Once the extension is installed, you can check the default list of celebrities already included in the gag list, or you can add your own. Some celebrities already in the default list include Britney Spears, Lebron James, Lady Gaga, and Charlie Sheen. Some news websites that currently works with Silence of the Celebs are Twitter, CNN, Huffington Post, Google News, Galker, and TMZ – with more to be added every week.

Silence of the Celebs is a great tool if you do not want to be bothered by gossip and celeb news, or if you simply want to increase productivity by not wasting time getting hooked from one celeb-related article to another.

Features:

• Google Chrome extension for blocking celeb news
• Specify celebs that you do not want to follow by adding into the gag list.
• Works with Twitter, CNN, and Huffington Post.
• Easy to install.

The site also has a Submit page which allows you to submit a celebrity’s information. They’d obviously verify (I hope) if the profiles you’ve mentioned are the official profiles and not one of those myriad fake profiles lying around.

Features

• Find official online social profiles of celebrities.
• Just search for your favorite celebrity.
• The celebrity page lists their profile and recent news.
• Help the site list more celebrities by submitting information.
• Similar tools: JustSpotted, iPap, BrandMojo, MashCeleb, Bing xRank and NextBigSound.

Check out TheOfficialProfileOf.com @ www.theofficialprofileof.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

It shows you where it last spotted your favorite celebrities using information aggregated from tweets, status updates, blog posts and latest news articles on the web. The location of the celeb is marked on a map and it pops up a picture and the time he/she was last seen when you click on it.

You can click on the picture and it will ask you to click for details. Once you do that, you are directed to a page which has all the latest tweets and other buzz aggregated from various sources that confirm the whereabouts of that particular celebrity. It mostly focuses on folks from Hollywood, but the map can locate celebrities from other countries too.

Features

• See recent celebrity whereabouts.
• Shows the location on a map.
• Also shows the latest tweets and buzz related to the celebrity’s whereabouts.
• Similar tools: iPap.

Check out JustSpotted.com @ www.justspotted.com (By Abhijeet from GT Resources)

You can add an iPap using three methods. First, you can use your iPhone or Android phone to visit the site to record a sighting with your current location and time. Second, you may use any smartphone to visit iPap’s website and post from the mobile browser. Finally, you can visit the website using a regular browser to add an iPap manually on the map.

You can score points every time you add an iPap. You also get extra points if other users spot the same celebrity that you saw at the same place and at the same time. Top celebrity spotters are ranked on the site based on points that they accumulate.

iPap is a cool and nifty tool for mapping celebrity sightings in seconds.

Features:

• Share your celebrity sighting with others on a Google Map.
• Find out the latest celebrity spotting by other users.
• Add an iPap using your iPhone/Android phone, through a compatible smart phone, or a regular browser.
• Earn points for spotting a celebrity and be included in the rankings.
• Score more points if other people “confirms”  your celebrity sighting.

Check out iPap @ http://ipap.me/viewspots#/map (Source: tnerd)

The best part is that you can also explore most loved and most hated celebrities, sports and brands. The site displays the average rating brand has received along with the  graph showing a rating history of votes. You can skip a brand if you don’t know about it or don’t want to rate it. A leaderboard displays brands ranked by their average rating and also shows average rating by guys and girls. BrandMojo is a fun little website to see what people think of different brands and find out how you would rate each one.

Features:

• Explore most hated and most loved celebrities, sports and brands
• Rate brands on a scale of 1 to 5.
• See how others have rated each brand.
• Includes celebrities, sports and corporate brands.
• No registration required.

Visit BrandMojo @ www.brandmojo.org

Each celebrity profile also includes a trend chart that measures how popular a celebrity’s news is. Based on these trends, the celebrities are ranked from #1 through #18 and are displayed in the same order. Users can post comments to every news item and share it with their friends on any popular social network.

Features:

• Celebrity news at your fingertips.
• Sleek design and easy-to-read layout.
• Sign in with FacebookConnect, OpenID or Yahoo!
• Subscribe to daily feeds.
• Explore related celebrities and related stories.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: Bing xRank and NextBigSound.

Visit MashCeleb @ wwww.mashceleb.com

You could also discover how well the celebrities relate to each other and track their popularity over the past 6 months using the xRank history chart.

Bing xRank also has two categories named xRank today and xTreme movers which focus on the rising search trends, terms and the latest news.

Features:

• Track celebrities and their popolarity on Bing.
• Search for celebrities and check their popularity, bio, images and videos.
• See how the celebrities compare when it comes to search trends on Bing.
• Explore rising web trends using xRank today.
• Similar app: NextBigSound.

Check out Bing xRank @www.bing.com/xrank (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Browse people by categories (Actors, Musical Performers, Athletes, Politicians etc) or use the search engine to look up a particular person. Each person’s entry includes status (dead/alive), official birth date and current age.

View also a list of recent deaths, today’s birthdays and unusual lists like “Living Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame” or “Oldest Living Major Leaguers” and others.

Features:

• Find out if famous person is dead or alive.
• Browse people by categories (Actors, Musical Performers, Athletes, Politicians etc) or use the search engine to look up a particular person.
• View recent celebrity deaths and birthdays.
• Similar site: Find A Grave.

Check out Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead @ www.wa-wd.com

Enter your birth date and DeadAtYourAge will present you with a list of famous actors, musicians, politicians, heroes… etc. along with their achievments. You can also register, leave comments and subscribe to get notified when you outlive somebody interesting.

Features:

• Check which famous people passed away before reaching your age.
• Register to leave comments and get RSS feed or email updates.

Check out DeadAtYourAge @ dead.atyourage.com (via Downloadsquad)

As you can see in the above screenshot, it has the cleanest of the user interfaces and you don’t really need time to understand what the site is all about.

It may say “find your favorite celebrity”, but as I mentioned, you can find age of anyone who’s famous on the net and has been referred to on well known sites. For example, I did a search on Robert Scoble, who may not stand in the same league as people like Bono and Brad Pitt but still I could find what I was looking for.

Check out AgeDirectory @ www.agedir.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)