All Things Now is a free and simple search engine for the most popular Facebook content. On the site’s homepage you will find the most recent popular content categorized into videos, humor, images, music, news, politics, finance, tech, sports, gaming, gossip, social, TV, shopping, cooking, and education. If you are looking for something in particular, you can select a category from the top links or quickly conduct a keyword search.

The site tells you how many times each link in the results was shared. Clicking on any result will take you to the original URL.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you search recent popular content shared on Facebook.
• Displays the number of shares of each link.
• Categorizes the links for easier browsing.
• Similar tools: Booshaka and Zocial.

Check out All Things Now @ www.allthingsnow.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

The website is composed of three sections: hottest buzz, trending buzz, and new buzz. The hottest buzz section shows the hottest articles with the most number of re-buzzes. Meanwhile, the trending buzz shows articles which are starting to gain re-buzzes and therefore popularity. Finally, the new buzz section shows the latest articles that are posted on the site.

Website owners and bloggers can utilize Buzzr to gain more exposure to readers by adding the Buzrr button on their site. To get this button, simply copy and paste the HTML code provided on the site.

Features:

• Find the hottest, trending and latest articles on Google Buzz.
• Indicates the number of re-buzzes of an article.
• Search for articles.
• Re-buzz articles.
• Add a Buzrr button for your website or blog.
• Similar Tools: Tweetmeme and BuzzCounter.
• You can also read the 5 Awesome Tips To Improve your Google Buzz Experience.

Check out Buzzr @ www.buzrr.com

You can also install the Xmarks  plugin and bookmark, rate, tag or write reviews about sites in you visit.

Features:

• Research sites, see how popular they are and discover similar sites based on the data from hundreds of millions of user bookmarks.
• Browse similar sites, browse related topics, read user reviews and see site ratings.
• Data collected from thousands of Internet users who have installed popular Firefox Xmarks bookmark manager plugin.
• Research and find popular sites in any language or country.
• To write reviews, rate and tag bookmarked sites in your browser, install the Xmarks browser plugin from the site.
• Free, no registration.
• Similar tools:  SimilarSites and SimilarWeb.

Check out Xmarks @ www.xmarks.com

The application also displays flags that have been placed on articles indicating status (needs attention or don’t live up to editorial standards) or the date the article appeared on the homepage.

Additionally to most edited articles you can also view 30 top most active Wikipedia editors.

Features:

• Displays top 30 most edited Wikipedia pages.
• See most edited page in the last Hour, 6 Hours, Day, 3 Days, Week and Month .
• Subscribe to feeds and get Wikirage updates on feed reader or follow it  Twitter.
• Legends showing the status of the articles and the dates when it has been on the home page displayed.
• Also view to 30 top  most active editors.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Wikirage @www.wikirage.com

There are no restrictions on the storage space or the number of files users can upload. The upload page lets you upload up to 10 files at the same time. As you upload the files, the upload progress bar gives you a nice overview of the upload speed and estimated time to complete the upload. There is nothing to download or install.

Features:

• Upload and store files online for easy access from any computer.
• Share desired files, photos and images with friends and family.
• Store and share as many files as you want.
• Embed photos and link files from your blog or social networking profiles i.e. Myspace.
• Organize files into folders and create photo galleries.
• Upload up to 10 files simultaneously.
• Unlimited online storage space (max. allowed file size < 100 MB).
• No email or sign-up required.

For additional details and questions check out MediaFire’s extensive help section.

Go to MediaFire @ www.mediafire.com

Over the last year the site has become very popular and currently hosts hundreds of smaller social networking sites focused around different interests.

But the best part about Ning is that you can map your network to your own domain name. This requires some additional work but you don’t have to be a tech guru to do that.

Features:

• Create social networking website in minutes.
• Browse current networks by tags.
• Check out most popular networks
• Join networks you like.
• Put your social network under your own domain name ($4.95/month).

Go to Ning @ www.ning.com

You can search books by author name, title and even search within the contents of the book. Or if you are not sure where to start then you might want to check out top 100 most downloaded books for the previous day.

Features:

• Search books catalog by author name or title.
• Advanced search: Filter books by subject, language, category, filetype, etc.
• Browse books by popularity, book author, title, language or recently posted.
• Download ebooks directly from the website or via FTP.
• Download certain ebooks in HTML, plain text, plucker (mobile) or audio format (human-read).
• Read ebooks on your Palm, PDA or smartphone.
• Books available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
• Get RSS feeds for recently added books.

Please keep in mind, while the service is leagl in the United States it may not be the case for the some other countries. So make sure to check the copyright laws of your country before downloading a book.

Go to Project Gutenberg @ www.gutenberg.org

“We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of “urban legend” as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives’ tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items.”

Examples

- Dating Disasters: The Fart in the Dark.
- Dumb Crooks: 911 Surrender.

Things you can do at Snopes

• Browse legends by category (over 40 cats.): Autos, College, Crime, Humor, Sports, Religion, Travel, Politics, Love, etc.
• Legends classified as: true, false, multiple truth values, undetermined, or as unclassified veracity.
• See currently ‘Hottest 25‘ legends and myths. Also available via RSS.
• Subscribe to the latest legends by email.
• For more details go to Snopes FAQ page.

Check out Snopes @ www.snopes.com

FatWallet Features

• Search though thousands of indexed deals from all over the web (Dell, IBM, Circuit City, Overstock, Buy.com, eBay, etc.)
• Browse deals by: Hot deals, expiring deals, major online stores (see above), and by category (Music, Computers, Travel, Softwares, etc.).
• Price Comparison: Compare item prices across hundreds of online stores.
• Cash Back: Get certain amount of cash from each purchase./li>
• Daily Email: daily review of newest and soo-to-expire product offers.
• For more info go to FatWallet FAQ page.

Go to FatWallet [www.fatwallet.com]

ImageShack Features:

• Host and Share images and videos. Hotlinking allowed.
• Upload options: from file, from URL, using desktop widget, by email or from mobile.
• Create animated photo slideshows.
• Supported image/video formats: .JPG, .JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, BMP, TIF, .TIFF and SWF
• Maximum image size: 1.5 MB
• Bandwidth Limit: 100 MB per hour.
• Resize images on upload
• Search through millions of publicly shared images.
• Extra Tools: Browser toolbar (Firefox, IE), Mac widget, Mac Uploader (for multiple uploads), Image tracking and more.
• For more information and image guidelines go to ImageShack FAQ page.

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