Elance is an online hiring and management service. Employers can find people in various disciplines for hire, and then use the site to manage their project status, and get in touch. The site also takes care of things like payments and accounting, making it easier to focus on the actual work being done.
Companies and both medium and small business owners can use this service to find staff. This service makes it a simpler process for the employer with most of the work in finding the staff being done for them.
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HULU
Hulu is a Web video service from NBC Universal and Fox Entertainment Group. Designed as a deterrent for online privacy, Hulu lets users watch full-length movies and TV shows right in their browser, and with limited commercials and other on-page advertising.
Unlike sites like YouTube, everything on Hulu comes directly from the content providers, and not from users. Another thing that sets it apart from most other video sites, is that content is set to expire after a certain amount of time on the service. This is in part to encourage users to watch programming while it's on TV, as well as boost DVD sales.
This service could be used by film producers to test out there product to different target markets before it is released to public television or DVD. It will enable them to see the reaction of the public but because it only lasts a certain amount of time, will mean that the viewer still needs to buy or view the film on television or DVD, if they like it of course.
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MINT
Mint is a free online financial management service designed to compete with local money management software and other online finance services. It will interface directly with your bank and credit card companies (there are more than 3,500 institutions on the system) to keep your accounts up to date.
You can also configure the product to send you e-mail or mobile alerts when certain conditions are met, such as accounts dropping to certain levels, bills coming due, or when large purchases are made on credit cards you're tracking. It also has an application for mobile devices that lets users keep an eye on things while away from a computer.
This service would be fantastic for business owners who don’t have specific people to continually be overseeing the finances of the business. This service does almost sound to good to be true. The only setback might be that a lot of people feel uncomfortable giving all there account details to this software.
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POST BOX
Postbox is free desktop e-mail software that's closely integrated with various Web apps and services. Once it's been connected to these outside services, it can easily open up attachments in other pieces of software or Web applications when clicking on things like addresses, phone numbers, and certain file types.
Similar to Mozilla's Thunderbird, Postbox has taken a tabbed approach to e-mail, allowing you to have several tabs open at once with various e-mail tasks running inside of each one. It also includes a to-do-list manager, archiving tool, and tagging system to let you organize and sort your mail quickly.
This service would make life easier for businesses that frequently have to order stock from a large number of suppliers. This software would simplify the process, when receiving product emails, order details, product changes, photos or videos of products, receipts and account information. Each supplier would have their own individual formatting, but postbox would simply this process for the business owners.
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Dropbox is a file storage service that syncs up files between multiple machines. Once installed, you gain access to a virtual folder that will stay synced up and pass along any new additions, deletions, or changes. All the while, the service keeps snapshots of every version of a file that's been changed, which means you can go back and retrieve older iterations.
Dropbox also lets users create shared versions of these folders, so multiple users can contribute or make changes to a collection of group files and make sure everyone is using the most up-to-date versions.
This would be great in a multimedia business environment where there are several people that would be working on one particular product at a time. Or for example a call center environment where one person makes the changes to the information displayed to the call center staff, so they all see the information at the same time on each individual computer.
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