holiday gifts Archive

FreshBooks takes Day 5 in the CenterNetworks Holiday Gifts. Check out all of our FreshBooks coverage. Here’s a brief overview of FreshBooks from the company:

Stop invoicing in Word! FreshBooks is an online billing service for webprofessionals. Track your time, create invoices, collect payments online,and give your clients peace of mind with organized records they can access at any time.

FreshBooks is offering CN readers $20 off any new paid subscription. The code below is valid through to Dec 31, 2008. Enter code:  FRESHCLAUS08 during the registration process.

Day 4 in the Ten Days of Holiday Gifts features Clicky. Clicky describes the service as, "Clicky gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Many analyzers give good summaries, and Clicky is no different – but the similarities stop there. Clicky stands out with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and an unrivaled per visitor level of detail. You also get real time stats, outbound link tracking, download tracking, IP tagging, custom data tracking, and much more."

Check out the feature list and comparison to other analytics tools. We use Clicky on CN and you can read all of our Clicky coverage along with our interview with founder Sean Hammons.

Clicky is offering Three (3) Free Professional Accounts for the life of the account! To enter for one of the accounts, send in an entry using our contact form. We will select three winners at the end of next week.

Note: I’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid any entry confusion – also, we are an affiliate of Clicky but I have turned off all affiliate links on this post.

Day #3 in the Holiday Gifts Giveaway goes to the Peek email device. Here’s an overview provided by the company along with their offer to the CN readers.

Peek is one of the hottest new products of 2008. It is a super simple and stylish mobile email and texting device that makes it easy to stay connected with your family and friends on-the-go. No contracts. 1 minute to set-up. Very affordable – Peek retails for $99.95 (+$19.95 per month for unlimited email and texting).

The company is offering 15% off the device when you purchase it via getpeek.com. Enter code FVDVMAUJCX during checkout.

Editor’s note: This post is part of our Holiday Gifts series. The company listed didn’t pay CN for the listing. The content above was provided by the company.

Day #2 in the CN Holiday Gifts goes to Website in Seconds. Here’s an overview provided by the company along with their giveaway to the CN readers.

Website in Seconds is a web hosting company committed to helping it’s clients achieve their online goals. Whether you want a personal blog for friends and family or an eCommerce solution for your new idea, we have you covered. Our customized site builder will help anyone, web savvy or not, construct a terrific website or eStore. We also have the means to design and deploy dynamic Web 2.0 businesses. Website in Seconds even provides professional SEO and unique marketing offerings like postcard mail-outs to promote your online endeavors. Your site will be up and running in no time with a 99.9% up-time guarantee. Help is always only a toll-free call or live chat away.

For the geeks, we don’t skimp on specs either. We’re techies ourselves and only offer servers that we’d want to be rolling on ourselves. We’re also committed to being a "green" energy company. Website In Seconds is continually evaluating new services and tools to provide added value to our customers.

The company is offering 33% off of new shared hosting subscriptions – just enter code ’0-h0h0h0′ during the checkout process.

Editor’s note: This post is part of our Holiday Gifts series. The company listed didn’t pay CN for the listing. The content above was provided by the company.

Day #1 in the CN Holiday Gifts goes to Story of My Life. Here’s an overview provided by the company along with their giveaway to the CN readers.

We are the world’s largest collection of online Stories of people’s lives. Story of My Life and its Foundation have an ambitious goal: to collect the life Story of every person who has walked the face of this earth – in the past, the present and our futures; and to keep these Stories preserved and accessible forever. The Story of My Life site helps you build an interactive and rich, 360-degree view of who you are: your accomplishments, your feelings and thoughts, your narrative – the essence of who you are and what you will leave behind. The Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3), is tasked with preserving the Stories in perpetuity and ensuring access to files as technology changes.

Story of My Life and its non-profit Foundation are giving away 3 packages of permanent, "Forever" Space which you can use to collect life Stories, favorite pictures, videos, oral histories, recipes, or important documents of your life or of someone you love, and store them in our secure Vault. This is a terrific chance to capture important life Stories and then preserve them digitally in the Foundation.

To enter, send in an entry via the CN contact form. The entry period will run through 5pm ET on December 16.

Editor’s note: This post is part of our Holiday Gifts series. The company listed didn’t pay CN for the listing. The content above was provided by the company.

Update – 3 more days to submit your information to be included – remember there’s no charge to participate.

Last year we had ten days of holiday gifts from a variety of great companies including Compete, Ourstage, Freshbooks, Clicky, Tapefailure and more. We are bringing back the Days of Holiday Gifts for 2008!

Unlike other blogs that charge you to participate, our Days of Holiday Gifts is free for companies to participate. All you need to do is provide our readers with a discount or savings code for your service (sorry free apps don’t qualify). Just submit your information via our contact form along with your reader offer by November 27. The Days of Holiday Gifts begins on December 1st!

As always thanks to our great readers and sponsors who keep the lights on at the CN world headquarters in NYC!

The entries have been received and I am very happy to present the winners of the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami at the end of February 2008. Thanks to everyone who entered.

If you didn’t win a pass, check out the early bird discount. If this conference is like the prior versions, it will be one of the best conferences of the year. Check out our previous conference coverage.

Here are the winners – congrats to each one:

• Nicole R
• Remy B
• Daniel T
• Kevin W
• Michael G

I will be in touch with the winners this evening with more details. I hope everyone enjoyed our Ten Days of Holiday Gifts.