Best (Free) Resources & Services on the Internet
"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends." - Jeff Bezos.
App Stores

- ANDROID APPS | APPOLICIOUS - App Directory (browse by category) in association with Yahoo!.
- FANTASTICAL VS. TODAY - calendar apps.
- KILLER APP - definition & explanation.
- SHOUTEM - "The World's Simplest Mobile App Maker. Make an App. Build Apps with Easy Application Creator."
- AMAZON APPSTORE FOR ANDROID - American mobile application store for the Google Android operating system and was opened on March 22, 2011. It was launched with around 3,800 applications. These applications can be either free or paid.
- ANDROID MARKET - thousands of applications and games available. NOW GOOGLE PLAY.
- BADA APPS - Samsung.
- BING MAPS
- BLACKBERRY APP WORLD - "Download apps to play games, check the weather, listen to the radio and more. Choose some free apps, or purchase one right from your BlackBerry smartphone."
- BUILD WINDOWS - "At Build, we’ll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more."
- CAMANGI MARKET - application for Android tablet and devices.
- CHROME WEBSHOP
- DRAGON MOBILE APPS - provides BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch users with fast, accurate and easy-to-use voice-enabled solutions for emailing, texting, surfing the mobile web, and much more.
- GOOGLE GOGGLES - downloadable image recognition application created by Google Inc. which can be currently found on the Mobile Apps page of Google Mobile. It is used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark would search for information about it, or taking a picture of a product's barcode will search for information on the product.
- GOOGLE MAPS
- GOOGLE PLAY - 675.000+ apps. Gives you one place to find, enjoy, & share Apps, Music, Movies & Books - instantly anywhere across the web & android devices. Google Play is your entertainment hub.
- HANDANGO - apps (4,800+) for more than 500 Smartphones and PDAs worldwide (1056 models supported)!
- IPAD APP STORE - "Over 65,000 apps for iPad. For work, play, and everything in between."
- IPHONE APP STORE - as of February 10, 2012, there are at least 725,700+ third-party apps officially available on the App Store.
- IPHONE APPLICATION LIST - "The 1st unofficial listing of Iphone apps and reviews."
- iTunes - "Everything you need to be entertained." Media player and media library application developed by Apple Inc. It is used to play, download, and organize digital audio and video on personal computers running the OS X operating system and the iOS-based iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices, with editions also released for Microsoft Windows.
- LG APPLICATION STORE
- MAC APP STORE - "Thousands of Mac Apps. One simple new way to get them."
- NOKIA MAPS
- OVI STORE - Nokia's app store.
- PALM - "Mobile apps that go further."
- SAMSUNG APPS
- SYMBIAN APPS
Browsers & Operating Systems

- Android - Wikipedia.
- Android version history - Wikipedia.
- KERNEL - Wikipedia.
- MOBILE BROWSER - Wikipedia.
- MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM - Wikipedia.
- OPERATING SYSTEM - Wikipedia.
- WEB BROWSER - Wikipedia.
- ANDROID - mobile operating system. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
- BADA - mobile operating system being developed by Samsung Electronics. It is designed to cover both high-end smartphones and lower-end feature phones.
- CHROME - web browser developed by Google.
- Dolphin Browser - proprietary mobile browser for the Android operating system and iOS.
- IOS 6 - "We've taken iOS to a whole new level. 200+ new features on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch." Apple's mobile operating system. Developed originally for the iPhone, it has since been shipped on the iPod Touch and iPad as well.
- INTERNET EXPLORER 9 - IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format.
- LINUX - is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
- LINUX KERNEL - operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software.
- Mac OS X Lion - eighth and current major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
- MAC OS X SNOW LEOPARD - the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system.
- MEEGO - open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity.
- Microsoft Explorer 8 - the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series.
- MOZILLA FIREFOX 4 - free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. The second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- NETSCAPE - official support ended on March 1st, 2008.
- OPERA - web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company.
- OPERA MINI - "Experience the full Internet with the fastest mobile phone browser in the world."
- OPERA MOBILE - mobile browser.
- SAFARI 4 - web browser developed by Apple.
- SKYFIRE - mobile browser. Currently runs on Windows Mobile & Nokia, Symbian S60 3rd edition phones.
- SYMBIAN - is Nokia's open source operating system (OS) and software platform designed for smartphones and maintained by the Symbian Foundation.
- TWEETDECK - "TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more."
- UBUNTU - based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software.
- WINDOWS 8 - Microsoft's newestoperating system. Official download site.
- WINDOWS INTERNET EXPLORER 9 - IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format.
- WINDOWS MOBILE - mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and mobile devices, but is being currently phased out to specialized markets. It is superseded by Windows Phone 7.
- WINDOWS PHONE 7 - mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform.
Concierge Services

- CONCIERGE SERVICE - Wikipedia.
- PERSONAL ASSISTANT - Wikipedia.
- AMBER LOUNGE - the ultimate VIP nightlife experience which follows the F1 Grand Prix series around the world. Venues: Monaco, Singapore, Delhi & Abu Dhabi.
- AMOSU - free international concierge service included when you buy an Amosu mobile phone: "access the inaccessible!"
- BLUEFISH - "The premiere lifestyle, concierge, and travel service to the rich and famous. We are the ultimate little black book. We can secure impossible access to A-list events, set up that "I never thought I could do this" adventure, line up private charter flights and book luxury accommodations in every city around the world."
- BON VIVANT - luxury concierge and lifestyle management service in London.
- CARTE BLANCHE PLUS - concierge service and lifestyle management. Exclusive private members club; invitation open only to those who enjoy and indulge in a luxury lifestyle.
- CONTINENTAL CONCIERGE - "No matter where you are in the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Continental Concierge is here to help with all your needs, however extraordinary or difficult they may be. Our multi-lingual representatives are at hand to assist with any requirements you may have, anytime in the day & anywhere in the world."
- COUTTS WORLD - Coutts & Co, the UK’s leading private bank, is today reclaiming the top spot in the super-premium charge card market by launching Coutts World card a ‘cut above the rest’, offering an extensive concierge service, exceptionally high AirMiles collection rate, comprehensive insurance plus privileged access to a range of luxury goods, services and exclusive special offers that have been created with the lifestyle of Coutts’ clients in mind.
- FENEO CONCIERGE - access to many of London's exclusive nightcluds. "You will receive access to a whole VIP clubbing and social experience with a difference. This exclusive package is what we like to call the West-Ends golden ticket."
- HEADCONCIERGE.COM - "Making the difference." Personal & corporate concierge services.
- HIGHLIFE ASIA - "Asia'a Premier Luxury Concierge and Lifestyle Management." Shanghai, China.
- LE CLUB - private concierge and best luxury services: events, leisures, vacations, shopping, on the move, beauty, business.
- MILLIONAIRE'S CONCIERGE - "The World's Ultimate & Complete Concierge."
- PRIVÉ INTERNATIONAL - "The Art of Living Well." The world's leading bespoke luxury service. Members only.
- Pure Conciergerie - based in Montreal, Canada. Luxury concierge company. Bespoke experiences.
- QUINTESSENTIALLY - the world's leading private members' club and concierge service.
- RC CONCEPTS MONACO - with 10 years experience around the organisation of the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix we rent private terraces/balcony to watch the race and all the logistic going with it.
- TEN - a lifestyle management company that helps members get the most from their lives.
- THE WORLD'S FINEST CLUBS - recognises that your time is too precious to be kept waiting in queues. As a world traveller you are used to a welcome with a smile and to be personally guided to your exclusive table in the most luxurious venues:exlusive clubs, hotels and restaurants.
- T-L-G | Through the Looking Glass - "The Ultimate Boutique Fine Brokerage Concierge Cabinet d'Expertise." Management, acquisition, charters & private islands sales and rental. Mayfair, London, England, U.K.
- VANTAGE LIFESTYLE CONSULTING - exclusive concierge agency. "With a bit of glamour and touch of prestige we provide the most exclusive personal concierge, lifestyle management and assistance service. We provide you with your own personal assistant whom will be on call to handle each and every request."
- VERTU CONCIERGE - "Imagine a world where, at the touch of a button, you are instantly connected to a team of experts with a global wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts."
- V1 PRIVATE JETS - offers luxury-minded and high-profile clientele on-demand private jet charter services for both domestic and international travel. Our comprehensive suite of jet charter and concierge services means you won't have to look anywhere else for all of your travel arrangement needs. From ground transportation bookings to dinner reservations, no request is too big or too small for our privileged clients.
- WORLD CLASS CONCIERGE SERVICES - "24/7 World Class Concierge Services."
- V1 PRIVATE JETS - offers luxury-minded and high-profile clientele on-demand private jet charter services for both domestic and international travel. Our comprehensive suite of jet charter and concierge services means you won't have to look anywhere else for all of your travel arrangement needs. From ground transportation bookings to dinner reservations, no request is too big or too small for our privileged clients.
- WORLD CLASS CONCIERGE SERVICES - "24/7 World Class Concierge Services."
Dictionaries

- ACRONYM & INITIALISM - Wikipedia.
- DICTIONARY - Wikipedia.
- GLOSSARY - Wikipedia.
- INTERNET SLANG - Wikipedia.
- LEXICON - Wikipedia.
- SLANG - Wikipedia.
- THESAURUS - Wikipedia.
- A DICTIONARY OF SLANG - dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms.
- ABBREVIATIONS.COM - browse the web's largest acronyms & abbreviations directory by category.
- ACRONYM FINDER - abbreviations and acronyms dictionary: find definition for over 4,219,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms.
- ALL ACRONYMS - 792,913 acronyms and abbreviations.
- BABYLON'S ONLINE DICTIONARY - Babylon's Online Dictionary is dedicated to serving you the finest selection of the dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias on the web: more than 1400 dictionaries. More than 75 languages. Search myriads of terms, expressions and phrases.
- BUSINESS DICTIONARY - "Over 20,000 terms. Clear. Concise. Comprehensive."
- COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY - free online dictionaries.
- CREDO REFERENCE - "Smart Research Starts Here." Puts the world's best citable information at your fingertips. Find: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions.
- DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH SLANG AND COLLOQUIALISMS
- DICTIONARY OF MILITARY AND ASSOCIATED TERMS - acronyms, abbreviations and terms searchable by definition and usage of individual terms (US Department of Defense).
- ENCARTA
- FASHION MODELING TERMS - "Modeling terms are something that every model and aspiring model should know."
- FINANCIAL DICTIONARY - by Investopedia a Forbes company.
- HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF ENGLISH - contains more than 920,000 words and meanings.
- INTERNETSLANG.COM - Internet slang words, Internet dictionary.
- INTERNET SLANG ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
- INTERNET SLANG DICTIONARY & TRANSLATOR - translate internet slang and acronyms.
- INVESTOPEDIA - financial dictionary.
- LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY - legal resources & definitions.
- LEGAL-EXPLANATIONS.COM - legal resources in plain English.
- MACMILLAN DICTIONARY - free Englishline online dictionary and thesaurus.
- MEDICINE NET.COM - "We Bring Doctors' Knowledge to You."
- MERIAM-WEBSTER ONLINE - dictionary and thesaurus.
- MODELLING TERMINOLOGY - list of terms which describe various types of modeling and photography, as well as various styles and states of dress.
- MSN ENCARTA - online encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and homework.
- NETLINGO - Internet dictionary, acronyms, text message jargon & smileys.
- NETWORK DICTIONARY - network and telecom dictionary. A knowledge base on IT, networking, computing and telecommunication technologies.
- NINJAWORDS - "A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja."
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY - etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
- ONLINE SLANG DICTIONARY
- OXFORD DICTIONARIES - free online dictionary resources from Oxford University Press.
- OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY - the definitive record of the English language.
- OXFORD LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES ONLINE
- QUORA - "A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it." By invitation only.
- SPECIAL TERMS USED IN A JEWISH WEDDING
- STYLEPEDIA - Mr Porter's glossary of men's fashion.
- THE FREE DICTIONARY - free online dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia.
- THE FREE DICTIONARY LANGUAGE FORUMS - The Free Dictionary.
- THE TECH TERMS COMPUTER DICTIONARY
- URBAN DICTIONARY - "The slang dictionary you wrote." 4,293,657 definitions written since 1999.
- USING ENGLISH.COM - a general English language site, specialising in ESL (English as a Second Language) with a wide range of resources for learners and teachers of English.
- WEBOPEDIA - online computer dictionary for computer and internet terms and definitions.
- WIKTIONARY - the free English dictionary.
- WORD DOMINATION.COM - "Dominate in any word game!"
- WORD IQ - dictionary and encyclopedia directory.
- WORDREFERENCE DICTIONARIES - online language dictionaries.
- YOUR DICTIONARY - "The last word in words." Dictionary and thesaurus.
Download | Watch Movies Online

- BEST VIDEO DOWNLOADER - "YouTube Video Download Made Easy." FREE add-on for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox that allows users to do YouTube Downloads quickly and easily!
- FAKE NAME GENERATOR - "Generate a Random Name." The most advanced name generator. With 30 languages and 22 countries, the Fake Name Generator is the most advanced name generator on the internet.
- HIDE MY ASS - "VPN client software. VPN connections made easy." Securing and encrypting your internet connection has never been so easy. Simply install our software, enter your username and password and click the connect button! Absolutely no technical knowledge is required.
- iMedia Share - "Experience Personal TV. Internet video on TV... anywhere, any time, any screen."
- MAKEUSEOF.com - VPN solution: 'IP Vanish'.
- OVERPLAY - "By rerouting your internet connection through our worldwide VPN servers you can: change your IP address to one in another country; improve your security by ensuring your internet traffic is encrypted; access content that is normally restricted at your location."
- STREAMING - multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.
- UNBLOCK US - "Smarter Faster VPN. Enjoy freedom of access to blocked Internet content ANYWHERE YOU ARE in the world! Experience access to region-blocked video and audio! Works on your computer or TV. Star to enjoy your favorite shows, movies and music on your PC, Mac, game console, Internet enabled TV or Blu Ray player, iPhone, iPad, or iPod - anywhere you are!"
- Video on demand | VOD - systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand. IPTV technology is often used to bring video on demand to televisions and personal computers.
- VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK | VPN - private network across public networks like the Internet.
- 500 FREE MOVIES ONLINE - "Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.
- AMAZON.COM: MOVIES ON DEMAND
- as of October 20, 2011: 43,589 results.
- APPLE TV - Apple TV gives you access to an easy-to-navigate world of entertainment. Rent HD movies. Buy HD movies and get iTunes Extras. Buy HD TV shows. Listen to your iTunes music and Internet radio.
- BLINKX - "Over 35 million hours of video. Search it all." Internet video search engine for video and audio content that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand. the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 35 million hours indexed (almost 4,000 years) and agreements with over 720 content companies.
- BOXEE - "Watch Movies, TV Shows and clips from the Internet on your TV."
- CLASSIC CINEMA ONLINE - watch free movies online.
- CRACKLE - watch free movies, television, original series now.
- DAILYMOTION - online videos, music, and movies.
- FANCAST - watch streaming full length movies online for free.
- FAST PASS TV - watch movies online free.
- FULL VIDEO - "Watch TV Online For Free."
- HBO on Demand - the video on demand counterpart to HBO; it offers movies, original series and specials previously seen on the network. On January 3, 2011, HBO became the first premium channel and the first cable network to offer a 3D-only VOD service.
- HD-TRAILERS - download latest trailers online.
- HULU - offering commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.
- ITUNES STORE - online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. Download movies, tv shows, music, and more.
- JERRY SEINFELD - Personal Archives. Showing three new film clips each day.
- LEGIT TORRENTS - download free legal music, movies, games, software and more! Legit Torrents is the biggest and best free and legal torrent tracker!
- LET ME WATCH THIS - "Watch movies online free. The #1 place to watch movies online without paying ridiculous theater prices."
- MOVIE-LIST - download new and classic movie trailers.
- MOVIECLIPS - movie trailers, previews, clips of old, new & upcoming films.
- MOVIEWEB - movie trailers, new movies, watch movies.
- NETFLIX - since 1997. "Streaming | Watch Instantly." World’s largest subscription service streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by mail.
- QUICK SILVER SCREEN - watch movies online free.
- REDBOX - American company that specializes in the vending of rental of DVDs via self-service/interactive kiosks.
- ROKU - "It's streaming made simple." With over 150,000 movies and shows instantly available, Roku delivers that perfect title to match your mood. Start with the best Netflix experience out there, featuring up to 1080p HD video and support for English subtitles. Current TV shows? Try Hulu Plus. Hundreds of free movies from Crackle? Check. The latest Hollywood releases? Right there, on Amazon Instant Video. There’s even access to premium services like HBO GO and EPIX, available via participating providers.
- TRAILER ADDICT - your daily dose of hi-res movie trailers.
- TV.COM - free full episodes & clips, show info and TV listings guide.
- USTREAM.TV - "You're On." Free LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Online Broadcasts. Create webcasts, video chat, stream videos on the Internet. Live streaming videos, TV shows.
- VDIO - "What to watch, directed by your friends. Movies & TV shows to buy, rent, discover, and share. Vdio is currently available to Rdio Unlimited subscribers in the US."
- VIMEO - "Video Sharing For You." Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. 3,400,000 members as of May, 2010.
- VUDU - "Your High Definition On-Demand Movie Service." Rent or buy movies to watch instantly on your TV. Movies on demand, movie downloads, video on demand, pay per view.
- WATCH-MOVIES.NET - free full movie downloads.
- WATCH MOVIES ONLINE FREE - Watch Movies Online Free. "The best place to watch movies online."
- YOU TUBE - video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view films and videos.
- ZENTROPA ON DEMAND - "As the first film production company in the world, Zentropa is launching its own Video on Demand portal allowing users access to Zentropa's entire catalogue of films consisting of more than 100 titles. These include award winning feature films, documentaries and short films which will be available for high quality streaming along with lots of free bonus material from the Zentropa archives."
Download & Streaming Music Services

- AMARRA - "Breathtaking Sound." Digital Audio for Professionals & Music Enthusiasts. "You’ve never heard such depth, richness and character from your music; rock, blues, classical or hip-hop, doesn’t matter - the same music you’ve listened to for years sounds better with Amarra." Works with your existing iTunes library.
- AUDIRVANA - "The Sound of Your Dreams." Audirvana is the creator of high-end audiophile players for the Mac platform, aiming at the best possible sound quality.
- DOWNLOAD MUSIC - Wikipedia.
- FAKE NAME GENERATOR - "Generate a Random Name." The most advanced name generator. With 30 languages and 22 countries, the Fake Name Generator is the most advanced name generator on the internet.
- HOT 100 - Billboard: the week's most popular songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions.
- NEXUS Q - "World's first social streaming media player from Google."
- OVERPLAY - "By rerouting your internet connection through our worldwide VPN servers you can: change your IP address to one in another country; improve your security by ensuring your internet traffic is encrypted; access content that is normally restricted at your location."
- PING - "A social network for music." Set your inner groupie free by following your favorite artists on Ping and friends to discover the music they're talking about, listening to, and downloading. Ping is built into the iTunes app on iPhone and iPod touch. So you can see artist updates from anywhere.
- RAPIDSHARE - founded in 2002. "Your Pictures, Videos, Documents & Music..." One-click hosting service that offers both free and commercial services. RapidShare is one of the world's largest file-hosting sites, with 10 petabytes of files on its servers, and handling up to three million users simultaneously.
- STREAMING - Wikipedia.
- TORRENT FREAK - weblog dedicated to bringing the latest news about BitTorrent and everything that is closely related to this popular filesharing protocol.
- All Access - Google's US$9.99 a month on-demand music streaming subscription service.
- AMAZON.COM: MP3 DOWNLOADS
- as of December 14, 2012: MP3 Albums (2,302,196) & MP3 Songs (22,001,046).
- EMUSIC - works on any MP3 player.
- GOOGLE PLAY - gives you one place to find, enjoy, & share Apps, Music, Movies & Books - instantly anywhere across the web & android devices. Google Play is your entertainment hub.
- GROOVESHARK - listen to free music online, Internet radio, free MP3 streaming.
- HYPE MACHINE - since 2005. "Popular MP3 & Music Blog Tracks."
- ITUNES - "Everything you need to be entertained" Media player and media library application developed by Apple Inc. It is used to play, download, and organize digital audio and video on personal computers running the OS X operating system and the iOS-based iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices, with editions also released for Microsoft Windows.
- LAST.FM - listen to Internet radio and the largest music catalogue online.
- LEGIT TORRENTS - "Download free legal music, movies, games, software and more! Legit Torrents is the biggest and best free and legal torrent tracker!"
- MUSIC UNLIMITED - by Sony Entertainment Network since 2010. "We've Got What You Want To Hear." Global catalog of over 10 million tracks. No ads, unlimited skips, dozens of preset channels.
- RDIO - "Your Music Everywhere. Unlimited access to music from your computer and mobile phone, even when you're offline."
- REDIGI - "The World's First Pre-Owned Digital Marketplace." ReDigi | REcycled DIGItal is a free cloud service that allows you to store, stream, buy, and sell your legally purchased pre-owned digital music.
- RHAPSODY - music downloads, music videos, lyrics and photos.
- SOUND CLOUD - "Share Your Sounds. SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.
- SPOTIFY - "Music for every moment." Millions of songs on your computer, on your mobile and available offline. Brought to you ad free.
- TUNECORE - digital music distribution.
- WHYD - "All your streaming music in one place."
- WIMP - Norwegian proprietary music streaming service that gives you full access to play music from a library of several million tracks.
- YOU TUBE - video-sharing website.
Encryption

- Anonymity application - Wikipedia.
- ENCRYPTION - Wikipedia.
- Onion routing - Wikipedia.
- ONLINE ANONYMITY - Wikipedia.
- ANONYMIZER - email & Internet anonymity.
- GOOGLE SHARING - how to hide from Google. A special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
- MEGA - User Controlled Encryption. "Cloud storage will never be the same." Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage service. "The Privacy Company. Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer."
- PGP | PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY - data, email & hard drive encryption.
- PSIPHON - develops a wide range of tools and solutions aimed at preserving security, privacy, and access to content.
- ROBOFORM - password manager and management, form filler, encrypt your passwords, generate random passwords, and more.
- Tor | The Onion Router - system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software directs internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms", back to the user and is intended to protect users' personal freedom, privacy, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.
- TRUECRYPT - "Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Encryption." TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP,
Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, TrueCrypt provides and supports two kinds of plausible deniability.
File Hosting & Storage Services

- Cloud storage - Wikipedia.
- Content management - Wikipedia.
- File hosting service - Wikipedia.
- File synchronization - Wikipedia.
- OTIXO - "All your cloud files from a single login."
- PASTEBIN - Wikipedia.
- TREND MICRO - "Global leader in cloud security, Trend Micro develops Internet content security and threat management solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information."
- AMAZON S3 - (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). Amazon claims that S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 is reported to store more than a trillion objects as of June 2012.
- BOX - (formerly Box.net) is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies. The company has adopted a freemium business model, and provides 5GB of free storage for personal accounts. A mobile version of the service is available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, WebOS, and Windows Phone devices.
- DROPBOX - "Simplify your life." The easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. free download.
- GLADINET - provides cloud storage access solutions.
- GOOGLE DRIVE - file storage, sync and online backup service.
- iCLOUD - (the successor to MobileMe) is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc.
- MEGA - "Cloud storage will never be the same." Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage service. "The Privacy Company. Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer."
- PASTEBIN.COM - "#1 paste tool since 2002." The most popular text sharing service on the internet. More and more people use a Pastebin type of service to share large amounts of text online.
- SKYDRIVE - file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device.
(Free) Webbased Phone Services

- voice and video calls and chats over the Internet - Wikipedia.
- FRING - free peer-to-peer mobile service enabling live chat, audio and video calls from mobile phones.
- iChat - instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its Mac OS X operating system. It has audio, video and screen-sharing capabilities as well as text messaging.
- JAJAH - web-activated telephony, using VoIP (Voice over IP) to connect traditional phones (landline or mobile). Calls are made without download or user-installed software, and in most cases at rates lower than those of traditional phone companies or even free of charge.
- OFONO - open source telephony. A place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
- ooVoo - proprietary audio and video instant messaging client software. Free video chat and video conferencing.
- SKYPE - free worldwide Internet and great value phone calls. "Do amazing things for free: voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype; conference calls with three or more people; instant messaging, file transfer and screen sharing; call landlines and mobiles worldwide.
- VOPIUM - "Reach the world for less." Allows you to save up to 90% when making international calls or sending SMS from your mobile phone in your home country.
Image Hosting & Photo Sharing Services

- Hipstamatic - digital photography application for the Apple iPhone. It uses the iPhone's camera to allow the user to shoot square photographs, to which it applies a number of software filters to make the images look as though they were taken with an antique film camera. The user can choose among a number of effects which are presented in the application as simulated lenses, films and flashes. Several of these are included with the application, while others may be acquired through an in-app purchase.
- Image hosting service - Wikipedia.
- Photo sharing - Wikipedia.
- PHOTOSYNTH - takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in.
- SCALADO PHOTOBEAMER - "View your photos on any screen, anywhere."
- VINE (TWIITER) - mobile app by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum length of six seconds and can be shared on a variety of social networking services, such as Twitter or Facebook.
- CAMYOO - photo and video sharing site devoted to all the picture and video takers, lovers and critics!
- CANVASDROPR - "For the first time, it is now possible to share images and videos real-time and simultaneously with friends, family, colleagues and business partners."
- Cinemagram - application that provides its users with a beautiful and creative way to animate photos. Animate small portions of you photo to create a magical image that’s part-photo and part-video. Apply filters and share your masterful and hilarious creations with your friends and the Cinemagram community.
- FLICKR - "The best online image and video hosting management and sharing application in the world." In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images.
- FOTOLOG - "Share photos. Make Friends. It's easy!"
- Gifboom - "Express yourself in motion. Use the GifBoom app to take a series of pictures, add effects, texts, and comments. Then, share it on gifboom and other social networks!"
- IMGUR - "The simple image sharer." Online image hosting service. Allows users to create custom image galleries and manage their images. Users can also sign in with Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo accounts.

- INSTAGRAM - "Fast beautiful photo sharing." Online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take a picture, apply a digital filter to it, and share it on a variety of social networking services, including its own. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.
- Mobli - "See the world through other peoples eyes." Social mobile photo and video-sharing website.
- PHEED - "Express yourself." Launched on October 12, 2012. "We offer the standard sharing features such as text, photos and videos, but decided to spice it
up a little by adding new stuff like voice-notes, audio clips and live-broadcasting. Pheed gives you the option to monetize either by applying a monthly subscription fee to your
channel or setting a pay-per-view live broadcast event. In both cases, you select the pricing
and earn directly. Or, you can always share and hang out for free, it's up to you."
- PHOTOBUCKET - "The premier destination for uploading, downloading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Host all your images and videos for free, then share them by email or on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace."
- PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
- PINTEREST - "Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love." Pinboard-style social photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections or 'like' photos.
- RAPIDSHARE - founded in 2002. "Your Pictures, Videos, Documents & Music..." One-click hosting service that offers both free and commercial services. RapidShare is one of the world's largest file-hosting sites, with 10 petabytes of files on its servers, and handling up to three million users simultaneously.
- SMUGMUG - "Your Photos Look Better Here. Devoted to priceless photos."
- SNAPCHAT - "Real-time Picture Chatting for iOS and Android." Photo messaging application. Using the app, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. Users can set a time limit for how long recipients can view their photos, up to 10 seconds, after which they will disappear.
- SNAPSEED - "Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it."
- Socialcam - "Free video app for iPhone and Android." Mobile social video application for iPhone and Android, that was launched March 7, 2011.
- Vimeo - since 2004. "Your videos belong here." Video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos.
- ZOOOMR - website for sharing digital photos.
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- 1&1 - "World's #1 Webhosting Company."
- ABOUT US - "The Wiki Way of Websites - the editable guide to websites."
- ACTIVEDEN - with thousands of Flash components, files and templates, ActiveDen is the largest library of stock Flash online.
- ADOBE AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.
- ADOBE FLASH PLAYER - is software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser; in common usage, Flash lets you put animation and movies on a web site.
- ADOBE READER - (formerly Acrobat Reader) is available as a no-charge download from Adobe's web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication.
- ALEXA - known for its toolbar and website. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the website where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting.
- ALL ABOUT COOKIES - "All About Cookies is a free resource to help marketers and consumers understand the issues surrounding the use of cookies."
- AMAZON S3 - (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). Amazon claims that S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 is reported to store more than a trillion objects as of June 2012.
- ANGELFIRE - founded in 1996. Free web hosting services. "It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or a polished web designer, Angelfire's website builder gives you the tools to build a professional-looking website within minutes."
- Ask Lifehacker - "Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done."
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- BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SEO - SEOmoz.
- BEST VIDEO DOWNLOADER - "YouTube Video Download Made Easy." FREE add-on for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox that allows users to do YouTube Downloads quickly and easily!
- BIG THINK - "Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders." Big Think is an online knowledge forum, founded in 2007, that features interviews, multi-media presentations, and roundtable discussions with major intellectuals from a wide range of fields. The concept for Big Think has been described as a YouTube for ideas.
- BITLY - "Shorten, share and track your links." A simple URL shortener.
- BITTORRENT - the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet.
- BLACKBAUD - "Your Passion. Our Purpose." Fundraising software, nonprofit accounting software & nonprofit management system.
- BLEETBOX - "Make any site social." Browser based chat application that allows you to chat with anyone, about anything, anywhere on the Web. "We want you to be able to: Discover and share anything you find interesting on the Web. Find and chat live with other people that have the same interests as you. Find, follow and create the latest news and trends."
- BLOGGER - "Create your free Blog." Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.
- BLOGLINES - "The fastest way to find and track your favorite websites and blogs in real-time. Aims to deliver the best experience for our users by creating a service where users can subcribe, create, manage and share news feeds, blogs and rich web content from across the web."
- BONZO BOX - "It's Your Homepage." Interactive web tool that allows people to build their own customized "BonzoBox" home page with links to their favorite websites.
- BORDOM - "In a sentence, Bordom is a vast collection of funny memes, strange news, and other fascinating things found on the Internet."
- BOX - (formerly Box.net) is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies. The company has adopted a freemium business model, and provides 5GB of free storage for personal accounts. A mobile version of the service is available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, WebOS, and Windows Phone devices.
- BUY GOOD REVIEWS - Internet Repuration Management.
- BUYDOMAINS.COM - "Business Starts Here." Buy premium domain names. Available & domain names for sale.
- BUZZFLASH.NET - most popular stories as ranked by our readers.
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- CIA: THE WORLD FACTBOOK - provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- CLUSTRMAPS - "Locate all visitors... fast!." Hit counter map widget and tracker shows locations of all visitors to any site.
- COLOUR LOVERS - "Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution. There are 787,336 COLOURlovers around the world who have created 4,200,566 Colors, 1,716,386 Palettes and 1,744,061 Patterns. (As of August 23, 2011)."
- COMIC CONNECT - "The Online Marketplace for Buyers & Sellers!"
- COMMISSION JUNCTION - global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search.
- COMPETE, INC. - web traffic analysis service operating in the United States that publishes the approximate number of global visitors to the top 1,000,000 web sites in the world. This number is computed from sources including internet service providers, opt-in panels, application providers, and users of the Compete toolbar.
- COMSCORE - a marketing research company that provides marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses.
- CONNECTED HISTORIES - Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.
- COOLIRIS - "Photo sharing made simple." Media browser plug-in, mobile app, gallery builder.
- COOL TOOLS - "Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it."
- CRAIGSLIST - provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events serving 570 cities in 50 countries.
- CREATIVE COMMONS | CC - a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. "We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof."
- CREDO REFERENCE - "Smart Research Starts Here." Puts the world's best citable information at your fingertips. Find: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions.
- CROSSLINK BUILDER - "The art of search engine promotion." Search engine optimisation (seo) by building web links for free.
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- DLNA | DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE - connect and enjoy. Standard used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.
- DNA ANCESTRY PROJECT - genetic genealogy: trace your ancestry with DNA.
- DON CROWTHER.COM - "How to find free (and legal) pictures online."
- DOUBLECLICK - develops and provides Internet ad serving services.
- DROPBOX - "Simplify your life." The easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. free download.
- DRUPAL - open source content management (CMS) platform. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
- DRUPAL GARDENS - "Building beautiful websites just got easier." Launch a product, promote an event, engage a community. Create socially smart websites and microsites that accelerate your business with Drupal Gardens.
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- E-GOLD - Internet payments 100% backed by gold.
- EASYSHIFT - "A new, fun way to earn cash."
- EGO ARCHIVE - keeps track of all your web stuff! It saves every web page, every update in your social streams to help you organize, archive and search your browsing history.
- EHOW - "How To Do Just About Everything! How To Videos (over 150,000) & Articles."
- ELANCE - hire professionals, outsource work. Hire, manage, pay experts online.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - online encyclopedia. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopaedias.
- ENVATO - "We operate marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy and sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational blogs where millions learn creative skills. The Envato Marketplaces allow anyone to buy or sell digital goods like WordPress themes, background music, After Effects project files, Flash templates and much more."
- EOFFICE - access 100 locations in more than 30 countries. Office spade, offices for rent, serviced offices, meeting rooms, conference rooms, virtual offices.
- EUROPEANA - "Think Culture." Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to over 20 million digital items (2012).
- EVERNOTE - "Remember Everything". Makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook.
- EVI - "Ask me anything." Our goal is to power a new kind of search experience where users can access the world’s knowledge simply by asking for the information they need in a way that is completely natural to them; just as if they were talking to another human being. As of April 13, 2011: Answering questions based on 486,723,077 facts on 16,035,662 things.
- EVITE - invitation, free eCards, and party planning ideas.
- EXPERTEER.COM - "Make the right career move." Europe`s leading personalised career service for experienced professionals.
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- FACTCHECK.ORG - aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
- FAKE NAME GENERATOR - "Generate a Random Name." The most advanced name generator. With 30 languages and 22 countries, the Fake Name Generator is the most advanced name generator on the internet.
- FixYa - "Solutions for Everything." Product problem support, troubleshooting help & repair solutions. FixYa is a community based trouble-shooting resource that provides consumer-generated, practical product tips to help consumers solve problems on 8 million products.
- FLAG COUNTER - "Plain old "hit counters" are boring! You need a FREE flag counter!"
- FLATTR - Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
- Flipboard - social-network aggregation, magazine-format application software for Android and iOS. It collects the content of social media and other websites and presents it in magazine format and allows users to "flip" through their social-networking feeds and feeds from websites that have partnered with the company.
- FLIPPING BOOK - "Software for creating online publications, magazines, photo albums and flip books with the real turning page effect."
- FLIXEL - open source game-making library that is completely free for personal or commercial use. Written entirely in Actionscript 3, and designed to be used with free development tools, Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize.
- FREE ADVICE - free legal advice in 100+ law topics.
- FREE UNIVERSITY LECTURES - Lecturefox: computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and more.
- FREE WEBSITE CONTENT - webmaster tools.
- FREE WEBSITE REPORT - website worth estimation and web information service. Website reporting services focused on estimating website advertising revenue.
- FULL TRAFFIC - "Internet Traffic Solutions."
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- GEEKBENCH - very comprehensive benchmarking utility. It is a cross-platform tool that allows you to measure the performance of your computer.
- GIGWALK - "Instantly mobilize people to do work anywhere."
- GLADINET - provides cloud storage access solutions.
- GLASSDOOR - free jobs and career community that offers the world an inside look at jobs and companies.
- GO DADDY - domain names, web hosting & SSL certificates.
- GOOD COUNTER - "100% free web statistic counter for your web site."
- GOOGLE - "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
- GOOGLE ANALYTICS - "The enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way."
- GOOGLE ANALYTICS OPT-OUT BROWSER ADD-ON - provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics.
- GOOGLE ANDROID - Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.
- GOOGLE APPS - "More than two million businesses run Google Apps. Reliable, secure online applications wherever you work: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Groups, Google Sites & Google Video."
- GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
- GOOGLE CHROME - Google's new webbrowser for Windows.
- GOOGLE DASHBOARD - new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account.
- GOOGLE DOCS - free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.
- GOOGLE DRIVE - file storage, sync and online backup service.
- GOOGLE EARTH - a virtual globe, map and geographic information program.
- GOOGLE FEEDBURNER - Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers.
- GOOGLE GOGGLES - downloadable image recognition application created by Google Inc. which can be currently found on the Mobile Apps page of Google Mobile.[1] It is used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark would search for information about it, or taking a picture of a product's barcode will search for information on the product.
- GOOGLE LATITUDE - lets you see your friends on a map. Get it on your phone or your computer.
- GOOGLE MAPS - a basic web mapping service application and technology.
- GOOGLE MAPS WITH STREET VIEW - "Explore the world at street level." Provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views from a row of positions along the street (one every approximately 10 or 20 metres) for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres.
- GOOGLE OCEAN - allows users to zoom below the surface of the ocean and view the 3D bathymetry beneath the waves.
- GOOGLE PROJECTS FOR ANDROID
- GOOGLE READER - a web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
- GOOGLE SHARING - how to hide from Google. A special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
- GOOGLE STREET VIEW - provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views from a row of positions along the street (one every approximately 10 or 20 metres) for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres.
- GOOGLE TRANSLATE - free translation service into 59 languages.
- GOOGLE WAVE - a service that melds e-mail, instant messaging, online forums, and wikis into a grand messaging service. Coming soon.
- GROOVLE - Groovle - Your Groovy Custom Homepage - was created so people can customize their Internet homepage with images ranging from favorite celebrities or sports teams to more personal images of friends and family etc.
- GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS - "Home of the Longest, Fastest, Shortest, Fastest facts and feats."
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- HOSTMONSTER - "Trusted by Over One Million Websites". HostMonster has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Professional Web Hosting for US$5.95/month.
- HOWCAST - the best how to videos on the web.
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- I-TOMB - "The World Virtual Cemetery."
- iCLOUD - (the successor to MobileMe) is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc.
- IFTTT - "Put the internet to work for you". A service that enables customers to connect channels (i.e. Facebook, Evernote, Weather, Dropbox, etc.) with personally created or publicly shared Recipes that fit the simple statement: if this then that.
- IGOOGLE - iGoogle is your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the Web to your page.
- IMAGE RESIZER FOR WINDOWS - utility that lets you resize one or more selected image files directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking.
- INSSIDER - an award-winning FREE WI-FI NETWORK SCANNER for Windows Vista and Windows XP.
- INSTAGRAM - free photo sharing program launched in October 2010 that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, including Instagram's own.
- INTERNET ARCHIVE | IA - a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
- ISSUU - "You publish." Publish by Millions. Turns your documents into beautiful online publications.
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- JCONNECT - fax and voicemail by email and conference calling.
- JOOMLA! - free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.
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- KELKOO - "Find. Compare. Save." A European price comparison service founded in France in 1999.
- KHAN ACADEMY - "Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free." The world's totally free virtual school!
- KICKSTARTER - "A New Way To Fund & Follow Creativity." A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers.
- KLOUT - "Discover and be recognized for how you influence the world." Provides social media analytics to measure a user's influence across his or her social network. The analysis is done on data taken from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, and measures the size of a person's network, the content created, and purports to measure how other people interact with that content.
- KULER - "Explore, create and share color themes."
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- LACARTES - "Your Guide To Everything Around You..."
- LEGAL-EXPLANATIONS.COM - legal resources in plain English.
- Lifehacker - "Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done."
- LIGHTBOX 2 - "Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers."
- LISTVERSE - "Ultimate Top 10 Lists. We are focused on lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the bizarre or lesser-known trivia. Every day we present a new unique list in any one of our twenty-two categories, from art to travel."
- LIVEJOURNAL - since 1999. "It's fast, fun, and free!". Virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. Available in 32 languages.
- LIVE LEAK - "Redefining the Media." Video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world.
- LONGREADS - posts links to new stories every day, including long-form journalism, magazine stories from your favorite publications.
- LOREM IPSUM - placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin.
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- MAGENTO - open source ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008
- MAIL A MAFIA THREAT STRAIGHT FROM CORLEONE
- MAKEUSEOF.com - booming daily blog that features cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive. The aim of MakeUseOf is to guide you through the web and tell you about hot websites that you have never heard of, best software programs, and all kinds of "how to" tips for Windows, Mac and Linux computer users.
- MENSA INTERNATIONAL - check your IQ!
- META FILTER - general-interest community weblog, founded in 1999. "Metafilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members."
- MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS - free software helps you avoid viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
- MICROSOFT SKYDRIVE - file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device.
- MOCKINGBIRD - online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
- MOLLUM - web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop spam on your blog, social network or community website.
- MOVABLE TYPE - "Professional publishing platform." Free software weblog publishing system.
- MULTIPLY - secure, family-friendly media sharing.
- MY AOL - your personalized home page that offers weather, calendar, horoscopes, mail, news, stock quotes, pictures and many more customizable features, and more.
- MY FREE COPYRIGHT - FREE copyright protection. “How to Protect Your Creation in 3 Minutes.”
- MY PR GENIE - the only, Do-It-Yourself, PR platform and newswire that gives you access to over 540,000 journalist contacts. Using MyPRGenie, you can create a business profile on search engines and directories, upload your press release in any language and significantly increase your exposure online!
- MY WEB FACE - "A world of fun. All in one toolbar. Turn yourself into a cartoon! See how you'll look old! Use it on Facebook and other social networks!"
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- NEWSER - founded in 2007. "Read Less. Know More." Web-native news site, seeking to speak to the new online news behavior—the need to survey multiple news brands—and to combine the machine search capabilities used in sites like Google News and Yahoo News with the newsroom oversight of traditional news organizations. Searching hundreds of news sites, Newser’s goal is to provide an efficient and entertaining one-stop shop for headlines and news summaries throughout the day. Newser has pioneered a summary form which compresses traditional, often repetitive, news exposition into a more stream-lined, compact, fact-oriented form tailored to web browsing. Newser marries these short takes to photographs and relevant videos.
- NEWSVINE - updated continuously by citizens like you. Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
- NOTEPAD++ - a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
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- OFONO - open source telephony. A place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
- ONE POLL - "Research specialists - investigating the opinion of the people. OnePoll conducts online surveys. Once you’re registered - for free - your account opens and you start earning."
- ONLINE STOPWATCH - "Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point -- and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it."
- OPEN CULTURE - "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."
- OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT - the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
- OPEN ID - OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites (nearly ten-thousand), simplifying your online experience.
- OTIXO - "All your cloud files from a single login."
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- PANORAMIO - "Photos of the World." Also show photos not selected for Google Earth. Panoramio is a website that enables digital photographers to geolocate, store and organize their photographs–and to view those photographs in Google Earth and Google Maps.
- PASTEBIN - "#1 paste tool since 2002." A type of web application that allows its users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing.
- PAY PAL - "Send Money, Pay Online or Set Up a Merchant Account with PayPal."
- PERMALINKS - this website provides permanent links (so called PermaLinks).
- PETITION SPOT - "Start a Petition for free at Online Petition Spot."
- PHOTOSYNTH - "Capture your world in 3D. Shoot wraparound panoramas or full "synths", share them with friends, and publish them to Bing." Powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share these views with your friends on Facebook, publish them to Bing Maps, or embed them in your own Web site.
- PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
- PINGDOM - "Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Be the first to know when your website is down." Service that tracks the uptime, downtime, and performance of websites. Based in Sweden, Pingdom monitors websites from multiple locations globally so that it can distinguish genuine downtime from routing and access problems.
- PIPL.COM - "The most comprehensive people search on the web. We dive into the deep web to bring you results you won't find in any other search engine then we use a powerful identity resolution engine to link those seemingly disparate results into a set of meaningful profiles so you can easily find the person you are looking for."
- PLAXO - "Your Address Book For Life." Online "smart, socially connected address book" and social networking service.
- POCKET - "View when Ready." If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection. Help people who discover an interesting article, video or web page, but don’t have time to view it. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device -- phone, tablet or computer.
- PODIO - online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done. It gives people more power than they’ve ever had before to do manage their work better, smarter and in their own way. Combining hundreds of specialized and flexible work apps with messaging, tasks, reporting, workflow and contact management, Podio lets you build and shape the online workplace most fitting to your role.
- POKEN - "Collect people and things with a touch." Poken is revolutionizing the event industry with its innovative and simple solutions to generate high quality leads, get unprecedented insight into people's interests, and boost networking between participants. We provide tools and technology for tradeshow managers, exhibitors and event organizers to create interactive and exciting events, while measuring the return on investment of their lead generation activities.
- Population Reference Bureau - informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment. "We focus our work around these "core themes": Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Global Health; Population and the Environment; Aging; Inequality and Poverty; Migration and Urbanization; and Gender."
- POSTEROUS - "Share it Your Way for Free." Simple blogging platform started in May 2008. It supports integrated and automatic posting to other social media tools such as Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook, a built-in Google Analytics package, and custom themes.
- PROPELLER - is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Our members post links to stories from all over the Web. Many of these stories originate from the websites of traditional media, including newspapers and magazines. But you will also find many stories that seldom pop up in the mainstream.
- PULSE - "Your News. Anywhere." RSS reader. App for Android, iOS and HTML5 browsers, originally released in 2010. The application, displays news from multiple RSS feeds in a single page using a tile based interface. Pulse has been praised by users for its sleek, easy to use design.
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- QUACKIT - "Free Webmaster Tutorials. Teaches beginners how to create websites. We start off slowly, teaching you the basics such as HTML and CSS. We then introduce you to more advanced topics so that you can add more features to your website."
- QR code.com - "The QR code is that carry meaningful information in the vertical direction as well as the horizontal, hence the two-dimensional term. By carrying information in both directions, QR code can carry up to several hundred times the amount of data carried by an ordinary bar codes. On this site, We would like to introduce the QR code through the feature, the standard, the introduction procedure, how to make the code, the example of the QR code usage, and FAQ."
- QR CODE READERS - list of the best QR-Code reading software available to download on the Internet.
- QUORA - "Quora connects you to everything you want to know about. A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it." Question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users.
- QWIKI - platform that creates interactive, on-the-fly, multimedia presentations of information. It reads automatically selected information from various websites and automatically grabs photos and associated pictures on the subject.
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- RANKER - "A World of Lists: The Best of Top 10, Top 100 & More Lists: List Making Is Easy at Ranker."
- RAPIDSHARE - founded in 2002. "Your Pictures, Videos, Documents & Music..." One-click hosting service that offers both free and commercial services. RapidShare is one of the world's largest file-hosting sites, with 10 petabytes of files on its servers, and handling up to three million users simultaneously.
- RECAPTCHA - "Stop Spam, Read Books." A free anti-bot service that helps digitize books.
- REDDIT - since 2005. "What's new online!" Keep up with the latest development updates, community announcements, and general reddit tomfoolery. Social news website where the registered users submit content in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down", which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.
- REFDESK.COM - "Fact Checker for the Internet." Reference, facts, news. Free and family-friendly resources.
- REFUGEES UNITED - aims to assist refugees with an anonymous and safe internet search engine to find and reconnect with missing family members.
- Reputation.com - Online Reputation Management. "Your Online Reputation. It's Business. It's Personal." In a nutshell, online reputation management, or ORM as it’s known, is the practice of making people and businesses look their best on the Internet. To accomplish that, people need to control their online search results because they frequently contain inaccurate, misleading or outdated material which can adversely influence how web searchers view them.
- RSS & ATOM FEEDS - available Google news feeds.
- RSS READER - free RSS reader displays any RSS and Atom news feed.
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- SCRIBD - document-sharing website that allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format.
- SEARCH ENGINE LAND - "Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines."
- SECUNIA PERSONAL SOFTWARE INSPECTOR | PSI - used by millions of home users around the world, the Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs.
- SECURESAFE PRO - password and credit card manager software.
- SEDO - the global marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites.
- SEND A MAFIA THREAT FROM CORLEONE, SICILY!
- SEO ANALYST
- SHVOONG.COM - "The Global Source for Summaries & Reviews". Shvoong is a global hub for Summaries & Reviews on virtually every topic imaginable. On Shvoong you’ll find book reviews, book summaries, movie reviews, website reviews, make money online reviews, business reviews, product reviews, travel reviews, and much more.
- SHOPIFY - "Sell online. Create your online store today." Shopify provides you with an ecommerce website, an easy to use administration area, and secure hosting - everything you need to sell your products online.
- SHOUTEM - "The World's Simplest Mobile App Maker. Make an App. Build Apps with Easy Application Creator."
- SHOZU - the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset.
- SIMPLEVIEWER - "Spectacular image galleries made simple."
- SKYDRIVE - file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device.
- SMASHWORDS - "your ebook.your way." Ebook self-publishing publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. 1,604,946,340 words published as of March 9, 2011.
- SMILEY WORLD - list of smiley's.
- SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
- SOFTPEDIA - free downloads encyclopedia.
- SOUND CLOUD - "Share Your Sounds. SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.
- STATCOUNTER - free invisble web tracker, hit counter and web stats.
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- TARGET MAP - free online mapping tool. Create & share customized data maps on Googlemaps.
- TECHCRUNCH - a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies created by MICHAEL ARRINGTON.
- THE FREE LIBRARY - FREE ONLINE LIBRARY (20,659,476 articles and books articles & books: December 30, 2012): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
- THE MOTH - "True Stories Told Live." The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it.
- THE OPEN SOURCE NEWSPAPER - 1.Promoting open source software CMS as an alternative to proprietary entreprise software for professional newspaper web publishing.
- The secret dossier of the Dreyfus Affair - released for the first time.
- THE STRONGBOX PASSWORD SECURITY SYSTEM - website security: cryptographically secure site defense system.
- THEMEFOREST - premium WordPress themes and web templates.
- TIMEANDDATE.COM
- TRENDSMAP - "Real-time local Twitter trends."
- TUCOWS - since 1994 known for its popular website directory of shareware, freeware, and demo software packages available to download.
- TUMBLR - a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.
- TWEETMEME - "Hottest Links on Twitter." A service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular.
- TYPEPAD - blogging software, business blogs and blog services.
- TYPO3 - free and open source web content management system (CMS). It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and OS/2.
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- UNHEAR IT - "Get that damn song out of your head!" We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to allow our users to "unhear" songs by hearing equally catchy songs.
- UNICODE 6.1.0 - computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems consisting of a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts.
- U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK - real time.
- USTREAM.TV - "You're On." Free LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Online Broadcasts. Create webcasts, video chat, stream videos on the Internet. Live streaming videos, TV shows.
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- VALIDATOR - Markup Validation Service. This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. free service by W3C that helps check the validity of Web documents.
- Vimeo - since 2004. "Your videos belong here." Video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos.
- VIRB - "Build an elegantly simple website with Virb."
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- W3C MARKUP VALIDATION SERVICE - this validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. free service by W3C that helps check the validity of Web documents.
- W3SCHOOLS - "Educate yourself - beginners and experts!" The world's largest web development site.
- WEB STATS CHECKER - "Giving you the competitive advantage." Checks stats for domains, keywords, competitors, inbound links and more.
- WEBLOGS.COM - a ping server run by Moreover Technologies that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog. Essentially it acts as a central hub between publishers and consumers of content.
- WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? - The world at seven billion.
- WIBIYA - "Boost your website with interactive features." web toolbar is free & perfect for blogs, e-commerce sites, small businesses & others by providing access to innovative & useful web applications.
- WIKIA - a collection of wikis that anyone can edit. Find and collaborate with people who love what you love.
- WIKIBOOKS - a community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
- WIKIHOW - "to do anything". The how-to manual that you can edit.
- WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. The repository contains over 15 million media files.
- WIKINEWS - the FREE news source you can write!
- WIKIPEDIA - free encyclopedia with 13 million articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in 271 languages.
- WIKIQUOTE - free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language.
- WIKISOURCE - an online library of free content publications.
- WIKIVERSITY - is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
- WISE GEEK - "Clear answers for common questions." Provides short, clear and concise answers to common questions. As of April 4, 2011: 133,315 articles.
- WORLDLE - a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.
- WORLDPRESS - blog tool and publishing platform. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
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- YAHOO! - best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search) and for a variety of other services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."
- YELP - social networking, user review, and local search web site. Business ratings and reviews.
- YOU SEND IT - send, receive and track large and important files. FTP replacement.
- YOU TUBE - "Broadcast Yourself." Video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.
- YOUR STORY - "The Free Press Release resource. Find or submit multiple press releases for free to our human edited, global press release service."
QR Code Rosources

- Deeple - "Bringing Goog Things Back." Online Lost & Found QR Tags. Save time and money if you lose your personal belongings! QR tag designed for keys, suitcases, bags, bagpacks, and all other applications where a keyring/steel-wire-attached tag will fit. The tag can be used as a QR key ring or attached to your luggage.
- QR Code - Wikipedia.
- QR Code.com - official website.
QR Code Generators
- GOQR.ME - "Create QR Codes (for free) [logo, business card, vCard, t-shirt, mug]."
- KAYWA - "QR Code Generator and Management with Tracking, Analytics and Support." Free QR code generator since 2006.
- QR Stuff - "QR Free Online Code Generator And Encoder For T-Shirts, Business Cards & Stickers."
QR Code Readers
- QR CODE READERS - list of the best QR-Code reading software available to download on the Internet.
Search Engines & Resources

- KNOWLEDGE BASE - Wikipedia.
- SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE - Wikipedia.
- WEB SEARCH ENGINE - Wikipedia.
- 123PEOPLE - a people search engine that looks into nearly every corner of the Web to help you find information on everyone you (want to) know. Using our proprietary search algorithm, you can find comprehensive and centralized people profiles consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles and much more.
- ALL MY FAVES - "Why Search? AllMyFaves Did The Search For You." With AllMyFaves, users can smoothly cruise on the vast Internet highway without wasting valuable time or having to sieve through irrelevant search results. Our visual platform not only directs users to their sought-after information fast but also introduces them to new and exciting sites, both of the same and different categories.
- ALL THE WEB - find it all.
- ALLMOVIE - a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows.
- ALTA VISTA - a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned with the rise of Google.
- AMAZON.COM - online shopping for electronics, apparel, computers, books, DVDs & more.

- ANSWERS.COM - WikiAnswers: the world's leading Q & A site.
- AOL SEARCH - enhanced by Google.
- ASK - search engine (originally known as Ask Jeeves).
- ASK US 24/7 - a service of cooperating New York State Libraries. We can find answers to your reference questions and provide information on your local library.
- ATOMZ SITE SEARCH - the premier free search tool for your website.
- BING - Microsoft's new search engine.
- BLACKLE - "Energy Saving Search." Blackle aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results. Blackle has claimed to have saved over 2,321,211.641 watt hours (as of February 10, 2010).
- BLINKX - "Over 35 million hours of video. Search it all." Internet video search engine for video and audio content that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand. the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 35 million hours indexed (almost 4,000 years) and agreements with over 720 content companies.
- BUZZZY - Buzzzy is a search engine for Google Buzz. With Buzzzy, you no longer need to be a gmail user to find out what's really buzzin'. We've added our own take on search relevancy with some added filters which we hope you'll find useful.
- CHACHA - like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device - from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones - to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.
- CREDO REFERENCE - "Smart Research Starts Here." Puts the world's best citable information at your fingertips. Find: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions.
- DMOZ - open directory project
- DOGPILE - web search.
- DOMAIN TOOLS - "DomainTools is the recognized leader in domain name intelligence." Wildcard search of all current/deleted/expired whois domains. DomainTools combines the most comprehensive set of domain name ownership records available with important web hosting data to expose new opportunities in website improvement, domain investment and brand protection. DomainTools data reaches back through more than a decade of Internet history.
- EBAY - new & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods and more at low prices.
- EMBASSYWORLD.COM - absolutely all of the world's embassies in a searchable database.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - online encyclopedia. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopaedias.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM - get facts, articles, pictures, video.
- EUROPEANA - "Think Culture." Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to over 15 million digital items (2011).
- EXCITE - offers a variety of services, including search, web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage.
- EXPERTEER.COM - "Make the right career move." Europe`s leading personalised career service for experienced professionals.
- FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves, millions of U.S. records.
- FOOTNOTE - the place for original historical documents online. 54,573,914 historical documents.
- GIGABLAST - founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages with the least amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology for partner sites.
- GOOGLE - largest search engine on the web by query volume. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
- GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
- GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS - home of longest, shortest, fastest, tallest facts and feats.
- HITQUARTERS - world's largest music industry search directory, including contact information and individual track records.
- HOW STUFF WORKS - learn how everything works!
- HUNCH - decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics.
- IA | INTERNET ARCHIVE - a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
- IBDB | INTERNET BROADWAY DATABASE - the official source for Broadway information.
- IMDB | THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE - visited by over 57 million movie and TV lovers each month!
- INTELIUS - "Live in the know." Pioneers in the information commerce industry, innovating technologies to collect, interpret and deliver information to consumers and businesses online. Advanced people search in the U.S. Background check. Reverse cell phone lookup.
- IWON - the best free online games, casinos & sweeps.
- JOEANT - providing a directory of quality sites for Internet users.
- LACARTES - "Your Guide To Everything Around You..."
- LINKS TO LANDMARKS AROUND THE WORLD
- LISTVERSE - "Ultimate Top 10 Lists. We are focused on lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the bizarre or lesser-known trivia. Every day we present a new unique list in any one of our twenty-two categories, from art to travel."
- LYCOS - Lycos is one of the original (est. 1995) and most widely-known Internet brands in the world, evolving from one of the first search engines on the web, into a comprehensive network of social media web sites that foster online communities.
- LYRICS SEARCH ENGINE
- MAGMA - Magma is for exploring, discovering, collecting, sharing, and tracking videos from everywhere.
- MAHALO - Mahalo is a human-powered search engine dedicated to help people easily find information and resources they can trust.
- MAMMA - metasearch.
- MSN - direct access to: Hotmail, Messenger, My MSN, download IE8, and more
- MYBO.COM - the best search links on the net.
- MYLIFE - people search. "Find everyone. All in one place. Get up-to-date info for anyone from over 100 social networks & public records sources!"
- NATIONMASTER - world statistics, country comparisons.
- NETSCAPE - official support ended on March 1st, 2008.
- NNDB | NOTABLE NAMES DATABASE - "Tracking the entire world." NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.
- PEOPLE SEARCH PRO - free people search, search people, phone numbers, or public records for free.
- PEOPLE SMART - people search & background checks by name, phone, email or address. Find contact information, social networking data, and public records in a way that respects privacy.
- PIPL.COM - "The most comprehensive people search on the web. We dive into the deep web to bring you results you won't find in any other search engine then we use a powerful identity resolution engine to link those seemingly disparate results into a set of meaningful profiles so you can easily find the person you are looking for."
- RADIO LOCATOR - the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet.
- SEARCHME - the first multimedia search engine.
- SLASHDOT - news for nerds and stuff that matters.
- SPOCK - the world's leading people search engine.
- TECHNORATI - search engine for searching blogs. "The leading blog search engine and directory, Technorati.com indexes more than a million blogs. The site has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere."
- THE FREE LIBRARY - FREE ONLINE LIBRARY (14,557,847 articles & books): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
- THE GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT - trace your ancestry with DNA.
- TRUE KNOWLEDGE - "The Internet Answer Machine." Our goal is to power a new kind of search experience where users can access the world’s knowledge simply by asking for the information they need in a way that is completely natural to them; just as if they were talking to another human being. As of April 13, 2011: Answering questions based on 486,723,077 facts on 16,035,662 things.
- VIRTUAL PERPETUAL CALENDARS
- WEBCRAWLER - the web's top search engines spun together.
- WHEN IS - dates of religious and civil holidays around the world.
- WHITE PAGES - people search. "Your go-to source for the most reliable contact information online. With accurate information for almost 200 million U.S. adults, we make finding and connecting with others incredibly simple—and incredibly free."
- WHO IS - check the availability of a specific name in up to 10 Top Level Domains at once followed by either .com, .net .org, or one of the 246 country code suffixes.
- WHOIS SEARCH - provides Whois (.aero, .arpa, .asia, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, and .travel) domain registration information.
- WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - a database of 4,461,423 (April 20th, 2009) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- WIKIPEDIA - a free encyclopedia with millions of articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in dozens of languages.
- WOLFRAM ALPHA - computational search engine: Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
- WORLD INTERESTING FACTS - interesting facts around the world.
- WORLD NAMES PROFILER - search for a surname to view its map and statistics.
- WORLD TIME ZONES
- YAHOO! - 2nd largest search engine on the web by query volume.
(Social) Bookmark & Sharing Managers

- ADD THIS - the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet.
- LIST OF BOOKMARK MANAGERS
- LIST OF SOCIAL BOOKMARKING WEBSITES - Wikipedia.
- SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Wikipedia.
- SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
- A1 WEBMARKS - "Anywhere 1 click away." Free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.
- BACKFLIP - stop bookmarking and start backflipping your favorite places.
- BIT.LY - a simple url shortener. Shorten, share, and track your links.
- BIZ SUGAR - social bookmarking and networking site for small business and medium-sized business owners and managers. It allows you to submit, share and vote for the best business information links on the Internet.
- BLINKLIST - "Discover, blink & share." Powerful productivity tool that makes is much easier for anyone to share and save their links for later.
- BLOGMARKS - a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging.
- BLOGTROTTR - "Delicious news, fed to your inbox." Free realtime RSS and Atom feed to email service. Get your favorite blogs, feeds, and news delivered to your inbox.
- BLURPALICIOUS - social bookmarking.
- BOOKMARKED BY US - "The Social Bargain Hunting Website!" Social bargain hunting website where you can set up a free account to find, submit, vote and comment on the best online shopping bargains in the USA.
- BOX - "Simple, Secure Sharing." Share, manage and access all your business content online.
- BRAINIFY - academic social bookmarking. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. If you are looking for the best sites and a great community to help with your courses, this is the place for you.
- BUDDY MARKS - "The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager."
- BUZZFLASH.NET - most popular stories as ranked by our readers.
- CITEULIKE - "Everyone's library." Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.
- CLICKAZOO - "Get to your favorite sites quickly and easily." Simple tool that enables you to display all your favourite sites in easy to manage thumbnails. Add, edit and arrange all your favourite sites on your free Clickazoo page then set it as your browser homepage. Next time you go online all your favourite sites will be just a click away!
- CONNOTEA - free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists. Quickly save and organize links to your references. Easily share references with your colleagues.
- CURATE.US - gives end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks.
- DEL.ICIO.US - search the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe.
- DESIGNBUMP - popular links.
- DIG THIS WEBHOST - Publish news, reviews and promotional materials about web hosts, web hosting and related markets. At Dig This Webhost we welcome anyone from industry professionals to the general public to submit web hosting related stories and vote on them.
- DIGG - a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
- DIIGO - web highligther and sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation, social information network.
- DROPBOX - file hosting service using cloud computing. The easiest way to store, sync, and share files and folders online. free download. Free for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile.
- FANBOX - "Profit from your passion." Tools to share and monetize your thoughts.
- FAVES - "Sites you'll love, from people like you." Social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "fave" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile.
- FARK - is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site.
- FOLKD.COM - enrich your websurfing experience.
- FLICKR - "The best online image and video hosting management and sharing application in the world." In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images.
- FRIEND FEED - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
- FRIENDSITE - social bookmarking. "The Free Site Where Friends Connect With New Friends."
- FURL - web highligther and sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation, social information network.
- GOOGLE BOOKMARKS - save time with quick links to your favorite websites. Get your bookmarks on any computer. Keep your bookmarks organized.
- GOWALLA - "Discover, capture and share places and events with your friends."
- IMGUR - "The simple image sharer." Online image hosting service. Allows users to create custom image galleries and manage their images. Users can also sign in with Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo accounts.
- KIRTSY - social media platform. "Kirtsy is just like that friend who always finds the best stuff. Only better. A place to find cool things. To read smart scoop. To connect with fab ideas, exceptional people, useful information, excellent products. All of it. And more."
- LINKARENA die andre Suchmaschine: sammeln und finden. Social bookmarking.
- LINK-A-GOGO - free online favorites manager and social bookmarking application.
- LIVE - Your life. Your stuff. One place. Windows Live. Instant messaging, e-mail, photos and files—with you online, wherever you go.
- LIVEJOURNAL - since 1999. "It's fast, fun, and free!". Virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. Available in 32 languages.
- MA.GNOLIA - Ma.gnolia is currently being remade as a by-invitation community bookmarking service.
- MAGMA - Magma is for exploring, discovering, collecting, sharing, and tracking videos from everywhere.
- MISTER WONG - helps you save all of your favorite websites to your personal account, so you have access to them online, no matter where you are.
- NETVIBES - leading personal start page to manage your digital life. Add widget to read your newspapers, play games, watch TV, movies, listen to podcasts, manage your links.
- NETVOUZ - save, tag and share your bookmarks.
- NOWPUBLIC - Crowd Powered Media. User-generated social news website.
- ONEVIEW - social bookmarking, deine Wissens-Community, Empfehlungen von Freunden.
- PASTEBIN.COM - "#1 paste tool since 2002." The most popular text sharing service on the internet. More and more people use a Pastebin type of service to share large amounts of text online.
- PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
- POCKET - "View when Ready." If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection. Help people who discover an interesting article, video or web page, but don’t have time to view it. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device - phone, tablet or computer.
- PROPELLER - "Look it up. I bet we have it!" A social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Once the link has been posted, you can vote on it, comment on it, share it with friends, or bookmark it to read later.
- REDDIT - since 2005. "What's new online!" Keep up with the latest development updates, community announcements, and general reddit tomfoolery. Social news website where the registered users submit content in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down", which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.
- SEGNALO - bookmark sociale.
- SIMPY - a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes, groups and more.
- SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - "Submit your social content." Your source for news, bookmarks, images and videos.
- SPHERE - Connecting the Conversation!
Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from blog posts, media articles, video, photos, and ads from across the web.
- SPURL - on-line bookmarking service and search engine.
- SQUIDOO - popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and snap it all into focus.
- STUMBLE UPON - personalized recommendations to help you discover the best of the web.
- TECHNORATI - as a member you can claim your blogs, and create a personal Technorati profile, and readers from around the web will be able to find what you've written.
- THE BEST LINKS - watch & organize your favorite links.
- THE MESSAGE CENTER - exchange made easy.
- TWITPIC - share photos on Twitter.
- YAHOO BOOKMARKING - Categorize your bookmarks into folders with the touch of a button. Find recommended sites similar to the sites you've bookmarked. Easy access to your bookmarks from any computer, work or home.
- YAHOO! BUZZ - community-based news article website, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person's site that links to a full story of the information.
- YIGG - Die besten Nachrichten von heute.
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- 20 First People To Sign Up For Facebook
- f8 - yearly event held by Facebook and takes place in San Francisco, California. Its mission is to bring together the developers and entrepreneurs who are building the social web.
- Facebook: One Billion and Counting - September 14, 2012.
- GEOSOCIAL NETWORKING - Wikipedia.
- HASHTAGS - are words or phrases prefixed with the symbol #, a form of metadata tag.
- HOW TO GET MORE 'LIKES' ON FACEBOOK
- HUBSPOT - "How to Use Facebook for Business."
- IMAGE HOSTING SERVICE - Wikipedia.
- INSIDE FACEBOOK - "Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform for Developers and Marketers."
- INSIDE SOCIAL GAMES - "Tracking Innovation at the Convergence of Games and Social Platforms."
- LIST OF ACTIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
- LIST OF DEFUNCT SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
- MASHABLE - "The Social Media Guide." Top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.
- NING - "Create your own social network for anything. Build a social destination to create a community. Foster conversations, drive action and earn revenue. All in a matter of clicks." Online platform for people to create their own social networks, launched in October 2005.
- ONLINE CHAT - Wikipedia.
- PEER INDEX - "Understand Your Online Social Capital."
- POKE (FACEBOOK) - feature is intended to be a poke gesture (similar to "nudge" in instant messaging) to attract the attention of another user.
- SKA DATE - advanced dating & community software. Dating layouts & social networking software templates.
- SOCIAL CAPITAL
- SOCIAL MEDIA - Wikipedia.
- Social network aggregation - is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as MySpace or Facebook. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile.
- SOCIAL NETWORKING - Wapedia.
- SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Wikipedia.
- SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
- TRENDSMAP - "Real-time local Twitter trends."
- TWHIRL - a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
- VINE (TWIITER) - mobile app by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum length of six seconds and can be shared on a variety of social networking services, such as Twitter or Facebook.
- WEB CHAT - Wikipedia.
- WORLD MAP OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - created by Vincenzo Cosenza.
- YOU ARE WHAT YOU LIKE - Facebook personality test.
- ZYNGA - "Connecting The World Through Games." Social network game developer: FarmVille, Café World, Treasure Isle, Mafia Wars, Frontier Ville, Petville, Zynga Poker.
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- A SMALL WORLD - Membership to ASMALLWORLD is by invitation only. "We are a private community of internationally minded people from around the world. ASMALLWORLD is the world’s leading private online community that captures an existing international network of people who are connected by three degrees of separation. Members share similar backgrounds, interests and perspectives."
- AERO - "The place where you can meet people, make friends, share photos, chat and much more!"
- AFFLUENCE.ORG - the exclusive organization of the world's wealthiest people.
- AIM - instant message your online buddies for free.
- ARENA365 - helps you, your team and your friends plan, communicate and reach goals within sport and active living.
- ASIANAVE - your place to meet and connect with Asians around the country.
- AUDIOBOO - the iPhone audio blogging app.
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- BEBO - "Blog Early, Blog Often". Hottest bands, sexiest celebs and fresh new videos. Keep track of friends on other social sites from one place. Find friends and invite your network to join.
- BEST OF ALL WORLDS - "Next Generation Social Media."
- BIGGER POCKETS - "Knowledge, Networking, Dealmaking." The Premier Real Estate Social Network Community & Real Estate Investing Resource Directory.
- BIZ SUGAR - social bookmarking and networking site for small business and medium-sized business owners and managers. It allows you to submit, share and vote for the best business information links on the Internet.
- BLEETBOX - "Make any site social." Browser based chat application that allows you to chat with anyone, about anything, anywhere on the Web. "We want you to be able to: Discover and share anything you find interesting on the Web. Find and chat live with other people that have the same interests as you. Find, follow and create the latest news and trends."
- BLIPPY - "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying." A social media "sharing" site for users to post and follow each other's updates about their purchases of goods and services. It has been described as the "Twitter of personal finance".
- BLOGGER - create your free blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.
- BOARDLITE - "Discuss The Latest News and Trends."
- BRAINIFY - academic social bookmarking. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. If you are looking for the best sites and a great community to help with your courses, this is the place for you.
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- CAMYOO - photo and video sharing site devoted to all the picture and video takers, lovers and critics!
- CARE2 - the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.
- CBOX - free tagboard and chat widget for your site.
- CHATROULETTE - a website which pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online stranger chat (video and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat and initiate another random connection.
- CHIQ - social network of trendsetters.
- Cinemagram - application that provides its users with a beautiful and creative way to animate photos. Animate small portions of you photo to create a magical image that’s part-photo and part-video. Apply filters and share your masterful and hilarious creations with your friends and the Cinemagram community.
- CLASSICAL PLACE - the social network for classical music.
- CLASSMATES.COM - find friends from college, military, workplace.
- CROWDGATHER - "Our rapidly growing network allows forum owners, forum goers, and marketers to interact and develop deep, meaningful ties."
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- DESIGNMOO - a network of designers and community resources and provide a centralized location for finding great-looking free design resources.
- deviantArt | dA - "The world's largest online art community." The largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 26 million registered members, attracting 65 million unique visitors per month. As a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts.
- DIASPORA - "Share what you want, with whom you want." Lets you sort your connections into groups called aspects. Unique to Diaspora, aspects ensure that your photos, stories and jokes are shared only with the people you intend.
- DIGZIGN - a place for professional or wannabe designers — or simply for those who love design — to discover and share design related content from anywhere on the web.
- DIPDIVE - create your own Dipdive identity: upload pictures, videos, audio, and blogs to your personal profile to let Dipdivers know what you're all about.
- DOSTI - Indian social networking.
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- EONS - lovin' life on the flip side.
- EXPAT NETWORK - expat jobs abroad.
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- FACEBOOK - "Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." Launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of whom use Facebook on a mobile device.
- FAME GAME - a rapidly-growing website that maps and analyzes your social connections and media attention to help you promote meaningful ideas, people, and organizations in culture.
- FANBOX - "The world's largest mobile community." FanBox enables people to buy, sell, and promote their digital content through web & mobile technologies.
- FARK - is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site.
- FAVES - "Sites you'll love, from people like you." Social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "fave" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile.
- FAVORITES - upload and share your own videos with the world.
- FLATTR - Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
- Flipboard - social-network aggregation, magazine-format application software for Android and iOS. It collects the content of social media and other websites and presents it in magazine format and allows users to "flip" through their social-networking feeds and feeds from websites that have partnered with the company.
- FLIXTER - "Watch movies. Tell friends." Flixter is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love.
- FOURSQUARE - location-based social networking website, software for mobile devices, and game. Users "check-in" at venues using text messaging or a device specific application.
- FRIEND FEED - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
- FRIENDSITE - social bookmarking. "The Free Site Where Friends Connect With New Friends."
- FRONTLINE SMS - allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal
- FUNNY OR DIE - a comedy video website that combines user generated content with original, exclusive content. The site is a place where celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians and regular users can all put up stuff they think is funny.
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- Gifboom - "Express yourself in motion. Use the GifBoom app to take a series of pictures, add effects, texts, and comments. Then, share it on gifboom and other social networks!"
- Glogster - "Poster yourself." Social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for "graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.
- GOOGLE+ - "Real life sharing." Google's new social network.
- GOOGLE BUZZ - social networking and messaging tool from Google that is integrated into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.
- GOOGLE BUZZ FOR MOBILE - see what's going on nearby, post a message tagged with your location, and follow your friends on the go.
- GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT - grow traffic by adding social features to your site.
- GOOGLE LATITUDE - lets you see your friends on a map. Get it on your phone or your computer.
- GOWALLA - "Discover, capture and share places and events with your friends."
- GREE - the third largest social networking site in Japan.
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- ICQ - whether you want a personal communication tool or to target your campaigns to a young and captive audience, ICQ is the solution.
- IDENTI.CA - a social microblogging service similar to Twitter, built on open source tools and open standards. Allows users to send text-based posts up to 140 characters.
- ILIKE - "Do you love music? Get personalized concert alerts from your favorite artists in iTunes. Share playlists and recommendations with friends. Join over 50 million music lovers across Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, hi5, and iGoogle."
- INSTAGRAM - "Fast beautiful photo sharing." Online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take a picture, apply a digital filter to it, and share it on a variety of social networking services, including its own. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.
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- JAIKU - social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter.
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- KABOODLE - have fun shopping with friends, share and discover new products.
- KLOUT - "Discover and be recognized for how you influence the world." Provides social media analytics to measure a user's influence across his or her social network. The analysis is done on data taken from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, and measures the size of a person's network, the content created, and purports to measure how other people interact with that content.
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- LAST.FM - "Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love... Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too."
- LINKEDIN - the world's largest business network.
- LIVE LEAK - "Redefining the Media." Video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world.
- LIVE SPACES - access Hotmail, Messenger and Xbox LIVE.
- LIVEJOURNAL - since 1999. "It's fast, fun, and free!". Virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. Available in 32 languages.
- LOCKERZ - founded in 2009. "Get rewarded for what you love to do online." Lockerz’ mission is to be the homepage for men and women ages 13 to 30, building a community of trendsetters and tastemakers who love to shop, play and connect on the Web. As a members-only site, Lockerz has grown to nearly 19 million members worldwide, offering major discounts on the best fashions, electronics, music and more.
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- MESSENGER - instant messaging client created by Microsoft.
- MIGENTE - "Your home for what's relevant to you & your community."
- MIXI - the biggest social networking site in Japan.
- MIXX - registered users of Mixx can submit great content, vote for their favorites and mixx it up by adding comments and making friends.
- MSN MESSENGER - instant messaging client created by Microsoft.
- MULTIPLY - secure, family-friendly media sharing.
- MUMSNET - a British community website set up by mothers to give advice on parenting and family issues.
- MY.ARFIE - show off your pets on Dogpile's Online Community!
- MY BLOG LOG - the source for all things.
- MY NIKKI BEACH - the Jet Set social network.
- MY(SPACE) - social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
- MYBATANGA - encuentra amigos, crea estaciones de Internet radio, sube fotos y más.
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- NETWORK FOR GOD - Network for Good is a website where users can donate to charities and search for volunteer opportunities.The website was founded in 2001 by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!.
- NEWSLE - "News about your people. Know your network. When your friends make the news, we make sure you know."
- NING - lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions.
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- OMEGLE - used for talking to strangers and "meeting new friends" via stranger chat. The service randomly pairs up users online into one-on-one chat windows, where they can chat anonymously using the handles "You" and "Stranger"; either party can disconnect at any time.
- OPEN ART COLLECTION - Worldwide social art network for Artists, Collectors and Professionals. "Meeting the right people in the art world just got easier."
- OPEN SOCIAL - defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites.
- ORKUT - social networking and discussion site operated by Google.
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- PHEED - "Express yourself." Launched on October 12, 2012. "We offer the standard sharing features such as text, photos and videos, but decided to spice it
up a little by adding new stuff like voice-notes, audio clips and live-broadcasting. Pheed gives you the option to monetize either by applying a monthly subscription fee to your
channel or setting a pay-per-view live broadcast event. In both cases, you select the pricing
and earn directly. Or, you can always share and hang out for free, it's up to you."
- PHOTOBUCKET - offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.
- PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
- PING -"A social network for music." Set your inner groupie free by following your favorite artists on Ping and friends to discover the music they're talking about, listening to, and downloading. Ping is built into the iTunes app on iPhone and iPod touch. So you can see artist updates from anywhere.
- PING.FM - "Update all of your social networks at once!" Free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.
- PINTEREST - "Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love." Pinboard-style social photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections or 'like' photos.
- PLAXO - "Your Address Book For Life." Online "smart, socially connected address book" and social networking service.
- PLURK - "your life, on the line." Free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length.
- POSTEROUS - "Share it Your Way for Free." Simple blogging platform started in May 2008. It supports integrated and automatic posting to other social media tools such as Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook, a built-in Google Analytics package, and custom themes.
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- REDDIT - a social news website. "What's new online!" Keep up with the latest development updates, community announcements, and general reddit tomfoolery.
- RICH GIRLS CLUB - "Place where you want to be!"
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- SALAMWORD - "Salamworld is a global social network based on Islamic idea of "collaboration". Salamworld allows to express your individuality through different communities. Salamworld is the chance for every user to claim about its social integrity and interests."
- SCRIBD - the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
- SECOND LIFE - a free online virtual world imagined and created by its Residents. From the moment you enter Second Life, you'll discover a fast-growing digital world filled with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity.
- SEESMIC - stay connected and share information with your friends.
- SKYROCK - social networking site offering its members a free web space where they can create a blog, add a profile, and exchange messages with other registered members. The site also offers a specific space for members who create blogs showcasing their original musical compositions.
- SLURL - location-based linking in Second Life.
- SNAPCHAT - "Real-time Picture Chatting for iOS and Android." Photo messaging application. Using the app, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. Users can set a time limit for how long recipients can view their photos, up to 10 seconds, after which they will disappear.
- SOCIALTEXT - private "Twitter" network for you and your co-workers, free.
- SOUND CLOUD - "Share Your Sounds. SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.
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- TECHNERD.COM - "Champion Your Dreams - Your Skills - Your Future." A way to get individuals & there ideas together. Allow communication among members on various Technical skills, disciplines, products, & services. To begin building an online community of members dedicated to exchange & communication of ideas & knowledge. To facilitate the exchange of ideas.
- TECHNORATI - help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation.
- THIS NEXT - recommend, share and discover great products. "We are a community of shoppers sharing our best finds from across the web. We are passionate about new, unique, and interesting products that enable and enrich our lives. ThisNext is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new things that you will love. By harnessing the collective wisdom of our community, ThisNext is invaluable for tastemakers and thought leaders who turn to ThisNext to find the products and trends that are shaping their world."
- TOTALPRESTIGE - "Business & Lifestyle Luxury Network. Serving Celebrities, High Net Worth Individuals And Corporations Since 1993." Totalprestige Community is a members-only community and a professional social network for entrepreneurs, professionals and luxury lifestyle aficionados. Described as "High Society Network," in The New York Post, "Il social-network per l'alta società," in Il Corriere della Sera, and defined as "A Facebook for the Filthy Rich," in Wired Magazine.
- TRENDSMAP - "Real-time local Twitter trends."
- TUMBLR - a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.
- TWEET TRAVELERS - a place for travelers to connect. A travel free social network focused on travel and includes user-generated travel blogs, photos, videos, and travel info.
- TWEETDECK - TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
- TWINITY - "Powered by Real Life." A 3D mirror world based on real cities and real people. The world’s first mirror world made of real people and real places. The virtual cities of Berlin and Singapore have already launched in Twinity, with London set to join them soon.
- TWITPIC - share photos on Twitter.
- TWITTER - is a micro-blogging service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Also visit: The Big Juicy Twitter Guide, 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence, CoTweet: how business does twitter and Twitter 101: Guide for businesses.
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- VIMEO - "Video Sharing For You." Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. 3,400,000 members as of May, 2010.
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- WAYN.COM - "The fastest growing travel and lifestyle social networking community website in the world. WAYN is present in 193 countries and membership has grown from 45,000 users in March 2005 to over 21.7 million members today (April, 2013)."
- WEBUTATION - "Website Reputation Community against fraud and badware." Lookup any website for reputation and safety information.
- WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER - (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft.
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- YAHOO! BUZZ - community-based news article website, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person's site that links to a full story of the information.
- YOU TUBE - "Broadcast Yourself." Video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.
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- ZYNGA - "Connecting the world through games." Web 2.0-based social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Whistleblower Sites

- CRYPTOME - Wikipedia.
- OPENLEAKS - Wikipedia.
- RUSLEAKS - English Pravda.
- WHISTLEBLOWER - Wikipedia.
- WIKILEAKS - Wikipedia.
- Brussels Leaks - founded 2010. "BrusselsLeaks isn’t against the EU. We merely wants to make it more open and transparent. Far too much is happening behind these doors and it is in the interest of the EU as a whole to have a more open, more fair and more just system."
- CRYPTOME - founded 1996. Functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. "Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance - open, secret and classified documents - but not limited to those."
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | ICIJ - founded in 1997. "Leak To Us." Encourages whistleblowers everywhere to securely submit all forms of content that might be of public concern - documents, photos, video clips as well as story tips. "We accept all information that relates to potential wrongdoing by corporate, government or public service entities in any country, anywhere in the world. We do our utmost to guarantee the confidentiality of our sources."
- OPENLEAKS - founded 2011. "Here and there and everywhere." The new whistleblowing website. "We are using our collective experience in an attempt to support, and help others to support whistleblowers; thus making the leaking of information more widespread, while simultaneously reducing the personal risk to those who fight corruption."
- RUSLEAKS - founded 2011. The Russian answer to WikiLeaks.
- TRADELEAKS - founded 2010. "Dedicated to openness and transparency in trade and commerce. Our goal is to bring important news and information about businesses to the public. We provide an anonymous way for consumers and sources within businesses to leak important information direct to the public. We ask our sources to post credible information, including evidence and documents where possible, which they believe consumers need to know about businesses."
- VATI LEAKS - 'Catholic Church is not for respectable people'.
- WIKILEAKS - founded 2006. "Courage is contagious." International non-profit organisation that publishes and comments on submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks alleging government and corporate misconduct.
- WSJ SAFEHOUSE - since 2011. "Securely Share Confidential Documents." Help The Wall Street Journal uncover fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing. Send documents to us using a special system built to be secure. Keep your identity anonymous or confidential, if needed.
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