With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a way to create and share applications for education. This, of course, is great news for online education, as it provides all sorts of great tools designed to make learning and administration easier. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for online education.

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StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system. So the StayPress system able to manage property rentals, hotel room rentals and more. The new StayPress system takes over from the previous clearskys.net collection of plugins and brings everything together into a more manageable and co-ordinated group.

Downloadable version of the StayPress plugins will be launch soon, they are also planning a hosted version of the system for those who do not want the trouble of running their own website. Read More »

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Mad Mimi is a simple, intelligent and fun email marketing utility that anyone can use. Mad Mimi makes email marketing easy for the creator and lovely for the reader to look at when they get it in their inbox. With ground-breaking technology, Mad Mimi introduces the easiest way for people to create amazing email newsletters and promotions.

Mad Mimi is the first email marketing service to allow customers to create html emails in a template free, clutter free and cost free environment. Mad Mimi’s groundbreaking technology actually allows the user to generate neat, clean and symmetrical layouts that work faithfully in all major email-viewing programs from Hotmail to Mac Mail. Mad Mimi also give the user hassle free contact managements, tracking and a custom design service.

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Geni.com, top rated genealogy and family networking site announced today that genealogists can now import their family history into Geni using the popular GEDCOM format. The launch of this features makes it easy to move their research into Geni to easily share it with their family. Geni gave genealogists the ability to upload their family history from other programs to the Geni site using the industry standard GEDCOM file format. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication and is used to exchange data between genealogy applications.

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YackPack provides a simple audio platform that provides any group a natural and effective method to communicate in a private space on the Internet. With YackPack you can leave asynchronous voice messages and talk in real time with your group. Through the richness of audio, YackPack delivers the return to emotional connections with the people that matter most wherever they live, whatever their language or age and whenever they want to listen.

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Heroku, a San Francisco-based provider of Ruby on Rails application tools, raised a $3 million round of funding, from Redpoint Ventures and some other investors. This investment will allow them to beef up their current offerings, expand into other parts of the development process, and build out the company to support their quickly growing developer community.

Heroku provides a full stack platform. No decisions necessary, just get straight to coding your app. Heroku is built on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), so your apps have access to unlimited computing power. When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary. With a full Ruby and Rails runtime environment, you can run any Ruby code you can write, no limits. Install any gem or plugin directly into your app with one click. Pull from the standard gem and plugin directories, or upload your own. Read More »

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Online shopping portal Tjoos.com today launches it’s personal style recommendation service for clothing and accessories. Traditional shopping sites present clothing in the same way they present digital cameras, allowing shoppers only to shop based on price and features. The deciding factor however for most people is whether they like the look of it and if it matches their style.

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Coolspotters, a new social web application and community, has officially launched in beta to the public. Coolspotters provides a first-of-its-kind platform with an easy-to-use interface that allows people to discover, share, and connect around the products and brands being used by today’s celebrities and trendsetters (actors, athletes, business icons, musicians, politicians, and other public figures). Pepsi will participate in the launch as the exclusive sponsor for Coolspotters.

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SpotMixer, an innovator in online video advertising, has launched a video ad creation tool that allows any business, on any budget, to join the video ad revolution. A service of One True Media, SpotMixer has leveraged award-winning consumer video technology to offer merchants, online listings services and agencies a set of online video advertising solutions that enable businesses to easily create and distribute their own ads. By introducing two channels of service—a direct-to-business offering and the SpotMixer Platform for business partners—SpotMixer eliminates the barriers to online video advertising by making it affordable, approachable, and measurable.

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IdeaCrossing’s mission is to create the connections that build businesses. They do this by helping Entrepreneurs find the assistance and investment capital they need to launch promising new business ventures, while simultaneously serving the Angel and Venture Capital Community by identifying and screening new investment opportunities. IdeaCrossing also provides greater visibility to the numerous assets located throughout a given region, including universities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, foundations, and professional service providers.

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