Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.

FORBES: Silence Of The Blogs

It is a flash-based site with little pictures which illustrate your lifestyle as you enter details about it.

BBC: PortableApps

Entrepreneurs simply choose a username and password, enter an e-mail address and zip code, and sync the site to their QuickBooks software.

FORBES: Your Free Online Accountant