NorthBolt.com, located in New Jersey USA, was launched with just one aim : “Provide powerful services for Small Businesses to succeed online”

It can be very time consuming and painful exercise to search for new suppliers online, from filling the same information endless number of times, to filtering a list of potential candidates, it can take a lot of your valuable time.

So NorthBolt created Buy Assist – Your Personal Internet Sourcing Agent , just tell them what you are looking for and they will take care of the rest.

Tipped by Jitan Sahni! Thanks!

Skillpunch.com is a directory for online learning resources, we built. Online learning is great. But let’s face it: Sometimes it is just too much of a hassle to look for all the possible resources and compare them. That’s where we come in. We believe you should spend your time learning about interesting topics and not countless hours on the web looking for the right course. Skillpunch.com allows you to search for paid and free online learning resources, compare them and choose the best suited for your needs.

Idea submitted by Feyyaz. Thanks!

SmallScaleBusiness.com is pleased to announce that they currently have over 660 small business ideas with plans to expand this to 1000 by the end of 2012. More and more people are making the decision to start their own small business due to layoffs and other financial problems. Most of these are looking for ideas for businesses they can start with little up front investment.

This website was established in May 2005 with the goal of providing individuals with workable ideas for starting their own small businesses. Most of the ideas can be started as home-based businesses with only a small investment. Some do not require any additional start up funds. While visitors to the site come from all over the world, most are from the US and India.

The site continues to grow and adds new business plans. Manager, Carl Davis, says, “We are targeting a goal of 1000 unique business ideas by the end of 2012.” Many of the ideas offered can become profitable in record time due to a lack of competition in that particular sector. None, however, are “get rich quick” schemes. A person must work each type of business in order to make money.

For more information about starting a small business or to get some ideas for different businesses that can be started with a small budget, interested persons are encouraged to visit http://www.smallscalebusiness.com/. Members of the press and/or other interested parties may obtain additional information about this site and/or the content of this press release by sending an email to info@smallscalebusiness.com

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Giifa is a platform that connects non-profits willing to create jobs, to donors willing to donate and help create this job. Giifa works with the unemployed, and the non-profit profit organization, and create a short description of the two. You can then go, and choose to give to a person or give to an organization. This way, you finally get to choose where exactly you want your money to go, when you are donating, and you get to create jobs at the same time.

The best part, you don’t need to be a millionaire to support jobs (or be the 1%); all you need is the willingness and $8, and voila, you have just donated somebody an hour of job. It’s about starting a revolution to get America working again.

All the money from it will go to the non-profit to pay the particular person at the non-profit of your choice.

Its common knowledge that non-profits always have a lack of money, and many of them don’t really manage them well. We remove the inefficiencies created by non-profits, and add a whole level of transparency into donations that has never been seen before. Add to that a layer of social sharing, and we have recognition build right into the software.

Thanks Pratyush Agarwal for tipping us!

The Storie Web Clipper is a simple web browser plug-in that lets you right-click on any picture you find on the web and add it directly to your stories. Whether it’s a vacation you just returned from, a family recipe, or a celebration of your quirky and creative side, Storie’s unique and beautiful storytelling format lets you tell your stories the way you want others to remember them.

Share your stories only with your closest friends, or with the rest of the Storie community. Experience the world through our shared stories – you might learn something new along the way.

Stories can be posted on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, or even embedded on your blogs and websites.

One Sweeps offers everyone a chance to enter and win the best free sweepstakes the internet has to offer. One Sweeps features one easy to enter sweepstakes per day on its website as well as via its daily email newsletter. Featured prizes have included exotic worldwide vacations, luxury automobiles, one-of-a-kind experiences, and thousands in cash. All sweepstakes are sponsored by trusted national brands. The inspiration for One Sweeps came when the founder won an online sweepstakes for a week long trip to the Fiji Islands in 2010.

Idea Contributed by Jason Moore. Thanks!

CheatSpeak is the world’s only 100% open, uncensored, community-created foreign language phrasebook. Think of it like Wikipedia for language. You decide what phrases are there, and everyone shares & votes up the simplest way to say it, in any language.

Idea contributed by Blake. Thanks!

Findthebest.com launched their new User-Interface yesterday, adding smart ratings to their platform. In the past, they have used a combination of expert reviews and statistical data to create un-biased listings on products and services. They have combined these fields to create a “smart rating” to rank their products and services in a clear and visually aesthetic manner.

After $6 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins over the last two years, the site has been experiencing tremendous growth, and is hoping to attract more users with this new interface.

Check out this example of some of their top ranking personal finance software to see just how it works. The smart rating is located in the top right corner.

MobileCrunch: An odd but interesting new photo-and-video sharing iPhone app called Chumkee is officially announcing its public launch today. I know, I know. Another photo-and-video sharing app – just what you need. But Chumkee is doing something a little different here with its concept, user interface and design. This app isn’t about simply “sharing photos with your friends.” It’s about sharing publicly, in an almost Twitter-like format, complete with @usernames and a “reply” feature. In other words, social conversations based around photos and videos.

But that’s not all. The app also ditches the traditional Twitter timeline-esque view for a photo pile design that allows you to move pictures and videos around on the screen or drag them off the side of the screen when you’re done.

Chumkee Launches New App For Social Photo & Video Conversations [MobileCrunch]

Washington Post: A new smartphone app will help you transition your old paper photos into the digital age. Called ShoeBox, the free app lets you use your iPhone’s camera as a photo scanner.

ShoeBox comes as social media giant Facebook is preparing to launch its new “Timeline” feature. Timeline essentially turns user profiles into an online scrapbook for the most important moments of their lives. As such, it encourages users to add photos from their lives before Facebook. The app lets users rotate, crop, date and tag photos and share them with friends and family either through Shoebox or Facebook.

New app called ShoeBox lets you use iPhone as a photo scanner [Washington Post]

Saltandethic.com is a marketplace based on one belief: only design and style will be able to introduce responsible consumption into pop culture.

For many years, responsible purchasing implied compromising either style or quality, until very lately when a new generation of young and talented designers brought a new approach to the creation and development of products. The result of it? Original, ethical, and eco-responsible products with no loss of style.

Through Saltandethic.com, consumers will be able to shop securely and directly in the workshops and studios of designers in Barcelona, London, Paris, Stockholm, Sao Paulo, Milano, Berlin, etc. without moving from the comfort of home.

HelpersUnite is a crowdfunding website that provides a platform for artists and entrepreneurs who want to raise funds using the crowdfunding concept similar to Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The biggest difference between HelpersUnite and the rest is that it has created the only platform that facilitates (and requires where others prohibit) crowdfunding for both creative projects alongside a chosen charity. So, two parties benefit at the same time!

FindTheBest is an unbiased, data-driven comparison engine. The search engine organizes and presents data in a consumer-friendly format so that you can make quick and informed decisions based on what’s important to you. What Kayak does for travel, FindTheBest does for the thousands of other decisions in your life.

Traditional search is a great hammer but sometimes you need a wrench. Currently search can find any piece of information across hundreds of billions of Web pages, but when you need to make a decision – whether it’s choosing the right college or selecting the best financial advisor – you need information structured in an easily comparable format. FindTheBest does exactly that and helps you compare apples-to-apples data, side-by-side, on a wide variety of products and services.