It can tell you who are your most important contacts, their web presence, the tweets, blogs and articles mentioning them and much more.

It also offers an Outlook plugin which can neatly integrate with your Outlook mail. Plus it can leverage your Salesforce contacts too.

This web based service could certainly prove to be an useful one for people and businesses who want to prioritize their email by contacts and network with them in a better way.

To see Gist in action watch video below:

Check out Gist @ www.gist.com (via ReadWriteWeb) (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• YouSendIt Outlook: Send Emails with Large Attachments from Outlook
• Xobni : Excellent Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook
• ReachBy: Get Your Own ‘Contact Me’ Page
• iWantSandy : Personal Assistant in Your Email
• AddressBookOnline: Web Based Address Book

QRVcards is yet another web service aims to make it easy for you to share your contact information with others. What makes it different is the fact that it does the whole thing using barcodes. For instance, you can generate your own barcode that contains your contact details. Folks can use the mobile cam to scan the code and get your contact details. (Not sure what these codes are? Read this MakeUseOf article to find out.)

Adding your contact info to QR code is very easy, simply enter your contact details and choose preferred barcode type and size. Then click on the “Create Barcode” button. Once it’s ready you can print it on your business card, a sticker or your t-shirt. Others will be able to scan it using their mobile phones.

Features:

• Share your contact info with barcodes.
• Print the barcode on your business card, a sticker or t-shirt.
• Others can quickly scan them to obtain your contact info.
• Customize the barcode size and type (Datamatrix or QR).

Check out QRVCards @ www.qrvcards.com

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• BeQRious: Generate QR Codes Online
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Xobni : Excellent Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Upscoop: See on Which Networks Your Friends

Features:

• Add, manage and access your contacts from anywhere.
• Import existing contacts from vCards (.vcf file)
• Search or browse you contacts alphabetically.
• Store up to 1000 entries, for FREE.
• www.flexadex.com/mobile : Access, search and manage your Flexadex address book from mobile.
• Simple, quick and easy to use.

Check out Flexadex @ [ www.flexadex.com ]

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• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Plaxo – Online Address Book and Contact Management
• Mobyko: Backup Mobile Phone Data Online
• Mobical: Backup Mobile Contacts, Address Book and Calendar
• Keepm : Quick ‘n Easy Contact Manager

Keepm Features:

• Manage and organize your contacts in one place.
• Access, search and edit contacts from anywhere.
• Search contact by name, company, email, IM name, phone nr, city and tags.
• Share individual contacts with others.
• Add personal notes to any contact.
• Unlimited: Add or import as many contacts as you want.
• Import address book contacts from Gmail, V-Cards (.vcf), or Oulook
• Export contacts as: V-Card (for Mac Address Book, Vista Mail, Treo, iPod, Blackberry etc.) or as .CSV File (for Excel and Outlook).
• What’s missing : Option to import contacts from Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Facebook etc.

Check out Keepm @ www.keepm.com

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• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Plaxo – Online Address Book and Contact Management
• Mobyko: Backup Mobile Phone Data Online
• Mobical: Backup Mobile Contacts, Address Book and Calendar
• Flexadex : Online Addresss Book

Xobni Features

• Instantly see sender profile as you navigate through emails in your inbox.
• Automatically pulls contact’s phone number directly from his/her emails and adds it to the profile.
• View all email conversations with the contact, the number of emails that were sent and received from the email address, and stats showing when you usually send/receive emails to/from that contact.
• View all related attachments.
• Lightning-fast live search: Search though contacts and emails as you type.
• ‘Schedule time with … ‘ : Integrated meeting scheduler.
• At them moment Xobni works only with Mirosoft Outlook. However, support for Lotus Notes, Eudora, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and other popular email clients will follow.
• For more details and questions go to Xobni FAQ page.
• Important: Xobni is an invite-only service so if you want to get in you need to request an invite here.

[Video] Xobni Demo

Check out Xobni @ www.xobni.com

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• iWantSandy : Personal Assistant in Your Email
• ReachBy: Get Your Own ‘Contact Me’ Page
• Kukoo: Free Email Autoresponder Service
• Gist: Intelligent Contact Management Tool
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online

Spokeo: “Spokeo finds your friends’ blogs and photos that you never knew about, guaranteed.”

Feature List

• Track as many friends as many friends as you like.
• Get started by instantly importing address book contacts from AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo accounts.
• Spokeo searches for your friends’ profiles on over 20 major networks: Amazon, Bebo, Blogger, Buzznet, Dailymotion, deviantART, Digg, Flickr, Friendster, Hi5, LinkedIn, Last.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace, Photobucket, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Veoh, Vox, WebShots, Xanga, YouTube and several others.
• Manage: Add, delete and organize friend profiles in groups.
• For more info go to Spokeo FAQ page.

Check out Spokeo @ www.spokeo.com

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• SeeMyWhere: Share Your Real Time Location With Others
• Scred : Track Shared Expenses
• ReturnMyPants: Easily Track Borrowed & Lent Items
• Rentoni: Keep Track Of Things You Lend And Borrow
• Locle: Share Your Location without GPS

Feature List:

• Get your own online ‘contact me’ form with spam protection (yourname.reachby.com).
• Style your contact page: Add profile picture, set background colors, text formatting (italic, bold, headline, …) and more.
• Option to deactivate your contact page at any time.
• ReachBy buttons: Dozens of free buttons for your ‘Contact Me’ links.
• For more details go to ReachBy FAQ page. You can also check out sample contact page here.

Check out ReachBy @ www.reachby.com

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• Xobni : Excellent Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook
• iWantSandy : Personal Assistant in Your Email
• Gist: Intelligent Contact Management Tool
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Zuplo: Cool Stationary Backgrounds for Your Emails

Feature Overview

• Manage and organize all your contacts online.
• Import contacts from Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Outlook, and more.
• Send group messages.
• Set important reminders (i.e. birthdays).
• Synchronize your calendar and/or contacts with your mobile.
• Backup and transfer contacts and/or calendar data between mobiles.
• Synchronize Anywr calendar with Outlook (coming soon).
• Access Anywr from PC or any WAP-enabled mobile phone.

Check out Anywr @ www.anywr.com

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• DashWire: Synchronize and Backup your Mobile Phone to Web
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Mobyko: Backup Mobile Phone Data Online
• Mobical: Backup Mobile Contacts, Address Book and Calendar
• Contails: Mobile Contacts Sync Tool

User Testimonial: “I didn’t know so many of my friends use the same sites as me, and now I’m definitely finding myself adding them as friends.”

Upscoop Features:

• Import email contacts from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL and check out which of your friends use social networking sites.
• Covers dozens of networks/communities: Bebo, Facebook, Flickr, Flixster, Hi5, LinkedIn, Multiply, MySpace, Plaxo, Ringo and lots more.
• Currently indexes over 400.000.000 user profiles.
• Contacts Export + Sign-up takes less then a minute.

Visit Upscoop @ [www.upscoop.com]

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• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Xobni : Excellent Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook
• Wishpot: Create Wish Lists by Adding Items From Any Website
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data

WebAsyst Features/Services

• WebAsyst File Storage: Upload and Share files with friends. Allow friends to upload files as well. (*)
• WebAsyst Photo Service: Save and share (embed) photos online. (*)
• WebAsyst Contact Manager: Track your contacts and respective details online. (*)
• WebAsyst Email: Create Newsletters, Announce events, etc. (*)
• WebAsyst Project: Create, Track and Collaborate on Group project online. (*)
• WebAsyst Issues: Online issue tracking solution. (*)
• WebAsyst Notes: Organize and Share your Notes and ToDo’s. (*)
• WebAsyst Pages: Create and Publish manuals, tutorials, handouts, quick tours, etc. (*)
• Shopping Cart: Create your own online store and shopping cart and embed it on any website or blog. Supports most of the popular payment options.

(*) Free accounts are limited to 50 items (depending on the service), 5 users and 20 MB of storage.

WebAsyst Video Overview

Visit WebAsyst @ [www.webasyst.net]

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• Wrike
• Wridea: Keep Track of Ideas
• VeoProject: Effective Project Management Tool Online
• Top 3 FREE web-based Office Suites (makeuseof.com)
• Taskbarn: Collaborate & Manage Projects Online

- web-based business card maker with a dozen of free templates.
- also provides free business card layouts for Photoshop and Illustrator (see one below)
- Extra: web-based Gift Tag maker.
- Choose between American or International card sizes (apparently they’re slightly different)

Go to BusinessCardLand (http://www.businesscardland.com)

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• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Wordoid: Get Company Name Ideas
• WhosOff : The Online Staff Holiday Planner

Mashable.com on HighRise: “Highrise is so supremely useful that you wonder why all the other contact managers were so poor.”

Quick Feature Overview

• Profile for every Contact: Add notes from calls, attach email conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this contact.
• Create and Assign Tasks: Assign yourself or to your team members contact-specific tasks and specify when it’s due.
• Manage Collaborators: Rich set of options to specify who can see what
• Get task reminders (via email or SMS)
• Email Integration: Create tasks and assign them to relevant people by sending an email to Highrise. More details
• BaseCamp integration
• Free account is limited to 250 contacts and 2 collaborators. Check out premium account options here.
• More Questions ? See HighRise tour (with screenshots) here OR check out FAQ section.

Go to HighRise (http://www.highrisehq.com)

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• Timetonote: Free Online CRM Solution For Businesses
• Jigsaw
• Business Card Generator: Make Business Cards For Free
• BigContacts
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online

CNET Reviews: … I can imagine this application also being very useful for students, for recording whiteboards or chalkboards (do they still use chalkboards?).

Things you can with Scanr

• Taks snap pics of Whiteboards, Documents and BusinessCards and convert them to a properly formatted documents.
• Store and search through contents of your scanned files online.
• iGoogle Gadget: Upload whiteboard, document or business card captures directly iGoogle homepage.
• Class Notes: Facebook application that allows you to share lecture notes with friends.
• Get free Scanr client on your mobile phone. More Details
• Capture and Archive / Fax documents directly from cell phone.

Scanr Demo Videos

1. scanR Whiteboard Demo

2. ‘Class Notes’ FaceBook Application for Students (by scanR)

More demos: for Whiteboards, for Documents, and for Business Cards.

Check out Scanr @ www.scanr.com

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• Qipit : Capture and Share Docs Using Mobile
• NoteSake : Share Lecture Notes Online
• File Destructor : Fake File Generator
• Writer : Distraction-free Internet Typewriter

How it works?: You simply request a contact you need and if it exists in their database you get contact’s details including name, title, email and the phone number. In return for each contact you’re required to give 5 Jigsaw points. You can either buy points at $0.20 for 1 point or get 10 points each time you submit a new or correct existing contact. Upon completing your registration for the first time you’ll be awarded 50 points.

Features

• Get information on any company and list of it’s employees. ? ()
• Browse companies by states, major cities, by industry, by alphabet, and more
• Browse contacts by alphabet or use Search option

Visit Jigsaw

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• HighRise
• Business Card Generator: Make Business Cards For Free
• BigContacts
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool

Free Account Features:

• Sync. Plaxo Address book and Calendar with Outlook, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Mac, and other popular tools.
• Automatically updates your contacts’ details as their info changes.
• Sync. your notes/contacts/calendars across multiple computers (work, home, college, etc.).
• Share your contact/s with others.
• Ad notes, Birthday reminders.
• Integrated ToDo list service.
• Extra features that come with Premium account (49.95$/year): Backup and recovery, mobile access, 24/7 live support, etc.

Plaxo introduction and demo video

Check out Plaxo @ www.plaxo.com

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• BigContacts
• Anywr : Contact Manager + Calendar
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Toodledo: Online Task Management
• ToDoist: Simple ToDo List and Task Manager

Features:

• manage and organize your contacts
• share contacts with others
• add Notes and monitor upcoming contact-based Tasks
• detailed history for each contact
• compatible with all browsers and can be accessed from mobile
• and more

Free account option is limited to 500 contacts and half GB of online storage space. More on it here.

Visit: BigContacts

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• Plaxo – Online Address Book and Contact Management
• Anywr : Contact Manager + Calendar
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data
• Toodledo: Online Task Management
• ToDoist: Simple ToDo List and Task Manager