If you fancy contributing to the world of financial journalism, but in common with most budding hacks find the "staff job" door firmly closed, fwisp.com could be the place to get heard. If you happen to be a blogger too then exposure to a much wider audience could be just one of the other benefits. Read more
While it looks and sounds like just a bit of fun, Piktochart really does have a place as a design share tool in the business and blogging community. It manages to find a way of turning the story you are trying to tell into an infographic picture. It is said that viewers comprehend and remember six times more information from an infographic picture than they do from a printed word version...something to think about. Piktochart is a stress free way of getting your message across to an audience that has sat through thousands of boring presentations littered with graphs ... Read more
If you’re a business owner that’s happy just looking at the bottom line when the bookkeeper hands you the accounts then fine. If however you’d like some detail on what the figures mean in relation to all the other data plus their likely impact on the future of the company then you should look at this site. Read more
Billed purely as a worldwide cost of living comparison site, numbeo.com clearly has ideas to expand beyond that, more of which will be touched on later. Read more
Imagine being able to take a financial adviser around with you all the time, and one that talks in plain English too. RateRush.com is a great one-stop-shop for all of the questions you might have from the best credit card and payday loan deals around to the more worrying subject of serious debt problems. Read more
So how's your popularity on Twitter? FusionTweet is the latest Twitter analysis that give you the means to see just how you stack up against your guineas competitors or political rivals, if it comes to that. It allows you to see, via a serious of detailed polls and graphs, just how well you are received by your adoring public. Read more
Everyone loves sites like these. You know how it goes, you search for a video called biggest crocodile ever caught and you'll find it here. Four hours later your mouth will be dry and you'll have watched everything from a story about Fighting Obesity With Marijuana to Pics of Pippa Middleton topless. BuzzFeed is a free and very cool looking tool that features all those weird and wacky videos and crazy stories that have the potential to go viral. Read more
Anyone who has ever sat in a sales meeting feigning interest as yet another chart or graph is passed around for discussion will know how liberating it is when it’s all over. It doesn’t get much better out in the field either when the various key statistics aimed at driving your activity have to be accessed separately. Read more
You've worked pretty hard on your website and you think it's pretty good but how can you tell how good it really is? Do you rely on feedback from friends and colleagues to decide whether the site really achieves what you want it to or do you need a little more analytical data. Clickmap is a tool that analyzes your domain page and even shows you which parts of the site work and which don't. Read more
Here's a snappy little social networking trending tool that could bring out the voyeur in all of us. TopicStatus does just what it's name suggests. If you really want to find out what people are talking about on Facebook or showing on YouTube then this trending topic site will serve the purpose. Alternatively you can start your own hot topic and send it into cyberspace and create your own trend.Simple to use and absolutely free, Topic Status features the simplest of interfaces. You can view the myriad of trending subjects and just click to see who is talking about it. ... Read more