The site lets you search for a company by name, browse the companies with the best or worst customer service ratings and also read user comments.

If you would like to share some of your own experiences you may also submit your comments and ratings for any company.

Features:

• Customer service ratings for over 150 top US companies.
• Ratings are based on user feedback submitted online.
• Browse companies with the best and worst customer service.
• View customer hotline number for any listed company.
• View relevant company news.
• Boycott a particular company and all of its products.
• Rate and submit comments for any listed company, no registration needed.
• Similar sites ContactHelp and GetSatisfaction.

Check out Customer Service Scoreboard @ www.CustomerServiceScoreboard.com (via GeekSugar)

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• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics
• SueEasy: Join a Class Action Lawsuit Against Corporates

The site covers lots of products and lets you search its database by keyword or browse by products. You can also rate suggested alternatives, and if you are aware of any alternative uses that are not on the site add them by registering.

Features:

• Discover alternative uses of daily products.
• Search and browse site by product name.
• Sort results by rating.
• Contribute by suggesting alteranative uses.

Check out AltUse @ www.altuse.com

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• TipBin : Share and Discover Cool Tips
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool

The site has a database of user submitted complaints searchable by make, model, and year. Moreover, it includes sections for the worst cars, most amusing owner complaints, current vehicle trends, vehicles with the most problems, latest car problems etc.

Features:

• Database of common car problems submitted by users.
• Search cars by make, model, and year.
• Check current vehicle trends.
• See vehicles with the most problems.
• Read latest car problems as reported by press.
• Check out worst cars and amusing owner complaints.
• Contribute by adding your car problems.
• Similar sites: MotorMouths and CarBibles.

Check out CarComplaints @ www.carcomplaints.com

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• Honk: Social Network For Car Buyers
• Zapatag: Report Bad Drivers Online
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• VehicleFixer: Car Repair Videos for Beginners
• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars

Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new and gets better. First it learns about you and then helps you make deicision based on what it already knows about you.

After a series of questions related to your problem, the most appropriate answer is displayed in the following manner.

In case you’re signed up with hunch, your answers are saved for future references. You can also contribute to hunch by adding a topic, a question or a new result.

Features :

• Online decision making application helps in making decisions.
• Provides solution after asking a number of questions related to your problem.
• Gets better every time it is used.
• Contribute to Hunch by adding a topic or a question and new result.

Check out Hunch @ www.hunch.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Instructables: The Web’s Biggest Show & Tell
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

The recommended books data are pulled from from sites like Amazon and LibraryThing and nicely presented side by side. It also provides you with a URL using which you can share book recommendations with others.

Features:

• Simple book suggester which tells you what book to read next.
• The recommendations are pulled from Amazon and LibraryThing.
• Easy to use and doesn’t require any registration.
• Similar websites: WhichBook, ThisOneNext,What Should I Read Next and BookArmy.

Check out BookSeer @ www.bookseer.com

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• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Wattpad : Read and Share Books on your Mobile
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books

It already has more 150,000 photos covering over 4300 encyclopedia pages. Each page includes a short text description from Wikipedia and links to related photo galleries. Anyone can share their pictures in related topic pages, nominate relevant photos and vote on the best images within each topic.

Features:

• Collaborative photo wikipedia.
• Over 140,000 photos covering more than 4300 encyclopedia pages.
• Browse photos by different topics and categories.
• Nominate relevant photos in each topic.
• Vote on best images.
• Share your own photos in relevant categories.

Check out Fotopedia @ www.fotopedia.com

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• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• Wiki: Search Only Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Type Websites
• TrendingTopics: View Hot Wikipedia Topics & Trends
• SmartWikiSearch: Wikipedia Similarity Search Engine
• Navify: A Better Wikipedia (with Images & Videos )

When you search for product, your price is set as the target price and search results are compared against this price.

Results are presented in 3 colours: Yellow, Green and Red.

- Yellow: your source.
- Green: results with a cheaper price
- Red: results with a higher price than your source

Features:

• Find the best price online by comparing sources with other users.
• Refine search results by clicking on product name tags and modifying the target price.
• Hide all results from a particular store.
• Compare prices of new and used products.
• Clean and quick interface.
• Free, and no registration.

Check out BeatmyPrice @ www.beatmyprice.com

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• Shopnics: Compare Gadget Prices by Brand & Features
• Woot: One Deal a Day
• TypoBuddy: Find Misspelled Items on Ebay & Craigslist
• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars
• Spectackler: Compare Electronic Products Side-By-Side

You can use Zeer to search for certain product review and see what people are saying about it, or you can join a community and express your opinion for particular food product.

Zeer also allows you to add friends and ask for advice about any food related topic, ask about their experiences/feelings for a product. Another very good feature is the ability to rate a product since it tells you in a glance what people think about it.

Feature overview:

• Food product reviews by users.
• Read and write reviews for thousands of products.
• Search for a product by name or UPC.
• Search for products by manufacturer name, possible allergies, calories or ingredients.
• Nutritional information for more then 114,000 food products, and each one can be rated.
• Join a community and engage in discussions about any topic.
• Make friends with like-minded people and share advice.
• Add products to your shopping list or wish lists.

Visit Zeer @ www.zeer.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• WhatsOnMyFood: See What Pesticides are Used in Your Food
• TwoFoods: Compare Nutritional Values Of Common Foods
• ShugarStacks: Check The Amount of Sugar in Foods
• NutritionToolbox: Food Nutritional Information Database
• FitDay: Online Diet & Weight Loss Tracking Journal

There is no registration required for searching and browsing tips, however if you want to submit your own tip or rate and comment on tips submitted by other users the registration is necessary.

Features:

• Share your tips and tricks online.
• Submitted tips can be on any subject.
• Search and browse tips submitted by other users.
• Rate and leave comment (registration needed).
• Check out top rated and recent tips.
• Subscribe to people whose tips you find really interesting.

Check out TipsBase @ www.tipsbase.com

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• Wakoopa – Discover Cool Software
• VideoSift : ‘Digg’ for WebVideos

It’s very easy to use and you don’t even have to create an account or rate aything. Simply enter a book, CD or DVD that you really enjoyed and ThisOneNext will give you back a list of items that you are likely to enjoy. Additionally you can register and contribute to the site by creating your own “my favorites” list.

So if you ever need a quick tip on what dvd to rent next, movie to watch or book to read, ThisOneNext help you out.

Features:

• Get recommendations on books, movies and music.
• No registration required. (Only if you want to create a list of your own favorites).
• Movie fan? Also check out “What Movie Should I Watch Next?“.

Check out ThisOneNext @ www.thisonenext.com

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• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Television Tunes : Theme Songs for your Favorite TV Shows
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Partigi: Track Movies You’ve Seen & Get Recomendations

From the page:

“Stix.to gives you a layer on top of the Internet. You can go to any page you wish, put a note, chat, picture or video on top of that page. Share your layer with friends, link to it from your blog, or just see what pops up when you surf around.”

Features:

• Leave marks on any web page.
• Leave simple sticky notes, interactive chat boxes and spoken messages.
• Keep your marks private or public.
• Optionally check out marks left by other users, you can select which marks you want to see, all marks or only marks from friends..
• Add images and videos to your notes and chat boxes.
• Join groups or invite friends to share your marks.
• Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer 7 and  Firefox .
• For more similar services go here.

Visit Stix.to @ www.stix.to

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos
• useKit: Makes Web Browsing More Efficient
• Taggify: Tag Faces on Photos with Tooltips
• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser

If you feel like sharing something you can contribute by submitting a video definition of your own. The site also gives you quick links to see most popular and latest definitions, rate and leave comments.

Features:

• Lookup word meanings as text and videos
• Browse word definitions submitted by usres like you and check out most popular ones.
• Rate and comment on videos (registered users only)
• Upload and submit your own video definition.
• Generate a list of your favorite videos to watch and share them with others later

Check out sample video below:

Check out Wordia @ www.wordia.com

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• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information
• WordAhead: Video Vocabulary Site
• WebSourceIt : Which of The Two Spellings is Right?
• VocabSushi: The Easy Way To Build Your Vocabulary
• IdiomSite: Find Out Meanings of Common Sayings

Similarly, it can be used to choose between the right homophones (or homonyms). Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled and defined differently. For instance, using WebSourceIt you can check whether it’s more then or more than.

How does it work?

(1) Enter your words or phrases in to the provided fields and click “Enter”.
(2) WebSourceIt will then count the number of times the terms appear on the web.
(3) The higher the number, the higher chances of it being correct.

Features

• Max phrase length: up to 5 words.
• No sign up or registration needed.

Check out WebSourceIt @ www.websource.it

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• WriteRhymes : Find Word Rhymes
• IdiomSite: Find Out Meanings of Common Sayings
• Writer : Distraction-free Internet Typewriter
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information

So if you’re having problem with one or the other corporate entity, try searching for it on SueEasy and see if you can find anyone else in a similar situation. Then you can join others for a class action lawsuit.

Features:

• File a complaint and grievances against corporate companies online.
• Find people in similar situation, join them and get help from Class Actions lawyers.
• Search and browse complaints submitted by other users.
• Available only within US.

Check out SueEasy @ www.sueeasy.com

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• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Kiobo: A Nice Tool to Share and Discover Cool Websites
• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies

Furthermore, you can find out what are the most common problems associated with the model of your car, mechanical details, ask questions, locate service and parts shops in your area, read reviews from other car owners, keep track of service information, get reminders for upcoming services, etc.

Features:

• Get independent price estimates for car repairs.
• Find out what the most common problems associated with the model of your car.
• Search for repair shops in your area. Over 260.000 service shops listed.
• Store and organize service and repair related information online.
• Get reminders for upcoming services.
• Ask live mechanic a specific question (non-free).
• Leave feedback about your car, specific repair shop or mechanic.
• The service is available only to users within US

Check out RepairPal @ www.repairpal.com

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• Zapatag: Report Bad Drivers Online
• VehicleFixer: Car Repair Videos for Beginners
• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars
• Trapster: Get Alerted About Speed Traps On Your Way
• ServiceBeacon: Manage your Car’s Service Record Online

NYTimes Review: “I have become addicted to the site (my screensaver is now one of their “Vintage Meal Pics” – a 1950’s photo of a well-dressed couple on a Braniff International flight to South America taken from the aisle by a photographer named Brooke). I check the site’s media links daily for airline news to see which carriers are making the most horrendous cutbacks.”

Features

• Browse airline meals by Airline name (British Airways, Lufthansa, Singapore Airways, …). Over 500 airlines in total.
• See which airlines offer special meals, i.e. vegeterian, children, seafood, diabetics, medical, and ethnic (helal, kosher,
  hindu).
• See ‘Meals of the week’ item.
• Behind scenes of airline catering: Who, How and Where companies that supply airlines with meals prepare their food.
• Get feedback on food in airport restaurants and airline lounges.
• Contribute: Add your airline meal and feedback to the gallery.
• Over 18,821 images from 536 airlines.
• Meals from the past: Check out meal pictures from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

Visit AirlineMeals @ [www.airlinemeals.net]

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• Yapta: Get Refund on Flight Tickets
• UEatCheap: Find Cheap Buffet Restaurants in Your Area
• Traveas: Track Flight Information On your Cellphone
• SleepingInAirports: Traveler’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports
• SeatGuru

Feature Overview:

• File a ripoff report (incl. proof picture) against any company you want. Update the progress of your report as you’re working on resolving the issue.
• Browse through over 280,000 reports filed by annoyed consumers against companies of all sizes over a variety of issues. Check out if the retailer you’re doing business with is reputable.
• Top Rip-off Links: Browse top ripoff companies by name.
• ‘Consumer Tips’ section: Learn about Protecting Your Identity, Telemarketing Fraud, Advance Fee Loans, Credit Service & Credit Card Offers, etc.
• For companies: If someone files a report against you, you can file a rebuttal to explain your side of the story.

Check out RipOff Report @ www.ripoffreport.com

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• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies
• AirlineMeals : Your A+ Guide to Airline Meals
• ZipSkinny : Zip Code Finder
• Ziipa: Web 2.0 Directory

In case you wonder where Ask500People gets so much of exposure for selected questions, here is what they say: “We’ve made arrangements with several high-traffic sites to be able to display polls there when needed.”

Features List:

• Ask questions and express your opinion by answering questions from other users.
• Comment on and rate questions.
• Add additional answer options.
• Put an Ask500People widget on your website and let your readers vote on current questions.

Check out Ask500people @ www.ask500people.com

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• IsItNormal?: Find Out How Normal You Really Are
• Instructables: The Web’s Biggest Show & Tell

BusinessWeek: “Get Satisfaction describes its product as “people-powered customer-service.” Named Satisfaction, it is part online forum, part FAQ, and part social network.”

How does it work?

1. 1. Find a company that provides a product / service you need help with.
2. 2. Ask a question or start a new topic. If a similar topic already exists just join the conversation.
3. 3. Post your question or problem.
4. 4. As soon as someone posts a reply GetSatisfaction will send you an email.

Feature Overview

• Find the company that provides the product or service you need help with and post your question.
• Sort discussions by type (’Questions’, ‘Ideas’, ‘Problems’ and ‘Talk’) or ‘Recently Active’, ‘Latest’, or ‘Unanswered’.
• Follow-up on all posted questions (for any company) from your feedreader.
• If the company you’re looking for isn’t listed you can add it yourself.
• Want to contribute? You may help out others either as an independent contributor or as a representative of the company you’re working for.

Check out GetSatisfaction @ www.getsatisfaction.com

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• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• IsItNormal?: Find Out How Normal You Really Are
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online

- How To Make A “Secret Container” Out Of a Lighter
- How to Build Hairspray-powered Potato Cannon.
- How To Make a Safety Pin From a Paperclip.
- How To Paint Your Car With Rustoleum

Overview

• Browse instructables by popularity or category: art, craft, food, games, home, life, offbeat, ride, and tech.
• Rate and discuss user submitted instructables.
• Submit your own DIY ‘How to’ instructables.
• Join and create topic-specific groups (i.e. illegal, howtoons, USB toys, … ).
• Participate in contests with cool prizes.
• Subscribe to weekly newsletter (over 100,000 subscribers).
• For more detailed overview go to instructables guided tour here.

Interview with Instructables.com

Check out Instructables @ www.instructables.com

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Hunch: Online Personal Decision Making Tool
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

AppScout.com: “It offers you a way share your knowledge to help other people fix and find workarounds for problems with their electronics, find help for your own problems, look up service manuals and troubleshooting tips, and even make a little money on the side.”

Feature List

• Post your problems and get free tech support.
• Help solving user submitted problems and earn cash. Read more.
• Subscribe to the latest submitted issues (on any gadget) via RSS (iPhone, iPod).
• Monitor all posted problems via RSS.
• Browse thousands of resolved problems via tag cloud.
• Search local repair services by zip code, or by product category (mobile phones, laptops, etc.).
• FixYa Warranty Manager: Finds and Stores all your products’ warranty and support information in your FixYa account.

Check out FixYa @ www.fixya.com

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• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics
• Venjuvo: Get Cash for Your Old Electronics and Gadgets
• Instructables: The Web’s Biggest Show & Tell

Feature Overview

• Browse questions by tags, Recently asked, Recently answered, or Most interesting.
• Explore People: ‘Most active’ or ‘Top ranked’.
• Watch questions via custom RSS feeds OR add them to your account watchlist.

Check out Yedda @ www.yedda.com

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• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Instructables: The Web’s Biggest Show & Tell
• Hunch: Online Personal Decision Making Tool
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

Feature Overview

• Find, upload, download, store and share professional document templates online.
• Rate, comment on, and tag documents.
• Supported document formats: .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .ppt, and .txt files.
• Unlimited Storage: Store as many documents as you want.
• Keep uploaded files private or make them public.
• Browse docs by category, i.e. legal, business, technology, educational, financial and creative.
• Or check out ‘Most Viewed’, ‘Most Downloaded’, ‘Most Recent’, and ‘Highest Rated’ docs.
• Download and save any public document to your PC.
• Request Document: If you can’t fin the doc. you need you may ask DocStoc to help you find it.
• Browse DocStoc user profiles and view their shared documents.
• Embed any document on your blog/website (see below).

Embedding Example: Template – Business Plan Presentation

DocStoc Demo Video

DownloadSquad DocStoc WalkThrough

Check out DocStoc @ www.docstoc.com

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• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
• Collection of Free Business Forms and Templates
• ThinkFree: Web Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Peepel: Online Word and Spreadsheet
• PDF Generator: Convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs to PDF

WSIRN : “… recommendations based purely on collective taste: when items are entered into the same favourites list, they become associated with each other. The more often particular items appear on different lists, the stronger that association becomes.“

Feature Overview

• Recommendations are based on users’‘favorites’ lists.
• Build your favorite book list and make recommendation engine even better.

Check out ‘What Should I Read Next’ @ www.whatshouldireadnext.com

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• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• Wowbrary: Get Alerts on New Book Arrivals From Your Library
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks

LingoZ Features

• Search through over 4.5 million of user-contributed definitions (in 8 languages).
• Browse definitions by categories (Science, sports, finance, health, computers, etc.)
• Browse definitions by glossary: collections of definitions, all referring to a common concept (Figure skating, Cancer, Roller Coaster, etc).
• Ask community of experts to define the term for you.
• Contribute by adding new terms (or new definitions to existing term).
• Vote and comment on definitions.
• Edit your previously contributed terms and definitions.
• Become a community expert by gaining points.

Visit Lingoz [www.lingoz.com]

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• WriteRhymes : Find Word Rhymes
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• WebSourceIt : Which of The Two Spellings is Right?
• VisuWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary

• Do bald people need shampoo?
• Are you your body?
• Is ‘peace’ too much to ask for?

Time.com: “… easy to get sucked in for hours as you scramble to dream up witty questions, see who has answered them, scan their queries, answer the good ones, then circle back to your own list to see who has posted comments while you were away.”

Wis.dm Overview

• Ask questions and quickly receive multiple Yes or No responses.
• Discuss questions with others.
• Browse community questions by topics (politics, music, food, culture, etc.), popularity, and freshness.
• Edit or delete previously posted questions or comments.
• View all of your submitted Questions and Answers in one place.
• Discover and Connect with like minded people via ‘Compatibility’ feature. Shows percentage of questions you both answered the same.
• Ask wis.dm browser button: Easily post a question to wis.dm without leaving the current web page.

Visit Wis.dm [http://wis.dm]

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• IsItNormal?: Find Out How Normal You Really Are
• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• VideoSift : ‘Digg’ for WebVideos

“Our mission at Cake is to remove the mystery around investing and help you to perform better. We were founded upon the belief that having access to real people and real portfolios is better than relying on a single underperforming and expensive professional.”

Cake Features

• Automatically track your performance across all of your online brokerage accounts.
• Performance Rankings: See where you stand in comparison to other members.
• Buzz: most popular users, top performers, most popular journal posts, most watched stocks, most selling, and more.
• Search CakeFinancial by company name, symbol or screen name.
• Add people to your network and get alerted when they make trades.
• Your net worth, portfolio sizes or the cost basis of positions always remain anonymous.
• Wondering if CakeFinancial is secure? Read more on security and privacy measures here.
• For more details go to CakeFinancial FAQ page.

Go to CakeFinancial [www.cakefinancial.com]

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• WeSeed: Learn The Stock Market For Free Online
• Stocks.us : Live Stock Market News
• SaneBull: Add Financial Market Tracking Widget to your Site or Desktop
• Map-Of-The-Market: Visual Stock Market Map
• kaChing: Social Investing Site

TipBin.com: “… nobody is stupid. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, or where or how long you went to school. You know things that other people don’t.”

TipBin Features

• Browse tips by popularity (most recommended, most bookmarked, most discussed, most recent, etc.).
• Browse tips using tagcloud (creditcard, diet, savings, security, beauty, food, … )
• Subscribe to new tips by tags or featured tips (via RSS).
• Search through tips and/or tags.

Here is one cool tip on ‘credit card’:

Instead of signing the back of your credit card, write “Ask For ID”. Whenever you give it to someone, they should look at the back and ask for your license. If someone were to steal your credit card, they’d have a hard time using it unless they look like you. Hopefully, they wouldn’t even try.

Go to TipBin [www.tipbin.com]

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• AltUse: Discover Alternative Uses For Everyday Items
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43Things Feature Overview

• Track and Share your goals (learn piano, watch all episodes of simpsons, get rid of debt, etc.)
• Set and schedule goal reminders.
• Tag your goals and browse community goals via tag cloud.
• For each goal see: people who think it’s worth it, people who have done this, related goals, user comments, and more.
• Monitor updates (comments, people, etc.) for any goal via RSS feed.
• Get automatically connected to the people with same goals.
• Challenge yourself with one of your goals and declare your stakes.
• Zeitgeist section: recently cheered goals, recent tags, recent comments, etc.
• Subscribe to Popular Goals, New goals, recent comments, etc. (via RSS)
• Need more? Check out video below or navigate to 43things FAQ page.

Quick video demo/intro (Youtube.com)

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VideoSift Features

• Submit, Comment and Vote (+ / -) on videos.
• Check out Top videos in 24 hours, this week, this month, and this year.
• Browse recommended videos by category (aka channels): Music, Politics, Comedy, Cute, Geek, Nature, Funny, etc.
• Subscribe to popular (ex. top in 24 hours) or category (ex. Geek) videos via RSS.
• Browse videos by user attributed tags.
• and more …

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Wakoopa Features:

• Discover most popular software programs based on the number of people using it.
• Browse software by user-attributed tags , by category (file-sharing, games, audio, etc.), by popularity (’most used’) or category to find out what is best and most used software.
• For each listed app see: user reviews and ratings, similar tools, number of users using it, etc.
• Share your software profile with friends (or put a Wakoopa widget on your blog/website).
• Keep track of what software you were using and for how long.
• Get notified when there is a new version for any of the programs you use.
• Currently tracks almost 80.000 applications from about 20.000 users.

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Each posted question goes through 3 standard stages: open (requires an answer), undecided (multiple answers are given and users are asked to rate and choose the best one) and resolved (best answer has been selected).

Additional Features:

• Browse and search through millions of already answered questions.
• Rate, Share, Monitor and Comment on answers.
• RSS Subscribe: for latest questions, for latest by category, OR for replies to specific question.
• Monitor particular person’s questions and answers through RSS.
• Embed your questions and answers on your blog, website or social profile (Myspace, Bebo, ….)
• and more …

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The idea behind StumbleVideo is fairly simple, you tell it what you like and it will try to serve you best videos matching your tastes. Not only is shows you relevant videos (ex; Cars, Dancing, etc.) but also the ones that were rated ‘Thumbs Up’ by several other viewers. To get started all you need to do, is to register with StumbleUpon and indicate your interests. Once done, you can start stumbling (automatically going from one recommended video to another by pressing ‘Stumble’ button).

StumbleVideo Features

• Watch videos in Full-Screen mode
• Stumble through videos by channel (Internet, Computers, Dancing, Animation, Cars, Fashion, etc)
• Rate videos by rating them Thumbs Up/Down to train the system about your taste and hence serve you even better videos in the future.
• Search for videos
• Share videos with friends without leaving the page

Note: StumbleVideo is only one side of StumbleUpon, one you register and install StumbleUpon toolbar you’ll be able to enjoy not only user-recommended videos but websites and images as well.

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“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

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“Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world.”

Some Urban Words:

rock start parking: Parking directly outside the door of a bar, club or restaurant.
breaking the seal: When drinking, the first time you urinate, after which you have to go every 10 min.
january joiner: Joining the gym in January, over it by February.

Some UD Features

• Search for words, browse words by alphabet, or by latest additions.
• Word of the day (http://www.urbandictionary.com/daily.php).
• Vote on word definitions to make the better ones appear higher.
• Define words with text, images or even sounds.
• RSS Subscribe options: for ‘newest words’ or ‘word of the day’.
• Lookup word definitions directly from your mobile phone.

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Features

• Catalog, Organize and Share your books with others
• Get recommendations for what to-read(OR not-to-read) next
• Discover people with similar book tastes
• Embed your book list to your blog or profile (ex; Myspace)
• Browse popular books: by most reviewed, by highest rated, by top/lowest authors, by language, by tags, by top taggers, by recently added, by library
• Add favorite users to your watchlist
• For each book view list of similarly tagged books
• RSS feeds for books tagged by specific tag
• Limitations: enter only up-to 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).
• and more… Take tour

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For each translation user gains points and able to utilize them afterwards to get something translated. Every 10 days Cucumis awards users with free points, which means that you can take advantage of it even if you don’’t speak any foreign language. Note: 24 Languages supported at the moment.

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Features

• Categories: Auto, Communication, Computer, Electronics, Entertainment, Food & Recipes, Health, Home, Money, People, Science, Travel
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• Subscribe (via RSS/ email) to updated from different categories

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Features:

• create and join Groups
• section to freely ask community about certain stocks, discuss market, or just share your knowledge
• browse stocks (by sector, top rated, etc.)
• check out top performing community users, subscribe to their feeds, and monitor their stocks

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What it does? : community maintained website with all kind of user submitted lists (best of…, worst …, top 10…, etc)

Examples:
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