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Online auctions became popular with eBay during the late 1990’s.  Since eBay’s explosion of popularity, most people associate online auctioning with less expensive or second hand products, which are more common on eBay.  However, cool person in technology Alexander Zacke believes that online auctions don’t have to be a slave to this stigma.  Zacke is the CEO of Auctionata, an online auction house that only puts up items such as high quality art and rare antiques for bidding.  Rather than utilize the populist style of peer-to-peer auctions that populate sites like eBay and its clones, Zacke’s company specifically tries to recreate the experience of high-class auction houses like New York City’s Christie’s.  Zacke’s company uses a patented real-time online auction system on the Auctionata website.  Users can maintain online profiles for easy access to the site when auctions occur.  With Auctionata, art and antique collectors can bid on intriguing high-value items from the comfort of their couches.  Anyone who has trouble setting up an account on Zacke’s website can always get computer support services to help with the issue. Read more »

Moving is costly, time-consuming, and mentally draining even if you aren’t driving the moving truck and packing everything yourself.  This reality is especially true for moving long distances to another city, state or even country.  Finding moving companies with viable prices and services is often a struggle on its own and people also take their own inventory of items to ensure that they forget nothing.  Moveline is a cool product on the web that can help people get through the process of moving with less hassle.  The service aims to help customers relax and focus on the other issues surrounding leaving and going to a new city.  Moveline accomplishes this by guiding people through the process one-step at a time.  The company uses a combination of technology and personal service to help their clients.  Moveline gives people one on one interactions with moving agents while also making use of smartphone cameras, video chat services and online price search and aggregation. Read more »

Fundraising is a major concern for anyone running a nonprofit, school or community organization.  Large networks of regular donors are essential to keeping any of these organizations both alive and accomplishing goals that are part of their stated missions.  However, fundraising is also a complex and draining process.  Building a network, maintaining contacts, hosting events and converting new donors are all difficult tasks.  Even more problematic for many of these organizations, they are not selling a product or service that directly benefits the people paying them and therefore, converting people into donors becomes far more difficult.  Fortunately, there is a cool product called Kimbia that provides a web platform that nonprofits, schools and other fundraisers can use to both manage and optimize their efforts.  Read more »

People often don’t want to speak about what may happen once they’ve passed away because it makes them and those that care about them uncomfortable.  Many people even go so far avoiding the issue that they don’t set up appropriate plans and preparations for when they die, which usually ends up leading to trouble for their loved ones.  Adam Seifer is a cool person in technology who wants to make sure people don’t ignore the important issues that arise when it is their time to go.  Seifer founded his company Everplans to give people a technological tool that will help them prepare and make sure their loved ones don’t have to experience unnecessary stress.  With Seifer’s service, people can organize what tasks they need to accomplish before their death in an online platform that they can conveniently access whenever they want.  Anyone who has trouble creating an Everplan online or logging into one they’ve already made will need cloud computer support for assistance.  Read more »

Shopping online for clothing is simultaneously incredibly convenient and potentially worrying.  While there is no question that purchasing items online and having sites deliver them directly to someone’s front door is far easier for people than going to the local mall, the question about how a particular item of clothing will fit is constantly in the back of many online shoppers’ minds.  Buyers just can’t guarantee that an item is going to fit the way they need it to when they spend their hard-earned cash online.  Cool product in technology Virtusize wants to change this reality for the millions of users buying clothes online every day.  Virtusize helps customers accurately measure the clothing they are shopping for online so they can ensure it will fit when it arrives at home.  People access the specialized online tool through the websites of affiliated online retailers.  Users click the “Virtusize” button on these websites when shopping for clothes to access this cool product.  Anyone who can’t access Virtusize on a site that advertises its use needs to contact a tech support professional to determine what is causing the problem. Read more »

The Internet has made planning vacations far easier in most situations.  Travel websites have made travel agencies redundant and unnecessary for most people.  However, mainstream travel websites tend to focus on the bare bones of a major trip—such as airfare, hotels, and occasionally a few mainstream attractions.  Cool person in technology Gilad Berenstein believes more is possible with the web and that people should be able to plan dream vacations, fully booked with interesting activities, more easily.  That’s why this cool person founded his company Utrip, which uses artificial intelligence to help people plan trips and vacations they are more likely to enjoy.  Read more »

Gamification is becoming a major trend in the worlds of technology and retail.  Gaining points and rewards for your purchases is now a standard practice for many large chain stores or shopping websites in every retail category.  However, most of the time the goal of earning points simply leads to future discounts on more merchandise from the same store.  While customers might appreciate those discounts, cool person in technology Daniel Todd believes that it would be even better if customers could get rewards from shopping that would not be easily attainable otherwise.  Todd’s company Affinity offers retail companies a system where their customers don’t just receive discounts or merchandise from the same store they are already shopping at, but instead receive exclusive and unique rewards donated by celebrities. Under Todd’s system, people can shop at retail locations affiliated with Affinity and earn points for each purchase at each of those stores.  People can then use those points to get special and unique prizes from their favorite celebrities on the Affinity platform.  Users can access Affinity’s shop through the company’s web platform on their computers or mobile devices.  Any users experiencing difficulty while trying to access Todd’s rewards platform should contact a network services provider for help with their connection. Read more »

Making plans and trying to account for and include all of one’s friends is not always a simple task.  Keeping track of one’s own plans is difficult enough in many cases.  Trying to keep track of every friend’s long-term plans as well is pretty much impossible.  Enter cool person in technology Karl Jacob and his new product Hangtime.  Hangtime is a smartphone app that aggregates local events of all types and allows its users to indicate what events they are definitely going to be at and what ones they are potentially interested in attending.  Once a user and all his or her friends are on Hangtime, making plans with other people becomes far simpler.  For example, if a user sees that there is a concert they want to see in their area, that user simply taps to indicate that they are going.  The app notifies any friends also going or interested in the event so that they can contact the user if they want to make plans to attend together.  Anyone who has trouble downloading Jacob’s program from the App Store should contact iPhone tech support for help.  Read more »

Paying for college is increasingly difficult as the price for higher education continues to rise.  Large student loans are now commonplace for college attendees and graduates and in many cases, students take out more than one loan in order to pay for their schooling.  Unfortunately, people in their late teens and early twenties are usually unexperienced at handling debt to multiple organizations.  This situation leads to students often making mistakes or mismanaging the payment of their loans.  Cool product Tuition.io wants to help these students and college graduates by providing them an online platform where they can visualize and manage all their student loan payments in one place.  Students who receive money from banks, the government, and charity organizations can organize their payments to all of them through Tuition.io.  This cool product provides students with a dashboard that combines the data regarding all their loans, preventing students from having to guess or calculate their debt situation on their own.  Any users who have trouble importing their data into Tuition.io will have to contact an online computer support company in order to address the problem. Read more »

Many people have ideas for inventions that they don’t have the time or resources to pursue on their own.  It takes a significant amount of money, free time and access to specific tools and materials in order to bring an invention from pure concept to physical reality.  Cool person in technology Ben Kaufman founded Quirky to help people without the extra time and resources to turn their invention ideas into reality.  Kaufman’s website lets people share their ideas, concepts, and even fully formed plans for new inventions as well as upgrades to items that already exist. These ideas can be for any type of invention, whether it’s a new computer repair tool, kitchen appliance or smartphone accessory.  Kaufman also helps to turn the ideas with the most traction on his website into actual products that make money for their creators. Read more »