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9 Free and Great Crowd Sourced Applications

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

The wonderful thing about working on the Internet is the sheer amount of information that is available for free. Most of the time, the information is free, because it is supplied to us by people like you and me. This system of relying on the users to supply the end content is called crowd sourcing. Here are some of the best crowd sourced applications.

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Share and Discover Presentations Online with SlideShare

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Everyone knows that YouTube is a great video service, but most people don’t know that the same model YouTube uses has been applied to presentations.  You can see this model in action at SlideShare.  SlideShare is a web application which is designed to make it easy to upload and share your best presentations.

Features offered by SlideShare are so beneficial that it has become a major online tool used my business men and lecturers to give and show off their sales pitches and presentations, respectively. The reason for this is that SlidShare sees over  17 million people use the service every month.

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What is Google Social Search?

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Arpit.

Google Social Search is an experimental search tool recently introduced by Google. This tools lets you search for relevant public web content from people in your social circle. For example, I searched for “Google Docs” and got the following results from the web contents published by my contacts.

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Access All Your Bookmarks Online with Diigo

Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by Nelba Quintana.

One day, I got  a virus on my computer, which led to a technitian having to  re-format it. I took for granted all of my saved bookmarks in my web browser.  Those got deleted along with everything else in the reformat. All the bookmarks I had collected during a year were now gone.

If you work online or are a big web surfer, you understand how devastating this is.  Once I calmed down, I decided to explore Diigo.  Diigo is a social bookmarking service which allows you to store all of your bookmarks online.  It also stores any notes or highlighting you may do on your saved pages.

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Simplify Online Sharing with Tarpipe

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Kyle Judkins.

Do you find yourself spending lots of time uploading your updates and pictures to numerous places?  Wouldn’t it be nice to easily post to multiple places in a custom fashion?  Tarpipe provides you with a solution that allows you to post messages and media content to several places at once.  This might seem like a Ping.fm or Hello.txt, but it offers much more customizations.

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Take Control of Your Social Inboxes with Fuser

Posted on 01. Dec, 2008 by LesliePoston.

If you have had trouble keeping up with multiple email accounts, multiple social media accounts and the rest of your online life, you may have longed for some way to sort out the chaos. FriendFeed came along to help aggregate your social media stream, but it left email and the like out in the cold. Now, there is Fuser to help handle the task.

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Flock is the Web Browser That Gets Social

Posted on 25. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Flock is a web browser that was built from the base code of Firefox.  This fact already gives Flock some promise and credibility, because Firefox is such a great browser already.  The idea behind Flock is to turn your browser into the ultimate social tool.  It integrates several social networks, email services, blogging services, social bookmarking and media sharing sites.  This integration makes it easy to stay up to date with all of the things going on around the Internet.

Let’s take a quick tour of the vast amount of features that Flock has to offer.

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Ping.fm Invites for Everyone

Posted on 23. Jun, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Ping.fm is a new website application that allows you to post updates to almost all of your social networks at the same time.  There are other services and applications that are similar, but no other service, that I know of, has this many supported social networks.

I recently found out the beta code and want to share it with all of my readers.  All you need to do is go to the website and click on the Signup tab and enter the following code.

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