30+ Interesting Twitter services and applications

Are you a Twitter addicted? Take a look at this list with 30+ interesting Twitter services and applications which simplify your life with Twitter adding photos on your profile, creating tiny polls, monitoring the twittersphere and much more!

If you want to suggest other interesting links, please add a comment.

Twitter Search
Search Twitter in realtime - see what the world is doing right now.

TwitterTroll
TwitterTroll is the only real-time Twitter search engine providing the best way to find new twitter friends.

TweetScan
In the innovative world of Microblogging, one site aims to organize it all. Tweet Scan searches Twitter, identi.ca and other Laconica-based sites with more being added all the time.

Twittercal
It's a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

Monitter
Monitter is a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.

Twilert
Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.

Twingly
Twingly.com is a micro-blog search engine featuring a spam-free, faceted, social search for the global blogosphere.

Twitter Grader
Measure the power and authority of your twitter profile.

TwitSay
Give your Twitter Account a Voice! Record up to 10 Seconds using your mobile phone.

Tweet2Tweet
Put two Twitter screen names into the boxes below to see their conversation via @ replies!

Twitterfone
Send message to Twitter using voice!

Twitter Ratio
Your Twitter Ratio is the ratio of your followers to friends (or people who you follow). It is measured with the TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio). The higher the ratio, the more Twitter heat you pack.

Happytweets
Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the "get happy" button, and you'll find out how happy your Tweets are.

StrawPoll
Create your tiny polls in 140 characters or less!

Qwitter
Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.

Tweetree
Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post.

Twitthis
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. Read this post about how to add Twitthis on your Blogger Template.

Tweet This
TweetThis is a Wordpress plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.

Twitterfeed
Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed. twitterfeed can post directly to twitter, identi.ca, custom laconica installations, and via Ping.fm, simultaneously to the many services supported by Ping.fm.

TweetSnap
Personalised Twitter badges, images and banners for forums, MySpace and websites.

Twitxr
With Twitxr you can share pictures from your mobile phone, automatically publish them on social networks and photosharing sites, tell your friends where you are and what you are doing, automatically add your location to your pictures and status updates.

Twitpic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API, or through the site itself.

BubbleTweet
With BubbleTweet you can add a pop-up video message to your twitter page in seconds.

TwitterFriends
TwitterFriends help you to see your relevant network and some stats about your tweeting behavior compared to other Twitter users.

Tweetr
Tweetr is a Twitter client for Mac and PC. Send files to your friends, but just dragging any file on to Tweetr. Tweetr will automatically upload your file and when it is done will provide a short url to send to your friends (please do not upload copyrighted material).

Twitterrific
Twitterrific is a fun application for MAC that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

Twhirl
Twhirl is a desktop client for social software such as Twitter, Friendfeed, identi.ca, or seesmic.

TwitterFox
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter.

Tweenky
Tweenky is a web-based micro-blogging ("tweet") client that currently supports Twitter and Identi.ca/Laconi.ca.

TweetCube
Share your files via Twitter with TweetCube.

Twingr
Twingr is nota a Twitter services, but you can create a microblogging community (twitter-like) and communicate with friends and other people that share your same interests.


Do you have any interesting links to suggest? Add a comment, thanks!

Design bump: design for the masses

A new resource to share with the community of designers the most interesing design stories.

Design Bump is a new social media site digg-like, launched two months ago, dedicated to the design industry where you can find everything you need about graphic design, web design, digital art, typography, CSS, Web Standard and, more in general, a lot of links (user-generated) to take inspiration and new ideas for your projects.

If you have a blog about one of these topic, Desing Bump is also a great way to promote your post and drive more traffic on your site. The only thing you have to do is creating an account and submit a new link which will be added on Upcoming page. Your post will be voted from community users and after 3 votes will be dislayed on Design Bump home page and in this way your site traffic will increase quickly.

Users can customize their profiles, receive messages from the other users, trace submissions, votes and comments. Site is still growing and there are more plans for improvements/features in the near future to make Desing Bump a point of reference for your inspiration.


Subscribe Feed RSS
If you want to stay up to date with all the newest design related news/articles you can subscribe to the DesignBump RSS feed here.


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VPS Media!: Xen VPS Hosting for designers and developers

Are you looking for a professional solution for your hosting? VPS Media! is a web hosting and web design company which offers high level "what-ever-you-want-to-do" Xen VPS Hosting services at affordable price to host you blog, all your websites and, more in general, it provides all services you can desire from a hosting company.

All VPS Media! systems are based on Xen Virtualization Technology which distinguishes itself from other Virtualization solutions by hard capping CPU and RAM Hardcore VPS systems. VPS Media! has been designed and engineered for availability and capability for Xen VPS systems all products are focused on giving designers & developers enough bandwidth and storage to satisfy their data intensive webapps.

Hosting Services
You can choose the following VPS hosting services:

- The Starter ($20 /mo)
- The Medium ($40 /mo)
- The Large ($70 /mo)
- The X Large ($140 /mo)

The Starter service (the basic plan) with over 384 MB of dedicated RAM, 15GB of RAID-10 storage and 150 GB of transfer it's a great (and absolutely professional) solutions to host your blog, all your websites, develop your own appications, run beta testing, and run full production sites. But if you need for an exceptional service, The X Large plan with 2048 MB of dedicated RAM, 80 GB of RAID-10 Storage Space and 800 GB of bandwidth is the best choice to assure you a full presence on-line.

All of VPS Media's offering is entirely a self-managed product which gives you full root access and a what-ever-you-want-to-do solution such as:

- Run you Blog and many websites
- Host you own email server
- Serve Ruby on Rails applications
- Setup you own VOIP server
- Run Hardcore Game Servers, Counter Strike, TF2 (any!)
- Run forums, and entire comunities
- Set it up as your personal Desktop
- Run MySQL or Postgres databases
- Serve your PHP web apps with great reliability

VPS Media! also provides an useful blog and community forum to be updated about news, announcements, system status, testimonials, sales, suggestions, and all kind of information you need.

Payment and Setup
You can pay using PayPal or your credit card. You may pay 3 months in advance and receive a 10% discount on your orders. Your account will be set up in a few minutes after your order, your VPS will be provisioned and you will be emailed the login information. All services include: no set up fees, no contracts, no waiting-lists, 7 day money back and straight up Hardcore VPS Hosting.

Take a look at the site:

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Templates.com contest: find the slogan and win!

Are you a creative person? Templates.com involves its customers, friends and guests into the process of slogan creation for the company.

The idea of the contest is simple: everyone is welcome to think up the slogan for our company, leave a message in comments to the blog post, and stand to win $100 in cash or credits from Templates.com.

The contest starts on July 15th 2008, and the results will be announced at the beginning of August. Each participant of this contest who has an account on Templates.com will get 4 credits, so everyone will win!

Prizes
This is the prizes list:

1st place: $100 in cash
2nd place: 100 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase our products
3rd place: 50 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase our products

About Template.com
Templates.com is a powerful resource where you can find everything you need for your creativity and inspiration such as 3D Models, Clip Art, Illustrations, Icons, and Web Templates.

For more info thake a look at the following link.

Add your slogan!

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Photoshop Lady: best Photoshop tutorials around the world

Photoshop Lady is a great resource on-line (with a very nice layout), which provides you daily, all the best Photoshop tutorials to find inspiration and new ideas for your design projects.

All tutorials are divided in categories (3D, abstract, drawing, photo, text, texture, patterns effects) to make simpler browsing and finding everything you are looking for. You can also create your custom profile, save your preferred bookmarks, vote and share them with all other readers.

Subscribe RSS Feed
In order not to miss all new post visit Photoshop Lady and subscribe the RSS feed of the site.
For more info about this site take a look at the link below:

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WebResourcesDepot.com, free web resources everyday

WebResourcesDepot.com is a very interesting site which provides everyday a lot of great and free web resources for designers and developers in order to help them to find new ideas and save time and money in their work.

On WebResourcesDepot.com you can find really everything you need in a simple way and, browsing site's categories, you can reach to resources related to brushes, buttons, fonts, icons, xhtml & css code or CMS, project/newsletter management applications and, more in general, all kind of tools which can simplify you web development

Subscribe Rss Feed
There are already more than 200 free resources presented and new ones added daily. In order not to miss the new resources visit Webresourcesdepot.com and make sure you grab the RSS feed (full content) of the site.

Suggest new resources
You can also suggest your site or the great web resources that you know here.

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DesignFlavr, design inspiration

DesignFlavr is an awesome resource of the best Artworks / Websites / Design Related Contents, where you can find inspiration and a lot of new ideas for your design projects. The site mission is to help support to the vaste and ever groving number of designers and artists around the web providing high quality visual contents.

DesignFlavr is not only a classical gallery of CSS websites (that you see everywhere) but it's mainly a portal about everything around Design and Digital Art for example Flash/CSS Websites, Illustrations, Vector Art, Portfolios, Urband Art, General Design and other.
The site interface is very clean and you can select several options to browse all its content choosing for example a Category, Colour Scheme or Popular Tag.

You can also rate each artwork, add your comment and choose the way to arrange and browse all content (most viewed, newest, higest rated).

Resources link is another interesting DesignFlavr section where you can find a lot of useful, daily updated, links/post about some of the most interesting topics design-related on the web.

Submission
If you are an Artist or Web Designer and you want to to submit some work (Artwork or Website) for inclusion on DesignFlavr, take a look at this page.

Support
If you want to support DesignFlavr take a look here to find a collection of nice icons/banner to add on your site.

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XHTML IT convert your design into a valid W3C web standard

XHTMLiT is a InterDevil Company specialized in developing websites in HTML4, XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS 2.1/3.0 for small to large businesses which offers designers, developers and other majority of clients with a unique and easy conversion service, by converting client's design into a Hyper-Text Markup Language (XHTML) usually within 8 business hours but some times you will receive your design in 4 hours or even less.

If you are a web designer, when your graphical design is finished and ready to be implemented you can simply click on get started and fill out the short order form. Every package and every order include:

-Web Standards compiant (W3C Valid XHMTL and W3C Valid CSS) coding conversion
- Markup that works with all well known browsers and search engine friendly
- 50% Discount provided on additional pages, must be similar to first page
- 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed and Friendly Staff
- Free delivery and 30 days support from day of xhtml delivery
- Proper organized and structured XHTML and CSS
- Images are sliced with details and optimized for quality
- Fast and Reliable turn-around just under 8 business hours
- Everything is Hand Coded, No Software or Special Tools, just our hands and fingers

XHTMLiT has covered over a 5000 clients and offers special discounts to clients who would like to settle in and have more then 5 projects per month. They are always available no matter what time of the day it is and its staff is always able to answer questions at any time of the day.

You can find a collection of their works here.

Take a look at this link:

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Blog Perfume, WordPress blogs with themes, plugins and Blogging Resources

Blog Perfume is a great place on-line where you can find all the best WordPress related resources.

You can find templates, plugins, tools, tips to monetize your blog and more other useful informations to make your blogger life a lot easier. If you are a pro-blogger or a newbie Blog Perfume is a good start point to help you make a successful blog.

Feed Analysis Tool
Blog Perfume provides the best on-line tool I never used to analyze myFeedburner Feeds: BlogFeed Analysis. This application provides a detailed report with charts number subscribers for month, daily hits, views and clicks, total subscribers for week day, number of predicted subscribers after three months, and other interesting functions such as estimated value for one Banner ADS on your site and the worth of your blog.

You can also share your Feed Analysis report with your clients, your advertisers or your readers using a link like this:

http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/?uri=http://feeds.feedburner.com/Woork

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Market Hero, online indian stock game

MarketHero is the first free Web 2.0 game based on India's stock markets.

Anybody can sign up and start with a million Indian Rupees in a virtual portfolio ready to trade equities with real prices like a millionaire.It's in public alpha right now and will be rolling out new features and enhancements on a weekly basis. Once the site releases out of alpha, there will be monthly prizes for the biggest winners.

The founders' aim is to bring the Indian markets to the global public and to simplify some of its more complex features. The site uses AJAX to make finding and trading stocks extremely quick. What previously took 3-4 clicks is accomplished with just a single click on MarketHero. Beginners can also leverage the community's knowledge by following tips and the latest chats. If they find an user who is turning into a real market hero, they can fave that user and also add him/her as a friend.

Built by a dedicated team the startup's primary focus is how to create a deeper social connection between the people who know and do not know about trading and the share market. Using Rails as it's core the site has a lightweight feature set to be agile enough to tailor itself to it's users' feedback. There's a lot more coming very soon.

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Stockvault.net, free stock photos and free images

Stockvault.net is a great stock photo sharing website with over 9.400 free stock photos where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs and images with each other.

All images are free for personal and education project (non-commercial usage), organized in several categories such as animal, nature, people, industrial, to help you to find immediatly what you are looking for.

Tutorials and videos
Stockvault.net is not only a place where to share your photos but also a perfect resource where to find all informations you need about photography and other related topics. Tutorial and Articles sections contain useful tips about how to obtain the better result form photo editing using Photoshop.

The video section contains a lot of videos useful to learn all photography secrets such as how to photograph a model, how to prepare a studio photography at home, working with lights, wedding photography etc, in a fast and simple way.

Membership
All Stockvault.net contents are available for free but if you want to access to extra features such as lightbox, photo rating, e-mail photo you can subscribe a membership account (for free or with a little donation).


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Creating professional looking CSS menus for your website with IzzyMenu.com

IzzyMenu.com is a free on-line web 2.0 application with an impressive Ajax interface which helps you to design quickly professional looking CSS menus for your websites.

You can select a lot of options to customize how you prefer your menu, such as the menu type (Vertical or Horizontal), menu font, width, heigh, background (color or image), border, padding and margin. Add or remove links from your menu is very simple and immediate and don't require HTML/CSS programming knowledge. You can also manage links state (hover) and apply a style which cange for example the background and text color for each menu item when this is selected.

From Menu Styles option you can choose a lot of pre-build menus, useful to get inspiration for your menu or to reuse directly only customizing the menu items with the item you need. If need for a submenu of the main menu you can add it in a very simple way choosing the look you prefer or the same look of the main menu.

From Sliding Doors option, you can generate just with a mouse click liquid rounded border menu items, simply selecting two images for the left and right border. When your menu is ready, you can download the code and use it on your web project. You can also save all menus you create, share them with the community and browse all menus created from the other users.

For more infos take a look at this site:

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WebAppers, best open source resources for web developers

WebAppers.com is fantastic website where you can find a daily updated list of all the best open source resources useful for any web developer.

When you are working on your projects or freelance works you would like to reduce the cost of development spendig less time writing a ton of lines of code. All open source resources you find on WebAppers help you in this way, so you can reuse all the best content available for a web developer with no cost.

His founder say:

I have seen lots of 999+ Ajax Resources, 888+ Web Developer Resources and etc. I think what we need is not a list of resources, we do not want to spend so much time on picking the useful ones. What we need is a list of the top quality resources, so that we can spend more time on our web development. WebAppers only picks the top quality web development resources for you.

WebAppers is well organized, with a site layout clean which helps you to find quickly everything you need to develop faster your web projects. You can find what you are interested on in several topic such as components (Menu, Polls, Tooltips, Calendar...), design (Icons, Brushes, Fonts, Stock Photos...), extra web services (Announcements, Hosting, Inpsiration, Security, Tools, Webmail) and more.

For more infos about WebAppers take a look at this link:

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Whynotad.com, free on-line advertising

Whynotad.com is a free Web 2.0 Advertising and Classifieds Ad Portal where anyone can publish and manage free ads to promote quickly his personal or business site, product or service.

ADS are displayed on whynotad home page into a grid with images and links which open a detailed description about a certain ads you are interested in. To add your free ads you have just to sign-up to the site and the free membership will gain you access to an unique no fuss, free way to promote everything that will enable your advertising to be seen at a click of a button.

All ads you put on Whynotad can be searched from popular search engines giving them more exposure to a wider audience. You can customize your ADS image, description, link, cateogries and modify them how you prefer, when you want, with a quick Ajax interface.

Whynotad it’s quick, easy to use and with a nice design; all elements which make it an ideal worldwide community advertising portal. All for free. The portal have partnered with a Luxembourg e-commerce site, Wikio to facilitate access and distribution of the Whynotad content, including its ads, classifieds, news releases and more.

Click to the following link to start promoting your site for free on whynotad.com

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Launchsoon.com, launching soon page for new websites

Do you need a launching soon page for your new website?

Launching Soon Script is a powerful web application which helps you to design, publish and manage a launching soon page for your new website and find potential customers or reader before the launch of your business or personal site. If you are a web developer it's without doubt the best choice to avoid to code yourself a soon page every time you are launching a new website.


Whit Launching Soon Script you can publish a soon page with just some clicks, customizing the config file, add your logo and copy all files on the server. Install process is very simple and requires less than 5 minutes to be on-line. Programming skills are not required but if you want to change the look of the soon page you can customize it using CSS code (you can find a nice gallery of launching soon pages created with this script here).

Countdown, email collection and spam protection
In the front-end page there is a live countdown which informs all visitors about the time remained to the effective launch of your site. Using the form section, you can collect via email new subscribers interested for example on services your site will offer after the launch.

All email address you receive are collected in a file and each time a new subscriber submit the form you'll receive a notification from the system. All without using a database. Spam protection help you to filter automatically all messages you'll receive.

Launching Soon Script is released with complete source code, an AJAX back-end and with a nice elegant Web 2.0 look and feel.

You can find more detailed informations about this script here:

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Buytemplates.net, professional web templates

Buytemplates.net is an impressive resource which develops professional, high-impact website templates ready to use for all kinds of sites you want to publish on-line.

Business, corporate, e-commerce, entertainment, hosting, healt, real estate, and much more: every single product is characterized by a big attention to details, an outstanding design and an affordable price (only 29$/template). I'm sure, you'll love it.


Single template and Membership template
Every tamplate "pack" contains five page templates (homepage and five internal pages) fully customizable from the user. If you want to be free to choose all products you want, you have only to subscribe a Membership Templates account to get access to thousands of web templates, exclusive templates, free download of icons, brochures, logos and more, at one cheap rate.


You you are an Adobe Flash or Joomla lover, buytemplates.net provides a lot of templates ready to use for these platforms. All you have to do is select the design you like and download it.

Custom Services
Buytemplates.net is not only a resource to find your preferred web templates, but it provides a full range of services from custom design to web hosting. If you decide to add a personal touch to a template you like, buytemplates.net offers a design custom service to customize it (this service also includes content insertion).
Moreover, if you want to start a business on-line and you need a fast, professional, save-money solution for your startup, buytemplates.net is a great place to find the site style which fits exactly your requirements for a successful e-commerce site with advanced functionalities such as web chart, transactions processing online, photo galleries, bulletin boards, serve news and more.

Hosting service
Hosting service is another "plus" thought to simplify you the research of a reliable and at affordable price web hosting. This service includes:

- 50 MB web hosting space, 100 pop3 mail accounts
- Monthly 1000 MB data transfer
- Free website traffic stats
- Password protected directories
- 99% uptime guaranteed
- User friendly Cpanel version 7
- PHP, MySql support
- 24 hours customer service

Buytemplates.net pay big attention to customers: If you need for help, you can use the useful Live chat support (24 hours/day) to ask everything you want about more specific personal requests.

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IE NetRenderer, check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5

IE NetRenderer is an useful free on-line tools which helps web designers who work with a Mac or Linux system to test how a website look on Internet Explorer.

The only thing you have to do is add the site URL you want to render on IE and select an Internet Explorer version (from 5.5 to 7) to see how it looks.


From the site:

This web rendering tool is ideally suited for web designers working on Apple iMac and Linux workstations. It allows to verify web designs natively on all popular Internet Explorer versions, without the need to set aside several physical or virtual Microsoft Windows PCs just for that purpose.

I found it very useful to solve an issue (only on Explorer) in the sidebar design on my new site template. Absolutely to bookmark!