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http://www.topsy.com

What is Topsy?

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.

Watch this quick video and check it out for yourself:

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http://www.wikipedia.org

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia.  This means that all of the content on Wikipedia is written and updated by it’s users.  Virtually anyone can add/remove/change content on Wikipedia.   Having this kind of power with collaborative content.  The contents of Wikipedia is very large and continously expanding, quickly.  You can find virtually anything about nearly any topic on Wikipedia.

What you may not know about Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a feature for logged in users called My Watchlist.  This allows you to monitor different pages on any subjest you want.  Since content about different topics on Wikipedia is updated so frequently and fast, its possible to use Wikipedia as a news source.  So by adding your favorite topics to your Watchlist and monitoring the changes, you can get the newest knowledge about a topic your interested in, directly from the authors of Wikipedia, millions.

Here’s a quick video of Wikipedia:

URL:

http://www.timerime.com

What is TimeRime?

TimeRime is an interactive time line search. Use TimeRime to search through thousands of time lines of pictures and text, move through the dates, zoom in and out dynamically. Compare time lines as well.

What you may not know about TimeRime

You can create your own time lines with text and images and embed it into your site, creating a dynamic, interactive time line for yor website or blog.

Here’s a quick video on TimeRime:

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http://www.walyou.com

What is Walyou?

Walyou is a blog about upcoming and unique gadgets.  If you’re a gadget geek, this is the blog for you.  Discover interesting and amazing gadgets on the market and concepts that could be in the future.

What you may not know about Walyou

Each blog post has many images of the gadget so you can get a good idea of exactly what it is, how it works and how you can get your hands on one (if its for sale).

Here’s a quick video on Walyou:

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http://www.scribd.com

What is Scribd?

Scribd is a service that allows you to upload and share popular documents such as PDFs and Powerpoints.  Users can upload their documents and using Scribd they can embed documents for viewing right on their website.  Users can also download the documents and find related documents to their own.

What you may not know about Scribd

Scribd has a very large collection of documents uploaded and that are shared.  Using the search feature, you can search documents on any topic from recipes to web development.  You can then save these favorite documents and create a library of favorite content on Scribd available to you at your fingertips.  This is a great way to create a free library of quality content that you can use as a reference for now and in the future.

Here’s a quick video on Scribd:

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http://www.theonion.com

What is The Onion?

The Onion is an American “fake news” organization. It publishes satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news through an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. The Onion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy items, and by playing on commonly used phrases. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about The Onion

The Onion has a featured called Our Dumb World, that is a Google Maps mashup of articles on The Onion.  What this means is you can visually see a map of the world with Onion icons all over it.  Click on an icon to read that Onion “fact” or “news story”.  It’s definitely a cool way to visually see the different areas of the world The Onion has covered satirical topics on.

Here’s a quick video on The Onion:

http://www.crazyegg.com

What is CrazyEgg?

CrazyEgg is a service for website owners who want deeper, visual analytics about their users.  After installing a quick script to your website, CrazyEgg will start tracking all of your users click, down to the location of their click on your website.  With this you can see where your users are clicking the most and how you can optimize the sections you wish to focus on much more.  They also have a heatmap overlay that shows you a heatmap overlaying your website and hot spots of your user’s clicks.

What you may not know about CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg has this feature called Confetti, which shows these little confetti like dots all over your website.  Each dot is a click from one of your users.  Click on the dot to learn more details about that user, such has how long it took them, before they clicked, where they clicked.  This is a great way to learn how long it takes for some to take a call to action, after reading something.

Here’s a quick video on CrazyEgg:

http://www.tripit.com

What is TripIt?

TripIt.com is a tool for organizing all of your travel.  Just forward over your email confirmations from your airlines and hotel reservations and let TripIt help organize your trips.  You can even set up resturant booking, event ticket purchases and more for your trip.  Then print out an itenrary with all of your trips vitals such as confirmation numbers, dates times, departures, arrivals, maps, phone numbers, and even the weather predictions!  It’s the ultimate tool for travelers.

What you may not know about TripIt

TripIt has a built in social networking system that not only allows you to plan and organize your trips with your friends an colleagues, but it also shares with you which of your friends are going to be traveling to the same location as you.  So now you can call them up and arrange for drinks with them while you’re both traveling to the same location!  You can even see which of your friends are traveling to your home town, so you can see if they have time to meet up with you and catch up over a cup of coffee.

Here’s a quick video on TripIt:

http://www.woome.com

What is WooMe?

WooMe is the world’s largest live introductions platform. WooMe users meet live in timed sessions via webcam. There are no questionnaires, lengthy profile descriptions or software to download. Users can simply find a speed session that interests them, join and meet five people in five minutes. WooMe is easy, fast and free allowing users to meet new people around any shared interest for fun, to hook up, or for pure entertainment. With WooMe, meeting people online is transformed into a face-to-face experience that makes sifting through static profiles a thing of the past.

What you may not know about WooMe

WooMe has a feature called WooMe TV, which actually allows you to watch other people “wooing” each other.  It can be humorous at times, but it also gives you a good idea of the type of people using WooMe and different ways conversation is initiated.  With WooMe you get a better representation of someone from live video over the old static images (which we all know can be deceiving!).

Here’s a quick video on WooMe:

http://www.thinkgeek.com

What is Think Geek?

ThinkGeek is an electronic commerce company and online retailer based in Fairfax, Virginia and a subsidiary of SourceForge, Inc.. It sells items that mostly cater to PC enthusiasts and other “geeky” social groups. Their merchandise consists of clothing, computer hardware, toys and gadgets for around the office, caffeinated drinks, and candy. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Think Geek

Think Geek offers a wide variety of t-shirts as well as illuminate t-shirts that are considered ‘interactactive’.  They also have many cool gadgets and tech toys that you may have never seen before.  Furthermore their extensive caffeine store has everything from Bawls to Shower Shock soap (yes, thats caffeniated soap)

Here’s a video overview of Think Geek: