What miio does is that it tags the keywords of your interests and then links these keywords with others who have similar keywords. In this way you get linked to people who have interests similar to yours. It’s a new concept and can become very popular if handled well (Of course, there are lots of chances of spam). You can discuss your interests with them, question and answer and also be a part of forums. You can change settings of your conversation to public or private. Other key features are listed below.

Key Features

• Chance of meeting new people with similar interests
• Discuss your interests with them
• Discussions can be made public or private
• Free to use
• Signing-up is mandatory to become a member
• Notifications sent on every reply to post(s)
• They claim it to be easier than Twitter for communication

Our Rating: 3/5 | http://www.miio.com/

About miio.com

Miio.com, is a new microblogging web site (much like Twitter). It makes you meet new people with similar interests and you can also have discussions with them.

How is miio.com helpful?

Miio.com, is a great way to start an interaction with people who you don’t know. As a result, your virtual network grows and you can learn more about other people’s perceptions and ideas.

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KillerThoughts is the new website which is built around the idea of fearlessly exercising the freedom of sharing thoughts. Any individual can go on the website and post his thoughts for the world to see. Best of all, it can all be done in a very discreet manner as the website allows you to maintain anonymity. Also, the thrill of seeing your message on an open forum ready to be viewed by almost anyone can be exciting for some people.

One good thing about the way thoughts can be posted is that you don’t have to worry about formatting. Nobody enjoys formatting when penning down random thoughts and emotional outbursts. The website will display the text just the way the user types it. This is not to say that such options are not available for people who are stickler for text style and size. You can chose the size and font and even use emoticons .Also, hyperlinks can also be added to the text if required.

Readers, here is your chance to win a free iPad. The website has come up with a new promotional plan. All you have to do is post your thoughts on the website and who knows you may be the next proud winner of new Apple iPad !

Our rating 3 / 5 | Visit http://killerthoughts.com/

About KillerThoughts.com

KillerThoughts is a place for you to share what’s on your mind or what’s going on in your life with the world.

How Is KillerThoughts.com useful?

It’s a site to use for voicing your thoughts and speaking your mind fearlessly in a very simple way.

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AwayFind is the latest web application which helps you escape the onslaught of annoying “email-overload” while notifying you of all the urgent mails which require your immediate time and attention. The website offers an effective and smart solution by acting like your round-the-clock email watchdog.

How does Away Find work?

All you have to do is to enter your login information in the AwayFind account. The application allows you to set up a filter on the incoming messages on the basis of FROM addresses. Whenever an important mail comes into your inbox, the application will notify you through the medium you chose. It supports huge range of options like SMS, phone calls, email, Twitter direct messaging, AIM, MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.

The additional feature is that you can also add someone else’s account if you want to forward a filtered e-mail to your assistant. Also, to further enhance the services, they have provided “keyword” based filtering so that you don’t miss out on any important email. There are auto-response pre-written templates available which can also be customized for usage. It also includes a CAPTCHA at the bottom to keep off the spam messages from clogging your inbox. The Away Find service is available both in FREE and Paid Professional version to suit your needs. The “Product Tour” is a must-see to understand the utility of this tool.

So, the next time when you are on a vacation hoping to find peace or kick starting a new day, feel the difference with AwayFind.com.

Our Rating 4/5 | http://www.awayfind.com/

About AwayFind.com:

AwayFind is a powerful web application that finds your most important emails. When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.

How is AwayFind.com useful?

This tool passes the baton in your hand and helps you to control the untimely email interruptions without missing any urgent emails.

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The website’s popularity has been spiraling ever since it was launched. It got featured in some of USA’s reputed print media houses such as The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, Tech wave to name a few. For now, as it’s a new concept, the website is open only for students from American Universities, but in the future, it will open its gates for students from around the world.

Key features:

• Allows students from all American Universities to enter a new world of social networking and chatting, that is, a live video chat with a stranger
• It is safe, as students having an e-mail account which ends with .edu or .ac are allowed to enter the website (Snapshot below shows it)
• Students of same age group and similar interests can easily interact with each other
• You can choose with whom you want to video chat

Our Rating: 4/5 | http://www.randomdorm.com/

About Randomdorm.com:

It’s a chat roulette, wherein students from American Universities having an e-mail account which ends with a .edu or a .ac can log in and start video chatting with their peers from other universities.

How randomdorm.com helpful?

Randomdorm.com is all about video chatting and interacting with others. It’s a very different concept and certainly has an appeal. Apart from that it is completely safe and secured.

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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.

Urtak Features :

• Make unlimited free polls.
• Embed polls everywhere.
• Analyze results in real time.
• a directory which contains those Urtaks that have got more than 100 responses.
• protecting your information is the highest priority. You can  be sure that you will always have full control of your privacy options, and your information will never be shared without your explicit consent.

So next time you feel like knowing what is the stand of your entire community over a particular issue that’s been concerning you for a very long time, feel free to create an Urtak/statistical sample or participate in already created ones(that are created by others).

Our rating 4 / 5 | Visit http://urtak.com/

About Urtak.com

The goal of the Urtak project is to put the tools of public opinion research in the people’s hands.

This project was inspired by the words of the West Indian thinker CLR James, who wrote, “A sample poll can only investigate what the pollsters know, and it cannot even do that properly.” From this idea came a simple proposition, that a group of people, working together, will always be able to ask more insightful questions than one person alone.

How Is Urtak.com Useful?

With Urtak, anyone can invite their community to participate in collaborative public opinion research. There is no better way to find out what a community thinks, what it has in common, and what divides it.

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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.

Some other path breaking features of this tool are:

1. Compatibility with all operating systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux.
2. HipChat has an edge for all the small emerging companies which still do not have email ids with their domain while most of the other messengers only permit email ids of the organization to be added.
3. Past messages can be easily searched from web archive.
4. Private discussion with only invited team members.
5. Free service for first 30 days.

However, the few things the tool still needs to catch up on are SMS notification and security features like “off the record" chats and encryption. Web-based chat is also something which is still missing on the platform.

As far as prices are concerned, the plans range from $9 a month for 12 members and a restricted chat history to $100 a month for 100 members with unlimited chat history.

So, use this tool and don’t let the chain of thoughts and discussions break.

Our rating 4 / 5 | Visit http://HipChat.com

About HipChat.com

HipChat brings better-than-enterprise instant messaging to your organization.
Get more done with chat rooms; file sharing, and searchable chat history.
It’s a more productive and fun way to work.

How is HipChat.com useful?

This tool will save you from the boring meetings and standard email protocols and help your enterprise team members collaborate better and faster.

How is HipChat Different from similar websites?

The tool has some great features like file sharing, chat with the entire team at one time , private discussions and chat history for quick reference.

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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.

Gravity is the outcome of a  mankind’s need to have a more meaningful conversation. With better conversation technology, everyone can participate in conversations that create permanent knowledge. Gravity’s ultimate mission is to create knowledge through discourse.

Gravity’s rules :

Quality conversation is inherent in Gravity. The quality of content on Gravity is based on the collective contributions of our users (i.e., you!). Gravity has a few simple rules meant to keep our service interesting, fun and useful for everyone. They are as follows :

• Engage in meaningful conversation.
• Be respectful of others.
• Stay on topic.
• Keep it clean and real.
• Use common sense.

The motto here is - " If your mother would shake her head disappointedly, then you should probably not be doing it."

The best thing about Gravity is that it is always keen to hear from its members.

Our rating 3 / 5 | Visit http://www.gravity.com/

About Gravity.com :

Gravity helps you discover and participate in conversations about whatever you care about. The Gravity universe is made up of hundreds (soon thousands) of worlds where users can jump into the fray and speak their minds.

How is gravity.com Useful?

Gravity gives every user a voice to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences and a new way to learn from others.

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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.

This web site also works with Amazon’s referrer codes. Put your referrer code at the end of the URL and 90 percent of the time when that link is clicked on they will pass your affiliate code along to Amazon. The other 10 percent of the time they will substitute your code to help cover the costs of providing this service.

If you don’t include a referrer code, they will use their own affiliate code 100 percent of the time. For example, if your affiliate code is affiliate123, then you add the referrer code like this: http://the-beatles.atthebigriver.com/affiliate123.

But remember this web site is not affiliated with Amazon.

Our Rating 3/5 | Visit http://atthebigriver.com

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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.

3. Complete visual customization: Your brand is important and they provide themes, easy color customization and even a white label (non-branded) version so Olark fits right into the look and feel of your site.

4. Chat Links: Use Olark anywhere without code. They are short URLs that when clicked, automatically overlay Olark on top of any webpage, allowing you to chat with anyone who clicks the link, NO CODE REQUIRED!

5. Chat Transcripts: Access important conversations with important information like emails and phone numbers already pulled out for you.

6. Know your users: This service lets you know all sorts of useful information about your users in real time.

7. Continue chats across pages and off-site: Chats persist as visitors move through your site and even off-site when a visitor follows an external link.

Our Rating 3/5 | Visit http://www.olark.com

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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).

For your browsing convenience, it pauses the live update when your mouse is on the live update zone, because it means you are browsing through topics. You can simply move your mouse out of the zone, and it will start again. It constantly collects contents from around the web (from various video sites, photo sites, and from about 1 million blogs). Everything is crawled, indexed, and delivered live to the users.

Lazy feed discovers contents only from public RSS feeds. Therefore it does not collect contents from the past, which are not included inside the feed at the time of indexing. Also, in some cases it doesn’t display content because the site doesn’t provide a public feed. Lastly, some web addresses are not articles–for example, www.facebook.com, www.google.com, etc.. These sites are not contents, so it do not show the content. Even if you cannot view the content from within Lazy feed, you can always visit the original site by pressing the visit button.

Our Rating 4/5 | Visit http://www.lazyfeed.com

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