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http://www.netflix.com

What is Netflix?

Netflix is an online subscription service that will allow you rent hundreds of thousands of movies and stream thousands more to your PC.  When you rent a movie, it is shipped to you in the mail and you can return it at any time, no late fees.  Once you return the movie, the next movie in your queue is shipped to you.  Shipping both ways is free.  Newer to Netflix is the ability to stream thousands of movies directly through your browser, making it easy to watch movies instantly.

What you may not know about Netflix

Recently, more and more devices are enabled with the ability to stream Netflix movies directly to your TV.   Devices such as Playstation 3, Xbox, Nintento Wii, Roku, and more are enabled.

Watch this quick video and check it out for yourself:

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:

http://www.fansnap.com

What is FanSnap?

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?

Here’s a quick video on FanSnap for you:

URL:

http://www.alternativeto.net

What is AlternativeTo?

AlternativeTo will help you find alternative software applications and websites to some of the most popular ones you may already know.  The best thing is, you can use AlternativeTo to find popular free replacements for programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office!  Next time you’re looking for software options, use AlternativeTo to see what other programs are similar and popular.

What you may not know about AlternativeTo

You can quickly login with your Facebook account and start sharing your favorite program.  Not only that, you can search for keywords related to the type of program you’re looking for and see which ones are most popular.

Here’s a short video on AlternativeTo.net:

URL:

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.recipematcher.com

What is RecipeMatcher?

RecipeMatcher is a recipe website based off of the idea of revese recipe lookup.  What this mean is you first create a pantry of ingredients that you have in your home and then find recipes of things you can make without grocery shopping.  Even if you wanted to make something that you may not have all the ingredients, you’ll be quickly given the missing ingredients to add to your grocery list.

What you may not know about RecipeMatcher

RecipeMatcher gives you the option to add your own recipes to their library as well as favorite the ones you like the most.  This allows you to create a recipe book of your own that you can quickly go to to see what you can make from your current pantry. It also allows you to expand on the recipe library giving the community of RecipeMatcher users more options with their iPantry.

Here’s a quick video on RecipeMatcher:

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:

URL:

http://www.priceprotectr.com

What is PriceProtectr?

Use Price Protectr to track prices of things you’re thinking about buying, and save money even after you buy. There are lots of stores out there that offer price protection policies when the price drops on an item you’ve purchased, they’ll refund you the difference. But there’s a catch… it’s up to you to watch prices.  Price Protectr makes it simple to watch prices, keep track of your purchases, and get rebates off price drops.

What you may not know about PriceProtectr

PriceProtectr allows you to monitor a type of product and not just a specific, for great deals.  Click on Deals at the top, enter some keywords for the product you are looking to purchase and get email notifications when different deals come out for your type of product.  Shop smart, without all the hassles.

Here’s a quick video on PriceProtectr:

URL:

http://www.quicksprout.com

What is QuickSprout?

QuickSprout is a blog written by Neil Patel whom has started to largely growing website analytics tools, CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics.   The blog has internet business tips that Neil has accumulated over the past few years and his work online.  He shares his secrets and tricks on blogging and how to make money and generate traffic to your business’ site and/or blog.  A must read blog for any internet entreprenuer out there.

Here’s a quick overview video of QuickSprout

URL:

http://www.befunky.com

What is BeFunky?

BeFunky is an image editing tool that has a variety of professional filters and effects that you can apply to your photos in minutes.  Simply upload a folder, select an effect, tweak it, and download the newly modified image.  This is a great tool for quick edits on the fly with no additional software to install to your computer, oh and it’s free.

What you may not know about BeFunky

BeFunky has a collection of additional tools, objects, and effects that can be applied to your photos.  Add objects such as footballs, balloons, or text bubbles to your images; create a border for your image and much more.  Watch the video below for more on how you can do some really cool things with your photos.