Research
- http://www.worldinternetproject.net/ – The World Internet Project (WIP) is a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies
- http://www.eyestat.com/ – Eyestat was designed to provide useful statistics which can be easily visualized and easily understood. Mashup of OECD stats with cool graphs.
- http://www.nationmaster.com – Nationmaster has everything you need to know when researching a country.
- http://adonomics.com/ – facebook apps analytics
- Browser Stats – which browsers people are using
- Alexa – free website rankings
- Compete
- Quantcast
- Ranking.com – free website rankings (also see Google’s Adplanner below)
- Top 10 tools for reputation management – Mashable article
- People Search
- http://www.peekyou.com
- http://www.yasni.com
- http://www.123people.com/
- http://www.pipl.com
- http://wink.com
- http://klout.com/ – twitter search to see how much influence someone has (only has registered users and top people registered)
Search
- http://www.thesearchrace.com/ – top search engines from AltSearchEngines
- http://www.altsearchengines.com/ – site about all the top search engines
- http://www.pandia.com/ – information about search engines
Productivity
- http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/ – list of good online business tools eg accounting, project management etc
- http://www.ididwork.com – great tool for managing and evaluating what people are working on. Kills using excel!
Enterprise 2.0
Website platforms
Domain Names
- Domain portfolio calculator - interesting domain portfolio value calculator put together by Dan Warner from Fabulous.com
- Bust-A-Name – help choosing .com domains, I love this tool
Innovative Websites / Lists of Sites
- Mashable
- SEOmoz list of 140+ web 2.0 sites
- All Things Web 2.0
- Go2Web20
Online Marketing Resources & Education
- Quirk Online Marketing E-book – arguably the best free resource for marketing online, download it now, great training material for people just getting in to online marketing, but with lots of useful info even for advanced marketers.
- eMarketer
Video
- Cooliris – web plugin to get definitely watch, turns the viewers video search experience in to a 3d search wall. very fast and very useful.
- seesmic – hosted video messaging site, API allows 3rd party integration / development. I like the simple interface.
Google Research
- Google Keyword Tool (now with website analysis)
- Google Search Word Keyword Tool – suggests related search terms
- Google Insights – website and keyword analytics over time
- Google Adplanner – find out how many visitors go to various websitses (and more)
- Google AdWords learning centre
- Improving CTR
- Dynamic keyword insertion guide
- Google AdWords Quality Score
- Great PPC resource site
- Google Sets (automatically creates sets of items from a few examples)
- Perry Marshall – PPC training (need to buy access / training materials); we have purchased the Perry Marshall Ultra-Advanced AdWords Course
- Using emotion to sell
- Adcentre Guidelines to getting #1 CTR on PPC
- Google AdWords Quality Score formulas you need to know
- Guidelines for writing PPC ads
- MSN keyword mutation tool as recommended by Google
- Mind Valley Labs Keyword expansion strategy
Publisher Yield Optimization
Open Source Software
Website Design
- FashionIdentity.com.au – check out my mate Mark’s great looking sites. If you need a great looking site designed, tell him I sent you, and he’ll look after you!
VC & Funding
- http://onstartups.com/ (entrepreneur and funding related Q&A Answers.Startup)
- http://www.thefunded.com/
- http://venturehacks.com/
- http://www.tmt-transactions.com – Australian Internet, Technology and Media M&A site
I’ll be adding more soon… For more useful resources check out Right Click Capital’s resources page.
