Innovating something is the key activity which most of the developers do while developing some new product as no one wants to reinvent the wheel. The technological advancement of the world is also because of the innovations performed in every field of technology development. As this year has came to an end and the analysis process is on its way to check which technology has overtaken the other technologies and for this purpose Crunchies has been established. Actually Crunchies is a competition to recognize to celebrate the most exciting startups, internet and technological innovations of the year.  Read/WriteWeb, GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are the main organizers of the Crunchies and this year the finalist Crunchies have been declared and that are: Earthmine, Like, Move Networks, Twine, and Viewdle. The result has been concluded from the online voting and the lovers of these applications have voted for them to make them the best technological innovation of the year. Let me discuss all of them one by one.

1. Twine

Twine is a very wonderful Wikipedia kind of an application brought to you by radar networks and it is currently a private beta. The data availability on Twine is very effective for the users and people have reported it to be very effective for the completion of their tasks. Apart from the knowledge management it also performs the work like a social networking site as it gives you a new way to collect videos, photos, articles, WebPages and products thus giving you such a sufficient place to store them all on a same place and share them with anyone you want, you can create your own groups and communities on Twine and can use it alone or with friends.

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Join the communities and meet people having same interests as yours and experience a very well social networking. The overall main perspective of Twine is that it helps you in collecting information in a new highly personalized way; it organizes your contents by topic so that you can keep track of it and share it with your friends.

2. Viewdle

It is a visual search engine type of application which is very efficient for searching videos. It was presented for the first time at the Techcrunch40 event in September last year, and according to the developers it uses a face recognition algorithm to search people within the videos.

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A very good thing about their algorithm is that it works even in the uncontrolled environments like in various lightening conditions, camera angles and resolutions as it is designed to be scalable and fast. It has been noted that viewdle has dealed with Reuters and others. According to the company’s claim at the time of the launch the application will use contextual analysis which will allow it to recognize faces even if the data enlarges too many face.

3. Like

Like viewdle it is also an algorithm based search engine but this one is for visual shopping and it has been notified that the name was based on the AltSearchEngine’s Top 100 Alternative Search Engines of the Year. It has also used face recognition technologies for the image search and the main attempt is to commercialize that technology.

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According to the developers it has utilized the “likeness technology” to create a digital signature that describes the contents of photo. It is the best one for online shopping and has got a good enough support from the users in making it a top crunchie. Currently the products available on the site are: clothing, handbags, jewelry, shoes, and watches and it might also get some more products by the time. The users can purchase the products on the side through merchants like Nordstrom and Amazon.

4. Earthmine

This application has been launched at DEMOfall 07 and the overall perspective is almost same as the Google street view maps. It has not provided the video facility but it tracks out the path via laser range finding and still photography that are more detailed to give the perfect path.

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According to the developers their application can capture entire towns in just few weeks using their camera setup. And they are also planning to bring 3D data for the photos which would be more efficient than other maps. This one can really prove to be a best guide while travelling.

5. Move Networks

It is a kind of publishing system which facilitates the users with end-to-end services for encoding, streaming, editing and monetizing your video broadcast. It has been seen that some of the major TV networks are using this application to power their internet streaming services mainly the ABC, FOX, and The CW.  As stated by some expert it uses a QVT file to send little packets across the web and thus gives a non buffering experience to its users and it is scaled based on the speed of user’s connection.

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These were the hottest technological innovations which have got a very huge user’s support and thus have acquired the rank of top position holders of Crunchies. All of them are really very fantastic in their working and such an advancement will really boost up future developments in technology.

Here are all the making facts for differing celebrity on their properties, wealth and how much they are spending on what. Let us face that we all like to know what our favorite stars, icons or idols are up to. We are definitely always curios about what is happening to their property or that auctioned gown or what they are wearing or how they are looking at the recent awards. This site keeps a tab on most of the hottest celebrity news including uploading videos related to fashion links as well as bringing you some of the most entertaining pictures from recent awards and celebrity gathering. You would be amazed to find the wide array of news being brought forth here. These are not only fun but with every inch and slice of truth in them.

The quizzes are all fun and interesting ready to make your day within just a few seconds of your time. LetitFlow.com is a very interesting place that brings you some of the greatest and tastiest deals happening with the tinsel town. Get to know where the famed people are living and lodging, what they are doing and who they are seeing. Be also close to the latest fashion trends with the information being provided through this site. They make it a point to bring you fresh covers of different fashion shows and celebrity gatherings. Sit back and relax as you sink into the details of celebrity events and findings, all at one go. Get to have knowing about the latest celebrity fun, their fresh works, and the hours to which they are partying.

This is also a site that brings you some of the most popular locations and hot deals that are in the world. If there are some gorgeous places or shopping joints that are worth the check then the latest updates are filled in here. Whatever may be the category you may be hunting for, you are sure to find something or the other here.

The Jamo C809 Floor Standing speakers, OPPO Blu-Ray, Audio Tekne TFM-9412 amplifier, Pass Labs, etc. are also some of the highly reviewed audio systems that have been embraced by the world. The ROTEL RC-995 Pre-amp Shootout for instance, is a great product that comes with some awesome features and great ratings overall.

The Jamo C809 Floor Standing speakers have some great speakers that play by stereonominal power. It has 200 Watt RMS Construc and brings great value for its price. The very first impressions of OPPO Blu-Ray has come with some Worf101First has led to a great system. This is one of the BIG OPPO items that have been upconver with 931. The Audio Tekne TFM-9412 is an integrated 300B amplifier that comes with SooConstantine Soo. This is a great feature that brings some of the greatest values of all times in terms of a high quality audio system.

The dbFrequency response is a great aspect that comes with Press Labs. It comes with 100 khz power O. The Monster Beats Solo headphones are some of the perfect accessories to go with home theatre systems to bring you those more personalized and intimate experiences.

Intergra DTR A/V receivers as well as DHC preamplifiers or processors are some of the greatest networks of A/V receivers that come to install some of the highest quality similar installers. Rotel Rolling out custom installation RMB-1512 amplifier is also one of the highest of all kinds of processors or customized products that will come of good use for anyone using a home theatre. These bring about greater accessories and their intense uses to any high quality home theatre system that you might be wanting.

Denon’s AVR-4810CI with its receiver, universal Blu-ray player, iPod docks, etc. is another great addition to the world of premier sound systems.

Established in 2006, this Florida based company serves the aerospace industry being the global provider of all kinds of aircraft parts. It is dedicated and committed to provide customer services and quality work by searching quickly their customers’ specific need of aircraft parts online. The trained and skillful staffs of WBParts have expertise to meet the expectations of their customers by understanding their need, and promise to keep them safe in flight. The sales staff responds to the request in 24 hours. And also a personal staff representative is assigned, if required, to assist your transaction with company.

You can have detailed knowledge about your required aircraft part by visiting http://www.wbparts.com/ and meet your requirement by skilled staff within time. Their online search and procurement service facilitates their customers to streamline the process of parts sourcing very well. Apart from providing services for maintenance and repair operations, the service designed by the website is also for power transmission service centers of manufacturers, government agencies and prime contractors or sub contractors. WBParts offers services to the world wide market that sell its products to commercial airlines, military and defense, as well as business aviation. They have access to tagged, rotable parts and mil-spec, meeting the needs of a diverse range of applications in the entire aerospace industry.

The company has maintained good relationship with a number of distributors, surplus warehouses and other manufacturers with its access to huge range of aircraft parts, from fasteners and avionics to bearings and other aircraft structural parts such as hexagon plain nut fasteners, plate self locking nut fasteners, seal fasteners, packing assembly fasteners, packing with retainer fasteners, retaining ring fasteners, threaded pin rivet fasteners, gasket fasteners, etc. To get what you are looking for, you just need to register your self on the site which is very simple and easy. After getting your self registered on the site, you will gain access to the site’s ordering and tracking tools as well as access to its all aircraft part search.

Social networking web sites

It uses different applications to use with various devices, such as Twitterlicious for PCs and Twitterrific for Macs, Outwit, Tweet Scan, Twessenger and many more. Here, we shall discuss Twitterrific.

Twitterrific is an entertaining application that can only be used with Mac (and Apple iPhone and iPod touch of course). To enjoy this fun function, you have to have:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or late
• Twitter account

By installing it on to your Mac, you can get access to real time updates from your friends. With the help of this application, you will be able not only to read the recent updated status of your circle, but also you can send in the status update of yourself to let your community know about your current situation.

How to install it?

Following are the step by step instructions for installing and having fun with Twitterrific on your Mac:

• Visit Twitter.com to sign up for a new account (if you do not have one, already). Twitter accounts are free, and are set up pretty quickly without much ado.
• Download Twitterrific from any downloading web sites available. (Recommended: Log out of Twitter account before installing Twitterrific.)
• Unzip the DMG file.
• Move this application to Applications Folder.
• Click on the awesome icon to launch the application.
• Enter your Twitter account details and information into the application.
• A tiny “wrench” at the bottom will lead you to the settings. You can set up the needed time to refresh tweets.

There are quite a number of shortcuts that you can use with Twitterrific. Some of them are as follows:

• ⌘Q – Quit Twitterrific
• ⌘W – Close the Twitterrific window
• ⌘R – Refresh list of tweets
• ⌘2 – Reply to the selected tweet (using “@name”)
• ⌘D – Send a direct message
• ⌘⌫ – Delete the selected tweet
• ⌘L – Login to a different Twitter account
• Tab – Toggle between the tweet list and message input
• ⌘← – Open the user’s Twitter page
• ↓/↑ – Scroll through tweets list
• ⌥↑ – Go to the newest tweet
• ⌥↓ – Go to the oldest tweet

Twitterrific’s Positive Aspects:

• Clean and succinct User Interface with small desktop footprint
• Nice iPhone and iPod touch incorporation
• Supports multiple Twitter accounts
• Auto refreshing at user defined gaps
• Delete tweets from Twitter rapidly and effortlessly
• Auto show / hide when new tweets turn up
• Swap between friend and public tweets with no trouble
• Keyboard shortcuts for list navigation and more
• Audio notification for new tweets
• Hotkey to show / hide tweets

Twitterrific’s Negative Aspects:

Scrolling experience is not up to the mark

The freebie version comes with ads, and it takes $15 to remove those ads. Choose one according to your priorities.

With TweetDeck, you can directly tweet; you can find out your all real-time new tweets, you can create your dashboard by using columns, you can follow your friends on you can easily follow your friends on Facebook as well as can update you Facebook status, you can follow your colleagues, friends by creating groups and in short you can do wonders with it.

In its previous version, users had to undergo some commotion because of its memory leak issue, but in the newly released version not only this issue has been fixed, but some nice refreshingly new features have also been added that include Twitpic thumbnails, short previews of urls, 12sec video clip recording and nice integration for Facebook.

TweetRush shows that it has become one of the most popular applications with 8.9% Tweets drives at Twitter and similarly their site saw nearly 375,000 visitors during the last month.

To fix the nagging memory leak issue they paired up with Adobe and the latest version will definitely seem to serve you at its peak free of all such issues and you will find it running throughout the day or even forever if you like.

The new version also has a short urls preview function that will allow you to directly view information regarding links through TweetDeck. All you need to do is just to click on these short links and you will find an information box in front. So, it’s not hard to find what your friends have in their tweets and you can also directly go to web page by clicking on these links.

The mass of tweets are often difficult to digest as well as somewhat overwhelming for almost all those using Twitter these days, but it has become a lot easier with TweetDeck to spilt different sort of tweets in different columns to get broader overview and be well organized on the site.

No doubt, the new version has the great ability to group people in easier way and make your search quite well organized on the bulging twittersphere. With the help of different friends and colleagues groups, you will get a nice source to manage you twitter life in a great way and give better focus to its various aspects.

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USBid.com is a marketplace which offers buyers and sellers a platform where they can find the right component they need. USBid.com specializes in offering electronic components which are hard to find and obsolete as well as Integrated Circuits.

Hard to find components:

Buyers are facing a hard problem these days that they can not easily access their required electronic components because of many reasons. Basically, electronic components and integrated circuits become extinct because the manufacture of those components is discontinued by the producers regularly, low demand components or parts are usually manufactures on yearly basis by the makers, and franchises are mostly not very interested in picking up huge amount of low demand components.

Integrated Circuits:

There are two main advantages of ICs; they are not costly, and their performance is wonderful. This is why they are always in demand by people of electronic market. Here, you can find a seller who is giving-off integrated circuits at a price affordable for you.

Obsolete components:

These are hose electronic elements which have gone out of date and are no more used. But this does not men that no one in this world needs them; if you need them, you have come to the right place. Usually, redesigning some of the electronic elements is very expensive and not worth the cost it takes; thus the part gradually vanishes from market.

Services:

USBid.com is a facilitating service for both vendors and vendees to coordinate with each other online for buying or selling their required electronic components, which are otherwise hard to find.

It is not a commercial agent web site, neither is it a wholesaler. They only serve as a platform for you to do your business. They have NO Registration or Membership fee; it is absolutely free for you to join. Buyers will bear all costs of the price as well as shipping of the object, usually. In the buyers’ area, one can easily search for the needed elements and manage the lists of their RFQs; Request for Quote.

They are ISO 9001:2001 certified for quality management system. Their services are fast and they have a database of more than 35 million elements. Thus, this can be a right place for you to find the electronic component you had been searching for since long.

Design and lay out

The Ftv is colourful with pictures of models scattered all through the home page.  In a black and ash background, the red and blue colours along with pictures are fashionably displayed. Though the web page opens only slowly, once you are inside, it is a world of fashion, glamour and style.  The navigation bar on the top is well placed with the links prominently displayed. The web page opens to a colourful flash, from where one can navigate through various Fashion TV programmes like FTV Video, FTV Mobiles and FTV Buzz. The web page maintains all professionalism needed for a fashion website.

Content

The navigation bar has links to FTV Videos, FTV mobile, FTV Pictures, FTV Buzz, F Spot, My F Spot, Be on FTV and Programme guide. The FTV Videos has many links like Diaries, F Model, F parties, Fashion and music, and a lot more, which all open to various glamorous videos. The Top Videos section is a great attraction here. From the FTV mobiles, one can download wallpapers, Ring tones and videos on to the mobile.

The FTV pictures are a great place to see all models in their fashion and beauty. One can also come across pictures of great fashion Photographers in the Focus section. The option for downloading FTV calendar is also splendid.

The F Spot has all the latest on Style, beauty and accessories. The separate links on GenNext brings the latest in fashion. Then there are separate pages for model puzzles, Style quiz, fashion Poll, Trend spotting, Jewellery and fashion people.  The FTV is also a platform for designers, models, stylists and photographers to showcase their work to the world. “Be on FTV” helps to fulfil the dreams.

Apart from the links on the navigation bar, one can directly open these pages from the links on the left column. Just below the flash, there is the F Buzz News update and F Spot Trend Update.  Down on the right hand side, one can submit email id and get FTV newsletter and updates that is happening in fashion and style. Navigation through the links is easy. Unlike the main page, all the link pages open fast.

Design and lay out

The Home page is attractive, with a lot of white space. The green and blue colours add beauty to Vw. The Logo and the search engine with links to Cars, Build, dealers, VW life and Owners resemble a car stereo, which is quite splendid. The right side navigation bar is well depicted on the top. Down below, the navigation bar that depicts various models is also perfectly placed. The whole design is soothing to the eyes and the navigation is so easy with its splendid lay out.

Content

Navigation is very easy as the web page is not that crowded. Each link is well placed so that a viewer does not have any confusion in his choice. The first thing that strikes one when opening the page is the Logo with the search engine and links, which is in a rectangle shape, similar to a car stereo. When the mouse is clicked on each of links — Cars, Build, dealers, VW life and Owners – a new box opens from where one can go deep into each details. While the link to “Car” is clicked, it opens to the various Volkswagen models. Each model moves on to specifications, technical features, pricing, Picture gallery and dealers.  There is also a provision for searching the models on its Build.

The Dealers section helps to find a dealer, schedule a test drive, get a quote and contact the dealer, which shows that the website is a complete guide on Volkswagen.  The VW Life is all about the manufacturer, about driving good and other details the company is involved in. Apart from the” find a dealer”, “get a quote”, “schedule test drive”, the “special offers” tells about all the special offers given on each model.

Coming down the page, there is a separate section – Owners tools—that has details on car servicing, VW credit, Driver Gear and Owner perks. Well, the pictures of cars that come with each model are of good quality. The Literature is also simple with nothing boring.

Simple and loaded with information, the Vw maintains all professionalism of an auto website.

The site has a section where the latest products are listed that help one to identify immediately the latest products by the company. This also helps in getting the product to a larger base, who are mostly the ones wishing to flaunt the latest of cosmetics et al. Lakme has a special section dedicated to the bridal aspect of the feminine creation. This is very handy for those cute and sexy females who are about to be wedded. This is a special aspect of the site as it is not usually found in most other such fashion and cosmetic websites. Lakme offers numerous tips and tricks to all interested in enhancing their beauty. The tips given on the site are by professionals and are tested and tried over again. This collection is unique for a site which gives not only product information, but also helps in the perfect use of its products to get the right required results time and again.

There is also a section on the site that help maintain the skin in the young 20’s state, which advertises about the latest skin care products. These products are classified based on the various skin types and include those for cleansing of the skin, toning, moisturizing, and even about protection against the ruthless sun. Hairstyling products too form one of the sections available on the Lakme website. This category of products is based on the idea of hair care. The belle females who want their hair in the latest ultra modern styles, can find here all the products they need to just be so. Well, that’s not all even those who wish to become chic can explore the range of products available.

Lakme also has a section where eager users can pose questions to various experts on wide variety of topics and get personalized responses, including the therapy needed to be followed for a particular query posted. The website is updated frequently keeping in mind the requirement of updating the site to cater to the need of the large users who use it to stay ahead of the rest in the field of beauty and body care.