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Spot what your Favorite Celebrities are Into

Coolspotters is a social networking site launched to public beta a few days ago which focuses on finding and cataloging stuff that celebrities use. The service will appeal most to celebrity fans who wants to check out what their favorite stars are using. They can also contribute to the community by creating their own “spots”. A “spot” is the term used by Coolspotters when a certain product is associated with a celebrity. Spots can be anything that is discovered in movies, magazines, TV, snap shots, paparazzi shots, etc.

We all see great stuff being worn and used by our favorite celebrities – in magazines, TV, in movies – but there’s never been an easy way to find out exactly what the great stuff is! So, we built one.

You don’t have to join Coolspotters to enjoy their service. If you just want to browse around and check out “spots”, registration is not needed. Serious spotters however will be required to create an account in order to contribute and enjoy other features.

Tags: celebrities, celebrity gadgets, coolspotters, Entertainment, Movie, people, social network service

Seero Releases Embed Feature in their Geotagged Video Service

Seero is a San Francisco based startup that we introduced a while back which is the first true geo-broadcasting platform which seamlessly integrates live mobile webcasting and GPS mapping. The service is very promising especially with new features constantly being added.

The team just introduced their embed feature for the service which will give you the ability to broadcast live in your blogs and websites. All you need to do is to get the embed codes in your Seero profile. You can choose to embed a particular broadcast or the entire profile (This type of embed will connect to a broadcaster’s live feed or on-demand playlist (if not live)) of the broadcaster and let your viewers choose which broadcast they want to watch within the embedded video. There are two format shapes to choose from (horizontal and vertical).

Today, Seero’s Chief Creative Officer, David Rothschild, will be broadcasting live and on-location from the Where 2.0 conference (May 12 – 14). David will provide in-depth coverage and interviews on recent advances in location-based technology as a member of the press. You can check out the live broadcast in the embedded video below.

Tags: geo tagging, global positioning system, GPS, live broadcast, seero. geo broadcasting

Photoshop 3D Layers Tutorial

This video tutorial shows how to add a 3D object in a photo and some 3D layer effects.

Tags: 3d, layers, Photoshop, tutorial, video

Search Available Domains Faster Using Domize

We all know that searching of an available domain name can be such a pain. Typing a name at a time and hoping that the search will return a “this domain is available.” It can be very time consuming and frustrating at the same time.

Domize is a domain name search engine that lets you search domain names faster and gives quick results of available and unavailable domains. The engine is very easy to use and is secured over SSL. Like most domain search tools out there, all you have to do is type in the domain name that you want to search. Then it gets interesting. With every character that you type, the engine will show a result of the availability of your domain for every letter that you add. This will give you additional information and a greater possibility of finding a shorter domain name.

After each search, a snapshot preview of the available domains can be accessed easily. Just hover your mouse cursor over the red colored text (red means taken and blue means available), and a snapshot window will popup. If you did not find what you are looking for, you can edit the text in the Domize search bar and the results will change as you add or remove a letter or character to your domain name. This will save you a lot of time while playing around with ideas for a domain name.

Thousands of domain names are being registered everyday. Finding an available name gets even harder with conventional domain search tools. Using Domize as a tool for finding a domain name will certainly give you an edge and save you a lot of time.

Note: Domize also offers iPhone support.

Tags: domain, domain name, domize, iphone, search-engine

Fuse Together Multiple URLs into a Single URL

FuseURL is a simple web tool that lets you create a single short URL from multiple URLs. What the engine does is it gathers all the websites that you have entered and lets you view those websites in one browser window or tab under a specially made URL and page for you.

To use the service, just place the list of URLs that you want to fuse and add a comment about the list if you want then click the fuse button. FuseURL will then create (as mentioned above) a special URL for you so you can share or email it to your friends. You will notice that the created fused URL comes in two variants:

The first URL will give you a page with links and comment (if any) on top. The viewer can then choose what URL he/she wants to see. Check out the sample in this URL: http://fuseurl.com/6x

The Second URL generally creates a single page containing all the websites you fused together. The sites are separated by forms where you can scroll and navigate from within. Check out the sample in this URL: http://all.fuseurl.com/6x

The FuseURL team is quite concerned with the security of their service when it comes to spam. This is what they have to say (via email interview) regarding spambots:

The goal is to keep Fuse URL service as simple as possible for users. We don’t require any registration or sign-in to use the service. If spambots becomes a problem, we will enable a CAPTCHA before submitting certain type of URLs. But before enabling CAPTCHA, we will try to detect spambots by usage ratios, no images access (spambots do not download images) and by using other known methods. We will also introduce a way to flag the generated links and preview the actual URL before accessing it.

FuseURL is a neat tool that you can use for creating shorter URLs out of different sites that you want to share. Instead of sending out a list of URLs to your friends, you can fuse them together into a simpler, single URL. If the service pushes through, we can look forward to a new level when it comes to managing our bookmarks.

Tags: fuser, fuseurl, uniform resource locator, URL, url redirection

Create Your Own Video Sharing Site with StartYourTube

Want to know what it feels like to have your own YouTube? StartYourTube(now known as BootCast) is the Ning of video sharing sites. It lets you easily create your own video site without hassles. There is no installation needed, no servers and other technical stuff. It’s just like creating a blog in Blogspot. Actually the procedure is very similar to creating a Blogspot account where you create an account, customize your site (upload logos, change theme colors etc), use your own domain name and advertise (where they keep 40 percent of the revenues for the free account).

Being a video sharing site, StartYourTube lets you have your own members where they sign up and share their tubes in your created tube site. The service is free but will only allow you to have 10 thousand page views per month and upload a maximum of 200 videos which should not exceed 2 GB of storage space. You also get to have a “Powered by StartYourTube” mention in your pages and you cannot disable advertisements. This is not a bad deal considering that you are paying them nothing but it is not enough to survive a Digg effect if ever one of your videos gets dugg. However, a paid account will let you get a bigger storage space and bandwidth, remove the StartYourTube mention, run your own ads and keep all the profit.

The trick is to start free play around with a niched video site and eventually upgrade your account if your site becomes popular. This is another interesting service and a potentially useful one (if they can offer larger bandwidths and storage) for people who wants to start a niched tube site.

Update: StartYourTube is now known as BootCast.

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Tags: ning, startyourtube, tube, video, video hosting service, website, youtube