Online survey has evolved over the recent years. However, for companies if they want to run their online survey within their sites, and not passing this task to some research agencies, then they can check out this app dubbed as the world’s first remote research recruiting Web app called Ethnio.

Ethnio, developed by Bolt | Peters, is a Web app allows companies to recruit participants from the Web for any kind of research for a fraction of the cost of a recruiting agency. All they need is a Web site that their target audience visits and a few minutes to customize the screener. Currently, there are some known issues appeared such as scrollbar and screengrab problems since it is relatively new in the market, but some reputable companies like Adobe, SONY have used its service for the sophisticated live recruiting.

As seen in the below, the online survey form is programing well in a single DHTML layer. The selected research participant can fill out the survey with the availability of text box, check box, or open-end question and etc. One of the common problems in conducting survey is the fakers and Ethnio is able to filter out the fakers by identifying the referring URL for each response.

Currently, Ethnio has three pricing options, free for first 20 recruits, and $400 for up to 200 recruits and up to $800 for above 2,000 recruits. In other words, this is a fair price a company pays $2 for a research participant plus any incentive given considering that the same kind of service they would pay a recruiting agency for $100 per head count.

Looking for the best bargain or good deals near your area? If you’re like me, checking the best deals on the Web everyday, then one of the sites you must check out is Postabon.

At first glance, I thought Postabon is one of the sites for finding coupons online, but a second look I found that this site works a bit differently from some other sites in that you can find best deals based on the “location” you select.

Postabon, co-founded by three Harvard students in 2009, is currently offers best deals mainly in the categories of eat, shop, entertainment and misc. Although you can enter your zip code and get results for the best deals in your area, but most of the deals are located in NYC.

As the domain name suggests, this site allows the users to “post a bon”, and in the Postabon system, bon is the alternative name for the best deal. However, unlike other best deal sites that aggregate deals across the Web, all the bons appeared on the site are indeed posted by the users. Besides the deal listings, Postabon also assigns a personal profile to each user, in an attempt to build up a reliable and trusted deal finders community. Of course, as a user, you can give deals the thumbs up or down as well as search the bons by numerous methods, such as city name, zip code, or based on categories or top rated that being offered.

Also, for those iPhone users, the Postabon app can gives you the best deals based on your GPS location.

RSS (Really Simply Syndication) is a technology underpinning the popularity of blogging as well as a way to publish and subscribe to blog entries. However, it is unsurprised to learn that many sites still did not have a feed. For the site owners who built their sites not by using the blogging software; the static one, a Web app called rssa (Really Simply Syndicate Anything) can help to solve the RSS creation process.

By entering your Web site’s URL to rssa’s feed URL bar, this service will create a feed for your site through a quick and easy few steps manner. You can set options such as create a feed widget or alerts widget and place the widget onto your site. On the upside, rssa allows you to create a feed based on the category pages, or search pages of your site, but if this service can’t create the feed simply because it couldn’t find any suitable data on the page your specified, you’ll find it isn’t always “Really Simply Syndicate Anything.”

Apparently, rssa functions similar to FeedYes, another service helps to create a feed automatically. However, on a side note, I ran a simple test to create a feed for a static site, but the outcome shown that FeedYes gives you the ability to create the feed based on the static site’s page headline that has news value whereas rssa failed to take care of this.

Like dictionary and reference sites, spell check Web sites are useful. If you’re a blogger or media publisher, and you want to check your spelling for a word on your site instead of going to Google and use the “Did you mean:” function, you can go to the Spell R Us and use them for the scanning job.

However, Spellr.us isn’t free, besides the free trial version which entitled you to enjoy up to five (5) scans over a period of 30 days, and the maximum Web pages per scan will be restricted to 100 pages as well. By the way, you can hop over to their premium monthly plan for details. While the free trial plan typically helps to scan a maximum of 100 pages, for the single words or blocks of text, you can try to use their online free spell check page.

Currently, Spellr.us is in the version 2 doesn’t just provide spelling corrections; the spell checking errors can be viewed by URL or via the word list. Beyond the spell check, Spellr.us also allows us to add custom dictionaries. For instance, medical dictionaries for medical related sites or new tech jargons for technology sites that their default directory doesn’t handle quite well at the moment.

Overall, the main aim of Spellr.us is to point people to their genuine spelling errors. As long as Spellr.us helps you to catch a few errors that you or the editors of your company fail to do, it can be a trusted source of learning sites where you can learn to write better.

Reading online magazine articles from site to site? Sorry, that’s not convenient for me. Now, a startup called Maggwire is offering a new way for you to read the magazines. Maggwire, dubbed as the new way to “experience magazines online,” it is designed to wire you to a list of articles from 660 magazines across the Web, at the time of my writing.

On the front page of Maggwire, it aggregates magazine articles that cover any topic under the sun, from golf, and yoga to tech or celebrity news. All the magazine articles resolves around topics, and included with each topic, there are sub-categories that form around a main category. Clearly, the Top Articles part of the site is virtually identical to many other news sites on the Web such as Digg and Techmeme whereby the article with most popularity, i.e. five (5) stars will sit in at the top of the site.

In fact, Maggwire offered a number of features that will shorten the amount of time you spend on the site each day. For the articles you’ve read, you can either rate it so the rating color will turn from yellow to red, and next time when you come across this article, you know you can skip to other articles until you find something interesting.

Also, Maggwire comes with additional features such as the ability to share the articles via the addthis plugin, and hide a certain magazine based on your viewing experience. The “Hide Magazine” feature, although it is certainly unique, it’s likely to appeal to a very small segment of online readers who want to make their browsing articles faster.

So you’ve a project in hand, but still looking for a strong programmer or Web developer to build the project with you, then you should check out Build It With Me. Basically, Build It With Me is a site that connects designers and developers, but it is not a marketplace for them to sell their services. Quite the contrary; Build It With Me allows designers or developers to open an account and looking for someone who can complete the project with them.

Depending on your project, certain projects on Build It With Me offer anywhere from 20% equity to 50% equity in the company. In other words, if you’re a strong programmer possess the skill and willingly to work on the project with someone that posted the “AppIdeas,” instead of you get paid for the job as you have won a bid on GetAFreelancer, now you get a chance to build the project with someone you like, in addition to the equity offering. On the other hand, if your purpose on the site is solely to find a partner who has a skill set you lack in order to finish off your app, it’s better you fill-up completely your personal bio so someone who would like to work with you know that your strength, your App Ideas, how he / she can helps to crystallize the ideas into an actual application.

At the time of my writing, however, there are only 109 people who signed up for this site. Although the users base is small, and probably the monthly traffic is low as well, but it’s a site to try if you want to let the world know that you’re looking for a strong partner in your project.