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http://www.webmd.com

What is WebMD?

WebMD, part of HLTH Corporation, is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information (read more at Wikipedia).

What you may not know about WebMD

WebMD has a great tool for managing what you eat and your fitness schedule.  Using their Food and Fitness planning you can keep track of everything you eat and how often you work out.  Using the planner you can search for foods and it will automatically look up the nutrional facts for you and add them to your daily diet.  In return you can also track your physical activity such as taking a jog in the morning.  They say the best way to help lose weight is to write down everything you eat, well now you can with WebMD’s Food and Fitness planner.

Here’s a quick video on WebMD:

URL:

http://pipes.yahoo.com

What is Yahoo! Pipes?

Yahoo! Pipes is a tool to combine, filter, aggregate, and mashup content on the internet from a variety of sources.  The tool is free to use and you can see the design of anyone’s Pipe to learn how to design your own.  You can mashup RSS feeds, Yahoo Maps, and more.

What you may not know about Yahoo! Pipes

You can create a Pipe in minutes and is a great tool to aggregating content on the internet into 1 simple and easy to use RSS feed.  Providing a few RSS feeds you can join them and output just one feed for your RSS tool to read.

Here’s a quick video on Yahoo! Pipes:

URL:

http://www.cubestat.com

What is CubeStat?

It is a tool that calculates an estimate of how much a website is worth based on the rankings on popular search engines and other website directories.  It gives you an estimated property value, page views, and earned daily Google Adsense.

What you may not know about CubeStat

You can browse a variety of sites previously saved in CubeStat by keywords.

Watch this quick video on CubeStat:

URL:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com

What is DynamicDrive?

Dynamic Drive is a great tool for web developers.  You can find 1000’s of scripts to achieve many popular functions on your website.  Many of these scripts are submitted by a variety of users.  Dynamic Drive also has a large collection of CSS library tools to help you design your sites menus, layout and more.  Learn by example from these libraries of CSS tools.

What you may not know about DynamicDrive

DynamicDrive has a great collection of tools for quickly getting things done for your website.  Some popular tools is the ability to turn an image into a favicon for your website or creating a .htaccess file to password protect a directory.  These tools make these tasks quick and simple in the matter of a few clicks.
Here is a quick video on Dynamic Drive:

URL:

http://www.productplanner.com

What is ProductPlanner?

Product Planner is a tool to create user flows on your web products.  Learn how user registration or user invites work on popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and more.  Each step-by-step user flow shows you how you can model your user flows off of currently popular successful systems that are already working.

What you may not know about ProductPlanner

You can create your owner user flows directly by copying a current system, such as Twitter’s user sign-up and modify it to match your websites user sign-up.  This is a great way to learn how to optimize your sites user flows and increase user activity on your website.

Here’s a quick video on ProductPlanner:

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.quarkbase.com

What is Quarkbase?

Quarkbase is a tool that scavenges the internet and pulls together a report to you about any website.  Learn about the social popularity of the site, how often its getting bookmarked, who’s Twittering it, who’s Digging it and so forth.  It even scours Alexa to provide you with a detailed traffic report to really see how popular the site is.  If you’re looking for something more technical, Quarkbase will also provide you with details such as the framework its built on, an approximation of location of the server its hosted on and much more.

What you may not know about Quarkbase

Amongst all of the data Quarkbase compiles for you about a website, it even looks for contact numbers.  So say you’re having trouble finding a customer service number or a contact number for the site, see if Quarkbase can find it for you.  Quarkbase may even help you find the owner of the site itself, so that you can contact him/her if you have further inquires on the site.

Here’s a quick video on Quarkbase:

URL:

http://www.websitegrader.com

What is Website Grader?

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

What you may not know about Website Grader

Website Grader not only gives your a grade on your website, it gives you details tips and suggestions to better optimize your site.  This is a great tool to check your sites to make sure that you didn’t overlook a simple metatag add or to see how many pages are linking into you.  Its definitely a quick synopsis of your site on some things you can do to your site to imporve your search engine rankings.

Here’s a quick video on Website Grader: