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List.ly – Collaborative Lists

List.ly is an online tool for building collaborative lists. Upon sharing the lists, other users can contribute to them or see what others have added. Each entry in the list can be voted upon, in order to produce democratically a ranking order.

Lists can be easily embedded in external websites. The List.ly homepage features trending lists that get the most attention. A search bar for retrieving lists by keywords is also provided.

List.ly was launched in April 2011 and currently it attracts consistently over one thousand unique visitors each month, according to Compete.

The service was formerly known as twtpickin and it was founded by Shyam Subramanyan. In his Google Profile he is currently listed as founder for BoomyLabs.com .

280Slides – Online Presentations

280Slides is an online presentation builder that can be used in order to create a powerful deck of slides from within the browser’s window.

With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for. When the presentation is done, it can be shared in any way with the world at large. Among the features offered we can mention the ability to download the presentation using Powerpoint as a format, the automatic autosave and recovery option or several quality graphic themes.

The site also distinguishes itself due to the ability of working on a presentation without the need to login or signup for an account. Upon the first save operation, a login is requested or a new account can be created. This allows new users to get familiar with the editing interface and to see the webapp in action before investing time in the sign up process. Partially due to this, the service managed to attract 10’000 monthly unique visitors during the last year.

The company behind the site is called 280 North, Inc. It was formed in 2008 by college friends Tom Robinson, Francisco Tolmasky, and Ross Boucher. Among their released projects is the famous Cappuccino application development framework, which enables web developers to create online interfaces that resemble the native controls offered by the Mac operating system. 280 North was funded by YCombinator and got acquired by Motorola in the summer of 2010 for $20 millions.

Mavenlink – Online Collaboration Tools

Mavenlink provides browser-based team collaboration tools that enable anyone to deliver client services using a centralized dashboard panel. It offers time and invoice tracking, collaborative file sharing and email integration.

The company offers several pricing plans; the free plan allows up to 3 active projects, while paid plans charge $39/month for individuals or $79/month for small teams.

Mavenlink is integrated with PayPal, in the sense that payment or invoices can be made or received using PayPal. The site offers full integration with the Google Apps platform. In May 2011, the Google Apps Marketplace selected Mavenlink as their first recommended staff pick in the entire Marketplace. The site gets around 10’000 unique visitors each month.

The service was founded in 2008 by Ray Grainger, Sean Crafts, and Roger Neel. Ray currently acts as Chief Executive Officer. The company currently operates in Irvine and San Francisco.

WorkFlowy – Organize Your Brain

WorkFlowy is a browser-based to-do tracker tool which allows users to organize their tasks in an hierarchical tree-based structure.

The app allows each to-do task to be marked with one or several tags for easy retrieval in the future via tag-based search. In addition to the traditional site, WorkFlowy has a special version dedicated to mobile devices.

The app features on its homepage a list of impressive testimonials, one of them being from Matt Cutts, head of Google webspam efforts, which states that the project has become one of three tabs that he keeps open in the browser, along with Gmail and Google Calendar.

The site was launched in September 2010 by co-founders Jesse Patel and Mike Turitzin. It has around 10’000 visitors on a monthly basis and it has been featured extensively in tech blogs such as TechCrunch, TheNextWeb and LifeHacker.

Bizodo – Online Form Builder

Bizodo is a free point and click online form builder that helps users collect and manage forms with ease. Users can create online forms, surveys, event registration or contact forms to be used either with a custom web address from Bizodo or to be easily embed in an existing site. Once the forms are filled, that information can be easily used to create mailing lists or to follow up on specific tasks.

Bizodo offers related tools that help small business owners to stay organized and productive. The project management tools keep people effective, while a cloud document manager allows users to easily store, organize and share documents collected from online forms. The contact manager ensures easy collaboration and proper follow-ups on contacts.

The site offers a freemium model where no credit card is required. The paid plans start at $29/month and offer a money back guarantee as well as complete customer support.

Bizodo was founded in February 2011 by a team of lead generation and online marketing veterans, having Jonathon Ende as CEO. It recently exited out of beta. While external sites have limited traffic information about the service, the easy tools offered and the degree of integration between them position the project for sustainable growth in the near future.

Mozy – Online Backup

Mozy is an online backup service designed for both Windows and Mac computers. It offers clients for mobile platforms, including iPad and Android tablets, allowing remote access to the backed up content from mobile devices.

Mozy produces two products, MozyHome and MozyPro. The first is a version targeted for individual consumers, while the later is the business class version. The site offers 2 GB of storage for free, while paid plans start at $5.99/month for 50GB of storage.

In the last year the service constantly attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. In May 2010, Mozy launched version 2.0 of its service, adding support for local backup and an improved user interface.

The company was founded in 2005. In 2007, the Mozy product line was sold to EMC for for $76 million dollars. As of April 2011, Mozy is operated by VMware and Mozy’s staff is being integrated into VMware.

Wuala – Secure Online Storage

Wuala is a online storage solution developed in Switzerland. The service is based on 4 main features: backup files on the Wuala servers, sync files across multiple devices, share things with your friends and secure your content by encrypting it before transmitting it over the Internet.

The company advertises itself as being one of the most secure alternatives in the cloud storage industry due to its full client-side encryption process. It provides a client utility for several platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and Mobile. In each of the last 12 months Wuala managed consistently to attract tens of thousands of visitors to its website.

Wuala offers several pricing plans. The free edition includes 2 GB of free storage, while paid plans start at 10 GB of storage for 19 EUR per year.

The service started as a research project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. It got incorporated as a private company under the name Caleido AG, but in March 2009 the site got acquired by LaCie, a French-based company, to complement its existent external hard drive business. Today Wuala offers sign-up discounts for LaCie customers, such as 10 GB for one year upon the acquisition of a LaCie external hard drive, or 4 GB for two years for a LaCie USB flash drive.

SugarSync – Access Your Data

SugarSync is a file sync and online backup tool that allows users to access their files across all their devices via a unified storage system.

SugarSync supports Macs, PCs, iPhone, iPads, Android, Blackberries as well as other mobile devices. Users can login into their account, sync content from multiple devices as well as access or update documents on the go.

The site currently offers 4 pricing plans varying from 30 GB up to 250 GB of storage, with fees from $5 USD/month up to $25 USD/month. There are group plans available for business customers. Users can also sign up for a free plan that offers 5 GB of free storage.

Compete shows the site’s traffic at around 100’000 unique monthly visitors. At the end of December 2008, the company raised in total $26.5 million USD from venture capitalists; both founders left the company one month earlier (in November 2008). SugarSync is currently headed by acting CEO Laura Yecies.

Flickr – Host Your Images Online

Flickr Flickr is an image-hosting site that allows its users to upload and share with their friends and the world at large their favorite photo albums.

Flickr offers two types of accounts, Free and Pro. The free accounts don’t allow the option of downloading the image files, and only the most 200 recent photos are indexed in the account’s homepage. Free accounts are also subject to deletion after a period of 90 days of inactivity. Once upgraded to the Pro plan, users gain the ability to download the files for previously uploaded images, and they are no longer subject to the inactivity deletion rules.

Flickr was initially launched in February 2004 by Stewart Butterfield with his then-wife Caterina Fake. The site was acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005 (the reported acquisition cost was $35 million). On 16 June 2007, Yahoo! Photos issued a press release stating that its service would end on September 2007, in order to focus the company’s efforts on Flickr.

In 2008, Stewart and Caterina resigned their Yahoo jobs. At the end of November 2010, Yahoo was on the verge of a major layoff affecting 10%-20% of its workforce and Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs. In August 2011 Flickr reported that it continues to see strong adoption for the service; it stated that the site hosts more than 6 billion images and that this number continues to grow steadily.

CoolText – Create Logos Online

CoolText.com is an interesting online tool that can be used to create royalty-free logos from within the browser.

The site offers several template-models to choose from; each template usually gives the ability to select a font face, a font size and a font color to be used during the logo creation process. After selecting the desired options, the logo is rendered online as an image that can be saved for later use, royalty-free.

CoolText enjoys several hundred thousands visitors each month and is ranked in the top 10’000 sites in both Compete and Alexa rankings:

CoolText Traffic

CoolText was created by Bryan Livingston, a small business owner and computer programmer living in Lehi, Utah. In addition to his personal site he maintains the CoolText blog where he occasionally announces new template models supported by the site.

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List.ly – Collaborative Lists

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280Slides – Online Presentations

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Mavenlink – Online Collaboration Tools

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WorkFlowy – Organize Your Brain

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Bizodo – Online Form Builder

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Mozy – Online Backup

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Wuala – Secure Online Storage

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SugarSync – Access Your Data

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Flickr – Host Your Images Online

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CoolText – Create Logos Online

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