Uniblue Software is a leading provider of performance and security software solutions including Registry Booster, SpeedUpMyPC and SpyEraser. At their web site, you can get free computer scans to check for stability, performance and security issues.

1. Stability Scan – Provides a complete diagnosis and deep scan of your computer registry for errors and conflicts.

2. Performance Scan - Provides a complete diagnosis and deep scan of your current computer performance status and provides suggested optimizations.

3. Security Scan - Performs a complete diagnosis of your system and identify spyware, malware and other harmful files.

AddThis.com offer a variety of tools that helps users bookmark your web site or blog as well as subscribe to any feeds you may have. The service is free and involves just placing a couple lines of code on any page you want the AddThis button to appear. In addition, the service tracks all pages bookmarked and the social bookmarking services used which can be viewed from the online user interface. An example button is shown below:

With PhotoPost software, webmasters can now allow their web site users to upload photos and videos to online galleries. The PhotoPost software is written in PHP and is currently installed by over 7,000 web sites. PhotoPost includes extensive login and style integrations with vBulletin as well as login integrations with phpBB 2.0, UBB Threads v5 or v6, DCForums, InvisionBoard, and other popular forums. A live demo of the software and example web sites with galleries are provided.

The new ALOT Video Toolbar is a free download that allows users to search for videos online. The video toolbar allows you to search for online videos by variety of keywords. The toolbar’s Video Vault gives you easy access to the best video sites on the Internet. In addition, the ALOT Video Toolbar provides online video editing so you can edit and mix your videos online.

PalTalk plans to add video streams to certain PalTak chat rooms so that users can now watch videos simultaneously while chatting about the content of the videos. The video content will initially come from Heavy.com, ManiaTV, blip.tv, and Rip.tv.

I can see that if the new service becomes popular on PalTalk that video sites such as YouTube and others may add similar simultaneous viewing and chatting capabilities to their sites. This type of service could also become popular with advertisers and producers looking for detailed feedback from test audiences. Instead of surveying the audience for feedback after viewing the presentation, they could access the actual logs of the conversations as they took place real time. This could become a large revenue source for popular video sites.

A new webmaster tool at Smartpagerank.com allows users to view the backlinks for any domain as well as the PageRank of each of these backlinks. In addition, the tool allows you to see the anchor tag used with each backlink as well as if a “nofollow” tag is part of the link. The application is an excellent resource to check the status of your link building strategies or to get a better understand of where your backlinks come from.

Revboard.com offers an affiliate marketing forum with members representing several merchant programs and affiliates from around the world. They also provide an affiliate program directory that lists over 2500 affiliate programs that web site owners can participate in.

Affiliate Marketing is a process whereby merchants offer commissions to affiliates for promoting their products and/or services and generating sales and leads. Some well known companies offering affiliate programs include WalMart, Target, BestBuy, and Buy.com. You can find out more about affiliate marketing and discuss Internet marketing strategies with existing affiliates in the RevBoard.com forum or review affiliate programs available in the RevBoard.com directory.

MultiRSS is a free online web application that allows bloggers to replace multiple RSS feed subscription buttons with a single button. Currently, the MultiRSS service list 38 of the most used RSS readers.

The example below shows how the button can be used to have visitors subscribe to this blog:

As a result of the Megan Meier case, her home town of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri is voting on whether to make Internet harassment a crime in its jurisdiction.

Megan Meier is the 13-year-old girl who committed suicide on October 16th, 2006 after meeting a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans on Myspace. It turned out that the Evans profile was created by the mother of one of Meier’s former friends for the purpose of calling her names and harassing her.

The proposed ordinance would make online harassment a Class B misdemeanor in Dardenne Prairie, punishable by a $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail.

Although I see the need for measures to prevent tragedies such as this from happening I also see these types of laws as sometimes being too open ended. What will be defined as harassment? How will they determine the actual identity of the person harassing, etc.

Google is now Wall Street’s golden child. Like Microsoft in the 90s, Google is now the make of millionaires. According to the New York Times, there are an estimated one thousand Google employees whose company stock options and grants are worth over a million dollars. This includes Google’s former masseuse, Bonnie Brown.

Additionally, anyone who only joined Google just a year ago has stock options and grants worth an estimated $276,000. So, maybe its time I brushed off my resumes and sent it off to Google?