Having signed up, each member is given a ‘Greenhouse’ which is the equivalent of a profile. Here you upload photos (of both yourself and your plants), add your plants and connect with other users. The feature to add your own plants is particularly interesting as it serves multiple purposes. The first and most obvious one is to showcase your hard work to the community and to ignite conversation. However, as you can see from the screenshot below, you can also use it as a catalogue for your plants to record their health, maintenance, environment and location. For those with more than one house or gardening location (such as professional gardeners and landscapers) you can add different locations to a map for all to see such as in the screenshot below.

‘Following’ a plant will give you regular updates if it is edited and it will also put you into contact with other followers who have that plant or are similarly interested in it. Each plant profile has detailed instructions for looking after it as well as other uses such as culinary and medicinal.

Features:

• Social networking for gardeners.
• Serch for information and advice on plants.
• Dedicated community.
• Organize and manage your plants and garden online.
• Similar sites: MyPlantId and GardenPlanner.

Check out iBotanika @ www.ibotanika.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• MyPlantId: User-powered Plant Identification Database
• BackYardChickens: Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• Toxic Water: Shows Water Pollution Sources Near You
• MicrosoftHohm: Get Tips To Reduce Home Energy Costs

There are also options to monitor keywords and trends related to your company, schedule tweets, get notified via email when you receive tweets, assign tweets to employees, archive tweets and do much more. One nice feature is click tracking that integrates nicely with bit.ly. Overall, an excellent tool for businesses for managing their reputation using Twitter.

Features:

• Twitter client for businesses.
• Completely web based and free to use.
• Manage multiple accounts with multiple users.
• See tweets of employees as conversations.
• Schedule and archive tweets.
• Track clicks using bit.ly.
• Post updates to multiple accounts simultaneously.

Check out CoTweet @ www.cotweet.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Wordoid: Get Company Name Ideas

Enter the carrier name, departure date and the flight number or the arrival/departure airport code. And then enter your Twitter and/or Facebook credentials. Now, at almost every hour your flight status will be updated along with a link to a map showing your current location. A good service to let your friends and family keep a track of you when you are flying.

Features::

• Update your Twitter and Facebook status while you are traveling.
• A free service by Lufthansa airlines.
• Enter carrier name, departure date and flight number to get started.
• Status updates also include a link to a map that shows your exact location.

Check out MySkyStatus @ www.myskystatus.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages
• Generatus: Cool Facebook Status Message Generator
• FlightCaster: Helps You Avoid Air Travel Delays
• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• Trazzler: Get Unique Travel Destination Recommendations

You could start creating one by picking a style (greeting, comic or newspaper card) and then customizing it. Easily drag and drop Youtube videos, pictures from Flickr or Facebook albums, mp3s from your PC and even invite friends to contribute to your card. Overall, a nice fun tool to play with.

Features:

• Quickly create lively and free animated musical ecards.
• Add sounds, pictures and videos from all sources to your cards.
• Invite friends and have them contribute to the e-card.
• Share easily on Facebook, Twitter and other networks.
• Similar web tools: PigSpigot, PenCake, YouTube’s Holiday Cards and Disney E-Cards.

Check out MashupArts @ www.mashuparts.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Vuvox
• VoxPix: Create Slideshows With Voice Narrations
• Voicethread: Create Powerful Multimedia Slideshows
• ViewBook

You can log into to TweetBlocker using your Twitter credentials and get a personal spam report. It also provides a bookmarklet named ‘ Report Spammer ‘ which can help you quickly report a spam twitter account to them.

Features

• Identify the spammers and clean up twitter followers.
• Unfollow or block the spammers once you know them.
• Get a personal spam report by logging into the tool.
• Use Report Spammer bookmarklet to quickly report a spammer.
• Similar site:  TwitChuck and MyCleenr.

Check out TweetBlocker @ www.tweetblocker.com [via ReadWriteWeb] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TwitChuck: Identify Twitter Spammers
• Kissa.be: Shorten Long Links & Protect ‘mailto’ Links
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WhoCallsMe: Identify Unknown Callers

Users may also upload existing audio files (mp3, wav, wma, acc, ogg) from their PCs anduse them instead of recordings.

Features:

• Record your sound and share it online on Twitter.
• Record as many audios as you like.
• Option to upload existing audio files (mp3, wav, wma, acc, ogg).
• Upload files from your computer or web URL.
• Has an iPhone friendly mobile site.
• Similar tools: Chirbit and Vocaroo.

Check out Chir.ps @ www.chir.ps

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• Vocaroo: Record Voice, Send it to Friends, Post it Online
• TwitterMail : Post To Twitter Via Email
• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
• ScreenJelly: Capture Your Screen On Video & Share
• Recordr: Easy Audio / Video Recording & Sharing

Moreover, it contains useful health articles, living advice (career, travel and sports tips) and a marketplace for disability products and services.

Features:

• Online community and social network for disabled people.
• Connect with people with disabilities, share your story and get practical answers to hard questions from people who went through similar experiences.
• Living advice – career, sports and traveling tips.
• Useful health articles for various disability conditions.
• Marketplace for disability products and services.
• Sign up free online to join the community. Upload your photo, edit profile, join discussions or create your own blog.

Check out Disaboom @ www.disaboom.com

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• UCompareHealthcare: Compare Local Healthcare Providers
• Trusera: Get Practical Answers to Health Problems
• SymptomChecker: Check Medical Symptoms & What They Mean
• RateMDs: Review Your Doctor & Read Ratings of Other Doctors
• RateADrug: Prescription Drugs Side Effects And Ratings

While most quizzes and polls are taken on the site, Quibblo quizzes can be easily added to your profile on MySpace, Facebook etc. or your Wordpress / Blogger blog. Check out the demo video below.

Features:

• Free quizzes, polls and surveys created by users.
• Create your own quizzes or take quizzes by other members, view results on graph charts and compare your answers to others’.
• Search for quizzes or browse by tags and by subject categories (e.g. 2008 Election, American Idol, Dumb, Funny, Celebrity).
• View popular and top rated quizzes.
• Quizzes can be embedded into your favorite social networks and platforms including MySpace, Facebook, Wordpress, Blogger and others.
• Free, view and take quizzes without registration. Register to create your own quizzes.
• Similar sites: MyStuidiyo, ClassMarker and QToro.

Check out Quibblo @ www.quibblo.com

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• Zoomerang: Quickly Create Online Surveys using Templates
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Poll Everywhere: Easily Create Live Polls and Track Them
• KwikSurveys: Quickly Make Online Surveys for Free
• dPolls: Free Polls for Blogs and Websites

Profi.ly simplifies all this by providing you with a uniform address for all your different profile page addresses. Call it a profile URL shortening service. All your profile pages will have a similar url format: http://profi.ly/username/servicename. For ex: http://profi.ly/username/facebook, http://profi.ly/username/twitter or profi.ly/username/flickr etc.

Sign up with Profi.ly, get a username and start adding all your different profile pages. Once you’re done you will be able to access all your profiles in one place and share them all at once with friends by simply pointing them to http://profi.ly/username/

Features:

• Get a uniform short address for all your profile pages from different online services and social networks.
• Share all your online profiles with friends at http://profi.ly/your_profily_username/
• Free to you use, requires signup.
• Similar websites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Profi.ly @ www.profi.ly

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• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• UnHub: Aggregate Your Social Network Profiles On One Page
• GizaPage: Consolidate All Your Social Networks In One Place
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

Pet owners can browse other pets by type and breed, view popular pets based on cuteness rating, post comments and add pets to friends. There is also an option to enter pet competition where 64 highest rated pets participate for a chance to win prizes.

Features:

• Community and social networking for pet lovers.
• Create a profile for your pets and add photos.
• Browse pets by type and breed, view top rated pets, add to friends.
• Ask questions and get quality product recommendations from fellow pet lovers.
• Find pet services in your area.
• Free, sign up to add your pets.
• Similar site: ZooToo and VetHelpDirect.

Check out Cute as Hell @ www.cuteashell.com

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• ZooToo: Social Networking For Pet Owners
• WorldSings: Discover New Artists & Rate Indie Songs
• VetHelpDirect: Diagnose Your Pet’s Symptoms Online
• TOSBack: Tracks TOS Pages For Changes
• Taltopia: Community for Artists, Fans & Casting Directors

Additionally users can watch or share motor vehicle related videos, ask questions through the discussion forum, browse through the listing of auto parts for sale or list their own items.

Features:

• Social network for car, boat, plane and bike enthusiasts.
• Meet and share opinions with others.
• Get updates on upcoming events.
• Join groups or participate in exciting challenges.
• Section to share photos and videos also included.
• Buy, sell or trade vehicles or parts.

Check out MotorTopia @ www.motortopia.com (Added by Tehseen RechargeYourMind.com)

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• RiskyRoads: See Fatal Traffic Accident Statistics For Your Area
• PetroFix: Stay Immune To Gas Price Increases
• Honk: Social Network For Car Buyers
• GasForFree: Place Ads on your Car and Earn Free Gas
• Fuelly: Track, Share and Compare your Gas Mileage

See Filmaster promo video:

Features :

• Social network for movie fans.
• Discuss your favorite movies and express your personal opinions.
• Get suggestions on movies.
• Discuss movies with people having similar taste to yours.
• Data presentation highly customizable.
• Similar site: FilmSite.

Check out Filmaster@www.filmaster.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine

The sites gives you full control in regard to which profiles and parts of your personal information you want to keep private or public. Sign up and to start adding your social network accounts one-by-one, yoit only asks for your username.

GizaPage introductory videos:

Features:

• Aggregate all your social networks in one place and access them through a single URL.
• Share this URL with friends to give access to your social profile pages.
• Only requires your usernames, not passwords
• Control which profiles and which parts of your personal info your keep private or share with public.
• Similar websites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out GizaPage @ www.gizapage.com

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• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• UnHub: Aggregate Your Social Network Profiles On One Page
• Profi.ly: Get Uniform Web Address for Your Different Online Profiles
• KnowEm: Quick Username Availability Checking
• ZooToo: Social Networking For Pet Owners

Locle allows you select the friends with whom you want to share your location. It also lets you update your location manually or disable it in case you do not want to be found. If you use Facebook, it lets you retrieve your friend list.

Features:

• Share your location and view where your family and friends are from your mobile phone or computer.
• You can import your Facebook friends and invite them to use Locle.
• Manually update your location or temporarily disable it.
• Share your location with selected people.
• Similar tools: SeeMyWhere, Loopt and NavXS.

Check out Locle @ www.locle.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• SeeMyWhere: Share Your Real Time Location With Others
• Loopt: See Where Your Friends Are From iPhone or Mobile
• Spokeo : Find and Track Your Friends
• Scred : Track Shared Expenses
• Sailwx: Real Time Ship Tracking

Footbo lists live scores of football matches from around the world and lets you personalize your own football news. Dozens of blogs by ardent football fans and experts provide insight and opinions on the latest events. Browse through videos and photos of football games or upload your own media to share with the world.

Watch a quick demo video below:

Main features:

• Social network for soccer fans.
• Interact with football fans from all over the world.
• Check out detailed profiles of all players.
• Read football blogs and post your opinion.
• Participate in prediction leagues by predicting match results.
• Join football groups to show your support.
• See cool match photos and videos.

Check out Footbo @ www.footbo.com (by Tehseen from www.RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Zvents: Find Events in Your Area
• Yahoo Upcoming: Upcoming Events Locator for Your Area
• Workouts: Check Workout Routines For Selected Muscle Groups
• Walker Tracker
• USTA Library: Tennis Tips and Techniques from Top Players

The aNobii is a book community that allows people to share their thoughts about books, read/write book reviews, lend books to each other and find similar books. It also provides people with an option to create personal online bookshelf for tracking books of interest but also let other people know what your taste is. If you like any of the 11 Million titles that aNobii catalogues, it doesn’t only provide you with all the details about the book but also gives you direct links to buy the book from Amazon or similar websites.

Main features of aNobii:

• Share your thoughts about millions of titles.
• Track a book, buy it, or add to your wish-list.
• Create a list of books you are interested in.
• See what other users are reading.
• Swap/trade books with other people.
• Set the status of each book as “Reading”, “Finished” or “Not Started”.
• Similar websites: BookBump and LibraryThing.

Check out aNobii @ www.anobii.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Shelfari
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes

ZooToo allows to you to go local. You can find pet related services in your area by entering your zip code, or even connect with local pet owners. You can also search for people who like the same kinds of pets as you do. You can post tons of photos and videos of your pet and share them with the ZooToo community.

Main features of ZooToo:

• Connect to the people who like the same pets.
• Get answers to your pet related questions by pet owners.
• Post and share photos and videos of your pet.
• Participate in pet contests and win rewards.
• Join pet groups and search for pet events.
• Read pet journals and pet related news.
• Find local pet related services by zip code.
• Browse through the listing of pets available for adoption.

Visit ZooToo @ www.zootoo.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• CuteAsHell: Social Networking For Your Pets
• WorldSings: Discover New Artists & Rate Indie Songs
• VetHelpDirect: Diagnose Your Pet’s Symptoms Online
• TOSBack: Tracks TOS Pages For Changes
• Taltopia: Community for Artists, Fans & Casting Directors

It helps you generate catchy status messages immediately using various keywords from the tag cloud it provides. Just click the tag you love and get the corresponding status message which you can use in your Facebook, Myspace or Twitter profile.

As you can see, there are various tags like movie quotes, funny, wisdom, travel, success etc. Hence you would never run out of choices. You could have an innovative status message each day.

Features:

• Generates nice status messages for your online profile.
• Simple and no sign up.
• Similar site: Generatus

Go to SocialStatusGenerator @ www.socialstatusgenerator.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Generatus: Cool Facebook Status Message Generator
• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• SocialRibbon: The Ribbon Creator
• MySkyStatus: Auto-updates Your Flight Status on Twitter & Facebook
• FireStatus: Update Twitter, Facebook & Friendfeed from Firefox

Language learning methodology

An interactive language course consists of units. You can master units through a ste-by-step guided course or by picking them from a Catalogue. Each unit is basically a topic like “In a restaurant” or “Personal pronouns”. It includes picture based vocabulary for the topic, reading comprehension practice, writing short text and letting native speakers correct it, chatting with a native speaker on the topic, and the final exam.

Community

On your homepage, you can see native speakers of the language you are learning, view their online status, add them as friends or start chatting with them using the busuu live messenger. Each member has a ranking, which is based on the learning performance and the number of posts corrected of other users.

Most of the material on the site is available for free through a Basic membership, which includes most the learning materials. Premium paid membership gives you addional features like an audio for 3000 key phrases, listening comprehension and grammar exercises, and the ability to download the learning materials in PDF transcript or as a podcast.

Features:

• Learn languages (English, Frech, Spanish, German) through interactive fun materials
• Communicate with native speakers to help with your exercises and improve your  speaking skills
• Increase your member ranking by improving learning performance and correcting posts of other users
• Basic membership is free, includes most of learning materials on the site
• Premium paid memberhip gives additional features like an audio for 3000 key phrases, listening and grammar comprehension exercises, and the ability to download the learning materials in PDF transcript or as a podcast.
• Similar sites: MangoLanguages and LiveMocha.

Check out Busuu @ www.busuu.com

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• Popling: Learn Languages Online The Easy Way
• Phrases: Search for Idiom Phrases & Get Meanings
• MangoLanguages : Online Language Tutor
• ListenAndWrite: Online Audio Dictation
• Lingro : Translate Words on any Web Page

Features:

• Search Twitter by tags
• Pick from tag cloud or type your own tag to search
• Simple user interface
• Search results grouped under various categories

Also see Summize, a real-time Twitter search engine that we covered earlier. TweetScan is another good one.

Check out Tweetag @ www.tweetag.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• TweetScan : Live Twitter Search Engine
• TagsAhoy: Search Your Tags From One Location
• Zillow
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine

You can in fact create it in less than 2 minutes. You just need to add a photo, logo and your contact information. Then choose a theme from the ones which are available and you get a background created automatically by Twitbacks. You could even upload your own background to it.

The site also gives you an option to get custom twitter backgrounds from scratch for a particular fee. And if you want to remove the Twitbacks.com text from their free themes then that costs $4.99.

For more cool twitter background designs check out previously profiled Twitter Patterns.

Check out Twitbacks @ www.twitbacks.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Twitter Patterns: Cool Background Designs For Your Twitter Profile
• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory

Twuffer lets you schedule your tweets and hence informs your contacts when you are unable to tweet in real time due to some reason. You can schedule important announcements or other twitter posts when you are on a vacation.

As the Twuffer team mentions, it can be used for tweeting hourly/daily/monthly announcements, appointment/milestone reminders, about upcoming podcast or video episodes and much more.

Check out Twuffer @ www.twuffer.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Twittercal: Add Events to Google Calendar via Twitter
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TwitRobot: Schedule & Tweet Automatically

All you need to do is add your name and gender and click on a generate button.

Another nifty feature is the tag cloud where you can select the theme for your status quote. For instance, you can grab the quote from a movie, some famous song etc.

When you find soething you like, just copy and paste to your account. Done.

The guys from Generatus also keep a log of all cool status mesages that were generated on the site. You can check it out at facebookstatus.blogspot.com/.

Here are some of the latest ones:

# can see Alaska from her house.
# is on a bridge to nowhere!
# needs somebody to answer for me, what is it exactly that the VP does every day?
# is a pitbull with lipstick
# is gosh darn, a hockey mom, you betcha’ wink wink

Check out Generatus @ www.generatus.com

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• SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages
• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• MySkyStatus: Auto-updates Your Flight Status on Twitter & Facebook
• FireStatus: Update Twitter, Facebook & Friendfeed from Firefox
• SocialRibbon: The Ribbon Creator

my twitter username ( yes, I know I haven’t used twitter for sometime now but I am gonna get back on it soon ) and it did a pretty good analysis giving me a grade of 95.9 out of 100. Looks good ! … Makeuseof on the other hand scores 98.5, if you haven’t done so already follow MakeUseOf on Twitter.

Check out Twitter Grader @ twitter.grader.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Using this tool you can find gtalk users in your area. It also allows you to register and add your profile so that other Gtalk users can find you on the Google Maps interface.

Features

• Find other gtalk users by location
• Google Maps mashup tool
• Register and create a profile
• Public and private settings available

Check out GtalkProfile @ www.gtalkprofile.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• SpotCrime : Get Crime Reports for your Neighborhood
• QuickMaps : Create Maps With Directions
• PrimoSpot: Find a Parking Spot in New York City (NYC)
• NYCFoodMap: NYC Restaurants Map
• CrimeReports: Check Crime Reports By Zip Code or Address

We know that although twitter can send you an email alert when someone follows you on it, there is no way to know who unfollowed you and when. Qwitter aims to fill that gap and hence make your experience of using twitter a better one.

This might be especially useful for all blog owners out there that have separate Twitter account for their blog and send RSS feeds to Twitter.

Check out Qwitter @ useqwitter.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TweetRush: Check Twitter Usage and Stats

Just Tweet It aims to accomplish that by getting the twitter users organized under different categories which represent their field of work or interest.

If you are a twitter user, make sure you add your information to the respective directories ( I chose the Bloggers and Internet Marketing Directories for myself ). Also this site has more information about twitter in general and about the various tools associated with it.

Check out Just Tweet It @ www.justtweetit.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TweetRush: Check Twitter Usage and Stats

Saytweet also generates the url of your twitter badge and provides the code to embed the badge in your blog or social networking profile.

Check out SayTweet @ www.saytweet.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages
• Generatus: Cool Facebook Status Message Generator
• FireStatus: Update Twitter, Facebook & Friendfeed from Firefox
• You Don’t Know Jack

You just need to enter a particular tweet’s ID and you get the corresponding conversation. The tweet id could be found by clicking on the time stamp of a tweet message and grabbing the numbers at the end of the url which comes up. Once you enter those numbers, you get the required output.

Check out Tweader @ www.tweader.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TweetRush: Check Twitter Usage and Stats

TwitStamp certainly has a nice feel and look and executes the job effectively. Take a look at the twitcard which I created for myself.

It also gives many customization options. There are different colors and shades which you can choose from. For example I decided to check the customization options for the twitter status badge and here’s what I got.

Overall, a nice app for twitter lovers.

Check out TwitStamp @ www.twitstamp.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer
• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Avartize: Add Overlays To Twitter Avatars

It has a nice user interface where on the left hand side it shows a live social graph of what your Kiobo friends and other users are browsing, under various tags and on the right column it has got your customized tag cloud and a list of your kiobo friends.

If you click on a particular tag, it displays the various websites which other users are browsing and recommends you the sites of your interest based on your browsing history. It also lets you link it to your social networking accounts like Facebook.

It also claims to have some good privacy controls and you can limit the sharing of your browsing history. Overall a nice tool for those who love to surf the web together.

Have a look a Kiobo video tour below

Check out Kiobo @www.kiobo.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Create pages, allow others to edit existing pages or create new ones, add file attachments, add photo slideshows, embed widgets, allow viewers to leave comments and lots more.

Check out more features and demo video below.

Quick Feature Overview:

• Easily create and manage group websites (family, friends, colleagues, club members etc.).
• Create and add as many web pages as you want.
• Insert links, add tables, add images, add photo albums, embed videos etc.
• Make your website public or private (only accessible to people you invite).
• Choose who can view and/or edit the website.
• Allow viewers to leave comments and upload images.
• Sign-up wih your existing Google account.

How to Create a Website with Google Sites (Video Tutorial)

Go to Google Sites @ www.google.com/sites/

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Wishpot: Create Wish Lists by Adding Items From Any Website
• Whyzz: Get Answers to Tough Questions From Kids
• What A Lovely Name: Baby Name Finder
• Webgiftr: Giving And Receiving Gifts Made Easy

One of the coolest features is the option to instantly publish voice recordings to any desired blog or social netwroking profile. All you need to do is dial provided number and record your message. Within a matter of seconds the message will appear on your Utterz profile, on your friends’ profiles and all other places you decided to distribute it to. Yu can also publish pictures and videos by simply emailing them to go@utterz.com.

Features:

• Share your thoughts, images, links, videos with friends and other Utterz users from your PC or mobile.
• There are about 25 dial-in numbers for different parts of the world. New numbers being added.
• Post to utterz by emailing your video, voice recording, picture, text message to go@utterz.com.
• You can post audio messages even from a landline phone.
• Automatically distribute your Utterz messages to your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc.
• Utterz widgets : Show any number of your latest Utterz messages on any of your wesbites.
• Share your messages only with friends or with everyone.
• Receive and reply to messages from other directly from mobile phone.
• Rate, save/tag, and comment on publicly shared Utterz.
• Access Utterz profile from mobile device at m.utterz.com.
• Utterz is a free service, though depending on your mobile contract regaular charges may apply.
• For additional details and howto’s see Utterz FAQ page.

[Video] Utterz Intro (from Utterz Co-founder)

Check out Utterz @ www.utterz.com

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TweetRush: Check Twitter Usage and Stats
• TweetManager: Automate Your Twitter Account

HelloTXT Features

• Supported services: Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, Tumblr, Meemi (Italian), Beemood, Gozub (Spanish), Frazr (German).
• Registartion is not required. Although makes it a lot easier to use.
• If you register you will be able to use your HelloTXT username to access multiple microblogging services at the same time without the need to type-in username/password details for each of them.

Check out HelloTXT @ www.hellotxt.com

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• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets

Jaiku Features:

• Receive Jaikus (aka status messages) from friends and Post you own Jaikus.
• Add blog feeds to Jaiku, so that everyone in your friends list can instantly see what you have posted.
• Comment on Friend’s Jaikus.
• Text presence updates directly from mobile phone.
• Install Jaiku Mobile: Use Jaiku as your phonebook, Browse and post Jaikus, Add comments, Share your location and availability, Share your calendar events, Share who you’re with, etc.
• Put a Jaiku presence badge on your blog
• Got Questions? Check out Jaiku FAQ page.

Jaiku versus Twitter

Visit Jaiku @ www.jaiku.com

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• Twitter
• Tumblr: Easy Way to Blog and Share Stuff
• Trumpia: Last-Minute Event Planner
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Pownce: Quick File Sharing + Group Messaging

Feature Overview:

• Track your steps and daily mileage
• Visualize your progress on charts and see how well others doing
• Upload and Share walking photos
• Create groups and organize competitions
• Get inspired and set goals
• Health: track heart rate, blood pressure, aerobic steps, etc.
• and more …

Go to WalkerTracker http://www.walkertracker.com/

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• Workouts: Check Workout Routines For Selected Muscle Groups
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• Skimble: Track & Plan Your Active Life And Sports
• MapMyRun : Plan and Map your Running Routes
• DailyMile: Track Your Workouts Online

Shelfari Features

• Create and share personal virtual bookshelf
• Explore all listed books (by most talked, by most commented, by recently commented)
• Browse books by top 200 tags
• Connect with your friends and see what are they reading.
• Embed your Shelfari bookshelf on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc.
• Get and give recommendations for what to read next
• Rate others’ books and booklists
• Join different reader groups

Visit Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com/)

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• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• aNobii: Track Your Books, Read Book Reviews and More

From the website: “Squirl is the best way to catalog, organize and share your records, movies, books, comic books, stamps, coins, or practically anything else.”

Basic Things you can do on Squirl

• Catalog, organize and show-off your collections. (music, DVD, model cars, coins, etc.)
• Browse collections by: featured, recently added, or by tags.
• Join groups with similar interests or create one your own.
• Comment/Rate collections and items
• RSS options for everything (new collections, user updates, new category additions, etc.) For instance, you can get notifies as soon as someone tags an item with a particular tag (i.e. BMW, coin, doll, etc.)
• and more …

Go to Squirl (http://squirl.info/)

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• WhatUCollect: Share Your Cool Collections Online
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• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Veedemus: Organize Your Movie Collection Online

“Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.”

How it works:

To become part of StumbleUpon community you need to install StumbleUpon browser toolbar (IE, Firefox). Once up and running you’re ready to start stumbling. Everytime you press ‘Stumble’ on your browser toolbar you’ll be taken to some website which was recommended by other stumblers with similar interests. By optionally rating these websites you can automatically share them (only ones you like) with like-minded people and at the same time train StumbleUpon about what you do and don’t like. The more you rate the better recommendations get.

Some other features available from your Toolbar

• Rate stuff (Thumb/Up down), send by email, share with friends, etc.
• Update interests for more specific recommendations (Cars, Fashion, Internet, Computers, etc.)
• Click Photos: To start Stumbling through user-recommended photos
• StumbleVideo: Stumble through user-recommended videos. (Recommended)
• Read reviews for the page you’re on

Visit StumbleUpon

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Hotel Features

• Create your Habbo character and get own Hotel room
• Decorate your room with Haboo furiture
• Move around the hotel, visit bars, restaurants, clubs, meet different people, invite people over, etc.
• Get your self a pet (Warning: Keep in mind that you will have to feed it
• Participate in/ Create different activities like games or competitions
• and more …

Visit Habbo Hotel

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