Microsoft announces that their Project Gatineau web analytics application is ready to beta testing. This is a great news for all who manage and ebusiness because could have a second opining besides Google Analytics.

According to Microsoft, Project Gatineau’s web analytics are useful to sites of all sizes – from smaller sites that can’t afford an expensive web analytics solution to larger sites looking for a boost in their web analytics capabilities.

For the moment, only US advertisers could access to this online application through and online invitation at this form.

Some features includes are:
• Click and visitor tracking reports
• Marketing campaign reporting and conversion tracking
• Unique demographic and geographic information from your site visitors

We hoe that everyone could access this application soon!. Good luck!.

In order to plan your next business project, you’ll probably need to consider a project management suite. I once mentioned that I worked with OpenProj with excellent results.

Now I received a mail with an invitation to use ProjectOffice.

This is also a free project suite that can be access online in a secure way by all your team members.

ProjectOffice.net is a web based online project management solution that besides basic project management functionality offers collaboration features to its users.
With ProjectOffice.net individuals and teams can create projects and tasks, can assign tasks to project members, can track time, expenses and issues and can use wikis to boost collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Some of the nice thinks I can mention about projectOffice are:

The graphic design: It’s really easy to use and intuitive for any user.
The dashboard: You can get all the project information from this place. And it’s really easy to find everything.
Wiki: projectOffice includes a Wiki concept for all the existing project so everyone can add information, depending of course on each member profile.

Really, a terrific tool!

Creating Mind Maps online was never so easy as today. I already mentioned FreeMind, an online tool to create this kind of diagrams.

I recently discovered Exploratree, another MindMap diagram drawing tool that has many other diagram templates and with lot of further functionality.

These diagrams can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too.

Even Exploratree is in beta release, it’s really very complete and easy to use.

Have you ever used VISIO? This is excellent software (acquired by Microsoft) that lets you draw diagrams and charts easily.

I just found a great tool to replace VISIO’s functionality that let you create professional diagrams online, with only a computer connected to the internet.

From DrawAnywhere website you can generate excellent diagrams online and export them in many common formats. Great tool to use when modeling your business!.

Rsizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

This is a great tool for your next ebusiness project!. And it’s totally free! No login required.

Wet floor creates the Wet Floor effect in any image you want. This effect is used in many Web 2.0 websites. Even you can also create this effect with a image management application, this website creates it in seconds and for free.

Just upload the image using the form below and you will get your image ready to use in your presentation or web page. Great tool for your business!.

Website Grader is a free SEO tool that provides an SEO score for your website with custom search engine optimization and marketing advice for your online business.

You have to complete a simple form to enter your website, your keyword phrases and your competitors to receive a report about the marketing effectiveness of your website. And that’s it!.

Wow, this is really a terrific online tool. From a wide menu templates, you can create yours based on the number of elements and the link that each menu button needs.

You can do this in three simple steps:

1. Choose a menu below to either customize or download the source code.
2. Customize the headings, links, and color of your CSS menu.
3. Once you finish customizing, download the HTML, CSS, and images for you brand new menu.

As I mentioned before, CSS Menu Maker this is a great tool for any online project.

Want to have a screenshot of your current webpage including all the scrolling content? With thumbalizr you can take screenshots of any webpage you want. You can use it for your presentations, documentations, visualizations or your webpage. Just enter the target-URL and press the “thumb it”-button.

Wait a moment and a screenshot of the desired page will be taken. You can choose between a screenshot with a fixed height of the screen or the complete webpage. That’s it! Just click one of the resolution-links (320, 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 pixel width) to download your screenshot.

The best thing: You don’t need to register in order to get the thumbnail. Excellent tool!

A very common practice for spammers is to crawl websites trying to find email addresses in the page text, so they can uses those addresses for sending spam. A nice way to block them is to write the email address using an image.

You can create an image with your email address or any other text using Fireworks or even Microsoft Paint. Also, there’s a simple website that helps you if you are not familiar with these tools. ImageFromText is a page where you can write some text, choose their font, color, size and background and quickly generate the image with the desired text.

Images are generated in a PNG file that you can download for free. Nice site!