Mikogo is a new online meeting tool that is a free for download and suitable for users who want to run a Web conference. It was developed by a German technology firm called BeamYourScreen GmbH, and is now being employed by more than 30,000 users worldwide. Users will find this Mikogo packed with the fast performance, albeit that the only limitation for Mikogo is the maximum number of ten (10) participants is imposed on each conference session. To invite other participants in joining a Web conference, the meeting organizer only need to provide the meeting ID to the participants and each participant is given fifteen (15) minute to login to the session.

This software is rich in features during a Web conferencing session such as: share each others’ screens, change presenters, transfer files, lock meeting room and etc. Currently, Mikogo also supports Skype, which mean users can start a Web conference through Skype.

Besides, I also embedded a video on “how to use Mikogo” in the below.

FuelMyBlog is a UK-based blogging community. It was founded based on a very good idea, i.e. to bring all together the bloggers around the world. New bloggers are encouraged to sign-up to this service because they can find some useful services provided by FuelMyBlog, such as forum, as well as get a chance to promote their blogs and hence, elected as “Blog of the Day.” A first look, FuelMyBlog is functioning quite similar to Technorati, only that they’ve taken extra serious actions in fighting and curb the spam blogs. For example, a blogger can add her blog at anytime, but only if her blog is approved by FuelMyBlog, then she will be allowed to add a widget or the friends widget called “fuelroll” onto her blog.

On the FuelMyBlog homepage, you’ll notice that it look like a blog directory, where you can find several different categories range from Art/Design to Books/Writers to Technology, and etc. Each blog appeared to have a small dialog box present to you the brief information of that particular blog when your mouse hover on it, and you can either “Fuel this blog,” i.e. vote up, “Snuff this blog,” i.e. vote down, View this blog, or Add to friends of that blog. To encourage bloggers to participate on FuelMyBlog, they also organize the competition and bloggers can win prizes from their creative content.

More information can be found on a video embedded below, CEO Kevin Dixie talked about FuelMyBlog.

YouPublish is a publishing platform which allowed users to publish any type of digital file, whether it is in the written, audio, video, or software format or in any combination and sell it for a price tag or for free. It went live in May this year, and upon you sign-up for this platform, you’ll be given a unique sub-domain as your referral link, and you can use it to refer people to buy products on YouPublish and you’ll earn a 7.5% commission. Typically, YouPublish pays content providers 50% of their sales, which is relatively higher as compared to some other publishing platforms elsewhere.

On the other hand, buyers that would like to buy the available products on YouPublish can click the “Find a File” and browse the products they want and add them to “My Library.”

Profilactic is a social media aggregator that launched in the end of 2006. It is focus primarily in pulling all of your online profiles into one place. In other word, if you’ve Twitter, blog(s), Flickr, YouTube, etc., what you need to do is sign-up to Profilactic and then start to pull all of these activities under the accounts aforesaid into your Profilactic. On the other hand, you also can see everything that going on with your friends in all the sites they used, provided they’ve a Profilactic account. You can imagine it is very cool when you can interact with multiple sites at once. This type of aggregator or better known as lifestream mashup is pervasive now on the Web. In using this type of service, you also can create a badge, i.e. My lifestream and put it onto your blog, or some other social networking sites.

Social media aggregator is not a very special asset that can earn a startup supercompetitive for an unusually long time. FriendFeed also doing it, with the intense competition from Socialthing!, iminta, and Plaxo. However, Profilactic is trying to outstrip its competitors in a “number game.” They made a comparison with FriendFeed in March this year, in a post entitled, “Profilactic vs. FriendFeed,” with the statement that Profilactic is supporting 155 social sites. Now the number has increased to 186.

For users who found trouble in getting Python, get Postgre SQL, install subversion, and configure other softwares in order to have your Django application skeleton running, now you’ve Instant Django. It’s like InstantRails, you’ll find it helpful to get your application ready without all the step-by-step software installation and configuration. But, wait a moment, where is the InstantGrails (for Grails) and InstantMerb (for Merb Web framework)?

Searchme is a visual search engine and currently in the public beta phase. Searchme reminds me a lot of another visual search engine called oSkope, however these two are totally different in terms of user experience. I like Searchme very much. It allowed me to search the stuff that I want and save it on my desktop, within a finger click, i.e. drag and drop the search results (in the format of page by page) to the stack I created. As told by Searchme, all the pages saved in the stacks are stored in your desktop computer, and if you deleted your Flash Player cache, the pages you saved will be gone.

There are other features in Searchme, you can delete the stack you created, or add a public URL to it. Don’t be afraid the pages you saved will be exposed to the public, good pages should be shared to others as this is an act of demonstrate trust and cultivate the knowledge management culture.

To know more, I embedded two videos of Searchme, watch and enjoy.

1) Introduction to Searchme

2) How To Create a Stack

Wigadoo: Just launched in the UK. It is suitable for those who are organizing a trip or a travel leisure plan. What Wigadoo provided is a platform which allowed users to propose a trip, send the emails out to their friends, and then confirm the number till get everyone involved on board by giving out their credit or debit card details and pledge a certain amount of money.

The money collected for a particular event will be saved into a so-called online event account. This handy account comes with a Wigadoo Virtual Prepaid MasterCard that help users to pay for the event in advance.

Evernote: This Web 2.0 is officially launched in public beta today. Their motto is “Capture what you like; Find it when you want,” it help users to capture what they want such as notes, pictures, by simply click those stuff to a button called “New Pasteboard Clip” on their Web browser. It’s easy, the notes, pictures have been captured. Users can put a tag on each one of the items captured, so that they can find them later through the tag/category given.

Evernote can be operated on Windows, Mac, or Mobile phone. Currently, Evernote is operating it based on versioning, whereby Premium account goes for a larger capacity, i.e. 500MB per month compared to 40MB entitled to Free account. And Premium version does recognize text in images/pictures, thus users might find it very interesting.

Watch the video embedded below for more information below.