The service is amazingly hassle free. Just type in the poll question, enter the answers one per line (up to 20), customize the vote button, background color, width and height of the poll and then get the HTML code. During the entire process you can see the live preview of the poll right on that page. The results of the poll are shown on their site. No registration required at all.

Features:

• Instantly create online polls for your site.
• Enter a question and multiple answers.
• Customize the vote button, color, width and height of the poll.
• See the live preview while you create the poll.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Vorbeo @ www.vorbeo.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• dPolls: Free Polls for Blogs and Websites
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The widget is completely free and very easy to embed. Once the person has signed up and customized widget configurations, SnapABug provides a code that can be added before the </body> tag on any web page. The widget appears as a button on the side of the page.

Features:

• Handy visual feedback widget for blog or website.
• Automatically takes screenshot of users web page.
• Makes things easier for both feedback provider and the support team.
• Free and easy to embed.
• Other tools for gathering feedback online: Foozya, VisitorContact, Contactify and Whspr.

Check out SnapABug @ www.snapabug.com

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• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels

Once the widget is ready, it will provide you with an embed code. Just copy and paste that code anywhere you like the widget to show up.

Features:

• Flash widget to easily showcase your latest social activity.
• Supports Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Delicious and one custom RSS feed.
• Option to configure the widget later, via a unique URL.
• Free for use, no registration required.

Check out BloggyBits @ www.bloggybits.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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• ClockLink: Cool Flash Clocks for Your Website
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• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Xtranormal: Cool Online Flash Movie Maker

Adding Olark to your site is a 4 step process. Enter your site address, choose a color theme for the chat window, choose an olark nickname and password (or add your existing IM account details) and finally get the link as well as the embed code for the chat box to put on your site.

Although Olark has various price plans starting from $5 per month to $149 per month, there is also a free plan which website owners can make use of.

Features:

• Live website chat widget.
• Quickly embed the widget. No need to download extra software.
• Use your existing IM client like Gtalk etc to chat.
• Use the app from your iPhone or Blackberry.
• Both free and paid plans available.
• Similar tools: Talkinator, TinyChat, ChatMaker, Chatzy and Stinto.

Check out Olark @ www.olark.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

1. By phone – Call provided number and speak to record.
2. Text-to-speech – Enter your text and let the app convert it to audio.
3. via Mic – Use your computer microphone.
4. upload file – Upload an existing audio file.

When the audio is ready, AudioPal will send the link to your email address. Just follow that link to get the embed code for your site.

Features:

• Create embeddable audio greetings and alerts for your site or web profile.
• Create as many audio alerts as you like.
• Set your audio alert to auto-play on every page load or new visitor.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: ProfileGreeting.

Check out AudioPal @ www.audiopal.com

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• ProfileGreeting: Add Audio Greetings to Your Webpage
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels

You can also modify chatroom settings like its size (width, height), color, filter for offensive words, timestamps, text font size and even add a password (optional) to make it available to members only.

Check out sample chatroom below:

Features:

• Free chat rooms for websites.
• Just get the code and embed online.
• Adjust chat room settings: width and height, color, badword filter, timestamps and font size.
• Make your chat rooms public or for members only.
• Create unlimited chat rooms.
• No sign up needed.
• Similar tools: TinyChat, Conference.io, ChatMaker, Chatzy and Stinto.

Check out Talkinator @ www.talkinator.com

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• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

There is nothing to install, you simply sign for a free account, get the trackin code and insert it into a template file of your website.

When it comes to reportsing, reports available for the last day, month, 60 days and a full year.

Features:

• Free wtraffic anayltics service for your blog or a website.
• View detailed information about your visitors (browser, OS, screen resolution).
• See where most of your visitors are coming from.
• View referring URLs (blogs, search engines) and search keywords.
• View most popular pages of your website.
• Quick and easy to get started. Nothing to download or install.

Check out 99Stats @ www.99stats.com

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• TrendCounter: Site Counter Widgets For Your Blog
• FlagCounter: Flag Counter Widget For Your Webpage
• Feng-GUI: Generates Visual Heatmap For Your Website
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• 99counters: Stylish Web Counters for your Blogs and Profile Pages

After the user has registered and customized his/her contact details, there are two different ways to add the form to their website. First, by placing a contact button which when clicked takes visitors to a contact form. Second, is by embedding the contact form directly. In both cases you simply need to copy the given code and paste it on your web page.

You can also keep a record of all those who has contacted you over time, view their locations and set auto responding messages notifying that message has been received.

Features:

• Custom contact form generator.
• Shows location of people contacting you.
• Captcha protection, auto responder and Google maps included.
• Keep a record of people who has contacted you.
• WordPress plugin available.
• Free and premium versions available.
• Similar tools: Contactify and Whspr.

Check out Visitor Contact @ www.visitorcontact.com

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• Contactify : Get Free Online Conact Form
• AudioPal: Record Audio Alerts for Your Website
• 99Chats: Embeddable Chat Boxes For Your Website
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

Visualize your traffic stats (top referrers, daily visitors, traffic by region etc) without leaving Wordress. Moreover, if you have a MailChimp account, you will be able to view the traffic coming from your email campaigns and track your mailing list growth alongside your traffic stats.

If you don’t use Wordpress for blogging, plugin is also available for Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms. To use it, first you need to install the plugin in your Wordpress and then associate it with your Google Analytics account from plugin settings.

Watch a video tour below:

Features:

• View your Google Analytics stats from your Wordpress dashboard.
• Subscribe to MailChimp’s email marketing services to track the performance of your email campaigns on your site traffic.
• Plugin available for Wordpress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms.
• Install it in your Wordpress and associate with your Google Analytics account.
• Plugin is free. MailChimp account is not required.

Check out  Analytics 360 @ www.mailchimp.com/wordpress_analytics_plugin/

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• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• W3Counter: Traffic Reports For Your Website
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

Mobify lets you mobilize your blog or website by creating lightweight version of it, which loads much faster and looks great on a mobile screen. No need to maintain a separate mobile version of the site, which can be costly and time consuming.

The basic plan is free, which lets you customize HTML and CSS files and host the mobile version at http://m.sitename.com. To get access to all the features including advanced analytic, SEO and priority support, you have to upgrade to a paid plan.

How it works:

1. Sign up and select which parts of your website should be visible on a mobile screen. Create one or more templates.
2. Insert Javascript code into HTML code of your website, which will automatically detect and redirect mobile visitors to the mobile view of the site.
3. Create a custom domain (http://m.sitename.com) by setting up CNAME records of your domain’s settings.

Next time when someone visits your site from a mobile device, she will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of the site, which is created on the fly by Mobify based on your provided mobile template.

For more detailed info watch introductory videos below:

Features:

• Mobilize your website or blog.
• Customize site’s mobile template – tweak CSS code, rearrange content and choose which parts to display on a mobile screen.
• Mobile visitors are automatically redirected to the optimized version of the site at http://m.sitename.com.
• Supports over 4000 mobile device including iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia and others.
• Basic account is free, including custom mobile subdomain.
• Upgrade to a paid plan to get access to advanced analytics, SEO and priority support.
• Other tools to mobilize your site: Ubik, Mowser, Mofuse and Movylo.

Check out Mobify @ www.mobify.me

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Clicks links below to see player it in action :

First link
Second link
Third link

Features:

• Embeddable media player from Yahoo!
• Plays all your music links with a single button click.
• Adds audio to your site with one line of HTML code.
• Automatically finds all audio links on your page and turns them into a playlist.
• Picks up your images and adds them as cover art.
• The floating design makes player appear only when needed.
• Requires no download, install or maintenance.

Check out Yahoo!MediaPlayer @ www.mediaplayer.yahoo.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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All you have to do is drag & drop the ConvoTrack bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar and click on it whenever you want to see the online conversations about the article. The comments will be nicely loaded on a browser sidebar on the left. You can also sort comments by the source.

Features:

• Comment aggregation tool that can show conversations surrounding any blog article.
• Comments are pulled from services such as from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews and any blog article.
• The comments are presented on the browser sidebar.
• Sort comments by source: Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews or blogs.
• Similar websites: BackType and wwwitter.

Check out ConvoTrack @ www.convotrack.com (via delicious)

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• Commentful
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To start using, install the bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar and launch it when you are writing an email or a blog post. Search for content (images, documents, links) and embed them right from the search results with one click. To get better idea watch demo video below:

Features:

• Search and embed content from Google Web search, Yahoo, Yahoo Images, Google Images, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube videos, Docstoc and more.
• Embed content inside Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, AOl Mail and other popular email and blogging platforms.
• Install the bookmarklet on your browser toolbar, search for content (images, links, documents) and embed them from search results.
• Free, register to customize and arrange services (up to 7) that appear in the plugin and save favorite items in your account.

Check out Lizzer @ www.lizzer.com

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It scans your site’s RSS feed and searches more than 35 billion blog and web pages to find if someone reused your content and if the copied content meets your minimum attribution requirements. Currently service covers text content with support for videos and images promised soon.

How it works?

1. Enter your RSS feed and the select a license under which you want to share your content, or not share at all.
2. Provide your email to confirm your account.
3. Get FairShare RSS feed.
4. Wait till it scans sites and blogs for your content (Can take up to 8 hours).
5. View sites that are reused your content through a provided Fairshare RSS feed.

Service works best for English language texts and supports major European languages and even works for static sites. It is totally free but has limitations on the amount of content you can add. To lift the limits, get an Enterprise paid subscription account.

Features:

• Claim your work online, declare how you want to share it and find how others are using it.
• Provide your website’s RSS feed and let FairShare scan other sites to find out if your content was copied without proper minimum attribution.
• Works even for static sites with no RSS feeds.
• Works best for English language texts and supports major European languages.
• Free, register for an account to start tracking your content.
• Similar sites: CopyGator, CopyrightSpot and Copyscape.

Check out FairShare @ www.fairshare.cc

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Photos are submitted by photographers and site members. You don’t have to register to download photos, however a member account gives you access to special features like adding photos to lightboxes for later use, commenting on photos and emailing photos with one click.

Features:

• Free stock photo sharing website
• Over 12700 free photos and images to choose from
• Images of medium and high-resolution quality
• Browse photos by categories, search by keywords
• Download photos with one click
• Free, no sign up. Get account to access special features: adding photos to lightboxes for later use, commenting on photos, emailing photos with one click.

Check out StockVault @ www.stockvault.net

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Creating embeddable chat box is really simple and takes only a couple of minutes including the registration. You can generate as many chat boxes as you like and easily manage them all from one online account.

Features

• Create and embed chat boxes onto your website or blog.
• Create as many embeddable chat boxes as needed.
• Customize chat color and size.
• Controls for changing user status and text.
• Manage all your chat boxes from one place.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out sample chat below:

Check out 99Chats @ www.99chats.com

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First, copy paste your feeds and add the title. Then you can customize size, text and colors. Finally, click on the “Create Scrollbox” button to generate an embeddable code. Copy the code and add it where you want the feeds to appear.

Features:

• Easily embed rss feed into website.
• Customize text, color, text and background.
• Simple and easy to use.
• No registration.
• Similar sites: Feed Source.

Sample ScrollBox widget:

Check out Scrollbox @ www.widgets.cc/rss/scrollbox

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• Grazr: RSS to Widget Converter
• Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website

Basically there are two 2 parts – FeedManager and MySite. The FeedManager lets you create a feed instantly and publish it across the web. The MySite on the other hand is a separate tool which can be used to add a simple button to your website or blog and let others re-syndicate your feed.

Features:

• Creating rss feed for website made easy.
• Manage rss feeds, update and schedule your feeds in real time.
• Use MySite to re-syndicate your existing feeds.
• In-depth stats for track your feeds .
• Optionally password protect any feed you want.
• Free sign up.
• Similar sites: FeedBeater and xFruits
  .

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Each found copy will have a clear side note (i.e. bears a slight resemblance, share many similar elements or is an exact copy) that tells you degree of resemblance to your post.

There are two ways you can use CopyGator.

1 – Add your feed to the CopyGator and get an overview page for your blog. You can bookmark this page and check when you need to see if someone coping your content.

2 – Add provided badge to your blog and CopyGator will watch your content. Clicking on this badge will take you to the overview page. The badge also changes its color from green to red when copy of your article is detected. See sample badge below:

 

Features:

• Find out who is stealing blog posts from your site.
• Get email and RSS alerts when CopyGator finds copies of your articles online.
• Clearly indicated levels of resemblance for each found copy.
• Embeddable Image badge that alerts you by changing a color.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: Copyscape and CopyrightSpot.

Check out CopyGator @ www.copygator.com

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• CopyrightSpot: Search Web for Copies of Your Blog Content
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Once tag cloud is created you can easily embed it on to your blog or personal web page.

Features:

• Online tag cloud generator.
• Generate clouds from webpages, uploaded text file or simple text.
• Maximum file size is 100 KB’s for uploaded file and 3 MB’s for pasted text.
• Style and customize the cloud to your liking.
• Embedding supported.
• Similar webistes: Wordle and ZoomClouds.

Check out TagCrowd @ www.tagcrowd.com

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• Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog
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There is also a handy option to preview the template and see how it would actually look when applied on the site. Clicking on the “more details” button will bring you some more information about the template.

Furthermore site provides you with tips and tricks that can come in handy if you are looking for something different for your Blogger blog. It shows you how to add “Contact us” form, add signatures, free stat counter, embed comment box below posts, add a chat box and much more.

Features:

• Get new templates for your Blogspot blog.
• Download any template you like
• Browse templates by category, by layout and color.
• Preview, rate and leave comments.
• No registration.

Check out AllBlogTools @ www.allblogtools.com

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It takes 2 minutes or less to create an account.

• Enter a user name
• Enter your email address
• Enter a password

An email is sent to your account to verify after you have registered, after verifying, it takes you to the dashboard where you can start right away.

You can enter Title, Click to add a picture, video or music, add tags and write away. Another good thing about Kontain is that you can share your entry with a friend by writing your friend’s email address and after publishing it will send an email, notifying them about your post.

The overview in your dashboard is quiet simple too. It shows how many drafts you have, what were your recent entries, how many visitors came and vice versa. It also gives you 250MB of space where you can upload your photos, videos and audio.

Your published post is shown in a very simple window, easy to read and visitors can add comments. You can also set the entry settings, if you want to allow comments or not or you need to approve those comments before they get posted.

Since it’s new, it’s simple at first. I’m not sure if you can add advertisements like Google adsense or any other publisher ads but they might have it this feature in the future. Though, the confirmed features that they are working on are

• Sharing of High-Resolution pictures
• Enhanced media galleries and collections
• A New messaging systems (Like live chat)
• Ability to create like-minded topic groups
• Subscription
• Connecting directly with friends
• Embeddable Media
• Awesome activity statistics
• Commenting on specific media items
• Multimedia commenting
• Embed media from other websites
• HD video
• In-line editing
• Rich text editing

To find out more on these upcoming features, check out this page

Check out Kontain @ www.Kontain.com (Contributed by Moin from ANewMorning.com )

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How it works

• Choose the method to source flickr photos. It can be by tag or by username.
• Enter the required tags or the username in the next box.
• Enter the number of rows of pics you’d like to have.
• Click on generate.
• Copy the code from the right hand side and embed it in your blog .
• Done!

Check out FlickrIn @ www.flickrin.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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As you can see from the screenshot above you can choose search backgound and specify how many results i should display. Here is another screenshot showing it in action.

To get started, simply click “Get The Code” and then customize the search to your liking, once satisfied grab the code and embed it onto your blog. It will work everywhere, blogger wordpress etc.

Features:

• Generate Embeddable life search box for your blog.
• Customize: number of results to display, select your theme etc.
• Easy to use. No programming skills required.

Check out SikBox @ www.sikbox.com

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Once it’s finished scanning the web it will present you with a list of the websites that have copied your content. You can further clock on the individual result to see the copied text. Quite handy.

Features:

• Type in the URL or blog feed and see if it was republished elsewhere.
• Search as much as you like. No registration required.
• Number of copied words is also shown.
• Similar website: Copyscape

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As you can see, when I spell checked MakeUseOf, it found some errors, which in fact are not spelling mistakes, instead they are the words which it couldn’t find in its dictionary including the names of the MakeUseOf authors

Overall, it’s a nice and handy tool to perform a one time spell check on your website and make sure all the spellings are in order.

Check out Spellist @ www.spellist.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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All you have to do is type in the URL of a website and click on “Generate Icon” button. FeedIcon20 then generates the ready HTML code that can be copied and pasted into your website.

Your feed icon also includes a link to your feed description page which has a quick description about what feeds are, latest headlines from your site, and one-click subscribe buttons for popular RSS readers.

Here is a sample feed icon:

About Feed

Try FeedIcon20 @ www.feedicon20.com

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• TwitterFeed : Post RSS Feeds to Twitter
• SnapABug: Visual Feedback Widget For Your Site
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog
• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website

The button is fully customizable and can be styled to match your site’s theme. It’s quite similar to AddThis, but instead of letting your readers to bookmark the page it offers automatic translation.

Features:

• Free translation button for your website.
• Customize your buttons style and color.
• Translate using Babelfish, Google Translate, WorldLingo, SDL, Live Translator or Promt.
• Get translation stats.

You can also check out Mloovi. This one can translate your RSS feeds into 24 languages.

Check out ConveyThis @ www.conveythis.com

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Although this site is primarily geared at political humor and hence gives you a list of mostly politicians to choose from, it does allow you to upload your own image as the background thus giving you entire freedom in creating the custom and stylish 404 error page.

Go to 404 Error Page Creator @ buzz.allvoices.com/404fun/ ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website

Contrary to the homepage, the results page is really comprehensive. It shows the entire description of site, domain owner, date when the site was created, traffic ranks like Alexa and Technorati ranks, Alexa traffic stats, social media reach of the site like in Digg, Delicious and others, similar sites, RSS feeds and much more. The results may not be dead accurate but is nonetheless comprehensive.

Check out Quarkbase @ www.quarkbase.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• W3Counter: Traffic Reports For Your Website
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

You can chat with maximum 50 visitors at a time. Visitors can type anywhere on the site and chat among themselves. If you are a visitor on a firefly enabled site then you can start chatting directly without the need to install anything.

Overall, this is certainly a nice concept and introduces a new way of spontaneous communication and interaction with the readers of your blog. You can get feedback from your site visitors directly without any time delay. Moreover even your site visitors get to interact with each other and talk about your site.

Check out Firefly @ www.firef.ly (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• TokBox: Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile

Features:

• Monitors your websites for uptime and alerts you by email in case one of them goes down.
• Monitor as many websites as you want.
• Add a text Observu should look for on the page to verify that the correct content is being shown.
• Other similar services we have reviewed: BasicState, Montastic, MrUptime and Pingability

Check out Observu @ www.observu.com

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• WhyDoWork AdSense Monitor: Monitor Google AdSense Earnings Right In Your Browser
• WhenDOUP: Monitor Uptime and Downtime Of A Site
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Features:

• Create and share draft documents online.
• Share drafts with others on read/write or read-only basis.
• Multifunctional WYSIWYG editor.
• Encrypt pages (optional).
• No sign-up or registration required.

Check out YourDraft @ www.yourdraft.com

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• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online

The setup is fairly easy and should take you about 1-2 minutes. After you have registed, go to plugins section and create a button for your website. When it is ready simply copy the code and paste it to your site’s template file. Done, now anyone who visits your website can leave you an audio message.

Features:

• Let your blog or website visitors leave you audio messages.
• Works almost on any blogging platform or website.
• Receive and manage voice messages from one place.

See it in action below

Another good service for collecting voicemails from you site or profile visitors is Jangl. With Jangl you also have an option to connect with the person who sent you the message without paying anything.

Check out WireWag @ www.wagwire.com

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• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
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The counter will display the number of users currently visting the website, total for the day, and total numbers of visits since it was installed. There are nearly 20 counter templates, in different size and colors, so there is a good chance you’ll find something to match your site’s theme.

If you don’t like any of the available templates then you can quickly create one on your own. And as can be seen in the screenshot below it’s really easy to create one.

There is one thing you should be aware of though. If you plan to add the counter to your website then make sure that it appears on every page or it won’t be able to count all of the visits.

Check out 99counters @ www.99counters.com

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• W3Counter: Traffic Reports For Your Website
• TrendCounter: Site Counter Widgets For Your Blog
• FlagCounter: Flag Counter Widget For Your Webpage
• FeedJit: Live Traffic Widget for Your Website
• Amung.us : Track Your Visitors Live

Features:

• Display latest titles from any website, blog or news source on your website.
• Add widget to your online profile page.
• No-registration required. Create as many widgets as you like.
• Style widgets: change text size, font type, text alignment, frame and background, widget width, line spacing and link colors.

Testing Feed Source on MakeUseOf Directory feed

Check out FeedSource @ www.rsscontenttool.com

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• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
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• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• RSSMixer: Combine and Access Fav. Feeds via Feedreader, iPhone and Mac

ChartGizmo also allows you to import data from an external source. If you got the data is on some spreadsheet (i.e. Excel) file and don’t want to enter it manually there is an option to import it. Quick and simple.

Features:

• Create embeddable charts for your blog or a webpage.
• Create as many charts as you like.
• Available chart types : Pie, Bar, and Line.
• Customize charts : size, add title, background color, show or hide legends ect… .
• Import data from local Excel file.

Visit ChartGizmo @ www.chartgizmo.com

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• HohliCharts: Create Bar Graphs, Pie Charts and Venn Diagrams.
• dPolls: Free Polls for Blogs and Websites
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• WidGenie: Easy Tools for Presenting Raw Data Visually
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog

It has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. Major websites like TIME, Oracle, TechCrunch, Freewebs, Lonely Planet, MySpace, Zappos, FOX, ABC, CBS, Glamour, ReadWriteWeb and now MakeUseOf all use AddThis.

Integrating AddThis is extremely easy, simply select the button style you like and copy and paste the generated code into your site’s template file. Additionally, WordPress users can install the AddThis plugin – it will insert the bookmarking button at the end of each article automatically. You can see it in action at the end of this post.

Features:

• Add quick and comprehensive bookmarking button to your blog or website.
• Supports all major social bookmarking services including Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon etc.
• Customize the style and apperance of the button.
• Analytics: See which of your articles is shared/emailed most.
• Get bookmarking trends over time, geographic breakdown, etc.
• Wordpress Plugins: Fully automated plugin for Wordpress users.

Get AddThis Button @ www.addthis.com

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• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website
• Rotatee : Rotate Banners on your Website
• PubMatic: Make Most of Your Advertising Space

You can either let them do it for you or simply request free assistance in case you don’t trust them. Basically, they can do the hard work letting you focus on producing content. So if you ever wanted to start your own Wordpress blog but felt a bit intimidated by the tech side of it then Blogtastique is for you.

Free features include complete Wordpress installation and database setup, Plugin and theme recommendation and installation, and more. You simply need tell them your domain name, provide them with restricted access details and they will do the rest.

(1) Wordpress and Database Setup : Yes, these guys can do this for you for FREE. I am not aware of any other web service that does this. You only need to give them the FTP and MySQL user details.

(2) Plugins and Themes : They can recommend the right plugins and themes and install them for you. You can either give them your own list or let them find something for you.

(3) Blogging Tips : Blogtastique folks also give you a quick summary outlining how you should present your articles, how to get maximum exposure and when to publish the articles, fix design inconsistencies, over-complicated styling code, inappropriate fonts etc.

In case you’re wondering how Blogtastique makes money, they also offer premium services. For a monthly they can keep you updated about Wordpress developments, do wordpress upgrades, design a custom theme for your blog, send you weekly updates, performance reports, deal with spam, moderate your comments and lots more.

Update:

Blogtastique is still offers services above , however the focus has changed. It is  now supplying people with a free domains, hosting, and guidance to market their blog. Basically all you to do is commit to post (around 10 posts per month) and some ethical stuff like no racism and so on, and Blogtastique will do the rest. Out of all the revenue the blog makes you get 40% to start with, and the better you  do the more you get, up to 80, even 90%.
The goal is to help those who want to make some money online but don’t have the funds to start. Hosting and domains are cheap enough, but a lot of people from India for example might not be able to spare around $110 a year, or they might be young or whatever.

Go and check out Blogtastique @ www.blogtastique.com

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Websites like GIF.com are especially useful for bloggers who frequently need royalty-free animated images for their posts. GIF has over 17,000 of free to download and use clipart images. You can search for clip art by keywords (computer, CD, fire, music notes, race car etc.) or categories. No popups, no emails, no tricks.

Go to GIF @ www.gif.com

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