K7 makes money from it’s banners on their website and your faxes will come in unmolested. there are no limits, or hidden charges. One other extra benefit is that if you have a fax nearby and need something scanned quickly you can scan your page in and receive it in your email. Keep in mind Fax scanners are crude at best, but if you are in a pinch it could be pretty handy.

This is a guest post by Chris Carey of Noheat.com

Make a comment on this post stating that you’d like an invitation to Pownce and I’ll send one as soon as possible. Make sure the email address you enter is correct otherwise you won’t receive an invite and I’ll have wasted one. I will update this post with the current number of invites available.

24 invites left

Update:
Reader Ankesh is offering his 6 Pownce invitations to the readers of Grupenet if I run out of them. Thanks Ankesh!

Just drag the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar: Get Flickr Original

Now whenever you see a photo on Flickr which does not have the original full resolution image available to the public, just click on that bookmarklet and you’ll instantly be taken to the full-size image.

After doing a bit of searching around, I found an extension for Firefox called TimeTracker. It’s a simple addon which counts how long the Firefox window is in focus. So every time you go on to do something else in another application, it will stop counting. This really helps you get an idea of how much time you waste every day just surfing the web.

Give it a try and see how much time you’re consuming browsing the web. How much of your day is spent surfing?

Update (07/04/2007):
I just found out you can also add a filter list to TimeTracker in the options so it will pause the timer on certain sites, e.g., grupenet.com is on my filter list.

Before I get into the interview I’d like to let you know that I’ve got beta invitations to Thoof. If you’d like one, comment on this post saying you’d like an invite. An invite will be sent to your email address promptly. Now on to the interview!

Grupenet: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. I’m really interested in Thoof and what’s going on behind the scenes. What was the beginning point for the start of Thoof? Did you start out by yourself or were there others involved?

Ian: I came up with the initial idea myself, but I quickly found three other co-founders because I knew I wouldn’t be able to do this alone. Really I’ve been thinking for a long time about the problem of how to find useful and accurate news in a decentralized democratic way, and Thoof is the result.

Grupenet: What makes Thoof different than other “Web 2.0″ news sites such as Digg, Reddit, or del.icio.us?

Ian: Two major differences. Firstly, users can collaboratively edit stories, so if you see something wrong, you can fix it. Secondly, we have a very clever and unique algorithm that can figure out what your interests are and show you stories that will interest you. We believe that our approach is way ahead of anything out there now, or likely to come out in the near future. See this blog entry for some details of why we have such confidence.

Grupenet: Are there any new features we may see before Thoof is released to the public?

Ian: We have obtained a lot of feedback from users, and we are trying to implement as many suggestions as we can in the time available before we go public. We will continue to do this after we launch. We hope to be a very “user directed” company, which means being very responsive to feedback.

Grupenet: How do you plan to make money with Thoof? I noticed there are absolutely no advertisements.

Ian: There aren’t now, but there will be. They will be targeted, and not obtrusive.

Grupenet: How will spam be filtered? Are the users going to be able to mark stories as spam?

Ian: Hopefully our targeting algorithm will be able to thwart spam, but if not we may allow users to flag spam.

Grupenet: Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview with me. I have high hopes for Thoof.

Ian: Thanks! So do we!

The reason I’m writing this review is to tell you about a great new website statistics service I found recently called pMetrics(aff). This service is run by Performancing, and if you’re in the blogging business you may be familiar with them.

My favorite feature about pMetrics which Google Analytics does not offer is the Spy view. In short, the Spy feature is a live view of any visitors who are currently viewing your website. The time this feature becomes most exciting to use is when your website is featured on the front page of Digg or Slashdot.

One of my biggest gripes about Google Analytics was that it wasn’t able to function with Javascript disabled. Luckily pMetrics is still able to function regardless of a user having Javascript disabled. Now I don’t need to worry about not being able to know when Steve Gibson reads my blog.

My next favorite feature is the Google Maps integration. I’m still scratching my head as to why Google hasn’t implemented their Maps service into Google Analytics. Nonetheless, pMetrics does a wonderful job of integrating Google Maps into their service. This is very helpful for quickly finding out where a majority of your traffic is coming from.

Instead of me explaining every single advantage pMetrics has over Google Analytics, you can check out the pMetrics comparison table.