You can easily create collections, add items, upload images, tag the items and share them with friends. The site also offers discussion groups which is a good place to network with other like-minded collectors.

Features:

• Build and organize your collection online.
• Share your collection with others people and get their feedback.
• Connect with other collectors through the discussion boards.
• Similar sites: Colnect, iTrackMine, Veedemus, Squirl and a number of open source collection manager apps.

Check out WhatUCollect @ www.whatucollect.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Squirl
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• Colnect: Site For Sharing & Managing Collections Online
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Veedemus: Organize Your Movie Collection Online

Works really easy, simply sign up and then start adding items to your account from the website, by sending an email or on the go using your mobile phone. For instance, if you are in the bookstore and want to add a book to your Corkboard account then all you need to do is to text its ISBN number to Corkboard.

When you add something to Corkboard, it automatically scans sites like Amazon, Yahoo Upcoming and Yelp, and gets additional information on your saved items.

Another cool feature is that you can send a barcode number to Corkboard via SMS and shortly receive the corresponding product information. Similarly, if you send the phone number of a place you will get back its location.

Moreover, Corkboard can also send you reminders on the saved items and even deal alerts (when available) to your mobile phone or email.

Finally, you can also browse items and collections shared by other members, view what’s new and popular and get suggestions based on your location.

Features:

• Save things you want to remember and organize them online in your account.
• Automatically pulls relevant info on saved items from sites like Amazon, Yahoo Upcoming and Yelp.
• Organize items into collections, share them online and browse collections of other users.
• Sign up for mobile and email reminders and product alerts.
• Share saved items on Twitter, Facebook or keep them private.

Check out Corkboard @ www.corkboard.it

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• YourLi.st : Get Event Reminders by eMail
• WhatsOnWhen: Local Event Guide For Over 500 World Destinations
• TelePixie : Wake Up, Alert and Reminder Calls
• RSSBirthday: Get Birthday Notifications On Your Feedreader
• RemiMe: Online Birthday Reminder Calendar

You can browse for collectibles online and add them to your collection (if you have them) or to your Wish list (if you want to get them). Moreover, the site lets you swap and trade items with other collectors.

To start managing collections and be able to edit collectibles catalogs you have to regsiter for an account first.

Features:

• Catalog your personal collection of collectibles (stamps, coins, phonecards etc.) online.
• Browse online collectibles catalogs, updated and edited by collectors community.
• Contains more up-to-date information than printed catalogs.
• Add items to your collection or to your wish list.
• Swap and trade items with other members.
• Available in 35 world languages.
• Sign up to get started.

Colnect is not the first collection manager website we reviewed. There were also iTrackMine, Squirl, plus an excellent article on open source collection manager apps.

Check out Colnect @ www.colnect.com (via TechCrunch)

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• WhatUCollect: Share Your Cool Collections Online
• Squirl
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software

Browse shelves of other users, find items that interest you and form/join groups with people around similar interests. Sign up to get started.

How it works:

1. Search for your item online (site searches your item from various online retailers’ websites).
2. Browse and refine search results by category, find your item among search results and add it to your shelf with one click.
3. Perform the above operation for all your items

There is a Firefox plugin available. Install it to catalog your personal items from the browser.

Features:

• Online cataloging tool for your personal CDs, DVDs, books and other stuff.
• Search and add items to your shelf.
• Organize different items by labels.
• Share, borrow and lend items with your friends.
• Create and share wishlists.
• Join and form groups with other people around similar interests.
• Firefox plugin available.
• Free, sign up to get started.
• Similar tools:  aNobii, BeepMyStuff and more in 5 Ways to Catalog Your Movies Online.

Check out OurShelf @ beta.rshelf.com (via AppScout)

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• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Thrift Hunting : Compare Prices for CD, DVD, Books by UPC or ISBN
• SwitchPlanet: Switch CDs, DVDs, Games and Books
• WhatUCollect: Share Your Cool Collections Online
• Squirl

The aNobii is a book community that allows people to share their thoughts about books, read/write book reviews, lend books to each other and find similar books. It also provides people with an option to create personal online bookshelf for tracking books of interest but also let other people know what your taste is. If you like any of the 11 Million titles that aNobii catalogues, it doesn’t only provide you with all the details about the book but also gives you direct links to buy the book from Amazon or similar websites.

Main features of aNobii:

• Share your thoughts about millions of titles.
• Track a book, buy it, or add to your wish-list.
• Create a list of books you are interested in.
• See what other users are reading.
• Swap/trade books with other people.
• Set the status of each book as “Reading”, “Finished” or “Not Started”.
• Similar websites: BookBump and LibraryThing.

Check out aNobii @ www.anobii.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Shelfari
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes

BeepMyStuff automatically checks each item on Amazon and adds it to your personal library. And if it’s not on Amazon you can still fill in all the details yourself.

Once you’ve added all the items to your library, you can search them, view them as a list or thumbnails, filter itmes by date added, and see Amazon and user ratings for each of the items.

Features:

• Barcode driven personal library of your movies, books and games.
• Automatically gets item details from Amazon.
• Option to catalog the item manually.
• Share your library with friends and see library collection of others.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out BeepMyStuff @ www.beepmystuff.com

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• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• Thrift Hunting : Compare Prices for CD, DVD, Books by UPC or ISBN
• SwitchPlanet: Switch CDs, DVDs, Games and Books
• AllCDCovers: Extensive CD Cover Library
• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books

There are two account options available, Free and Premium. The free account provides you with instructions and tells you what to do, which means you need to do everything yourself. The premium account on the hand can handle the hassle for you. You might also want to check Catalog Choice and ProQuo, maybe these guys have even better free account option.

How does GreenDimes free account works ?

• 1. Register and provide GreenDimes with your name and mailing address.
• 2. Log in to your GreenDimes account and select the mailers you want to stop.
• 3. Get removal instructions for each mailer/spammer.
• 4. Note, it may take upto 90 days for mailings to stop.

Go to GreenDimes @ www.greendimes.com

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• CatalogChoice: Reduce Catalog Spam
• Catalog Choice: Opt Out of Catalog Mailings
• WhoCallsMe: Identify Unknown Callers
• TrapCall: Lets You View Blocked Caller ID
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding

Feature Overview

• Manage, Sort and Categorize your books online in an iTunes-like interface.
• Add books by: title, author, publisher, release date, and ISBN number.
• If you want to buy a book you can use integrated price comparison tool that lets you compare book prices (both used and new) on a number of online book sellers.
• Store and add personal notes to books, add reviews, add ratings, and more.
• Find and read reviews for most of the books.
• Use it as a bibliography generator. Supports multiple academic formats.

Check out BookBump @ www.bookbump.com

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• Shelfari
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• aNobii: Track Your Books, Read Book Reviews and More

TechCrunch: “Americans are inundated with 19 billion catalogs a year. A new not-for-profit Website called Catalog Choice just launched today that lets you opt out of getting such mailings on a catalog-by-catalog basis.”

How It Works ?

• 1. Sign up: Complete registration form and provide your name and primary postal mailing address. Your address details will only be used for opting-out of catalog subscriptions.
• 2. Find Catalogs: Use Catalog Choice search feature to find your catalogs, and decline them.
• 3. Catalog Choice will contact providers on your behalf and request that your name and address be removed from their mailing lists.

Please note that it can take up to 2.5 months until your opt-out request is processed.

More Questions? Go to service FAQ page.

Check out CatalogChoice @ www.catalogchoice.org

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• ProQuo: Remove Personal Info. from Marketing Lists
• GreenDimes: Reduce Postal JunkMail & Stay Green
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• FilzMail: Easily Create Disposable Email Accounts

Shelfari Features

• Create and share personal virtual bookshelf
• Explore all listed books (by most talked, by most commented, by recently commented)
• Browse books by top 200 tags
• Connect with your friends and see what are they reading.
• Embed your Shelfari bookshelf on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc.
• Get and give recommendations for what to read next
• Rate others’ books and booklists
• Join different reader groups

Visit Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com/)

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• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• aNobii: Track Your Books, Read Book Reviews and More

From the website: “Squirl is the best way to catalog, organize and share your records, movies, books, comic books, stamps, coins, or practically anything else.”

Basic Things you can do on Squirl

• Catalog, organize and show-off your collections. (music, DVD, model cars, coins, etc.)
• Browse collections by: featured, recently added, or by tags.
• Join groups with similar interests or create one your own.
• Comment/Rate collections and items
• RSS options for everything (new collections, user updates, new category additions, etc.) For instance, you can get notifies as soon as someone tags an item with a particular tag (i.e. BMW, coin, doll, etc.)
• and more …

Go to Squirl (http://squirl.info/)

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• WhatUCollect: Share Your Cool Collections Online
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• Colnect: Site For Sharing & Managing Collections Online
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Veedemus: Organize Your Movie Collection Online

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

Visit LibraryThing

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• Shelfari
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• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• aNobii: Track Your Books, Read Book Reviews and More