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Facebomb: Pimp Up Your Profile Picture

abhijeet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:02:03 +0000

Facebomb is an image editing site which focuses on spicing up the picture you would be using on your various social network profiles by applying variety of effects. You my pimp up your profile image by adding custom text and all kinds of symbols, pictures based on themes like love, toys, animals, angels and many more.

To begin pimping up your profile, simply upload a picture, select the area you want to work on, apply effects and then download it in JPEG format.

Features:

Spice up your profile picture by adding various effects.
You can select a specific area of the picture to customize.
Add text and picture based effects.
Download final picture in JPEG format.

Check out Facebomb @ www.facebomb.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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AvatarsDB: Free Avatar Directory

azim — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:36:54 +0000

If you need an avatar for one of your social networks you can create one using free online avatar generators or alternatively grab one at AvatatsDB.com. It is a large free avatar directory site where you can find plenty of animated avatars. There are over 34,000 avatars in its database divided into categories like Animals, People, Funny, Sports etc.

Users may browse avatars by category or ratings. The desired avatar can be easily downloaded with a single click. Sign up is only required for uploading and leaving comments.

Sample avatars

Features:

Large free avatar database.
Over 34,000 avatars in 545 categories.
Download an avatar or use the provided code to embed it on any website.
Sign up to upload your own avatar and leave comments.

Check out AvatarsDB @ www.avatarsdb.com

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HeyZap: Easily Embed Flash Games On Your Website

TehseenBaweja — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:56:42 +0000

Nowadays, one of the quickest ways to share something across the web is to embed it on any website. We saw it done with photos, videos and even slideshows; and now you can do it with flash games. Thanks to HeyZap!

HeyZap lets you embed flash games on website allowing visitors to play them directly on your webpage. This results in increased traffic and user time on your site. HeyZap has over 12,000 games to chose from and is super easy to embed. Just copy the code and paste on your website. You can adjust the size of your widget to make it more compatible with your site’s appearance.

Main Features:

Embed flash games on your website.
Over 12000 games to choose from.
Users can browse through games by category or activity.
HeyZap API is available for web developers for greater access.

Check out HeyZap @ www.HeyZap.com (by Tehseen from RechargeYourMind.com) [via DownloadSquad]

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Farkie: Web Based File Downloader

kaly — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:30:38 +0000

Farkie is a web based file downloader which lets you download variety of files (movie, audio, flash game, links, javascript, ajax, image, object, stylesheet… ect.) from almost any website including YouTube and MySpace. There is no installation or sign up, just go to Farkie.com and enter the URL that has the file you want to download.

Here is how it works:

Enter the full URL of the site you wish to download into provided field.
Click on the “Download” and wait until it has fully loaded.
Sort files by setting the filter to a file type (audio, video, images, etc.).
Right click on the the file(s) and download it using “Save as” option.

Features:

Online file downloader.
Download movie, audio, flash game, links, javascript, ajax, images, object, stylesheet files from any website.
Web based file downloader can grab files from almost any website including YouTube and MySpace.
No registration required.
Similar sites: File2HD.

Check out Farkie @ www.farkie.com

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Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

srikanth — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:12:48 +0000

Yahoo! Media Player is an easy to use embedable mp3 player that can be used to play audio links on your website or personal profile webpage. Once you have added it to your site it automatically finds all audio links on the webpage and turns them into a playlist. It can even pick up your images and adds them as a cover art.

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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SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages

abhijeet — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:55:54 +0000

With the advent of different kinds of social networks, a simple thing such as a status message has gained its own importance. Let’s admit it – we love impressing our social network friends with cool and catchy status messages, don’t we? Social Status Generator is a cool website which helps you do just that.

It helps you generate catchy status messages immediately using various keywords from the tag cloud it provides. Just click the tag you love and get the corresponding status message which you can use in your Facebook, Myspace or Twitter profile.

As you can see, there are various tags like movie quotes, funny, wisdom, travel, success etc. Hence you would never run out of choices. You could have an innovative status message each day.

Features:

Generates nice status messages for your online profile.
Simple and no sign up.
Similar site: Generatus

Go to SocialStatusGenerator @ www.socialstatusgenerator.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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SocialRibbon: The Ribbon Creator

kaly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:33:45 +0000

SocialRibbonGenerator is a ribbon creator site that lets you generate embeddable ribbon banners which can be used to invite your website or blog visitors to follow you on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or YouTube.

Generating ribbons is really easy, just select the social network that you want to generate the ribbon for, choose one of the banners template and enter your user ID. Then click on “Generate” button. Once the ribbon is generated, grab the provided code and paste it on your webpage.

Features:

Online ribbon marker.
Generate follow me ribbons for your Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or YouTube accounts.
Generate as many ribbons as you like.
Free and no registration.
Similar sites: TwitterButtons

Check out SocialRibbonGenerator @ www.socialribbongenerator.com

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SoundZit: Listen And Embed Music Online

kaly — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:33:21 +0000

SoundZit is another music site that lets you search, listen and embed music online. The site is build on YouTube API and claims to list over 300 millions of songs. It can be simply regarded as an audio version of YouTube.

Embedding music player with the song of your choice is very simple, there is a specific code shows up when you click play button on particular track, just grab it and paste on your website or online profile like your Myspace profile.

See sample embedded players below:

Features:

Listen to music online.
Database of 300 millions of songs.
Embed music on to your site or personal webpage.
Free and no registration.
For similar sites see MakeUseOf’s music category.

Check out SoundZit @ www.soundzit.com

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CoolWebcamAvatars: Animated Avatar Creator

kaly — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:05:19 +0000

CoolWebcamAvatars is an animated avatar creator that lets you easily generate animated avatars online. You don’t need to install or upload anything but a simple webcam. Simply click “create avatar” button on the front page and record your avatar. You can then take this newly created avatar and use it on any website you want.

You can also check out avatars of other users, leave comments or post your own avatars for others to see.

Features:

Hassle free animated avatar maker.
Create as many avatars as you like.
Download avatars onto your computer.
Use avatars on any website.
Add avatars to your Google Homepage.
Post your avatars on CoolWebcamAvatars and let other to rate and comment.
Check out avatars of other users.
Simple and easy to use.
For more tools to work with online avatars see Makeuseof’s avatars section. There was also a similar blog post about how to create avatars online without any image editing.

See sample animated avatars below:

Check out CoolWebcamAvatars @ www.coolwebcamavatars.com

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SiteVolume: Keyword Popularity Check Tool for Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr & MySpace

kaly — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:06:41 +0000

If you want to know how often words and phrases appear on popular social networking sites like Digg, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace and Youtube go to SiteVolume.com. SiteVolume is a keyword popularity check tool that lets you enter upto 5 words or phrases and find out how popular are they on Digg, Twitter, Flickr, Myspace and YouTube. The results are presented with simple and easy to compare bar graphs.

Features:

Keyword popularity tool for social networks.
Supported sites Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Myspace and Youtube.
Monitor popularity of your site and brand across social media.
Results are presented with colored and cool bar graphs.
No registration and easy to use.

Check SiteVolume @ www.sitevolume.com (via technospot.net )

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SongSeeK: Add Music Playlist to Myspace or Facebook Profile

kaly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:53:07 +0000

SongSeek is another music service that allows you to search and stream music online. One handy feature here is to create playlists of your favorite tracks and easily share them on social networking sites. It lets you add your music playlists to sites like Facebook or MySpace.

No registration needed for searching and streaming music, however if you want to share the playlists on Facebook or Myspace the signup is necessary.

Features:

Find and stream music online.
Create playlists with you favorite music tracks (signup needed).
Generate embeddable widget with your playlist.
Add music playlists to Facebook, MySpace, Blogger or hi5 pages.
Customize widgets: Color, enable/disable repeat, shuffle etc.
Easily rearrange song order in your playlist.
For more similar services see MakeUseOf streaming section.

See sample playlist widget below

Check out SongSeek @ www.songseek.net

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MMSface: Upload Photos Via MMS To Hi5, Flickr & MySpace

abhijeet — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:53:10 +0000

MMSface is a new website which lets you upload photos to Flickr, Hi5 and MySpace directly from your mobile phone using MMS or through email. Once you register for a free account with MMSface, you can simple send an email or MMS to flickr@mmsface.com or hi5@mmsface.com and have your photos uploaded to the respective sites. They don’t charge anything for the service but you will incur standard MMS charges from your cellphone carrier.

They also provide an easy to use windows application to upload your photos to the same sites from your computer desktop. Currently the service is limited to US customers and supports only 3 sites, but you can expect them to add more such websites (such as Facebook) in future.

Check out MMSface @ www.mmsface.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator

kaly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:01:14 +0000

Simple avatar creator website that lets you make little lego-style face avatars onine. Just type in some random name and it will generate for you a fancy looking avatar image that you can download to your PC and use in forum signatures, your social netwroking profile or anywhere you like.

If you’re interested in some alternatives then check out some of the other avatar making sites we have profiled earlier: DoppelMe, Sp-Studio (for South Park avatars) and FaceYourManga.

Go to TurnYourNameIntoaFace @ www.turnyournameintoaface.com

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File2HD: Download MP3s & Videos from Imeem and Myspace

kaly — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:52:44 +0000

Online downloader that lets you easily download MP3 and Video files from sites like MySpace, iMeem, and YouTube. Actually the file download is not limited to only these three sites, using File2Hd you can download any file from any website.

How does it work?

Go to File2HD and enter the URL of the page that has the video/audio you want to download.
Set the filter to a file type you want to download (audio, video, images, etc.) and click “Get files”
.Right click on the the file(s) and download it using “Save as” option.

One think you need to keep in mind is that when downloading videos from sites like Myspace TV or Youtube they will be save as .flv files. To be able to watch this file you will either need to convert it to AVI or MOV (links below can help you with this) or better get a flash media player like VLC.

Convert .flv to AVI (Windows) or MOV (Mac): Movavi and YouConverIt
Convert Videos to MP3: VidToMP3 and FLVto

Features:

Download any media (mp3 or video) file from any website.
Download as many files as you like. No sign-up needed.
You can download MP3 audios, movies, programs, images etc.
Download YouTube videos and mp3 files from MySpace and iMeem in high quality.

Check out File2HD @ www.file2hd.com

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FaceYourManga: Easily Create Super Cool Online Avatars

abhijeet — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:45:04 +0000

FaceYourManga is a cool new site which lets you create custom avatars which can be used on various social media sites and other online networks. FaceYourManga is flash based and could run slow on some computers. But otherwise, it’s probably the best and most unique avatar creator out there with a lot of customization options which you’d love to play around with. You can download your avatars after you’ve created them and use them on social media sites. You can also rate the work of other users in My Faces section.

Features

Easily create trendy avatars through mouse clicks
Many customization options
Download Avatars to your computer
Check and rate other avatars in My Faces section

Check out FaceYourManga@www.faceyourmanga.com. ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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WhereIveBeen: Share Places You Have Visited

Aibek — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:00:40 +0000

Where I’ve Been is a social-networking focused application that lets you share your ‘travels’ with friends. You get a compact world map where you can highlight the countries you have been to, lived in, or want to go to. Your personalized map can then be quickly and easily shared with friends.

USA Today

“The most popular of Facebook’s 100-odd travel applications, downloaded by more than 2.6 million members since its launch by a freelance Web developer in June, is Where I’ve Been — a map that highlights places users have been to, lived in and hope to visit.”

Feature Overview

Track places you have been to and share them with others.
Tag worldmap countries/cities as ‘I have been here’, ‘I lived here’, or ‘I want to go here’
Put your map on your blog, Myspace page, or Facebook profile (see one below).

My WhereIveBeen map

Check out WhereIveBeen @ www.whereivebeen.com

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Slide : Photo Slideshows with Music

Aibek — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:42:44 +0000

Slide is a popular image hosting and slideshow publishing service aimed at heavy social networking users. It allows users to create highly interactive photo sideshows, add background music, and share them with others on their profile pages.

Slide Features:

Create and Share interactive slideshows from photos.
Add special effects, bubbles, background music, skins, themes, and more.
Embed slideshows on personal blog or profile page (Facebook,Myspace, Photobucket, Flickr, Slide, Bebo, etc.)
Slide Screensaver: Get favorite slideshows as a screensaver.
SkinFlix feature: Create Youtube playlists (up-to 300 videos) and share them in a custom video player.
FunPix feature: Upload and Host your images for free. Add custom text and enhancements to your images.
GuestBook feature: Interact with friends using video comments, photos and more.

Go to Slide @ [www.slide.com]

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MySpaceMP3 : Myspace MP3 Downloader

Aibek — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:54:57 +0000

MySpaceMP3 lets you grab and download any MP3 to your PC from any MySpace artist page. All you need to do is to take artist (or band) name and enter it into MySpaceMP3’s input form (see image below). Once MP3s are listed right click on the song name to download it. (Note: Each download will work only one time)

Go to MySpaceMP3 (no longer in service, see more details in comments section). For alternatives check out 7 Free MP3 Downloaders

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TokBox: Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile

Aibek — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:01:12 +0000

Tokbox is a free web-based video chat and messaging application that can be either used from TokBox.com or directly from your profile page (ex. Myspace). It takes only a couple of clicks to get started and there is absolutely nothing to install or download. All you need is a webcam and a broadband internet connection. Here’s how it works:

1 – sign-up and create your ownTokBox room.
2. – invite others to a live video chat by sharing with them a link to your TokBox room.

TokBox Features:

Invite someone for a video chat by sending them a link to your TokBox room.
Share and embed your TokBox room on your blog, website or social networking profile (MySpace, Facebook, etc.). Once embedded, your visitors will be able to launch video chat with a click of a button (”Push to Talk”). If you aren’t available they will be able to leave you a video message (up to 5 min. long).
Set your rooms to public or private modes.
Got more questions? See TokBox FAQ page here.

[Video] TokBox Overview

[Video] TokBox Demo

Check out TokBox @ (www.tokbox.com)

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Flikzor

Aibek — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:47:43 +0000

Flikzor is a handy widget that can be easily added to your blog or profile page. It allows your visitors leave video/audio recordings instead of traditional text comments. Comments will be viewable by everyone who visits your page. See it in action at the bottom of the page.

Flikzor features

Send/Receive video and audio comments on your blog, website or web profile (Myspace, Facebook, etc.)
If you don’t have a web cam, you still can send voice messages and show your profile picture instead of recorded video.
More questions? Check out ‘How it works ?‘ page.

Note: Flikzor is still in beta mode so once in a while some things may not work as expected

Flikzor blog widget in action

Go to Flikzor (http://www.flikzor.com/)

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BubblePly: Annotate and Comment on Youtube Vids

Aibek — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:06:28 +0000

BubblePly allows users to grab any web video and annotate it using text comments, speech bubbles, subtitles, etc. No registration required, simply enter the URL of the video you want to annotate and BuubblePly will instantly get it inside its video editor. Once you’re finished with enhancements you’ll be provided with the link to the page with a ready video.

BubblePly Features

Grab video that you want to annotate directly from the URL.
Supports over 40 video sharing websites including Youtube, Myspace, Dailymotion, Veoh, Break, etc.
Annotate videos: Add Clipart images, animated bubbles, subtitles, text etc.
Style annotations and set them to appear at specific time frames.
Upload and add images and videos from your computer.
Embed annotated videos on any webpage.
Browser plugin for Firefox, Safari, and IE users: From watching to creating in just one click.
For additional details go to BubbleFly FAQ page.

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60 Tools and Websites for Myspace Users (makeuseof.com)

Aibek — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:57:58 +0000

…something myspace users can make use of, a list of tools/websites for creating original and unique profiles…

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