WTTAFM is a free to use web service that sends you an email notification when your desired username becomes available on Twitter. The site does not require any registrations. All you have to do is visit its homepage, enter your desired username, and the email address you would want to be notified on. The service will then start checking for your desired username’s availability every 10 minutes. As soon as it becomes available, an email notification will be sent to you.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Does not require any registration.
• Notifies you of the availability of Twitter usernames.
• Sends notifications via email.

Check out WTTAFM @ http://wtta.fm

WebCam Avatar is a free to use web app that lets you create animated GIFs from images taken through your webcam. You need not register for any accounts on the site. All you do is visit the tool’s homepage and then grant it access to your webcam. You can begin shooting images from your webcam from then onwards. By letting you select a few GIF-specific options such as frame interval and maximum width and height, the app quickly generates a GIF avatar.

The resulting GIF image can be directly downloaded. A sharing URL and an embeddable HTML code for the GIF are also provided.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create GIF animations through images taken from webcam.
• Takes images from webcam.
• Lets you control frame interval.
• Similar tools: 3Frames, 99Colors and GIFup.
• Also read related article: Create Cool Avatars using Your Webcam.

Check out WebCam Avatar @ toolson.net/WebcamAvatar/Create (by MOin from Thumb Press)

TruLy is a web service that helps verify your online identity. The site lets you enter your detailed information such as full real name, email address, birthday, and last 4 digits of your SSN. Your data is then cross-referenced with a national database of government and public data. Such verification helps you quickly verify your identity whenever you are dealing with anybody online.

Your verified ID can be shared through a direct URL; you can get a custom URL too for $4.95 per year. This can be a big plus when you are using buying/selling online or using online dating services.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you verify your identity online.
• Matches your information with a national database of government and public data.
• Offers you an option to get a custom profile URL.

Check out TruLy @ https://tru.ly (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Just add the generated button to your blog to place a link to your profile. While this implementation looks simple enough, this tool has jarring implications to bloggers and web publishers. Why? Google is basically allowing us to claim authorship by using the tag rel=”author” in our blog posts and link back to our stream of content which will then become our author page.

For more information about Google Profiles and Authorship, you can check out this article from Google. So if you are a webmaster or author who wants to increase your presence as an individual brand online then this tool will help you a lot and will soon be a necessity.

Features:

• Add a button to your Google Profile.
• Adds rel=”author” to establish authorship of content.
• Can be used in the future (if not already) as a signal for search engines.
• Buttons available in different sizes.
• Similar tools: Gplusify.me, GplusPic and PlusYa.
• Also read related articles:Turn Google Plus & Other Web Apps Into Desktop Apps With WebRunner
  Locate Public Google Plus Hangouts Easily With GPhangouts
  3 Ways To Get Information Out Of Google Plus & Into Other Social Networks

Check out Google Profile Button @ www.google.com/webmasters/profilebutton

The service is as simple as it gets – upload a picture, crop it, get the avatar and download the final picture.

You do not need to sign up to use this tool and the resulting avatar can be downloaded in PNG format. It just adds a multi-colored border to your photo but since those colors are synonymous with Google+, people can identify easily what the avatar is all about.

Features

• Create a Google+ themed avatar easily.
• Upload, crop, create and download the avatar.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: GplusPic and PlusYa.
• Also read related articles:

  Turn Google Plus & Other Web Apps Into Desktop Apps With WebRunner
  Locate Public Google Plus Hangouts Easily With GPhangouts
  3 Ways To Get Information Out Of Google Plus & Into Other Social Networks

Check out Gplusify.me @ www.gplusify.me (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Once you have contacts, you can star them and Flup will remind you when it is time to follow up with them. You can also sync your Flup account with your Google contacts and calendar. Anytime you add a new contact to Flup it will show up in your Google contacts list and all the follow ups you mark on your Flup account will also pop up on your Google calendar.

Features:

• Add and manage contacts easily.
• Put reminders to follow up with your contacts.
• Syncs with Google contacts and calendar.

Visit Flup @ http://flup.com

Awesomize.me is a social interaction engine that can help you add or follow the right people in the appropriate social media channel. It can help you decide if an online profile is worth following in a particular social media platform by providing you with professional, social, and geographic data of the user, as well as community rankings of the profile in question.

With Awesomize.me, you can search for people, products, services, and companies that have an online social media presence. You can use Awesomize to find the Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Quora, YouTube, Google+, and FourSquare pages of a specific person or company. You may also create your own Awesomize.me page in order to aggregate and manage your online profiles from various social networking websites. In addition, creating an account will allow you to vote and rank the various profiles that you can find in Awesomize.me.

Awesomize.me is a very useful web tool if you are serious about managing your online social media profiles. This is especially important for companies since it can serve as an additional channel for more users.

Features:

• Search for pertinent web information regarding online profiles of persons, companies, products, or services.
• Provides links to the various social networking pages of a person or company.
• Supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Quora, YouTube, Google+, and FourSquare.
• Users can create Awesomize.me profile page for aggregating and managing their online social media presence.
• Users can rate a profile on a social level, a personal level, and based on it’s potential contribution to the region.
• Contact users or companies regarding their products.

Check out Awesomize.me @ www.awesomize.me

ProfileDefenders is a premium web service that monitors the Internet for whatever is being said about your business. If Profile Defenders finds anything negative said about your company, it starts the process to remove this undesirable information and replace it with positive information. This positive information will be real press and not look like something self-promoting.

Profile Defenders works only for honest companies, not for companies trying to hide legitimate bad press. Their service is a paid one but you can request a free quote from their website by giving your name, email, and profile management issue.

Features:

• A web service for all businesses.
• Helps protect online reputation.
• Searches for negative company information online.
• Removes negative information and replaces it with positive information.
• Option to request a free quote.
• Premium (not free) web service.

Check out ProfileDefenders @ www.profiledefenders.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The Wall Machine is a free and simple tool that lets you create fake Facebook walls. Everything on these walls is customizable. You can add a variety of different posts on the wall: status updates, friendship notifications, and photo statuses.

The site lets you edit the names of the person posting and the people commenting; you can edit and add multiple people to the list of people who like the post; even the profile pictures for all people involved in the wall post can be uploaded. The fake wall post is published under a unique URL that has the “Fake Wall” stamp on it; but you can easily take a screenshot of the post and share it with your friends. A “Trending Walls” section lets you browse the most popular fake wall posts on the site.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Lets you create fake Facebook walls.
• Lets you add status updates, friendship notifications, and photo updates to walls.
• Everything on the wall is customizable.
• Features the most trending Facebook walls.
• Similar tools: MyFakeWall and Fakeiphonetext.
• Also read related article: 6 Facebook Hack Codes & Tips To Show Off Your Geeky Skills.

Check out The Wall Machine @ www.thewallmachine.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Qodify is a web service that codes your contact information into QR codes. After creating an account on the website you can enter all types of details such as your company and department, your address and phone numbers, links to your social profiles, and additional notes. After saving these details you can get the QR code that Qodify generates for you and share it with friends and family.

The next time you change your phone number, just update it in your Qodify account. Your friends will get the up-to-date information when they scan the QR code.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Creates QR containing your contact information.
• Contains your work information, contact information, and links to social profiles.
• Keeps information up-to-date.
• Similar tools: QRVCards, QR-Code Business Cards and JumpScan.

Check out Qodify @ www.qodify.com/en_US/home/index (by MOin from ThumbPress)