It is a free web service lets you search for the availability of a username across more than 340 popular social networking websites with a click of a button.

To get started all you have to do is enter your desired username in the search box and click “Check it”. KnowEm will then come up with a list of all the social media networks along with the availability of your username. If you wish to sign up simply click on “Available” to jump to the sign up page of any particular website and get registered.

Key Features:

• Search username availability over multiple websites.
• Check if your brand/product is being misrepresented over those websites.
• Registration is optional.
• 340 very popular websites supported.
• Provides paid services to companies wishing to have their profile maintained over multiple networks.
• Similar sites: FriendsCall.me, Namechk, and UserNameCheck.

Check out KnowEm @ www.knowem.com

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• CheckUserNames: Social Media Username Checker
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The site has simple interface and getting started is easy. Simply sign in with your Twitter details, upload your images and set times for updates. TwiBack will then do the rest.

Demo video:

Features:

• Upload your images and automatically rotate them as your Twitter background or profile image.
• Easily set times when images need to change.
• Upload  as many images as you like.
• No registration needed as it works with your existing credentials.
• Similar tools: Twilk, Twitter Patterns, PrettyTweet and Twitbacks.

Check out TwiBack @ www.twiback.com

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• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge
• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Avartize: Add Overlays To Twitter Avatars

Enter LocaFollow, it is a new application that helps you find users by searching only their Bio and Location fields. Since these are the fields that users fill in their Twitter profile, Locafollow is your best shot in finding friends that share your interest or are in the same zip code as you.

When you perform a search the results will be presented as a list of user profiles showing the complete user details including the users’ last tweet. You can follow each user individually or use the “Bulk Follow” button to catch all the users in the results and link them to your profile – useful for the extrovert Twitter user and marketers.

LocaFollow is powered by Google search and Twitter API, with LocaFollow providing specific search codes in the backend, so that the results returned focuses only on Twitter profiles.

Features:

• Find Twitter users with similar interests by searching their Bio & Location fields on Twitter.
• Lists complete Twitter profiles of users including number of followers, following, tweets, last tweets, bio, and location.
• Follow each Twitter user in results list individually or use the “Bulk Follow” button to follow all at once.
• Locafollow is powered by Google search and Twitter API, with LocaFollow providing specific search codes in the backend.
• No registration or authentication required.
• Quick search functionality without page reloading.

Check out LocaFollow @ www.locafollow.com

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• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
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Simply sign in using your Twitter credentials and authenticate Twilk through Twitter oAuth. Once authenticated, a background consisting profile images of your Twitter followers would be created. There are both free and paid options, a free background will have a Twilk badge on it. The badge can be removed for a fixed fee of 5$.

Check out Twilk @ www.twilk.com

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• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• Twitter Patterns: Cool Background Designs For Your Twitter Profile
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge

Features

• Quickly create your one-stop social profile page.
• Add an introduction and links to your social profiles.
• Content displayed from various networks on one page in grid view.
• Your own url at http://hi.im/yourname.
• Similar sites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Hi, I’m @ www.hi.im (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
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• Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search
• FaceYourManga: Easily Create Super Cool Online Avatars
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles

Features

• Get a visual and colorful representation of your online identity.
• Developed by researchers from MIT Media Labs.
• Each color represents an identity.
• Uses natural language processing to compile the data.
• Similar tools: GeekChart.

Check out Personas@ http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information
• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book
• WidGenie: Easy Tools for Presenting Raw Data Visually

Once you have completed the registration you will be allocated a personal URL (http://www.spartx.com/username). The URL points to your business card profile and appears on your business card. Your profile page may include your credentials including name, occupation, address, contact info, career highlights, resume etc.

Apart from printing the cards you may also embed and show the virtual card on your social networking profiles or your blog.

Features:

• Create virtual business cards.
• Print your cards and use them just like regular business cards.
• Customize your cards using different templates and font style and color.
• Store and organize cards of your Spartx contacts.
• Share your card via email or embed it on your online blog or profile.
• Free, sign up required.

Check out Spartx @ www.spartx.com

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• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

Features

• Create an online biography for anyone.
• Free sign up and simple user interface.
• Add different sections to the biography.
• Quickly edit any section on the page.

Check out Biographicon @ www.biographicon.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Features:

• Add cool overlays to your Twitter avatar.
• Free and easy to use.
• Upload an avatar or sign in directly through Twitter.
• Also you can create and publish your own overlays.
• Also see 3 Fun Online Avatar Creators to Represent Yourself.

Check out Avartize @ www.avartize.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer

Creating emoticons is easy and requires few simple steps; select a photo ( JPG, PNG or GIF ) from your computer, crop it as you like, choose the animation effect of your choice, and once finished emoticon will be sent to your email.

You can also browse through and download hundreds of free animated emoticons created by visitors.

Features:

• Create animated emoticons from images in a few clicks.
• Supported image format: JPG, PNG and GIF.
• Options to crop and animation effects are available.
• Browse through and download hundreds of free animated emoticons.
• Quick and easy to use, no sign up required.

Check out EmotiYou @ www.emotiyou.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas)

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To see Card.ly in action watch video below:

Features:

• Quickly create a nice online business card.
• Choose from a range of cool themes.
• Card can be easily shared with anyone via its url.
• Plugin support and real time feeds available.
• For more similar services see “5 Ways To Create Your Business Card 2.0“.

Check out Card.ly@ www.card.ly (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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1. It helps you to conduct a username availability check across a number of social networks and social media sites.

2. It acts as identity aggregator by gathering all your web profiles at a single place which is accessible by a url of the format friendscall.me/yourname.

3. It notifies you when a new social media site comes up so that you can quickly register the desired username with them.

The username check conducted by Friendscall.me is quite comprehensive. Not only does it check the popular social sites, it also checks a huge number of sites and popular blogs under various categories.

Features:

• Online identity checker and organizer.
• Checks huge number of sites and popular blogs.
• Get alerts when a new social media site comes up.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar sites: Namechk, CheckUserNames, Zooity and UnHub.

Check out FriendsCall.me @ www.friendscall.me (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• UnHub: Aggregate Your Social Network Profiles On One Page
• Tweetmeme: Track Popular Twitter Links

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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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

There are two ways to run a search:

1. Phone number look up – search for phone number by name or address.

2. Revers phone look up – search for name and address by phone number.

I have done few searches and the results were worryingly accurate (How the heck they know all of that?). In both cases the results show owner’s name, address, phone number and the occupation.

You can also register on the site, create your own listing and use it as your online profile. This way you have some level of control on what others see.

Additional features like free text messaging, area code look up, zip code look up and mobile carrier look up are provided as well.

Features:

• Find phone numbers and addresses online.
• List numbers and addresses of 180 million US adults.
• Search for numbers by address and name.
• Search for name and address by number.
• Mobile app and browser search add-ons are also supported.
• Additional services:
  – Free text messaging.
  - Area code look up.
  - ZIP code look up.
  - Mobile carrier look up.
• More similar sites in 15 Websites to Find People On The Internet.

Check out WhitePages @ www.whitepages.com

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Spock : Free People Search
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
• Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search

To begin pimping up your profile, simply upload a picture, select the area you want to work on, apply effects and then download it in JPEG format.

Features:

• Spice up your profile picture by adding various effects.
• You can select a specific area of the picture to customize.
• Add text and picture based effects.
• Download final picture in JPEG format.

Check out Facebomb @ www.facebomb.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Folowen uses Google AJAX Search API to find user profiles on 20 social media sites.

Features

• Quickly aggregate all social profiles of a person on one page.
• Top social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter… etc are searched.
• Google AJAX search API used to find user profiles in 20 social sites.
• Simple and easy to use.
• More social sites inclusion coming soon.

You might also want to read a few lines about Identify, a Firefox plugin that doesn pretty much the smae thing.

Check out Folowen @ www.folowen.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Hi-I’m: One Stop Social Networking Page For All Your Profiles

Some people are already buying and selling their online accounts just like domain names, and Assertize helps them with that.  It acts as online marketplace where users can buy and sell online accounts.

The site currently allows to buy and sell online accounts of  following services:  Blogger, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress and Yahoo.

The process is similar to many other online auctions, users register and then list to sell items or browse listings of others to buy them. Buying and listing online accounts is free , the seller pays a certain fee only when the account is sold.

Features:

• Buy and sell online accounts.
• Allows to buy and sell Blogger, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress and Yahoo accounts.
• Register to buy and list your accounts.
• Buying and listing online accounts is free , the seller pays a certain fee only when the account is sold.

Check out Assertize @ www.assetize.com

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WikiWorldBook also has a people search feature that allows you to find anyone on the web as long that person is registered on one of the major social networking sites. Search results consist of images from the web and matching profiles from social networking sites.

Another really useful feature is people tracing. Using this functionality you may create a profile for the person you’re looking for. What happens next, when someone searches for that name on one of the major search engines they will see that profile among the top results and know that you are looking for them. Very useful that allows users to trace lost friends and relatives.

WikiWorldBook demo video:

Feature Summary

• Be found on Google and others search engines.
• Global online address book and people search.
• Get alerted by email when someone Googles your name (Registered users only).
• Allow people to contact you without revealing your email address.
• Privacy controls to make profile information public or restrict it only to friends.
• Free to use.

Check out WikiWorldBook @ wikiworldbook.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas )

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Once you have signed in, you can include personal information about yourself including photos, short bio, interests, links to your social profiles and other info and offer people a way to contact you without revealing your real email address. You can publish your contact info (phone numbers, emails, addresses) and specify the list of people who can view it.

Features:

• Find yourself on Google and control what information people see when they search for you on Google.
• Include personal info about yourself (photos, short bio, links to social profiles etc).
• Publish and update your contact details and specify the list of people who can view it.
• Receive messages without revealing your email address.
• To create and customize your Google profile, sign in with your Google Account credentials.

Check out Google Profiles @ www.google.com/profiles

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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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Feature Overview :

• Create cool animated avatars.
• Easy to use, no need to download anything or sign up.
• You can upload any photo from your computer or the web.
• Select from large number of effects.
• Get tips on how to make your photos better.
• Similar sites: Alpoy, CoolWebcamAvatars and several others.

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When the Hyplet is ready you may embed it onto your blog, website, email footers or personal web page. See Hyplet in action in the demo video below.

Features:

• Create personal signatures, IDs and web flyers.
• Provides number of templates to choose from.
• Add images, avatars and emoticons.
• Embed your hyplet into email, blog or social networking profile.
• Browser add-on for quick and easy embedding available.

Check out Hyplet @ www.hyplet.com

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Users may browse avatars by category or ratings. The desired avatar can be easily downloaded with a single click. Sign up is only required for uploading and leaving comments.

Sample avatars

Features:

• Large free avatar database.
• Over 34,000 avatars in 545 categories.
• Download an avatar or use the provided code to embed it on any website.
• Sign up to upload your own avatar and leave comments.

Check out AvatarsDB @ www.avatarsdb.com

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Just install the Firefox add-on, go to any profile page like twitter.com/glennjones and press on the Alt+ifor Windows or Ctrl+i if you’re using Mac. Next you should see a brief personal summary and links to the person’s existing social profile pages.

As you can see finding anyone online is that easy these days. So next time when you share information about yourself somewhere on the web make sure not to include the stuff you would not want others to find out.

Features:

• Find information on anyone online with one click.
• Aggregates person’s profile information from various social networking sites.
• Requires Firefox browser.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Also see Earlier MakeUseOf article on websites to find people on the Internet.

Check out Identify @ http://lab.madgex.com/identify/

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Using GeekChart is very easy, just enter the username for each site into corresponding field and click on “Make My Geek Chart” button. Then wait for a few moment for your chart to begeneratd.

Features:

• Show where you share stuff online with an embeddable pie chart badges.
• Generate as many pie charts as you like.
• Supported sites: Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, LastFM and Blog URL.
• Embed pie chart on your site, blog or personal webpage.

Check out GeekChart @ www.geekchart.com (via Tecnopassion )

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Zooity is a free web service that allows you to aggregate social media profiles by putting them under your Zooity identity. When somebody goes to your Zooity page, for example Zooity.com/myname, they will see links to all your social media profiles like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Flicker and many others. Then all you ever have to remember is your Zooity profile name.

Main features of Zooity:

• Profile aggregator that centralizes all your social media accounts on a single page.
• Easily include links to you social networks, forums, blogs and even photo sharing portals.
• Your Zooity profile includes info. like Age, gender and location.
• Ability to add customized links to any website.
• Search for other users on Zooity and visit their profile.
• Similar sites: UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Zooity @ www.zooity.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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Furthermore avatars can be personalized with drawings, circles, rectangles, text, different colors and transparency settings and more.

Creating avatars is really easy just follow 4 simple steps:

1. Upload an image from your computer, web URL or a YouTube Video.
2. Choose an avatar size.
3. Rotate and crop the image.
4. Click to download the generated avatar to your computer or save it in your account online.

The demo video below shows Alpoy in action.

Features:

• Create your own animated avatar
• Edit and manage them in one place online.
• Store up to 30 avatars in your account.
• Create avatars from images and YouTube videos.
• Choose among different avatar sizes (small, medium, big, MSN messenger, forums, Twitter) or set your own custom avatar size.
• There is a simple Firefox extension under development which makes avatar creation super-easy: See here.

Alpoy is not the only site for coming up with your own avatars there are a number of other such websites as well. MakeUseOf covered a bunch of them in Create Avatars Online Without Any Image Editing.

Check out Alpoy @ www.alpoy.com

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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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VisualCV is a web resume builder which solves this problem and lets you create your own dynamic professional profile online. You can include an intro video of yourself, embed graphs, insert audios, informational pop-ups, your digital career porfolio, examples of previous work and more, all on one web page. Instead of sending the file, you just send the URL, which you can always edit and update as you see fit.

You can create multiple dynamic resumes for different purposes and control who gets to view what. Share your resume URLs with prospective employers, colleagues, post them on job boards and your social profiles.

Features:

• Build a web-based, engaging, dynamic, professional resumes online.
• Include audios, videos, graphs, informational pop-ups, digital career porfolio and more, all on one webpage.
• Create multiple dynamic resumes for different purposes, each with its own URL.
• Control who gets to see what on your resume.
• Manage your resumes from a Dashboard, update and edit them as you fit.
• Share URLs with prospective employers and colleagues in the email, on job boards, in your social profiles etc.,
• Free, register to get started.

Check out VisualCV @ www.visualcv.com

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When you enter the username and hit on the “chk” button, if the username is taken it shows “Taken”. It is a useful tool for anyone who wants to maintain a consistent presence at all the popular social networks, or just to check for the best available username from one place.

Features:

• Check the availability of a username on 80+ popular social networking sites in one place.
• Free, instant, no registration.
• Similar websites: CheckUserNames.

Check out Namechk @ www.namechk.com

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• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• KnowEm: Quick Username Availability Checking
• CheckUserNames: Social Media Username Checker
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
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As you can see in the above screenshot, it has the cleanest of the user interfaces and you don’t really need time to understand what the site is all about.

It may say “find your favorite celebrity”, but as I mentioned, you can find age of anyone who’s famous on the net and has been referred to on well known sites. For example, I did a search on Robert Scoble, who may not stand in the same league as people like Bono and Brad Pitt but still I could find what I was looking for.

Check out AgeDirectory @ www.agedir.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• DeadAtYourAge: Find Out Which Famous People Died At Younger Age Then You’re Now
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• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• Wa-Wd: Find Out Who Is Alive And Who Is Dead
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For some examples see pages for Barack Obama and MC Hammer.

The setting up process is easy, all you do is select social networking profiles from the drop down list and enter corresponding URL’s.

Features:

• Aggregate your social network profiles on one page.
• Share your UnHub page with others.
• Add as many profiles as you want.
• Get short and easy to share URL.
• Similar sites: SocialURL and ProfileFly.

For more details see the demo below:

Check out UnHub @ www.unhub.com

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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

Check out CheckUserNames @ www.checkusernames.com (via del.icio.us)

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• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• Namechk: Check Username Availability on Social Sites
• KnowEm: Quick Username Availability Checking
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

You can also check out avatars of other users, leave comments or post your own avatars for others to see.

Features:

• Hassle free animated avatar maker.
• Create as many avatars as you like.
• Download avatars onto your computer.
• Use avatars on any website.
• Add avatars to your Google Homepage.
• Post your avatars on CoolWebcamAvatars and let other to rate and comment.
• Check out avatars of other users.
• Simple and easy to use.
• For more tools to work with online avatars see Makeuseof’s avatars section. There was also a similar blog post about how to create avatars online without any image editing.

See sample animated avatars below:

Check out CoolWebcamAvatars @ www.coolwebcamavatars.com

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• AvatarsDB: Free Avatar Directory
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• MyAvatarEditor: Free Online Avatar Editor

The 123People site aggregates all these different websites together to provide you with a webpage that gives as much information about someone as you will need. Great for those interested in their internet fame as well as reuniting with old friends.

Features:

• Ability to filter returned profiles by ZIP/State and Country.
• Get E-mail updates about a certain name.
• Sort results by restricting information from certain search sites.
• Includes e-mail addresses, IM, phone numbers of people you;re interested in.
• Includes large index of names.
• For more people search websites see Cool Identity Search Tools For Social web.

Check out 123People @ www.123people.com (via Lifehacker)

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• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page

If you’re interested in some alternatives then check out some of the other avatar making sites we have profiled earlier: DoppelMe, Sp-Studio (for South Park avatars) and FaceYourManga.

Go to TurnYourNameIntoaFace @ www.turnyournameintoaface.com

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Features:

• Create for yourself a simple online identity page.
• Search for IDs of others and add them to your favorites.
• Your ID page can include photo, text and web links.
• Share ID page with others..
• More features are coming.

Check out StigID @ www.stigid.com

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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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Features

• Easily create trendy avatars through mouse clicks
• Many customization options
• Download Avatars to your computer
• Check and rate other avatars in My Faces section

Check out FaceYourManga@www.faceyourmanga.com. ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People

Features

• Easily import your bookmarks, shared photos, blog posts, etc. to a one searchable location.
• Import content from: Blogger, Delicious, Digg, Faves, Flickr, Google Docs, Twitter, Google Reader, Metaweblog, Mindmeister, Google Picasa, Slideshare, Wordpress, Youtube, and ZohoDocs.
• Automatically keeps your account up-to-date and synchronized.
• Easily edit bookmarks online.
• Share your content stream with others. Invite friends from Gmail contacts.
• Get your own SecondBrain homepage i.e. makeuseof.secondbrain.com.
• Follow (subscribe) to content from people you like and allow others to follow you.
• Post quick notes (like on Twitter).
• Browser bookmarklet: Send webpage to SecondBrain account with a single click.
• Browse and organize your content by tags and folders (collections).
• Apart from content it also imports your tags (Del.icio.us, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)

[Video] SecondBrain Intro

Check out SecondBrain @ www.secondbrain.com

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