To begin with, VyuMe lets you add a personal note to any URL that you shorten. This note can have up to 500 characters and is a very good way to let users know exactly what this link is about. You can also use this to tell them if it is not safe for work or will expire soon or any other relevant information. However, if the users still don’t feel comfortable going to the link, they can preview it. Clicking on the short URL displays the complete URL of the destination page and lets users decide if they want to continue.

Users can also post comments about the link so you can get feedback. You can set your options to receive an email notification whenever somebody posts a comment on your URL. Moreover, you also gets statistics so you know how many people viewed your link. Within your VyuMe account, you can also sort all your links by date, number of views or number of comments. The VyuMe homepage also displays the most popular shared links, most shortened domains and most popular users.

Features:

• URL shrinking service with social features.
• Add notes to your link.
• Lets users preview the complete URL before going to it.
• Users can post comments to a shortened URL.
• See how many users viewed your link.

Visit VyuMe @ http://vyu.me/home.php

It is followed by a list of your 5 most retweeted posts and a list of your top 5 favorite followers based on the number of times they have mentioned you in their tweets. You can also click on the little arrow at the bottom of each list to view more entries. You cannot save the infographic as an image but you can tweet your results.

Features:

• View your twitter activity as a cool infographic.
• See tweets per month, most retweeted and most favorite followers.
• View favorite theme based on words you frequently tweet.
• Similar tool: Twoolr.

Visit Vizify @ www.vizify.com [Via Labnol]

All you need to do is log in with your Twitter account and enter your email address. They will email you periodically to let you know the followers you have gained and the ones you have lost. This way you will always be up to date on what is happening in your Twitter network.

They offer graphs that give you a visual representation of your change in followers. For a business, this information is valuable because they can reach out and try to regain those followers to promote their brand.

Features:

• Monitor followers gained and what their names are.
• Monitor followers lost and their Twitter names.
• Graphs to show gained and lost followers.
• Easy to log in with Twitter account and email address.
• Email notifications to keep you up to date.

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This rather fun app is really simple. All it does is search Google images for the keyword that you typed in and then get a ratio between the number of results with its safe search on and off. Obviously, a higher percentage means that the keyword could have more non-safe search pics, compared to safe ones. Although the method is too basic to do any serious background check of a person, it does bring out some nice laughs and some wasted time.

Pr0n Index is a nice app for anyone who has some time to kill and just want to find out how dirty his or her name is.

Features:

• Search mashup for knowing your porn index score
• Tweet results to your friends
• Uses Google Images as backend
• Cool Related Read: 5 Cool Twitter Search Tricks To Monitor What People Are Saying About You

Check out Pr0n Index @ http://pr0nindex.appspot.com

Unbox is a handy online tool which displays information about your email in the form of an infographic. You can check out the list of people you email the most or the day when you email the most and more.

Using the service is easy. All a user has to do is visit the Unbox website and submit their email address for which they want to get inforgraphics on. Do not worry, all the data is kept private and confidential. Once done, just go to your email inbox and check the email from Unbox, which might take some time to arrive.

Features

• Free to use.
• Know more about your inbox with the clean, well made infographics.
• Works with Gmail only.

Check out Unbox @ http://unboxapp.com/ (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

You can also dive into the research library and browse topics specifically by industry, platform, target audience or marketing objective. Most of the topics and information available on the website are technology or internet related. You can also take a peek at some quick facts and stats from variety of industries and platforms, and use a variety of search insight and bench-marking tools provided by Google to better understand your topic.

Features:

• Get consumer trends and marketing insight powered by Google.
• Search for a topic or browse by industry, platform type or target audience.
• Use planning tools and statistics to strengthen your knowledge.
• No registration required.

Visit Think With Google @ http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com

Just like that, 7 billion people: Which One Are you? By BBC News allows a person to know what their number is from that 7 billion people. It’s interesting and fun to know what number you were. It makes a person feel excited, and old at the same time knowing they were “Number X”.

The service is very easy to use. All a person has to do is visit the website, and input their birthday details. Once done, just click Go and it will tell you which number of person you were at that time. You can even check out population details of any country such as total population, total number of births/deaths every hour and more.

After checking the population details, just click Next, select your Gender and it will tell you the average life expectancy rate in that specific country for men and women. Furthermore, it will also tell you the country with the highest and lowest life expectancy.

Click on Next and it will show you the overall results, your number in 7 billion, your country’s population details, average life expectancy in your country of residence and more. If you want, you can share the results on different social networks as well.

Features:

• Its free.
• Allows you to find where you fit in.
• Average life expectancy of genders in your country of residence.
• Population information.

Check out The World At 7 Billion @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 (By Hammad from Technicallydigital)

SiteTrail is a free to use website that reveals many informative statistics regarding any website. All you have to do is provide the tool with a website URL; alternative you can use the tool’s browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. The site then performs a site analysis of social media, SEO, visitors, traffic, revenue, content, links, hosting, WHOIS, server, and colors. These different analyses are divided into individual sections are neatly displayed on a single webpage.

Moreover, SiteTrail lets you trail your own websites after signing up for a free account – this serves to better compare past and present figures.

Features:

• A user-friendly web tool.
• Performs a variety of analyses on any website.
• Analyses include social media, SEO, WHOIS, visitors, and many other types of analysis.
• Offers browser add-ons for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
• Lets you trail your own websites.

Check out SiteTrail @ www.sitetrail.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

You can find five main sections in Socialbakers that are devoted to a particular statistical category within Facebook: countries, Facebook pages, brands, apps and developers, and advertising. Each section provides a list of stats as they are arranged depending on the current highest value for that category. The stats in Socialbakers are quite comprehensive as it provides information whether it is about a large-scale scope or a particular micro-scale unit. This way, you can easily make sense of the data by relating the parts to the whole, and vice versa.

Socialbakers is a very handy and invaluable tool for any aspiring social media marketers today.  This Facebook analytics tool can provide you with the data that you will need to leverage your Facebook traffic and compare your social brand against the rest.

Features:

• Find popular brands on Facebook.
• View the latest Facebook statistical data on various categories.
• Measure your presence on Facebook and see how you fare locally and globally against competitors.
• Comprehensive analytics data that lets you check for demography as well as growth within time.
• Similar Tools: PlaceBook, Statsaholic, and Plaudit.

Check out Socialbakers @ www.socialbakers.com

HTTP Archive provides insight into the Internet in a clean and actionable interface. This data includes fun stuff like bytes per page by content type, individual resource response size, most popular scripts, image formats, and much more. With this tool I quickly learned that Google Analytics is the most popular JavaScript snippet on the Internet. I also learned that 47% of websites are still using Flash, and that Flash is still the slowest loading element on a website.

HTTP Archive also provides a graph of your website’s performance, including response time, and top requests. They also have an awesome filmstrip that takes a screenshot each second as it loads the page so you can see how your page loads frame by frame. You can see an example here.

Features:

• Free; no sign up required.
• Shows check website loading times and performance with interesting data.
• Aggregates data from different websites to show the state of Internet.
• Great way to check what bugging your website.
• Similar Tools: Alertfox, WebsiteSpeedTest, GTMetrix, and Slowcop.

Check out HTTP Archive @ www.httparchive.org