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I’ve just read an article about a new service called Ponoko on Techcrunch. With Ponoko, you can create, buy an sell unique products. Professional or hobby artists can turn their ideas into reality. In this case, we’re not only talking about putting your design on T-shirts or mugs. Numerous sites like Cafepress or Spreadshirt offer this type of service.

Ponoko goes a step further. It is possible to create a customized necklace, bookcase, puzzle or table. Designers are only limited by their imagination and by the materials they can use which range from acrylic to plywood. There are no uprfront costs or minimum orders and artists don’t need to manage their inventory. Basically, they just need to submit their creation an wait for people to buy them.

There are more and more services offering nearly unlimited customization options. Popular brands like Nike or Timberland also encourage their customers to design their own shoes. On the Nike ID page, you can chose the colors, materials, the logos, names and numbers you want to put on your shoes or other Nike products. It is also possible to create customized Timberland boots.

Those services and brands respond to the need of the customer who always wants to be different and own original and unique products.

• Whopper Freakout>>> What if Burger King took the Whopper out of it’s menu? (via Buzz is Media)
• SFMB>>> Facebook for old people (via Seth Godin)
• Contagious Magazine>>> Most contagious of 2007 (via CrossTheBreeze)
• Web 2.0 Logos>>> Corporate logos redesigned in 2.0

A few months ago, I got the pocket PC HTC P3300. I’m really happy with it. It’s a great product with Windows Mobile and TomTom Navigator 6. I know that there are other mobile phones out there which are “trendier” like the Nokia N95 or the iPhone but I don’t think that there is a much better phone/GPS combination available for the same price. Yesterday, I updated my Windows Mobile software to 6.0 and downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center (check out the Windows Mobile Team Blog) for the synchronization between my mobile and PC. Until now, it works like a charm but I wanted to know if there were any useful internet applications for mobile phones.

I found a lot of internet applications for different uses, from GPS tracking to managing your mobile phone via Internet. My list only contains those who are free of charge. These are my favorites:

trackr!: With this application, you can let people know where your are if you have a GPS receiver in your mobile phone. It could be interesting if you want to know where your friends, children or employees are. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it to work on my PPC.

UPDATE: After reading this blog post, a trackr! employee offered to help me get their service to work on my HTC and now it works fine. That’s what I call customer service!!

Dashwire: This application synchronizes your mobile phone content with your Dashwire account. I’s interesting because you don’t need a cable connection to do it. I already requested an invitation and hope to test this service very soon.

With WidSets, you can create widgets for your mobile phone. It can be used on a lot of different mobile phones because of its java platform. It’s also possible to create a widset for any kind of page.

Mobopic allows you to create a wallpaper for your phone in just a few seconds in three simple steps. Simple but useful application.

Zumobi lets you access web-based content in a new and innovative way. I watched the video on their page and it looks pretty cool but the download page didn’t work when I wanted to get the Beta version.

With Mojungle, you can create a video or take a picture, send it via standard text message to Mojungle and embed it directly into a player that you can use on your blog or on a social networking site.

Netvibes has been my RSS reader of choice for a long time. There is a new release coming soon called “Ginger” and as a Netvibes fan, I’m really looking forward to use it. Go to the Netvibes Blog for more information. The new interface looks great: