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Online community for interns launched

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gi_logoredifiedpng.jpgTwo advertising executives and two undergraduate business students has launched YouIntern.com, the first free online community of interns in the advertising and marketing industry, featuring advertising internship reviews, submitted by college students, and advertising internship openings, submitted by employers.

Along with internship reviews and openings, YouIntern.com features “expert advice” from advertising professionals to help guide students toward their career goals. The founders also maintain a blog with stories from the field and from their experience in advertising.

YouIntern.com has plans to become the definitive platform for honest, open information and dialogue in the form of internship reviews, and open internship postings. Current reviews and postings include leading marketing and advertising agencies like Arnold, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Burson-Marseteller, Hill Holliday, MMB, BBH, GSD&M, Mullen, Modernista! and more. Cities covered include Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and many more, with internships in summar, fall and spring semesters.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 11:10 am

AOL web properties to deploy Quigo’s AdSonar Platform

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adsonar.pngAOL announced that Quigo will deploy a private label version of the AdSonar platform across AOL’s leading digital brands including News, Money & Finance, Entertainment and several other properties.

AOL will now be able to offer its advertisers text-based, pay-for-performance advertising solutions on an individual property or across the collection of AOL’s sites. Quigo’s AdSonar-powered advertising platform will also offer full transparency and control, unlike other blind ad networks where advertisers are uncertain of the specific sites or pages where their ads will run. Other AOL properties slated to deploy the AdSonar platform include AOL Sports, AOL Mail and many more.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 10:45 am

i-Lighter unveils Twitterlights web-based text highlighting tool for Twitter users

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i-Lighter, maker of the popular and critically acclaimed i-Lighter digital highlighter tool, has released i-Lighter Version 2.1 incorporating Twitterlights, a new feature. With Twitterlights, users of the trend-setting Twitter micro-blogging service can instantly send snippets of Web content to dozens, hundreds, even thousands Twitter users with a single click of their mouse.

i-Lighter is a highlighter pen for the Digital Age. Easily integrated into Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the free, downloadable technology lets users highlight and annotate any online content as effortlessly as stroking it with a highlighter pen. Once the content is highlighted, the information is automatically and securely stored to the user’s online account for later retrieval and use.

Other new features in version 2.1 of i-Lighter include the ability to post content to blogs and social bookmarking services like del.icio.us and digg. A number of enhancements have also been added to make i-Lighter even more stable and streamlined.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

FreshBooks adds Expense Tracking to online invoicing and time tracking service

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freshbooks.pngFreshBooks announced the release of Expense Tracking, a new service that helps users get their expenses out of their shoe boxes, and onto their invoices and business dashboard. With the new service, FreshBooks customers can now track and manage both the cost and sales sides of their cash flow, for a more complete picture of their business and client relationships. Expense Tracking was the most frequently requested feature in customer feedback surveys and is now included as part of the core FreshBooks service at no additional cost.

Users can add or track expenses from anywhere, even on a mobile device, and get them paid faster by including them in the same professional looking invoices that they use to bill for their time. Customers with multiple users accessing the service can also allow staff to see the status of each of their own expenses. In addition, the service helps users with basic expense tracking, such as their rent, car or phone.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 9:52 am

Filed Under: Web

AOL releases Xdrive Desktop Lite

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xdrive.pngAOL announced the release of Xdrive Desktop Lite, an all-new version of the Xdrive software on Adobe AIR. The Xdrive Desktop Lite product features an enhanced user interface as well as desktop integration and offers consumers the opportunity to use the Xdrive software on a Mac computer for the first time.

Designed to make it easier to upload and store digital files in one place, Xdrive Desktop Lite reduces the amount of time it takes to upload files by fully integrating the consumer’s desktop into the application. Users uploading digital files stored on a local hard drive will be able to see the contents of that drive appear within the Xdrive application, and can easily drag the files from the local drive to the Xdrive service in one simple step. The new software also offers a cleaner, more intuitive user interface, and is both PC and Mac-enabled, offering users the opportunity to easily store up to 5 GB of files from any computer on the Xdrive service for free.

The Xdrive Desktop Lite application has been built using publicly available APIs featured on dev.aol.com, which offers developers and partners the opportunity to create a series of applications fully compatible with the Xdrive storage system.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 7:30 am

Filed Under: AOL