Snips from Inc.

November, 2007

Build Your Own Widget
-www.widgetbox.com
-desktop.google.com/plugins
-widgets.yahoo.com
-www.snipperoo.com
-www.widgetgallery.com
-www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard

Free Web Conference Services
-www.dimdim.com: open-source web-conferencing tool, like WebEx but free
-www.empressr.com: create, manage, and share multimedia presentations
-www.zentation.com: online viewing of slides and a video of you speaking about them
-www.spresent.com: allow others to view slides during conference calls without setup

March, 2008

Outsourcing HR
-Ceridian: when you want to pick and choose, best if you need only a few services
-Administaff: when you want to offer more health care options, they take over everything
-Taleo: when you want to move beyond the annual review, good for performance reviews
-KnowledgeBank: when you're starting from scratch, focus only on HR management, no payroll/benefits
-CheckPoint HR: when you want a paperless office, you still need to conduct reviews and handle employee complaints

Web Hosting
-Shared server: with other customers, if a site on the server experiences heavy traffic, your site could crash (godaddy.com, 1&1 internet, yahoo small business, dreamhost)
-Grid server: if heavy traffic, other servers will pick up the load (media temple, mosso, 3tera, layered technologies)
-Virtual private server: large slice of a dedicated server, if other sites on server are busy, your site should still run normally (spry vs hosting, verio, media temple, web.com, godaddy.com)
-Dedicated server: hosted on own server, most capacity for a fixed price, sudden flood could still overwhelm the server (rackspace, the planet.com, softlayer, fastservers.net)