HotCandlestick.com - Candlestick Charting Techniques for the Individual Investor
This website explains a fascinating Japanese method of charting and analyzing market activity. "The candlestick charting technique and analysis orginated with the Japanese, who developed a method of technical analysis to analyze the price of rice contracts. . . . Honma, a wealthy Japanese businessman, began trading at the local rice exchange in Sakata (now Yamagata Prefecture) around 1750. Honma kept records of the market psychology and learned not to rush into trades." Japanese candlesticks offer a glimmer into the psychology of short-term trading activity. Candlesticks can show whether the buyer or seller has control of the market. This site offers users a candlestick tutorial, advanced candlestick chart analysis, email alerts, and an opportunity to create charts, screen stocks, and track multiple portfolios. http://www.hotcandlestick.com/

Thomas Regional
ThomasRegional.com gives you free access to a searchable database of more than 550,000 distributors, manufacturers, and service companies in all key U.S. industrial markets - with brochures, catalogs, linecards, videos, and links to supplier websites. Users can browse the 6,000 product and service categories, or search by keyword (product, company, or brand name). The wide range of products and services includes such diverse items as adhesives and sealants, cable and wire, detectors and sensors, foundries and refractories, laboratory equipment, office equipment and supplies, sand and gravel, welding supplies and services, data collection and processing, janitorial and maintenance, programming and software, and waste handling. Once an item is located, the buyer can purchase directly from the supplier electronically, using Thomas' online order feature. This is also a good place to locate trade shows and events, government and business resources, industry and professional organizations, surplus inventory, and e-commerce solutions. Users must register, but the service is free. http://www.ThomasRegional.com

Delphion Intellectual Property Network
Delphion's online patent database enables users to search through more than 40 million patent documents from around the world. Business professionals can use the database (for a fee) to track their competitors' activities, identify patent licensing opportunities, and find and qualify acquisition targets. In addition to patents, the database contains helpful resources to research prior art, and analysis tools to identify trends in groups of patents. For fun, the site also has a Gallery of Obscure Patents, which is a collection of some of the more bizarre ideas that have received patents over the years: toe puppets, a Santa Claus detector, and a motorized ice cream cone. http://www.delphion.com

ValuEngine
This website gives individual investors the kind of quantitative stock analysis that previously was available only to financial professionals. Here you can: optimize your portfolio for the best risk/return ratio; forecast a portfolio's value next year; find fair value for stocks and forecast their future prospects; determine the chances of gain or loss on your current holdings; find momentum and volatility ranks for stocks; and screen for a basket of stocks tailored to your investment criteria. The site offers data on companies, analyses of stock trends, a glossary of financial terms, benchmark portfolios, stock market news, and commentary. Visitors can use the basic tools for free, and sign up for a free trial of more advanced tools. http://www.ValuEngine.com

FreshAddress.com
When people change homes, jobs, schools, ISPs, or email accounts, it can be hard to stay in touch by email. This free email address registry has a feature called the FreshAddress Book that gives members automatic updates of the email addresses of their registered friends and associates. Once you are registered, you can tell friends to look you up at FreshAddress.com if your email ever bounces. You can also list your change of email address and have updates sent to your friends. The system allows users to select a level of privacy; the maximum protection allows you to select which individuals will be given your new address. The site offers services for businesses as well. http://www.FreshAddress.com

New and Improved
This entertaining website was created by a company dedicated to innovation and creative improvement. New and Improved helps organizations build innovative high performance teams, improve creativity and interpersonal skills, and develop new products and processes. Their presenters work with everyone from youth groups to large companies and use unorthodox methods like multimedia presentations, sailing trips, and gourmet cooking to develop creative thinking. Each group is led through a range of creativity exercises to help them think in new ways. Endorsements from satisfied customers show their methods are successful. Their innovative approach emerges in the way they present ideas on the website. http://www.innovativebrains.com

Investa Capital: A Lease Financing Specialist
Leasing is an increasingly popular method for attaining equipment and software; 8 out of 10 American companies currently lease their equipment. Here vendors and prospective buyers can learn about leasing, including software leasing, equipment leasing, and Web presence leasing. The site presents the advantages and history of leasing, along with a glossary of leasing terminology and reference links. The site has a beautiful clean design, with easy navigation and good readable content. http://www.investacapital.com

redPatent - Protect Your Ideas
This site provides information and help for managing and protecting intellectual property. Innovators can learn to protect ideas, business plans, software code, and other intellectual property by understanding patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other methods of protection. Users can ask questions via a moderated discussion forum, learn from case studies of profiled companies, and read daily intellectual property news. Small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs can benefit from real-life examples from other inventors, freelancers and technology companies. Free software available here provides electronic time stamps and collaboration in an inventor's notebook. There are sample legal agreements for use with independent contractors, venture capitalists, and partnerships to help protect confidentiality and intellectual property. The site also offers help with the US patent application, access to experts, and the latest industry surveys. http://www.redpatent.com

The Globe: Aid to the Living
This Web portal is a business resource and more, emphasizing "information, skills and the integration of important intellectual, emotional and spiritual concerns with our everyday existence." Professionals will find business information, links to major newspapers worldwide, training options, and solid advice from the pros in many business disciplines. Alongside this practical information is a section called Imagination, featuring nonfiction, fiction, and verse by award-winning writers. This site promises "a place for contemplation and enjoyment, where you find a reconciliation between the drive required by business and the need for real perspective on goals, beliefs and actions." http://www.wgaprc.com/index.html

RUnuts.com
Here is a site for entrepreneurs to learn from others who have been there before, and to share their own business wisdom. The site is called RUnuts.com because entrepreneurs hear that question a lot: "Are you nuts? Are you crazy? Get a real job!" Here entrepreneurs can find news, articles, and other helpful information for small business people. After reading each article, users can post comments on the subject and get into discussions with other readers.

CertifiedMail.com
Here's a much-needed service: certified email. As a member, you can certify your email, which the addressee will retrieve by web browser. You will be notified by email when your message is received. This website offers certifiable return receipts with a simple interface, 2 megabytes of hard drive space, message attachments, an address book, online help, and mobile design. Users can sign up for basic services for free. http://www.certifiedmail.com/

ENTERWeb, The Enterprise Development Website
The Enterprise Development Website is an information gateway for entrepreneurs and small businesses, with links to quality sources of information on small business, finance, international trade, entrepreneurship, enterprise development, economics, and more. Find resources on banking, investment, stock markets, and international trade. Learn about technology transfer; sustainable enterprise development; incubators; self-employment initiatives; and international trade laws. Find links on cyberbusiness; education and vocational training; women entrepreneurs; business research; and microfinance. Sites are listed here by subject, alphabetical order, and region of the world (covering both developed and developing countries); all sites are reviewed and rated. There is a special section on the Year 2000 and its impact on small businesses. Users can read current business news; find international conferences and seminars; and join a discussion group.
http://www.enterweb.org/

Global Business Web
Global Business Web is a comprehensive online resource for the global business community, providing extensive information and access to experts, services, and trade opportunities around the globe. Get news headlines here and articles on subjects like cross-cultural sales. There is a searchable database of over 50,000 events, trade shows, and trade missions around the world, plus over 5,000 business resources categorized by region of the world and subject. In addition, there are links to maps, information on time zones and holidays, travel guides, units and standards tables, weather sites, communications resources, freight delivery services, government sites, language resources, and legal references. Users can sign up for a free monthly newsletter, and there are discussion groups for the global business community.
http://www.GlobalBusinessWeb.com

Rename.net
If you're looking for a specialized domain name that represents your site's content, this website may have the answer. Rename it! domain name rename service offers up to 3 renames per web page, basically for free. Any website can be given a new URL that is easy to remember and descriptive of the site, in exchange for placing a standard-sized banner ad on its introductory page.


Excel Translations, Inc.
Excel Translations, Inc. is a company that offers translation and localization services "in any language you can think of". This website can be read in several different languages: Dutch, Portuguese, French, Japanese, English, Spanish, Italian. The services are available worldwide, in more than 50 languages, and on a variety of software and hardware platforms. Some of the services are software localization, website localization; technical documentation; telecommunications; RFPs and proposals; industrial, engineering, and medical documents. The links page has pointers to many useful websites for translators, general language sites, and language humor sites.
http://www.xltrans.com

Good Documents: Intranet Business Writing
This website is designed to help people create effective business documents for corporate intranets and the Internet. Research has shown that intranet documents that make effective use of writing, linking, and layout can reduce the time needed to read onscreen material by more than 50 percent. The focus is on presenting information so it can be easily understood, rather than on creating cool websites to attract hits. The areas addressed include how to organize a document, how to write summaries, how to use typography to best advantage, how to use links, what writing style works, learning from newspaper presentation, how to use backgrounds, and more. One section lists specific dos and don'ts, and gives samples for various types of documents. Don't miss the sample that explores why the chicken crossed the road!
http://www.gooddocuments.com

DayPlan
DayPlan is a Web-based calendar and group scheduling tool. With this tool, users can post a personal, group, organizational, or family calendar on the Web. Members of a group or organization can share the same public or private calendar and use it from any computer that has WWW access. You can keep a personal calendar and merge into it events from all group calendars you subscribe to; all events will be displayed on a single calendar. Each user who posts an event can be automatically notified when the other users accept and transfer the information to their own calendars. Users do not need to know HTML coding, only how to fill out simple forms directly on their browsers. Calendars can be linked to existing websites; private calendars are password-protected. The service is free.
http://www.dayplan.com

SBFocus.com - Search Engine for Small Business
This search engine, created by CXWeb, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, focuses on websites which supply the information needed to run a small business. Entrepreneurs can get relevant search results in less time without the need to learn search engine language such as Boolean logic. For example, a search for "bank loans" on one major search engine yields everything from international bank loan sites to lists of banks; the same search on SBFocus.com yields articles on how to prepare for loans, select a bank, and find alternative sources for loans; the results are immediately useful for the small business owner. For more expanded searches, the site also furnishes links to other popular search engines.

WorkSpace Resources
The layout of your workspace and how you interface with it has a big effect on your comfort, productivity, health, and safety. This website is all about the design and furnishing of workspaces, with a particular focus on human/computer interaction. The site offers a comprehensive index of commercial and institutional furniture and accessories, plus information about ergonomics, workplace environments, virtual reality environments, and the electronic classroom. There are directories of manufacturers, wholesale distributors, consultants, vendors, products, materials, components and hardware, used and refurbished furniture, and publications; also links to associations and organizations, university sites, and health care providers. There are useful articles, guides and FAQs on many subjects, including prevention of repetitive strain injury, back and neck pain, and miscellaneous computer-related injuries.
http://www.workspace-resources.com/

Find mE-Mail
Find mE-Mail is a free service for those who have changed their email addresses or are searching for an old email friend who has changed addresses. Find mE-Mail hosts an interactive database to which a user can add a record containing his or her old email address and new email address, with password protection to ensure that only the addressee can alter the record. Anyone who knows the user's former email address can then search the database for the updated address. Users have the option to post a profile (using Finger) to help searchers identify them positively. The service can also be used to update URLs. The web page is in English, German, Spanish, and French.
http://www.findmemail.com