showitortowit.com Featured On KillerStartups.com.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

showitortowit.com has been gaining momentum over the past few months. We now have almost 400 cars submitted to the site and have recently been approached regarding advertising opportunities. (All without having spent a dime on marketing so far) In a recent development, showitortowit.com was featured on the website KillerStartups.com.

KillerStartups.com is a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers are using KillerStartups.com to stay informed on up-and-coming internet startups.

Here is an excerpt from the write-up on KillerStartups.com:
Sites that let users post a picture of themselves in order to be rated by the online community are nothing new. They have been proliferating ever since “Hot Or Not” saw the light of the day some years ago. Show It Or Tow It is one social rating site, but it has one distinctive feature – the photographs that are submitted are that of cars, and site users can vote on them from 1 to 10 – 1 standing for “Tow It” and 10 for “Show It”, naturally.

The site also makes for sharing the spots where car lovers hang out online, effectively acting as a showcase for car communities the world over.

Moreover, Show It Or Tow It doubles as a platform for the trading of vehicles, as cars can be sold through the website by way of the “Classifieds” section. Read The Full Article.

Tags: "Car Classifieds", "Car Photos", "Car Show", "Cars for Sale", "Hot Or Not", "Rate Cars", "Rate My Car", "Sell My Car", "View Car Photos", killerstartups, killerstartups.com
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Early Gmail Users Get Google Voice Phone Numbers First.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Two weeks ago I heard that there was a waiting list to get an invite to sign up for Google Voice Phone Number. So I figured I’d better go ahead and put in my request and see what happens.

Today, to my surprise I received an email letting me know I was in. Which makes me wonder…why did I get my number so fast? Maybe it was because I was an early Gmail user. Gmail was launched as an invitation only Beta release on April 1, 2004. I knew someone who was an early Beta test participant at the University of Texas and they sent me an invite on April 10,2006. (I signed up that day) Gmail wasn’t lauched to the rest of the public until Feb 7, 2007. So I wonder…are early Gmail users getting first dibs on Google Voice Phone Numbers? I don’t have the answer to that question, but what I do have is a killer San Francisco area phone number that I will keep for life! My new Google Voice Phone Number is (650) 866-XXXX. Now that’s a nice number. What do you think?

Check out the email I received below:

You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit https://www.google.com/voice/inv/…

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here’s what it offers:

A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenInTM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more

To learn more about Google Voice before registering, visit: http://www.google.com/voice/about

Please note that Google Voice is only available for sign up in the US.

We hope you enjoy Google Voice,

The Google Voice Team

Google Voice Screenshot

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Magnum P.I. Ferrari 308 A Great Way To Start Off Your Ferrari Collection.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009

The Ferrari 308 is a classic Ferrari with timeless beauty and universal appeal.  This car is undeniably Ferrari with its exotic body work, bold lines, and skinny-round knobbed shifter.  The mid-engined Ferrari 308 was manufactured by Ferrari from the mid 1970s- the mid 1980s. They made up the lower end of the company’s range. Now-a-days you can pick up one of these cars for somewhere between $25-40K…thus making this a great car to build a collection around.

This car was made famous on the TV show Magnum P.I. that ran from 1980-1988 on CBS. For car enthusiasts who are too young to remember the TV show Magnum P.I., it’s worth checking out a couple of old episodes on your cable or satellite service…as the 308 is showcased in a big way on almost every episode.

The premise of the show is as follows:

Magnum P.I. (P.I. stands for Private Investigator)(played by Tom Selleck) lives and resides in the ‘guest house’ of a posh, 200-acre (0.81 km²) beachfront estate, known as Robin’s Nest , in Hawaii. Robin’s Nest is guarded by two highly-trained Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo, and all other aspects of the estate are managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, an ex-British Army Sergeant Major with whom, often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must barter for use of estate amenities such as the tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.

Magnum seemingly lives a dream lifestyle: he comes and goes as he pleases, works only when he wants to, has the almost unlimited use of a Red Ferrari 308 GTS  as well as many other of Robin Masters’ luxuries. He keeps a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of fictional Coops beer, is seemingly surrounded by countless beautiful women (who are often his clients or victims in the cases he solves) and enjoys adventures with his buddies Rick and T.C., both former U.S. Marines he served with in the Vietnam War.

Check out a few episodes for some inspiration to start your Ferrari collection.

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