Once the widget is ready, it will provide you with an embed code. Just copy and paste that code anywhere you like the widget to show up.

Features:

• Flash widget to easily showcase your latest social activity.
• Supports Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Delicious and one custom RSS feed.
• Option to configure the widget later, via a unique URL.
• Free for use, no registration required.

Check out BloggyBits @ www.bloggybits.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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1. By phone – Call provided number and speak to record.
2. Text-to-speech – Enter your text and let the app convert it to audio.
3. via Mic – Use your computer microphone.
4. upload file – Upload an existing audio file.

When the audio is ready, AudioPal will send the link to your email address. Just follow that link to get the embed code for your site.

Features:

• Create embeddable audio greetings and alerts for your site or web profile.
• Create as many audio alerts as you like.
• Set your audio alert to auto-play on every page load or new visitor.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: ProfileGreeting.

Check out AudioPal @ www.audiopal.com

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• ProfileGreeting: Add Audio Greetings to Your Webpage
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels

After the user has registered and customized his/her contact details, there are two different ways to add the form to their website. First, by placing a contact button which when clicked takes visitors to a contact form. Second, is by embedding the contact form directly. In both cases you simply need to copy the given code and paste it on your web page.

You can also keep a record of all those who has contacted you over time, view their locations and set auto responding messages notifying that message has been received.

Features:

• Custom contact form generator.
• Shows location of people contacting you.
• Captcha protection, auto responder and Google maps included.
• Keep a record of people who has contacted you.
• WordPress plugin available.
• Free and premium versions available.
• Similar tools: Contactify and Whspr.

Check out Visitor Contact @ www.visitorcontact.com

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• Kontactr : Online Contact Form
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With free account users may you monitor up to 5 websites with time intervals ranging between 15, 30 and 60 minutes. Premium account options with additional features available as well.

Unlike many other similar sites which are filled with flashing banners and annoying ads, 247WebMonitoring has a clutter free design and easy to use interface.

Features:

• Monitor the uptime of your website from different locations.
• Receive notifications by email or SMS whenever your site goes down.
• Loading time graphs, uptime charts and historical reports.
• Monitor http, https, ftp, smtp, pop3, image, ping and DNS.
• Disable monitoring for site maintenance period.
• Sign up for free account to monitor up to 5 sites with time intervals of 15,30 and 60 minutes.

Check out 247WebMonitoring @ www.247webmonitoring.com

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• WhenDOUP: Monitor Uptime and Downtime Of A Site
• Website Down For Everyone Or Just Me ?
• Pingability: Receive Alerts when your Website goes Down
• Observu: Get an eMail Alert When your Website Goes Down
• IsThisDown: Check If The Website Is Really Down

Visualize your traffic stats (top referrers, daily visitors, traffic by region etc) without leaving Wordress. Moreover, if you have a MailChimp account, you will be able to view the traffic coming from your email campaigns and track your mailing list growth alongside your traffic stats.

If you don’t use Wordpress for blogging, plugin is also available for Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms. To use it, first you need to install the plugin in your Wordpress and then associate it with your Google Analytics account from plugin settings.

Watch a video tour below:

Features:

• View your Google Analytics stats from your Wordpress dashboard.
• Subscribe to MailChimp’s email marketing services to track the performance of your email campaigns on your site traffic.
• Plugin available for Wordpress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms.
• Install it in your Wordpress and associate with your Google Analytics account.
• Plugin is free. MailChimp account is not required.

Check out  Analytics 360 @ www.mailchimp.com/wordpress_analytics_plugin/

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Currently Google offers Web Elements for the following services.

• Calendar
• Conversation
• Custom Search
• Maps
• News
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• YouTube News

Check out Google Web Elements @ www.google.com/webelements (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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As you can see, two different URLs have been entered along with the title of the new combined feed. The result is displayed in the following manner.

FeedMingle can also be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS converter. You can also mix two or more twitter posts, blog posts or any feeds and publish the mixed posts to another twitter account or a blog.

Features :

• Combine rss feeds into one feed to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON and a widget.
• Simple and easy to use, just type in the URLs and the title and you’re done.
• No sign up required.
• Can be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS converter.
• Similar sites: FeedStich, FeedKiller, RSSMixer and FeedBlendr

Check out FeedMingle@www.feedmingle.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TwitterLists2RSS: Generates RSS Feeds For Twitter Lists

Mobify lets you mobilize your blog or website by creating lightweight version of it, which loads much faster and looks great on a mobile screen. No need to maintain a separate mobile version of the site, which can be costly and time consuming.

The basic plan is free, which lets you customize HTML and CSS files and host the mobile version at http://m.sitename.com. To get access to all the features including advanced analytic, SEO and priority support, you have to upgrade to a paid plan.

How it works:

1. Sign up and select which parts of your website should be visible on a mobile screen. Create one or more templates.
2. Insert Javascript code into HTML code of your website, which will automatically detect and redirect mobile visitors to the mobile view of the site.
3. Create a custom domain (http://m.sitename.com) by setting up CNAME records of your domain’s settings.

Next time when someone visits your site from a mobile device, she will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of the site, which is created on the fly by Mobify based on your provided mobile template.

For more detailed info watch introductory videos below:

Features:

• Mobilize your website or blog.
• Customize site’s mobile template – tweak CSS code, rearrange content and choose which parts to display on a mobile screen.
• Mobile visitors are automatically redirected to the optimized version of the site at http://m.sitename.com.
• Supports over 4000 mobile device including iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia and others.
• Basic account is free, including custom mobile subdomain.
• Upgrade to a paid plan to get access to advanced analytics, SEO and priority support.
• Other tools to mobilize your site: Ubik, Mowser, Mofuse and Movylo.

Check out Mobify @ www.mobify.me

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Setting up the alerts is really easy, user basically needs to select where byTagg should look for updates (news sources, blogs, web etc.) and provide alert keywords. For instace, if you setup news alert for “iraq” you will only get alerted on Iraq related news. Same applies on alerts on blog feeds. As for alerts on changes in search results there are advanced options that allow user to setup alerts for specific phrases and restrict them to specific domain.

The alerts include the title and a brief summary of the page.

Features:

• Track your favorite blogs and news for things that matter to you.
• Setup active searches for specific keywords and get notified on new search results.
• Follow updates from people on Twitter.
• Customize the visual theme and layout of your byTagg client.
• Currently supports Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and Vista.

Check out byTagg @ www.bytagg.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas)

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The Taggify widget can be easily embedded on any blog or website using a simple HTML code and customized to your site’s appearance.

Features:

• Describe images by tagging regions of an image.
• Viewers see the tagged information when they mouse over the region.
• Make the regions clickable to redirect users to a different URL.
• Customize the widget to match the look of your website.
• Compatible with IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Netscape browsers.
• Tags can be also listed below the image and linked to specific regions.

Check out Taggify @ www.taggify.net (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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To start using, install the bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar and launch it when you are writing an email or a blog post. Search for content (images, documents, links) and embed them right from the search results with one click. To get better idea watch demo video below:

Features:

• Search and embed content from Google Web search, Yahoo, Yahoo Images, Google Images, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube videos, Docstoc and more.
• Embed content inside Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, AOl Mail and other popular email and blogging platforms.
• Install the bookmarklet on your browser toolbar, search for content (images, links, documents) and embed them from search results.
• Free, register to customize and arrange services (up to 7) that appear in the plugin and save favorite items in your account.

Check out Lizzer @ www.lizzer.com

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It scans your site’s RSS feed and searches more than 35 billion blog and web pages to find if someone reused your content and if the copied content meets your minimum attribution requirements. Currently service covers text content with support for videos and images promised soon.

How it works?

1. Enter your RSS feed and the select a license under which you want to share your content, or not share at all.
2. Provide your email to confirm your account.
3. Get FairShare RSS feed.
4. Wait till it scans sites and blogs for your content (Can take up to 8 hours).
5. View sites that are reused your content through a provided Fairshare RSS feed.

Service works best for English language texts and supports major European languages and even works for static sites. It is totally free but has limitations on the amount of content you can add. To lift the limits, get an Enterprise paid subscription account.

Features:

• Claim your work online, declare how you want to share it and find how others are using it.
• Provide your website’s RSS feed and let FairShare scan other sites to find out if your content was copied without proper minimum attribution.
• Works even for static sites with no RSS feeds.
• Works best for English language texts and supports major European languages.
• Free, register for an account to start tracking your content.
• Similar sites: CopyGator, CopyrightSpot and Copyscape.

Check out FairShare @ www.fairshare.cc

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The gallery creation process is straightforward, here is how it works:

1. Upload your photos.
2. Label them, either one by one or all images at once.
3. Customize gallery look (fonts, background and gallery title).
4. Get the embed code and add it to your webpage

You can also install the Wordpress plugin and create galleries directly from the control panel. Support for other blogging platforms coming soon.

Features:

• Create image galleries online.
• Preview photo gallery as you make changes.
• Get an embeddable code to add gallery to your site or blog.
• Wordpress plugin available (support for other blogging platforms coming).
• Already used by over 3000 blogs.

Check out Picturesurf @ www.picturesurf.com

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Basically there are two 2 parts – FeedManager and MySite. The FeedManager lets you create a feed instantly and publish it across the web. The MySite on the other hand is a separate tool which can be used to add a simple button to your website or blog and let others re-syndicate your feed.

Features:

• Creating rss feed for website made easy.
• Manage rss feeds, update and schedule your feeds in real time.
• Use MySite to re-syndicate your existing feeds.
• In-depth stats for track your feeds .
• Optionally password protect any feed you want.
• Free sign up.
• Similar sites: FeedBeater and xFruits
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Check out Rapidfeeds @ www.rapidfeeds.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Each found copy will have a clear side note (i.e. bears a slight resemblance, share many similar elements or is an exact copy) that tells you degree of resemblance to your post.

There are two ways you can use CopyGator.

1 – Add your feed to the CopyGator and get an overview page for your blog. You can bookmark this page and check when you need to see if someone coping your content.

2 – Add provided badge to your blog and CopyGator will watch your content. Clicking on this badge will take you to the overview page. The badge also changes its color from green to red when copy of your article is detected. See sample badge below:

 

Features:

• Find out who is stealing blog posts from your site.
• Get email and RSS alerts when CopyGator finds copies of your articles online.
• Clearly indicated levels of resemblance for each found copy.
• Embeddable Image badge that alerts you by changing a color.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: Copyscape and CopyrightSpot.

Check out CopyGator @ www.copygator.com

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Once tag cloud is created you can easily embed it on to your blog or personal web page.

Features:

• Online tag cloud generator.
• Generate clouds from webpages, uploaded text file or simple text.
• Maximum file size is 100 KB’s for uploaded file and 3 MB’s for pasted text.
• Style and customize the cloud to your liking.
• Embedding supported.
• Similar webistes: Wordle and ZoomClouds.

Check out TagCrowd @ www.tagcrowd.com

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It takes 2 minutes or less to create an account.

• Enter a user name
• Enter your email address
• Enter a password

An email is sent to your account to verify after you have registered, after verifying, it takes you to the dashboard where you can start right away.

You can enter Title, Click to add a picture, video or music, add tags and write away. Another good thing about Kontain is that you can share your entry with a friend by writing your friend’s email address and after publishing it will send an email, notifying them about your post.

The overview in your dashboard is quiet simple too. It shows how many drafts you have, what were your recent entries, how many visitors came and vice versa. It also gives you 250MB of space where you can upload your photos, videos and audio.

Your published post is shown in a very simple window, easy to read and visitors can add comments. You can also set the entry settings, if you want to allow comments or not or you need to approve those comments before they get posted.

Since it’s new, it’s simple at first. I’m not sure if you can add advertisements like Google adsense or any other publisher ads but they might have it this feature in the future. Though, the confirmed features that they are working on are

• Sharing of High-Resolution pictures
• Enhanced media galleries and collections
• A New messaging systems (Like live chat)
• Ability to create like-minded topic groups
• Subscription
• Connecting directly with friends
• Embeddable Media
• Awesome activity statistics
• Commenting on specific media items
• Multimedia commenting
• Embed media from other websites
• HD video
• In-line editing
• Rich text editing

To find out more on these upcoming features, check out this page

Check out Kontain @ www.Kontain.com (Contributed by Moin from ANewMorning.com )

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I particularly like the feature which converts email address to an image. It looks pretty neat and if you have a blog, you can use it to display your contact information and at the same time prevent the spam bots from copying it. Much better than writing your email address in ‘abc at gmail dot com’ format.

Also see SpamProofEmailGenerator a similar tool that  we have profiled earlier .

Check out Hidetext @ www.hidetext.net (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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You can then click on preview button and see how the theme going to look on your blog. When you are finally satisfied with the theme, click on “Save” button and download it as a zip-file.

Features:

• Easily create WordPress themes.
• Generate as many themes as you like.
• Customize body size, colors, layout, backgrounds, text style/size/color, menu, tag cloud, etc.
• Preview your theme before saving it.
• No sign up or registration needed.

You might be also interested in following MakeUseOf articles:

• A Beginner’s Guide To Building Your Own Wordpress Theme
• 4 Websites for Great Wordpress Themes & Blogger Skins

Check out Wordpress Theme Generator @ yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

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To get started, simply set your word count and time goal, then choose reminder type and click on “Write!”. Next it will open up basic text editor where you can start writing. When it doesnt’ detect any typing activity for a certain number of seconds it will start the reminder alert and not stop playing it until you get back to work.

For more info watch video below:

Features:

• Get reminders when you stop writing.
• Choose reminders types, from gentle ones to loud ones.
• Simple and easy to use.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out Write or Die @ lab.drwicked.com/writeordie ( via downloadsquad.com )

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How it works

• Choose the method to source flickr photos. It can be by tag or by username.
• Enter the required tags or the username in the next box.
• Enter the number of rows of pics you’d like to have.
• Click on generate.
• Copy the code from the right hand side and embed it in your blog .
• Done!

Check out FlickrIn @ www.flickrin.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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As you can see from the screenshot above you can choose search backgound and specify how many results i should display. Here is another screenshot showing it in action.

To get started, simply click “Get The Code” and then customize the search to your liking, once satisfied grab the code and embed it onto your blog. It will work everywhere, blogger wordpress etc.

Features:

• Generate Embeddable life search box for your blog.
• Customize: number of results to display, select your theme etc.
• Easy to use. No programming skills required.

Check out SikBox @ www.sikbox.com

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Once it’s finished scanning the web it will present you with a list of the websites that have copied your content. You can further clock on the individual result to see the copied text. Quite handy.

Features:

• Type in the URL or blog feed and see if it was republished elsewhere.
• Search as much as you like. No registration required.
• Number of copied words is also shown.
• Similar website: Copyscape

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Once you have registered you will be able to start putting together pages via simple to use online editor. When the page is ready, save it and check how it looks from the page URL.

Your GoHoster pages can have anythig from simple text paragraphs to Flixkr photos and Youtube video playlists.

Features:

• Create simple web pages, quickly and easily.
• Create and share and as many pages as you like.
• No technical skills required.
• Widget gallery: Add photos, videos, games etc. to your pages.
• See sample GoHoster page gohoster.com/url/blah-blah-and-blah/

Check out GoHoster @ www.gohoster.com

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All you have to do is type in the URL of a website and click on “Generate Icon” button. FeedIcon20 then generates the ready HTML code that can be copied and pasted into your website.

Your feed icon also includes a link to your feed description page which has a quick description about what feeds are, latest headlines from your site, and one-click subscribe buttons for popular RSS readers.

Here is a sample feed icon:

About Feed

Try FeedIcon20 @ www.feedicon20.com

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The button is fully customizable and can be styled to match your site’s theme. It’s quite similar to AddThis, but instead of letting your readers to bookmark the page it offers automatic translation.

Features:

• Free translation button for your website.
• Customize your buttons style and color.
• Translate using Babelfish, Google Translate, WorldLingo, SDL, Live Translator or Promt.
• Get translation stats.

You can also check out Mloovi. This one can translate your RSS feeds into 24 languages.

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Features

• Free Sign up
• Create Private or Public Diary
• Add photos, videos and web clips to your diary.
• Share and publish your diary online.

Check out Diary.com @ www.diary.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Penzu : Free Online Diary Site
• Memiary: Online Diary Keeping Made Easy
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises

Features:

• Monitors your websites for uptime and alerts you by email in case one of them goes down.
• Monitor as many websites as you want.
• Add a text Observu should look for on the page to verify that the correct content is being shown.
• Other similar services we have reviewed: BasicState, Montastic, MrUptime and Pingability

Check out Observu @ www.observu.com

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• Zlert : Get Alerts From Amazon
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WhyDoWork AdSense Monitor: Monitor Google AdSense Earnings Right In Your Browser
• WhenDOUP: Monitor Uptime and Downtime Of A Site
• Website Down For Everyone Or Just Me ?

The setup is fairly easy and should take you about 1-2 minutes. After you have registed, go to plugins section and create a button for your website. When it is ready simply copy the code and paste it to your site’s template file. Done, now anyone who visits your website can leave you an audio message.

Features:

• Let your blog or website visitors leave you audio messages.
• Works almost on any blogging platform or website.
• Receive and manage voice messages from one place.

See it in action below

Another good service for collecting voicemails from you site or profile visitors is Jangl. With Jangl you also have an option to connect with the person who sent you the message without paying anything.

Check out WireWag @ www.wagwire.com

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• AudioPal: Record Audio Alerts for Your Website
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website

The counter will display the number of users currently visting the website, total for the day, and total numbers of visits since it was installed. There are nearly 20 counter templates, in different size and colors, so there is a good chance you’ll find something to match your site’s theme.

If you don’t like any of the available templates then you can quickly create one on your own. And as can be seen in the screenshot below it’s really easy to create one.

There is one thing you should be aware of though. If you plan to add the counter to your website then make sure that it appears on every page or it won’t be able to count all of the visits.

Check out 99counters @ www.99counters.com

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• W3Counter: Traffic Reports For Your Website
• TrendCounter: Site Counter Widgets For Your Blog
• FlagCounter: Flag Counter Widget For Your Webpage
• FeedJit: Live Traffic Widget for Your Website
• Amung.us : Track Your Visitors Live

Features:

• Display latest titles from any website, blog or news source on your website.
• Add widget to your online profile page.
• No-registration required. Create as many widgets as you like.
• Style widgets: change text size, font type, text alignment, frame and background, widget width, line spacing and link colors.

Testing Feed Source on MakeUseOf Directory feed

Check out FeedSource @ www.rsscontenttool.com

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• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog
• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• RSSMixer: Combine and Access Fav. Feeds via Feedreader, iPhone and Mac

ChartGizmo also allows you to import data from an external source. If you got the data is on some spreadsheet (i.e. Excel) file and don’t want to enter it manually there is an option to import it. Quick and simple.

Features:

• Create embeddable charts for your blog or a webpage.
• Create as many charts as you like.
• Available chart types : Pie, Bar, and Line.
• Customize charts : size, add title, background color, show or hide legends ect… .
• Import data from local Excel file.

Visit ChartGizmo @ www.chartgizmo.com

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• HohliCharts: Create Bar Graphs, Pie Charts and Venn Diagrams.
• dPolls: Free Polls for Blogs and Websites
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WidGenie: Easy Tools for Presenting Raw Data Visually
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog

It has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. Major websites like TIME, Oracle, TechCrunch, Freewebs, Lonely Planet, MySpace, Zappos, FOX, ABC, CBS, Glamour, ReadWriteWeb and now MakeUseOf all use AddThis.

Integrating AddThis is extremely easy, simply select the button style you like and copy and paste the generated code into your site’s template file. Additionally, WordPress users can install the AddThis plugin – it will insert the bookmarking button at the end of each article automatically. You can see it in action at the end of this post.

Features:

• Add quick and comprehensive bookmarking button to your blog or website.
• Supports all major social bookmarking services including Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon etc.
• Customize the style and apperance of the button.
• Analytics: See which of your articles is shared/emailed most.
• Get bookmarking trends over time, geographic breakdown, etc.
• Wordpress Plugins: Fully automated plugin for Wordpress users.

Get AddThis Button @ www.addthis.com

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• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website
• Rotatee : Rotate Banners on your Website
• PubMatic: Make Most of Your Advertising Space

You can either let them do it for you or simply request free assistance in case you don’t trust them. Basically, they can do the hard work letting you focus on producing content. So if you ever wanted to start your own Wordpress blog but felt a bit intimidated by the tech side of it then Blogtastique is for you.

Free features include complete Wordpress installation and database setup, Plugin and theme recommendation and installation, and more. You simply need tell them your domain name, provide them with restricted access details and they will do the rest.

(1) Wordpress and Database Setup : Yes, these guys can do this for you for FREE. I am not aware of any other web service that does this. You only need to give them the FTP and MySQL user details.

(2) Plugins and Themes : They can recommend the right plugins and themes and install them for you. You can either give them your own list or let them find something for you.

(3) Blogging Tips : Blogtastique folks also give you a quick summary outlining how you should present your articles, how to get maximum exposure and when to publish the articles, fix design inconsistencies, over-complicated styling code, inappropriate fonts etc.

In case you’re wondering how Blogtastique makes money, they also offer premium services. For a monthly they can keep you updated about Wordpress developments, do wordpress upgrades, design a custom theme for your blog, send you weekly updates, performance reports, deal with spam, moderate your comments and lots more.

Update:

Blogtastique is still offers services above , however the focus has changed. It is  now supplying people with a free domains, hosting, and guidance to market their blog. Basically all you to do is commit to post (around 10 posts per month) and some ethical stuff like no racism and so on, and Blogtastique will do the rest. Out of all the revenue the blog makes you get 40% to start with, and the better you  do the more you get, up to 80, even 90%.
The goal is to help those who want to make some money online but don’t have the funds to start. Hosting and domains are cheap enough, but a lot of people from India for example might not be able to spare around $110 a year, or they might be young or whatever.

Go and check out Blogtastique @ www.blogtastique.com

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• Wordoid: Get Company Name Ideas
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website

As you can see above, there is also a small RSS button in the top right corner of the widget. This button points to an original RSS feed, thus making it easy for users to subscribe to it via their feedreader.

Features:

• Add external RSS feeds to your website.
• Embed ready widget on your blog, website, social networking profiles etc.
• No registration required.

Check out WidgetEasy @ www.widgeteasy.com

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• TringMe: Get Voicemails From your Readers
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• MadCast : ‘Share This Article’ Widget for Your Blog
• JS-Kit: Comments, Reviews, Ratings, Polls for your Website
• Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog

Apart from the browser add-on there is also an on-site post editor that can be used for longer thoughts and ideas. For mobile web users there is an option to publish stuff to the Monikri blog directly from the mobile phone.

Features:

• Clip anything on the web and instantly share it with others.
• Allow others to leave comments.
• Keep your Monikri blog public or private.
• Update Monkiri blog from mobile phone.
• Embed videos: Youtube, Revver, Dailymotions etc.
• Supported browser: Firefox and Internet Explorer.
• Create as many Monikri blogs as you like.
• and more …

Go to Monkiri @ www.monkiri.com

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• Zamzar
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• YouConvertIt : Online File and Unit Converter
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises

To add Walobok button to the page, simply go to Walobok.com and request the code snippet Then copy’n paste the code to the place where you want the button to appear.

Features:

• Allow your blog or website visitors to leave you video or voice messages.
• All messages will be sent to your email address.
• No registration is required.

Feel free to give it a try by sending us a video or voice message

Go to Walabok @ www.walabok.com

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• TringMe: Get Voicemails From your Readers
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• YouMail : Store and Manage Voicemail Online
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages

How does it work? It takes about 30 seconds to set it up. First, enter your email address in to the provided field and click “protect it”. Next copy and paste the generated code to the place where you want to have the email link. Done, ReCaptcha will do the rest.

If you have a Wordpress-powered blog then you can also make use of its Wordpress plugin for blocking automated spam comments.

Features:

• Hide your email from spammers that try to get your email through spam bots.
• Embed the address on your blog or social networking profile.
• Other: Get reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin that uses CAPTCHA to prevent comment spam.

See it in action: b.ob…@makeuseof.com

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• Verify-eMail : Check Suspicious eMails. Real or Not.
• TinyMail: Protect your Email Address from Spam
• TheHTMLEncoder: Hide Email Address from Spam Bots
• The Enkoder Form: Email Address Encryption Tool
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding

Features:

• Type in the URL and see if was published elsewhere.
• Get a word-to-word comparison with the original content.
• Option to highlight matching text blocks.
• Get a website WhoIS info to confront the owner with the copyrighted content .
• Get advice on how to fight plagiarism online.
• Free account is limited to 10 searches (for each website) per month.
• Premium accounts (with additional options) available.

Check out CopyScape @ [ www.copyscape.com ]

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• CopyrightSpot: Search Web for Copies of Your Blog Content
• PubMatic: Make Most of Your Advertising Space
• FairShare: Find Out Who Is Stealing Your Content
• CopyGator: Tells You Who Is Stealing Your Blog Content
• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter

Features

• Rotate different banners in a certain area of your website.
• Free account users are limited to 5 ad campaigns. That should be enough for most of the websites.
• There is no restriction on the number of banners you can rotate in each campaign.
• Make some banners appear more often by assigning to them higher ‘weight’ values.
• Option to display multiple ads simultaneously at a random order. Quite useful for blogs with several 125 x 125 px ads.
• Customize ads: change the background color, margins, etc.
• Get number of views for each ad unit and campaign.
• Visualize ad stats on a Pie Chart.
• Premium accounts: Create as many campaigns as you need. Plus some additional features.

Note: Rotatee is still in closed beta and available by invitation only. If you want to signup you can use ‘makeuseof for invite code.

Check out Rotatee @ www.rotatee.com

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• PubMatic: Make Most of Your Advertising Space
• BritePic: Add Ads to the Photos on Your Website
• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website
• MoFuse – Mobilize Any Website