Well it used to be called Pingvine but it's now known as PowerShell from PowerFM but that's beside the point. We'll call it Pingvine for convenience sake. It's a free service that takes an RSS feed from your website or blog and posts it on your Twitter account easily and error free. PingVine is a free Twitter and RSS tool that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. It does this with a simple drag and drop technique and manages to reduce any errors (human ... Read more
Now here's a social networking tool that takes the spirit of the community quite seriously. LocalHero is an iPhone tool that connects you with friends and local people who have the skills you may need to help you out in a crisis. Or maybe you are just looking for people around you who have similar interests to you. LocalHero can put you together with them too. We live such busy lives these days that you can often overlook a friend who has a special skill. Maybe one is a wallpaperer...one might own a horse. Maybe you need someone to ... Read more
Oh I gettit. Degree 3...to give someone the third degree...social Q&A for your site. It took me a while. There are quite a few feedback tools for websites around. Some of them gather their data with almost subliminal ease while some just go for the jugular. Degree 3 is of the latter persuasion and it's main claim to fame is that it gives your users the easiest way to ask questions and share what they know about your site or product! According to research, most users are more inclined to respond to a simple and direct question and answer ... 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
A lot of people take their Twitter very seriously. It's their own little piece of cyberspace that they want to look it's best. Let's face it, your normal Twitter background isn't the most inspiring of places to go. If it was your home you would want to slap a bit of paint on it or maybe wallpaper the walls to make it look better. Custom Twitter Backgrounds let's you gives your Twitter look a facelift with over 200 new original designs. You can even order up your own customized background if you wish. Custom Twitter Backgrounds is a Twitter ... Read more
Billed as the place for people who want to be financially literate, this site provides a community based question and answer service for all things of a personal finance nature. Still in beta it’s not the finished article but the range of topics and contributions is already impressive. 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
If you ever want to poll your Twitter followers (and I can see the many reasons you would) then this is the application for you. Raiwitter is the simplest of free survey tools. It only has one use and that's to count the number of your followers who agree and disagree with your mind bending Twitter tweets. Read more
How refreshing it is to know that there is a social networking site out there carrying useful information rather than invites to friend’s events or photographs of their new kitten! Read more
It used to be the case that when you were going to purchase an item it was generally local. You could touch it, feel it and even bring an expert friend to give you advice. It's a bit more difficult than that these days, isn't it. So many of our purchases are done from a distance and we rely on the integrity and honesty of the seller to make sure we aren't being sold a lemon. Well, WeGoLook is your expert friend. WeGoLook dispatches over 7,000 Nationwide Looker® Inspectors to complete an ONSITE verification report of the item you wish ... Read more