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Music tools
Internet Radio
Last.FM (Last.fm reviews) - one of the most popular music communities around, with
personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support
and lots more.
Slacker - personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application
and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast - A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams
work in Winamp.
Live365 - A directory of web-based Internet radio stations - expect popups.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music - AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora (Pandora reviews) - a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you
new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic - a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your
web browser.
Music Discovery Tools
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MusicMesh - browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and
reviews for albums.
Blogmusik - browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
Social Networks
See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks
iLike - a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’
tastes.
PureVolume - a “MySpace (MySpace reviews) for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist - popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social
networks.
Imeem (imeem reviews) - another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also
supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com - the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg - a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can
download for free.
MOG - a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music
with others.
Fuzz - discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to
be found on the site.
eListeningPost - convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of
the profits.
ProjectOpus - Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on
MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv - social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity - a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack - social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz - find and rate music playlists in a Digg (Digg reviews)-like interface.
Midomi - find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and
network with others.
Buzznet - large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive - Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs,
write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk - track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as
information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation - social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation - find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist,
join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark (Grooveshark reviews) - an online service that rewards you for sharing,
reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing - enter you email
address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks - upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player - a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while
everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL - social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor - create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar
taste and discover new music.
FineTune - pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and
other related artists.
MusicMobs - browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.
Music Sharing Applications and Widgets
uPlayMe - a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music
tastes.
DotTunes - share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue - A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your
MySpace page or blog.
Sonific - a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and
syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster - upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the
world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 - upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah - an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like
minded users.
Maestro - upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.
Music Marketplaces
iTunes (iTunes reviews) - Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a
service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street - music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases
as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic - one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free
tracks sold.
Bleep - high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment
of quality music.
MP3 Tunes - an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs
in its catalog.
Amazon - a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music
from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM - choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in
either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport - a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox - choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad - buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly
on the site.
Indistr - another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks - an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music
collection in store.
MagnaTune - here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from
electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo - an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still
protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane - buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr - music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via
Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap - through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on
MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for
Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.
Jamming
Ejamming - jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz - compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other
musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow - a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam
sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba - listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in
the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky - have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen?
Organize them with JamJunky.
Karaoke
Singshot - the “YouTube (YouTube reviews) of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along
to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo - sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.
Remixing
Jamglue - remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice - upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins - mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog
or MySpace page.
Mobile Music Services
Flotones - a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their
content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement - a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for
easier browsing.
Mercora - a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5
million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.
Music Charts
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Billboard - home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts - MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU - a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.
Artist Databases
Allmusic - probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your
favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage - artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming
service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.
Lyric Databases
AbsoluteLyrics - Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics - huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.
Music Search Engines
Qloud - Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once,
but Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a review here. The service that launches next
may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds - a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia - find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.
Audio Conversion Tools
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Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter - a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools
Bluegrind - converts text to audio.
BePopular - find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz - create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us - can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the
help of this service.
Houndbite - share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to
earn prizes.
Video tools and resources
Stickam - The best site for live video communications with multiple people. There is no
major competition for Stickam just yet.
Blogtv - Blogtv is a recent discovery to the public. It allows you to do a live video
show, and you can stream it live, as well as archive it for later use.
ooVoo - This allows you to carry on video conversations with live video through a Skype
(Skype reviews)-like program.
Mogulus - This site is basically an all in one broadcast solution for video. You can
create, edit, and add things similar to broadcast companies could add.
Ustream (ustream reviews) - Allows you to stream live video and you can also embed
the player in to your own website.
HeyCosmo - A downloadable application that allows you to connect with other people
in many ways, even play games and more.
Operator11 - Go live with your camera and create your own channels. You can also
send video comments and remix your videos.
Online Video How-to
Make internet TV
Better YT Video Quality - This guide helps you with getting the best possible video
quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as well.
Make Internet TV - This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and
publishing videos on the Internet.
How to put your readers at the scene - A scene-setting guide for online web journalists.
Tips for shooting better online video - learn the equipment, shooting and editing basics
from this collection of tips.
Online video tips - a Squidoo lens with several useful online video shooting and editing
tips.
Home video tips - Chris Pirillo’s tips for shooting better videos at home.
Camcorderinfo - Every online video comes from a camcorder, so here is the best place
to get opinions on your next camcorder purchase.
5 Ways To Create a Great Video Podcast - A great article that applies to both video
podcasts and video production in general.
Online Video Editors
Muveemix
Eyespot - add effects and transitions to the videos you upload, or use some of the large
amount of free video clips and music from Eyespot’s media partners.
MuveeMix - Upload your movie, mix it with music, add cool effects and share it on
MySpace (MySpace reviews), Friendster (Friendster reviews), Blogger (blogger
reviews), and other networks.
Motionbox - This service features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment”
within the clip itself.
Cuts - Insert sound effects in your videos, add captions, loop the best parts and in
minutes you can share your creation with the world.
JumpCut - a free service that enables you to upload, edit and share your videos. Offers
keyframe-based editing, effects, transitions and actions.
VideoEgg - A video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and
offers opportunities for monetization.
Mojiti - Select videos from popular video sharing sites, personalize them with your
annotations and share them with others.
Photobucket (Photobucket reviews) - Edit videos within a browser using Flash and remix
photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions and
transitions.
StashSpace - Upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record videos
directly from your camcorder or digital camera.
BubblePly - Video annotating service where anyone can add text bubbles that are
synchronized with video.
Veotag - Service that lets you display clickable text, called “veotags,” within an audio
or video file.
Vidavee Grafitti - add graphics and text into any video; the service is called a “legal
form of artful vandalism” by the creators.
Vmix - Vmix is a community and a hosting provider for your videos, aimed at creative
authors who want to create remixes of their music and videos.
MovieMasher - a combination of a video editor with a timeline and lots of various
effects, a standalone player and a media browser.
MixerCast - Mix your media with professional video, images, music, and network your
MixerCast everywhere.
Fliptrack - Make a free musical photo slideshow and music video. It’s easy to do and
you do it online.
Online Video Converters
Zamzar
Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several video formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options; resulting videos can
sometimes be out of sync with audio.
Vixy - a simple converter that can only convert Flash apps from the web to several
other video formats.
Hey Watch! - an online video converter focusing on file formats that works on portable
multimedia devices, like the iPod.
MediaConverter - a video converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Movavi - another video converter that allows you to upload videos and convert them to
formats you wish to use.
Video sharing
Dailymotion
YouTube (YouTube reviews) - YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more
users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on
YouTube.
Google Video - Since Google bought YouTube, Google (Google reviews)’s Video
player is mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a search here that
indexes all of the video sharing sites on the internet (well, most of them).
Blip.tv - Blip (BLIP reviews).tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast
makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then
send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you
can make some money.
Ourmedia - A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text and
share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over 100,000
members.
Veoh - Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
DailyMotion - Video sharing platform with multiple video search options. You can join
groups of people who publish videos based on a common interest.
Metacafe - A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that
filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
UnCut - Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos you
want in your blog.
ClipShack - video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips, make
friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment on clips.
5min - Video sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can visually
explain anything in 5 minutes.
Brightcove - Search, click and watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure.
Thousands of channels, including the best in online video.
Viddler - Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at specific
times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter integration.
Revver - The first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility to earn
money from the videos they upload.
Vimeo (Vimeo reviews) - Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s
users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by
aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Yahoo Video - Yahoo’s version of online video. Similar to Google video, but done the
Yahoo way.
HelpfulVideo - Share your knowledge and skills with others for free or little charge via
video clips.
BroadbandSports - A video sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.
Travelistic - A video sharing site that allows users to post video content specific to
travel.
Livevideo - Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload your own
videos and share them with the world.
Kewego - A video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view
videos by others.
Godtube - It’s a Christian version of YouTube. All things Christian welcomed.
Coull.tv - An interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and add
interactive elements to it by using your mouse.
Mediabum - Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.
VMIX - Another video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure everything
you upload is legit.
Grouper - Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to create
playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.
Break - Break is a video site and more for comedic based content.
Videosift - a Digg (Digg reviews)-like site which lets you submit, vote, and comment on
videos.
GeeVee - GeeVee is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game play
in video games.
Stage6 - A video site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition video,
of course this also means longer upload times, and you need DivX support (usually a
browser plugin).
Tube Battle - vote for the best videos, organized by category.
Video hosting
Vidilife
TinyPic - Host videos and images for free; it is possible to upload videos in the most
popular formats and link videos on MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards
Vidilife - Upload videos and store them online. There is no limit in terms of length of the
files you can upload.
Dropshots - Good site that lets you upload videos, share them and embed them on
other sites.
ZippyVideos - Upload and store video files (maximum 20 MB) in the most popular video
formats.
Supload - Free service to host video clips and images. Maximum video file size allowed
is 20 MB.
Rupid - Another provider of free video hosting: you can host your videos and share
them with others.
Pixilive - Free images and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, Facebook (Facebook
reviews) and other sites. Maximum size for videos is 10 MB.
Mydeo - store and stream your videos online. You will be able to embed a video on
any website and send streaming video messages .
YourFileHost - Upload files anonymously and share them with others. You can upload
any file format up to 25 MB.
Video organization and management
Feedbeat
Aggrega - create and organize your own music video channels and share them with
others.
Feedbeat - a fantastic service that lets you create playlists with videos from different
sources - YouTube, Google Video and others. Each playlist gets its own subdomain on
feedbeat.net.
Ajaxilicious - an online movie catalogue which enables you to manage your movies and
share them with others via RSS.
Cliproller - create custom video channels and add as many as you like to your personal
Cliproller page.
CozmoTV - CozmoTV is a site that allows you to create and organize channels of video
already existing online.
Vidcasts & vlogging
Revision3
BlogCheese - a simple way to create and share a video blog - all you need is a
webcam.
Revision3 - A video podcasting network that’s home to many well made video podcasts,
including Diggnation, which is Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht’s video podcast about the
top stories on Digg.
Jabbits - Social video blogging: Use your webcam to record your Post or Jab with an
easy-to-use recorder.
Ask a Ninja - got questions? Ask a ninja! One of the most popular vidcasts in the world,
and definitely the funniest.
Galacticast - a weekly Sci-fi comedy podcast, episodes usually consists of lots of really
geeky parodies.
Scriggity - A news podcast, where the viewers send in the news that they think should
be on the shows.
SuperDeluxe - A site to find videos that focus mainly on comedic content.
DL.TV - Some of the the old TechTV crew back at it again with their own own show on
all things tech. One of the best video podcasts for tech geeks.
Webnation - Amber Mac’s bi-weekly video podcast with news and interviews relating
to current events in the tech world.
Tom Green’s the Channel - A daily video podcast that is recorded live and is hosted by
Tom Green. He usually has a celebrity guest on the show.
GeekBrief TV - a daily podcast hosted by Cali Lewis, it’s a 3-5 minute update on the
latest tech news.
This Week in Tech - famous tech vidcast by Leo Laporte, one of the most viewed
vidcasts in the world.
The Broken - tech show for teh 1337 h4×0rz.
Digg Podcasts - a long list of popular podcasts, containing most of the vidcasts on this
list and many more.
Video mashups
Virtual Video Map
Virtual Video Map - YouTube videos on a Google map. Find out where do all those
cool videos come from.
RealPeopleStuff - a site that combines CraigsList (Craigslist reviews) and YouTube,
offering video clips related to ads.
TagTV - enter a tag and get results from Flickr (Flickr reviews) and YouTube. Clean and
simple design makes TagTV a very neat way to browse photos and videos.
I Love Music Video - combines YouTube with info from your Last.FM account. Great
way to get videos (at least until Last.FM signs an evil deal with all those content
providers and starts offering music videos).
MusicPortl - information on bands and musicians containing biographies, Flickr images,
related blog posts and YouTube videos.
Magg - aggregates videos from several video sites. Also works as a search engine.
RateMyDanceMoves - Hot or Not-style site, presenting you dance-related YouTube
videos to vote on.
ReviewTube - a site that enables you to add captions to YouTube videos. Nice idea,
but relatively poor execution - the captions frequently overlap, making the text
unreadable.
Mobile video apps
Shozu
Youtube mobile - a stripped down version of YouTube tailored for use on mobile
phones.
Shozu - a free service for your phone that makes it easy to send and receive photos,
videos and music
Abazab - a universal video player that also works on your mobile phone.
Srobbin Mobile Video - An unofficial search for Google video on your cell phone.
Yahoo Mobile - Yahoo mobile allows you to search, find, and play videos right on your
cell phone.
MobiTV - MobiTV allows you to watch television video from popular networks of all
kinds.
MTV Mobile Video - Anything MTV related all for download to watch on your cell
phone.
ESPN MVP - If you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have the V Cast service
enabled, you can watch sports clips and more.
Moblr - Moblr allows you to view videos uploaded to the site directly on your cell
phone.
Mobunga - This site allows you to download videos to your mobile phone, as well as
iPod and PSP.
Video search
TubeSurf
Blinkx - Perform searches within the most popular video networks, such as CBS, Reuters
and CNN. Users can search for content and create TV channels that splice relevant
content together.
PureVideo - Search within the most popular video directories and video sharing sites.
PureVideo features up to six channels and each channel contains about six source sites.
SearchVideo - Search engine and directory created by AOL. Users can also search
within specific video channels like MySpace and YouTube.
Search For Video - search engine and video directory that displays results from
hundreds of video channels. Search For Video also provides an add-on for Firefox
(Firefox reviews).
Yahoo! Video Search - Yahoo! has a video search engine that gathers videos from
Yahoo! directory and from many other online sources. You can also search within
specific domains or sites.
TubeSurf - Video search engine that gathers results from popular video directories, such
as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and Google Video. TubeSurf is also available as
an add-on for Firefox.
ClipRoller - Search across popular video sites, such as: YouTube, Metacafe and more.
As you continue to search for videos, ClipRoller learns your preferences and delivers
content you like to watch.
Pixsy - A video search engine that lets users search content across dozens of video
sites. Users are allowed to save searches and single videos.
ScoopVid - Search engine that enables you to either search for videos or browse
through channels and categories.
Google Video Search - Google’s Video search recently was updated and now
searches many video sites other than just YouTube and Google Video.
AOL Video - once known as the great media search engine, the AOL-purchased
SingingFish, AOL Video kept some traits of the crowd’s favorite place to look for hard
to find videos, but true fans claim that the site is not as good as its predecessor.
Truveo - Search videos or browse by either channel or category.
Altavista Video - good old Altavista isn’t what it used to be, but it does have a video
search section.
Online video downloading services
Keepvid
VideoRonk - Search and download your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video,
Metacafe, DailyMotion, iFilm, MySpace, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Revver and more.
VideoDL - Download online videos available on YouTube, Google Video and Break.com
stright to your computer.
Vixy - Grab videos from popular sites and convert them into various video formats
(including iPod and PSP).
KeepVid - Download videos from many video sharing sites, including YouTube, Google
Video, MySpace Videos, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Revver and other services.
VideoDownloader - Get videos from video sharing sites. VideoDownloader is also
available as a Firefox extension, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it within your
browser.
YouTubeX - Download videos from YouTube. It doesn’t have a lot of options in terms of
video sites among which you could choose, but it is very easy to use.
DownThisVideo - This site lets you download videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo,
MetaCafe, Vimeo and other services.
KissYouTube - A service that provides two interesting and effective ways to download
videos from YouTube.
YouTubeDownloads - Another site that lets you download videos exclusively from
YouTube (other sites are not supported).
Kcoolonline - Download videos on your hard disk from more than 90 sites, including
YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, iFilm and MySpace, Yahoo and many more.
YouTubia - A YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos within
your IE or Firefox browser.
MediaConverter - A platform that lets you download and convert videos straight from
YouTube.
Miscellaneous tools
Hellodeo
Hellodeo - Record videos from your webcam and post them on any web page.
Flikzor - Send and receive video comments on your profile, blog and more.
Flixn - Record a video message right in the web browser and share anywhere including
MySpace and eBay.
GabMail - Service that enable users to send unlimited numbers of free video email
messages.
Bubble Guru - A site for recording webcam video messages and getting them onto your
website or sending to others.
CamTwist - Software package (for Mac computers) that lets you add special effects to
your video chats.
WebcamMax - Software that lets you add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to
virtual or real webcam and broadcast on all messengers (Windows
only).
StumbleUpon Video - Just press “Stumble!” and a random video is presented to you,
you can also ask for random videos with in categories like Humor, or Cats.
CrowdRules - video answers to your questions.
ClipSync - interact with other users while watching the same video as them.
ClipSyndicate - publish broadcast quality news on your web site.
Broadbandsports - a big collection of sports-related videos.
Get Paid To Write
Weblogs, Inc. - Apply to blog for one of their ninety plus blogs or submit your own
topic idea. They will pay you per post that you write and you must meet their minimum
post requirements.
PayPerPost - Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews
of their sponsors on your blog.
Blogsvertise - Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites,
products and services in your own blog.
Review Me - After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you
$20 to $200 per post that you write.
Smorty - Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for
each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews - Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your
own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
LoudLaunch - Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests.
They pay once a month.
Blogitive - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
BloggerWave - Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write
reviews on their products and services.
InBlogAds - Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and
get paid for it.
BlogToProfit - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
Creative Weblogging - Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will
pay you $225 per month.
WordFirm - Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.
451 Press - Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all
generated revenue.
Digital Journal - Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles
through their blogs.
BlogBurner - Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your
commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.
Squidoo - Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to
charity.
About.com - Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com. Compensation
depends on the growth of your page views.
DayTipper - Earn $3 for every short tip you write and get published.
Helium - Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.
Dewitts Media - Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a
minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.
BOTW Media - Make money writing a blog for their blogging network.
CreamAid - Get paid to submit blog posts in their directory.
BlogFeast - Generate revenue from pre-installed Google Adsense ads when you blog in
their network.
Mashable (Mashable reviews) - Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one
of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.
Advertising Programs
Google Adsense - Most popular pay-per-click advertising provider. Make anywhere
from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.
Text-Link-Ads - Approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay
you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.
BlogAds - The average blogger makes anywhere from $50 to $5000 dollars a month
selling blog ads. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by
someone in their network.
LinkWorth - Here you will find eleven different options to fit your advertising needs.
Choose from text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to name
a few.
CrispAds - Access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You
choose the advertisers that suit you best.
Chitika - Offers six types of advertising to fit your needs.
AzoogleAds - Delivers targeted advertisers to their network of publishers to bring you
the most profitable solutions.
Vibrant Media - Offers in-text contextual based advertisements.
MediaFed - Place advertisements in your blog’s RSS feed to generate additional
revenue.
Qumana - Embeds ads directly into your posts. Ads are generated from keywords that
you select. Not particularly popular with readers.
PeakClick - Austria based pay-per-click provider. Provides automatic insertion of site
targeted ads.
DoubleClick - Offers a full suite of products for publishers that enable you to forecast,
sell inventory, serve ads and analyze campaigns online and through other digital
channels.
Tribal Fusion - They offer reliable payments, free ad-serving technology, a dedicated
account manager and up-to-date, real-time reporting, with a 55% payout. Must go
through an approval process.
AdBrite - Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability
to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.
ThankYouPages - Shows ads based on demographics and relevancy. Majority of traffic
must originate from U.S.
Clicksor - Inline text link advertising, underlines words directly in your posts making them
clickable advertisements. Once more, we’d say that inline ads are not popular with
regular blog readers.
TargetPoint - Contextually and search targeted pay-per-click ads.
IndustryBrains - Place relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads on your site.
BloggingAds - Post one-time ads on your site. Pays via PayPal.
BulletAds - Performance based online advertising network.
AdsMarket - Match your traffic to handpicked advertisers with top-converting products
and services.
ROIRocket - Targeted campaigns specific to your marketing needs.
AdKnowledge - Offers complete outsourcing of your advertising management. Runs ads
in websites, email and search engine inventory.
Yes Advertising - Payouts for running ads from their sponsors. Also offers a referral
program that pays 20% of the referred webmasters earnings.
RevenuePilot - Offers pay-for-performance and pay-per-click advertising for your sites.
SearchFeed - Integrates paid advertisements into your site’s search feature.
Bidvertiser - Display text ads on your site and advertisers bid for placement.
Pheedo - Monetize your RSS feeds with this program.
ValueClick media - Generate revenue by displaying ads through banners, pop-unders
and rich media. Be warned that pop-unders are unpopular these days.
OneMonkey - Another text based advertising program.
Yahoo Publisher Network - Use the internet giant, Yahoo, to display targeted ads on
your site.
Q Ads - Monetize your site by placing ads anywhere you can add a picture.
Affiliate Networks and Programs
Amazon Associates - Link to Amazon’s products and services and earn up to 10% of
the sale price. Converts well for product-focused sites.
ClickBank - Over 10,000 products to promote with commissions as high as 75%.
Commission Junction - Promote the advertiser’s products and services in exchange for a
commission on leads or sales.
LinkShare - Pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network. Gives you the ability to use
individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.
Affiliate Fuel - Serves as a middle man to bring publishers and advertisers together to
promote products and services.
LinkConnector - Affiliate marketing network that offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to
keep you safe while conducting business.
LeadPile - Affiliate network that allows you to generate and sell trade leads to the
highest bidder.
Forex-Affiliate - Affiliate program that allows you to earn commissions from trading
Forex (currency exchange) online.
incentAclick - CPA (cost-per-action) affiliate program that guarantees the fastest ROI in
the industry.
AdPlosion - Earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers.
Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions.
AffiliateFuture - Another affiliate program that pays you for generating leads, sales and
clicks.
ClixGalore - Affiliate network consisting of 7500+ advertisers for you to choose from.
ThinkAction - Affiliate network that claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of
earning over $100,000 dollars per month.
RocketProfit - Affiliate network, pays via check after your commissions reach $25
dollars.
CafePress - Earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded merchandise.
Avangate - Make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.
Paid Social Media Programs
Dada.net - Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring
friends and driving traffic.
Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of
some help.
Cruxy - Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.
BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of
your interests and choice.
Ether - Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your
rates and call availability.
UpBlogger - Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you
receive to your uploaded content.
JustAnswer - Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.
MetaCafe - Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you
receive.
ChaCha - Get paid to offer support to members of their community.
AssociatedContent - Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to
their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.
myLot - Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.
KnowBrainers - Another site that pays you to get involved with the community and
answer questions. Optionally you can answer questions through the RSS feeds on your
own blog.
Everything Else That Pays
Google User Research - Google Pays you money to participate in their user research
studies online.
Microsoft Research Panel - Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their
products.
Amazon Mechanical Turk - Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their
computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.
eJury - Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.
WorkingSOL - This company pays you to handle technical support for many large
companies. You can work from home on the computer or by phone and decide what
times you are available.
Appingo - Always looking for experienced copy editors and proof readers. Must submit
a resume.
IntelliShop - Pays you to shop at stores in your area and write a review of your
experience.
Mahalo Greenhouse - They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their
directory.
Focus Pointe Global - Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion.
Available to teens and adults.
Agloco - Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has
been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.
Arise - Make money providing phone, web and email support and sales for 40 plus
companies in their network.
CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online forums.
Tutor.com - Get paid to tutor people online.
ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across the internet.
Share-A-Pic - Earn money by uploading and sharing your pictures on their website.
Opuzz Voice - Earn money by doing voice overs for their clients online.
SlashMySearch - Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.
online mapping tools that some are referring to as “Maps 2.0″.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
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Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
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Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes.
Podcast Creation Guides
How To Create a Podcast - About.com’s step-by-step tutorial for podcast beginners.
iLounge Guide to Podcast Creation - another guide for creating your own podcast for
absolute beginners.
Podcasting Legal Guide - find about legal issues relevant to podcasting in this Creative
Commons guide.
Podcast Hosting, Sharing and Networking (Free)
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Pickstation - A Digg (Digg reviews) for podcasts and music.
Collectik - “Mixtapes for podcasts”: find, share and organize podcasts.
Podbean - Free podcast hosting and publishing.
Castpost - Free hosting for audio and video clips.
HeyCast - A tool to create video podcasts. Essentially, HeyCast creates RSS feeds
from any existing video files on the web. It doesn’t provide hosting or sharing features.
Blubrry - A podcast network that lets you create a podcast and browse the podcasts of
others.
Evoca - “YouTube (YouTube reviews) for voice recordings”: create audio recordings
from your computer mic, your phone or Skype (Skype reviews), share them with others
and embed them on websites.
ThePodcastNetwork - A network of podcasts on a range of topics including business,
entertainment and comedy.
MyPodcast - podcast hosting solution offering unlimited storage, bandwidth, and free
templates for your podcasts.
PodServe - this service is still in alpha stage, but everyone’s invited to try it out. It offers
a hosting space for your podcast and a directory of user-created podcasts.
PodcastPeople - a service that enables you to post text, audio and video materials to
your own customized show, and even earn some income from it through sponsors.
PCastBaby - free podcast hosting service offering 10MB of storage space and
unlimited bandwidth.
Podomatic - create, find and share podcasts with this free service.
Blubrry - create your podcast on Blubrry; browse through other podcasts and create
your personal playlist.
Podcast Advertising
Podango - get free unlimited hosting for your podcast and share ad revenue with
Podango 50/50.
Podbridge - Provides podcast metrics and advertising.
Podtrac - a service that connects podcasters with advertisers.
Audio Tours
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TourCaster - Find audio tours of your favorite cities and download them to your iPod.
iAudioGuide - Find audio guides for major world cities and download them to portable
devices.
Video Podcasting
Veodia - Create live TV shows and convert them to video podcasts.
Blip.tv - A “video podcasting” service. Broadly similar to YouTube, but the focus is on
independent creators, who get a share of revenue.
Mobile Podcasting
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Podlinez - a simple service to listen to podcasts on your phone.
Gabcast - Record podcasts straight from your phone.
Yodio - Record audio from your phone, add photos and captions.
Text to Podcasts
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BlueGrind - Converts text (especially blogs) into podcasts.
Feed2Podcast - Convert any RSS feed into a podcast.
Talkr - Convert blogs to audio podcasts.
Odiogo - convert RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts to podcasts.
Podcasts to Text
CastingWords - a podcast transcription service that converts podcasts to text for
$0.75 minute. It employs human transcribers.
Podcast Directories
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Grepr Podcasts - A directory that makes recommendations by finding patterns in your
interests and comparing the interests of others.
Yahoo Podcasts - Explore podcasts, listen to them, subscribe to them and even create
your own.
MobilCast - directory of podcasts and radio shows, complete with playlists.
PodcastAlley - a podcast directory with over 30,000 podcasts. Maintains a monthly
top list.
DigitalPodcast - a simple, categorized podcast directory
Podcast.net - a very comprehensive podcast directory; contains tens of thousands of
podcasts.
PodcastDirectory.com - a directory of podcasts with a top list, a list of featured
podcasts, and categorization.
PodcastDirectory.org- a simple directory with a very clean layout.
Podfeed.net - on Podfeed you can host and share your podcast, find podcasts, as well
as read and write podcast reviews.
iAmplify - A premium directory where you pay to download self-help podcasts.
Earkive - Directory that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone (mobile or landline)
Live Podcasting
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Talkshoe - Create your own live talkshow or interactive podcast.
Waxxi - Audio shows streamed live, mainly with notable technologists. Once recorded,
the live shows are available as podcasts.
NowLive - A social network that lets anyone create a live, interactive talk show.
Stickam for audio, in some ways.
Podcast Hosting (Premium)
PodcastSpot - Offers both free and premium podcast hosting.
SwitchPod - a podcast hosting service, with unmetered bandwidth, statistics and even
some promotional opportunities.
Hipcast - create audio, video materials and podcasts and post them to your blog.
Libsyn - Liberated Syndication will host your podcasts for a modest monthly fee.
Podcast Search
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Everyzing - Audio and video search engine.
Podscope - an audio and video search engine that searches the words spoken in
podcasts.
Pluggd - Discover and share podcasts, and search for specific parts of podcasts using
advanced search technology called HearHere.
PodNova - Podcast search and community.
Podcast Forums
Podcast Alley Forum - a well visited forum on everything related to podcasting.
DigitalPodcast Forum - a good forum for promoting your podcast.
World Podcast Forum - a fresh forum about podcasting.
Podcast Creation Software (Offline)
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Propaganda - Create professional podcasts including background music, jingles,
crossfading and more. Windows only. Free trial, $49.95 to buy.
Audacity - Free, open source software for recording and editing audio. Versions for
Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Adobe Soundbooth - Advanced audio editing from Adobe. Windows and Mac. Free
trial, $199 to buy.
Wildvoice Podcast Studio - Record audio, add music and sound effects and upload to
Wildvoice.com or other sites. Windows only.
SnapKast - Podcast creation for Windows. $79.99.
Podcast Creation Software (Online)
Odeo - Perhaps the most popular podcasting platform. It allows you to record audio
within your browser, embed it anywhere and create your own audio channels.
Hipcast - Record high-quality audio right through the web browser or your phone. No
additional software needed.
Gcast - Record, mix and broadcast your podcasts. You can record messages by phone
and upload MP3 files from your computer.
Podomatic - This site lets you record video and audio online directly from your browser.
You can also receive in line calls from listeners wanting to leave voice comments.
ClickCaster - create, broadcast and sell your very own radio shows and podcasts. You
can record audio right from your browser or upload an existing MP3.
Wild Voice Shout Recorder - Online service that lets you record audio files through an
intuitive interface but doesn’t let you edit them or add special effects.
Miscellaneous Podcast Tools
Enablr - make your podcasts indexed and searchable.
PodShow - a network that brings audio, video, podcasts, and music to your computer,
iPod, mobile device, or television.
Divicast - enhance your podcast with images and text and share it with everyone.
Divvycast - where podcasting and music meet. Helps bands to create podcasts.
Podbop - Find bands in your city and download free MP3s to your iPod to preview their
music ahead of the show.
Noisely - Enter a subject you’re interested in, and Noisely serves up a selection of
podcasts you’ll like. Press play, and all the ‘casts stream continuously until you stop
them.
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Toolbox for the web
Word Processing Services
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Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents
without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers.
Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.
Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs. There are some options present
that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.
ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.
Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. It has many
offerings and a slick interface to boot! (Private Beta)
Web Portals
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You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire
up that web browser. You can have all the information you want and need accessible
to you immediately by using one of the following services.
Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.
Pageflakes - Pageflakes could be considered the brother-in-law to Netvibes and both
have very similar offerings in customization and content.
iGoogle - If you have a Google (Google reviews) account, then the iGoogle comes
part of the package deal, and since many of us have Google as our home page
anyways, why not give iGoogle a trial?
My Yahoo - The offerings are somewhat more customizable than iGoogle, but
essentially the same concept from a different provider.
Calendar Services
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Let’s say you have your parent’s anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the
family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Having all these things on a calendar is
undoubtedly the way to go for keeping track of these events. Unless you prefer writing
it on your hand…
Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis. It is just that
freaking awesome!
Yahoo! Calendar - Yahoo provides a pretty good, but basic, calendar application for
organizing your life
30 Boxes - Has a lightning fast interface that is really easy to navigate makes this a
good contender.
Kiko - A very nice calendar application with a drag & drop interface.
Contact Management Services
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Your cell phone and e-mail program are likely your primary sources for keeping
information about your contacts. This is fine. You must ask yourself though, what
happens if your cell phone is lost, your webmail account goes down or you lose all the
data on your computer? You are pretty much screwed. Time to rethink the way we do
contact management.
Plaxo (Plaxo reviews) - One of the best known services which allow you to keep track
of contacts. Other services that can tap into your Plaxo account and utilize your
contacts with your permission.
Tabber - was created with the notion of linking together friends from many social sites
and services, but it still serves very well as an address book and contact management
application.
Highrise - A premium option to manage your business contacts. If you are more serious
about keeping your contacts and have hundreds of them, this could be a cost efficient
solution depending on your needs.
HyperOffice - Another premium service that offers control of your contacts. This is for
more serious contact management.
News Readers
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Why bother with the daily newspaper when you can receive all your information
through the Internet? These news readers will help you stay on top of current events
with nothing but a browser and a connection.
Google Reader (Google Reader reviews) - If you would like a straight and simple news
reader, then Google Reader might be worth your time to check out.
Bloglines (Bloglines reviews) - A competitor to Google Reader, and offers most of the
same services, just a matter of personal taste as to your selection.
Netvibes - Netvibes, as well as being a web portal, serves the other critical purpose
of being a news reader for any page that provides an RSS/ATOM feed.
Pageflakes - Like Netvibes, provides RSS modules and can be used as a news reader.
Communication Services
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Stickam - If live video conversations are your thing, then Stickam provides you an
excellent opportunity to mingle with friends, coworkers, or just random people if you so
desire. We wouldn’t use it for business calls, though.
Google 411 - This service from Google is likely something you have never tried
before, but once you do, you might use it for a long time coming. A good 411
replacement. (US Only)
Meebo - If you prefer to communicate with friends and colleagues through IM, then
Meebo is the site for you to do it all in one easy to use program.
Gmail (Gmail reviews) - The king of e-mail? We think so. Much more efficient at
handling large volumes of email than rival services.
Charting & Diagram Services
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Ever heard of brainstorming? Of course you have! Well, the following applications
follow the same line of thought, but now you can throw your ideas in charts and
diagrams often referred to as “mind maps” to plan any future project you may attempt.
I personally use these types of applications very often.
Flowchart.com - The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and
diagrams in a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta)
MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on
collaboration in an easy to use “mind mapping”environment.
Mind42 - Yet another “mind mapping” web app that allows you to collaborate with
others. This one is completely free.
Gliffy - Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more
options available than the others.
Mapping Services
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If you need to find out where you are going, and how to get there, these tools can
help prevent (or at least reduce) the amount of times you get lost on those long road
trips.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Recently has taken over as one of the best
mapping tools out there. Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane
amount of data displayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor.
Yahoo Maps - Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and
it shows here.
Mapquest - A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B.
File Storage Services
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Box.net - A very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing
them. You can sign up for free and get a gig of space, or you can have additional
storage with the premium options.
MediaMax - Another powerful and useful service to regularly back-up all your important
data.
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Tools for virtual assistants and freelancers
Work Tools
It’s important for freelance workers to be as organized as possible. After all, it’s up to
you to track your time, individual projects, create your own invoices, and more. There
are tons of great tools to simplify this for you. For example, GetHarvest.com can help
you keep track of your time spent on projects in differing locations, and Zoho Invoices
can help you create professional looking invoices to send to clients.
Adobe AIR Apps
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AgileTracker - Allows you to keep track of time spent on projects by client, and if you
are using AgileAgenda, you can sync them with each other.
Google Calendar Invoice Creator - Allows you to use Google Calendar as a way to
keep track of your hours and then import that data into this app to automatically
generate invoices.
Klok (Klok reviews) - Klok allows you to easily keep track of your time spent on multiple
projects. You can easily start and stop tracking by just clicking a button for each
project. You’re able to generate multiple reports based off of this information.
Ora Time and Expense - Ora allows you to track expenses, keep a list of your tasks,
run a timer on your tasks and more.
Sundial - Keeps track of time spent on multiple projects & clients and allows you to
generate reports based on any time period.
Timeloc - Offers multiple features such as running several clients with different billing
rates per account, setting different timing intervals, audible alerts and much more.
Vertabase Timer - You can track time on projects for various clients and then export that
data to other systems so you can generate reports and invoices.
Invoicing
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BillMyClients.com - Has import & export capabilities, allows you to save invoices locally
at any time, HTML customization for better branding, recurring invoicing, PayPal
integration and other features.
Blinksale.com - Create invoices from their templates, or you can use your own CSS to
custom design one of your own. Also allows you to import clients from Basecamp,
create tags for better organization, set up recurring invoices and more.
CannyBill.com - CannyBill can help you accept credit cards, export data to
QuickBooks, automate invoicing and late payment notices and a host of other tools.
CitrusBill.com - You can automate late payment notices as well as customize the look
and feel of your invoices while managing all of your payments.
CurdBee.com - A simple and straightforward invoicing solution that also integrates with
PayPal and Google Checkout.
Endeve.com - Endeve allows you to customize invoices, import clients from Outlook,
track which clients owe you money and a whole lot more.
Fluttervoice.co.uk - A UK-based invoicing service that allows you to generate new
invoices and keep track of your payments. Your clients can also login to see all of their
invoices with you at a glance.
FreeAgentCentral.com - Helps you to invoice your clients, keep track of billing,
prepare your taxes, and more. Focused on freelancers in the UK.
FreshBooks.com - FreshBooks allows you to automate late payment reminders, track
your time and expenses, customize the look of your tools for a full branded experience
and more.
GoToBilling.com - Get paid from an emailed invoice, keep track of your clients, use
marketing tools to gain new ones and more.
InLattice.net - Give your clients web access to their invoices and receive confirmation
that your customer has viewed an invoice. InLattice integrates with major online payment
systems and other tools.
InvoiceJournal.com - InvoiceJournal allows you to send invoices for free via email or
print them out to be sent by snail mail. Also allows you to use multiple currencies.
InvoiceMachine.com - Customize your invoices with logos and colors, use their built-in
timer to track your billable hours, create PDFs of your invoices and more.
InvoicePlace.com - InvoicePlace lets you send invoices, track all payments, generate
reports, export to Word & Excel and more.
Invoicera.com - Invoicera offers you several time saving features such as automatic
repeating invoices for frequent clients, integration with multiple payment gateways,
printing, management and more.
invoicesmadeeasy
InvoicesMadeEasy.com - This service allows you to email or physically mail invoices
yourself, or you can pay as little as a $1.00 each to have them mail invoices for you.
Offers all of the usual features to boot.
Invotrak.com - Allows you to track your time sheets, generate invoices, see who has
paid you, generate various reports to see how you are performing and more.
LiteAccounting.com - Create invoices you can send via email, save them as PDFs, set up
recurring invoices, and more features.
SimplyBill.com - Save your invoices as PDFs, create quotes for work that you can later
convert to invoices, get alerted when an invoice is overdue and numerous other
features.
SimplyInvoices.com - SimplyInvoices integrates with the Basecamp API to give you full
integration with your account and allow for easy invoicing based on your Basecamp
activities.
Winkbill.com - Set up recurring billing, export invoices as PDFs, accept payments via
PayPal, multiple templates to choose from and more features.
Zoho Invoices - The popular Zoho (zoho reviews) online office suite has an invoicing
feature that can be used for free for a few invoices a month, but you’ll have to pay if
you have numerous payment requests to make. Allows you to import and export data,
set up templates, set up recurring billing and more.
Time Tracking
tickspot
GetHarvest.com - Harvest offers pricing plans from free to premium, but offers an
amazing array of platform integrations such as iPhone, Basecamp, Beanstalk (Beanstalk
reviews), a WordPress (WordPress reviews) plugin and more. Offers both time
tracking and invoicing.
MyClientSpot.com - Helps you keep track of your billable hours, staying organized,
tracking leads and numerous other features.
Tickspot.com - Allows you to keep track of your time spent on a project and even see
how close you are to using up your client’s allotted budget. Also offers a free iPhone
application.
Time59.com - Keep track of your time and expenses and generate invoices that you
can send to your clients.
TimeIQ.com - Keep track of your billable hours. Allows for exporting of data,
generating reports at your own specified intervals, and several more features.
Toggl.com - Toogl allows you to manually keep track of your time or use their timer.
They also offer both an online version or a Windows-based download that you can use
on your desktop.
Miscellaneous Tools
simplifythis
Bizzvo.com - Allows you to import contacts, keep to-do lists, take notes, log phone
calls with clients, create invoices and more.
Cashboard -A Basecamp compatible tool that allows you to use Mac OSX, Windows
and iPhone applications to update your customers on projects, send invoices, accept
payments and more.
CreativeProOffice.com - CreativePro Office allows you to manage your clients,
projects, tasks, invoicing and more all in one easy web application.
FreelanceSwitch.com Rates Calculator - Have no clue what you should be charging for
your hourly rate as a freelancer? This rates calculator asks you a series of questions
about your working situation, how much you want to make and so on, and then gives
you a suggestion of how much to charge per hour.
Homecourtx.com - Gives you a customer management system as well as the ability to
pass files back and forth and invoice.
SimplifyThis.com - SimplifyThis is both an appointment book for keeping track of your
meetings, and any of those that might be billable, as well as a full invoicing service with
payment gateway integrations.
Job Listings & Opportunities
So you’ve got the tools to do your job, but do you have the work to do?
Photographers have tons of places like iStockphoto where they can open an account
and sell their images with little to no hassle. For writers there are places such as
Helium.com, where you can write any time you’d like, on any subject. While places
like FreelanceWriting.com will help you find steadier work. And if you’re a
programmer, there are sites like GetAFreelancer.com, where it seems people will
always need workers for more highly technical jobs.
Freelance Photography
istockphoto
123rf.com - 123 Royalty Free pays you a 50% commission on downloaded images,
and also allows you to earn money for referring subscribers and new photographers
alike.
BigStockPhoto.com - BigStockPhoto pays you between $.50 and $3.00 per download
for your photos, and even higher for special requests.
Dreamstime.com - Photographers can place their images here for a sale and receive
between 50% and 80% commission.
Fotolia.com - Commissions range from 33% to 64% depending on your exclusivity and
your ranking based on the total number of downloads you’ve sold.
FreelancePhotoJobs.com - Find all sorts of freelance photography jobs for magazines,
weddings, websites and more.
ImageCatalog.com - Depending on licensing, ImageCatalog pays photographers
anywhere from $.40 to $40.00 per download.
iStockphoto - Photographers can earn from 20 - 40% commissions on each photo they
sell through this royalty free site. (Disclosure: Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a
partnership with iStockphoto)
PhotoStockPlus.com - You can earn commissions up to 85% with a 3.25% processing
fee for both photos you sell as well as products you put your images on such as mugs
and other products.
Shutterstock.com - Shutterstock pays a flat rate of $.25 a download and increases it to
$.30 per download when you hit $500 in a pay period. You can also earn
commissions for referring others to the service.
Freelance Programmers & Web Designers
limeexchange
DesignQuote.net - Potential clients with design and graphic art work post jobs that
freelancers can browse through and post bids on to win contracts.
FreelanceAuction.com - Allows you to bid on listed jobs for all aspects of programming
and design. Numerous listings for Web coding and design work such as logos.
GetAFreelancer.com - Focused on a wide selection of computer related work from
basic site design to developing full sites for Joomla (Joomla reviews), OsCommerce,
WordPress and more.
LimeExchange.com - Offers jobs that freelancers can bid on, and then you can continue
to use the service to check in with one another throughout the lifespan of the project.
oDesk.com - A marketplace for freelancers to meet up with clients and look for work.
Clients can leave ratings and reviews for any freelancers they hire to help them get
future work.
ozLance.com.au - Focused on Australia, ozLance has listings for Web development,
content writing, audio/visual work and more.
Project4Hire.com - Contractors post technical programming or blogging jobs they have
available and freelancers bid for the work.
RentACoder.com - Has thousands of open coding projects and a newsletter you can
subscribe to so that you receive daily notifications of new projects as they come
available.
ScriptLance.com - ScriptLance focuses heavily on programming assignments, but also
features some listings for blog content creation.
SearchWebJobs.com - A job site focused on Web related jobs with a section
dedicated to freelance engagements that indicate if you must live near the office or if
you can work from anywhere.
Freelance Writers
jobsproblogger
BloggerJobs.biz - Numerous blogging jobs from all different styles of blogs that range
from freelance to full-time.
FreelancePortfolios.com -A resource allowing writers to set up portfolios to show off
their work and skills to potential employers. Also has some job listings for people
looking for work.
FreelanceWriting.com - FreelanceWriting.com features a mixture of articles and
resources to help people break into freelance writing, and also offers some job listings
and links to other resources.
Helium.com - While not so much freelance writing as writing “on spec,” you are free to
write articles on any subject and then you can earn revenue from a portion of their
advertising sales related to your articles.
Jobs.ProBlogger.net - A jobs board over at the well known ProBlogger for freelance
and full-time bloggers looking for work.
JournalismJobs.com - Features job listings for blogs, newspapers, magazines, newswires
and other forms of print and online media.
Online-Writing-Jobs.com - Offers all sorts of freelance writing job listings for magazines,
reviews, resume writing, blogs and more.
Suite101.com - Freelance writers of all stripes can write articles on just about any
subject of their choice and get paid a share of the advertising for the entire life of the
article.
WritersWeekly.com - A weekly ezine dedicated to freelance writing that features
articles and some listings for jobs.
WritingBids.com - A site that allows various online and offline publishers to post writing
gigs that freelancers can bid on in an attempt to win.
WritingCareer.com - Features listings of freelance writing jobs as well as guides and
advice for aspiring writers.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
wayiki.com
Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
onnyturf.com
goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
Firefox addons
Blogger Bar - Search Blogger, “Blog This” function for any page you’re on.
Clipmarks - Clip any portion of a website to save, email or put on your blog.
Deepest Sender - Blog to multiple platforms from one window.
JustBlogIt - Just right click, and you’re blogging about the page you’re viewing.
LiveJournal Addons - Notifies you of friends updates, messages and more.
LiveJournal Hook - Gives you quick access to many LiveJournal commands and tags.
MySpace Blog Editor - Post directly from Firefox, drag and drop clips from sites.
Scribefire (ScribeFire reviews) - A blog editor that integrates with your browser and
allows you to drag and drop items from a web page into a blog post.
Twitterbar - Post to Twitter (Twitter reviews) directly from the address bar.
WordPress.com Sidebar - Adds a quick access sidebar to get to your WordPress
(WordPress reviews).com account.
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Fireflix - Sidebar extension to upload, browse, and manage your Flickr (Flickr reviews)
photos.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Upload photos directly to your
Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
Firefox Universal Uploader - Universal program for uploading to sites such as Flickr,
Picasa, YouTube (YouTube reviews), and Facebook (Facebook reviews).
FireFTP - An integrated FTP system that syncs and checks versions.
Flickr Sidebar - View the pictures in your account in a sidebar.
Fotofox - Select, tag, and upload images to popular sites such as Flickr.
ImageBot - Lets you upload photos to ImageShack (ImageShack reviews) or Photobucket
(Photobucket reviews).
OakFlickr4PFF - Allows uploading to your Flickr account.
Blog Tools
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Adsense Notifier - Displays your current earnings from Google Adsense in the status
bar.
Copy as HTML Link - Copies the address of a page to the clipboard as an HTML
ready link.
Create short URLs - Right click an address, click wrapURL, and create a shortened URL
for your use.
Dict - Highlight a word, right click it, select define and get a definition in a pop-up
window.
DictionarySearch - Similar to Dict, but the result appears in a new tab.
FastDict - Add quick access to any number of dictionary sites to spruce up your blog
entries.
ShrinkThisLink Link Shrinker - Use the ShrinkThisLink service without leaving the page.
Tiny.pl - Shortens an address via the tiny.pl service.
Blog Design, Customization and Development
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ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any spot in your browser.
DT Whois - Adds a button for Domaintools.com whois service for the site you are
currently viewing.
Firebug - Look under the hood of your favorite websites and take a peak at their code.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to run small java scripts to manipulate the way a page
displays to you.
HTML Validator - Checks the validity of a page’s HTML and tells you the results in
simple graphics.
IE Tab - Lets you view a webpage in an Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer reviews)
tab without leaving Firefox.
iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar - Allows you quick access to services and tools from
iWEBTOOL.
JavaScript Debugger - In browser Java script debugging.
KGen - Allows you to see the strongest keywords for a given site.
LinkChecker - Checks the validity of all links on a given page.
Load Time Analyzer - Allows developers to measure how long a page takes to load.
MeasureIt - Draws out a ruler to get a pixel dimension of any element on a page.
MetaTags - Checks the meta information of a site and features an automated search
engine submission tool.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - Quick access to over 30 SEO tools.
SearchStatus - Keyword density analyser and checks backlinks.
SEOHAND - Tracks a site’s standings and creates graphs over time.
SEOQuake - Ever wonder why a page gets good search ranking? This will help you
figure it out.
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Music tools
Internet Radio
Last.FM (Last.fm reviews) - one of the most popular music communities around, with
personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support
and lots more.
Slacker - personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application
and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast - A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams
work in Winamp.
Live365 - A directory of web-based Internet radio stations - expect popups.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music - AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora (Pandora reviews) - a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you
new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic - a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your
web browser.
Music Discovery Tools
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MusicMesh - browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and
reviews for albums.
Blogmusik - browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
Social Networks
See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks
iLike - a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’
tastes.
PureVolume - a “MySpace (MySpace reviews) for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist - popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social
networks.
Imeem (imeem reviews) - another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also
supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com - the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg - a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can
download for free.
MOG - a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music
with others.
Fuzz - discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to
be found on the site.
eListeningPost - convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of
the profits.
ProjectOpus - Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on
MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv - social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity - a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack - social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz - find and rate music playlists in a Digg (Digg reviews)-like interface.
Midomi - find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and
network with others.
Buzznet - large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive - Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs,
write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk - track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as
information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation - social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation - find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist,
join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark (Grooveshark reviews) - an online service that rewards you for sharing,
reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing - enter you email
address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks - upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player - a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while
everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL - social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor - create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar
taste and discover new music.
FineTune - pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and
other related artists.
MusicMobs - browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.
Music Sharing Applications and Widgets
uPlayMe - a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music
tastes.
DotTunes - share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue - A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your
MySpace page or blog.
Sonific - a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and
syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster - upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the
world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 - upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah - an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like
minded users.
Maestro - upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.
Music Marketplaces
iTunes (iTunes reviews) - Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a
service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street - music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases
as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic - one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free
tracks sold.
Bleep - high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment
of quality music.
MP3 Tunes - an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs
in its catalog.
Amazon - a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music
from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM - choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in
either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport - a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox - choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad - buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly
on the site.
Indistr - another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks - an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music
collection in store.
MagnaTune - here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from
electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo - an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still
protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane - buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr - music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via
Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap - through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on
MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for
Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.
Jamming
Ejamming - jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz - compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other
musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow - a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam
sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba - listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in
the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky - have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen?
Organize them with JamJunky.
Karaoke
Singshot - the “YouTube (YouTube reviews) of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along
to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo - sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.
Remixing
Jamglue - remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice - upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins - mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog
or MySpace page.
Mobile Music Services
Flotones - a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their
content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement - a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for
easier browsing.
Mercora - a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5
million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.
Music Charts
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Billboard - home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts - MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU - a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.
Artist Databases
Allmusic - probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your
favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage - artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming
service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.
Lyric Databases
AbsoluteLyrics - Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics - huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.
Music Search Engines
Qloud - Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once,
but Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a review here. The service that launches next
may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds - a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia - find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.
Audio Conversion Tools
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Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter - a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools
Bluegrind - converts text to audio.
BePopular - find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz - create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us - can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the
help of this service.
Houndbite - share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to
earn prizes.
Video tools and resources
Stickam - The best site for live video communications with multiple people. There is no
major competition for Stickam just yet.
Blogtv - Blogtv is a recent discovery to the public. It allows you to do a live video
show, and you can stream it live, as well as archive it for later use.
ooVoo - This allows you to carry on video conversations with live video through a Skype
(Skype reviews)-like program.
Mogulus - This site is basically an all in one broadcast solution for video. You can
create, edit, and add things similar to broadcast companies could add.
Ustream (ustream reviews) - Allows you to stream live video and you can also embed
the player in to your own website.
HeyCosmo - A downloadable application that allows you to connect with other people
in many ways, even play games and more.
Operator11 - Go live with your camera and create your own channels. You can also
send video comments and remix your videos.
Online Video How-to
Make internet TV
Better YT Video Quality - This guide helps you with getting the best possible video
quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as well.
Make Internet TV - This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and
publishing videos on the Internet.
How to put your readers at the scene - A scene-setting guide for online web journalists.
Tips for shooting better online video - learn the equipment, shooting and editing basics
from this collection of tips.
Online video tips - a Squidoo lens with several useful online video shooting and editing
tips.
Home video tips - Chris Pirillo’s tips for shooting better videos at home.
Camcorderinfo - Every online video comes from a camcorder, so here is the best place
to get opinions on your next camcorder purchase.
5 Ways To Create a Great Video Podcast - A great article that applies to both video
podcasts and video production in general.
Online Video Editors
Muveemix
Eyespot - add effects and transitions to the videos you upload, or use some of the large
amount of free video clips and music from Eyespot’s media partners.
MuveeMix - Upload your movie, mix it with music, add cool effects and share it on
MySpace (MySpace reviews), Friendster (Friendster reviews), Blogger (blogger
reviews), and other networks.
Motionbox - This service features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment”
within the clip itself.
Cuts - Insert sound effects in your videos, add captions, loop the best parts and in
minutes you can share your creation with the world.
JumpCut - a free service that enables you to upload, edit and share your videos. Offers
keyframe-based editing, effects, transitions and actions.
VideoEgg - A video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and
offers opportunities for monetization.
Mojiti - Select videos from popular video sharing sites, personalize them with your
annotations and share them with others.
Photobucket (Photobucket reviews) - Edit videos within a browser using Flash and remix
photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions and
transitions.
StashSpace - Upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record videos
directly from your camcorder or digital camera.
BubblePly - Video annotating service where anyone can add text bubbles that are
synchronized with video.
Veotag - Service that lets you display clickable text, called “veotags,” within an audio
or video file.
Vidavee Grafitti - add graphics and text into any video; the service is called a “legal
form of artful vandalism” by the creators.
Vmix - Vmix is a community and a hosting provider for your videos, aimed at creative
authors who want to create remixes of their music and videos.
MovieMasher - a combination of a video editor with a timeline and lots of various
effects, a standalone player and a media browser.
MixerCast - Mix your media with professional video, images, music, and network your
MixerCast everywhere.
Fliptrack - Make a free musical photo slideshow and music video. It’s easy to do and
you do it online.
Online Video Converters
Zamzar
Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several video formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options; resulting videos can
sometimes be out of sync with audio.
Vixy - a simple converter that can only convert Flash apps from the web to several
other video formats.
Hey Watch! - an online video converter focusing on file formats that works on portable
multimedia devices, like the iPod.
MediaConverter - a video converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Movavi - another video converter that allows you to upload videos and convert them to
formats you wish to use.
Video sharing
Dailymotion
YouTube (YouTube reviews) - YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more
users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on
YouTube.
Google Video - Since Google bought YouTube, Google (Google reviews)’s Video
player is mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a search here that
indexes all of the video sharing sites on the internet (well, most of them).
Blip.tv - Blip (BLIP reviews).tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast
makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then
send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you
can make some money.
Ourmedia - A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text and
share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over 100,000
members.
Veoh - Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
DailyMotion - Video sharing platform with multiple video search options. You can join
groups of people who publish videos based on a common interest.
Metacafe - A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that
filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
UnCut - Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos you
want in your blog.
ClipShack - video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips, make
friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment on clips.
5min - Video sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can visually
explain anything in 5 minutes.
Brightcove - Search, click and watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure.
Thousands of channels, including the best in online video.
Viddler - Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at specific
times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter integration.
Revver - The first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility to earn
money from the videos they upload.
Vimeo (Vimeo reviews) - Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s
users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by
aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Yahoo Video - Yahoo’s version of online video. Similar to Google video, but done the
Yahoo way.
HelpfulVideo - Share your knowledge and skills with others for free or little charge via
video clips.
BroadbandSports - A video sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.
Travelistic - A video sharing site that allows users to post video content specific to
travel.
Livevideo - Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload your own
videos and share them with the world.
Kewego - A video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view
videos by others.
Godtube - It’s a Christian version of YouTube. All things Christian welcomed.
Coull.tv - An interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and add
interactive elements to it by using your mouse.
Mediabum - Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.
VMIX - Another video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure everything
you upload is legit.
Grouper - Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to create
playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.
Break - Break is a video site and more for comedic based content.
Videosift - a Digg (Digg reviews)-like site which lets you submit, vote, and comment on
videos.
GeeVee - GeeVee is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game play
in video games.
Stage6 - A video site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition video,
of course this also means longer upload times, and you need DivX support (usually a
browser plugin).
Tube Battle - vote for the best videos, organized by category.
Video hosting
Vidilife
TinyPic - Host videos and images for free; it is possible to upload videos in the most
popular formats and link videos on MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards
Vidilife - Upload videos and store them online. There is no limit in terms of length of the
files you can upload.
Dropshots - Good site that lets you upload videos, share them and embed them on
other sites.
ZippyVideos - Upload and store video files (maximum 20 MB) in the most popular video
formats.
Supload - Free service to host video clips and images. Maximum video file size allowed
is 20 MB.
Rupid - Another provider of free video hosting: you can host your videos and share
them with others.
Pixilive - Free images and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, Facebook (Facebook
reviews) and other sites. Maximum size for videos is 10 MB.
Mydeo - store and stream your videos online. You will be able to embed a video on
any website and send streaming video messages .
YourFileHost - Upload files anonymously and share them with others. You can upload
any file format up to 25 MB.
Video organization and management
Feedbeat
Aggrega - create and organize your own music video channels and share them with
others.
Feedbeat - a fantastic service that lets you create playlists with videos from different
sources - YouTube, Google Video and others. Each playlist gets its own subdomain on
feedbeat.net.
Ajaxilicious - an online movie catalogue which enables you to manage your movies and
share them with others via RSS.
Cliproller - create custom video channels and add as many as you like to your personal
Cliproller page.
CozmoTV - CozmoTV is a site that allows you to create and organize channels of video
already existing online.
Vidcasts & vlogging
Revision3
BlogCheese - a simple way to create and share a video blog - all you need is a
webcam.
Revision3 - A video podcasting network that’s home to many well made video podcasts,
including Diggnation, which is Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht’s video podcast about the
top stories on Digg.
Jabbits - Social video blogging: Use your webcam to record your Post or Jab with an
easy-to-use recorder.
Ask a Ninja - got questions? Ask a ninja! One of the most popular vidcasts in the world,
and definitely the funniest.
Galacticast - a weekly Sci-fi comedy podcast, episodes usually consists of lots of really
geeky parodies.
Scriggity - A news podcast, where the viewers send in the news that they think should
be on the shows.
SuperDeluxe - A site to find videos that focus mainly on comedic content.
DL.TV - Some of the the old TechTV crew back at it again with their own own show on
all things tech. One of the best video podcasts for tech geeks.
Webnation - Amber Mac’s bi-weekly video podcast with news and interviews relating
to current events in the tech world.
Tom Green’s the Channel - A daily video podcast that is recorded live and is hosted by
Tom Green. He usually has a celebrity guest on the show.
GeekBrief TV - a daily podcast hosted by Cali Lewis, it’s a 3-5 minute update on the
latest tech news.
This Week in Tech - famous tech vidcast by Leo Laporte, one of the most viewed
vidcasts in the world.
The Broken - tech show for teh 1337 h4×0rz.
Digg Podcasts - a long list of popular podcasts, containing most of the vidcasts on this
list and many more.
Video mashups
Virtual Video Map
Virtual Video Map - YouTube videos on a Google map. Find out where do all those
cool videos come from.
RealPeopleStuff - a site that combines CraigsList (Craigslist reviews) and YouTube,
offering video clips related to ads.
TagTV - enter a tag and get results from Flickr (Flickr reviews) and YouTube. Clean and
simple design makes TagTV a very neat way to browse photos and videos.
I Love Music Video - combines YouTube with info from your Last.FM account. Great
way to get videos (at least until Last.FM signs an evil deal with all those content
providers and starts offering music videos).
MusicPortl - information on bands and musicians containing biographies, Flickr images,
related blog posts and YouTube videos.
Magg - aggregates videos from several video sites. Also works as a search engine.
RateMyDanceMoves - Hot or Not-style site, presenting you dance-related YouTube
videos to vote on.
ReviewTube - a site that enables you to add captions to YouTube videos. Nice idea,
but relatively poor execution - the captions frequently overlap, making the text
unreadable.
Mobile video apps
Shozu
Youtube mobile - a stripped down version of YouTube tailored for use on mobile
phones.
Shozu - a free service for your phone that makes it easy to send and receive photos,
videos and music
Abazab - a universal video player that also works on your mobile phone.
Srobbin Mobile Video - An unofficial search for Google video on your cell phone.
Yahoo Mobile - Yahoo mobile allows you to search, find, and play videos right on your
cell phone.
MobiTV - MobiTV allows you to watch television video from popular networks of all
kinds.
MTV Mobile Video - Anything MTV related all for download to watch on your cell
phone.
ESPN MVP - If you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have the V Cast service
enabled, you can watch sports clips and more.
Moblr - Moblr allows you to view videos uploaded to the site directly on your cell
phone.
Mobunga - This site allows you to download videos to your mobile phone, as well as
iPod and PSP.
Video search
TubeSurf
Blinkx - Perform searches within the most popular video networks, such as CBS, Reuters
and CNN. Users can search for content and create TV channels that splice relevant
content together.
PureVideo - Search within the most popular video directories and video sharing sites.
PureVideo features up to six channels and each channel contains about six source sites.
SearchVideo - Search engine and directory created by AOL. Users can also search
within specific video channels like MySpace and YouTube.
Search For Video - search engine and video directory that displays results from
hundreds of video channels. Search For Video also provides an add-on for Firefox
(Firefox reviews).
Yahoo! Video Search - Yahoo! has a video search engine that gathers videos from
Yahoo! directory and from many other online sources. You can also search within
specific domains or sites.
TubeSurf - Video search engine that gathers results from popular video directories, such
as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and Google Video. TubeSurf is also available as
an add-on for Firefox.
ClipRoller - Search across popular video sites, such as: YouTube, Metacafe and more.
As you continue to search for videos, ClipRoller learns your preferences and delivers
content you like to watch.
Pixsy - A video search engine that lets users search content across dozens of video
sites. Users are allowed to save searches and single videos.
ScoopVid - Search engine that enables you to either search for videos or browse
through channels and categories.
Google Video Search - Google’s Video search recently was updated and now
searches many video sites other than just YouTube and Google Video.
AOL Video - once known as the great media search engine, the AOL-purchased
SingingFish, AOL Video kept some traits of the crowd’s favorite place to look for hard
to find videos, but true fans claim that the site is not as good as its predecessor.
Truveo - Search videos or browse by either channel or category.
Altavista Video - good old Altavista isn’t what it used to be, but it does have a video
search section.
Online video downloading services
Keepvid
VideoRonk - Search and download your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video,
Metacafe, DailyMotion, iFilm, MySpace, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Revver and more.
VideoDL - Download online videos available on YouTube, Google Video and Break.com
stright to your computer.
Vixy - Grab videos from popular sites and convert them into various video formats
(including iPod and PSP).
KeepVid - Download videos from many video sharing sites, including YouTube, Google
Video, MySpace Videos, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Revver and other services.
VideoDownloader - Get videos from video sharing sites. VideoDownloader is also
available as a Firefox extension, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it within your
browser.
YouTubeX - Download videos from YouTube. It doesn’t have a lot of options in terms of
video sites among which you could choose, but it is very easy to use.
DownThisVideo - This site lets you download videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo,
MetaCafe, Vimeo and other services.
KissYouTube - A service that provides two interesting and effective ways to download
videos from YouTube.
YouTubeDownloads - Another site that lets you download videos exclusively from
YouTube (other sites are not supported).
Kcoolonline - Download videos on your hard disk from more than 90 sites, including
YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, iFilm and MySpace, Yahoo and many more.
YouTubia - A YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos within
your IE or Firefox browser.
MediaConverter - A platform that lets you download and convert videos straight from
YouTube.
Miscellaneous tools
Hellodeo
Hellodeo - Record videos from your webcam and post them on any web page.
Flikzor - Send and receive video comments on your profile, blog and more.
Flixn - Record a video message right in the web browser and share anywhere including
MySpace and eBay.
GabMail - Service that enable users to send unlimited numbers of free video email
messages.
Bubble Guru - A site for recording webcam video messages and getting them onto your
website or sending to others.
CamTwist - Software package (for Mac computers) that lets you add special effects to
your video chats.
WebcamMax - Software that lets you add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to
virtual or real webcam and broadcast on all messengers (Windows
only).
StumbleUpon Video - Just press “Stumble!” and a random video is presented to you,
you can also ask for random videos with in categories like Humor, or Cats.
CrowdRules - video answers to your questions.
ClipSync - interact with other users while watching the same video as them.
ClipSyndicate - publish broadcast quality news on your web site.
Broadbandsports - a big collection of sports-related videos.
Get Paid To Write
Weblogs, Inc. - Apply to blog for one of their ninety plus blogs or submit your own
topic idea. They will pay you per post that you write and you must meet their minimum
post requirements.
PayPerPost - Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews
of their sponsors on your blog.
Blogsvertise - Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites,
products and services in your own blog.
Review Me - After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you
$20 to $200 per post that you write.
Smorty - Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for
each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews - Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your
own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
LoudLaunch - Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests.
They pay once a month.
Blogitive - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
BloggerWave - Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write
reviews on their products and services.
InBlogAds - Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and
get paid for it.
BlogToProfit - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
Creative Weblogging - Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will
pay you $225 per month.
WordFirm - Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.
451 Press - Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all
generated revenue.
Digital Journal - Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles
through their blogs.
BlogBurner - Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your
commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.
Squidoo - Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to
charity.
About.com - Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com. Compensation
depends on the growth of your page views.
DayTipper - Earn $3 for every short tip you write and get published.
Helium - Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.
Dewitts Media - Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a
minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.
BOTW Media - Make money writing a blog for their blogging network.
CreamAid - Get paid to submit blog posts in their directory.
BlogFeast - Generate revenue from pre-installed Google Adsense ads when you blog in
their network.
Mashable (Mashable reviews) - Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one
of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.
Advertising Programs
Google Adsense - Most popular pay-per-click advertising provider. Make anywhere
from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.
Text-Link-Ads - Approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay
you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.
BlogAds - The average blogger makes anywhere from $50 to $5000 dollars a month
selling blog ads. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by
someone in their network.
LinkWorth - Here you will find eleven different options to fit your advertising needs.
Choose from text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to name
a few.
CrispAds - Access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You
choose the advertisers that suit you best.
Chitika - Offers six types of advertising to fit your needs.
AzoogleAds - Delivers targeted advertisers to their network of publishers to bring you
the most profitable solutions.
Vibrant Media - Offers in-text contextual based advertisements.
MediaFed - Place advertisements in your blog’s RSS feed to generate additional
revenue.
Qumana - Embeds ads directly into your posts. Ads are generated from keywords that
you select. Not particularly popular with readers.
PeakClick - Austria based pay-per-click provider. Provides automatic insertion of site
targeted ads.
DoubleClick - Offers a full suite of products for publishers that enable you to forecast,
sell inventory, serve ads and analyze campaigns online and through other digital
channels.
Tribal Fusion - They offer reliable payments, free ad-serving technology, a dedicated
account manager and up-to-date, real-time reporting, with a 55% payout. Must go
through an approval process.
AdBrite - Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability
to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.
ThankYouPages - Shows ads based on demographics and relevancy. Majority of traffic
must originate from U.S.
Clicksor - Inline text link advertising, underlines words directly in your posts making them
clickable advertisements. Once more, we’d say that inline ads are not popular with
regular blog readers.
TargetPoint - Contextually and search targeted pay-per-click ads.
IndustryBrains - Place relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads on your site.
BloggingAds - Post one-time ads on your site. Pays via PayPal.
BulletAds - Performance based online advertising network.
AdsMarket - Match your traffic to handpicked advertisers with top-converting products
and services.
ROIRocket - Targeted campaigns specific to your marketing needs.
AdKnowledge - Offers complete outsourcing of your advertising management. Runs ads
in websites, email and search engine inventory.
Yes Advertising - Payouts for running ads from their sponsors. Also offers a referral
program that pays 20% of the referred webmasters earnings.
RevenuePilot - Offers pay-for-performance and pay-per-click advertising for your sites.
SearchFeed - Integrates paid advertisements into your site’s search feature.
Bidvertiser - Display text ads on your site and advertisers bid for placement.
Pheedo - Monetize your RSS feeds with this program.
ValueClick media - Generate revenue by displaying ads through banners, pop-unders
and rich media. Be warned that pop-unders are unpopular these days.
OneMonkey - Another text based advertising program.
Yahoo Publisher Network - Use the internet giant, Yahoo, to display targeted ads on
your site.
Q Ads - Monetize your site by placing ads anywhere you can add a picture.
Affiliate Networks and Programs
Amazon Associates - Link to Amazon’s products and services and earn up to 10% of
the sale price. Converts well for product-focused sites.
ClickBank - Over 10,000 products to promote with commissions as high as 75%.
Commission Junction - Promote the advertiser’s products and services in exchange for a
commission on leads or sales.
LinkShare - Pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network. Gives you the ability to use
individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.
Affiliate Fuel - Serves as a middle man to bring publishers and advertisers together to
promote products and services.
LinkConnector - Affiliate marketing network that offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to
keep you safe while conducting business.
LeadPile - Affiliate network that allows you to generate and sell trade leads to the
highest bidder.
Forex-Affiliate - Affiliate program that allows you to earn commissions from trading
Forex (currency exchange) online.
incentAclick - CPA (cost-per-action) affiliate program that guarantees the fastest ROI in
the industry.
AdPlosion - Earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers.
Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions.
AffiliateFuture - Another affiliate program that pays you for generating leads, sales and
clicks.
ClixGalore - Affiliate network consisting of 7500+ advertisers for you to choose from.
ThinkAction - Affiliate network that claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of
earning over $100,000 dollars per month.
RocketProfit - Affiliate network, pays via check after your commissions reach $25
dollars.
CafePress - Earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded merchandise.
Avangate - Make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.
Paid Social Media Programs
Dada.net - Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring
friends and driving traffic.
Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of
some help.
Cruxy - Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.
BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of
your interests and choice.
Ether - Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your
rates and call availability.
UpBlogger - Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you
receive to your uploaded content.
JustAnswer - Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.
MetaCafe - Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you
receive.
ChaCha - Get paid to offer support to members of their community.
AssociatedContent - Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to
their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.
myLot - Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.
KnowBrainers - Another site that pays you to get involved with the community and
answer questions. Optionally you can answer questions through the RSS feeds on your
own blog.
Everything Else That Pays
Google User Research - Google Pays you money to participate in their user research
studies online.
Microsoft Research Panel - Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their
products.
Amazon Mechanical Turk - Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their
computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.
eJury - Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.
WorkingSOL - This company pays you to handle technical support for many large
companies. You can work from home on the computer or by phone and decide what
times you are available.
Appingo - Always looking for experienced copy editors and proof readers. Must submit
a resume.
IntelliShop - Pays you to shop at stores in your area and write a review of your
experience.
Mahalo Greenhouse - They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their
directory.
Focus Pointe Global - Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion.
Available to teens and adults.
Agloco - Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has
been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.
Arise - Make money providing phone, web and email support and sales for 40 plus
companies in their network.
CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online forums.
Tutor.com - Get paid to tutor people online.
ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across the internet.
Share-A-Pic - Earn money by uploading and sharing your pictures on their website.
Opuzz Voice - Earn money by doing voice overs for their clients online.
SlashMySearch - Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.
online mapping tools that some are referring to as “Maps 2.0″.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
wayiki.com
Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes.
Podcast Creation Guides
How To Create a Podcast - About.com’s step-by-step tutorial for podcast beginners.
iLounge Guide to Podcast Creation - another guide for creating your own podcast for
absolute beginners.
Podcasting Legal Guide - find about legal issues relevant to podcasting in this Creative
Commons guide.
Podcast Hosting, Sharing and Networking (Free)
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Pickstation - A Digg (Digg reviews) for podcasts and music.
Collectik - “Mixtapes for podcasts”: find, share and organize podcasts.
Podbean - Free podcast hosting and publishing.
Castpost - Free hosting for audio and video clips.
HeyCast - A tool to create video podcasts. Essentially, HeyCast creates RSS feeds
from any existing video files on the web. It doesn’t provide hosting or sharing features.
Blubrry - A podcast network that lets you create a podcast and browse the podcasts of
others.
Evoca - “YouTube (YouTube reviews) for voice recordings”: create audio recordings
from your computer mic, your phone or Skype (Skype reviews), share them with others
and embed them on websites.
ThePodcastNetwork - A network of podcasts on a range of topics including business,
entertainment and comedy.
MyPodcast - podcast hosting solution offering unlimited storage, bandwidth, and free
templates for your podcasts.
PodServe - this service is still in alpha stage, but everyone’s invited to try it out. It offers
a hosting space for your podcast and a directory of user-created podcasts.
PodcastPeople - a service that enables you to post text, audio and video materials to
your own customized show, and even earn some income from it through sponsors.
PCastBaby - free podcast hosting service offering 10MB of storage space and
unlimited bandwidth.
Podomatic - create, find and share podcasts with this free service.
Blubrry - create your podcast on Blubrry; browse through other podcasts and create
your personal playlist.
Podcast Advertising
Podango - get free unlimited hosting for your podcast and share ad revenue with
Podango 50/50.
Podbridge - Provides podcast metrics and advertising.
Podtrac - a service that connects podcasters with advertisers.
Audio Tours
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TourCaster - Find audio tours of your favorite cities and download them to your iPod.
iAudioGuide - Find audio guides for major world cities and download them to portable
devices.
Video Podcasting
Veodia - Create live TV shows and convert them to video podcasts.
Blip.tv - A “video podcasting” service. Broadly similar to YouTube, but the focus is on
independent creators, who get a share of revenue.
Mobile Podcasting
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Podlinez - a simple service to listen to podcasts on your phone.
Gabcast - Record podcasts straight from your phone.
Yodio - Record audio from your phone, add photos and captions.
Text to Podcasts
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BlueGrind - Converts text (especially blogs) into podcasts.
Feed2Podcast - Convert any RSS feed into a podcast.
Talkr - Convert blogs to audio podcasts.
Odiogo - convert RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts to podcasts.
Podcasts to Text
CastingWords - a podcast transcription service that converts podcasts to text for
$0.75 minute. It employs human transcribers.
Podcast Directories
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Grepr Podcasts - A directory that makes recommendations by finding patterns in your
interests and comparing the interests of others.
Yahoo Podcasts - Explore podcasts, listen to them, subscribe to them and even create
your own.
MobilCast - directory of podcasts and radio shows, complete with playlists.
PodcastAlley - a podcast directory with over 30,000 podcasts. Maintains a monthly
top list.
DigitalPodcast - a simple, categorized podcast directory
Podcast.net - a very comprehensive podcast directory; contains tens of thousands of
podcasts.
PodcastDirectory.com - a directory of podcasts with a top list, a list of featured
podcasts, and categorization.
PodcastDirectory.org- a simple directory with a very clean layout.
Podfeed.net - on Podfeed you can host and share your podcast, find podcasts, as well
as read and write podcast reviews.
iAmplify - A premium directory where you pay to download self-help podcasts.
Earkive - Directory that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone (mobile or landline)
Live Podcasting
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Talkshoe - Create your own live talkshow or interactive podcast.
Waxxi - Audio shows streamed live, mainly with notable technologists. Once recorded,
the live shows are available as podcasts.
NowLive - A social network that lets anyone create a live, interactive talk show.
Stickam for audio, in some ways.
Podcast Hosting (Premium)
PodcastSpot - Offers both free and premium podcast hosting.
SwitchPod - a podcast hosting service, with unmetered bandwidth, statistics and even
some promotional opportunities.
Hipcast - create audio, video materials and podcasts and post them to your blog.
Libsyn - Liberated Syndication will host your podcasts for a modest monthly fee.
Podcast Search
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Everyzing - Audio and video search engine.
Podscope - an audio and video search engine that searches the words spoken in
podcasts.
Pluggd - Discover and share podcasts, and search for specific parts of podcasts using
advanced search technology called HearHere.
PodNova - Podcast search and community.
Podcast Forums
Podcast Alley Forum - a well visited forum on everything related to podcasting.
DigitalPodcast Forum - a good forum for promoting your podcast.
World Podcast Forum - a fresh forum about podcasting.
Podcast Creation Software (Offline)
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Propaganda - Create professional podcasts including background music, jingles,
crossfading and more. Windows only. Free trial, $49.95 to buy.
Audacity - Free, open source software for recording and editing audio. Versions for
Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Adobe Soundbooth - Advanced audio editing from Adobe. Windows and Mac. Free
trial, $199 to buy.
Wildvoice Podcast Studio - Record audio, add music and sound effects and upload to
Wildvoice.com or other sites. Windows only.
SnapKast - Podcast creation for Windows. $79.99.
Podcast Creation Software (Online)
Odeo - Perhaps the most popular podcasting platform. It allows you to record audio
within your browser, embed it anywhere and create your own audio channels.
Hipcast - Record high-quality audio right through the web browser or your phone. No
additional software needed.
Gcast - Record, mix and broadcast your podcasts. You can record messages by phone
and upload MP3 files from your computer.
Podomatic - This site lets you record video and audio online directly from your browser.
You can also receive in line calls from listeners wanting to leave voice comments.
ClickCaster - create, broadcast and sell your very own radio shows and podcasts. You
can record audio right from your browser or upload an existing MP3.
Wild Voice Shout Recorder - Online service that lets you record audio files through an
intuitive interface but doesn’t let you edit them or add special effects.
Miscellaneous Podcast Tools
Enablr - make your podcasts indexed and searchable.
PodShow - a network that brings audio, video, podcasts, and music to your computer,
iPod, mobile device, or television.
Divicast - enhance your podcast with images and text and share it with everyone.
Divvycast - where podcasting and music meet. Helps bands to create podcasts.
Podbop - Find bands in your city and download free MP3s to your iPod to preview their
music ahead of the show.
Noisely - Enter a subject you’re interested in, and Noisely serves up a selection of
podcasts you’ll like. Press play, and all the ‘casts stream continuously until you stop
them.
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Toolbox for the web
Word Processing Services
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Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents
without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers.
Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.
Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs. There are some options present
that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.
ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.
Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. It has many
offerings and a slick interface to boot! (Private Beta)
Web Portals
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You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire
up that web browser. You can have all the information you want and need accessible
to you immediately by using one of the following services.
Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.
Pageflakes - Pageflakes could be considered the brother-in-law to Netvibes and both
have very similar offerings in customization and content.
iGoogle - If you have a Google (Google reviews) account, then the iGoogle comes
part of the package deal, and since many of us have Google as our home page
anyways, why not give iGoogle a trial?
My Yahoo - The offerings are somewhat more customizable than iGoogle, but
essentially the same concept from a different provider.
Calendar Services
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Let’s say you have your parent’s anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the
family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Having all these things on a calendar is
undoubtedly the way to go for keeping track of these events. Unless you prefer writing
it on your hand…
Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis. It is just that
freaking awesome!
Yahoo! Calendar - Yahoo provides a pretty good, but basic, calendar application for
organizing your life
30 Boxes - Has a lightning fast interface that is really easy to navigate makes this a
good contender.
Kiko - A very nice calendar application with a drag & drop interface.
Contact Management Services
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Your cell phone and e-mail program are likely your primary sources for keeping
information about your contacts. This is fine. You must ask yourself though, what
happens if your cell phone is lost, your webmail account goes down or you lose all the
data on your computer? You are pretty much screwed. Time to rethink the way we do
contact management.
Plaxo (Plaxo reviews) - One of the best known services which allow you to keep track
of contacts. Other services that can tap into your Plaxo account and utilize your
contacts with your permission.
Tabber - was created with the notion of linking together friends from many social sites
and services, but it still serves very well as an address book and contact management
application.
Highrise - A premium option to manage your business contacts. If you are more serious
about keeping your contacts and have hundreds of them, this could be a cost efficient
solution depending on your needs.
HyperOffice - Another premium service that offers control of your contacts. This is for
more serious contact management.
News Readers
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Why bother with the daily newspaper when you can receive all your information
through the Internet? These news readers will help you stay on top of current events
with nothing but a browser and a connection.
Google Reader (Google Reader reviews) - If you would like a straight and simple news
reader, then Google Reader might be worth your time to check out.
Bloglines (Bloglines reviews) - A competitor to Google Reader, and offers most of the
same services, just a matter of personal taste as to your selection.
Netvibes - Netvibes, as well as being a web portal, serves the other critical purpose
of being a news reader for any page that provides an RSS/ATOM feed.
Pageflakes - Like Netvibes, provides RSS modules and can be used as a news reader.
Communication Services
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Stickam - If live video conversations are your thing, then Stickam provides you an
excellent opportunity to mingle with friends, coworkers, or just random people if you so
desire. We wouldn’t use it for business calls, though.
Google 411 - This service from Google is likely something you have never tried
before, but once you do, you might use it for a long time coming. A good 411
replacement. (US Only)
Meebo - If you prefer to communicate with friends and colleagues through IM, then
Meebo is the site for you to do it all in one easy to use program.
Gmail (Gmail reviews) - The king of e-mail? We think so. Much more efficient at
handling large volumes of email than rival services.
Charting & Diagram Services
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Ever heard of brainstorming? Of course you have! Well, the following applications
follow the same line of thought, but now you can throw your ideas in charts and
diagrams often referred to as “mind maps” to plan any future project you may attempt.
I personally use these types of applications very often.
Flowchart.com - The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and
diagrams in a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta)
MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on
collaboration in an easy to use “mind mapping”environment.
Mind42 - Yet another “mind mapping” web app that allows you to collaborate with
others. This one is completely free.
Gliffy - Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more
options available than the others.
Mapping Services
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If you need to find out where you are going, and how to get there, these tools can
help prevent (or at least reduce) the amount of times you get lost on those long road
trips.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Recently has taken over as one of the best
mapping tools out there. Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane
amount of data displayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor.
Yahoo Maps - Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and
it shows here.
Mapquest - A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B.
File Storage Services
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Box.net - A very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing
them. You can sign up for free and get a gig of space, or you can have additional
storage with the premium options.
MediaMax - Another powerful and useful service to regularly back-up all your important
data.
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Tools for virtual assistants and freelancers
Work Tools
It’s important for freelance workers to be as organized as possible. After all, it’s up to
you to track your time, individual projects, create your own invoices, and more. There
are tons of great tools to simplify this for you. For example, GetHarvest.com can help
you keep track of your time spent on projects in differing locations, and Zoho Invoices
can help you create professional looking invoices to send to clients.
Adobe AIR Apps
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AgileTracker - Allows you to keep track of time spent on projects by client, and if you
are using AgileAgenda, you can sync them with each other.
Google Calendar Invoice Creator - Allows you to use Google Calendar as a way to
keep track of your hours and then import that data into this app to automatically
generate invoices.
Klok (Klok reviews) - Klok allows you to easily keep track of your time spent on multiple
projects. You can easily start and stop tracking by just clicking a button for each
project. You’re able to generate multiple reports based off of this information.
Ora Time and Expense - Ora allows you to track expenses, keep a list of your tasks,
run a timer on your tasks and more.
Sundial - Keeps track of time spent on multiple projects & clients and allows you to
generate reports based on any time period.
Timeloc - Offers multiple features such as running several clients with different billing
rates per account, setting different timing intervals, audible alerts and much more.
Vertabase Timer - You can track time on projects for various clients and then export that
data to other systems so you can generate reports and invoices.
Invoicing
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BillMyClients.com - Has import & export capabilities, allows you to save invoices locally
at any time, HTML customization for better branding, recurring invoicing, PayPal
integration and other features.
Blinksale.com - Create invoices from their templates, or you can use your own CSS to
custom design one of your own. Also allows you to import clients from Basecamp,
create tags for better organization, set up recurring invoices and more.
CannyBill.com - CannyBill can help you accept credit cards, export data to
QuickBooks, automate invoicing and late payment notices and a host of other tools.
CitrusBill.com - You can automate late payment notices as well as customize the look
and feel of your invoices while managing all of your payments.
CurdBee.com - A simple and straightforward invoicing solution that also integrates with
PayPal and Google Checkout.
Endeve.com - Endeve allows you to customize invoices, import clients from Outlook,
track which clients owe you money and a whole lot more.
Fluttervoice.co.uk - A UK-based invoicing service that allows you to generate new
invoices and keep track of your payments. Your clients can also login to see all of their
invoices with you at a glance.
FreeAgentCentral.com - Helps you to invoice your clients, keep track of billing,
prepare your taxes, and more. Focused on freelancers in the UK.
FreshBooks.com - FreshBooks allows you to automate late payment reminders, track
your time and expenses, customize the look of your tools for a full branded experience
and more.
GoToBilling.com - Get paid from an emailed invoice, keep track of your clients, use
marketing tools to gain new ones and more.
InLattice.net - Give your clients web access to their invoices and receive confirmation
that your customer has viewed an invoice. InLattice integrates with major online payment
systems and other tools.
InvoiceJournal.com - InvoiceJournal allows you to send invoices for free via email or
print them out to be sent by snail mail. Also allows you to use multiple currencies.
InvoiceMachine.com - Customize your invoices with logos and colors, use their built-in
timer to track your billable hours, create PDFs of your invoices and more.
InvoicePlace.com - InvoicePlace lets you send invoices, track all payments, generate
reports, export to Word & Excel and more.
Invoicera.com - Invoicera offers you several time saving features such as automatic
repeating invoices for frequent clients, integration with multiple payment gateways,
printing, management and more.
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InvoicesMadeEasy.com - This service allows you to email or physically mail invoices
yourself, or you can pay as little as a $1.00 each to have them mail invoices for you.
Offers all of the usual features to boot.
Invotrak.com - Allows you to track your time sheets, generate invoices, see who has
paid you, generate various reports to see how you are performing and more.
LiteAccounting.com - Create invoices you can send via email, save them as PDFs, set up
recurring invoices, and more features.
SimplyBill.com - Save your invoices as PDFs, create quotes for work that you can later
convert to invoices, get alerted when an invoice is overdue and numerous other
features.
SimplyInvoices.com - SimplyInvoices integrates with the Basecamp API to give you full
integration with your account and allow for easy invoicing based on your Basecamp
activities.
Winkbill.com - Set up recurring billing, export invoices as PDFs, accept payments via
PayPal, multiple templates to choose from and more features.
Zoho Invoices - The popular Zoho (zoho reviews) online office suite has an invoicing
feature that can be used for free for a few invoices a month, but you’ll have to pay if
you have numerous payment requests to make. Allows you to import and export data,
set up templates, set up recurring billing and more.
Time Tracking
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GetHarvest.com - Harvest offers pricing plans from free to premium, but offers an
amazing array of platform integrations such as iPhone, Basecamp, Beanstalk (Beanstalk
reviews), a WordPress (WordPress reviews) plugin and more. Offers both time
tracking and invoicing.
MyClientSpot.com - Helps you keep track of your billable hours, staying organized,
tracking leads and numerous other features.
Tickspot.com - Allows you to keep track of your time spent on a project and even see
how close you are to using up your client’s allotted budget. Also offers a free iPhone
application.
Time59.com - Keep track of your time and expenses and generate invoices that you
can send to your clients.
TimeIQ.com - Keep track of your billable hours. Allows for exporting of data,
generating reports at your own specified intervals, and several more features.
Toggl.com - Toogl allows you to manually keep track of your time or use their timer.
They also offer both an online version or a Windows-based download that you can use
on your desktop.
Miscellaneous Tools
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Bizzvo.com - Allows you to import contacts, keep to-do lists, take notes, log phone
calls with clients, create invoices and more.
Cashboard -A Basecamp compatible tool that allows you to use Mac OSX, Windows
and iPhone applications to update your customers on projects, send invoices, accept
payments and more.
CreativeProOffice.com - CreativePro Office allows you to manage your clients,
projects, tasks, invoicing and more all in one easy web application.
FreelanceSwitch.com Rates Calculator - Have no clue what you should be charging for
your hourly rate as a freelancer? This rates calculator asks you a series of questions
about your working situation, how much you want to make and so on, and then gives
you a suggestion of how much to charge per hour.
Homecourtx.com - Gives you a customer management system as well as the ability to
pass files back and forth and invoice.
SimplifyThis.com - SimplifyThis is both an appointment book for keeping track of your
meetings, and any of those that might be billable, as well as a full invoicing service with
payment gateway integrations.
Job Listings & Opportunities
So you’ve got the tools to do your job, but do you have the work to do?
Photographers have tons of places like iStockphoto where they can open an account
and sell their images with little to no hassle. For writers there are places such as
Helium.com, where you can write any time you’d like, on any subject. While places
like FreelanceWriting.com will help you find steadier work. And if you’re a
programmer, there are sites like GetAFreelancer.com, where it seems people will
always need workers for more highly technical jobs.
Freelance Photography
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123rf.com - 123 Royalty Free pays you a 50% commission on downloaded images,
and also allows you to earn money for referring subscribers and new photographers
alike.
BigStockPhoto.com - BigStockPhoto pays you between $.50 and $3.00 per download
for your photos, and even higher for special requests.
Dreamstime.com - Photographers can place their images here for a sale and receive
between 50% and 80% commission.
Fotolia.com - Commissions range from 33% to 64% depending on your exclusivity and
your ranking based on the total number of downloads you’ve sold.
FreelancePhotoJobs.com - Find all sorts of freelance photography jobs for magazines,
weddings, websites and more.
ImageCatalog.com - Depending on licensing, ImageCatalog pays photographers
anywhere from $.40 to $40.00 per download.
iStockphoto - Photographers can earn from 20 - 40% commissions on each photo they
sell through this royalty free site. (Disclosure: Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a
partnership with iStockphoto)
PhotoStockPlus.com - You can earn commissions up to 85% with a 3.25% processing
fee for both photos you sell as well as products you put your images on such as mugs
and other products.
Shutterstock.com - Shutterstock pays a flat rate of $.25 a download and increases it to
$.30 per download when you hit $500 in a pay period. You can also earn
commissions for referring others to the service.
Freelance Programmers & Web Designers
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DesignQuote.net - Potential clients with design and graphic art work post jobs that
freelancers can browse through and post bids on to win contracts.
FreelanceAuction.com - Allows you to bid on listed jobs for all aspects of programming
and design. Numerous listings for Web coding and design work such as logos.
GetAFreelancer.com - Focused on a wide selection of computer related work from
basic site design to developing full sites for Joomla (Joomla reviews), OsCommerce,
WordPress and more.
LimeExchange.com - Offers jobs that freelancers can bid on, and then you can continue
to use the service to check in with one another throughout the lifespan of the project.
oDesk.com - A marketplace for freelancers to meet up with clients and look for work.
Clients can leave ratings and reviews for any freelancers they hire to help them get
future work.
ozLance.com.au - Focused on Australia, ozLance has listings for Web development,
content writing, audio/visual work and more.
Project4Hire.com - Contractors post technical programming or blogging jobs they have
available and freelancers bid for the work.
RentACoder.com - Has thousands of open coding projects and a newsletter you can
subscribe to so that you receive daily notifications of new projects as they come
available.
ScriptLance.com - ScriptLance focuses heavily on programming assignments, but also
features some listings for blog content creation.
SearchWebJobs.com - A job site focused on Web related jobs with a section
dedicated to freelance engagements that indicate if you must live near the office or if
you can work from anywhere.
Freelance Writers
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BloggerJobs.biz - Numerous blogging jobs from all different styles of blogs that range
from freelance to full-time.
FreelancePortfolios.com -A resource allowing writers to set up portfolios to show off
their work and skills to potential employers. Also has some job listings for people
looking for work.
FreelanceWriting.com - FreelanceWriting.com features a mixture of articles and
resources to help people break into freelance writing, and also offers some job listings
and links to other resources.
Helium.com - While not so much freelance writing as writing “on spec,” you are free to
write articles on any subject and then you can earn revenue from a portion of their
advertising sales related to your articles.
Jobs.ProBlogger.net - A jobs board over at the well known ProBlogger for freelance
and full-time bloggers looking for work.
JournalismJobs.com - Features job listings for blogs, newspapers, magazines, newswires
and other forms of print and online media.
Online-Writing-Jobs.com - Offers all sorts of freelance writing job listings for magazines,
reviews, resume writing, blogs and more.
Suite101.com - Freelance writers of all stripes can write articles on just about any
subject of their choice and get paid a share of the advertising for the entire life of the
article.
WritersWeekly.com - A weekly ezine dedicated to freelance writing that features
articles and some listings for jobs.
WritingBids.com - A site that allows various online and offline publishers to post writing
gigs that freelancers can bid on in an attempt to win.
WritingCareer.com - Features listings of freelance writing jobs as well as guides and
advice for aspiring writers.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
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Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
Firefox addons
Blogger Bar - Search Blogger, “Blog This” function for any page you’re on.
Clipmarks - Clip any portion of a website to save, email or put on your blog.
Deepest Sender - Blog to multiple platforms from one window.
JustBlogIt - Just right click, and you’re blogging about the page you’re viewing.
LiveJournal Addons - Notifies you of friends updates, messages and more.
LiveJournal Hook - Gives you quick access to many LiveJournal commands and tags.
MySpace Blog Editor - Post directly from Firefox, drag and drop clips from sites.
Scribefire (ScribeFire reviews) - A blog editor that integrates with your browser and
allows you to drag and drop items from a web page into a blog post.
Twitterbar - Post to Twitter (Twitter reviews) directly from the address bar.
WordPress.com Sidebar - Adds a quick access sidebar to get to your WordPress
(WordPress reviews).com account.
Uploading Photos and Media
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Fireflix - Sidebar extension to upload, browse, and manage your Flickr (Flickr reviews)
photos.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Upload photos directly to your
Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
Firefox Universal Uploader - Universal program for uploading to sites such as Flickr,
Picasa, YouTube (YouTube reviews), and Facebook (Facebook reviews).
FireFTP - An integrated FTP system that syncs and checks versions.
Flickr Sidebar - View the pictures in your account in a sidebar.
Fotofox - Select, tag, and upload images to popular sites such as Flickr.
ImageBot - Lets you upload photos to ImageShack (ImageShack reviews) or Photobucket
(Photobucket reviews).
OakFlickr4PFF - Allows uploading to your Flickr account.
Blog Tools
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Adsense Notifier - Displays your current earnings from Google Adsense in the status
bar.
Copy as HTML Link - Copies the address of a page to the clipboard as an HTML
ready link.
Create short URLs - Right click an address, click wrapURL, and create a shortened URL
for your use.
Dict - Highlight a word, right click it, select define and get a definition in a pop-up
window.
DictionarySearch - Similar to Dict, but the result appears in a new tab.
FastDict - Add quick access to any number of dictionary sites to spruce up your blog
entries.
ShrinkThisLink Link Shrinker - Use the ShrinkThisLink service without leaving the page.
Tiny.pl - Shortens an address via the tiny.pl service.
Blog Design, Customization and Development
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ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any spot in your browser.
DT Whois - Adds a button for Domaintools.com whois service for the site you are
currently viewing.
Firebug - Look under the hood of your favorite websites and take a peak at their code.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to run small java scripts to manipulate the way a page
displays to you.
HTML Validator - Checks the validity of a page’s HTML and tells you the results in
simple graphics.
IE Tab - Lets you view a webpage in an Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer reviews)
tab without leaving Firefox.
iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar - Allows you quick access to services and tools from
iWEBTOOL.
JavaScript Debugger - In browser Java script debugging.
KGen - Allows you to see the strongest keywords for a given site.
LinkChecker - Checks the validity of all links on a given page.
Load Time Analyzer - Allows developers to measure how long a page takes to load.
MeasureIt - Draws out a ruler to get a pixel dimension of any element on a page.
MetaTags - Checks the meta information of a site and features an automated search
engine submission tool.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - Quick access to over 30 SEO tools.
SearchStatus - Keyword density analyser and checks backlinks.
SEOHAND - Tracks a site’s standings and creates graphs over time.
SEOQuake - Ever wonder why a page gets good search ranking? This will help you
figure it out.
Web Developer - A highly regarded debugging tool for designers.
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Music tools
Internet Radio
Last.FM (Last.fm reviews) - one of the most popular music communities around, with
personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support
and lots more.
Slacker - personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application
and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast - A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams
work in Winamp.
Live365 - A directory of web-based Internet radio stations - expect popups.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music - AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora (Pandora reviews) - a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you
new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic - a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your
web browser.
Music Discovery Tools
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MusicMesh - browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and
reviews for albums.
Blogmusik - browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
Social Networks
See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks
iLike - a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’
tastes.
PureVolume - a “MySpace (MySpace reviews) for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist - popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social
networks.
Imeem (imeem reviews) - another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also
supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com - the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg - a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can
download for free.
MOG - a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music
with others.
Fuzz - discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to
be found on the site.
eListeningPost - convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of
the profits.
ProjectOpus - Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on
MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv - social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity - a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack - social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz - find and rate music playlists in a Digg (Digg reviews)-like interface.
Midomi - find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and
network with others.
Buzznet - large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive - Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs,
write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk - track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as
information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation - social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation - find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist,
join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark (Grooveshark reviews) - an online service that rewards you for sharing,
reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing - enter you email
address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks - upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player - a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while
everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL - social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor - create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar
taste and discover new music.
FineTune - pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and
other related artists.
MusicMobs - browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.
Music Sharing Applications and Widgets
uPlayMe - a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music
tastes.
DotTunes - share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue - A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your
MySpace page or blog.
Sonific - a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and
syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster - upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the
world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 - upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah - an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like
minded users.
Maestro - upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.
Music Marketplaces
iTunes (iTunes reviews) - Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a
service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street - music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases
as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic - one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free
tracks sold.
Bleep - high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment
of quality music.
MP3 Tunes - an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs
in its catalog.
Amazon - a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music
from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM - choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in
either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport - a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox - choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad - buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly
on the site.
Indistr - another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks - an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music
collection in store.
MagnaTune - here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from
electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo - an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still
protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane - buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr - music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via
Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap - through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on
MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for
Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.
Jamming
Ejamming - jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz - compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other
musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow - a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam
sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba - listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in
the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky - have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen?
Organize them with JamJunky.
Karaoke
Singshot - the “YouTube (YouTube reviews) of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along
to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo - sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.
Remixing
Jamglue - remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice - upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins - mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog
or MySpace page.
Mobile Music Services
Flotones - a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their
content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement - a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for
easier browsing.
Mercora - a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5
million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.
Music Charts
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Billboard - home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts - MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU - a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.
Artist Databases
Allmusic - probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your
favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage - artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming
service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.
Lyric Databases
AbsoluteLyrics - Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics - huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.
Music Search Engines
Qloud - Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once,
but Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a review here. The service that launches next
may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds - a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia - find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.
Audio Conversion Tools
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Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter - a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools
Bluegrind - converts text to audio.
BePopular - find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz - create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us - can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the
help of this service.
Houndbite - share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to
earn prizes.
Video tools and resources
Stickam - The best site for live video communications with multiple people. There is no
major competition for Stickam just yet.
Blogtv - Blogtv is a recent discovery to the public. It allows you to do a live video
show, and you can stream it live, as well as archive it for later use.
ooVoo - This allows you to carry on video conversations with live video through a Skype
(Skype reviews)-like program.
Mogulus - This site is basically an all in one broadcast solution for video. You can
create, edit, and add things similar to broadcast companies could add.
Ustream (ustream reviews) - Allows you to stream live video and you can also embed
the player in to your own website.
HeyCosmo - A downloadable application that allows you to connect with other people
in many ways, even play games and more.
Operator11 - Go live with your camera and create your own channels. You can also
send video comments and remix your videos.
Online Video How-to
Make internet TV
Better YT Video Quality - This guide helps you with getting the best possible video
quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as well.
Make Internet TV - This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and
publishing videos on the Internet.
How to put your readers at the scene - A scene-setting guide for online web journalists.
Tips for shooting better online video - learn the equipment, shooting and editing basics
from this collection of tips.
Online video tips - a Squidoo lens with several useful online video shooting and editing
tips.
Home video tips - Chris Pirillo’s tips for shooting better videos at home.
Camcorderinfo - Every online video comes from a camcorder, so here is the best place
to get opinions on your next camcorder purchase.
5 Ways To Create a Great Video Podcast - A great article that applies to both video
podcasts and video production in general.
Online Video Editors
Muveemix
Eyespot - add effects and transitions to the videos you upload, or use some of the large
amount of free video clips and music from Eyespot’s media partners.
MuveeMix - Upload your movie, mix it with music, add cool effects and share it on
MySpace (MySpace reviews), Friendster (Friendster reviews), Blogger (blogger
reviews), and other networks.
Motionbox - This service features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment”
within the clip itself.
Cuts - Insert sound effects in your videos, add captions, loop the best parts and in
minutes you can share your creation with the world.
JumpCut - a free service that enables you to upload, edit and share your videos. Offers
keyframe-based editing, effects, transitions and actions.
VideoEgg - A video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and
offers opportunities for monetization.
Mojiti - Select videos from popular video sharing sites, personalize them with your
annotations and share them with others.
Photobucket (Photobucket reviews) - Edit videos within a browser using Flash and remix
photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions and
transitions.
StashSpace - Upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record videos
directly from your camcorder or digital camera.
BubblePly - Video annotating service where anyone can add text bubbles that are
synchronized with video.
Veotag - Service that lets you display clickable text, called “veotags,” within an audio
or video file.
Vidavee Grafitti - add graphics and text into any video; the service is called a “legal
form of artful vandalism” by the creators.
Vmix - Vmix is a community and a hosting provider for your videos, aimed at creative
authors who want to create remixes of their music and videos.
MovieMasher - a combination of a video editor with a timeline and lots of various
effects, a standalone player and a media browser.
MixerCast - Mix your media with professional video, images, music, and network your
MixerCast everywhere.
Fliptrack - Make a free musical photo slideshow and music video. It’s easy to do and
you do it online.
Online Video Converters
Zamzar
Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several video formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options; resulting videos can
sometimes be out of sync with audio.
Vixy - a simple converter that can only convert Flash apps from the web to several
other video formats.
Hey Watch! - an online video converter focusing on file formats that works on portable
multimedia devices, like the iPod.
MediaConverter - a video converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Movavi - another video converter that allows you to upload videos and convert them to
formats you wish to use.
Video sharing
Dailymotion
YouTube (YouTube reviews) - YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more
users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on
YouTube.
Google Video - Since Google bought YouTube, Google (Google reviews)’s Video
player is mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a search here that
indexes all of the video sharing sites on the internet (well, most of them).
Blip.tv - Blip (BLIP reviews).tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast
makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then
send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you
can make some money.
Ourmedia - A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text and
share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over 100,000
members.
Veoh - Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
DailyMotion - Video sharing platform with multiple video search options. You can join
groups of people who publish videos based on a common interest.
Metacafe - A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that
filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
UnCut - Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos you
want in your blog.
ClipShack - video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips, make
friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment on clips.
5min - Video sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can visually
explain anything in 5 minutes.
Brightcove - Search, click and watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure.
Thousands of channels, including the best in online video.
Viddler - Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at specific
times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter integration.
Revver - The first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility to earn
money from the videos they upload.
Vimeo (Vimeo reviews) - Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s
users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by
aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Yahoo Video - Yahoo’s version of online video. Similar to Google video, but done the
Yahoo way.
HelpfulVideo - Share your knowledge and skills with others for free or little charge via
video clips.
BroadbandSports - A video sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.
Travelistic - A video sharing site that allows users to post video content specific to
travel.
Livevideo - Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload your own
videos and share them with the world.
Kewego - A video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view
videos by others.
Godtube - It’s a Christian version of YouTube. All things Christian welcomed.
Coull.tv - An interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and add
interactive elements to it by using your mouse.
Mediabum - Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.
VMIX - Another video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure everything
you upload is legit.
Grouper - Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to create
playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.
Break - Break is a video site and more for comedic based content.
Videosift - a Digg (Digg reviews)-like site which lets you submit, vote, and comment on
videos.
GeeVee - GeeVee is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game play
in video games.
Stage6 - A video site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition video,
of course this also means longer upload times, and you need DivX support (usually a
browser plugin).
Tube Battle - vote for the best videos, organized by category.
Video hosting
Vidilife
TinyPic - Host videos and images for free; it is possible to upload videos in the most
popular formats and link videos on MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards
Vidilife - Upload videos and store them online. There is no limit in terms of length of the
files you can upload.
Dropshots - Good site that lets you upload videos, share them and embed them on
other sites.
ZippyVideos - Upload and store video files (maximum 20 MB) in the most popular video
formats.
Supload - Free service to host video clips and images. Maximum video file size allowed
is 20 MB.
Rupid - Another provider of free video hosting: you can host your videos and share
them with others.
Pixilive - Free images and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, Facebook (Facebook
reviews) and other sites. Maximum size for videos is 10 MB.
Mydeo - store and stream your videos online. You will be able to embed a video on
any website and send streaming video messages .
YourFileHost - Upload files anonymously and share them with others. You can upload
any file format up to 25 MB.
Video organization and management
Feedbeat
Aggrega - create and organize your own music video channels and share them with
others.
Feedbeat - a fantastic service that lets you create playlists with videos from different
sources - YouTube, Google Video and others. Each playlist gets its own subdomain on
feedbeat.net.
Ajaxilicious - an online movie catalogue which enables you to manage your movies and
share them with others via RSS.
Cliproller - create custom video channels and add as many as you like to your personal
Cliproller page.
CozmoTV - CozmoTV is a site that allows you to create and organize channels of video
already existing online.
Vidcasts & vlogging
Revision3
BlogCheese - a simple way to create and share a video blog - all you need is a
webcam.
Revision3 - A video podcasting network that’s home to many well made video podcasts,
including Diggnation, which is Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht’s video podcast about the
top stories on Digg.
Jabbits - Social video blogging: Use your webcam to record your Post or Jab with an
easy-to-use recorder.
Ask a Ninja - got questions? Ask a ninja! One of the most popular vidcasts in the world,
and definitely the funniest.
Galacticast - a weekly Sci-fi comedy podcast, episodes usually consists of lots of really
geeky parodies.
Scriggity - A news podcast, where the viewers send in the news that they think should
be on the shows.
SuperDeluxe - A site to find videos that focus mainly on comedic content.
DL.TV - Some of the the old TechTV crew back at it again with their own own show on
all things tech. One of the best video podcasts for tech geeks.
Webnation - Amber Mac’s bi-weekly video podcast with news and interviews relating
to current events in the tech world.
Tom Green’s the Channel - A daily video podcast that is recorded live and is hosted by
Tom Green. He usually has a celebrity guest on the show.
GeekBrief TV - a daily podcast hosted by Cali Lewis, it’s a 3-5 minute update on the
latest tech news.
This Week in Tech - famous tech vidcast by Leo Laporte, one of the most viewed
vidcasts in the world.
The Broken - tech show for teh 1337 h4×0rz.
Digg Podcasts - a long list of popular podcasts, containing most of the vidcasts on this
list and many more.
Video mashups
Virtual Video Map
Virtual Video Map - YouTube videos on a Google map. Find out where do all those
cool videos come from.
RealPeopleStuff - a site that combines CraigsList (Craigslist reviews) and YouTube,
offering video clips related to ads.
TagTV - enter a tag and get results from Flickr (Flickr reviews) and YouTube. Clean and
simple design makes TagTV a very neat way to browse photos and videos.
I Love Music Video - combines YouTube with info from your Last.FM account. Great
way to get videos (at least until Last.FM signs an evil deal with all those content
providers and starts offering music videos).
MusicPortl - information on bands and musicians containing biographies, Flickr images,
related blog posts and YouTube videos.
Magg - aggregates videos from several video sites. Also works as a search engine.
RateMyDanceMoves - Hot or Not-style site, presenting you dance-related YouTube
videos to vote on.
ReviewTube - a site that enables you to add captions to YouTube videos. Nice idea,
but relatively poor execution - the captions frequently overlap, making the text
unreadable.
Mobile video apps
Shozu
Youtube mobile - a stripped down version of YouTube tailored for use on mobile
phones.
Shozu - a free service for your phone that makes it easy to send and receive photos,
videos and music
Abazab - a universal video player that also works on your mobile phone.
Srobbin Mobile Video - An unofficial search for Google video on your cell phone.
Yahoo Mobile - Yahoo mobile allows you to search, find, and play videos right on your
cell phone.
MobiTV - MobiTV allows you to watch television video from popular networks of all
kinds.
MTV Mobile Video - Anything MTV related all for download to watch on your cell
phone.
ESPN MVP - If you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have the V Cast service
enabled, you can watch sports clips and more.
Moblr - Moblr allows you to view videos uploaded to the site directly on your cell
phone.
Mobunga - This site allows you to download videos to your mobile phone, as well as
iPod and PSP.
Video search
TubeSurf
Blinkx - Perform searches within the most popular video networks, such as CBS, Reuters
and CNN. Users can search for content and create TV channels that splice relevant
content together.
PureVideo - Search within the most popular video directories and video sharing sites.
PureVideo features up to six channels and each channel contains about six source sites.
SearchVideo - Search engine and directory created by AOL. Users can also search
within specific video channels like MySpace and YouTube.
Search For Video - search engine and video directory that displays results from
hundreds of video channels. Search For Video also provides an add-on for Firefox
(Firefox reviews).
Yahoo! Video Search - Yahoo! has a video search engine that gathers videos from
Yahoo! directory and from many other online sources. You can also search within
specific domains or sites.
TubeSurf - Video search engine that gathers results from popular video directories, such
as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and Google Video. TubeSurf is also available as
an add-on for Firefox.
ClipRoller - Search across popular video sites, such as: YouTube, Metacafe and more.
As you continue to search for videos, ClipRoller learns your preferences and delivers
content you like to watch.
Pixsy - A video search engine that lets users search content across dozens of video
sites. Users are allowed to save searches and single videos.
ScoopVid - Search engine that enables you to either search for videos or browse
through channels and categories.
Google Video Search - Google’s Video search recently was updated and now
searches many video sites other than just YouTube and Google Video.
AOL Video - once known as the great media search engine, the AOL-purchased
SingingFish, AOL Video kept some traits of the crowd’s favorite place to look for hard
to find videos, but true fans claim that the site is not as good as its predecessor.
Truveo - Search videos or browse by either channel or category.
Altavista Video - good old Altavista isn’t what it used to be, but it does have a video
search section.
Online video downloading services
Keepvid
VideoRonk - Search and download your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video,
Metacafe, DailyMotion, iFilm, MySpace, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Revver and more.
VideoDL - Download online videos available on YouTube, Google Video and Break.com
stright to your computer.
Vixy - Grab videos from popular sites and convert them into various video formats
(including iPod and PSP).
KeepVid - Download videos from many video sharing sites, including YouTube, Google
Video, MySpace Videos, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Revver and other services.
VideoDownloader - Get videos from video sharing sites. VideoDownloader is also
available as a Firefox extension, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it within your
browser.
YouTubeX - Download videos from YouTube. It doesn’t have a lot of options in terms of
video sites among which you could choose, but it is very easy to use.
DownThisVideo - This site lets you download videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo,
MetaCafe, Vimeo and other services.
KissYouTube - A service that provides two interesting and effective ways to download
videos from YouTube.
YouTubeDownloads - Another site that lets you download videos exclusively from
YouTube (other sites are not supported).
Kcoolonline - Download videos on your hard disk from more than 90 sites, including
YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, iFilm and MySpace, Yahoo and many more.
YouTubia - A YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos within
your IE or Firefox browser.
MediaConverter - A platform that lets you download and convert videos straight from
YouTube.
Miscellaneous tools
Hellodeo
Hellodeo - Record videos from your webcam and post them on any web page.
Flikzor - Send and receive video comments on your profile, blog and more.
Flixn - Record a video message right in the web browser and share anywhere including
MySpace and eBay.
GabMail - Service that enable users to send unlimited numbers of free video email
messages.
Bubble Guru - A site for recording webcam video messages and getting them onto your
website or sending to others.
CamTwist - Software package (for Mac computers) that lets you add special effects to
your video chats.
WebcamMax - Software that lets you add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to
virtual or real webcam and broadcast on all messengers (Windows
only).
StumbleUpon Video - Just press “Stumble!” and a random video is presented to you,
you can also ask for random videos with in categories like Humor, or Cats.
CrowdRules - video answers to your questions.
ClipSync - interact with other users while watching the same video as them.
ClipSyndicate - publish broadcast quality news on your web site.
Broadbandsports - a big collection of sports-related videos.
Get Paid To Write
Weblogs, Inc. - Apply to blog for one of their ninety plus blogs or submit your own
topic idea. They will pay you per post that you write and you must meet their minimum
post requirements.
PayPerPost - Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews
of their sponsors on your blog.
Blogsvertise - Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites,
products and services in your own blog.
Review Me - After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you
$20 to $200 per post that you write.
Smorty - Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for
each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews - Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your
own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
LoudLaunch - Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests.
They pay once a month.
Blogitive - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
BloggerWave - Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write
reviews on their products and services.
InBlogAds - Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and
get paid for it.
BlogToProfit - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
Creative Weblogging - Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will
pay you $225 per month.
WordFirm - Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.
451 Press - Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all
generated revenue.
Digital Journal - Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles
through their blogs.
BlogBurner - Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your
commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.
Squidoo - Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to
charity.
About.com - Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com. Compensation
depends on the growth of your page views.
DayTipper - Earn $3 for every short tip you write and get published.
Helium - Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.
Dewitts Media - Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a
minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.
BOTW Media - Make money writing a blog for their blogging network.
CreamAid - Get paid to submit blog posts in their directory.
BlogFeast - Generate revenue from pre-installed Google Adsense ads when you blog in
their network.
Mashable (Mashable reviews) - Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one
of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.
Advertising Programs
Google Adsense - Most popular pay-per-click advertising provider. Make anywhere
from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.
Text-Link-Ads - Approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay
you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.
BlogAds - The average blogger makes anywhere from $50 to $5000 dollars a month
selling blog ads. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by
someone in their network.
LinkWorth - Here you will find eleven different options to fit your advertising needs.
Choose from text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to name
a few.
CrispAds - Access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You
choose the advertisers that suit you best.
Chitika - Offers six types of advertising to fit your needs.
AzoogleAds - Delivers targeted advertisers to their network of publishers to bring you
the most profitable solutions.
Vibrant Media - Offers in-text contextual based advertisements.
MediaFed - Place advertisements in your blog’s RSS feed to generate additional
revenue.
Qumana - Embeds ads directly into your posts. Ads are generated from keywords that
you select. Not particularly popular with readers.
PeakClick - Austria based pay-per-click provider. Provides automatic insertion of site
targeted ads.
DoubleClick - Offers a full suite of products for publishers that enable you to forecast,
sell inventory, serve ads and analyze campaigns online and through other digital
channels.
Tribal Fusion - They offer reliable payments, free ad-serving technology, a dedicated
account manager and up-to-date, real-time reporting, with a 55% payout. Must go
through an approval process.
AdBrite - Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability
to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.
ThankYouPages - Shows ads based on demographics and relevancy. Majority of traffic
must originate from U.S.
Clicksor - Inline text link advertising, underlines words directly in your posts making them
clickable advertisements. Once more, we’d say that inline ads are not popular with
regular blog readers.
TargetPoint - Contextually and search targeted pay-per-click ads.
IndustryBrains - Place relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads on your site.
BloggingAds - Post one-time ads on your site. Pays via PayPal.
BulletAds - Performance based online advertising network.
AdsMarket - Match your traffic to handpicked advertisers with top-converting products
and services.
ROIRocket - Targeted campaigns specific to your marketing needs.
AdKnowledge - Offers complete outsourcing of your advertising management. Runs ads
in websites, email and search engine inventory.
Yes Advertising - Payouts for running ads from their sponsors. Also offers a referral
program that pays 20% of the referred webmasters earnings.
RevenuePilot - Offers pay-for-performance and pay-per-click advertising for your sites.
SearchFeed - Integrates paid advertisements into your site’s search feature.
Bidvertiser - Display text ads on your site and advertisers bid for placement.
Pheedo - Monetize your RSS feeds with this program.
ValueClick media - Generate revenue by displaying ads through banners, pop-unders
and rich media. Be warned that pop-unders are unpopular these days.
OneMonkey - Another text based advertising program.
Yahoo Publisher Network - Use the internet giant, Yahoo, to display targeted ads on
your site.
Q Ads - Monetize your site by placing ads anywhere you can add a picture.
Affiliate Networks and Programs
Amazon Associates - Link to Amazon’s products and services and earn up to 10% of
the sale price. Converts well for product-focused sites.
ClickBank - Over 10,000 products to promote with commissions as high as 75%.
Commission Junction - Promote the advertiser’s products and services in exchange for a
commission on leads or sales.
LinkShare - Pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network. Gives you the ability to use
individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.
Affiliate Fuel - Serves as a middle man to bring publishers and advertisers together to
promote products and services.
LinkConnector - Affiliate marketing network that offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to
keep you safe while conducting business.
LeadPile - Affiliate network that allows you to generate and sell trade leads to the
highest bidder.
Forex-Affiliate - Affiliate program that allows you to earn commissions from trading
Forex (currency exchange) online.
incentAclick - CPA (cost-per-action) affiliate program that guarantees the fastest ROI in
the industry.
AdPlosion - Earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers.
Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions.
AffiliateFuture - Another affiliate program that pays you for generating leads, sales and
clicks.
ClixGalore - Affiliate network consisting of 7500+ advertisers for you to choose from.
ThinkAction - Affiliate network that claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of
earning over $100,000 dollars per month.
RocketProfit - Affiliate network, pays via check after your commissions reach $25
dollars.
CafePress - Earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded merchandise.
Avangate - Make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.
Paid Social Media Programs
Dada.net - Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring
friends and driving traffic.
Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of
some help.
Cruxy - Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.
BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of
your interests and choice.
Ether - Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your
rates and call availability.
UpBlogger - Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you
receive to your uploaded content.
JustAnswer - Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.
MetaCafe - Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you
receive.
ChaCha - Get paid to offer support to members of their community.
AssociatedContent - Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to
their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.
myLot - Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.
KnowBrainers - Another site that pays you to get involved with the community and
answer questions. Optionally you can answer questions through the RSS feeds on your
own blog.
Everything Else That Pays
Google User Research - Google Pays you money to participate in their user research
studies online.
Microsoft Research Panel - Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their
products.
Amazon Mechanical Turk - Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their
computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.
eJury - Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.
WorkingSOL - This company pays you to handle technical support for many large
companies. You can work from home on the computer or by phone and decide what
times you are available.
Appingo - Always looking for experienced copy editors and proof readers. Must submit
a resume.
IntelliShop - Pays you to shop at stores in your area and write a review of your
experience.
Mahalo Greenhouse - They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their
directory.
Focus Pointe Global - Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion.
Available to teens and adults.
Agloco - Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has
been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.
Arise - Make money providing phone, web and email support and sales for 40 plus
companies in their network.
CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online forums.
Tutor.com - Get paid to tutor people online.
ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across the internet.
Share-A-Pic - Earn money by uploading and sharing your pictures on their website.
Opuzz Voice - Earn money by doing voice overs for their clients online.
SlashMySearch - Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.
online mapping tools that some are referring to as “Maps 2.0″.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
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Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes.
Podcast Creation Guides
How To Create a Podcast - About.com’s step-by-step tutorial for podcast beginners.
iLounge Guide to Podcast Creation - another guide for creating your own podcast for
absolute beginners.
Podcasting Legal Guide - find about legal issues relevant to podcasting in this Creative
Commons guide.
Podcast Hosting, Sharing and Networking (Free)
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Pickstation - A Digg (Digg reviews) for podcasts and music.
Collectik - “Mixtapes for podcasts”: find, share and organize podcasts.
Podbean - Free podcast hosting and publishing.
Castpost - Free hosting for audio and video clips.
HeyCast - A tool to create video podcasts. Essentially, HeyCast creates RSS feeds
from any existing video files on the web. It doesn’t provide hosting or sharing features.
Blubrry - A podcast network that lets you create a podcast and browse the podcasts of
others.
Evoca - “YouTube (YouTube reviews) for voice recordings”: create audio recordings
from your computer mic, your phone or Skype (Skype reviews), share them with others
and embed them on websites.
ThePodcastNetwork - A network of podcasts on a range of topics including business,
entertainment and comedy.
MyPodcast - podcast hosting solution offering unlimited storage, bandwidth, and free
templates for your podcasts.
PodServe - this service is still in alpha stage, but everyone’s invited to try it out. It offers
a hosting space for your podcast and a directory of user-created podcasts.
PodcastPeople - a service that enables you to post text, audio and video materials to
your own customized show, and even earn some income from it through sponsors.
PCastBaby - free podcast hosting service offering 10MB of storage space and
unlimited bandwidth.
Podomatic - create, find and share podcasts with this free service.
Blubrry - create your podcast on Blubrry; browse through other podcasts and create
your personal playlist.
Podcast Advertising
Podango - get free unlimited hosting for your podcast and share ad revenue with
Podango 50/50.
Podbridge - Provides podcast metrics and advertising.
Podtrac - a service that connects podcasters with advertisers.
Audio Tours
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TourCaster - Find audio tours of your favorite cities and download them to your iPod.
iAudioGuide - Find audio guides for major world cities and download them to portable
devices.
Video Podcasting
Veodia - Create live TV shows and convert them to video podcasts.
Blip.tv - A “video podcasting” service. Broadly similar to YouTube, but the focus is on
independent creators, who get a share of revenue.
Mobile Podcasting
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Podlinez - a simple service to listen to podcasts on your phone.
Gabcast - Record podcasts straight from your phone.
Yodio - Record audio from your phone, add photos and captions.
Text to Podcasts
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BlueGrind - Converts text (especially blogs) into podcasts.
Feed2Podcast - Convert any RSS feed into a podcast.
Talkr - Convert blogs to audio podcasts.
Odiogo - convert RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts to podcasts.
Podcasts to Text
CastingWords - a podcast transcription service that converts podcasts to text for
$0.75 minute. It employs human transcribers.
Podcast Directories
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Grepr Podcasts - A directory that makes recommendations by finding patterns in your
interests and comparing the interests of others.
Yahoo Podcasts - Explore podcasts, listen to them, subscribe to them and even create
your own.
MobilCast - directory of podcasts and radio shows, complete with playlists.
PodcastAlley - a podcast directory with over 30,000 podcasts. Maintains a monthly
top list.
DigitalPodcast - a simple, categorized podcast directory
Podcast.net - a very comprehensive podcast directory; contains tens of thousands of
podcasts.
PodcastDirectory.com - a directory of podcasts with a top list, a list of featured
podcasts, and categorization.
PodcastDirectory.org- a simple directory with a very clean layout.
Podfeed.net - on Podfeed you can host and share your podcast, find podcasts, as well
as read and write podcast reviews.
iAmplify - A premium directory where you pay to download self-help podcasts.
Earkive - Directory that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone (mobile or landline)
Live Podcasting
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Talkshoe - Create your own live talkshow or interactive podcast.
Waxxi - Audio shows streamed live, mainly with notable technologists. Once recorded,
the live shows are available as podcasts.
NowLive - A social network that lets anyone create a live, interactive talk show.
Stickam for audio, in some ways.
Podcast Hosting (Premium)
PodcastSpot - Offers both free and premium podcast hosting.
SwitchPod - a podcast hosting service, with unmetered bandwidth, statistics and even
some promotional opportunities.
Hipcast - create audio, video materials and podcasts and post them to your blog.
Libsyn - Liberated Syndication will host your podcasts for a modest monthly fee.
Podcast Search
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Everyzing - Audio and video search engine.
Podscope - an audio and video search engine that searches the words spoken in
podcasts.
Pluggd - Discover and share podcasts, and search for specific parts of podcasts using
advanced search technology called HearHere.
PodNova - Podcast search and community.
Podcast Forums
Podcast Alley Forum - a well visited forum on everything related to podcasting.
DigitalPodcast Forum - a good forum for promoting your podcast.
World Podcast Forum - a fresh forum about podcasting.
Podcast Creation Software (Offline)
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Propaganda - Create professional podcasts including background music, jingles,
crossfading and more. Windows only. Free trial, $49.95 to buy.
Audacity - Free, open source software for recording and editing audio. Versions for
Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Adobe Soundbooth - Advanced audio editing from Adobe. Windows and Mac. Free
trial, $199 to buy.
Wildvoice Podcast Studio - Record audio, add music and sound effects and upload to
Wildvoice.com or other sites. Windows only.
SnapKast - Podcast creation for Windows. $79.99.
Podcast Creation Software (Online)
Odeo - Perhaps the most popular podcasting platform. It allows you to record audio
within your browser, embed it anywhere and create your own audio channels.
Hipcast - Record high-quality audio right through the web browser or your phone. No
additional software needed.
Gcast - Record, mix and broadcast your podcasts. You can record messages by phone
and upload MP3 files from your computer.
Podomatic - This site lets you record video and audio online directly from your browser.
You can also receive in line calls from listeners wanting to leave voice comments.
ClickCaster - create, broadcast and sell your very own radio shows and podcasts. You
can record audio right from your browser or upload an existing MP3.
Wild Voice Shout Recorder - Online service that lets you record audio files through an
intuitive interface but doesn’t let you edit them or add special effects.
Miscellaneous Podcast Tools
Enablr - make your podcasts indexed and searchable.
PodShow - a network that brings audio, video, podcasts, and music to your computer,
iPod, mobile device, or television.
Divicast - enhance your podcast with images and text and share it with everyone.
Divvycast - where podcasting and music meet. Helps bands to create podcasts.
Podbop - Find bands in your city and download free MP3s to your iPod to preview their
music ahead of the show.
Noisely - Enter a subject you’re interested in, and Noisely serves up a selection of
podcasts you’ll like. Press play, and all the ‘casts stream continuously until you stop
them.
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Word Processing Services
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Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents
without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers.
Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.
Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs. There are some options present
that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.
ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.
Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. It has many
offerings and a slick interface to boot! (Private Beta)
Web Portals
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You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire
up that web browser. You can have all the information you want and need accessible
to you immediately by using one of the following services.
Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.
Pageflakes - Pageflakes could be considered the brother-in-law to Netvibes and both
have very similar offerings in customization and content.
iGoogle - If you have a Google (Google reviews) account, then the iGoogle comes
part of the package deal, and since many of us have Google as our home page
anyways, why not give iGoogle a trial?
My Yahoo - The offerings are somewhat more customizable than iGoogle, but
essentially the same concept from a different provider.
Calendar Services
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Let’s say you have your parent’s anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the
family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Having all these things on a calendar is
undoubtedly the way to go for keeping track of these events. Unless you prefer writing
it on your hand…
Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis. It is just that
freaking awesome!
Yahoo! Calendar - Yahoo provides a pretty good, but basic, calendar application for
organizing your life
30 Boxes - Has a lightning fast interface that is really easy to navigate makes this a
good contender.
Kiko - A very nice calendar application with a drag & drop interface.
Contact Management Services
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Your cell phone and e-mail program are likely your primary sources for keeping
information about your contacts. This is fine. You must ask yourself though, what
happens if your cell phone is lost, your webmail account goes down or you lose all the
data on your computer? You are pretty much screwed. Time to rethink the way we do
contact management.
Plaxo (Plaxo reviews) - One of the best known services which allow you to keep track
of contacts. Other services that can tap into your Plaxo account and utilize your
contacts with your permission.
Tabber - was created with the notion of linking together friends from many social sites
and services, but it still serves very well as an address book and contact management
application.
Highrise - A premium option to manage your business contacts. If you are more serious
about keeping your contacts and have hundreds of them, this could be a cost efficient
solution depending on your needs.
HyperOffice - Another premium service that offers control of your contacts. This is for
more serious contact management.
News Readers
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Why bother with the daily newspaper when you can receive all your information
through the Internet? These news readers will help you stay on top of current events
with nothing but a browser and a connection.
Google Reader (Google Reader reviews) - If you would like a straight and simple news
reader, then Google Reader might be worth your time to check out.
Bloglines (Bloglines reviews) - A competitor to Google Reader, and offers most of the
same services, just a matter of personal taste as to your selection.
Netvibes - Netvibes, as well as being a web portal, serves the other critical purpose
of being a news reader for any page that provides an RSS/ATOM feed.
Pageflakes - Like Netvibes, provides RSS modules and can be used as a news reader.
Communication Services
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Stickam - If live video conversations are your thing, then Stickam provides you an
excellent opportunity to mingle with friends, coworkers, or just random people if you so
desire. We wouldn’t use it for business calls, though.
Google 411 - This service from Google is likely something you have never tried
before, but once you do, you might use it for a long time coming. A good 411
replacement. (US Only)
Meebo - If you prefer to communicate with friends and colleagues through IM, then
Meebo is the site for you to do it all in one easy to use program.
Gmail (Gmail reviews) - The king of e-mail? We think so. Much more efficient at
handling large volumes of email than rival services.
Charting & Diagram Services
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Ever heard of brainstorming? Of course you have! Well, the following applications
follow the same line of thought, but now you can throw your ideas in charts and
diagrams often referred to as “mind maps” to plan any future project you may attempt.
I personally use these types of applications very often.
Flowchart.com - The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and
diagrams in a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta)
MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on
collaboration in an easy to use “mind mapping”environment.
Mind42 - Yet another “mind mapping” web app that allows you to collaborate with
others. This one is completely free.
Gliffy - Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more
options available than the others.
Mapping Services
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If you need to find out where you are going, and how to get there, these tools can
help prevent (or at least reduce) the amount of times you get lost on those long road
trips.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Recently has taken over as one of the best
mapping tools out there. Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane
amount of data displayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor.
Yahoo Maps - Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and
it shows here.
Mapquest - A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B.
File Storage Services
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Box.net - A very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing
them. You can sign up for free and get a gig of space, or you can have additional
storage with the premium options.
MediaMax - Another powerful and useful service to regularly back-up all your important
data.
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Tools for virtual assistants and freelancers
Work Tools
It’s important for freelance workers to be as organized as possible. After all, it’s up to
you to track your time, individual projects, create your own invoices, and more. There
are tons of great tools to simplify this for you. For example, GetHarvest.com can help
you keep track of your time spent on projects in differing locations, and Zoho Invoices
can help you create professional looking invoices to send to clients.
Adobe AIR Apps
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AgileTracker - Allows you to keep track of time spent on projects by client, and if you
are using AgileAgenda, you can sync them with each other.
Google Calendar Invoice Creator - Allows you to use Google Calendar as a way to
keep track of your hours and then import that data into this app to automatically
generate invoices.
Klok (Klok reviews) - Klok allows you to easily keep track of your time spent on multiple
projects. You can easily start and stop tracking by just clicking a button for each
project. You’re able to generate multiple reports based off of this information.
Ora Time and Expense - Ora allows you to track expenses, keep a list of your tasks,
run a timer on your tasks and more.
Sundial - Keeps track of time spent on multiple projects & clients and allows you to
generate reports based on any time period.
Timeloc - Offers multiple features such as running several clients with different billing
rates per account, setting different timing intervals, audible alerts and much more.
Vertabase Timer - You can track time on projects for various clients and then export that
data to other systems so you can generate reports and invoices.
Invoicing
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BillMyClients.com - Has import & export capabilities, allows you to save invoices locally
at any time, HTML customization for better branding, recurring invoicing, PayPal
integration and other features.
Blinksale.com - Create invoices from their templates, or you can use your own CSS to
custom design one of your own. Also allows you to import clients from Basecamp,
create tags for better organization, set up recurring invoices and more.
CannyBill.com - CannyBill can help you accept credit cards, export data to
QuickBooks, automate invoicing and late payment notices and a host of other tools.
CitrusBill.com - You can automate late payment notices as well as customize the look
and feel of your invoices while managing all of your payments.
CurdBee.com - A simple and straightforward invoicing solution that also integrates with
PayPal and Google Checkout.
Endeve.com - Endeve allows you to customize invoices, import clients from Outlook,
track which clients owe you money and a whole lot more.
Fluttervoice.co.uk - A UK-based invoicing service that allows you to generate new
invoices and keep track of your payments. Your clients can also login to see all of their
invoices with you at a glance.
FreeAgentCentral.com - Helps you to invoice your clients, keep track of billing,
prepare your taxes, and more. Focused on freelancers in the UK.
FreshBooks.com - FreshBooks allows you to automate late payment reminders, track
your time and expenses, customize the look of your tools for a full branded experience
and more.
GoToBilling.com - Get paid from an emailed invoice, keep track of your clients, use
marketing tools to gain new ones and more.
InLattice.net - Give your clients web access to their invoices and receive confirmation
that your customer has viewed an invoice. InLattice integrates with major online payment
systems and other tools.
InvoiceJournal.com - InvoiceJournal allows you to send invoices for free via email or
print them out to be sent by snail mail. Also allows you to use multiple currencies.
InvoiceMachine.com - Customize your invoices with logos and colors, use their built-in
timer to track your billable hours, create PDFs of your invoices and more.
InvoicePlace.com - InvoicePlace lets you send invoices, track all payments, generate
reports, export to Word & Excel and more.
Invoicera.com - Invoicera offers you several time saving features such as automatic
repeating invoices for frequent clients, integration with multiple payment gateways,
printing, management and more.
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InvoicesMadeEasy.com - This service allows you to email or physically mail invoices
yourself, or you can pay as little as a $1.00 each to have them mail invoices for you.
Offers all of the usual features to boot.
Invotrak.com - Allows you to track your time sheets, generate invoices, see who has
paid you, generate various reports to see how you are performing and more.
LiteAccounting.com - Create invoices you can send via email, save them as PDFs, set up
recurring invoices, and more features.
SimplyBill.com - Save your invoices as PDFs, create quotes for work that you can later
convert to invoices, get alerted when an invoice is overdue and numerous other
features.
SimplyInvoices.com - SimplyInvoices integrates with the Basecamp API to give you full
integration with your account and allow for easy invoicing based on your Basecamp
activities.
Winkbill.com - Set up recurring billing, export invoices as PDFs, accept payments via
PayPal, multiple templates to choose from and more features.
Zoho Invoices - The popular Zoho (zoho reviews) online office suite has an invoicing
feature that can be used for free for a few invoices a month, but you’ll have to pay if
you have numerous payment requests to make. Allows you to import and export data,
set up templates, set up recurring billing and more.
Time Tracking
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GetHarvest.com - Harvest offers pricing plans from free to premium, but offers an
amazing array of platform integrations such as iPhone, Basecamp, Beanstalk (Beanstalk
reviews), a WordPress (WordPress reviews) plugin and more. Offers both time
tracking and invoicing.
MyClientSpot.com - Helps you keep track of your billable hours, staying organized,
tracking leads and numerous other features.
Tickspot.com - Allows you to keep track of your time spent on a project and even see
how close you are to using up your client’s allotted budget. Also offers a free iPhone
application.
Time59.com - Keep track of your time and expenses and generate invoices that you
can send to your clients.
TimeIQ.com - Keep track of your billable hours. Allows for exporting of data,
generating reports at your own specified intervals, and several more features.
Toggl.com - Toogl allows you to manually keep track of your time or use their timer.
They also offer both an online version or a Windows-based download that you can use
on your desktop.
Miscellaneous Tools
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Bizzvo.com - Allows you to import contacts, keep to-do lists, take notes, log phone
calls with clients, create invoices and more.
Cashboard -A Basecamp compatible tool that allows you to use Mac OSX, Windows
and iPhone applications to update your customers on projects, send invoices, accept
payments and more.
CreativeProOffice.com - CreativePro Office allows you to manage your clients,
projects, tasks, invoicing and more all in one easy web application.
FreelanceSwitch.com Rates Calculator - Have no clue what you should be charging for
your hourly rate as a freelancer? This rates calculator asks you a series of questions
about your working situation, how much you want to make and so on, and then gives
you a suggestion of how much to charge per hour.
Homecourtx.com - Gives you a customer management system as well as the ability to
pass files back and forth and invoice.
SimplifyThis.com - SimplifyThis is both an appointment book for keeping track of your
meetings, and any of those that might be billable, as well as a full invoicing service with
payment gateway integrations.
Job Listings & Opportunities
So you’ve got the tools to do your job, but do you have the work to do?
Photographers have tons of places like iStockphoto where they can open an account
and sell their images with little to no hassle. For writers there are places such as
Helium.com, where you can write any time you’d like, on any subject. While places
like FreelanceWriting.com will help you find steadier work. And if you’re a
programmer, there are sites like GetAFreelancer.com, where it seems people will
always need workers for more highly technical jobs.
Freelance Photography
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123rf.com - 123 Royalty Free pays you a 50% commission on downloaded images,
and also allows you to earn money for referring subscribers and new photographers
alike.
BigStockPhoto.com - BigStockPhoto pays you between $.50 and $3.00 per download
for your photos, and even higher for special requests.
Dreamstime.com - Photographers can place their images here for a sale and receive
between 50% and 80% commission.
Fotolia.com - Commissions range from 33% to 64% depending on your exclusivity and
your ranking based on the total number of downloads you’ve sold.
FreelancePhotoJobs.com - Find all sorts of freelance photography jobs for magazines,
weddings, websites and more.
ImageCatalog.com - Depending on licensing, ImageCatalog pays photographers
anywhere from $.40 to $40.00 per download.
iStockphoto - Photographers can earn from 20 - 40% commissions on each photo they
sell through this royalty free site. (Disclosure: Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a
partnership with iStockphoto)
PhotoStockPlus.com - You can earn commissions up to 85% with a 3.25% processing
fee for both photos you sell as well as products you put your images on such as mugs
and other products.
Shutterstock.com - Shutterstock pays a flat rate of $.25 a download and increases it to
$.30 per download when you hit $500 in a pay period. You can also earn
commissions for referring others to the service.
Freelance Programmers & Web Designers
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DesignQuote.net - Potential clients with design and graphic art work post jobs that
freelancers can browse through and post bids on to win contracts.
FreelanceAuction.com - Allows you to bid on listed jobs for all aspects of programming
and design. Numerous listings for Web coding and design work such as logos.
GetAFreelancer.com - Focused on a wide selection of computer related work from
basic site design to developing full sites for Joomla (Joomla reviews), OsCommerce,
WordPress and more.
LimeExchange.com - Offers jobs that freelancers can bid on, and then you can continue
to use the service to check in with one another throughout the lifespan of the project.
oDesk.com - A marketplace for freelancers to meet up with clients and look for work.
Clients can leave ratings and reviews for any freelancers they hire to help them get
future work.
ozLance.com.au - Focused on Australia, ozLance has listings for Web development,
content writing, audio/visual work and more.
Project4Hire.com - Contractors post technical programming or blogging jobs they have
available and freelancers bid for the work.
RentACoder.com - Has thousands of open coding projects and a newsletter you can
subscribe to so that you receive daily notifications of new projects as they come
available.
ScriptLance.com - ScriptLance focuses heavily on programming assignments, but also
features some listings for blog content creation.
SearchWebJobs.com - A job site focused on Web related jobs with a section
dedicated to freelance engagements that indicate if you must live near the office or if
you can work from anywhere.
Freelance Writers
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BloggerJobs.biz - Numerous blogging jobs from all different styles of blogs that range
from freelance to full-time.
FreelancePortfolios.com -A resource allowing writers to set up portfolios to show off
their work and skills to potential employers. Also has some job listings for people
looking for work.
FreelanceWriting.com - FreelanceWriting.com features a mixture of articles and
resources to help people break into freelance writing, and also offers some job listings
and links to other resources.
Helium.com - While not so much freelance writing as writing “on spec,” you are free to
write articles on any subject and then you can earn revenue from a portion of their
advertising sales related to your articles.
Jobs.ProBlogger.net - A jobs board over at the well known ProBlogger for freelance
and full-time bloggers looking for work.
JournalismJobs.com - Features job listings for blogs, newspapers, magazines, newswires
and other forms of print and online media.
Online-Writing-Jobs.com - Offers all sorts of freelance writing job listings for magazines,
reviews, resume writing, blogs and more.
Suite101.com - Freelance writers of all stripes can write articles on just about any
subject of their choice and get paid a share of the advertising for the entire life of the
article.
WritersWeekly.com - A weekly ezine dedicated to freelance writing that features
articles and some listings for jobs.
WritingBids.com - A site that allows various online and offline publishers to post writing
gigs that freelancers can bid on in an attempt to win.
WritingCareer.com - Features listings of freelance writing jobs as well as guides and
advice for aspiring writers.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
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Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
Firefox addons
Blogger Bar - Search Blogger, “Blog This” function for any page you’re on.
Clipmarks - Clip any portion of a website to save, email or put on your blog.
Deepest Sender - Blog to multiple platforms from one window.
JustBlogIt - Just right click, and you’re blogging about the page you’re viewing.
LiveJournal Addons - Notifies you of friends updates, messages and more.
LiveJournal Hook - Gives you quick access to many LiveJournal commands and tags.
MySpace Blog Editor - Post directly from Firefox, drag and drop clips from sites.
Scribefire (ScribeFire reviews) - A blog editor that integrates with your browser and
allows you to drag and drop items from a web page into a blog post.
Twitterbar - Post to Twitter (Twitter reviews) directly from the address bar.
WordPress.com Sidebar - Adds a quick access sidebar to get to your WordPress
(WordPress reviews).com account.
Uploading Photos and Media
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Fireflix - Sidebar extension to upload, browse, and manage your Flickr (Flickr reviews)
photos.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Upload photos directly to your
Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
Firefox Universal Uploader - Universal program for uploading to sites such as Flickr,
Picasa, YouTube (YouTube reviews), and Facebook (Facebook reviews).
FireFTP - An integrated FTP system that syncs and checks versions.
Flickr Sidebar - View the pictures in your account in a sidebar.
Fotofox - Select, tag, and upload images to popular sites such as Flickr.
ImageBot - Lets you upload photos to ImageShack (ImageShack reviews) or Photobucket
(Photobucket reviews).
OakFlickr4PFF - Allows uploading to your Flickr account.
Blog Tools
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Adsense Notifier - Displays your current earnings from Google Adsense in the status
bar.
Copy as HTML Link - Copies the address of a page to the clipboard as an HTML
ready link.
Create short URLs - Right click an address, click wrapURL, and create a shortened URL
for your use.
Dict - Highlight a word, right click it, select define and get a definition in a pop-up
window.
DictionarySearch - Similar to Dict, but the result appears in a new tab.
FastDict - Add quick access to any number of dictionary sites to spruce up your blog
entries.
ShrinkThisLink Link Shrinker - Use the ShrinkThisLink service without leaving the page.
Tiny.pl - Shortens an address via the tiny.pl service.
Blog Design, Customization and Development
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ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any spot in your browser.
DT Whois - Adds a button for Domaintools.com whois service for the site you are
currently viewing.
Firebug - Look under the hood of your favorite websites and take a peak at their code.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to run small java scripts to manipulate the way a page
displays to you.
HTML Validator - Checks the validity of a page’s HTML and tells you the results in
simple graphics.
IE Tab - Lets you view a webpage in an Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer reviews)
tab without leaving Firefox.
iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar - Allows you quick access to services and tools from
iWEBTOOL.
JavaScript Debugger - In browser Java script debugging.
KGen - Allows you to see the strongest keywords for a given site.
LinkChecker - Checks the validity of all links on a given page.
Load Time Analyzer - Allows developers to measure how long a page takes to load.
MeasureIt - Draws out a ruler to get a pixel dimension of any element on a page.
MetaTags - Checks the meta information of a site and features an automated search
engine submission tool.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - Quick access to over 30 SEO tools.
SearchStatus - Keyword density analyser and checks backlinks.
SEOHAND - Tracks a site’s standings and creates graphs over time.
SEOQuake - Ever wonder why a page gets good search ranking? This will help you
figure it out.
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Music tools
Internet Radio
Last.FM (Last.fm reviews) - one of the most popular music communities around, with
personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support
and lots more.
Slacker - personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application
and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast - A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams
work in Winamp.
Live365 - A directory of web-based Internet radio stations - expect popups.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music - AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora (Pandora reviews) - a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you
new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic - a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your
web browser.
Music Discovery Tools
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MusicMesh - browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and
reviews for albums.
Blogmusik - browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
Social Networks
See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks
iLike - a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’
tastes.
PureVolume - a “MySpace (MySpace reviews) for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist - popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social
networks.
Imeem (imeem reviews) - another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also
supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com - the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg - a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can
download for free.
MOG - a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music
with others.
Fuzz - discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to
be found on the site.
eListeningPost - convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of
the profits.
ProjectOpus - Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on
MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv - social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity - a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack - social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz - find and rate music playlists in a Digg (Digg reviews)-like interface.
Midomi - find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and
network with others.
Buzznet - large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive - Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs,
write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk - track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as
information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation - social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation - find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist,
join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark (Grooveshark reviews) - an online service that rewards you for sharing,
reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing - enter you email
address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks - upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player - a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while
everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL - social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor - create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar
taste and discover new music.
FineTune - pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and
other related artists.
MusicMobs - browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.
Music Sharing Applications and Widgets
uPlayMe - a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music
tastes.
DotTunes - share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue - A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your
MySpace page or blog.
Sonific - a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and
syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster - upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the
world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 - upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah - an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like
minded users.
Maestro - upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.
Music Marketplaces
iTunes (iTunes reviews) - Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a
service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street - music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases
as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic - one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free
tracks sold.
Bleep - high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment
of quality music.
MP3 Tunes - an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs
in its catalog.
Amazon - a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music
from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM - choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in
either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport - a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox - choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad - buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly
on the site.
Indistr - another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks - an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music
collection in store.
MagnaTune - here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from
electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo - an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still
protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane - buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr - music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via
Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap - through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on
MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for
Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.
Jamming
Ejamming - jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz - compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other
musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow - a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam
sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba - listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in
the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky - have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen?
Organize them with JamJunky.
Karaoke
Singshot - the “YouTube (YouTube reviews) of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along
to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo - sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.
Remixing
Jamglue - remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice - upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins - mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog
or MySpace page.
Mobile Music Services
Flotones - a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their
content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement - a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for
easier browsing.
Mercora - a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5
million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.
Music Charts
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Billboard - home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts - MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU - a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.
Artist Databases
Allmusic - probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your
favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage - artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming
service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.
Lyric Databases
AbsoluteLyrics - Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics - huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.
Music Search Engines
Qloud - Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once,
but Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a review here. The service that launches next
may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds - a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia - find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.
Audio Conversion Tools
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Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter - a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools
Bluegrind - converts text to audio.
BePopular - find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz - create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us - can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the
help of this service.
Houndbite - share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to
earn prizes.
Video tools and resources
Stickam - The best site for live video communications with multiple people. There is no
major competition for Stickam just yet.
Blogtv - Blogtv is a recent discovery to the public. It allows you to do a live video
show, and you can stream it live, as well as archive it for later use.
ooVoo - This allows you to carry on video conversations with live video through a Skype
(Skype reviews)-like program.
Mogulus - This site is basically an all in one broadcast solution for video. You can
create, edit, and add things similar to broadcast companies could add.
Ustream (ustream reviews) - Allows you to stream live video and you can also embed
the player in to your own website.
HeyCosmo - A downloadable application that allows you to connect with other people
in many ways, even play games and more.
Operator11 - Go live with your camera and create your own channels. You can also
send video comments and remix your videos.
Online Video How-to
Make internet TV
Better YT Video Quality - This guide helps you with getting the best possible video
quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as well.
Make Internet TV - This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and
publishing videos on the Internet.
How to put your readers at the scene - A scene-setting guide for online web journalists.
Tips for shooting better online video - learn the equipment, shooting and editing basics
from this collection of tips.
Online video tips - a Squidoo lens with several useful online video shooting and editing
tips.
Home video tips - Chris Pirillo’s tips for shooting better videos at home.
Camcorderinfo - Every online video comes from a camcorder, so here is the best place
to get opinions on your next camcorder purchase.
5 Ways To Create a Great Video Podcast - A great article that applies to both video
podcasts and video production in general.
Online Video Editors
Muveemix
Eyespot - add effects and transitions to the videos you upload, or use some of the large
amount of free video clips and music from Eyespot’s media partners.
MuveeMix - Upload your movie, mix it with music, add cool effects and share it on
MySpace (MySpace reviews), Friendster (Friendster reviews), Blogger (blogger
reviews), and other networks.
Motionbox - This service features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment”
within the clip itself.
Cuts - Insert sound effects in your videos, add captions, loop the best parts and in
minutes you can share your creation with the world.
JumpCut - a free service that enables you to upload, edit and share your videos. Offers
keyframe-based editing, effects, transitions and actions.
VideoEgg - A video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and
offers opportunities for monetization.
Mojiti - Select videos from popular video sharing sites, personalize them with your
annotations and share them with others.
Photobucket (Photobucket reviews) - Edit videos within a browser using Flash and remix
photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions and
transitions.
StashSpace - Upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record videos
directly from your camcorder or digital camera.
BubblePly - Video annotating service where anyone can add text bubbles that are
synchronized with video.
Veotag - Service that lets you display clickable text, called “veotags,” within an audio
or video file.
Vidavee Grafitti - add graphics and text into any video; the service is called a “legal
form of artful vandalism” by the creators.
Vmix - Vmix is a community and a hosting provider for your videos, aimed at creative
authors who want to create remixes of their music and videos.
MovieMasher - a combination of a video editor with a timeline and lots of various
effects, a standalone player and a media browser.
MixerCast - Mix your media with professional video, images, music, and network your
MixerCast everywhere.
Fliptrack - Make a free musical photo slideshow and music video. It’s easy to do and
you do it online.
Online Video Converters
Zamzar
Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several video formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options; resulting videos can
sometimes be out of sync with audio.
Vixy - a simple converter that can only convert Flash apps from the web to several
other video formats.
Hey Watch! - an online video converter focusing on file formats that works on portable
multimedia devices, like the iPod.
MediaConverter - a video converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can
sometimes yield really good results.
Movavi - another video converter that allows you to upload videos and convert them to
formats you wish to use.
Video sharing
Dailymotion
YouTube (YouTube reviews) - YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more
users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on
YouTube.
Google Video - Since Google bought YouTube, Google (Google reviews)’s Video
player is mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a search here that
indexes all of the video sharing sites on the internet (well, most of them).
Blip.tv - Blip (BLIP reviews).tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast
makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then
send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you
can make some money.
Ourmedia - A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text and
share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over 100,000
members.
Veoh - Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
DailyMotion - Video sharing platform with multiple video search options. You can join
groups of people who publish videos based on a common interest.
Metacafe - A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that
filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
UnCut - Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos you
want in your blog.
ClipShack - video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips, make
friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment on clips.
5min - Video sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can visually
explain anything in 5 minutes.
Brightcove - Search, click and watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure.
Thousands of channels, including the best in online video.
Viddler - Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at specific
times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter integration.
Revver - The first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility to earn
money from the videos they upload.
Vimeo (Vimeo reviews) - Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s
users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by
aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Yahoo Video - Yahoo’s version of online video. Similar to Google video, but done the
Yahoo way.
HelpfulVideo - Share your knowledge and skills with others for free or little charge via
video clips.
BroadbandSports - A video sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.
Travelistic - A video sharing site that allows users to post video content specific to
travel.
Livevideo - Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload your own
videos and share them with the world.
Kewego - A video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view
videos by others.
Godtube - It’s a Christian version of YouTube. All things Christian welcomed.
Coull.tv - An interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and add
interactive elements to it by using your mouse.
Mediabum - Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.
VMIX - Another video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure everything
you upload is legit.
Grouper - Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to create
playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.
Break - Break is a video site and more for comedic based content.
Videosift - a Digg (Digg reviews)-like site which lets you submit, vote, and comment on
videos.
GeeVee - GeeVee is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game play
in video games.
Stage6 - A video site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition video,
of course this also means longer upload times, and you need DivX support (usually a
browser plugin).
Tube Battle - vote for the best videos, organized by category.
Video hosting
Vidilife
TinyPic - Host videos and images for free; it is possible to upload videos in the most
popular formats and link videos on MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards
Vidilife - Upload videos and store them online. There is no limit in terms of length of the
files you can upload.
Dropshots - Good site that lets you upload videos, share them and embed them on
other sites.
ZippyVideos - Upload and store video files (maximum 20 MB) in the most popular video
formats.
Supload - Free service to host video clips and images. Maximum video file size allowed
is 20 MB.
Rupid - Another provider of free video hosting: you can host your videos and share
them with others.
Pixilive - Free images and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, Facebook (Facebook
reviews) and other sites. Maximum size for videos is 10 MB.
Mydeo - store and stream your videos online. You will be able to embed a video on
any website and send streaming video messages .
YourFileHost - Upload files anonymously and share them with others. You can upload
any file format up to 25 MB.
Video organization and management
Feedbeat
Aggrega - create and organize your own music video channels and share them with
others.
Feedbeat - a fantastic service that lets you create playlists with videos from different
sources - YouTube, Google Video and others. Each playlist gets its own subdomain on
feedbeat.net.
Ajaxilicious - an online movie catalogue which enables you to manage your movies and
share them with others via RSS.
Cliproller - create custom video channels and add as many as you like to your personal
Cliproller page.
CozmoTV - CozmoTV is a site that allows you to create and organize channels of video
already existing online.
Vidcasts & vlogging
Revision3
BlogCheese - a simple way to create and share a video blog - all you need is a
webcam.
Revision3 - A video podcasting network that’s home to many well made video podcasts,
including Diggnation, which is Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht’s video podcast about the
top stories on Digg.
Jabbits - Social video blogging: Use your webcam to record your Post or Jab with an
easy-to-use recorder.
Ask a Ninja - got questions? Ask a ninja! One of the most popular vidcasts in the world,
and definitely the funniest.
Galacticast - a weekly Sci-fi comedy podcast, episodes usually consists of lots of really
geeky parodies.
Scriggity - A news podcast, where the viewers send in the news that they think should
be on the shows.
SuperDeluxe - A site to find videos that focus mainly on comedic content.
DL.TV - Some of the the old TechTV crew back at it again with their own own show on
all things tech. One of the best video podcasts for tech geeks.
Webnation - Amber Mac’s bi-weekly video podcast with news and interviews relating
to current events in the tech world.
Tom Green’s the Channel - A daily video podcast that is recorded live and is hosted by
Tom Green. He usually has a celebrity guest on the show.
GeekBrief TV - a daily podcast hosted by Cali Lewis, it’s a 3-5 minute update on the
latest tech news.
This Week in Tech - famous tech vidcast by Leo Laporte, one of the most viewed
vidcasts in the world.
The Broken - tech show for teh 1337 h4×0rz.
Digg Podcasts - a long list of popular podcasts, containing most of the vidcasts on this
list and many more.
Video mashups
Virtual Video Map
Virtual Video Map - YouTube videos on a Google map. Find out where do all those
cool videos come from.
RealPeopleStuff - a site that combines CraigsList (Craigslist reviews) and YouTube,
offering video clips related to ads.
TagTV - enter a tag and get results from Flickr (Flickr reviews) and YouTube. Clean and
simple design makes TagTV a very neat way to browse photos and videos.
I Love Music Video - combines YouTube with info from your Last.FM account. Great
way to get videos (at least until Last.FM signs an evil deal with all those content
providers and starts offering music videos).
MusicPortl - information on bands and musicians containing biographies, Flickr images,
related blog posts and YouTube videos.
Magg - aggregates videos from several video sites. Also works as a search engine.
RateMyDanceMoves - Hot or Not-style site, presenting you dance-related YouTube
videos to vote on.
ReviewTube - a site that enables you to add captions to YouTube videos. Nice idea,
but relatively poor execution - the captions frequently overlap, making the text
unreadable.
Mobile video apps
Shozu
Youtube mobile - a stripped down version of YouTube tailored for use on mobile
phones.
Shozu - a free service for your phone that makes it easy to send and receive photos,
videos and music
Abazab - a universal video player that also works on your mobile phone.
Srobbin Mobile Video - An unofficial search for Google video on your cell phone.
Yahoo Mobile - Yahoo mobile allows you to search, find, and play videos right on your
cell phone.
MobiTV - MobiTV allows you to watch television video from popular networks of all
kinds.
MTV Mobile Video - Anything MTV related all for download to watch on your cell
phone.
ESPN MVP - If you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have the V Cast service
enabled, you can watch sports clips and more.
Moblr - Moblr allows you to view videos uploaded to the site directly on your cell
phone.
Mobunga - This site allows you to download videos to your mobile phone, as well as
iPod and PSP.
Video search
TubeSurf
Blinkx - Perform searches within the most popular video networks, such as CBS, Reuters
and CNN. Users can search for content and create TV channels that splice relevant
content together.
PureVideo - Search within the most popular video directories and video sharing sites.
PureVideo features up to six channels and each channel contains about six source sites.
SearchVideo - Search engine and directory created by AOL. Users can also search
within specific video channels like MySpace and YouTube.
Search For Video - search engine and video directory that displays results from
hundreds of video channels. Search For Video also provides an add-on for Firefox
(Firefox reviews).
Yahoo! Video Search - Yahoo! has a video search engine that gathers videos from
Yahoo! directory and from many other online sources. You can also search within
specific domains or sites.
TubeSurf - Video search engine that gathers results from popular video directories, such
as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and Google Video. TubeSurf is also available as
an add-on for Firefox.
ClipRoller - Search across popular video sites, such as: YouTube, Metacafe and more.
As you continue to search for videos, ClipRoller learns your preferences and delivers
content you like to watch.
Pixsy - A video search engine that lets users search content across dozens of video
sites. Users are allowed to save searches and single videos.
ScoopVid - Search engine that enables you to either search for videos or browse
through channels and categories.
Google Video Search - Google’s Video search recently was updated and now
searches many video sites other than just YouTube and Google Video.
AOL Video - once known as the great media search engine, the AOL-purchased
SingingFish, AOL Video kept some traits of the crowd’s favorite place to look for hard
to find videos, but true fans claim that the site is not as good as its predecessor.
Truveo - Search videos or browse by either channel or category.
Altavista Video - good old Altavista isn’t what it used to be, but it does have a video
search section.
Online video downloading services
Keepvid
VideoRonk - Search and download your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video,
Metacafe, DailyMotion, iFilm, MySpace, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Revver and more.
VideoDL - Download online videos available on YouTube, Google Video and Break.com
stright to your computer.
Vixy - Grab videos from popular sites and convert them into various video formats
(including iPod and PSP).
KeepVid - Download videos from many video sharing sites, including YouTube, Google
Video, MySpace Videos, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Revver and other services.
VideoDownloader - Get videos from video sharing sites. VideoDownloader is also
available as a Firefox extension, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it within your
browser.
YouTubeX - Download videos from YouTube. It doesn’t have a lot of options in terms of
video sites among which you could choose, but it is very easy to use.
DownThisVideo - This site lets you download videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo,
MetaCafe, Vimeo and other services.
KissYouTube - A service that provides two interesting and effective ways to download
videos from YouTube.
YouTubeDownloads - Another site that lets you download videos exclusively from
YouTube (other sites are not supported).
Kcoolonline - Download videos on your hard disk from more than 90 sites, including
YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, iFilm and MySpace, Yahoo and many more.
YouTubia - A YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos within
your IE or Firefox browser.
MediaConverter - A platform that lets you download and convert videos straight from
YouTube.
Miscellaneous tools
Hellodeo
Hellodeo - Record videos from your webcam and post them on any web page.
Flikzor - Send and receive video comments on your profile, blog and more.
Flixn - Record a video message right in the web browser and share anywhere including
MySpace and eBay.
GabMail - Service that enable users to send unlimited numbers of free video email
messages.
Bubble Guru - A site for recording webcam video messages and getting them onto your
website or sending to others.
CamTwist - Software package (for Mac computers) that lets you add special effects to
your video chats.
WebcamMax - Software that lets you add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to
virtual or real webcam and broadcast on all messengers (Windows
only).
StumbleUpon Video - Just press “Stumble!” and a random video is presented to you,
you can also ask for random videos with in categories like Humor, or Cats.
CrowdRules - video answers to your questions.
ClipSync - interact with other users while watching the same video as them.
ClipSyndicate - publish broadcast quality news on your web site.
Broadbandsports - a big collection of sports-related videos.
Get Paid To Write
Weblogs, Inc. - Apply to blog for one of their ninety plus blogs or submit your own
topic idea. They will pay you per post that you write and you must meet their minimum
post requirements.
PayPerPost - Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews
of their sponsors on your blog.
Blogsvertise - Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites,
products and services in your own blog.
Review Me - After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you
$20 to $200 per post that you write.
Smorty - Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for
each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews - Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your
own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
LoudLaunch - Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests.
They pay once a month.
Blogitive - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
BloggerWave - Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write
reviews on their products and services.
InBlogAds - Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and
get paid for it.
BlogToProfit - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
Creative Weblogging - Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will
pay you $225 per month.
WordFirm - Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.
451 Press - Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all
generated revenue.
Digital Journal - Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles
through their blogs.
BlogBurner - Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your
commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.
Squidoo - Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to
charity.
About.com - Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com. Compensation
depends on the growth of your page views.
DayTipper - Earn $3 for every short tip you write and get published.
Helium - Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.
Dewitts Media - Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a
minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.
BOTW Media - Make money writing a blog for their blogging network.
CreamAid - Get paid to submit blog posts in their directory.
BlogFeast - Generate revenue from pre-installed Google Adsense ads when you blog in
their network.
Mashable (Mashable reviews) - Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one
of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.
Advertising Programs
Google Adsense - Most popular pay-per-click advertising provider. Make anywhere
from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.
Text-Link-Ads - Approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay
you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.
BlogAds - The average blogger makes anywhere from $50 to $5000 dollars a month
selling blog ads. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by
someone in their network.
LinkWorth - Here you will find eleven different options to fit your advertising needs.
Choose from text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to name
a few.
CrispAds - Access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You
choose the advertisers that suit you best.
Chitika - Offers six types of advertising to fit your needs.
AzoogleAds - Delivers targeted advertisers to their network of publishers to bring you
the most profitable solutions.
Vibrant Media - Offers in-text contextual based advertisements.
MediaFed - Place advertisements in your blog’s RSS feed to generate additional
revenue.
Qumana - Embeds ads directly into your posts. Ads are generated from keywords that
you select. Not particularly popular with readers.
PeakClick - Austria based pay-per-click provider. Provides automatic insertion of site
targeted ads.
DoubleClick - Offers a full suite of products for publishers that enable you to forecast,
sell inventory, serve ads and analyze campaigns online and through other digital
channels.
Tribal Fusion - They offer reliable payments, free ad-serving technology, a dedicated
account manager and up-to-date, real-time reporting, with a 55% payout. Must go
through an approval process.
AdBrite - Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability
to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.
ThankYouPages - Shows ads based on demographics and relevancy. Majority of traffic
must originate from U.S.
Clicksor - Inline text link advertising, underlines words directly in your posts making them
clickable advertisements. Once more, we’d say that inline ads are not popular with
regular blog readers.
TargetPoint - Contextually and search targeted pay-per-click ads.
IndustryBrains - Place relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads on your site.
BloggingAds - Post one-time ads on your site. Pays via PayPal.
BulletAds - Performance based online advertising network.
AdsMarket - Match your traffic to handpicked advertisers with top-converting products
and services.
ROIRocket - Targeted campaigns specific to your marketing needs.
AdKnowledge - Offers complete outsourcing of your advertising management. Runs ads
in websites, email and search engine inventory.
Yes Advertising - Payouts for running ads from their sponsors. Also offers a referral
program that pays 20% of the referred webmasters earnings.
RevenuePilot - Offers pay-for-performance and pay-per-click advertising for your sites.
SearchFeed - Integrates paid advertisements into your site’s search feature.
Bidvertiser - Display text ads on your site and advertisers bid for placement.
Pheedo - Monetize your RSS feeds with this program.
ValueClick media - Generate revenue by displaying ads through banners, pop-unders
and rich media. Be warned that pop-unders are unpopular these days.
OneMonkey - Another text based advertising program.
Yahoo Publisher Network - Use the internet giant, Yahoo, to display targeted ads on
your site.
Q Ads - Monetize your site by placing ads anywhere you can add a picture.
Affiliate Networks and Programs
Amazon Associates - Link to Amazon’s products and services and earn up to 10% of
the sale price. Converts well for product-focused sites.
ClickBank - Over 10,000 products to promote with commissions as high as 75%.
Commission Junction - Promote the advertiser’s products and services in exchange for a
commission on leads or sales.
LinkShare - Pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network. Gives you the ability to use
individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.
Affiliate Fuel - Serves as a middle man to bring publishers and advertisers together to
promote products and services.
LinkConnector - Affiliate marketing network that offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to
keep you safe while conducting business.
LeadPile - Affiliate network that allows you to generate and sell trade leads to the
highest bidder.
Forex-Affiliate - Affiliate program that allows you to earn commissions from trading
Forex (currency exchange) online.
incentAclick - CPA (cost-per-action) affiliate program that guarantees the fastest ROI in
the industry.
AdPlosion - Earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers.
Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions.
AffiliateFuture - Another affiliate program that pays you for generating leads, sales and
clicks.
ClixGalore - Affiliate network consisting of 7500+ advertisers for you to choose from.
ThinkAction - Affiliate network that claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of
earning over $100,000 dollars per month.
RocketProfit - Affiliate network, pays via check after your commissions reach $25
dollars.
CafePress - Earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded merchandise.
Avangate - Make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.
Paid Social Media Programs
Dada.net - Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring
friends and driving traffic.
Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of
some help.
Cruxy - Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.
BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of
your interests and choice.
Ether - Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your
rates and call availability.
UpBlogger - Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you
receive to your uploaded content.
JustAnswer - Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.
MetaCafe - Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you
receive.
ChaCha - Get paid to offer support to members of their community.
AssociatedContent - Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to
their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.
myLot - Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.
KnowBrainers - Another site that pays you to get involved with the community and
answer questions. Optionally you can answer questions through the RSS feeds on your
own blog.
Everything Else That Pays
Google User Research - Google Pays you money to participate in their user research
studies online.
Microsoft Research Panel - Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their
products.
Amazon Mechanical Turk - Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their
computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.
eJury - Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.
WorkingSOL - This company pays you to handle technical support for many large
companies. You can work from home on the computer or by phone and decide what
times you are available.
Appingo - Always looking for experienced copy editors and proof readers. Must submit
a resume.
IntelliShop - Pays you to shop at stores in your area and write a review of your
experience.
Mahalo Greenhouse - They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their
directory.
Focus Pointe Global - Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion.
Available to teens and adults.
Agloco - Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has
been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.
Arise - Make money providing phone, web and email support and sales for 40 plus
companies in their network.
CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online forums.
Tutor.com - Get paid to tutor people online.
ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across the internet.
Share-A-Pic - Earn money by uploading and sharing your pictures on their website.
Opuzz Voice - Earn money by doing voice overs for their clients online.
SlashMySearch - Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.
online mapping tools that some are referring to as “Maps 2.0″.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
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Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
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goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
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Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes.
Podcast Creation Guides
How To Create a Podcast - About.com’s step-by-step tutorial for podcast beginners.
iLounge Guide to Podcast Creation - another guide for creating your own podcast for
absolute beginners.
Podcasting Legal Guide - find about legal issues relevant to podcasting in this Creative
Commons guide.
Podcast Hosting, Sharing and Networking (Free)
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Pickstation - A Digg (Digg reviews) for podcasts and music.
Collectik - “Mixtapes for podcasts”: find, share and organize podcasts.
Podbean - Free podcast hosting and publishing.
Castpost - Free hosting for audio and video clips.
HeyCast - A tool to create video podcasts. Essentially, HeyCast creates RSS feeds
from any existing video files on the web. It doesn’t provide hosting or sharing features.
Blubrry - A podcast network that lets you create a podcast and browse the podcasts of
others.
Evoca - “YouTube (YouTube reviews) for voice recordings”: create audio recordings
from your computer mic, your phone or Skype (Skype reviews), share them with others
and embed them on websites.
ThePodcastNetwork - A network of podcasts on a range of topics including business,
entertainment and comedy.
MyPodcast - podcast hosting solution offering unlimited storage, bandwidth, and free
templates for your podcasts.
PodServe - this service is still in alpha stage, but everyone’s invited to try it out. It offers
a hosting space for your podcast and a directory of user-created podcasts.
PodcastPeople - a service that enables you to post text, audio and video materials to
your own customized show, and even earn some income from it through sponsors.
PCastBaby - free podcast hosting service offering 10MB of storage space and
unlimited bandwidth.
Podomatic - create, find and share podcasts with this free service.
Blubrry - create your podcast on Blubrry; browse through other podcasts and create
your personal playlist.
Podcast Advertising
Podango - get free unlimited hosting for your podcast and share ad revenue with
Podango 50/50.
Podbridge - Provides podcast metrics and advertising.
Podtrac - a service that connects podcasters with advertisers.
Audio Tours
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TourCaster - Find audio tours of your favorite cities and download them to your iPod.
iAudioGuide - Find audio guides for major world cities and download them to portable
devices.
Video Podcasting
Veodia - Create live TV shows and convert them to video podcasts.
Blip.tv - A “video podcasting” service. Broadly similar to YouTube, but the focus is on
independent creators, who get a share of revenue.
Mobile Podcasting
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Podlinez - a simple service to listen to podcasts on your phone.
Gabcast - Record podcasts straight from your phone.
Yodio - Record audio from your phone, add photos and captions.
Text to Podcasts
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BlueGrind - Converts text (especially blogs) into podcasts.
Feed2Podcast - Convert any RSS feed into a podcast.
Talkr - Convert blogs to audio podcasts.
Odiogo - convert RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts to podcasts.
Podcasts to Text
CastingWords - a podcast transcription service that converts podcasts to text for
$0.75 minute. It employs human transcribers.
Podcast Directories
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Grepr Podcasts - A directory that makes recommendations by finding patterns in your
interests and comparing the interests of others.
Yahoo Podcasts - Explore podcasts, listen to them, subscribe to them and even create
your own.
MobilCast - directory of podcasts and radio shows, complete with playlists.
PodcastAlley - a podcast directory with over 30,000 podcasts. Maintains a monthly
top list.
DigitalPodcast - a simple, categorized podcast directory
Podcast.net - a very comprehensive podcast directory; contains tens of thousands of
podcasts.
PodcastDirectory.com - a directory of podcasts with a top list, a list of featured
podcasts, and categorization.
PodcastDirectory.org- a simple directory with a very clean layout.
Podfeed.net - on Podfeed you can host and share your podcast, find podcasts, as well
as read and write podcast reviews.
iAmplify - A premium directory where you pay to download self-help podcasts.
Earkive - Directory that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone (mobile or landline)
Live Podcasting
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Talkshoe - Create your own live talkshow or interactive podcast.
Waxxi - Audio shows streamed live, mainly with notable technologists. Once recorded,
the live shows are available as podcasts.
NowLive - A social network that lets anyone create a live, interactive talk show.
Stickam for audio, in some ways.
Podcast Hosting (Premium)
PodcastSpot - Offers both free and premium podcast hosting.
SwitchPod - a podcast hosting service, with unmetered bandwidth, statistics and even
some promotional opportunities.
Hipcast - create audio, video materials and podcasts and post them to your blog.
Libsyn - Liberated Syndication will host your podcasts for a modest monthly fee.
Podcast Search
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Everyzing - Audio and video search engine.
Podscope - an audio and video search engine that searches the words spoken in
podcasts.
Pluggd - Discover and share podcasts, and search for specific parts of podcasts using
advanced search technology called HearHere.
PodNova - Podcast search and community.
Podcast Forums
Podcast Alley Forum - a well visited forum on everything related to podcasting.
DigitalPodcast Forum - a good forum for promoting your podcast.
World Podcast Forum - a fresh forum about podcasting.
Podcast Creation Software (Offline)
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Propaganda - Create professional podcasts including background music, jingles,
crossfading and more. Windows only. Free trial, $49.95 to buy.
Audacity - Free, open source software for recording and editing audio. Versions for
Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Adobe Soundbooth - Advanced audio editing from Adobe. Windows and Mac. Free
trial, $199 to buy.
Wildvoice Podcast Studio - Record audio, add music and sound effects and upload to
Wildvoice.com or other sites. Windows only.
SnapKast - Podcast creation for Windows. $79.99.
Podcast Creation Software (Online)
Odeo - Perhaps the most popular podcasting platform. It allows you to record audio
within your browser, embed it anywhere and create your own audio channels.
Hipcast - Record high-quality audio right through the web browser or your phone. No
additional software needed.
Gcast - Record, mix and broadcast your podcasts. You can record messages by phone
and upload MP3 files from your computer.
Podomatic - This site lets you record video and audio online directly from your browser.
You can also receive in line calls from listeners wanting to leave voice comments.
ClickCaster - create, broadcast and sell your very own radio shows and podcasts. You
can record audio right from your browser or upload an existing MP3.
Wild Voice Shout Recorder - Online service that lets you record audio files through an
intuitive interface but doesn’t let you edit them or add special effects.
Miscellaneous Podcast Tools
Enablr - make your podcasts indexed and searchable.
PodShow - a network that brings audio, video, podcasts, and music to your computer,
iPod, mobile device, or television.
Divicast - enhance your podcast with images and text and share it with everyone.
Divvycast - where podcasting and music meet. Helps bands to create podcasts.
Podbop - Find bands in your city and download free MP3s to your iPod to preview their
music ahead of the show.
Noisely - Enter a subject you’re interested in, and Noisely serves up a selection of
podcasts you’ll like. Press play, and all the ‘casts stream continuously until you stop
them.
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Toolbox for the web
Word Processing Services
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Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents
without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers.
Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.
Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs. There are some options present
that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.
ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.
Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. It has many
offerings and a slick interface to boot! (Private Beta)
Web Portals
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You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire
up that web browser. You can have all the information you want and need accessible
to you immediately by using one of the following services.
Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.
Pageflakes - Pageflakes could be considered the brother-in-law to Netvibes and both
have very similar offerings in customization and content.
iGoogle - If you have a Google (Google reviews) account, then the iGoogle comes
part of the package deal, and since many of us have Google as our home page
anyways, why not give iGoogle a trial?
My Yahoo - The offerings are somewhat more customizable than iGoogle, but
essentially the same concept from a different provider.
Calendar Services
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Let’s say you have your parent’s anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the
family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Having all these things on a calendar is
undoubtedly the way to go for keeping track of these events. Unless you prefer writing
it on your hand…
Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis. It is just that
freaking awesome!
Yahoo! Calendar - Yahoo provides a pretty good, but basic, calendar application for
organizing your life
30 Boxes - Has a lightning fast interface that is really easy to navigate makes this a
good contender.
Kiko - A very nice calendar application with a drag & drop interface.
Contact Management Services
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Your cell phone and e-mail program are likely your primary sources for keeping
information about your contacts. This is fine. You must ask yourself though, what
happens if your cell phone is lost, your webmail account goes down or you lose all the
data on your computer? You are pretty much screwed. Time to rethink the way we do
contact management.
Plaxo (Plaxo reviews) - One of the best known services which allow you to keep track
of contacts. Other services that can tap into your Plaxo account and utilize your
contacts with your permission.
Tabber - was created with the notion of linking together friends from many social sites
and services, but it still serves very well as an address book and contact management
application.
Highrise - A premium option to manage your business contacts. If you are more serious
about keeping your contacts and have hundreds of them, this could be a cost efficient
solution depending on your needs.
HyperOffice - Another premium service that offers control of your contacts. This is for
more serious contact management.
News Readers
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Why bother with the daily newspaper when you can receive all your information
through the Internet? These news readers will help you stay on top of current events
with nothing but a browser and a connection.
Google Reader (Google Reader reviews) - If you would like a straight and simple news
reader, then Google Reader might be worth your time to check out.
Bloglines (Bloglines reviews) - A competitor to Google Reader, and offers most of the
same services, just a matter of personal taste as to your selection.
Netvibes - Netvibes, as well as being a web portal, serves the other critical purpose
of being a news reader for any page that provides an RSS/ATOM feed.
Pageflakes - Like Netvibes, provides RSS modules and can be used as a news reader.
Communication Services
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Stickam - If live video conversations are your thing, then Stickam provides you an
excellent opportunity to mingle with friends, coworkers, or just random people if you so
desire. We wouldn’t use it for business calls, though.
Google 411 - This service from Google is likely something you have never tried
before, but once you do, you might use it for a long time coming. A good 411
replacement. (US Only)
Meebo - If you prefer to communicate with friends and colleagues through IM, then
Meebo is the site for you to do it all in one easy to use program.
Gmail (Gmail reviews) - The king of e-mail? We think so. Much more efficient at
handling large volumes of email than rival services.
Charting & Diagram Services
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Ever heard of brainstorming? Of course you have! Well, the following applications
follow the same line of thought, but now you can throw your ideas in charts and
diagrams often referred to as “mind maps” to plan any future project you may attempt.
I personally use these types of applications very often.
Flowchart.com - The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and
diagrams in a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta)
MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on
collaboration in an easy to use “mind mapping”environment.
Mind42 - Yet another “mind mapping” web app that allows you to collaborate with
others. This one is completely free.
Gliffy - Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more
options available than the others.
Mapping Services
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If you need to find out where you are going, and how to get there, these tools can
help prevent (or at least reduce) the amount of times you get lost on those long road
trips.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Recently has taken over as one of the best
mapping tools out there. Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane
amount of data displayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor.
Yahoo Maps - Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and
it shows here.
Mapquest - A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B.
File Storage Services
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Box.net - A very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing
them. You can sign up for free and get a gig of space, or you can have additional
storage with the premium options.
MediaMax - Another powerful and useful service to regularly back-up all your important
data.
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Tools for virtual assistants and freelancers
Work Tools
It’s important for freelance workers to be as organized as possible. After all, it’s up to
you to track your time, individual projects, create your own invoices, and more. There
are tons of great tools to simplify this for you. For example, GetHarvest.com can help
you keep track of your time spent on projects in differing locations, and Zoho Invoices
can help you create professional looking invoices to send to clients.
Adobe AIR Apps
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AgileTracker - Allows you to keep track of time spent on projects by client, and if you
are using AgileAgenda, you can sync them with each other.
Google Calendar Invoice Creator - Allows you to use Google Calendar as a way to
keep track of your hours and then import that data into this app to automatically
generate invoices.
Klok (Klok reviews) - Klok allows you to easily keep track of your time spent on multiple
projects. You can easily start and stop tracking by just clicking a button for each
project. You’re able to generate multiple reports based off of this information.
Ora Time and Expense - Ora allows you to track expenses, keep a list of your tasks,
run a timer on your tasks and more.
Sundial - Keeps track of time spent on multiple projects & clients and allows you to
generate reports based on any time period.
Timeloc - Offers multiple features such as running several clients with different billing
rates per account, setting different timing intervals, audible alerts and much more.
Vertabase Timer - You can track time on projects for various clients and then export that
data to other systems so you can generate reports and invoices.
Invoicing
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BillMyClients.com - Has import & export capabilities, allows you to save invoices locally
at any time, HTML customization for better branding, recurring invoicing, PayPal
integration and other features.
Blinksale.com - Create invoices from their templates, or you can use your own CSS to
custom design one of your own. Also allows you to import clients from Basecamp,
create tags for better organization, set up recurring invoices and more.
CannyBill.com - CannyBill can help you accept credit cards, export data to
QuickBooks, automate invoicing and late payment notices and a host of other tools.
CitrusBill.com - You can automate late payment notices as well as customize the look
and feel of your invoices while managing all of your payments.
CurdBee.com - A simple and straightforward invoicing solution that also integrates with
PayPal and Google Checkout.
Endeve.com - Endeve allows you to customize invoices, import clients from Outlook,
track which clients owe you money and a whole lot more.
Fluttervoice.co.uk - A UK-based invoicing service that allows you to generate new
invoices and keep track of your payments. Your clients can also login to see all of their
invoices with you at a glance.
FreeAgentCentral.com - Helps you to invoice your clients, keep track of billing,
prepare your taxes, and more. Focused on freelancers in the UK.
FreshBooks.com - FreshBooks allows you to automate late payment reminders, track
your time and expenses, customize the look of your tools for a full branded experience
and more.
GoToBilling.com - Get paid from an emailed invoice, keep track of your clients, use
marketing tools to gain new ones and more.
InLattice.net - Give your clients web access to their invoices and receive confirmation
that your customer has viewed an invoice. InLattice integrates with major online payment
systems and other tools.
InvoiceJournal.com - InvoiceJournal allows you to send invoices for free via email or
print them out to be sent by snail mail. Also allows you to use multiple currencies.
InvoiceMachine.com - Customize your invoices with logos and colors, use their built-in
timer to track your billable hours, create PDFs of your invoices and more.
InvoicePlace.com - InvoicePlace lets you send invoices, track all payments, generate
reports, export to Word & Excel and more.
Invoicera.com - Invoicera offers you several time saving features such as automatic
repeating invoices for frequent clients, integration with multiple payment gateways,
printing, management and more.
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InvoicesMadeEasy.com - This service allows you to email or physically mail invoices
yourself, or you can pay as little as a $1.00 each to have them mail invoices for you.
Offers all of the usual features to boot.
Invotrak.com - Allows you to track your time sheets, generate invoices, see who has
paid you, generate various reports to see how you are performing and more.
LiteAccounting.com - Create invoices you can send via email, save them as PDFs, set up
recurring invoices, and more features.
SimplyBill.com - Save your invoices as PDFs, create quotes for work that you can later
convert to invoices, get alerted when an invoice is overdue and numerous other
features.
SimplyInvoices.com - SimplyInvoices integrates with the Basecamp API to give you full
integration with your account and allow for easy invoicing based on your Basecamp
activities.
Winkbill.com - Set up recurring billing, export invoices as PDFs, accept payments via
PayPal, multiple templates to choose from and more features.
Zoho Invoices - The popular Zoho (zoho reviews) online office suite has an invoicing
feature that can be used for free for a few invoices a month, but you’ll have to pay if
you have numerous payment requests to make. Allows you to import and export data,
set up templates, set up recurring billing and more.
Time Tracking
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GetHarvest.com - Harvest offers pricing plans from free to premium, but offers an
amazing array of platform integrations such as iPhone, Basecamp, Beanstalk (Beanstalk
reviews), a WordPress (WordPress reviews) plugin and more. Offers both time
tracking and invoicing.
MyClientSpot.com - Helps you keep track of your billable hours, staying organized,
tracking leads and numerous other features.
Tickspot.com - Allows you to keep track of your time spent on a project and even see
how close you are to using up your client’s allotted budget. Also offers a free iPhone
application.
Time59.com - Keep track of your time and expenses and generate invoices that you
can send to your clients.
TimeIQ.com - Keep track of your billable hours. Allows for exporting of data,
generating reports at your own specified intervals, and several more features.
Toggl.com - Toogl allows you to manually keep track of your time or use their timer.
They also offer both an online version or a Windows-based download that you can use
on your desktop.
Miscellaneous Tools
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Bizzvo.com - Allows you to import contacts, keep to-do lists, take notes, log phone
calls with clients, create invoices and more.
Cashboard -A Basecamp compatible tool that allows you to use Mac OSX, Windows
and iPhone applications to update your customers on projects, send invoices, accept
payments and more.
CreativeProOffice.com - CreativePro Office allows you to manage your clients,
projects, tasks, invoicing and more all in one easy web application.
FreelanceSwitch.com Rates Calculator - Have no clue what you should be charging for
your hourly rate as a freelancer? This rates calculator asks you a series of questions
about your working situation, how much you want to make and so on, and then gives
you a suggestion of how much to charge per hour.
Homecourtx.com - Gives you a customer management system as well as the ability to
pass files back and forth and invoice.
SimplifyThis.com - SimplifyThis is both an appointment book for keeping track of your
meetings, and any of those that might be billable, as well as a full invoicing service with
payment gateway integrations.
Job Listings & Opportunities
So you’ve got the tools to do your job, but do you have the work to do?
Photographers have tons of places like iStockphoto where they can open an account
and sell their images with little to no hassle. For writers there are places such as
Helium.com, where you can write any time you’d like, on any subject. While places
like FreelanceWriting.com will help you find steadier work. And if you’re a
programmer, there are sites like GetAFreelancer.com, where it seems people will
always need workers for more highly technical jobs.
Freelance Photography
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123rf.com - 123 Royalty Free pays you a 50% commission on downloaded images,
and also allows you to earn money for referring subscribers and new photographers
alike.
BigStockPhoto.com - BigStockPhoto pays you between $.50 and $3.00 per download
for your photos, and even higher for special requests.
Dreamstime.com - Photographers can place their images here for a sale and receive
between 50% and 80% commission.
Fotolia.com - Commissions range from 33% to 64% depending on your exclusivity and
your ranking based on the total number of downloads you’ve sold.
FreelancePhotoJobs.com - Find all sorts of freelance photography jobs for magazines,
weddings, websites and more.
ImageCatalog.com - Depending on licensing, ImageCatalog pays photographers
anywhere from $.40 to $40.00 per download.
iStockphoto - Photographers can earn from 20 - 40% commissions on each photo they
sell through this royalty free site. (Disclosure: Mashable (Mashable reviews) has a
partnership with iStockphoto)
PhotoStockPlus.com - You can earn commissions up to 85% with a 3.25% processing
fee for both photos you sell as well as products you put your images on such as mugs
and other products.
Shutterstock.com - Shutterstock pays a flat rate of $.25 a download and increases it to
$.30 per download when you hit $500 in a pay period. You can also earn
commissions for referring others to the service.
Freelance Programmers & Web Designers
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DesignQuote.net - Potential clients with design and graphic art work post jobs that
freelancers can browse through and post bids on to win contracts.
FreelanceAuction.com - Allows you to bid on listed jobs for all aspects of programming
and design. Numerous listings for Web coding and design work such as logos.
GetAFreelancer.com - Focused on a wide selection of computer related work from
basic site design to developing full sites for Joomla (Joomla reviews), OsCommerce,
WordPress and more.
LimeExchange.com - Offers jobs that freelancers can bid on, and then you can continue
to use the service to check in with one another throughout the lifespan of the project.
oDesk.com - A marketplace for freelancers to meet up with clients and look for work.
Clients can leave ratings and reviews for any freelancers they hire to help them get
future work.
ozLance.com.au - Focused on Australia, ozLance has listings for Web development,
content writing, audio/visual work and more.
Project4Hire.com - Contractors post technical programming or blogging jobs they have
available and freelancers bid for the work.
RentACoder.com - Has thousands of open coding projects and a newsletter you can
subscribe to so that you receive daily notifications of new projects as they come
available.
ScriptLance.com - ScriptLance focuses heavily on programming assignments, but also
features some listings for blog content creation.
SearchWebJobs.com - A job site focused on Web related jobs with a section
dedicated to freelance engagements that indicate if you must live near the office or if
you can work from anywhere.
Freelance Writers
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BloggerJobs.biz - Numerous blogging jobs from all different styles of blogs that range
from freelance to full-time.
FreelancePortfolios.com -A resource allowing writers to set up portfolios to show off
their work and skills to potential employers. Also has some job listings for people
looking for work.
FreelanceWriting.com - FreelanceWriting.com features a mixture of articles and
resources to help people break into freelance writing, and also offers some job listings
and links to other resources.
Helium.com - While not so much freelance writing as writing “on spec,” you are free to
write articles on any subject and then you can earn revenue from a portion of their
advertising sales related to your articles.
Jobs.ProBlogger.net - A jobs board over at the well known ProBlogger for freelance
and full-time bloggers looking for work.
JournalismJobs.com - Features job listings for blogs, newspapers, magazines, newswires
and other forms of print and online media.
Online-Writing-Jobs.com - Offers all sorts of freelance writing job listings for magazines,
reviews, resume writing, blogs and more.
Suite101.com - Freelance writers of all stripes can write articles on just about any
subject of their choice and get paid a share of the advertising for the entire life of the
article.
WritersWeekly.com - A weekly ezine dedicated to freelance writing that features
articles and some listings for jobs.
WritingBids.com - A site that allows various online and offline publishers to post writing
gigs that freelancers can bid on in an attempt to win.
WritingCareer.com - Features listings of freelance writing jobs as well as guides and
advice for aspiring writers.
CUSTOMIZABLE AND COLLABORATIVE MAPS
wayiki.com
Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and
share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr (Flickr reviews) and Del.icio.us posts and see where
other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can
add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you
would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to
see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports
stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services
and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in
collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for
your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or
download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash
based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy
use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you
choose.
TRANSIT MAPPING
onnyturf.com
goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special
events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC MAPPING
Daylightmap.com
DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location.
You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest
places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety
rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and
money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms
are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com,
MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy
hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all
from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic
reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and
by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube (YouTube reviews) videos
sorted by locations.
POPULAR MAPPING SERVICES
Worldmapper
Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google (Google reviews)’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our
solar system, Mars.
Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) - Get directions, look up your house with
satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can
apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass
and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.
Firefox addons
Blogger Bar - Search Blogger, “Blog This” function for any page you’re on.
Clipmarks - Clip any portion of a website to save, email or put on your blog.
Deepest Sender - Blog to multiple platforms from one window.
JustBlogIt - Just right click, and you’re blogging about the page you’re viewing.
LiveJournal Addons - Notifies you of friends updates, messages and more.
LiveJournal Hook - Gives you quick access to many LiveJournal commands and tags.
MySpace Blog Editor - Post directly from Firefox, drag and drop clips from sites.
Scribefire (ScribeFire reviews) - A blog editor that integrates with your browser and
allows you to drag and drop items from a web page into a blog post.
Twitterbar - Post to Twitter (Twitter reviews) directly from the address bar.
WordPress.com Sidebar - Adds a quick access sidebar to get to your WordPress
(WordPress reviews).com account.
Uploading Photos and Media
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Fireflix - Sidebar extension to upload, browse, and manage your Flickr (Flickr reviews)
photos.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Upload photos directly to your
Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
Firefox Universal Uploader - Universal program for uploading to sites such as Flickr,
Picasa, YouTube (YouTube reviews), and Facebook (Facebook reviews).
FireFTP - An integrated FTP system that syncs and checks versions.
Flickr Sidebar - View the pictures in your account in a sidebar.
Fotofox - Select, tag, and upload images to popular sites such as Flickr.
ImageBot - Lets you upload photos to ImageShack (ImageShack reviews) or Photobucket
(Photobucket reviews).
OakFlickr4PFF - Allows uploading to your Flickr account.
Blog Tools
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Adsense Notifier - Displays your current earnings from Google Adsense in the status
bar.
Copy as HTML Link - Copies the address of a page to the clipboard as an HTML
ready link.
Create short URLs - Right click an address, click wrapURL, and create a shortened URL
for your use.
Dict - Highlight a word, right click it, select define and get a definition in a pop-up
window.
DictionarySearch - Similar to Dict, but the result appears in a new tab.
FastDict - Add quick access to any number of dictionary sites to spruce up your blog
entries.
ShrinkThisLink Link Shrinker - Use the ShrinkThisLink service without leaving the page.
Tiny.pl - Shortens an address via the tiny.pl service.
Blog Design, Customization and Development
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ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any spot in your browser.
DT Whois - Adds a button for Domaintools.com whois service for the site you are
currently viewing.
Firebug - Look under the hood of your favorite websites and take a peak at their code.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to run small java scripts to manipulate the way a page
displays to you.
HTML Validator - Checks the validity of a page’s HTML and tells you the results in
simple graphics.
IE Tab - Lets you view a webpage in an Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer reviews)
tab without leaving Firefox.
iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar - Allows you quick access to services and tools from
iWEBTOOL.
JavaScript Debugger - In browser Java script debugging.
KGen - Allows you to see the strongest keywords for a given site.
LinkChecker - Checks the validity of all links on a given page.
Load Time Analyzer - Allows developers to measure how long a page takes to load.
MeasureIt - Draws out a ruler to get a pixel dimension of any element on a page.
MetaTags - Checks the meta information of a site and features an automated search
engine submission tool.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - Quick access to over 30 SEO tools.
SearchStatus - Keyword density analyser and checks backlinks.
SEOHAND - Tracks a site’s standings and creates graphs over time.
SEOQuake - Ever wonder why a page gets good search ranking? This will help you
figure it out.
Web Developer - A highly regarded debugging tool for designers.
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