Paul Grunt

9rules is having another membership submission opening up soon. 9rules only allows submissions for 24 hours so get you site tightened up and submit it! Submission dates are below:

• May 7, 2008
• August 6, 2008
• November 5, 2008

I stumbled across AdMob via a tweet from Shawn Collins today and I’m pretty impressed with what AdMob has to offer to mobile advertisers and publishers. AdMob also has a beta offering right now to try out their AdMob Mobile Analytics which looks very user friendly. Check it out!

GroupTweet is used to send private Twitter messages to specific groups of Twitter friends. GroupTweet piggy-backs Twitter’s service using the Twitter API. There are simple instructions for set-up and usage of GroupTweet on their website. If you need private twitter this is something you should try.

Get Safari - If you’re looking to browse the web at lightning speeds and view content the way it’s supposed to be viewed online then you need to get started using Safari now. It will outperform your current browser no matter what platform you’re on. Yup, it supports Mac and Windows! Download Safari and browse faster!

Rather than try and explain OpenID myself, I’ve posted their copy below.

“OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.

You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.

For businesses, this means a lower cost of password and account management, while drawing new web traffic. OpenID lowers user frustration by letting users have control of their login.

For geeks, OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID takes advantage of already existing internet technology (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman) and realizes that people are already creating identities for themselves whether it be at their blog, photostream, profile page, etc. With OpenID you can easily transform one of these existing URIs into an account which can be used at sites which support OpenID logins.

OpenID is still in the adoption phase and is becoming more and more popular, as large organizations like AOL, Microsoft, Sun, Novell, etc. begin to accept and provide OpenIDs. Today it is estimated that there are over 160-million OpenID enabled URIs with nearly ten-thousand sites supporting OpenID logins.” -OpneID

Wire & Twine has a series of t-shirts dedicated to improving our environment today for a better tomorrow and my favorite one is 50 ways to help save the planet. This is a great shirt that has screen printed icons taken from the 50 ways to help save the planet listing. It’s really nice and since I like to support green initiatives and an icon lover I’m going to buy one!

Signalfire is a FREE Group Chat solution that allows you to stay in contact with your teams, family and friends. Signalfire allows you to create many Rooms for collaboration, toggle between Rooms and manage members all using a Top Down approach to chat, similar to twitter, which allows users to focus naturally on recent chat entries.

Signalfire is a RubyOnRails application baked by the creative minds at NewLeaders based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Check out Signalfire! I think you’ll like it.

Brightkite is a great location-based social network developed using RubyOnRails that has been designed to fill the niche in social networks and allow you to meet and communicate with friends in your area as well as view their current location. Best part is they’re based here in Denver, CO. We need more innovative companies like Brightkite in Denver.

“Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends. Users can see where their friends are and what they’re up to all while maintaining comprehensive degrees of privacy to non-friends. Depending on a user’s privacy setting they can also be open to meeting others nearby.”

If you’re looking for the best way to use Twitter on your iPhone I suggest you check out TwitterForiPhone. All you need is an iPhone and a Twitter account and you’re ready to “Get your Twit on.”

Twitter for iPhone is a RubyOnRails application baked by the creative minds at NewLeaders based in Santa Barbara, CA.