Multiply

http://www.multiply.com
Multiply is unlike any web site you've ever used to share photos, or a blog, or any other kind of digital content. It's very powerful and extremely easy to use.

It's one site for everything. You'll get your own address (http://yourname.multiply.com), which makes it much easier to tell people where to find your blog, photos, media collection (video, music), etc. You can also customize your site (color, layout). Make it yours, privately!

Add your friends and family with built-in import utility. Invite them to see your stuff on Multiply. Furthermore you can describe your relationship with your colleagues. It's like building social-network over your existing relatives, plus endless possibilities to expand your network.

Check out what's being shared with you. You can easily control whose content you want to see.

Discuss about media being shared with Multiply exclusive Live Replies that turns any comments into live discussion with alert feature to inform your relatives about update on your content.

And the most important point is, Multiply makes sharing simple. With Multiply's consistent interface you can upload your media, whatever it is, with simple built-in uploader. You can also utilize Multiply Drag-and-Drop uploader software (using Java).

Google Alert

One of the foremost tenets of affiliate marketing is know your partners. Monitoring merchants is something every affiliate should do, but how many really do it?

http://www.google.com/alerts/

Google enables you to subscribe for updates on any company name or keyword with Google Alerts. Google Alerts are e-mail updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. In addition to providing you with news updates for any keyword term you select, you can also get e-mails if your keyword is mentioned in a blog, the regular Google results, or Google Groups.

This is a great, free tool to keep an eye on any key announcements for companies you promote, as well as positive and negative opinions on the companies in blogs and Google Groups.

Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

• monitoring a developing news story
• keeping current on a competitor or industry
• getting the latest on a celebrity or event
• keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

Atomz Site Search

http://www.atomz.com
The premier free search tool for your website

Atomz Search is a hosted application and is delivered completely over the Internet. The service is free, supported trough embedded text-based advertisements.

Use Atomz's best-practices search results template, modify it to match the look and feel of your web site, or design a custom template all your own with our easy-to-use template language. With Atomz powerful indexing options, you can customize your site search index containing up to 10,000 web pages or .PDF documents in over 30 languages.

Working Example: Use following form to search something in Web Service Directory...

Complex form (you can get the code once you logged in to your account)..

Search For:
Match:	Any wordAll wordsExact phrase Sound-alike matching
Dated:	AnytimeWithin the last weekWithin the last 2 weeksWithin the last 30 daysWithin the last 60 daysWithin the last 90 daysWithin the last 180 daysWithin the last yearWithin the last two years
		From:	JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031,
		To:	JanuaryFebruary MarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031,
Within:	AnywhereTitleDescriptionKeywordsBodyAlternate textURLTarget
Show:	5102550100 results withwithout summaries
Sort by:	relevancedate

FURL | Your Personal Web File

http://www.furl.net

Furl lets you save anything you see in your browser. The easiest way to do that is to add the "Furl It" button right on the toolbar of your browser. When you find something you want to save, you click the "Furl It" button.

That opens up a new window with the title and URL of the page you are looking at already filled in. You then have the option of adding comments to, rating, and categorizing the page. When you're done, click "Save." That's it. The next time you view your archive you will see the new entry.

You can set up Furl in two simple steps:

1. Sign up for an account at Furl - You will get an email to verify your account and must click on the link in that email before going on to Step 2.
2. Put the "Furl It" button on your browser toolbar - There is no software to install. For most browsers, this is a simple as dragging a link to the toolbar.

Visited Countries Map

With this service you can highlight selected countries on the world map by choosing countries you have visited (toogle using checkboxes). Actuallty, this is a general purpose map highlighter that you can use for any purpose (not only marking 'visited' countries), i.e. as demographic chart showing origin of your site visitors, highlighting countries where your branch offices reside, etc.

create your own visited countries map

widzoo.com

widzoo.The Widget Zoo
http://www.widzoo.com

Widzoo's web site thumbnail widget is a FREE service you can use to increase your web site's user-friendliness & help your users locate web sites efficiently. It's 100% FREE... No monthly fees. No setup fees.

To use this service is very easy. Just include following code within your page once (best place is between <head>..</head> tag):

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.widzoo.com/widzoo.js"> </script>

then put following code anywhere within document body where you want the thumbnail appears...

<script type="text/javascript"> widzoo.createThumbnail('url',width,height); </script>

Dimension range: width=111..480, height=82..360.
Note that it takes at most 72 hours to take thumbnails that are not already in widzoo.com's databases.
Working Example: Following in thumbnail of Complete Web Guide Blog site that generated using widzoo service...


Snap.com Web Snapshots Service

http://snap.com

This is a free service that allows you to make dynamic floating bubble that display thumbnail web snapshot from linked URL, allowing your visitor to preview the appearance of linked web before they visit the sites.

If you are planning to put this service with Blogger, you can utilize their Blogger 1-Click auto-installer (also works for some other major blog platforms, including WordPress and TypePad).

For more information, You can download the QuickStart Guide (PDF) or consult the FAQ.

To see working example of this service, click this button:

Girafa.com Web Thumbnailer

http://www.girafa.com

Add thumbnail image previews (of web pages) to your search pages, bookmarks, blogs, and any page that displays a text link.

With Girafa's technology - your web site's visitors can see thumbnail sized images of any link they choose, instantly, without the time-consuming task of waiting for each page to load. The thumbnail sized images Girafa creates are small screenshots of web pages. When placed next to search results listings, bookmarks, or any text link, users are able to preview the site before visiting the link - improving the user experience.

This service is a solution designed for the needs of Search Engines, Directories, Yellow Pages, and Web sites in general. The service is hosted on Girafa's servers, and integrates seamlessly with your site.



Experience shows that the use of thumbnails improves searches, increases repeat visits, and increases click through rates. Users are more likely to click on search results that display thumbnail images. The result is an enhanced user experience that increase revenues from search pages.

Girafa offers both paid and free service:

• A free service is available for sites that require up to maximum 2,000 images per day.
  sign up for the free version now. You can use one FREE service per Web site. The free service is available in Homepage Mode only, that means you can request only thumbnail of the homepage of the URLs. For example, the image Girafa provides for the URL http://www.cnn.com/tech/ is that of the page displayed for the URL http://www.cnn.com/ which is the homepage of the first URL.
  
• A premium serice is available for a monthly service fee (starting from $20/month), determined according to the volume of images required for your site, and any customization needs that you may have.

When using the Girafa Thumbnail Service, you have complete control over how the thumbnails are displayed next to your links, and the thumbnails are served free from any search box, or ads.

To add the thumbnail images to your Web pages, all that you need is open a Girafa account and insert a simple HTML code wherever a thumbnail is required.

To dynamically create thumbnail link using PHP, use following PHP snippet:

function thumbnail($url) {

$client_id = ‘abcde1234567′; // your client ID
$signature = ‘fgh7j6ax2′; // the signature you entered @ girafa
$concatenated = $signature.$url;
$MD5_Hash = md5($concatenated);
$signature = substr($MD5_Hash, 16, 16);
$url = urlencode($url);
$str = ‘http://scst.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?i=’;
$str .= $client_id .‘&r=’. $url .‘&s=’. $signature;
return $str;

}

This function returns a complete URL based on the argument you have passed to the function.

What if 2000 thumbnail requests are not enough?
First of all you can buy as much as thumbnails you need. If you don’t have a budget for this premium service, it’s possible to cache the thumbnails on your own web server with this code:

$dom_parts = parse_url($url);
$thumb = 'doc_root/your_thumb/'.$dom_parts[‘host’].'.jpg';
if(!@file_exists($thumb)) {

// next you will use your function
$request_for = thumbnail($url);
@copy($request_for, $thumb);

}

When a URL that you request is not yet known to Girafa at the time its image is requested, an Image Not Available image is displayed instead of the site's preview, and the requested URL is queued to be captured. Capture of new URLs may take up to 48 hours, but usually occurs within a few hours.

Additionally, you should add image link in the page where Girafa thumbnails are shown like following example:

CleanCSS.com

CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

The CSS optimizer was originally developed by some awesome dudes over at CSS Tidy. They built the program and have made it free for everyone to use. This site implements CSS Tidy as free online tool for webmaster.

Ping.IN Weblog Ping Notifier

http://www.ping.in

Ping.IN is a free blog ping service that pings or notifies Weblog Services such as Blog Search Engines and blog directories that your blog has been updated. Thus enabling them to index your blog fast and make your content available for a larger audience. The ping process is fast with simple yet intuitive clean interface.

General weblog services supported:
Weblogs.com, Technorati, Bloglines, Syndic8, Blogrolling, Feedster, Moreover, bblog, Bulkfeeds, Blogdigger, Blogsnow, popdex, Pubsub, Yahoo, Topicexchange.com, Feedburner.com, Icerocket.com, Blo.gs, Coreblog.com, Newsgator.com, blogpeople.net, bitacoras, Blogg, BlogUniv, Completerss, Feed24, newzfire, RDFticker, feedsfarm, feedplex, blogwise, blogwise, newsisfree, weblogs.se, blogmatcher.com, focuslook.com, holycowdude.com

Non-English weblog services supported:
veneblogs.com, bitacoles.net, bitacoras.net, technorati.jp, blog-search.net, blogmura, cocolog-nifty.com, bloggers.jp, blog.goo.ne.jp, trackback.bakeinu.jp, myblog.jp, blogdb.jp

Specialized weblog services supported:
a2b.cc, weblogalot.com, memigo.com, 31engine.com, freshpodcasts.com, ipodder.org

VTunnel CGI Proxy

Vtunnel.com lets you browse to websites blocked by your school, employer, or ISP, or are otherwise unavailable from your current internet connection. You can access the web the way it was meant to be accessed. It can also be done to protect your anonymity, so that the website you are visiting does not know who you are.

Unlike most free proxies, Vtunnel allows the "form post" method, which means you can use it to login to most websites such as GMail or MySpace, which is impossible from most free proxies. Vtunnel also allows file downloads and no restrictions on features, which is rare for a free proxy service. To be less blockable and for increased security, Vtunnel also supports SSL via https://www.vtunnel.com

Due to continuing advertiser support, Vtunnel can provide this valuable service completely free of charge.

Enter a URL below to browse the internet securely!

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MySpace

http://www.MySpace.com

MySpace lets you share photos, journals, and interests with your growing network of mutual friends. Creating a profile in MySpace is fast, fun, and easy. You can disclose as much or as little information about yourself as you want. MySpace will always keep your personal information private and confidential. Only content which you explicitly choose will be shared with public. You can even post pictures of yourself to add to the fun.

Once you have your profile up and running, start inviting your friends to join in on the fun. By building your personal network, you can start expanding your circle of friends exponentially.



View your friends' profiles... and their friends' profiles. Learn their interests, read their online journals, and view their pictures. Browse through everyone's "Friends List" and see whom you are connected to. You'll be amazed at all the interesting people you are associated with through networks of mutual friends!



Want to see who you are connected to through your network of mutual friends? Simply use the Browse feature to find people in your Personal Network using many various criteria, such as age, interests, location, and more! Or, use the Search feature to scour the entire MySpace Network of Members to find exactly whom you're looking for!



If you find a person you wish to communicate with, use our messaging system for instant contact. Your email and personal information will always be protected.



Use MySpace to meet new friends, meet a new person and perhaps spark love interest, inform your circle of friends with info on current events, or start an organization or group with people that share the same ideas as yourself. The possibilities are endless and MySpace is a great tool to have.

Odeo

Millions of MP3s and 1000's of audio channels—podcasts, music, and more. Listen, download, subscribe... FREE!

Hi, this is Odeo. We have millions of MP3 from all over the web, which have been played from Odeo more than 28 million times (as January 2008). You can download or play them straight from Odeo for free, or you can also put them on your web site.

And like hundreds thousands other people, you can create your free account so you can subscribe to things and save the stuff you like. Registration is very fast and simple, it can be done in one step from Odeo main page even without living the opened page.

One of Odeo hot (yet hidden -- click 'My Account' tab » 'Profile' » 'Put this on your site' link, or simply type 'http://odeo.com/account/badges' after you're signed in) feature is ability to accept voice mail from visitor of your website. Click on following button to see it in action (will leave voice mail to FreeForBiz account)...

Aeonity Blog

http://www.aeonity.com

Aeonity Blog is a Free Blog Hosting Community where you may publish information instantly on your website and customize your blog to fit your personality. It basically works like an online journal, diary, weblog, or notepad and requires little or no technical background to update and maintain.

Aeonity Blog a is a Free Blog Community where your friends and family can create a blog and get feedback from other registered users just like you. Aeonity Blog even offers a private feature that allows your blogs to be private if you want them to be.

Your blog posts are arranged in order with the most recent additions featured prominently for your friends and family to view. With Aeonity Blog you are able to add a photo, search, create your own personal template layout or you may use one of predefined free themes. Aeonity Blog was developed for those who are interested in having their blog hosted on the web at for free and at no charge.

Aeonity websites design is secure, fast, and easy to use with no horrible cluttering of ads and pointless material. The provided templates are easy to code and even come with a tutorial to help you on your weblogs, if needed.

Create a Free Blog Account


Review from WSD editor:

Registration is simple. Anyway, after three steps and you have selected existing username, you have to re-register from scratch. Your account name also limited to maximum 10 chars length.
Overall, the blog software programming is poor and fault-intolerance.

In MSIE7, the main menu script is buggy, dropdown menu is hard to access (click on menu command, a submenu window will be appearing below it but with space that makes the submenu disappear when you move the mouse downward in attempt to access submenu command. Trick to overcome this problem: hold down (like dragging) the mouse button and move mouse pointer to desired sub-command, release button and click as usual.

The post editor is plain simple text editor (you can enter HTML/BB-code code there). No helper buttons (as for bold/italic/color, etc. If you want to format your blogpost, you have to know HTML down to tag level). The script is also buggy here, for example when you hit Preview button before saving your post, you will be warned about 'navigating out of page'. Javascript is not allowed.

You may upload maximum 25 images. Image upload is not accessible from post editor, you have to upload them first before writing your post. Each image couldn't be larger than 190,000 bytes (actually it's big enough. If your image is bigger than this one, you should resize your image and compress it (i.e., an average 600x400px JPEG image with 50% quality should be less than 150Kb in size).

OwnEmail.com

http://www.OwnEmail.com

OwnEmail.com offers free email accounts using descriptive and fun domains. These email accounts utilize an easy to use web based interface so you can access your mail from any computer with internet access. In addition, you can also check your other email accounts from the same simple system.

List of available domains:

Note: The email accounts are supplied for personal, non commercial use and should not be relied upon as your primary email address.

Excite Mix

http://mix.excite.co.uk

excite MIX is a fully customisable personal homepage. You can get the latest news from your favorite sites in real time, check your emails at a glance and search the web, all from one page.

You can find popular RSS feeds in the "Add Content" feed directory to get you started. To make the most of all the free live content available on the web, Excite MIX provides you with a single access point, where you can see all your favourites from just one page. The techie term for it is a Feed Aggregator. What you're seeing on your Excite MIX are the latest updates / news / content from the websites you choose.

To help you tracking your email, you can add as many mail modules as you like to get list of messages in your mailboxes (POP header retrieving). There's a useful notepad module for jotting down reminders or notes to self.

You can also customise your MIX by adding extra pages if you want, categorized to make information and tools easily organized. All the modules you put on your MIX can be moved easily around on a page or between pages - just drag and drop. Pages can also be ordered by dragging and dropping the page tab where you want it. You should rename the tab caption to reflect the contents on corresponding tab.

Once you are satisfied with your personal homepage 'mix', you can save your MIX and access it anywhere by creating a free Excite account.

Any webmaster or blogger whose site or blog features an RSS-feed can place this button on their site. Allow visitors to syndicate your feed on their own MIX page), put the code below on your html script...

<a href="http://mix.excite.eu/add?feedurl=_YOUR_FEED_URL_"><img src="http://image.excite.co.uk/mix/addtomix.gif" width="91" height="17" border="0"></a>

Digg.com

http://www.digg.com

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by thousands of its users.

You won’t find editors at Digg, instead it provides a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online. Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by Digg community. Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.

Because Digg is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. Digg exists to promote that conversation and provide tools for internet community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Digg, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. Digg is committed in giving every piece of content on the web an equal shot at being the next big thing.

Official Digg Tools

Digg Buttons & Badges
Get Digg buttons and badges for your site. See below to view available buttons/badges. Digg subscription URL is http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=_PAGE_URL_&title=_PAGE_TITLE_
Change "_PAGE_URL_" with URL of your web and "_PAGE_TITLE_" with title of the page.

Show Digg News on Your Site
You can easily display the latest Digg news on your site by adding a Digg Widget, now with more choices for what to show and how it's displayed. When news is updated on Digg, it will automatically be displayed on your site, in the format that you choose. You can choose between available templates and fine-tune selections by following provided wizard.

Integrate Digging in Your Site
Allow your site's visitors to digg your stories from your website, and submit your stories to Digg. Encourage users to submit new content from your site to Digg. It's smart and capable to distinguish between new and existing content and automatically display proper interface (either Subscribing or Digging interface). It also display the real-time Digg count for content already on Digg, with support for News, Video, or Podcast content.
The most simple usage of this tool is by linking a javascript (<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>) from Digg server. For detailed instruction and customization, just visit the Digg integration page.

iGoogle Module
View recent stories from Digg on your personalized Google homepage.
Add this Google Gadgets from here.

Google Coop Module
See Digg articles at the top of your Google search results.
This Subscribed Links offer a way for you to add information from Digg to your Google search results. When you search using queries that match Digg Subscribed Link, information from Digg will appear in your search results. You have to subscribe Digg links profile with Google to enable this feature. Note that you have to signed in with your Google Account and perform search from google.com comain (other domain such google.co.uk are not associated with subscribed links. Click on the 'google.com' link from other domain's main page).

Enable Thumbnails
Enable submissions from your site to display thumbnails on Digg.
When your visitors submit pages from your web site to Digg, an association thumbnail will be fetched. If the thumbnail could not retrieved (for whatever reason it might be), Digg will just display your item on Digg without the thumbnail. Thumbnails are fetched during submission of the URL to Digg, so they should appear immediately on the site. Digg have implemented Facebook’s “share” standard for enabling thumbnails, which means that if you correctly implement the specified standard, your thumbnails should appear on both sites when submitting video, news, and image stories.

To ensure that your thumbnail is properly displayed, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news article, video, or image could have the following:

<meta name="title" content="Directory of Web Services">
<meta name="description" content="Exploit web to it's fullest extent... discover current available free web services from this web service directory">
<meta rel="image_src" href="http://freeforbiz.googlepages.com/thumb.jpg">

As shown, title contains the story title, description contains the story description and image_src contains the thumbnail image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. For consistency's sake, please use the tag to provide text data for the preview, and the tag for any source urls. The title and summary tags are the minimum requirements for any preview, so make sure to include these two.

List of available link buttons

• 10x10-digg-thumb.png
• 16x16-digg-guy.png
• 16x16-digg-thumb.png
• 85x10-digg-link.png
• 80x15-digg-badge-2.png
• 80x15-digg-badge.png
• 91x17-digg-button.png
• 91x17-digg-button-alt.png
• 100x20-digg-button.png
• 180x35-digg-button.png
• 32x32-digg-guy.png

Download a ZIP file of all of the digg badges in GIF, PNG, and PSD (Photoshop) format.

Bloglines.com

http://www.bloglines.com

Bloglines is a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.

With today's avalanche of information, you really can get anything you want. We should focus as to avoid information overload -- why sit still for an hour of TV news if all you care about is the sports update? Bloglines allows you to be very choosy and only track the things you are interested in -- then let Bloglines do all the legwork for you. Bloglines will find the latest news, collect it for you, and keep it on your Bloglines page until you're ready to read it. You log in when you can, from any computer with a web browser.

Bloglines is a "news aggregator." Many online information sources, including web sites, weblogs and news services, now broadcast their content to the web in so-called "syndicated feeds" or "news feeds" with new technologies like Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and ATOM. News aggregator software and services collect those syndicated feeds and present them to end users in a variety of ways.

Bloglines is a server-based aggregation system. This means that it run and manage all of the software and technologies necessary to collect the syndicated feeds from tens of millions of online information sources on our own computer servers and databases, and deliver that amazing content to you as a free, easy-to use online service.

After you join Bloglines you simply search for the content you are interested in and identify the feeds you want to track. Once you "subscribe" to those feeds (a single-click maneuver in most cases), Bloglines will constantly check those feeds for changes or additions and direct new information onto your Bloglines personal page.

Highlighted features:

• It's 100% Free Online Service
• No software to download, fast and easy online registration
• Blog search feature
• Email subscription feature
• Import/Export features (with OPML support)
• Clipping feature (save particular articles for later review)
• Notifier (send notification on subscriptions update) via web or client software (download here).
  

Add Bloglines Subscription Button

To add link to this service (allows visitors to subscribe your feed with Bloglines), add following code:

<a href= "http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.domain.com/your/feed.url">
<img src="http://static.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern8.gif" border="0" alt="Subscribe with Bloglines" />
</a>

As usual, replace "http://www.domain.com/your/feed.url" with your feed URL.

List of all available buttons (right-click over file name and choose 'Copy Shortcut'/'Copy Link' command to copy image URL to clipboard):

• sub_modern1.gif (94x29 px)
• sub_modern2.gif (94x29 px)
• sub_modern3.gif (180x22 px)
• sub_modern4.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern5.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern6.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern7.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern8.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern9.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern10.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern11.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_modern12.gif (76x17 px)
• sub_small.gif (55x57 px)