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

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

Register on the site to save, edit and access your fortunes in one place and share them on the web. You can enter your fortunes through the website or using your mobile phone. Each fortune can be made public or private. Public fortunes will be visible to everyone at your personal URL. There is also a Facebook app that lets you store and share your fortunes from your Facebook page.

Daily fortune message. Click on a cookie to read it.

Note: Fortune is a message written on a piece of paper hidden inside a fortune cookie that is served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants. It usually contains words of wisdom, a vague prophecy or some lucky numbers used by some people as lottery numbers.

Features:

• Save and access your fortune cookie messages online in one place
• Share your fortunes online at your personal URL page (fortunekookie.com/username)
• Enter your fortune messages from the website or using your mobile phone
• View fortunes statistics online (# of shared and private cookies, # of users sharing fortunes on Facebook etc.)
• Save and share your fortunes on Facebook using the FortuneKookie Facebook app
• Get a daily fortune message from FortuneKookie by clicking “Get Fortune” button at the top
• Register to start collecting your fortunes in your account

Check out Fortune Kookie @ www.fortunekookie.com

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• Squirl
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• iTrackMine: Track And Manage Collections Online

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 is no registration, the application works with your Google account. To add movies to your collection simply search for a movie by title. If you’ve found the movie you’re looking for, click the green icon and the movie will be added. Once you have your collection online, you can access it from anywhere, browse it alphabetically and sort movies by title, year, length, recently added and recently watched.

Features:

• Online movie collection organizer.
• Add as many movies titles as you like.
• Sort your collection by title, year, length, recently added, recently watched and alphabetically.
• Works with your Google account.
• Missing: The option to add movies manually if they are not fond in the library.

Check out Veedemus @ www.veedemus.com

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• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• WhatUCollect: Share Your Cool Collections Online
• WhatTheMovie: Addictive Movie Quiz Site
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Watch-Movies: Watch Full-Length Movies Online

It is also a place where you can borrow and lent items. You can check out items your friends are willing to loan, track items you have lent to others, access friends’ wishlists and view their collections.

All this could be done from your cellphone which could help when you are out shopping and you need to check some details about a specific item in your collection.

There are many other features which iTrackmine claims to offer like ability to export your data, helping you remind about the books and dvds you have lent to friends and protecting your entire collection on secured servers.

Features:

• Manage and display collections online.
• See collections of others.
• Check out items your friends are willing to loan.
• Track items you have lent to others.
• Send auto reminders when the item is due to be returned.
• Mobile version available.

For similar site see Squirl as well as earlier article on open source collection manager apps.

Visit iTrackMine @ www.itrackmine.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wridea: Keep Track of Ideas

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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• Colnect: Site For Sharing & Managing Collections Online
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes
• Veedemus: Organize Your Movie Collection Online