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Grow your own Farm with your Friends
Grow delicious fruits and vegetables and raise adorable animals on your very own farm, with the help of your Facebook friends.


Watch your Favorite TV Show
Hulu is a free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, NBA and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc. Our extensive library also includes blockbuster movies like Lost in Translation as wells as classics like Fiddler on the Roof. You can start watching now. No registration or downloads required (USA only)


The Zooming Presentation Editor
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. You can create zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings, and more.


Post Everything via Email
If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous lets you post things online fast using email.


Global Music Radar
With Blip.fm you can get an access to millions of streaming songs, create your own music station, a station programmed by your friends, an audience of music enthusiasts.


You are now Free to be Entertained
On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, Boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.


Only the Very Best Online Games
Friv operates pretty much on a system of one in one out, so when a new game is added it simply replaces the least popular one in the existing selection.


Your Social Lifestream
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.


Draw and Share Diagrams Online
Application that provide platform independent Internet applications with rich user interfaces for collaboration. Diagrammming in your web browser without donloading additional software.


Create and Share Fun Artworks with Friends
Kerpoofs flagship activity, now called the Kerpoof Art Studio, allows children to create artwork in a variety of themes and styles that they can print, e-mail, create greeting cards or coloring pages. There are more than 45 Kerpoof settings available in the Art Studio ranging from wacky cartoon worlds to historical worlds, animal habitats and many more.


Refreshing Money Management
Mint allows you to view all of your banking and credit card transactions side-by-side, making identifying all of your transactions much easier and faster than ever before. Mint makes it easy for you to track down erroneous charges or bank fees, and keep a closer eye on your money.


Find and Share Professional Documents
Docstoc is a free online document exchange database and social networking site that allows users to store, search, and share virtually any type of document (word, excel, powerpoint, pdf, illustrator, etc). Similar in concept to Flickr.com (for photos) and YouTube.com (for videos) Docstoc will be the online community for sharing all types of documents. The users will post, categorize, and rate thousands of documents that can be reused by other users for a variety of purposes.


The end of Slideshows
Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.


Online Photo Editor
FotoFlexer is one of the most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software. FotoFlexer integrates with leading photo sites and social networks. Import and export photos with ease.


Better Way to Search for Information
Lijit Creates a social network search, based on your blog(s), your opml, and your social networks and web 2.0 sites including digg, flickr, reddit, myspace, linkedin, and youtube. It creates a Google CSE using an Google account you provide.


Documents and Spreadsheets – Free Online Application from Google
With Google Docs and Spreadsheets you can create basic documents and spreadsheets from scratch. You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free. You can also upload your existing files. Google Docs & Spreadsheets accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files; all your formatting and formulas will come through intact.


Universal Personalized Music Mashup
Foxytunes Planet is an aggregates music videos, photos, news, bios and much more from any number of sources all over the Web into one convenient place. The Planet is universal – it can support any music site, service or store. Many great sites are already supported, and the list will be growing fast.


Making Forms = Easy + Fast + Fun
Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Because Wufoo host everything, all you need is a browser, an Internet connection and a few minutes to build a form and start using it right away.


What are you Doing?
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web.


An Open, Decentralized, Free Framework for User-Centric Digital Identity
OpenID has emerged as the de-facto user-centric identity framework allowing millions of people to interact online. Developers of Open Source projects are rapidly adding support for OpenID in order to enable their communities. The OpenID framework provides the means for users to share other components of their digital identity. By utilizing the emerging OpenID Attribute Exchange specification, users are able to clearly control what pieces of information can be shared by their Identity Provider, such as their name, address, or phone number.


Photo Sharing / Teen Social Network
Piczo has created a space that gives teens around the world the freedom and tools to express themselves and connect with friends in a safer social networking environment.Piczo allows its users to create fully customizable personal websites that do not require any understanding of html code. Users share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics,
guest books, comment boards, music, and more. Each site can be linked to other friends sites and users can interact with them and their friends, and meet new people online.


Online Photo Editing Made Fun
With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It’s the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.


A New Way to Watch TV
Combining the best of TV with the best of the internet, Joost gives you more control and freedom than ever before – control over what you watch, and freedom to watch it whenever you like. Joost providing a platform for the best television – a platform that will bring you the biggest and best shows from the TV studios, as well as the specialist programs created by professionals and enthusiasts.


Access Millions of Original Documents – Most Never Seen on the Web Before
At Footnote you can view some of the most exciting original source documents available for the first time on the internet. Easily explore historic documents and photos in fine detail. Easily detail people, places & dates you find. Write about what you find & let others in on your discovery.


Technology News Website Combined with Social Bookmarking
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.


Upload, Enhance and Share your Videos
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.


Snap Preview Anywhere
Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted trips to linked sites.


Take Control of your Money
Wesabe makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.


Free Online File Conversion
ZAMZAR will allow you to convert any files you want without the need of download software to your computer. Just a good, free – web based tool!


Relationships Matter
Your professional relationships are key to your professional success. LinkedIn mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have.

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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.

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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 Logo in Photoshop

    There are thousands of tutorials on the web on how to create a Web 2.0 styled logo. I came across one that has a small but very useful bonus. At Hongkiat’s blog there is an excellent tutorial on how to create the infamous Web 2.0 logos and a styles preset download for Photoshop with several styles to create the logos. In the tutorial you can learn how to create these logos.

    web2

    Head on over to Honkkiat’s blog to download the styles preset and take the tutorial. You will soon be able to create your very own Web 2.0 logo.

    blogphoto

    If you need inspiration when creating your Web 2.0 logo then check out Go2Web20.net where you can find hundreds of Web 2.0 logos.

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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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