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A whole bunch of the more important sites and tools  in no particular order (yet!)

Site Tools and Widgets

• Addthis – a simple way of sharing content and providing links to social networking and sharing sites  PharmiMike rating 8/10
• Conduit - a tool for making custom toolbars (http://pharmiweb.ourtoolbar.com/) Pharmimike rating 6/10
• JS-Kit – commenting and ratings for your website PharmiMike Rating 8/10
• smush.it – cool site for optimising images (making them as small as possible, so that page loading is faster.) Pharmimike rating 8/10
• Tynt – an interesting way to keep track of content being copied from your site! Pharmimike rating 7/10
• Custom iPhoneApps – http://www.twitjobsearch.com/managed-solutions/iphone
• JanRain – Login to your site using Social media Logins

SEO – keywords

• http://www.keyworddiscovery.com
• http://www.wordtracker.com/
• https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal
• http://www.google.com/sktool/#
• http://textalyser.net/
• http://keywordfinder.org/
• http://www.wordsfinder.com/
• http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html
• http://www.alchemyapi.com/

Customer Satisfaction

• getSatisfaction – Great and increasingly popular way of supporting your customers and getting feedback from them PharmiMike rating 8/10
• userVoice. – another customer support/feedback system (will review soon)
• rating-system.com – add star ratings and comments
• kampyle.com – Feedback system
• Polldaddy – has free star ratings system as well as cool survey tools.

Social Networking Sites (for business)

• Facebook - PharmiMike Rating 8/10
• LinkedIn – the current daddy of business networking – pharmiMike rating 8/10
• Plaxo – social networking service PharmiMike rating 5/10
• meettheboss.com – A “business” social network PharmiMike Rating 7/10
• mySpace –  Social Networking - PharmiMike rating 5/10
• Xing – Business networking – PharmiMike rating 6/10
• ryze.com – clunky but effective business networking site 7/10
• spoke.com – Networking site (mostly USA)
• jigsaw.com – Networking site, credit based access to contact info. Gain credits by adding contacts or buying them at $5 each – clever and well thought out site. 9/10
• zoominfo.com – Business networking site

Info and news

• programmableweb.com – keep track of mashups, APIs (geekalert!)
• Mashable.com – probably the best site to keep track of social media news

Twitter stuff

• Feedburner – Manage your RSS feeds - PharmiMike rating 9/10
• Twitter – The most popular microblogging site at the moment [more] 8/10
• Tweetbeep – Track twitter keywords and email yourself the results.
• Tweetdeck – twitter dashboard (download) manage multiple accounts more easily. 7/10
• Tweetgrid – another twitter dashboard allowing easier view of your twitter accounts. 6/10
• twitterFeed – Convert RSS to twitter tweets PharmiMike rating 9/10
• Tumblr - microblogging site “the easiest way to blog”
• Identi.ca – open source microblogging – soon to release tool to create your own (for a fee)
• spnBabble – new kid on the block “twitter” for web pro’s 5/10
• bit.ly – the best of the URL shorteners 9/10
• rss2twitter – converts RSS feeds to tweets. (limited accounts) 6/10
• tweetmeme - keep tack of your tweets
• Tweet Later – automate your “thanks for following”, schedule your tweets – lots more – This is now called http://www.socialoomph.com – 8/10
• twittercounter.com – view your follower trends and compare. 7/10
• followfinder.googlelabs.com – find twits to follow

• Twitscoop - a site that keeps track of the “buzz” on twitter – so you can see what’s a hot topic and any second
• Tweetboard – a cool microforum you can add to your website in seconds.
• Tweetmyjobs.com – A “job board that pushes jobs to twitter” [review]
• cotweet.com – Nice Twitter client that allows you to manage multiple accounts and also assign replies to other users – so very useful for marketing teams who need to keep track.
• grouptweet.com – group together tweets from say, your company
• twittad.com – advertise on Twitter through a network of twitterers (or sell your tweets)

• Klout
• Twitalyzer
• Twitter Grader
• TwitterFriends
• Twinfluence
• Hubspot Social Media Development Kit
• dossy.org/twitter/karma/ – find out more about your followers
• tweepsearch.com/ – find people to follow
• wefollow.com – find followers

Name Checking

Check to see what names you can register or have already got across multiple social sites.

• http://namechk.com/
• http://www.usernamecheck.com/

PR and Articles

• See my list of Article Sites
• See my list of Press Release Sites

Video Stuff

• tubemogul – publish and track your videos to multiple sites. Dont dare use anything else. PharmiMike rating 9/10
• mippin – quite nice RSS -> mobile tool. PharmiMike rating 7/10
• dailymotion, vimeo, youtube, etc

Others

• Ping.fm – This is a brilliant way of updating a whole batch of sites at the same time PharmiMike rating 8/10
• friendFeed - share information with friends or groups PharmiMike rating 6/10
• Blogger - create and manage you own blogs for free PharmiMike rating 6/10
• BrightKite - a location-based social network PharmiMike rating 5/10
• NewsVine - a news service PharmiMike rating 4/10
• Trendrr - track trends across social networks PharmiMike rating 5/10
• pBworks - A nice Wiki-type of tool for collaboration. Free version and paid versions PharmiMike rating 7/10
• IceRocket - blog search and much more PharmiMike rating 5/10
• Yahoo Pipes – great tool for manipulating your RSS feeds PharmiMike rating 8/10
• Delicious
• clickpress.com – Free press release Distribution
• digg – Web content voted by users
• Ning – a social networking site where you can create your own for free 6/10
• ClickTale - Track your website users and what they are doing – real time
• aviary.com – Photo / video / audio editing online 7/10

• Helium – Citizen journalism
• Gravatar – a tool for managing your “Image” icon’s

• Retaggr - “..Retaggr combines all your professional and contact details at one convenient location.”
• mozenda.com – a bit out of place here – but a good page / data / content scraper
• keywordindex.com – Keyword Lookup
• blippr.com – interesting reviews of applications
• isites.us – build iPhone / smart phone apps from your website
• wibiya.com – quite a nice “social media” toolbar that goes on the bottom of your page

More cool tools here: and here