Users may apply a variety of face-lifting enhancements (forehead, eyebrow lift, mid-brow, around eyes, beside eyes, inner and outer cheek, cheek lift, nose reduction, lip lifting… etc) and quickly visualize the results.

Steps:

1. Upload image from your computer or from the web.
2. Align white face box to the face.
3. Adjust image by rotation, zoom and colors.
4. Apply face lift enhancements using the slidebars.

Features:

• Upload profile photo from your computer and apply facelift enhancements.
• Visualize results online.
• View and compare before and after images side by side.
• Forward image to any email address.
• No registration required. Free and easy to use.

Check out LiftMagic @ www.liftmagic.com

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It is a free web service lets you search for the availability of a username across more than 340 popular social networking websites with a click of a button.

To get started all you have to do is enter your desired username in the search box and click “Check it”. KnowEm will then come up with a list of all the social media networks along with the availability of your username. If you wish to sign up simply click on “Available” to jump to the sign up page of any particular website and get registered.

Key Features:

• Search username availability over multiple websites.
• Check if your brand/product is being misrepresented over those websites.
• Registration is optional.
• 340 very popular websites supported.
• Provides paid services to companies wishing to have their profile maintained over multiple networks.
• Similar sites: FriendsCall.me, Namechk, and UserNameCheck.

Check out KnowEm @ www.knowem.com

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The site has simple interface and getting started is easy. Simply sign in with your Twitter details, upload your images and set times for updates. TwiBack will then do the rest.

Demo video:

Features:

• Upload your images and automatically rotate them as your Twitter background or profile image.
• Easily set times when images need to change.
• Upload  as many images as you like.
• No registration needed as it works with your existing credentials.
• Similar tools: Twilk, Twitter Patterns, PrettyTweet and Twitbacks.

Check out TwiBack @ www.twiback.com

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• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Avartize: Add Overlays To Twitter Avatars

The concept is simple – pose in front of camera, take a picture and upload it to the site. And then get rated by the community of users. You could also rate people quickly and easily. Just take a look at a photo and choose an impression that person makes from the drop down menu. There are various options like arrogant, sexy, cute etc to choose from. After you select the impression he/she made on you, you can see the overall ratings for that person.

The rationale behind this site is that strangers would give an unbiased opinion about you and you’ll know the kind of impression you’ll make on people in a particular dress or pose.

Features:

• Check what kind of first impression do you make.
• Rate other users depending on the first impression they make on you.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Choose the gender and age group when searching for people.
• See the overall ratings for a particular user.
• Similar site: HowOldAreYou.

Check out SpeakingFaces@ www.speakingfaces.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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My Avatar Editor is also available as a Desktop application, which you can download and use it offline to create and edit avatars.

Features:

• Online avatar creator and editor.
• Download your avatar in popular JPEG/PNG image formats to your computer for later use or share it online using its unique URL.
• Export avatar as an XML file or as a binary avatar file (.bae) to edit it later within the avatar editor.
• Also available as a standalone downloadable desktop application.
• Compatible with Mii characters used on Nintendo Wii game console.
• Similar tools: AvatarPhoto, AvatarsDB, Alpoy and more in related MakeUseOf article on how to create avatars online without any image editing.

Check out My Avatar Editor @ www.myavatareditor.com

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Simply sign in using your Twitter credentials and authenticate Twilk through Twitter oAuth. Once authenticated, a background consisting profile images of your Twitter followers would be created. There are both free and paid options, a free background will have a Twilk badge on it. The badge can be removed for a fixed fee of 5$.

Check out Twilk @ www.twilk.com

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• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
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• Twitter Patterns: Cool Background Designs For Your Twitter Profile
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge

To see the application in action watch demo video below:

Features

• Easy to use online business card generator.
• The cards can be embedded to a site, printed or saved as a vcard.
• Choose from a collection of card templates.
• Use the business card generator to design your card.
• Similar tools: Spartx, Card.ly, BusinessCardStar and Deyey.

Check out CardXC @ www.cardxc.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features

• Quickly create your one-stop social profile page.
• Add an introduction and links to your social profiles.
• Content displayed from various networks on one page in grid view.
• Your own url at http://hi.im/yourname.
• Similar sites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Hi, I’m @ www.hi.im (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Features

• Get a visual and colorful representation of your online identity.
• Developed by researchers from MIT Media Labs.
• Each color represents an identity.
• Uses natural language processing to compile the data.
• Similar tools: GeekChart.

Check out Personas@ http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Once you have completed the registration you will be allocated a personal URL (http://www.spartx.com/username). The URL points to your business card profile and appears on your business card. Your profile page may include your credentials including name, occupation, address, contact info, career highlights, resume etc.

Apart from printing the cards you may also embed and show the virtual card on your social networking profiles or your blog.

Features:

• Create virtual business cards.
• Print your cards and use them just like regular business cards.
• Customize your cards using different templates and font style and color.
• Store and organize cards of your Spartx contacts.
• Share your card via email or embed it on your online blog or profile.
• Free, sign up required.

Check out Spartx @ www.spartx.com

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1. By phone – Call provided number and speak to record.
2. Text-to-speech – Enter your text and let the app convert it to audio.
3. via Mic – Use your computer microphone.
4. upload file – Upload an existing audio file.

When the audio is ready, AudioPal will send the link to your email address. Just follow that link to get the embed code for your site.

Features:

• Create embeddable audio greetings and alerts for your site or web profile.
• Create as many audio alerts as you like.
• Set your audio alert to auto-play on every page load or new visitor.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: ProfileGreeting.

Check out AudioPal @ www.audiopal.com

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Features

• Create an online biography for anyone.
• Free sign up and simple user interface.
• Add different sections to the biography.
• Quickly edit any section on the page.

Check out Biographicon @ www.biographicon.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Features:

• Add cool overlays to your Twitter avatar.
• Free and easy to use.
• Upload an avatar or sign in directly through Twitter.
• Also you can create and publish your own overlays.
• Also see 3 Fun Online Avatar Creators to Represent Yourself.

Check out Avartize @ www.avartize.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features

• Create free virtual makeovers.
• Apply amazing effects in one click.
• Choose from different options for face, eyes, hair and lips.
• Registration required to upload your photos.

Check out Taaz @www.taaz.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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The best part about the tool is that you can upload your own image and use it as a background to get the best matching photorobot possible. Ready face images can be saved online, printed out and shared on your blog or Facebook profile in seconds.

Below I posted a couple of videos shwoing PimpTheFace in action. Check them out.

Features:

• Create people faces online.
• Easy to use face editor with a drag and drop interface.
• Control scale and opacity effects on different face parts.
• Upload background image to get better results.
• Print out or save created images online.
• Similar tools: BeFunky, FaceMaker and PhotoFace.

Check out PimpTheFace @ www.pimptheface.com

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Features:

• Free, picture age guessing application.
• Guess ages of other people by looking at their pictures
• Submit your own picture and find out how old you look according to other people.
• Provide your email to receive voting results on your picture(s)

Check out How Old Are You @ www.howoldareyou.net [update: We just got an alert that the HowOldAreYou site is reported as unsafe on some web browsers. We are investgatig this. The link was temporarily deactivated. You may follow the discussion here.]

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To see Card.ly in action watch video below:

Features:

• Quickly create a nice online business card.
• Choose from a range of cool themes.
• Card can be easily shared with anyone via its url.
• Plugin support and real time feeds available.
• For more similar services see “5 Ways To Create Your Business Card 2.0“.

Check out Card.ly@ www.card.ly (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Profi.ly simplifies all this by providing you with a uniform address for all your different profile page addresses. Call it a profile URL shortening service. All your profile pages will have a similar url format: http://profi.ly/username/servicename. For ex: http://profi.ly/username/facebook, http://profi.ly/username/twitter or profi.ly/username/flickr etc.

Sign up with Profi.ly, get a username and start adding all your different profile pages. Once you’re done you will be able to access all your profiles in one place and share them all at once with friends by simply pointing them to http://profi.ly/username/

Features:

• Get a uniform short address for all your profile pages from different online services and social networks.
• Share all your online profiles with friends at http://profi.ly/your_profily_username/
• Free to you use, requires signup.
• Similar websites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Profi.ly @ www.profi.ly

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After an account is registered with the site, the following methods of verification are carried out to ensure the authenticity of the account.

• Verifying Twitter credentials.
• Signing into Facebook Connect.
• Linking with MySpaceID.
• Uploading a blank file to a brand domain.
• Manual Verification by verifiedpages staff.

Manual verification is generally done for the premium accounts. But even free accounts could be verified to a high level.

Check out VerifiedPages @ www.verifiedpages.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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There are two ways to run a search:

1. Phone number look up – search for phone number by name or address.

2. Revers phone look up – search for name and address by phone number.

I have done few searches and the results were worryingly accurate (How the heck they know all of that?). In both cases the results show owner’s name, address, phone number and the occupation.

You can also register on the site, create your own listing and use it as your online profile. This way you have some level of control on what others see.

Additional features like free text messaging, area code look up, zip code look up and mobile carrier look up are provided as well.

Features:

• Find phone numbers and addresses online.
• List numbers and addresses of 180 million US adults.
• Search for numbers by address and name.
• Search for name and address by number.
• Mobile app and browser search add-ons are also supported.
• Additional services:
  – Free text messaging.
  - Area code look up.
  - ZIP code look up.
  - Mobile carrier look up.
• More similar sites in 15 Websites to Find People On The Internet.

Check out WhitePages @ www.whitepages.com

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• Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search

Folowen uses Google AJAX Search API to find user profiles on 20 social media sites.

Features

• Quickly aggregate all social profiles of a person on one page.
• Top social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter… etc are searched.
• Google AJAX search API used to find user profiles in 20 social sites.
• Simple and easy to use.
• More social sites inclusion coming soon.

You might also want to read a few lines about Identify, a Firefox plugin that doesn pretty much the smae thing.

Check out Folowen @ www.folowen.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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To start first register on the website. Then go to the recorder page and click on “record a new greeting” to start recording. When finished recording, you can replay it, and if satisfied copy paste the embed code onto your website.

Features:

• Record sound greetings and add them to your site.
• Record as many greetings as you like.
• Lets you host only 3 recordings at any given time.
• Replay your recordings and embed them onto your site, blog or personal webpage.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out ProfileGreeting @ www.profilegreeting.com

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• Profil.es

Some people are already buying and selling their online accounts just like domain names, and Assertize helps them with that.  It acts as online marketplace where users can buy and sell online accounts.

The site currently allows to buy and sell online accounts of  following services:  Blogger, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress and Yahoo.

The process is similar to many other online auctions, users register and then list to sell items or browse listings of others to buy them. Buying and listing online accounts is free , the seller pays a certain fee only when the account is sold.

Features:

• Buy and sell online accounts.
• Allows to buy and sell Blogger, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress and Yahoo accounts.
• Register to buy and list your accounts.
• Buying and listing online accounts is free , the seller pays a certain fee only when the account is sold.

Check out Assertize @ www.assetize.com

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WikiWorldBook also has a people search feature that allows you to find anyone on the web as long that person is registered on one of the major social networking sites. Search results consist of images from the web and matching profiles from social networking sites.

Another really useful feature is people tracing. Using this functionality you may create a profile for the person you’re looking for. What happens next, when someone searches for that name on one of the major search engines they will see that profile among the top results and know that you are looking for them. Very useful that allows users to trace lost friends and relatives.

WikiWorldBook demo video:

Feature Summary

• Be found on Google and others search engines.
• Global online address book and people search.
• Get alerted by email when someone Googles your name (Registered users only).
• Allow people to contact you without revealing your email address.
• Privacy controls to make profile information public or restrict it only to friends.
• Free to use.

Check out WikiWorldBook @ wikiworldbook.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas )

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Once you have signed in, you can include personal information about yourself including photos, short bio, interests, links to your social profiles and other info and offer people a way to contact you without revealing your real email address. You can publish your contact info (phone numbers, emails, addresses) and specify the list of people who can view it.

Features:

• Find yourself on Google and control what information people see when they search for you on Google.
• Include personal info about yourself (photos, short bio, links to social profiles etc).
• Publish and update your contact details and specify the list of people who can view it.
• Receive messages without revealing your email address.
• To create and customize your Google profile, sign in with your Google Account credentials.

Check out Google Profiles @ www.google.com/profiles

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The sites gives you full control in regard to which profiles and parts of your personal information you want to keep private or public. Sign up and to start adding your social network accounts one-by-one, yoit only asks for your username.

GizaPage introductory videos:

Features:

• Aggregate all your social networks in one place and access them through a single URL.
• Share this URL with friends to give access to your social profile pages.
• Only requires your usernames, not passwords
• Control which profiles and which parts of your personal info your keep private or share with public.
• Similar websites: Zooity, UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out GizaPage @ www.gizapage.com

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Feature Overview :

• Create cool animated avatars.
• Easy to use, no need to download anything or sign up.
• You can upload any photo from your computer or the web.
• Select from large number of effects.
• Get tips on how to make your photos better.
• Similar sites: Alpoy, CoolWebcamAvatars and several others.

Check out AvatarPhoto @ http://avatar.pho.to (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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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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Zooity is a free web service that allows you to aggregate social media profiles by putting them under your Zooity identity. When somebody goes to your Zooity page, for example Zooity.com/myname, they will see links to all your social media profiles like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Flicker and many others. Then all you ever have to remember is your Zooity profile name.

Main features of Zooity:

• Profile aggregator that centralizes all your social media accounts on a single page.
• Easily include links to you social networks, forums, blogs and even photo sharing portals.
• Your Zooity profile includes info. like Age, gender and location.
• Ability to add customized links to any website.
• Search for other users on Zooity and visit their profile.
• Similar sites: UnHub, SocialURL and ProfileFly.

Check out Zooity @ www.zooity.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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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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• SongSeeK: Add Music Playlist to Myspace or Facebook Profile
• AudioPal: Record Audio Alerts for Your Website
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels
• ProfileGreeting: Add Audio Greetings to Your Webpage

Furthermore avatars can be personalized with drawings, circles, rectangles, text, different colors and transparency settings and more.

Creating avatars is really easy just follow 4 simple steps:

1. Upload an image from your computer, web URL or a YouTube Video.
2. Choose an avatar size.
3. Rotate and crop the image.
4. Click to download the generated avatar to your computer or save it in your account online.

The demo video below shows Alpoy in action.

Features:

• Create your own animated avatar
• Edit and manage them in one place online.
• Store up to 30 avatars in your account.
• Create avatars from images and YouTube videos.
• Choose among different avatar sizes (small, medium, big, MSN messenger, forums, Twitter) or set your own custom avatar size.
• There is a simple Firefox extension under development which makes avatar creation super-easy: See here.

Alpoy is not the only site for coming up with your own avatars there are a number of other such websites as well. MakeUseOf covered a bunch of them in Create Avatars Online Without Any Image Editing.

Check out Alpoy @ www.alpoy.com

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• MyAvatarEditor: Free Online Avatar Editor
• AvatarPhoto: Create Your Own Animated Avatar Online
• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• FaceYourManga: Easily Create Super Cool Online Avatars
• EmotiYou: Create Free Animated Emoticons From Images

When you enter the username and hit on the “chk” button, if the username is taken it shows “Taken”. It is a useful tool for anyone who wants to maintain a consistent presence at all the popular social networks, or just to check for the best available username from one place.

Features:

• Check the availability of a username on 80+ popular social networking sites in one place.
• Free, instant, no registration.
• Similar websites: CheckUserNames.

Check out Namechk @ www.namechk.com

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• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• KnowEm: Quick Username Availability Checking
• CheckUserNames: Social Media Username Checker
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

For some examples see pages for Barack Obama and MC Hammer.

The setting up process is easy, all you do is select social networking profiles from the drop down list and enter corresponding URL’s.

Features:

• Aggregate your social network profiles on one page.
• Share your UnHub page with others.
• Add as many profiles as you want.
• Get short and easy to share URL.
• Similar sites: SocialURL and ProfileFly.

For more details see the demo below:

Check out UnHub @ www.unhub.com

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• GizaPage: Consolidate All Your Social Networks In One Place
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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

Check out CheckUserNames @ www.checkusernames.com (via del.icio.us)

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• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• Namechk: Check Username Availability on Social Sites
• KnowEm: Quick Username Availability Checking
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

If you want to have a better Twitter profile page then check out PrettyTweet.com. It is an online Twitter profile background designer that allows you to place three elements in your background – an avatar, description text, and vertical caption.

All of this is placed in a WYSIWYG editor, which shows you changes in real time. And you can also drag the elements across and play with the appearance of the page.

Finally, when you save the background, PrettyTweet emails you the background image suitable for a 1024×768 resolution, which you can set on your Twitter profile.

Features:

• Create cool twitter background images.
• Add avatar, description text and vertical caption.
• Simple, stylish, easy to use
• Clutter free and no registration.

For more info watch demo below:

Check out @ www.prettytweet.com (by Kinshuk Sunil from kinshuksunil.com)

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• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge
• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Avartize: Add Overlays To Twitter Avatars

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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• MyAvatarEditor: Free Online Avatar Editor

The site searches and lets you find people on popular social networks such as  Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, Twitter Google, Wordpress.org blogs and video sites like Vimeo. Additionally you can also make it search academic sites like MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Google Scholar.

You might also want to see other such sites which we have covered earlier PeekYou, Spock and read our related article on 3 Ways To Find People With Social Search Engines.

Check out Snitch.name @ snitch.name (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Spock : Free People Search
• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
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• Pipl
• PeekYou : People Search Engine

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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• CoolWebcamAvatars: Animated Avatar Creator
• AvatarsDB: Free Avatar Directory
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People

Features:

• Create for yourself a simple online identity page.
• Search for IDs of others and add them to your favorites.
• Your ID page can include photo, text and web links.
• Share ID page with others..
• More features are coming.

Check out StigID @ www.stigid.com

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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book
• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• VerifiedPages: Protect Your Brand On the Web

From the site:

“This site is a quick and dirty solution to a question that I often lay awake at night worrying about. Do I have my username registered across every site that I should? What if the next internet humiliation meme just happens to share the username I’ve been using for years, and suddenly people are emailing me asking “hey, is this you ???”.

Update: The site is no longer available as an alternative use CheckUserNames.

Go to UsernameCheck @ www.usernamecheck.com (via Webware)

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