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Topsy.com – Search for topics based on Twitter popularity

Anthony — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:55:04 +0000

URL:

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:

AmieStreet.com – How to download free music or cheaper than iTunes

Anthony — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:04:56 +0000

URL:

http://www.amiestreet.com

What is AmieStreet?

AmieStreet is a website to discover new music. If you’re one for being ahead of the curve on discovering new music, you get rewarded. For less popular songs, downloads are really cheap or even free! So discover new music quickly and don’t pay for them to legitimately download the MP3’s. As songs become more popular the price of the song goes up. Regardless its very easy that you’ll be able to purchase songs less than those of iTunes.

What you may not know about AmieStreet

AmieStreet has a great recommendation engine. Easily import your iTunes library, Pandora playlist or Last.FM account and quickly discover new music based off of the music you are already listening too. So here’s a jumpstart to finding new music and download cheap and free MP3’s.

Here’s a video of AmieStreet:

Walyou.com – Find new, future, and unique gadgets

Anthony — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:04:44 +0000

URL:

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:

TheSixtyOne.com – How to build a reputation for discovering new music

Anthony — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:04:16 +0000

URL:

http://www.thesixtyone.com

What is TheSixtyOne?

TheSixtyOne is a site to discover new music and share with others music you’ve discovered. Gain scene credit points for the amount of music you listen to, recommend, and favorite. If you think you know what the next best thing is in music, then show how well you really do know new music with TheSixtyOne.

What you may not know about TheSixtyOne

You can ‘bump’ or vote up a song to show that you really like the song, but your bumps are going to cost you, your scene points that is. Less popular songs cost more to bump, but in return can increse your rewards if the song becomes more popular. The idea is to make better decisions on what songs you vote on, by making you have to accumulate points to spend on things such as ‘bumping’ songs.

Here’s a quick video on TheSixtyOne:

Digg.com – Find the best recommended content on the web

Anthony — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:46:15 +0000

URL:

http://www.digg.com

What is Digg?

Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Digg

Did you know that you can use Digg to get the latest content about a particular subject? Digg has custom RSS feeds based on search. This means if you want to know anytime something is added to Digg about Nintendo Wii you can build a custom RSS feed based on the search “Nintendo Wii”. With the custom RSS feed you can add it to your favorite news aggregator.

Here is how to build a custom RSS feed with Digg: