Have an opinion, shout out the answer and want others’ opinion, feel free to ask a question. That’s the purpose behind this on-line application known as ‘Urtak‘. Linguistically, it’s an Icelandic word meaning “statistical sample”. This word has been borrowed by the developers of this web based tool because ‘every Urtak is a sample of what a community thinks‘.

Urtak enables one to crate his/her own personal poll and seek answers to his/her questions from the people of their respective communities. One can also participate in a poll created by others by answering their question.

The questions are to be answered in 3 options- Yes, No and Don’t Care( Of course, there are always other potential responses to even a yes or no question — not sure, no opinion, don’t know, skip, etc. But we think Don’t Care is the simplest. After all, either you care to answer a question, or you don’t.

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Meetings are a complete waste of time, email etiquettes are too hard and weird to follow, and Instant Messenger is too outdated for group chats. Welcome to the hip and happening world of HipChat, a new communication platform with a difference.

HipChat is a communication platform which will make office communication with colleagues across the globe a lot more candid, real time and fast with its attractive features . HipChat facilitates seamless text, code and file sharing for instant decision making.

One key attraction of this messenger is that it saves you from the trouble of finding the email id of your office teammates and then add them to a list. You don’t have to follow the tradition manual ‘Add buddies’ approach. You’re automatically connected to everyone in your company or team. There are absolutely no bandwidth limits but only file storage limits. This tool also facilitates keeping a record of all your ‘chats’ in Chat Histories.

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Conversation is an inevitable part of human life. Every person on this planet has a particular thought process and a personal opinion about everything happening around him. What could be extremely good for one could turn out to be a cobra’s venom for another. Now, its also a human nature to share one’s thoughts and opinion about something with other minds and there is always a curiosity to know what the others have to say about the same thing.

Gravity brings together people from various walks of life and provides them with a common platform to speak out their minds and share their views on almost everything they care about.

Also, Gravity acknowledges the fact that it’s our ability to converse that sets us apart from lesser beasts. Humans are pretty clever. Not only can we express feelings like hunger, anger and happiness (cats and badgers can do all of these), with language we can describe stuff, communicate complicated ideas, engage in debate, and teach and learn from each other.

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AtTheBigRiver is a convenient way to link to your favorite content at Amazon. It allows you to create intuitive, functional, and humane URLs on the fly, without interrupting the flow of your writing to stop and find the “correct” URL. This web site’s intelligent technology always sends your users to a sensible location. And does painless affiliate links too. You’re welcome.

Want to link to something at Amazon? Don’t want to go hunting for the URL? Just take the name of what you want to link to, change the spaces to hyphens and add “.atthebigriver.com”. that’s it and you are done. The new URL is equivalent to the original one and you need not find the correct URL any more.

The rules for constructing URLs are simple. Simply take the name of the artist, author, book or other item you want to link to, change spaces to hyphens, and append “.atthebigriver.com” to it. The website’s intelligent redirection technology is very forgiving. Underscores are automatically converted to hyphens, and non-alphanumeric characters are stripped out. So these URLs are both equivalent and functional: j.k._rowling.atthebigriver.com and jk-rowling.atthebigriver.com . So now you see how simple your work is made by this web site.

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Olark is the easiest way to get live chat on your website, big or small. It will help you sell better using simple live chat on your website. Chat with your website visitors while they browse, using your mobile device or instant messenger. Chat with visitors on your website from your desktop, your laptop, your iPhone, or your Blackberry.

It works with standard chat (IM) clients (like iChat, Pidgin, and Meebo) and services (Google Talk and Jabber) which means YOU get to decide what software to use. Check out all the features that work to make you money.

1. Multiple operators: Handle higher volumes of visitors with more operators. Each operator connects using the chat client of their choice and other operators are automatically notified when a visitor’s chat has been responded to, eliminating duplicate responses.

2. Offline Messages and Hiding: Even when you’re unavailable for chat you can gather qualified leads (name and email) from your website as people leave messages on the widget. You can also choose to simply hide the Olark widget when you’re unavailable.

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Lazy feed is a web service that allows you to subscribe to any topics and get live updates. Just save any topic you are interested in, and forget about it. Lazy feed will remember and let you know when there’s new content on that topic, just like an instant messenger. Lazy feed allows you to stay on top of everything you care about, effortlessly.

Lazy feed “feed” you with contents of your interest, so that you can become “lazy”. Instead of “diligently” searching for stuff and wasting time, just be lazy and let the stuff come to you instead. Lazy feed’s live update section auto-updates every 10 seconds. It constantly collects contents from all around the web, and lets you know when there’s new content related to your saved topics. Whenever there’s a new content on your saved topic, the topic floats up to the top, alerting you. When you click on the topic, it then shows you the latest contents about that topic on the right side (internal browser).

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