophiles dream.
» Computer – Productivity tool used for anything but. Downloads porn from internet. 

http://www.tenwordwiki.com/

WebClip

Very often we come across certain parts of information on a web page particularly useful and would like to save or share that with others. So rather than bookmarking the url of the webpage, WebClip clips the content.

This tool lets you bookmark photos, video, news, deals, links, articles, app code and pretty much anything from any website.

All the clips; within one location are able to play, view, read and share them with your friends
using google reader, youtube, twitter, mixx etc. Sync all your shared items, likes and favorites from different services to webclip.

WebClip can automatically identify your tweets and auto-expand it for you.

http://webclip.in/

Plusmo

Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone. Get one-click access to exactly the information you need, when you need it. There are over 20,000 widgets on Plusmo, most of them created and shared by users. Plusmo launched in June 2006 and currently averages about a 100 million mobile page views monthly.

What can you do with Plusmo?
There are currently thousands of widgets on Plusmo and more are being added everyday. We can add or remove them directly from your phone.

• Widget carousel with instant snapshot of widgets in a cool mini display
• Thousands of widgets - search and add from your phone
• Free games
• Conveniently view comic strips, news headlines and photo blogs as picture slide shows
• Get your daily dose of celebrity gossip, jokes, puzzles, comic strips and more.
• Use popular search engines to search web, news, shopping, images and cache the results locally
• Keep track of latest music hits
• Background download of articles and bandwidth throttling
• Local weather, local traffic and local news
• Local Search: Locate anything - cheap gas, Wi-fi hotspots, pizza, ATM near a zip code.
• Track your favorite sports teams
• Works on over 500 devices including J2ME, Windows Smart Phone, Windows PDA, Blackberry, and Treo

http://www.plusmo.com/