The application works as your online notebook that keeps track of films you have seen and want to see. It even works with your mobile phone. This way anytime your friends recommend a new movie, you can immediately search for it using Partigi on your cellphone. The movie recommendations shown to you not only take your friends’ likes into account but also overall statistics of Partigi users.

Key Features:

• Free and easy to use.
• Keeps track of movies you have seen.
• Gives you recommendations you can count on.
• Allows you to create lists of movies to save time and look into it later.
• Save time by only catching the movie that you know you’ll like by finding out whether or not your friends liked it.
• You can connect your Partigi account with your Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and/or Twitter account and know your contacts’ likes/dislikes.
• Can use it with your cellphone.
• Similar tools: Collector.

Check out Partigi @ www.partigi.com

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• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• Criticker: Movie Suggestion Engine
• ClerkDogs: Get Movie Suggestions From Video Store Clerks

Like Google Analytics for college applications, AcceptEdge also allows you to track and follow competition among universities using real-time admissions data. This way, you will know where you stand amongst other students hoping to get admitted to the same college.

Features:

• Find schools based on city size, campus setting, school size, academic focus, acceptance rates, and more.
• Admission statistics for every college and university in the United States.
• College predictor gives probabilities (0%-100%) of getting accepted in your choice schools.
• Suggested list of schools that you might be interested in based on your academic and social profile.
• AcceptEdge’s Edge Scores gives you a quick look on your chances of admission into your favorite college.
• Similar sites: Courseopedia.

Check out AcceptEdge @ www.acceptedge.com

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• University Of The People: Tuition-Free Online University
• TrackClass: Track & Organize Your School Work
• The Plagiarism Checker: Check Papers For Plagiarism
• Plagium: Online Plagiarism Tracker
• MBAvid: Free MBA Video Lectures

You can get personalized real time information from blogs, news and multimedia sites and social sites like Twitter. Also organize the pages by interest and share them on Twitter, Facebook or via email.

There are two ways to use YourVersion – you can either visit the site online or install provided toolbar on to your browser. In both cases registration is required.

Features

• Personalized content recommendation engine that tells you about cool stuff on the web.
• Get real time recommendations in accordance with your interests.
• Bookmark and share recommended links stuff easily.
• Content is sourced from all over the internet including blogs, news sites, social sites… etc.
• Browser toolbar available.
• Watch demo video here.
• Free, registration required.

Check out YourVersion @ www.yourversion.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• DailyPerfect: Get Personalized Content & News In a Snap
• BookSeer: Tells You What Book To Read Next
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online
• Xmarks: Discover Popular Sites Based on Users’ Bookmarks

Simply enter a keyword i.e. “finance” or “movies” into a search box and press “Go”. You will get a list of relevant websites (4 on each page) along with their image thumbnails. Hover with your mouse over a thumbnail to read website’s short description and see categories it belongs to. Websites are ranked according to their online usage statistics.

You can then narrow down or expand your results by clicking on the tabs below.

Download the Springo Express browser toolbar to see similar suggested websites to the site you are currently viewing and navigate to sites by typing keywords in your address bar (ex: “yahoo sports” will jump you directly to http://sports.yahoo.com)

Features:

• Find relevant and most useful sites on any topic.
• Enter keywords and get a list of highly relevant websites along with their image thumbnails.
• Websites are ranked according to their online popularity among users.
• Download the Spring Express browser toolbar to see suggested similar websites to the site you are viewing online and be able to navigate to sites by typing keywords in your address bar.
• Similar websites: Weblisty, Ambiently and SimilarSites.

Check out Springo @ www.springo.com

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• SimilarWeb: Discover Similar Web Pages When Browsing Web
• SimilarSites: Quickly Find Similar Sites
• Ambiently: Discover Related Websites In One Click
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• YourLi.st : Get Event Reminders by eMail

Additionally you can add sites and import RSS feeds using the corresponding OPML file. Registration is needed in order to save your settings. I personally found the content quite relevant to me.

Features

• Personalized content delivery service.
• Get content and news by entering your name.
• Find the topics, people, websites and books you’d like.
• Import OPML files and share content across social sites.
• Give a thumbs up or down to each recommendation to improve the site.
• Similar tools: LazyFeed and FanFeedr.

Check out DailyPerfect @ www.dailyperfect.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Guzzle.it: Online Personalized News StartPage
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• TodaysFrontPages: See Front Pages Of Newspapers Around The World
• ThePhotoStream: Get News In A Rich Photo Interface
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents

You can also install the Xmarks  plugin and bookmark, rate, tag or write reviews about sites in you visit.

Features:

• Research sites, see how popular they are and discover similar sites based on the data from hundreds of millions of user bookmarks.
• Browse similar sites, browse related topics, read user reviews and see site ratings.
• Data collected from thousands of Internet users who have installed popular Firefox Xmarks bookmark manager plugin.
• Research and find popular sites in any language or country.
• To write reviews, rate and tag bookmarked sites in your browser, install the Xmarks browser plugin from the site.
• Free, no registration.
• Similar tools:  SimilarSites and SimilarWeb.

Check out Xmarks @ www.xmarks.com

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• SimilarWeb: Discover Similar Web Pages When Browsing Web
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool

You can start by rating the movies and after you’ve rated 10 movies, it starts recommending movies based on your taste. If you aren’t sure about a movie then you could log onto their forum and interact with other users to get your questions answered.

Features

• Film recommendation engine with community.
• Get movies recommended based on your taste of movies.
• Connect with people having a similar taste in movies.
• Has a thriving community with a forum.
• Also see a MakeUseOf article, What Movie Should I Watch Next?

Visit Criticker @ www.criticker.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews

Every trip mentions specific activities to do or places to visit in that particular destination such as “Admiring a renovated villa in the hills of Tuscany, Italy” or “Camel-trekking to watch the sun rise over the Sahara in Morocco”. Sign up to save trips to your wishlist and share them with friends.

You can log in with your Facebook credentials to get more relevant trips, invite and share your favorite places with your Facebook friends and view other Facebook users who saved the same trips to their wishlists.

Features:

• Cool travel recommendation site.
• Get travel suggestions based on your location, mood (romantic, history, culture) and favorite activities (biking, camping, museums).
• Browse trips by regions (Europe, Africa, Caribbean etc.), by specific tags and search by keywords.
• View locations on a Google map.
• Subscribe by RSS to get updates on new trips.
• Free, sign up on the site log in with your Facebook credentials to get relevant trip recommendations and invite and share your favorite places with your Facebook friends.

Check out Trazzler @ www.trazzler.com

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• WhatsOnWhen: Local Event Guide For Over 500 World Destinations
• UniversalPackingList: Online Traveling Packing List Generator
• TripChill: Mobile Travel Assistant with Real Time Alerts
• TravelEtiquette: Travel Etiquette Tips For Worldwide Travel
• RoadsideAmerica: Locate Offbeat Tourist Attractions in US

Ambiently displays unexpected and useful websites and helps in finding more information about anything easily.

Features :

• Find a list of related content in one click.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Bookmarklet available for major browsers.
• Helpful in gathering more information.
• SimilarSites is another website that helps to find similar websites.

Check out Ambiently @ ambiently.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Springo: Finds Most Useful Sites For Any Purpose
• SimilarWeb: Discover Similar Web Pages When Browsing Web
• SimilarSites: Quickly Find Similar Sites
• Sharein: Quick Link Sharing With Advanced Tracking
• PageZipper: View Multi-Page Articles Without Clicking Next

To make things easier, they provide a Firefox extension called SimilarWeb. Since the search results are user-ranked, it delivers fairly accurate results most of the times.

Features :

• Easily find similar websites.
• Express your opinion on whether you find a particular site similar or not.
• Firefox extension available.

Check out SimilarSites @ www.similarsites.com [via Lifehacker] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Springo: Finds Most Useful Sites For Any Purpose
• SimilarWeb: Discover Similar Web Pages When Browsing Web
• Ambiently: Discover Related Websites In One Click
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• Xmarks: Discover Popular Sites Based on Users’ Bookmarks

The recommended books data are pulled from from sites like Amazon and LibraryThing and nicely presented side by side. It also provides you with a URL using which you can share book recommendations with others.

Features:

• Simple book suggester which tells you what book to read next.
• The recommendations are pulled from Amazon and LibraryThing.
• Easy to use and doesn’t require any registration.
• Similar websites: WhichBook, ThisOneNext,What Should I Read Next and BookArmy.

Check out BookSeer @ www.bookseer.com

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• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Wattpad : Read and Share Books on your Mobile
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books

You can browse and watch videos without signing up. However, you’ll need to register on the site to turn on the recommendation engine that will learn and suggest videos from your interaction with the site.

Features:

• Web video recommendation and long tail discovering.
• Discover the videos from the web you are likely to enjoy watching.
• Videos aggregated from popular video sites such as YouTube, MySpace, MetaCafe and Revver.
• Browse and watch videos without registration.
• Simple and clean interface.
• Add videos to favorites, flag and comment on videos by logging in.
• Register to turn on the recommendation engine.

Check out Clipta @ www.clipta.com

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• Xmarks: Discover Popular Sites Based on Users’ Bookmarks

If you are a writer, you can also sign up as an author to promote your book(s) to the community of book lovers and communicate with your fans.

Features:

• Book recommendation service and social network for book lovers.
• Discuss and rate books, read user reviews, build reading lists and get book recommendations from site members based on your previous preferences
• Search books by title, add books to your library, recommend books to others, create book groups and discuss in forums
• Browse most popular books and authors
• View book related videos (animations, author interviews, inside scoop etc)
• Read books in public domain for free online
• Buy the hard copy of the book from Amazon or the audio version from Audible.com
• Sign up to get your book recommendations.
• Other sites to get book recommendations: WhichBook and ThisOneNext.

Check out BookArmy @ www.bookarmy.com

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• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• BookSeer: Tells You What Book To Read Next
• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books

Nanogenre is a set of 3 words that highlights the most important elements in the movie (“glory, epic, spectacle” or “superhero, action, revenge“). They are extracted dynamically by analyzing millions of user movie reviews from the web.

Just search for a movie and get a list of movie suggestions, then filter these movies by 3-word nanogenres depending on your mood

Features:

• View movie suggestions and filter them by 3-word nanogenres.
• Nanogenre contains 3 most important elements in the movie.
• Free, no registration needed.
• More features such as saving movies you want to watch and like are coming.
• Similar websites: ClerkDogs, Tastekid and ThisOneNext.

Check out NanoCrowd @ www.nanocrowd.com (via ReadWriteWeb)

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• Criticker: Movie Suggestion Engine
• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews

Product reviews are aggregated from sites like Amazon, Circuit City, Walmart, CNET and others.

To search for a products simply select a product you want, then pick the feature from the list and press Go. Wize will analyze thousands of reviews and display recommended products sorted by rating. You can also read user reviews, view the lowest price, compare online vendors and click to buy from the site.

Features:

• Find top recommended products depending on the features that are important to you.
• Product reviews are aggregated from sites like Amazon, Circuit City, Walmar, CNET and others.
• Over 19 million recommendations for more than 88,000 products.
• Read user reviews, see the lowest price, compare online vendors and click to buy from their site.
• Intuitive and clean interface.

Check out Wize @ www.wize.com

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• Spectackler: Compare Electronic Products Side-By-Side
• Shopnics: Compare Gadget Prices by Brand & Features
• MyThings: Free Online Purchase Receipt Organizer
• Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site
• Ztail : Find out How Much a Product is Worth

You can also customize the way similar content is presented in the sidebar by choosing between different view options like thumbnails, small icons and the list view. Finally, users can vote recommended web pages up or down, filter similar sites by tags, and even suggest a site.

See SimilarWeb demo video:

Features:

• Similar sites finder.
• Currently works with Firefox only (IE coming soon).
• Customize the way similar websites are presented.
• Rate recommended sites and suggest a site.

Check Out SimilarWeb @ www.similarweb.com

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• Xmarks: Discover Popular Sites Based on Users’ Bookmarks
• Springo: Finds Most Useful Sites For Any Purpose
• SimilarSites: Quickly Find Similar Sites
• PeaceKeeper: Test Browser Performances on Your PC
• Ambiently: Discover Related Websites In One Click

To get feed suggestions, simply export all your subscriptions from your feedreader as an OPML file, then upload the file on to SuggestRSS. SuggestRSS will run a comparison and give you a list of feeds.

Features:

• Get feed recommendations based on your subscriptions.
• Degree of similarity for each feed is shown as %.
• Easy to use and free.

Check out SuggestRSS @ www.suggestrss.com (via labnol)

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog

HearWhere not only shows concerts in the area and who is playing nearby but also lets you listen to tracks by the artist and provides links to their website, myspace page, related reviews and blogs.

If there is a live show of an artist which is not listed, you can add it by linking to the artist’s Myspace page and HearWhere will update the artist’s show list automatically.

Features :

• Find concerts near you.
• Free and no registration.
• Browse live shows by genre, date and proximity to a location.
• View shows’ locations on a map.
• Listen to  artists’ music.
• Read reviews and related blogposts.
• Contrebute by adding artists’ live shows to the site.
• Similar websites: GigFreaks and Bandsintown.

Check out HearWhere @ www.hearwhere.com

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• GigFreaks: Find Live Concerts in Your Area
• SongKick: Check Entire Concert History Of Favorite Bands
• GigZee: Find Local Live Music
• Zvents: Find Events in Your Area
• Yahoo Upcoming: Upcoming Events Locator for Your Area

Alternatively users can click on “mash it!” button and use a bunch of sliders (filters) to find the movie that fit their interests.

Features:

• Online movie recommendation service.
• All movies recommendations are made by former video store clerks.
• Optionally, use sliders to get movies suggestions.
• Free and easy to use
• Similar websites: Blipr, Tastekid and ThisOneNext.

Not so long ago, MakeUseOf also published an excellent article titled as What Movie Should I Watch Next?. If you’rea movie fan definitely have a look.

See ClerkDogs demo video below:

Check out ClerkDogs @ www.clerkdogs.com

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• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• Partigi: Track Movies You’ve Seen & Get Recomendations
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• Criticker: Movie Suggestion Engine

Features

• Web based music recommendation service.
• Nice and clean user interface.
• No registration required.
• Simple and advanced search options.
• Create playlist and add information to the inbuilt notepad.
• Many options to discover and share new tracks.
• Facebook and MySpace widgets available.
• Similar websites: ThisOneNext, Soundflavor, and Tastekid.

Check out Mufin @ www.mufin.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• HearWhere: Find Concerts In Your Area
• GigFreaks: Find Live Concerts in Your Area
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The process is really simple, all you need to do is indicate your preferences using a set of sliders, for example happy-sad, safe-disturbing, gentle-violent, conventional-unusual and the site will bring you a list of books that match preferences you have selected.  Short excerpt for each book is also provided.

Additionally if you reside in UK you can use WhichBook to borrow books from public libraries and if you reside elsewhere you can use it to find and purchase books online.

Features:

• Find out what you should read next with online book suggester.
• WhichBook’s database includes every book published in English since 1995.
• View website in text, large text or as flash website.
• No registration needed.
• Similar websites: ThisOneNext.

Check out WhichBook @ www.whichbook.net

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• What Should I Read Next
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• BookSeer: Tells You What Book To Read Next
• BookArmy: Get Book Recommendations

Additional information such as links to related items on LastFM, YouTube videos and band/artist photos on Flickr provided as well.

Furthermore you can subscribe to particular recommendation list and get updates on your feed reader as soon as there is something new.

Features:

• Get recommendations on upcoming live concerts and shows.
• Filter recommendations by location.
• Subscribe to particular recommendations list and get updates on your feedreader.
• Additional information about the band or artist provided.
• Get related items from LastFM, YouTube and Flickr.

Check out GigFreaks @ www.gigfreaks.com

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• HearWhere: Find Concerts In Your Area
• SongKick: Check Entire Concert History Of Favorite Bands
• GigZee: Find Local Live Music
• Zvents: Find Events in Your Area
• Yahoo Upcoming: Upcoming Events Locator for Your Area

It’s very easy to use and you don’t even have to create an account or rate aything. Simply enter a book, CD or DVD that you really enjoyed and ThisOneNext will give you back a list of items that you are likely to enjoy. Additionally you can register and contribute to the site by creating your own “my favorites” list.

So if you ever need a quick tip on what dvd to rent next, movie to watch or book to read, ThisOneNext help you out.

Features:

• Get recommendations on books, movies and music.
• No registration required. (Only if you want to create a list of your own favorites).
• Movie fan? Also check out “What Movie Should I Watch Next?“.

Check out ThisOneNext @ www.thisonenext.com

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• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Television Tunes : Theme Songs for your Favorite TV Shows
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Partigi: Track Movies You’ve Seen & Get Recomendations

As it mentions, it helps you find similar music artists and bands, recommends movies you’re like to enjoy, and helps you find similar books. The user interface is attractive with dark, solid colors and it successfully finds relevant stuff for you. For example, I searched for the movie ‘ The Departed ‘ and it returned results like ‘ Gangs of New York ‘ and ‘ American Gangster ‘ which a departed fan would certainly love to watch.

You might be also interested in preveiously reviewed Blipr and What Should I Read Next (books only).

Check out Tastekid @ www.tastekid.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• Television Tunes : Theme Songs for your Favorite TV Shows
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Partigi: Track Movies You’ve Seen & Get Recomendations