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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• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
• Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search
• FaceYourManga: Easily Create Super Cool Online Avatars
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles

You can also list your own Twitter account. In order to do that, simply send @wefollow #tag command from your Twitter account by replacing the #tag with a tag you want to be listed under. A maximum of 3 tags allowed.

Features:

• User powered Twitter directory.
• View most popular users in each category, browse by tags.
• Popularity of a account is determined by the number of people following it.
• List your account in directory by sending a short command.
• Free, no sign up.

Check out WeFollow @ www.wefollow.com

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• Spy: Monitor Social Media Conversations For Certain Topics
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

1. It helps you to conduct a username availability check across a number of social networks and social media sites.

2. It acts as identity aggregator by gathering all your web profiles at a single place which is accessible by a url of the format friendscall.me/yourname.

3. It notifies you when a new social media site comes up so that you can quickly register the desired username with them.

The username check conducted by Friendscall.me is quite comprehensive. Not only does it check the popular social sites, it also checks a huge number of sites and popular blogs under various categories.

Features:

• Online identity checker and organizer.
• Checks huge number of sites and popular blogs.
• Get alerts when a new social media site comes up.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar sites: Namechk, CheckUserNames, Zooity and UnHub.

Check out FriendsCall.me @ www.friendscall.me (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• UsernameCheck: Check Username Availability on Popular Sites
• UnHub: Aggregate Your Social Network Profiles On One Page
• Tweetmeme: Track Popular Twitter Links

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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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book
• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
• Hi-I’m: One Stop Social Networking Page For All Your Profiles

The site has an easy and intuitive navigation, simply select social network and then browse list of various buttons and icons. Once found you can download items with right click “save as” function.

Below is a sample of really delicious icons.

Features:

• Huge collections of popular social media buttons and graphics.
• Easy to navigate and download graphics.
• Contains a MySocialButtons store through which you can order ’social’ T shirts, mouse pads and other products.
• Completely free, no need to sign up.
• Similar sites: TwitterButtons and SocialRibbon.

Check out MySocialButtons @ MySocialButtons (by ROW from ReviewOfWeb)

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• Iconza: Free Customizable Set Of Icons
• TheButtonEffect: Online Button Creation Tool
• iConvert : Convert Images To Icon Files Online
• IconPot: Cool Icon Collections
• IconFinder: Great Resource For Finding Icons

All you have to do is drag & drop the ConvoTrack bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar and click on it whenever you want to see the online conversations about the article. The comments will be nicely loaded on a browser sidebar on the left. You can also sort comments by the source.

Features:

• Comment aggregation tool that can show conversations surrounding any blog article.
• Comments are pulled from services such as from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews and any blog article.
• The comments are presented on the browser sidebar.
• Sort comments by source: Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews or blogs.
• Similar websites: BackType and wwwitter.

Check out ConvoTrack @ www.convotrack.com (via delicious)

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• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• Social Mention: The Social Media Search Engine
• Lizzer: Quickly Insert Docs, Images & Videos in Emails
• Commentful
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

Features

• Stream music for free from social networks.
• Major sites supported including MySpace, Bebo and Youtube.
• Single interface called the Qplayer.
• Organize Songs and Tag them.
• Cool features like Music Search and Wikipedia Music available.

Check out Qbox @ www.qbox.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WorryAboutYou: Find, Listen and Download Songs you Like
• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks
• Tape.tv : Non-Stop High Quality Music Videos
• StumbleAudio: Cool Indie Music for your Taste
• StreamDrag: Hear Songs You Like Online

Spy is a simple and sleek web application that allows you to search and monitor social media conversations across platforms like Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Yahoo News, and even blog comments. The application searches for conversations by specified keyword and shows you results by social network and time. It even updates the results in real time.

Features:

• Social media conversation tracker.
• See who said what and where in real time.
• Get 10, 25, 50, 75 or 100 results.
• Click on the user to go directly to his profile.
• See trends for recent searches on Spy.
• Chose between a light and dark theme.
• Get updates through RSS feeds.
• Similar websites: ConvoMonitor and Twilert.

Check out Spy @ spy.appspot.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• SiteVolume: Keyword Popularity Check Tool for Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr & MySpace
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• TwitterGram: Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Twitter

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
• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• Pipl
• PeekYou : People Search Engine

Currently it supports Digg, Reddit, Metafilter, Delicious and Youtube and it’s in ” very beta “. But even at this early stage it looks quite decent and I am sure later when more features are introduced it would become much more useful.

I also recommend you to check out recently mentioned Individurls which lets you build your own version Newsified using your favorite sites.

Check out Newsified @ newsified.com [Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog ]

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• TodaysFrontPages: See Front Pages Of Newspapers Around The World
• ThePhotoStream: Get News In A Rich Photo Interface
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• SpinSpotters: Find, Edit and Share Biased News Articles
• RollGator: Lets You Display Feeds On Wide Screen

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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• FaceYourManga: Easily Create Super Cool Online Avatars
• CoolWebcamAvatars: Animated Avatar Creator
• AvatarsDB: Free Avatar Directory
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People

Social Mention can also be used for ego-surfing i.e to track your own reputation in the blogging and social media world. Although it doesn’t produce the search results instantly and is a bit slow in pulling up the results, it’s a useful tool nonetheless.

Check out Social Mention @ www.socialmention.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Spy: Monitor Social Media Conversations For Certain Topics
• ConvoTrack: Track Conversations Surrounding Any Blog Post
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page

You could then search for other buddystumblers and make friends with them. Once you are friends, you could start an online chat in any of the above mentioned IM networks. So basically it lets you find other people in your IM network, get in touch with them and start chatting.

Buddystumbler gives you many options for search. You can find new people by typing their usernames, interests, gender or location. Once you search and find a person you’d like to know, you can review his/her profile and send a note.

Overall, this is a nice and easy way to find new chat friends online.

Check out Buddystumbler@www.buddystumbler.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Chatterous : Reach your Friends Everywhere (IM, eMail and Mobile)
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program

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

It has a nice user interface where on the left hand side it shows a live social graph of what your Kiobo friends and other users are browsing, under various tags and on the right column it has got your customized tag cloud and a list of your kiobo friends.

If you click on a particular tag, it displays the various websites which other users are browsing and recommends you the sites of your interest based on your browsing history. It also lets you link it to your social networking accounts like Facebook.

It also claims to have some good privacy controls and you can limit the sharing of your browsing history. Overall a nice tool for those who love to surf the web together.

Have a look a Kiobo video tour below

Check out Kiobo @www.kiobo.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• WIKAY: See How Any Website Can Access Your Browsing History