Topsy is a search engine that uses Twitter’s tweets to determine the popularity of a link. This means you can quickly find trends and hot topics across the internet using Topsy. Instead of basing its results off of a much slower determining popularity system such as search engine bots and link popularity. Think of each Twitter user itself as a website. Their popularity helps determine the popularity of topics tweets across the Twittosphere. This is an excellent way to find and discover things on the internet, different from the conventional search engine method.
What you may not know about Topsy
Since Topsy is based on Twitter tweets, you can find newer content faster on the internet. This means you can search results using their time filter (found on the left after a search query) and get newly popular topics within the last hour! Amazing.
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FanSnap is a service to find event, concert, and sporting tickets. FanSnap actually aggregates ticket data from across a network of ticket selling sites and makes the ticket purchase experience much better. Using FanSnap you can easily select your event and it will show you the venue that is interactive. From here you can actually zoom in and pan around the venue to see what tickets are still available. Next you click on an available set of tickets, and make the purchase. Now you’ll know exactly where you’re sitting when you get there!
What you may not know about FanSnap
FanSnap allows the users to upload photos taken at those different seats. This will give you an actual view from those seats at that venue. Can this get an easier?
Lala.com is an online music store and compact disc trading website created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen. The service allows trade-enabled members to legally create online shareable “playlists” (formerly known as “radio stations”) of their own uploaded music which can play full length songs for other registered Lala members, purchase MP3s, stream music on a one-time basis or as inexpensively purchased “web songs.” New members can upload their own music, create playlists, purchase MP3s and web songs, buy new CDs at the Lala store, leave blurbs, and can change their personal account settings to activate trading privileges and also be able to trade CDs and use the community forums. Apple, Inc. acquired Lala on December 4, 2009. (via Wikipedia)
What you may not know about Lala
Lala is great for listening to music from where ever you are, but did you know that you can have Lala create a playlist for you baed on your favorite artists? Using their “Mix it up” feature you can easily search for an artist, then on the right click [Mix it up]. This will take your current artist and similar artists and create a playlist for you. It can’t get much easier than that!
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