The homepage has a featured meme database which shows thumbnails of popular memes. When you click on a thumbnail, it takes you to the meme page which is basically a one-stop page for all the latest information about that topic/news.

It has videos, pictures, Google search insights, user discussions and much more. You can join in and comment, or suggest changes to the meme by signing up. You can also browse the image stream, video episodes and discussions.

Features

• Online memes having all kinds of content.
• Mainly features news which has gone viral.
• Part of the popular vlog, Rocketboom.
• You can browse the images and videos separately too.
• Sign up to submit changes to the memes.
• Similar tools: NoSlang.

Check out KnowYourMeme @ www.knowyourmeme.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• OurSignal: Top News from Digg, Reddit, Delicious & Yahoo Buzz
• Newsy: Online News Videos Aggregator
• 911docs: Watch 9/11 Documentaries & Videos
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile

You can sign up with them to create your own dashboard of videos where you could add videos using the bookmarklet they provide. You can also explore videos from different channels.

Features:

• Check out currently most popular internet videos on one page.
• Check out popular videos shared on social media sites.
• Create your own dashboard of favorite videos.
• Sign up and add videos using yourself the bookmarklet.
• Similar sites: VideoFetcher, Snackfeed and Nizmlab.

Check out Magma @ www.mag.ma (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• GeoBestOfYouTube: Top YouTube Videos By Country
• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• YouTube Auto Buffer: Makes YouTube Better [Greasemonkey]
• YouFlow: Browse YouTube & Watch Multiple Videos At Once

Read stories are stroked through so that you know which stories you’ve already read. Hoover with your mouse over a story to view its source and the website thumbnail.

Features:

• Most popular stories from Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz and Hacker News on one page
• The more popular the story the bigger it appears on the homepage
• Hoover with your mouse over  a story to view its  source and website thumbnail

Check out OurSignal @ www.oursignal.com

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• KnowYourMeme: Internet Meme Archive
• Guzzle.it: Online Personalized News StartPage
• Google News Timeline: Browse News In A Chronological Order
• FanFeedr: Personalized Sports News Aggregator
• Everyblock: Local News Aggregator

There is a search feature using which you can search for a particular Wikipedia entry and view how popular it was in the last 30, 60 or 90 days. Additionally, you can compare articles side by side and see results on a graph chart.

Features:

• View most popular Wikipedia articles for the last 30 days.
• Compare several articles side by side on a graph chart.
• View Trending articles with the highest spike in pageviews.
• Embed charts onto your webpage or blog.
• Search and see how many times articles were viewed in the last 30, 60, 90 days.
• Free. All the data is aggregated from Wikipedia’s public servers.
• Similar website: Wikirage.

Check out Wikirank @ www.wikirank.com

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• Wikirage: Displays Most Edited Wikipedia Articles
• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• Wikipedia-Roll: Search & Browse Wikipedia Articles Visually
• Wikify.appointment.at: Enrich Your Text with Links To Wikipedia
• WikiAlarm: Track Wikipedia Edits & Get Email Alets

Countries included: US, India, China, Japan, Germany, Brazil, UK, France, Korea, Italy, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Spain, Indonesia, Mexico, Iran and  Pakistan.

Screenshot  below is showing the top sites in Spain for keyword “cooking”.

Features:

• Find top 10 trafficked sites in different countries for any keyword.
• Sites are ranked according to their Alexa and Quantcast traffic ratings.
• Sites are categorized by their tags on Delicious.
• Search using one or multiple keywords with Boolean operands AND, OR.
• Countries included: US, India, China, Japan, Germany, Brazil, UK, France, Korea, Italy, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Spain, Indonesia, Mexico, Iran and  Pakistan.
• No signup.

Check out Weblisty @ www.weblisty.com

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• WorldClock: Displays Interesting Real Time World Statistics
• WorkTrek: Productivity Tracking Tool
• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia
• Wikirage: Displays Most Edited Wikipedia Articles
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool

The application also displays flags that have been placed on articles indicating status (needs attention or don’t live up to editorial standards) or the date the article appeared on the homepage.

Additionally to most edited articles you can also view 30 top most active Wikipedia editors.

Features:

• Displays top 30 most edited Wikipedia pages.
• See most edited page in the last Hour, 6 Hours, Day, 3 Days, Week and Month .
• Subscribe to feeds and get Wikirage updates on feed reader or follow it  Twitter.
• Legends showing the status of the articles and the dates when it has been on the home page displayed.
• Also view to 30 top  most active editors.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Wikirage @www.wikirage.com

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• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia
• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• Wikipedia-Roll: Search & Browse Wikipedia Articles Visually
• Wikify.appointment.at: Enrich Your Text with Links To Wikipedia
• WikiAlarm: Track Wikipedia Edits & Get Email Alets

With the help of this tool you can search for keywords rankings, keywords that are gaining or losing position over a period of time. Also it provides an option to view historical reports where you can view keywords rankings for past 3 years. I think this tools can be particularly useful for affiliate marketers searching for hot niche or for bloggers searching for a topic to write on. After all it makes perfect sense to write on a topic that world is searching for.

By default this tool is family safe. But if you wish to search for adult keywords you can always turn Adult Filter off by clicking on Adult Filter On/Off link given on top-right-side.

Other such tools are either paid or show limited data for one search engine only. Hotwords has partnered with major search engines and the trend is gathered on a huge sample of 6 million searches per day.

Features:

• Tells you what people are searching for.
• Find hot keywords across a period of time.
• Daily and Monthly keywords ranking.
• View keywords rankings for past 3 years.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Hotwords @ HotWords.com (Contributed by ROW from www.reviewofweb.com)

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• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator
• PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool
• PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites

Additional info such as description, duration, number of views, comments, category and date video was added provided as well.

Features:

• See most popular YouTube videos for different countries.
• Filter videos by period (today, this week, this month, all time )
• No sing up or registration needed.

Visit GeoBestOfYouTube @ geobestofyoutube.gmapify.fr

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• Magma: Puts Most Popular Internet Videos on One Page
• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• YouTube Auto Buffer: Makes YouTube Better [Greasemonkey]
• YouFlow: Browse YouTube & Watch Multiple Videos At Once

There are no restrictions on the storage space or the number of files users can upload. The upload page lets you upload up to 10 files at the same time. As you upload the files, the upload progress bar gives you a nice overview of the upload speed and estimated time to complete the upload. There is nothing to download or install.

Features:

• Upload and store files online for easy access from any computer.
• Share desired files, photos and images with friends and family.
• Store and share as many files as you want.
• Embed photos and link files from your blog or social networking profiles i.e. Myspace.
• Organize files into folders and create photo galleries.
• Upload up to 10 files simultaneously.
• Unlimited online storage space (max. allowed file size < 100 MB).
• No email or sign-up required.

For additional details and questions check out MediaFire’s extensive help section.

Go to MediaFire @ www.mediafire.com

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• WooFiles
• Wixi : Your Online Media Center
• WikiUpload: Store and Share Videos, Images, MP3s & eBooks Online
• WatchDox: Secure Document Sharing Over The Internet
• uSend.io: Quick and Simple File Sending Application

Over the last year the site has become very popular and currently hosts hundreds of smaller social networking sites focused around different interests.

But the best part about Ning is that you can map your network to your own domain name. This requires some additional work but you don’t have to be a tech guru to do that.

Features:

• Create social networking website in minutes.
• Browse current networks by tags.
• Check out most popular networks
• Join networks you like.
• Put your social network under your own domain name ($4.95/month).

Go to Ning @ www.ning.com

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• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Wordoid: Get Company Name Ideas
• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia

You can search books by author name, title and even search within the contents of the book. Or if you are not sure where to start then you might want to check out top 100 most downloaded books for the previous day.

Features:

• Search books catalog by author name or title.
• Advanced search: Filter books by subject, language, category, filetype, etc.
• Browse books by popularity, book author, title, language or recently posted.
• Download ebooks directly from the website or via FTP.
• Download certain ebooks in HTML, plain text, plucker (mobile) or audio format (human-read).
• Read ebooks on your Palm, PDA or smartphone.
• Books available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
• Get RSS feeds for recently added books.

Please keep in mind, while the service is leagl in the United States it may not be the case for the some other countries. So make sure to check the copyright laws of your country before downloading a book.

Go to Project Gutenberg @ www.gutenberg.org

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• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• ThoughtAudio: Lots of Free Full Audio Books
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

It’s also a social networking site where you can discover people with similar interests. In their own words:

“FunAdvice.com is the only site that combines these two features: Asking for and giving advice, PLUS making new friends and keeping in touch with them socially.”

Features:

Check out FunAdvice @ www.funadvice.com

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia

Feature Overview

• Get a quick glance on hottest web images at any given moment.
• Images pulled out from Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Simpy, Furl, BoingBoing, and Wired.
• RSS Feeds: Subscribe to images by website or to all at once.
• Discuss images.

Check out Picurls @ www.picurls.com

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• Zamzar
• YouGotPhoto: Easily Add Online Images To Digital Photo Frames
• You have no idea what you can do with Images (makeuseof.com)
• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia
• Wikirage: Displays Most Edited Wikipedia Articles

43Things Feature Overview

• Track and Share your goals (learn piano, watch all episodes of simpsons, get rid of debt, etc.)
• Set and schedule goal reminders.
• Tag your goals and browse community goals via tag cloud.
• For each goal see: people who think it’s worth it, people who have done this, related goals, user comments, and more.
• Monitor updates (comments, people, etc.) for any goal via RSS feed.
• Get automatically connected to the people with same goals.
• Challenge yourself with one of your goals and declare your stakes.
• Zeitgeist section: recently cheered goals, recent tags, recent comments, etc.
• Subscribe to Popular Goals, New goals, recent comments, etc. (via RSS)
• Need more? Check out video below or navigate to 43things FAQ page.

Quick video demo/intro (Youtube.com)

Inspired by 43things.com (Youtube.com)

Go to 43Things [www.43things.com]

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• stickK: Make Resolutions and Make Sure you Stick to Them
• Track-n-Graph : Track just About Anything
• TimeTracker : Online Timer for Timing your Tasks
• LifeTango: Goal Sharing & Tracking Tool
• GoalsOnTrack: Set Goals For Yourself Online

Features:

• Refine search results by website (Youtube, Dailymotion, etc) AND/OR category (viral videos, music, games, etc)
• Browse ‘TOP 4′ videos from all major video sharing websites in following categories: Viral, Music, Research, Sports, Comedy, Entertainment, and News
• PureVideo Video Search Toolbar (Firefox, Internet Explorer)

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• VideoFetcher : Search 100 Popular Video Sites Simultaneously
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• Yuscano : Skim Through Popular Youtube Videos
• YoutubeDesktop: Cool Youtube Browser (and Downloader)