Once again BusinessWeek has come up with List of Best Entities on Web, with voting started today on BusinessWeek Best of the Web'08 till Sept. 12, this time the ace news portal has come up with some new additions such as Best new comer entry and the famous - The Most Influential People on the Web. While in new comers the entries are - Freindfeed, Summize, GigaPan, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope and WaterCooler and in Blogs categories, the entries are more or less the same, yes you guess right its -TechCrunch, Scobleizer the two same 'old' brand new blogs along with http://gothamist.com, Seth's Blog and http://paul.kedrosky.com. Apart from above categories BusinessWeek do have other 23 categories too namely - Tech News, Business News, Social Networking, Sports, Real Estate and Blogging tools etc. with 5 nominees in each categories where users along with voting their favorites among the nominees can also submit their own choice of website in respective categories with few lines on why they like that website or blog. While browsing th nominees I found the redundancy in th nominees that has been around for quite a long time, the question is why not bring in the new and deserving ones, for e.g. ...

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free in an interactive way where users can choose different styles, put up different things to develop a virtual face to be used on varieties of use such as your IMs, social network profiles or your blog etc. Moreover, FaceYourManga.com also allows to download and print a high resolution version of Avatars you create along with feature to print the image on various surfaces turning your creation into an original furniture article for your home and can buy those printed products via Paypal. Face Your Manga is a product brought by Pixelheads and at moment is providing users to create Avatars and buy the image immediately as digital file download. It also seems that website is planning come with some sort of 'community' feature on faceyourmanga.com.

Mikogo is a free online meeting tool that enables the users to host web presentations and even control a remote computer over the Internet. The tool uses 256 bit AES encryption, allowing to share your desktop in real time and in true color quality across the world with up to 10 participants simultaneously. The tools is offshoot of its already screen sharing tool called BeamYourScreen, to instantly share your screen online to anyone. Mikogo can be employed for a range of professional, business, or academic, including online meetings, product demonstrations, online presentations, web conferencing or remote support. Naturally, Mikogo includes many features to empower the users as much as possible during use. During meeting with Mikogo users can able to: • share each others’ screens • switch presenters • access remote keyboard and mouse control • pause transmission • select only certain applications for sharing • and transfer files between PCs To get started with Mikogo just download the app, and start a meeting with 2 mouse clicks from the system tray. Receive the unique meeting ID – participants then use this to join the meeting. Noticeably, there is no installations or registrations on the participants' part. Being free web tool and no time limitations, Mikogo is easily in reach to ...

With Olympics games at Beijing just start off there are plenty of sources online where they are providing really good info and live footage, updates of every sports going to held in Beijing, China. Lets take a brief snapshots of few good and big players keeping tab on this summer games at Beijing. CCTV.com: The official Internet and Mobile broadcaster of Olympics 2008, is providing Beijing events' Live videos, Photos and News updates through it International version (English) here - http://intl.2008.cctv.com. Olympics enthusiast can also get information of flights, tickets, schedules and Hotel reservations along with putting tab on the event through video reports. Noticeably CCTV is China's largest TV network and providing complete content of all of the things that have something to do with Beijing Olympics 2008 and complete portal on the the event at Beijing. MSN/ NBCOlympics NBCOlympics.com is MSN's 2008 summer Olympics website, the website serves 24x7 Olympics module complete with the latest news, live medal counts, statistics and videos, though it more for US audience with news, videos exclusive for US Atheletes and sports persons there at Beijing. Mobile version - http://mobile.nbcolympics.com YouTube Channel - Beijing 2008 The YouTube Beijing 2008 is the Official IOC Content on YouTube provided ...

New online service Resnooze let you remind things and even remind you to visit URLs on user defined frequency which can than be send to your email. One can set multiple reminders and can customize the settings for it. Bloggers on other hand can get returning visitors (non-RSS) by embedding link (or image button) of - in their blogs or websites to get periodical reminder in their visitors mailbox. Being a user of this service, one can change the reminder's title, add a note, control frequency, the day in the week or in the month, and the exact time of the reminder. The service is pretty helpful to bloggers/ users in other sense that - when you see a website which is yet to be released or under construction or say not in public beta and you want to see and review it first for example SneakCast which is apparently got shut down before and now its in line of its relaunch, you can set a URL reminder say - weekly to get reminder of whether it is launched yet or not.

Wired has prepared a tool to play with your famous quotient on web, i.e. how famous are you on Internet. Wired Celeberity Meter checks URLs on web and scores internet fame based on - backlinks, friends across social networks (Twitter and MySpace for now), WIRED will be adding more social networks gradually in this Celebrity Tool Project to come up with full fledged tool. The Tool/ Project by WIRED is work which has been already initiated at Google Social Graph where you will find similar Example applications although there are no such rating/ number/ meter thing as WIRED is trying to do. Traackr is also one such website that let you find out - how famous are you on 'Web', the social graph is fast catching up to poise or untangle the social connectivity on web.

RoamAbout is a plugin that delivers information on the web contextually. Users would not need to leave the site they are browsing in order to search for videos, music, pictures or share the things they come across with. This Firefox & IE plugin bring all these to the user by just highlighting the text any user want without leaving the web page they are viewing. One can get related information by selecting text and clicking the RoamAbout Icon in status bar also users can post to their twitter account, the selected text of a web page and post it directly their, without even leaving the web page actually. Similarly users can browse flickr photos, Google news, info from Wikipedia, maps from MapQuest and videos from YouTube and by just selecting the text in web page you are viewing and hitting the plugin's icons bar. User can customize the the plugin bar so as to limit the no. of Icons for different Web services or websites such as stock quotes, weather or games. Moreover, the company behind RoamAround Vysr do have the open platform that provides developers with any easy way to add and integrate services and networks that users can tap into as ...