www.JustKidCostumes.com,
the leading online destination for kids
Halloween costumes has launched a totally redesigned website that provides
a greatly updated look and feel to better deliver on their vision of providing
the best selection of kids costumes at the best prices.
According
to JustKidCostumes CEO Mike Weimar, “our new site has a really appealing
look and feel that will appeal to kids, Mom’s and Grandparents alike.
Unlike most of our competitors who focus on the adult costume market, our
site is unique in its singular focus on kids costumes. This allows
us to create a very kid-friendly site that you aren’t afraid to show to
your kids. Our goal is to allow kids and parents to browse our site
together and have fun looking at costumes, without fear of seeing something
inappropriate. With competitors’ costume sites you can easily stumble
on x-rated costumes. With JustKidCostumes.com you’re assured that
your kids or grandkids won’t see anything you don’t want them to see.”
The new
website features a new logo, new color themes, larger graphics and enhanced
images, and an enhanced product view that makes it easier for customers
to quickly find the right kids costumes for Halloween, school plays, dress-up
days, or whatever else they may be looking for. The site also includes
a new easy zoom feature, and a display of related accessories for each
costume (magic wands, shoes, tiaras, swords, shields, and more)...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 9/1/10
Snapjack
Wireless has announced the launch of snapjackwireless.com,
an online store that provides cell phone users with a better way to purchase
used and refurbished mobile phones
and new accessories. Customers enjoy significant savings on quality
brand-name devices without the requirement of lengthy cell phone contracts.
"With
the growing number of cell phones that are being discarded and reprocessed
each year - and the long-term carrier contracts that users are tied into,
we knew there was an opportunity to meet consumers’ needs while also helping
the environment.” said Brent Oliver, president of Snapjack Wireless.
SnapjackWireless.com
immediately becomes an essential online resource for consumers looking
to purchase mobile devices and accessories. From their initial visit to
Snapjackwireless.com, customers will find brand-name devices, competitive
pricing, and a high-quality user experience. The site enables consumers
to replace their cellular phone or other wireless device without signing
an extended or new long-term contract. The new accessories offered
by Snapjack Wireless include everything from cases and chargers to batteries
and headsets – and everything in between...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 8/26/10
John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. has launched Wiley
Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), which will connect the global
scholarly community to one of the world's most extensive multidisciplinary
collections of online resources. Wiley Online Library offers integrated
access to more than 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, 9,000 books,
and hundreds of reference works and databases. Built on the latest technology,
Wiley Online Library is an entirely new service that enhances discoverability
and fosters collaboration by offering:
-- An
easy-to-use interface, developed in consultation with users, providing
intuitive navigation and fast access to online content.
-- Research
tools to enable the discovery of available resources and help pinpoint
information.
-- Support
for authors and researchers with integrated reference links and multiple
options for exporting citations.
-- Personalization
options to keep up-to-date on the latest research with content alerts and
RSS feeds and the ability to save key publications and articles for future
reference.
-- Customizable
product home pages that allow journal and society communities to highlight
key features and share news and information
Fannie
Mae (FNMA/OTC) today announced the launch of KnowYourOptions.com,
a new consumer education Web site that outlines the choices available to
homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage payments, and provides
guidance on how they can contact and work with their mortgage company to
find solutions.
The online
resource, which offers reliable and easy-to-understand information in both
English and Spanish, expands on Fannie Mae's ongoing efforts to help struggling
borrowers find alternatives to foreclosure.
“Through
foreclosure prevention programs, borrower outreach, underwriting guidelines
and servicer engagement, Fannie Mae is taking a comprehensive approach
to helping struggling borrowers,” said Jeff Hayward, Senior Vice
President, Fannie Mae's National Servicing Organization. “Identifying accurate
resources and finding the right answers can be a difficult challenge for
borrowers facing hardship and a flurry of disparate, incomplete and sometimes
fraudulent information. Know Your Options™ is the company's newest effort
to reach distressed homeowners and is designed to bring the best information
and guidance together in one place so that struggling borrowers can focus
on finding solutions that work for their particular circumstances.”...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 8/3/10
Curriki
is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development
and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education
worldwide. The online community gives teachers, students and parents
universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula and powerful online collaboration
tools. Curriki has nearly 100,000 registered members and more than
400 groups with access to more than 32,000 free, open
source learning assets. Curriki logs more than 175,000 unique visitors
per month from teachers representing more than 200 countries/territories
around the world. Curriki's impact is measured by the global usage of its
instructional resources, which are currently being used to teach more than
an estimated 4.7 million students around the world.
If you
are interested in obtaining more information about Curriki, please check
out their website at www.curriki.org...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 8/2/10
Using
Daylife SmartTopics, the hub highlights manually curated editors' picks
from TreeHugger, Planet Green and Discovery News, and provides a real-time
feed of proprietary blog posts, articles and videos from the three environmentalist
outlets. In addition, the site tracks Twitter mentions of the oil spill,
the latest high quality Getty Images photos of the crisis, and relevant
links from selected green sources across the web...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 7/21/10
IntoWine.com
Offers Wine Enthusiasts Unique Content, Features The world
has literally millions of wine enthusiasts,
each with a unique perspective and palate. At IntoWine.com
they have made it their goal to aggregate the collective knowledge and
experience of the wine community on one site, a site geared purely for
those people who are into wine. They have contributors from nearly all
walks of "wine life" including sommeliers, chefs, bartenders, waiters,
wine industry professionals, wine producers, as well as a gaggle of super
enthusiasts.
IntoWine
is for the wine curious. That is, people who have discovered they love
wine and want to learn more about it, the regions from where it comes,
the food with which it pairs well, and the grapes from which it derives.
IntoWineTV Our panel
of wine experts taste and discuss wines of various themes. Past themes
include Celebrity Wines, Wines from Sideways, F@#$ Sideways! Merlots that
Rock, Wines From Strange Places, "Underdog" Wines, Great Port Wines, Sparkling
Wines, Piedmont Reds, Italian Whites, Italian "Island" Wines, Super Tuscans,
Women & Wine, and Organic Wines Under $30.
Wine
& Food Pairing Tool IntoWine.com
identified about 150 different food dishes and offer a wine pairing suggestion
for both a type of wine that pairs well with that dish as well as a specific
bottle...see the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 7/8/10
CostRefuge.com
Provides Editorially Aggregated Personal Finance & Money News for Consumers CostRefuge.com
provides the cost-conscious consumer with the day's most topical news &
opinion pieces affecting their economic landscape onto one easy-to-read
page. Stories are selected based on merit and are compiled daily with updates
throughout the day from the best of the blogosphere & mainstream financial
publications. The site brands itself as “your local paper's Money Section
produced for the web” and covers all of the issues impacting your financial
life, from personal finance news
& tips, to breaking economic news, to money-related stories in sports,
entertainment & more.
"With
the sheer abundance of financial content available today, readers need
a front page destination able to cut through the noise and provide the
most relevant information in an easy-to-read format." says Blair MacGregor,
Founder & Chief Editor. “While there are a number of sites out
there that cater to professional investors & day traders, none of these
appeal to the average consumer & investor; what stories affect their
money and financial well-being in today's economy. We fill that void by
providing a manually curated, continually updated list of the most pertinent
financial-related content so that readers can catch up with the day’s news
without having to manually browse through the hundreds of sites that we
cover. We try and cover any subject that might impact a consumer's financial
world, not just standard personal finance and economic news but also relevant
stories in tech, travel, real estate, entertainment & countless other
topics.”
CostRefuge.com
has also joined forces with AOL's WalletPop to produce a weekly roundup
column covering the best stories from the week in personal finance. The
column is featured each Monday in WalletPop's "Economizer" Section...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 7/6/10
As
US Soccer Team Advances to Sweet 16, World Cup Betting in America Surges With the 2010 FIFA World Cup
entering the first elimination round this Saturday, matches are about to
get all the more intense. Thanks to a thrilling last minute goal, the American
team has advanced to the World Cup equivalent of the “sweet 16” round,
where they will play Ghana. Though the average Joe isn’t bringing his Vuvuzela
horn to the office just yet, American fans are more excited than ever about
the tournament. In addition to Team USA’s success, the possibility
of winning money has been adding to the football fervor, as fans have been
betting on the World Cup in record numbers.
Betting on soccer matches has
typically been a European pastime, but thanks to new offers from American
sports betting website BetUS.com, stateside fans are starting to see the
light. New World
Cup betting customers will receive $250 free with a $500 deposit and
will score a free World Cup jersey if they recruit 3 of their soccer mates
to get in on the action.
“With World Cup coming only
once every 4 years we want to make it special. Our clients have been extremely
pleased with the jersey promotion”, said BetUS spokesman Reed Richards,
citing that “our sportsbook was busier before the USA vs England match
than some of the NBA finals games this year. A lot of our clients are betting
on European Football for the first time but have been taking home some
cash as well.”...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 6/25/10
PoliticsVerbatim.org
is a new site from California Watch and Chase Davis. The site will attempt
to track every quote, promise and statement made by our two major candidates
for governor in California – Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican
Meg
Whitman.
The search tool allows readers
to sort candidate statements by nine different categories – including promises,
attacks and vague policy points. If they dodge an issue or a subject, there’s
a search category for that, too. Readers can also sort by geography to
see where the candidates have been appearing – and what parts of the state
they’ve been ignoring.
The site also will include blog
posts from Davis, Senior Editor Robert Salladay and Sacramento-based reporter
Timothy Sandoval.
The candidates’ statements are
sorted by 26 topics – from abortion to welfare.
PoliticsVerbatim launches with
about 300 documents and 1,000 excerpts. The site will be adding content
daily, scouring news and campaign sites and Twitter and Facebook feeds.
They are also encouraging crowd-sourcing from other journalists and readers,
and hope to soon create easy ways for readers to upload video and audio
files from public campaign events. ...see
the site now Posted by
Eric Ward on 6/24/10
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