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Pix-Yu is an online virtual space where a user can share life experiences, events, journeys, holidays, meetings and much more, by uploading (unlimited) pictures.

Interesting part is, they will pay users for the number of clicks their images receive. Pix-Yu allows the user to earn just sharing pics with family, parents and with the most popular social networks. The current pay rate is 0.25€ per 1000 image views. Currently all payments are sent via PayPal. Goal is to pay out enough to keep users happy, while still being able to sustain development costs, hosting fees, salaries.

They do seems to have an effective way to keep fraud clicks out, as clicks are calculated by unique visitors, i.e 20 clicks from the same computer will count as one.

In this way, it’s possible to connect an event to an unlimited number of pictures. In the present beta release, it is possible to create maximum ten events for each registered user, but its almost ready for the final version of the website, where the user will have the chance to choose from different types of PRO accounts (silver and gold).

Nimbuzz offers an all-in-one solution on the mobile, PC and Web for calling, conference calling, instant messaging, group chat and chat rooms, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber and ICQ, plus 23 social networks including Facebook and Myspace.

On the social networking front, Nimbuzz is breaking new ground by bringing voice and mobile chat to social networks. The new six-button Communicator widget brings free calling, chat, text and voice messaging and file sending to social networks, email signatures and personal websites or blogs. Also introduced is the unique “buzz” feature which alerts your friends “offline” to join you online for a call or chat.

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Clickpass is an application which makes OpenID easy to use and brings the benefits of single-sign-on to everyone. Over 60% of us use the same password on every site we visit. All of us have been locked out of somewhere at some time and every day we’re bombarded with emails enticing us to give away our credentials to would-be attackers.

Clickpass is built to solve that, to bring you the convenience of a single password but with the reassurance of a company whose sole job it is to look after you and your security. Over time you will see Clickpass on more and more sites. As that happens, you’ll start to forget the fear of forgetting which password you signed up with and experience instead the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it.

WordPress plugin

The Clickpass Wordpress Plugin lets you log into your wordpress admin pages using Clickpass. Once installed and setup you will be able to log in to your blog from your Clickpass account page or from your wordpress login page

Requirements : Wordpress 2.1 or greater PHP 5 or greater
Conflicts : The Clickpass Wordpress plugin does not currently work with wp-openid plugin. Avoid activating both plugins

Sripteka is a cool new library with lots of useful Prototype scripts . The website is also very much user-friendly, with option to multi-select tags and display scripts.

• View an extensive library of Prototype and Script.aculo.us based extensions/plugins
• Rate and use rating to find the coolest scripts out there
• Submit your own creations and get community feedback
• Subscribe to the newest additions to the library

eXpresso is a powerful new way to manage and share your Excel Spreadsheets. A real time collaborative environment for Excel spreadsheet users - all available online. Its a secure, browser-based resource that enables users to share and collaborate on any Excel file, regardless of location.The solution assists in the trend toward managed on-line business communities.

eXpresso is complete and immediately usable without installation, support or training. Individuals can use it ad hoc with real-time collaboration capabilities and version control. Enterprise users can rely on it as their corporate standard that meets established benchmarks for security, permissions and backup.

Unfortunately, It does not support Firefox .. or Opera or Camino so if you are on a mac or linux you can’t use it. :/

Another addition to the online office application list , Google Spreadsheets, xcellery, iRows, editGrid

Mindomo is the most advanced FREE online mind mapping software based on flash, excellent for organizing, project planning, task scheduling, brainstorming and studying. Delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser with no complex software to install or maintain.

It is freely accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It offers all the functionalities you would expect from a desktop application! Create, share and include your maps in blogs, web sites or browse thousands of public maps created by other users!

Business Standard and research firm IDC recently posted a reality check on web 2.0 start ups in India, according to them, majority of Indian Web 2.0 start ups don’t really have a real business model and are struggling for both revenues and investments.

It’s a shiny, new dance floor, but how many can dance? The Web 2.0 market in India is still struggling for direction and funding, though the start-up scene in the Indian consumer space has been vibrant. Yet, the number of Web 2.0 companies focused on the enterprise or business space can be counted on one’s fingers.

A majority of players are active in areas like social networking sites (SNS), blogging, and document and multimedia sharing in the consumer space. A mere 12 of the 67 India-focussed websites studied by research firm IDC have a clear enterprise or business-driven model to their operations, while 55 have a consumer focus.

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Google recently added a small but interesting feature in its search results. There appears a small text box below result itself to search the site alone, Not all sites but google does have the feature on for few popular sites like Nvidia, eBay.

Google says

when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site. Like the rest of our snippets, the sites that display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users. We hope that you will make use of the site search box in order to get the information you’re looking for as quickly and easily as possible.