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Photo Gallery Online Tools


Drag and Drop Syncing
DropGallery was created by people who love their photographs as much as you love yours. It gives and easy way to backup, sync, and share your photos. You can install DropGallery on any computer that you would like to sync some, or all of your photos with.


Stock Photography
Corbis provides Royalty-Free and Rights Managed stock images for editorial and commercial applications, including iconic, historical, archival, fine art and illustration, current events, and exclusive celebrity photography.


Discover images that inspire your work
Image Spark lets you upload and create a library of images that inspire you in whatever it is you do. Whether you’re a fashion designer, web designer, or just redesigning your bathroom, Image Spark can help harness the visual direction of your projects. But it’s not just about collecting and storing images – you can converge images using Image Spark’s moodboards and help set the visual tone or style you’re after.


Create Live Galleries
MyLiveGallery enables you to instantly create live galleries, photo albums and slideshows online. Use it to turn your photos into attractive galleries and share them with others. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your pictures, select a theme and the gallery is ready.


Shareable Photo Art Gallery
At the Ph.Art gallery you can: Purchase premium photographic wall art in a huge range of formats. Talk with fellow photographic artists from all over the world, through Ph.Art special interest groups, via your own P-Mail accessible in your studio, by leaving comments on people’s work and of course receiving comments on yours.


Share Photos & Videos from your Desktop
CloudFire is a fast way to share all your photos and videos with people you know. There is no uploading, reorganizing, trans-coding – just share it and let CloudFire do the rest.


Turn your Emails into a Gallery
2Pad keeps your personal photos and videos private. Easily distribute your photos and videos with the most potent security to your friends and family. Discover 2Pad’s unique combination of email and web photo and video sharing security technology.


Free and Unlimited Photo Sharing
Photie is a free photo sharing website that gives you unlimited storage and no file size restrictions. Photie is focused on simplicity. Upload your photos and embed them on the web in seconds. There are useful features designed to make your life simpler, like automatic resizing of your image into the common sizes, ability to view the most popular photos, tag clouds, tag lists, photo information and a super quick upload system.


Smarter Gallery Photo Management
iLovePhotos is free software for your Mac that helps you organize, share, and enjoy your photos based on the people who are in them. iLovePhotos finds faces in your photos to make tagging them a piece of cake. After you’ve tagged your photos with iLP, browsing and sharing them is easier than ever.


Better Ways to Showcase your Flickr Photos
Picsviewr is an application for Flickr users wanting to showcase their photos in a different way. It proposes 8 different templates (some written in Flash, others in HTML/JS) to suit Flickr user needs.


Stunning Photo Galleries from your Flickr Photos
FotoViewr aims to provide a better experience for viewing photos. You and your friends can look at your photos by clicking on page after HTML page, or you can immerse yourself in a highly interactive and engaging interface.


An Online Portfolio and Community Site for Artists
Dripbook’s mission is simple – to allow artists to easily publish their work online by taking the hassle, guesswork and expense out of creating a well designed, easily modifiable web presence. Dripbook takes the best of technology and directs it where it should have gone long ago – into making an easy, quick, and really cheap way for artists to show their work.


Your Life, Digital – Photo Scanning
ScanDigital gives you your photos on CD/DVD as well as in your own free and unlimited online gallery. You can organize your photos, share with loved ones and order reprints and other great photo products. ScanDigital offers free Shipping, free digital optimization using our proprietary process, and the fastest turnaround time, Guaranteed.


Share your World – Make Beautiful Online Gallery
DPHOTO lets you easily share your photos with family and friends in your own online gallery, while also creating secure backup of all your precious memories.


Share your Photos and your Music on any Website!
faces make online photo sharing a snap. Upload and share your favorite photos and start taking advantage of our multitude of photo sharing services, including quality digital photo printing, customizable photo galleries, online scrapbooking, and much more! Invite friends and family to view animated online slideshows and personalized scrapbooks of the special events and occasions in your life. What’s more, with faces secure servers and free lifetime backup, you can rest assured that your uploaded photos will always be right where you left them.


Free Photos for your Web Pages
Use plinkme for instant, free photos for your web page, no downloads or uploads just copy/paste. Free for personal and commercial use. Create backlinks and traffic for your web page. Photographers set your photos viral, exposing them and generating traffic for your gallery and web site.


The Daily Photo Journal for Everyone
Blipfoto is an online daily photo journal which lets you publish one image each day, starting on the date you sign up. Most people use this as a challenge to take and publish one picture every day of their lives, others just add entries as and when they feel like it, leaving empty days in between. Blipfoto insist that any photographs you upload are taken on the date you’re uploading them against. That means if you upload an image and date it 1st January, the picture must have been taken on 1st January.


The Super Easy Gallery
minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX that allows you to easily show your images online, without complex databases or coding, allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.


Your Photos. Your Words. Put them Together with Tabblo and Tell your Story
A tabblo is a collection of photos and words brought together by a stylized template that can be customized to your heart’s content. A tabblo lives at a permanent URL and can be private, accessed by whoever you invite, or public for the whole world to see.


A Photography Hosting Service with Elegant Page Designs and Easy Organization
Create and customize professional-looking galleries using advanced Web interface. Organize and structure your photographs so that you and your visitors can easily find them and view. From standards-based IPTC tags to full EXIF support your photographs show every detail including captions, titles, file and exposure info, searchable keywords and categories. Zenfolio gives you powerful tools allowing you to be efficient and organized.

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Twitter Tools and Applications

tweetwally

A tweetwall lets you display only the tweets you’re interested in from everywhere on Twitter, use it to track hashtags, usernames, and keywords. The possibilities are up to you.

graabr

Graabr is an application and hosting service which uploads your screen to graabr.com, with the option of sharing to social web sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc with just a few mouse clicks.

listerine

Listerine is a dedicated Twitter list-manager, for tweeple with a lot of contacts. In its default selection mode, simply drag a contact on to a List in order to add that contact to it. In its auto selection mode, you’ll need to set a List as ”active” by clicking that list’s TOGGLE button. You will then be able to add contacts to that active list simply by double-clicking on them.

listiti

Instead of being alerted whenever someone tweets something, with Listiti you can be alerted whenever someone belonging to a Twitter List of your choice tweets about something.

tlists

Tlists is a platform for media businesses, advocacy organizations, research firms and subject-matter experts of all kinds to efficiently leverage Twitter Lists.

listorious

Twitter’s new Lists feature allows anyone to curate the real time web. Listorious makes it easy to find the best lists of Twitter users on any given topic, and for list creator to publicize their lists

dailyrt

At its surface, dailyRT is a tweet aggregator that gathers the most popular tweets on twitter and displays them using their own scoring algorithm and numerous filters.

pixavid

pixavid is free image sharing site that allows you to easily upload a picture and share it on social net working sites such as Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Stumbleupon and more, or embed it in a message board or blog.

tweetenator

Tweetiator alerts users in real time when people share links to their content on Twitter, and lets them follow and communicate each other.

kazle

Kazle allows you to update both your Facebook and Twitter status at the same time then also view Feeds from both of these networks.

tinker

Tinker helps you stay on top of your favorite events by showing you the latest buzz from Twitter and across the social web. Create or follow an event stream by choosing a keyword and you’ll be the first to hear.

blurtt

Blurtt is a simple and easy to use online interface that lets you send real, printed postcards with your handwriting to your friends anywhere in the world. The best part is you don’t even need to know your friend’s addresses to send a postcard to them. As long as they are on Facebook or Twitter, or even have an email address, it’s easy to send them a message on a real postcard that has real emotional impact, as its something that arrives to them in a physical form.

taweet

Taweet is a Twitter application that allows people and businesses to streamline promotional scheduling for events, product launches, lifecasting and more. Taweet is focused on promoting the topics of your Future Tweets (FT) up until they occur to create buzz or to share with friends.

swift

Swift.fm helps you discover and enjoy new music guided by the most qualified people around – your friends. Swift.fm do this to help you find new music to purchase, shows to attend and actively support artists and their labels.

gelato

Gelato is real-time search meets online dating. Instead of looking at static, carefully-crafted profiles, you are looking at a real-time stream of what people are actually doing. More authenticity means better dating connections. We do this by pulling in a users’ data from Facebook, Twitter ,Netflix, Last.fm and other social media to quickly and easily create a dynamic, multi-faceted online dating profile.

moomeo

Moomeo allows people to share emails. Simple as that. Just send an email to Moomeo service email address, receive a Moomeo link to you email back, and share it on Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere online.

twinester

Twinester lets you create or join groups and communities for Twitter and interact with one another twitter users of similar interest. In this particular case, groups are known as ”nests” which symbolizes the many people in a particular community. You can either create groups or browse them by categories such as ‘Business’, ‘Lifestyle’, ‘Entertainment’, ‘Technology’, ‘Internet’, etc. The landing page also displays the hottest nests, recent and last users.

brizzly

Brizzly is a way to view content from the social web. Right now, you can view enhanced content from Twitter in a clear, simple way. Brizzly plan to include other social media in the future.

thankfulfor

ThankfulFor is your personal gratitude journal. It’s also a collective gratitude journal, for all of us. Because the more gratitude floating around this universe, the better.

thoora

Thoora puts the spotlight the news worth talking about by exploring more than 80 million blogs and 4,500 mainstream media sources and Twitter.

moonit

Moonit is your online destination for relationship compatibility and guidance. Moonit created a tool that produces short, easy-to-digest advice for use ”on the go” and ”in the field.” To make your lives even easier, Moonit integrated the tool with Facebook and Twitter and made it accessible across mobile devices.

tiptop

TipTopSM is a real-time search tool helping people find interesting and useful answers to their questions, filtered from conversations people are currently sharing on Twitter. It is based on the idea that people should have a simple way to share their everyday experiences with others who are interested in learning from them without searching the entire Internet.

doold

DooID is your Web 2.0 business card with e-mail signature. Get your own design, evaluate your networks (like Twitter, Facebook, etc.), interests & services and decide who may see what.

favestar

Favstar tracks what you, your friends, and everyone else is favoring on Twitter.

tweetvite

Tweetvite makes it easy to create invitations for events you’re hosting or to find local Tweetups in your area.

hi,i'm

Chances are you’ve got a bunch of profiles all over the internet: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed…Plus you might have a blog or a YouTube channel and some pictures on Flickr. Put all those sites together, and that’s YOU on the internet.

twitres

TwitRes lets you share resume/cv on Twitter. Simple. Login with your Twitter account, upload your resume and tweet your resume link – Simple as that.

freezly

With hundreds of millions of web sites, it’s impossible for you to follow and read every single blog and web site to catch up on the hottest giveaways out there. Freezly answers the question ”What’s free on the Internet?” Freezly aggregates giveaways found on Twitter so that you, the Internet user, can simply pick and try to win whatever giveaways interest you.

pockets

With Pockets, you can leave a voicmail message for anyone on Twitter and they’ll be notified via @reply.

rtwetme

retwt.me allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). It is a simple service with one goal, easy shortening and easy analysis.

hunted

We Are Hunted discovers the most popular 99 songs in the world right now. The charts are designed to reflect what music people are really listening not just record sales. We Are Hunted continuously crawl the web sampling music news, blogs, Twitter, Forums, MySpace, YouTube, iTunes, Facebook, Last FM, ilike, Bit Torrent, Mininova and more.

tweeterview

Tweeterview allows for real time twitter interviews using a web interface. Viewers can watch the tweeterview in real time without even being a twitter user, or read the transcript afterward.

screenr

Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds.

arvatize

Avartize gives you, the Twitter user, the option to easily pimp your profile picture, also known as your avatar. Set your state to ”busy”, tell your friends you’re on fire – or let everybody know you are out taking in that special event. You also have the option to create your own overlays, so people can pimp their avatar with your artwork

chips

Chir.ps , a way for users to tweet audio clips. These audio clips can come in a variety of forms – whether it is something you recorded, i.e. your own voice, sounds from an event, a question you pose to your twitter followers; an audio clip you found on the Internet, or an audio file you’d like to upload from your computer.

snapatar

Snapatar lets you update your Twitter profile picture using your webcam. Simply snap a picture, fill out your Twitter details and send the new image to Twitter. You can do this as often as you like. Your creativity is the limit.

chatterbox

ChatterBox allows you to monitor Twitter conversations that matter to you. Whether it is a list of interesting keywords or specific user handles, ChatterBox can centralize that information into a common dashboard that individuals and teams can leverage to manage and respond to those conversations.

tunein

Tunein builds a channel from all the media (articles, videos, photos and soon, audio) recommended by the people you follow. You can sort it by popularity or recency, and filter it by media type. You can build groups from the people you follow. You can also look at other people’s channels, not just your own. So, you can browse the tweet streams and media channels of other people simply by clicking on them.

rt

RT.nu provides a simple interface for shortening URLS and retrieving basic stats. It also provide a Bookmarklet for easy posting, and an open API.

iwise

With iWise, a user can search thousands of quotations from different personalities and share them through the site, via Twitter or with an iPhone app.

cardly

Make your tiny portfolio online in which you’ll be able to integrate your networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), a little about you and how to contact you. Choose between many nice skins and features.

nommes

With nom.ms you can tweet what you eat, and share recipes and restaurants with other foodies. Think: TwitPic, for food.

imjtweet

Imj.Tw(eet) is a free service for Twitter & Facebook users providing secure image hosting and sharing. All you need is a Twitter or Facebook account to begin.

yotwits

Automated feeds for your Twitter stream. Boost your Twitter personality: broadcast your interests, and add followers.

bingtweets

BingTweets combines Twitter trends with Bing search results, enabling you to see deeper, real-time information about the hottest topics on Twitter. You can also search for anything in the BingTweets search box (at the top right of every page) and see Bing search results alongside the most recent related tweets.

twingpaint

TwitPaint lets you paint graffiti and post it on Twitter. Make graffiti in 140 strokes or less and share with your followers.

camtweet

CamTweet lets you share live video on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account then you already have a CamTweet account, just login to CamTweet with your Twitter username and password and you are all set.

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mytweetspace

Have you ever wanted to completely brand your Twitter Profile but didn’t either have the time or know how to do it in Photoshop or Gimp? With MyTweetSpace you can easily do that.

smushit

Smushit is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

photoshop

At Photoshop Express you can quickly and easily accentuate your photos with easy-to-use options for resizing, cropping, sharpening, and more. Make your photos pop with fun, eye-catching effects and enhancements. Then share your photos in My Gallery, where you can create customized photo displays, or upload them to your Facebook page, blog, or anywhere else online.

pixelnovel

FlickrShop is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to upload images to Flickr photo sharing website directly from Adobe Photoshop. No need to save your image to a temporary file, no more switching between applications – just open your image, tweak it in Photoshop and share it with the world via Flickr.

cutmypic

CutMyPic is an application that allows it’s users to upload a picture, crop it, round the corners, and add a drop shadow, all in a couple of clicks. You can then either save it or send it to a friend. The site focuses on simplicity and speed.

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  • Web 2.0 Image Organizing Websites

    udorse

    Udorse is a visual endorsement engine. Udorse empowers each of us to endorse the items and places in our photos that we want to help support, and share with our friends. It’s as easy as tagging a person.

    outwit

    OutWit Hub contains dozens of recognition and extraction features to ease your Web searches and organize your collections. Automatically browse through pages, collect and format the information you seek, display full screen slideshows on any topic in a single click… and find your golden needle in the Web haystack.

    baagz

    With BAAGZ‘ simple, integrated user interface it’s easy to store and organize your favorite things online in a format that can be easily retrieved, shared and searched by you and other baagerz. Easily create an infinite number of baagz, each representing the content that interests you most. Bring your baagz alive by adding personal and public content from around the Web, including shortcuts to your favorite Web sites, custom wallpapers, RSS feeds, images, videos and more.

    scandigital

    ScanDigital gives you your photos on CD/DVD as well as in your own free and unlimited online gallery. You can organize your photos, share with loved ones and order reprints and other great photo products. ScanDigital offers free Shipping, free digital optimization using our proprietary process, and the fastest turnaround time, Guaranteed.

    steekr

    With Steekr you can:-Store your music ,your pictures, your videos and all your personal files online. -Play and listen to your digital files directly in your browser. -Share your files with your friends or relatives.

    ikbis

    Ikbis is a photo and video sharing service geared for the Arab audiences around the world. With Ikbis, you can upload and organize your photos and videos that you have taken with your digital camera or mobile phone. Moreover, you can share your photos and videos with friends and family, interact with other Ikbis users and rate photos and videos.

    pikeo
    Pikeo think that pictures tell better stories when you can give people some idea of where they were taken. Pikeo lets you look at your pictures along with a map showing the scenes of your crimes. Pikeo also helps you organise your pictures in smart albums based on what, where and who information (called tags). You can decide which of your pictures you want to share with your family, friends and everyone else, and which ones you want no one to see.

    zenfolio

    Create and customize professional-looking galleries using advanced Web interface. Organize and structure your photographs so that you and your visitors can easily find them and view. From standards-based IPTC tags to full EXIF support your photographs show every detail including captions, titles, file and exposure info, searchable keywords and categories. Zenfolio gives you powerful tools allowing you to be efficient and organized.

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  • Web 2.0 WordPress Sites

    MobaTalk
    MobaTalk
    MobaTalk is a system that offers the integration of audio comments, video comments, dial-in comments, MMS comments from cell phones, and comments via email with audio and video files attached. Now, a WordPress blogger can comment by receiving multimedia messages from a variety of sources.

    BloggerSnap
    BloggerSnap
    Include webcam snapshots in your blog with BloggerSnap. BloggerSnap is a tool which allows your visitors to post on your blog or website a snapshot taken with their webcam. Post pictures of whatever you like. Family pictures, pictures of girlfriends, pictures of a pet dog, and others.

    Blogsome
    Blogsome
    Create your own blog with Blogsome. Blogsome is a free web hosting site for blogs. With Blogsome, you select your blog’s web address for your own convenience. Use Blogsome’s features to customize your blog. Add photos, choose from different WordPress Themes, add a design, and do much more.

    Fleck
    Fleck
    Add notes to web pages with Fleck. Become more interactive with the internet by adding notes and providing your input to web pages on the internet. Fleck allows you to interact with pages on the web just as if it were pages in a magazine.

    Lizzer
    Lizzer enables you in an easy way to add links and embed content in web-based email & blog posts. Lizzer works with the following blogging and email platforms: WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Tumbler, Gmail, Yahoo! AOLmail, and more.

    Fedafi

    http://www.fedafi.com

    Find the RSS tools you need with Fedafi. Fedafi offers the Fedafi Stand Alone RSS Generator, WordPress Plugin and RSS publishing tools for your RSS Feeds’ needs. Fedafi WordPress Plugin is a plugin for WordPress, it creates a full text feed from your WordPress blog adds a style sheet.

    WriteToMyBlog
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    WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog. Create Post Entries for your Blog from the WriteToMyBlog site. With WriteToMyBlog, you can post to multiple Blogs simultaneously and manage your Posts as well. Works with all major Blog programs.

    Widgetbox
    WIDGET
    Use the Widgetbox widget directory to find the widgets you are looking for. Widgetbox is a directory and syndication platform for web widgets for blogs and other web pages. The Widgetbox widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites.

    ThemesPress
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    ThemesPress is a service that allows you to automatically convert your HTML and CSS based design into a WordPress blog theme, allowing you to take full control of the look of your blog without having to know or bother with PHP. Fee applies for using ThemesPress.

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  • Social Bookmarking Sites

    Your bookmarks should go wherever you go. Here’s a list of social bookmarking websites.

    • Del.icio.us – The godfather of social bookmarking sites.
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    • Digg – The one who started the craze, the big one, Digg.
    • StumbleUpon -
    • BlinkList – My personal favourite. Pleasing on the eye, tons of features, highly recommended.
    • Spurl -
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    • TekTag – Social bookmarking site for finding technical answers.
    • Linklog – Social Bookmarking site for the Netherlands.
    • Cloudy Tags – This is a collaborative site discover machine. You can offer to our community as many links as you wish. Feed our machine NOW! Time is priceless…
    • iGlobeCity – iHome – Use iHome to bookmark and share your favorite links, access your favorite links through Member Home Page or directly from browser, access your computer through iHome’s dynamic ip address mapping. and more…
    • A1-Webmarks – A free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.
    • The Web 2.0 Toolbar – Save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Free Web 2.0 Toolbar aggregates the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video and Social News websites
    • 2CentsNews – User-driven, irreverent, political and economic news stories.
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    • Balatarin – Balatarin, which means the highest in persian, is a community website which helps its users to find the best links on the Internet that interest Iranian Internet users around the world
    • The Right Title for the Web Page – In a web site, there should always be a Meta Tag for the title of every page because some people are defined by the title of what your site is all about.
    • Color Scheme for Your Website? – Yes, in a world that is obsessed with makeover madness, even your website needs to follow specific color guidelines when picking out “what it will wear”. The colors you use when designing your website tell an awful lot about your business, though you may not know it.
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    • Article Snatch Tag Site – Scuttle site – social bokmarks.
    • Bookmarking Tools & Sites – Social networking at it’s best. Site add-ins/add-ons for feed generators…
    • Promotion and Web Design Tips – his article gives free tips on how to find a cheap web designer and free tips on website promotion.
    • Empower Web clients, Increase your profits – In the early days of websites and webdesign, if (when) there was a need to change, add or modify published information on a clients website we’d get a call (or email) from the client with a markup of proposed changes. Simple stream of workflow, Client to us, us to web.
    • Free Website Templates – Top 10 Things You Need to Know – When building your website you might not have a large budget to devote to website design or a designer, so the best option for you might simply be to use free website templates. However, consider the following benefits as well as drawbacks before you decide to take this route of website design.
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    • Dealoid – Social Deal Sharing – Web 2.0 social sharing site for deals, coupons, freebies
    • SharedDish – Social Recipe Sharing – Share and seek recipes Web 2.0 style
    • Internet Marketing – Internet marketing social bookmarking site from http://www.profittips.com/tags/ Bookmark, share, discover, and promote things that are important to you!
    • 10 Website Blunders Guaranteed to Send Your Visitors Elsewhere – When you build your website you need to have a plan first. The reason for this is if you do not have a plan you will likely make mistakes, forget to include information, and overall have an unorganized and not a well thought out page.
    • Are web graphics stealing your money? – They might not be wearing a mask and carrying a gun, but if you’ve got images on your web pages then they could be costing you a lot more money than you think every time a visitor looks at one.
    • What Should I Say? – Know it all? Prove it. What Should I Say is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout.
    • Traffic From Search Engines – The entire consulting industry is studying based on tweaking web pages to get themto the top of search engine results in the hope of capturing more traffic.
    • Create a Google Sitemap for your Web Site – Google Sitemaps is a simple and fast way for your site to be constantly indexed and updated by Google. This article will discuss the benefits of implementing this new technology, who should use it, how it works and how to create a Google Sitemap for your web site.
    • Designing A Website That Sells – Would you buy meat from a grocery store that left the bad meat in with the good meat or wasn’t clean? Would you buy a car from a sales lot that had totaled automobiles on the front lot? I wouldn’t and neither would you.
    • 12 Tips To Great Websites – Why do some sites succeed while the vast majority of others fail? More and more website owners are asking themselves these questions. The answers are often more obvious than you may think.
    • Design Myths of the A Good Designer – These rules were designed to be followed but not necessarily at all times. Sometimes the need arises for them to break them. But it is always best to know them first before breaking them.
    • Extreme Web Site Makeover – Does your web site bring in new leads? Does it increase customer satisfaction or generate additional sales? If not, it may be time for a web site makeover. Below are a few key questions to consider before you redesign your web site.
    • Webmunism – “Part search engine, part multimedia gallery, Webmunism is a new service for finding online pictures, videos, albums, and knowledge, all united into self-organizing categories.”
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    • Web 2.0 announcer – web2announcer aggregates the top stories from all the well known social bookmarks, and gives you the ability to bookmark your favorites, or browse them by tag.
    • A Beginner’s Guide to Web Page Design – Designing your own successful web page can seem difficult and nearly impossible if you do not do a little research first. The reason you need to know the basics of web page design is because the design of your website will actually influence whether or not people continue to visit your site and ultimately, whether they will buy from you or not. Obviously, a lot is riding on your website design so it is worthwhile to take this seriously and put some effort into doing it right the first time.
    • Will You Site be a BIG SUCCESS. 7 Reasons Why it Might Not! – With so many new websites going up, it is hard sometimes to tell if your site will be a BIG SUCCESS or an unexpected flop? If you are unsure of whether or not your site will fly with visitors or crash and burn, this article is definitely for you.
    • Title for the Web Page – In a web site, there should always be a Meta Tag for the title of every page because some people are defined by the title of what your site is all about. Why are we doing this?
    • Uvouch video and link bookmarking – Uvouch.com features a powerful user-driven search engine that scours the web looking for the videos and websites you desire. A dynamic Web 2.0 interface lets you instantly add videos and website links to your account, that allows you to organize them using type (public or private), tags and categories. Uvouch.com captures the meta tags of videos and web sites to track relevant information and allow you to access those videos and sites directly from your Uvouch.com portal. Add notes and comments to the videos and links you collect so that you can remember why you collected them and find them easily in the future.
    • Favoriting.com – Agregador de favoritos (marcadores,bookmarks) en español para la comunidad hispanohablante. Permite importar tus favoritos desde el fichero html generado con del.icio.us, blinklist, … La mejor en español, sin duda.
    • Free web design tips for small business people – You have identified that to have an internet prescience would be of benefit to your small business, however are not sure how to proceed. This article gives free tips on web design services and practices and on how to keep your web designer happy and on side.
    • Bloodee – Social Bookmarking for Horror – New horror 2.0 Social Bookmarking Site that works just like digg.com does. Nice design.
    • Color association in logos and designs – These logo and color association is called business “branding”. Branding is the strategy in which businesses create and maintain their own unique symbol; can be in terms of a logo,fonts,graphics and most especially, colors.
    • Benefit in promoting site online – The benefit of promoting site online is through web promotion. It is an internet marketing strategy that makes your site visible to internet,thats why we offers web services such as web designing, web developing, search engine optimization, video editing … provide you the services you need at a very affordable price
    • Excites – Fun social bookmarking site, save and share your bookmarks online with Excites.
    • Doing it yourself – Seeing websites online makes you wonder how these people, company and business go about having their own websites. The things that are put into these sites appear so complicated that you may think it takes a lot of time and knowledge to be able to go about having your own site.
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    • GoobToob – At GoobToob you can discover and discuss new video clips, vote your favorite videos to the top, and submit new video clips from many of the different video upload services. GoobToob is a consensus filter. It leverages the wisdom of crowds to filter out the best content to the top. Users submit videos for review by others. The videos that get the most votes make it to the front page.
    • Smarking – Italian Social Bookmarking
    • Portachi – Check out how it works on “About” page
    • Vote Sexy – User-powered sexy video clips filter.
    • TeacherShare – TeacherShare.org is a place for educators (including graduate students) to store and categorize website links (bookmarks). It’s also a place to upload, store, categorize and share your own course papers, pre-print materials and the like.
    • Chaamp – A social news website for sports fans. Users submit, rate, and discuss sports related content from all over the world.
    • Bookmark.it – Italian Social Bookmarking.
    • WireFan.Com – Bookmarking – Advanced Social Bookmarking Application
    • Linkatopia – It’s like del.icio.us but with a lot more features.
    • Optimiz.us – Great social bookmarking site. Very interesting, informative and useful sites on their Popular Page.
    • The Best Stuff in the World – Social bookmarking of real stuff like the best coffee, movie, feeling, and the list goes on.
    • SocialBookmarking.org – Great bookmarking AND blogging site. Right, you can blogpost there, too! That’s really nice. Check ‘em out. Name is easy to remember, too!later, michigan
    • Blosker – A little different social bookmarking… For porn!
    • eKudos – Bookmarking site where you give kudos to popular links. Dutch site with Dutch and international links. Number of users is still limited, i.e. top at the list for November 2006 has 16 kudos.
    • TagTooga.com – TagTooga social bookmarking / Wiki shared directory. Integrates site listings, embedded video, PAD submissions, blurbs, code fragments, and MySpace friends.
    • Wykpop – Don’t worry – speak Polish – be happy
    • Social Bookmark Strategies PDF (free) – Learn how to use Social Bookmarks the right way to attract target traffic to your own resources and websites, without spamming
    • Advanced Social Bookmark Strategies PDF (free) – Learn how to use Social Bookmarks to attract people that are intested in the same topics as you are and profit from it, ethically correct
    • Ineffabile – Italian Social Bookmarking
    • Loturak – Social bookmarking site for Spanish (and Catalán, Gallego y Euskera). OPenSource
    • Simpy – Another good bookmarking site. Import from del.icio.us, add your Google Adsense account, increase your earnings.
    • Reddit -
    • Do_you_REALLY_know_your_Neighbor? – Do you REALLY know your Neighbor? Is he a criminal or sexual preditor? What about you kids boyfriend or girlfriend? Here’s how you can find out anything about anyone. Friends, Neighbors, co-workers.
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    • Complore – It is a social Research Collaboration tool to bring university students, researchers etc together to collaborate research.
    • Gada – No registration needed
    • ClipClip – Use ClipClip to: * Clip anything you find interesting on any web page * View only the relevant clips exactly as they appeared * Share and collaborate with clips from family, friends and colleagues.
    • CiteULike – Scholar social bookmarking site
    • Tall Street – Social bookmarking site that is run like a stock market and rewards good contributions.
    • Article Tag – Social Bookmarking service.
    • Indiagram – An Open Source Bookmarking facility for the Indian Community. Its based on Scuttle and presently is in beta-version.
    • GOESBY.COM – You can check update status of the blogs you bookmarked. And you can auto play added blogs of your bookmark and the others which updated within your indecated time. We call this GOESBY. Ofcource you can auto play just your bookmark you searched. And GOESBY.COM has function named Memory. Memory is like Bookmark, but memory disappear 24 hours. You can use memory like bookmarklet. If you like the page memoried, you must bookmark within 24hours. We can prevent you from bookmarking rubbish page.
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    • i89.us – Social bookmarking website that is about to launch photo and video bookmarking
    • My Web 2.0 BETA – My Web 2.0 is your home for everything you find interesting online. It allows you to find, save and share knowledge on the Web.
    • Do_You_Hate_SPAM?_Click_Here_To_STOP_it! -
    • Connotea -
    • Yummy! Social PDF Library – Bookmark and find PDFs and print them too!
    • reddit: not safe for work – adult social bookmarking -
    • Kaboodle -
    • wists – A service which allows you to visually bookmark any page on the web, then automatically create a small image, text summary, and set of keywords that can be shared with friends and others.
    • uLinkx – Social Video/Music Bookmarking – uLinkx is Social Video/Music Bookmarking service. We call it, Social Media Organizer or Social Media aggregator. On uLinkx, you can search for Google Videos, Yahoo Videos and YouTube videos and bookmark them in form of playlist. Similarly, you can search for Music and add them to playlist. You can play music playlist on your favorite music player. The main goal is to make uLinkx the social hub of the intenet media.
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    • Taggly.com – Online Social Bookmarks Manager
    • Otavo – The Intention Engine – Social bookmarking + friends networking + Q&A = Questing with Otavo. Go Beyond Tagging! Start Questing and organizing information by HOW plan to use it. Instead of tagging and filing your links like a librarian.
    • Fanpop – Lots of different categories for fans of different interests. Each category includes a list of links, content and info about each category (rated by fans of that category).
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    • Scuttle -
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    • BackFlip -
    • Browsr – A web 2.0 site which arranges site into catagories.
    • Mecanbe – Goal listing, rating, tracking, measuring, sharing, motivating. Web 2.0 + Self-Development = You 2.0
    • Social bookmarking and tagging | indiamarks… where india bookmarks – Indian social bookmarking and tagging engine where you can save useful websites, news and your favorites for quick and easy access anytime and also search useful websites bookmarked by others
    • meme-stream – Very much like digg but for funny things.
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    • BlogMemes – A social and democratic bookmarking Web Site, part of the BlogMemes Network (french, spanish and portugese also available)
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    • BlinkBits -
    • LinkaGoGo – Compact view … folders + tagging; each bookmark can be individually marked as private or public.
    • Netvouz -
    • Feedmarker -
    • Maple -
    • CrispyNews.com – They provide the software and hosting for you to build your own community news site (like digg) for free AND they let you earn money from your own ads.
    • SirLook – SirLook is a social bookmarking site with several different webmasters and bloggers tools.
    • Linkologia – Polish social bookmarking site.
    • Estate Planning – Estate planning information and social sookmarking site
    • Bloglot -
    • Bookkit – excellent new service
    • ListMixer – Throwaway Bookmarks
    • Segnalo – Italian Social Bookmarking
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    • People Feeds -
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    • Ticklr – Social bookmarking for lawyers. Great tool for all the law bloggers and law students.
    • Home Water Filters – We offer high quality Water Filteration system.Specialist in all kinds of home water filters,shower filters and replacement filter cartridge that suit your lifestyle & preferences.
    • Herpes Information – Herpes information social sookmarking site. Contains herpes symptom and treatment information and resources for herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases.
    • gayshortcut.com – gay social bookmark site – This is a new social bookmark site for gay topics
    • Ameesa – I have a new social bookmarking site, pls add Ameesa to your awesome list.
    • OpenBM -
    • Imp.etuo.us – Adult social bookmarking site.
    • Lilisto -
    • LookMarks -
    • TagHop -
    • Asia Model Hunt – First Models Database In the World. Embedded with TagWorld Widget, MuseStorm Widget, GabblyChat Widget, CafePress Shop, Mobile Download and Articles Portal
    • Lifeslot – Articles for lifstyle,health,men,women, download movie clips,templates, and many more
    • SocialPorn – welcome to Porn 2.0
    • 30DayTags – A tagging website directory. People powered tags that expire in 30 days.
    • H2O Playlist – Somewhat similar to Listible.
    • Jots -
    • Blue.us -
    • Feed Me Links -
    • Unalog -
    • BmAccess -
    • Tagsy -
    • Rrove.com – Rrove is a social bookmark service for locations. Use Rrove to save addresses so you can easily revisit them. More than that, you can use Rrove to discover interesting places such as restaurants or a free wifi zone.
    • MyProgs -
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    • Feed Butler – Top Feed News and Social Bookmarks = Feed Butler
    • Dutch Social Bookmarking site – This is the (currently only) Social Bookmarking site for the Netherlands. It is completely in the Dutch language, aimed to bring web2.0 to the Dutch (business) market.
    • De.lirio.us – Social bookmarking + blogging + notes. Open-source.
    • Millions Of Games – A list of thousands of casual games, tagged, rated and bookmarked by hundreds of users every day.
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    • Got_Computer_Problems?_Free_Diagnostic_Tools_Repair_Your_PC_Instantly -
    • Pur Water Filters – We offers a wide range of Aquasana- Water Filters,Shower Filters. Our all water filteration system is the best in purity and standard.Find Whole House Water Filters and Replacement Water Filters at discount price.
    • Income Tax Information – Income Tax information social sookmarking site.
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    • MAKE MONEY WITH DIRECT MARKETING – MAKE MORE REVENUES WITH DIRECT MARKETING AND ADSENSE
    • Millionlot – Real Estate Cheapest and Largest Directory.Serving 9 Different Countries.Starting from USD 1.00
    • Would_Your_Family_Be_SAFE_In_An_EMERGENCY?_Click_Here_To_Find_Out! -
    • MotorKen – User filtered auto news website.
    • How_to_STOP_Panic_Attacks_and_Anxiety_without_Medications_GUARANTEED! -
    • Rollyo – Roll your own search engine. Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo. Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust… share your searchrolls … Firefox-plugin … Bookmark-import … roll it with ROLLYO!
    • Best Shower Filters – The best marketplace of shower filters,water filters and whole house water filter system for you and your family. Our aquasana shower filter is one of the best in the market.It is suitable for a good hair and healthy skin. We offer discount on every product.
    • LIQUID TRUST PROVEN TO WORK! – Liquid Trust Spray is the world’s first Oxytocin product, specially formulated and Proven to get people to trust you! Featured on NBC, ABC, National Geographic, BBC News, NPR and WebMD
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    Web 2.0 Experience Part 3

    As promised here is Part III of the Web 2.0 Experience Post

    DarkEye – Living Design Showcase

    DarkEye is a new breed of ‘living’ web design showcase. You’re in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.

    orTubes-Coppermine

    orTubes-Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web video gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.

    Riya

    Face recognition technology

    RunFatBoy

    RunFatBoy is an easy to use workout site that aims to give beginners a simple starting point for getting in shape.

    CrazyEgg

    Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not. Crazy Egg – Improve the design of your web pages and web site.

    TODO LIST : ajax todolist in php/mysql

    TodoList is an open-source project providing a simple to-do list system write in Php/Mysql, ajax, css.

    SocialCookBook — Recipes for the people, By the people

    Brand spankin’ new user-based recipes website with Web2.0 Goodness.

    Protopage

    Customized homepages that display multiple widgets.

    introPLAY

    Exercise community where users can (a) track workouts, (b) play in competitive exercise leagues (like fantasysports) and (c) participate in cooperative teams.

    Listal

    Listal is a social website where you can list all the movies, books, music and games you own and want!

    gumshoo – Simply Safer eBay Shopping

    gumshoo offers specialized search filters and risk analysis tools for eBay auctions. Filter out junk, accessories, foreign items and more. Analyze auctions for signs of potential fraud. Find misspelled auctions and save money.

    CL2

    Google new calendar in early private beta.

    Fleck.com Beta Program

    Fleck.com is “patent pending, world changing, paradigm shifting and user experience enhancing technology. Tagging, search, blog, AJAX and social networking, every WEB2.0 hype is covered” Nobody (expect the founders) knows what Fleck REALLY is but the beta should start in March/April 2006 and you can learn a lot from the Blog too.

    Stylehive

    Visual bookmarking for the product and shopping obsessed. In addition to being very visual, it has some great features like the “sendto” tag, “wish list” tag and multi currency “price” tag.

    LibrayThing

    Catalog your books online and show everyone your library, or keep it private. Find people with the same books as you. Get recommendations from readers like you.

    StreetEasy

    StreetEasy provides easy ways to search for all of the apartments for sale in New York City. Plus info about the apartment buildings, school districts, condo/co-op boards, communities, price trends, etc.

    ProductWiki

    A wiki for product information that allows users to add products, start discussions and compile personal lists.

    isolatr

    Finally, a web 2.0 service worth using. “Helping you find where other people aren’t.”

    Zooomr

    Social photo sharing. You can tag, geotag (via GoogleMaps), peopletag (linked to other people’s accounts), attach audio commentary, etc. Available in 15 languages.

    BlockRocker.com

    Geographically listed, IP localized, fully tagable classifieds with presence awareness for Skype and AIM – and more to come!

    Carbonmade

    Carbonmade is a set of easy to use management tools to publish your design portfolio online.

    CoComment

    This attempts to bring all your comments on blogs in a centralized page. I love this because I never lose tracks of blogs where I left a note.

    CrispyNews.com

    They provide the software and hosting for you to build your own community news site (like digg) for free AND they let you earn money from your own ads.

    mag.nolia

    Social bookmarking site.

    Fon

    FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy FREE WiFi Access all over the world!

    You need hardware to participate here, how cool is that!

    Memotoo.com

    Centralize and share your personal datas (bookmarks, address book, calendar, files, …) with Memotoo.com to find from any computer connected to Internet !

    putfwd.com – Free file storage with a twist

    Unique free file storage service (1GB free space) which combines social networking, file sharing, and easy publishing (photo galleries, podcasts, blogs), creating new ways of sharing and using files online.

    Google Mars

    Have a view of mars through Google maps

    Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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  • Web 2.0 Experience Part 2

    As promised here is Part II of the Web 2.0 Experience Post

    TrendyFriendy.com

    Revenue sharing community. 50% of all ad space spreads between users.

    YouMe.Us

    Don’t Decide Alone. Relationship decision-making made fun and easy.

    Social Search

    Social Search app where you trade the results like a stock market

    Suggest and Share Local Places for your Meetings, Events and Parties

    On SuggestLocal.com, you can suggest and share local places for our meetings, events and parties. No more emailing back and forth about where to go on Friday night with all our friends! Just one site where you can list all the options and see all recipients’ responses automatically updated on the page without a page refresh!

    Xufe Bets

    Web 2.0 social sports betting, odds comparison and bookmaker stats.

    Webmunism

    Mashup combining photos, videos, albums and knowledge, united into self-organizing categories. Sign up to join webmunes and blog about the webmunes that matter to you.

    GagMag.net

    Event Listing on Phone – New York, San Francisco, London and the whole WORLD. Check all the upcoming events in your town from a cell phone.

    PiXPO

    Broadcast an online video site in minutes

    GotuitSceneMaker – Social Video Tagger

    Find, tag and share the best online videos with this free YouTube and Metacafe social video bookmarking site.

    RadarSync

    RadarSync offers a database of over 80,000 device drivers and software updates for your computer. Try the free scan there now.

    Bubble Share

    Very easy to use Web 2.0 photosharing site, with some really innovate features.

    SurfNinja.com

    SurfNinja.com is a graphical, fully interactive, AJAX based homepage, with all of your favorite websites in one place. You can drag and drop your favorite icons in and out of your personal start page.

    MessengerFX

    Ajax based MSN Web Messenger

    Boompa.com

    Boompa is a car/vehicle community for users to upload their rides and share knowledge of aftermarket parts.

    Fanpop

    A network of social portals around topics of interest created by fans

    social surveys – for everyone who creates anything.

    a super easy way for you to get feedback on all your creative efforts. photographers, artists, web designers, whoever. Also a cool way for you to pay people for their input if you want.

    CellSwapper.com: Get Out of Any cellphone Contract

    CellSwapper matches individuals who are currently locked into a cell phone contract, with those who are would jump at the prospect of a short-term contract (as low as 1 month), a free phone and no activation fees. CellSwapper.com provides an online marketplace for wireless plans and also offers some of the hottest phones at heavily discounted prices.

    CellSwapper takes things one step further by actually providing the online technology to make the transfer process as seamless as possible.

    Ajax Write

    The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.

    Collaboration Tool for Research

    A social Networking site to expand research among students, teachers around the world. Just register and share, search articles, lectures, papers, events, bookmarks. etc.

    workmagnet – new jobsite

    It’s new, looks good, feels different. The only problem is the lack of jobs and features, but they promise to add new things every week… Definitely one to keep an eye on – no AJAX as far as I can see, does that count as 2.0?

    Picato- Share pictures of cats or kittens

    Picato is a site for sharing pictures of your cat. You can browse pictures of other cats or view their profiles. Pictures can be categorized, organized and sorted by tags.

    TalentSpy

    TalentSpy is a service that provides job seekers and employers a quick and easy way to find the jobs and the staff they’re looking for. Was lucky enough to get a preview – looks great!

    Zigtag

    A Personal Knowledge Library allowing you to search, save and share your important information, ideas and knowledge.

    Pageflakes

    I like Pageflakes because the modules it has are more intelligent than other start pages like My Yahoo! or Windows Live. Pageflakes has great modules to Flickr, Gmail, del.icio.us to-do list… and RSS reader, of course. Just my prefer start page!

    Platial

    DIY map mash-ups for non-programmers. Super fun.

    Free CSS Shopping Cart

    freeCSScart.com – Free CSS Shopping Cart, css2, web standards, xhtml, web 2.0.

    Tractis

    Online Transnational Justice

    Politics 2.0

    Political news website for the new Web 2.0

    Touchstone

    Client-side dashboard for Web 2.0 Apps

    Remember The Milk

    Never forget the milk (or anything else) again. Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online.

    YourSpins

    Interactive music which allows you to mix, share your mix, make custom ringtones, vote on mixes, etc. etc. Great software, couple of big name artists already, should fly…

    Cingo

    Cingo is a simple, easy and powerful new way to experience the internet and organize your family in one great location! From the clean, uncluttered home page to feature-rich sections such as News, Movie Listings, and Shared Calendar and To-Do Lists, Cingo helps your family to easily stay connected online. And best of all, Cingo is free!

    Shout Central

    Beta version of a new Social Community site featuring real time AJAX chat.

    Isolatr

    Helping you find where other people aren’t

    Litepost.us

    “Easily, the world’s fastest email.” Nice interface. I hope this releases by the summer.

    FlexDirectory

    FlexDirectory is an ultra-lightweight directory web application, designed for use in small groups/organizations with lots of turnover/change of roles. It isn’t currently in ‘beta’, but its new, its AJAX based, and its listening to user comments.

    Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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