Bluetooth really is a beautiful thing — especially when you have the power to turn a printer possessed, sort of like Transformers. Let’s roll out, Optimus Prime!

But, seriously, with the age of technology skyrocketing into unknown atmospheres of ethereal quality, you can imagine small businesses and entrepreneurs licking their lips at the next innovative application to grace the halls of the corporate world. This is the way it is with one specific Google app: PrinterShare.

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Such is the high expectations for business apps these days, and this particular one is no exception. What would you expect? This is, after all, the Google Apps Marketplace! We have to be tough here. Of course, the auto attendants and call centers of our corporate world would lynch any sub-par app out there only seeking to clutter up the space in a smartphone, laptop, or desktop; but at the very least, this one business app does have potential. It just needs a little bit of tweaking.

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Productivity is a problem for most any business. If businesses don’t produce, they don’t make money. If they don’t make money, they don’t stay in business long. But the VoloMetrix app looks like a way to get an extra shot of all too necessary productivity in business.

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A former Google employee brought out an app recently that’s likely going to be a very big deal indeed for shoppers, and most anything that’s going to be a big deal for shoppers is something small businesses will want to pay close attention to. The app in question is called Smoopa, and it’s set to make an expansion to iOS.

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If you do any amount of business online, and you’ve been talking to a lawyer about it, then you may already be aware of the concept of terms of service. And if you’ve seen some websites’ terms of service, you know they can be an impenetrable wall of lawyer-speak that virtually no one can understand. Snapterms, however, looks to break the wall and make it much easier.

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User feedback runs business. Basically, it doesn’t matter how well you’re doing anything, if what you’re doing isn’t well received at the user level. The folks at ZURB, meanwhile, think they’ve got just the thing for you to test your various offerings with Verify.

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See? This is why small business is going global in a big way. We’ve got the Google Apps Marketplace. And we’ve also got this tough contender called “Yahoo! Small Business.” Ah, the choices, choices, choices. As efficient as are trusty call centers and auto attendants are, even they would implode from the sheer stress of having to pick a certain marketing/e-mail/advertising platform.

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We all know how diffuse social networks have been of late. Joining more than one is almost like agreeing to take a part-time job for no pay. Joining several can be the equivalent of a full-time job, again with no pay. But a recent attendee at the South By Southwest show-by the name of Banjo got a serious bump in their download numbers, and as a result, underscored just how important it is to have a social networking presence.

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Yeah, I know — I’ve been reviewing apps since I was in diapers, but every once in awhile I like to deviate from the natural order of things and give credit where credit is due when it comes to small businesses.

Instead of apps for this review, we’re going to focus on a social media site! It’s called Manta. And needless to say, I’m about as impressed with this site as I am with an auto attendant handling all the voicemails and call centers taking all the calls — finally a social site devoted to small businesses, doing what they do best.

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If your small business has already found a lot of success selling or promoting via Craigslist, then you’ll want to hear about a new app making its way to us called Tradyo. Tradyo wants to do everything that Craig and his list already does, but with a little extra push; they want to not only put it on the road, but they also want to make it social.

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