Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass – they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from large corporations reportedly hoping to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet — recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora’s jar of “chilling effects” and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences.

Please let your Members of Congress know you OPPOSE H.R. 3621 “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and S. 968 “Protect IP Act” (PIPA):

• Phone, yes phone your Member of Congress! (House) (Senate)
• EFF Congressional Emailer – Oppose Internet Blacklisting (SOPA & PIPA)
• OpenCongress Congressional Emailer – Oppose SOPA
• Generic Congressional Emailer (You’ll need your Zip+4)

Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting:

• Growing Chorus of Opposition to SOPA
• Open Letter against SOPA from 83 Prominent Internet Engineers
• Why SOPA and Protect IP (PIPA) are Bad, Bad Ideas (Techdirt)
• SOPA News (Google News)
• SOPA Wikipedia entry
• SOPA FAQ (CNET)

Internet Giants Consider Blackout Against SOPA!

Where does your Member of Congress stand on SOPA? (Project SOPA Opera)

Opponents of SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX)

Supporters of SOPA: RIAA, MPAA, News Corporation, VISA, Mastercard, Pfizer, Comcast, Time Warner, ABC, Nike, Walmart, Dow Chemical, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Monster Cable, Teamsters, Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI)

You just knew Angry birds would be here, it’s on every top app list on the net and with good reason. It’s easily on of the most fun, most addictive games on the Market, and playing Angry Birds on the 10-inch Xoom screen is nothing but pure pleasure.

TouchDown

This is the tablet optimized version of TouchDown. TouchDown gets your Email, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks from your corporate Exchange server, and gives you a single tabbed view. TouchDown lets you interact with your exchange account on a tablet device in a unique and integrated way, allowing you to manipulate your emails, contacts, calendar, tasks and Notes from a single application, allowing you to switch between them using tabs on the top of the screen.

Google Earth

Hovering over your house and browsing different places around the world is a treat on the Xoom with Google Earth. The app works beautifully on tablets as to be expected by the Google development team.

Words With Friends

Shortly before the Xoom’s February 24 release date, Zynga’s immensely popular game Words With Friends debuted on Android’s devices. The Scrabble-like game, which is free, is much better suited to the tablet form factor than on any smartphone. Battle other wordsmiths in the living room or match your skills against a random stranger in another part of the globe.

IMDB

Browse the latest trailers, review movies and tv information on the Honeycomb enabled IMDB App. It’s had over 1 million downloads from the Android Market and a solid 4.5/5 average review, I think that says it all. Browsing the reviews, you can see tablet users giving positive experiences with app.

Pulse News Reader

One of the most popular Android apps, Pulse news reader is honeycomb tablet ready.A beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. Pulse takes your favorite news websites and blogs and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on a news article to see a clean and elegant view of the story. Sharing it via Facebook, Twitter and Email is as easy as two taps.

FatBooth – Fat Booth!

Let us not forget the ever so popular Fat Booth App! Kids and adults love the Fat Booth app which allows you to turn a face shot of yourself or friends in to a “fat” version! You can see what you would look like with an extra 60+ pounds on you!

LIST YOUR FAVORITE APP AS A COMMENT!

SEO Company Of The Month: DotShot – DotShot.com

DotShot.com is a smaller yet very affordable SEO Service that offers SEO Packages starting at $99 per month and also has packages that cost $299-$499 per month. For larger clients with more competitive keywords they have custom pricing.

The DotShot SEO Service was founded in 2003 by a small group of search engine marketing professionals with over 10 years of experience in online marketing and search engine optimization.

The name DotShot is a spin off of “Hot Shot” and the name DotShot is referring to making your company an internet hot shot or maybe the SEO Firm is saying they are SEO Hot Shots? Either way DotShot shared some of there client success stories with us and they have delivered some impressive results for their clients.

They have delivered top 10 results for hundreds of keywords and hundreds of clients. The DotShot team manages dozens of high profile clients and hundreds of small businesses Monthly SEO Campaigns.

Their SEO Packages are very attractive and affordable. Their “Grow” package is the most poplar and purportedly most effective. At $299 per month with a recommended 12 month term the “Grow” package is designed to deliver top ranking for 1-3 keywords and help brand your business on social networks. Each package includes link building campaigns that will generate quality backlinks for your site at a pace that is acceptable by Google.

Other packages include the popular $99 per month SEO package that packs a punch for smaller companies and local search results.

To learn more about the DotShot SEO Company and the SEO Service they offer visit them online:

www.DotShot.com
Phone: 1-800-989-1172

• Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools.
• barksbookmarks : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.
• BibSonomy :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies
• Blinklist :A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. – Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet.
• Blipoo :Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion..
• BlogBookMark : Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly sugggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here.
• BlueDot : This basic social networking service allows users to save and share bookmarks.
• blurpalicious : Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline.
• Bmaccess : Social bookmarking with thumbs
• Bookkit : BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs.
• BookMarkAll : Bookmarkall is an online bookmark community where users can create, organize and share their favorite web links online and access them anywhere.
• Bookmark-manager : Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge.
• bookmarktracker : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks.
• Bookmax : You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking.
• Buddymarks : The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.
• Bukmark : Bukmark is a social bookmarking website.
• Chipmark :Another basic social bookmarking site.
• Citeulike : A free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
• Claimid : Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion.
• Clipclip : Clipclip allows you to save images and text, with a “bookmarklet”.
• Cloudytags : A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.
• Complore : Derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds
• Connectedy : Lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you.
• Connotea : Social bookmarking (for researchers).
• Contentpop : It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good.
• coRank : coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion
• Crowdfound : CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind
• de.lirio.us : Store, share and tag your favourite links. Open source clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes
• del.icio.us : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy.
• Diigo : Social bookmarking on steroids.

• Digg : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg.
• Dropjack : DropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company.
• Easybm : Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites.
• Enroll : Social bookmarking system based in India.
• ez4u : Social Bookmarking – Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember”
• Favoor : Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses.
• Folkd : Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.
• Freelink : Freelink.org provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.
• Freezilla : FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.
• Fungow : Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks.

• Furl : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic.
• Gather : Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site).
• Getboo : GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online.
• Google : Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm.
• Hanzoweb : Hanzoweb – Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online
• Hyperlinkomatic : Hyperlinkomatic – bookmark list manager.
• i89.us : i89.us offers a free service which allows you to save your favorite website/links at one location that can be accessed from anywhere.
• Icio : Danish Bookmarking engine.
• Ikeepbookmarks : Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web
• Iloggo : Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use for attractively displaying your favorite websites on one page.
• Jigg : Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name
• Kaboodle : Kaboodle is a 2.0 shopping community where people recommend and discover new things.
• Kinja : Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web.
• Lifelogger : “LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign.
• Lilsto : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.
• Linkagogo : Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.
• Linkarena : German Social Bookmarking site.
• Linksnarf : Social link sharing with groups of friends.
• Listerlister :ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them.

• Ma.gnolia.com : Like Furl and Delicious, anoter major bookmarking site which lets users organize bookmarks, search other people’s favorites and make friends and contacts.
• Markaboo : MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone.
• Marktd : Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.
• Memfrag : memFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer.
• Memotoo :Lets users centralize and share your personal data.
• Mister Wong : Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool.
• Mixx : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.
• Mobleo : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer.

• Multiply :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority
• Murl : My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community.
• MyBookmarks : MyBookmarks – access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Another popular bookmarking site.
• Myhq : Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free!
• MyLinkVault : A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use – trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating.
• mySiteVote : mySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is.
• MyWebDesktop : A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email.
• Newsvine : The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism
• Newsweight :NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource.
• Oyax : Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords.
• Philoi : Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends.
• PlugIM : PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page

• Propeller : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting.
• QuickieClick : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist.
• Rambhai : An Indian social bookmarking community
• RawSugar : A social search engine powered by user contributions. Its an online community, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by their members.
• Reddit : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users.

• Searchles : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles.
• Segnalo : Italian Social bookmarking site.
• Simpy [late addition]: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.”
• Sitebar : A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them
• Sitejot :Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place.

• Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.
• Slashdot : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
• SocialDanger : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system.
• Socialogs : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service.
• Sphinn : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.
• Spotback : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering
• Spurl : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents.
• Squidoo :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.
• Startaid : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.
• StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users.
• Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community
• Syncone : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.
• Tagfacts : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.
• Taggly : Store, share and tag your favorite links.
• Tagne : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.
• Tagtooga : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.
• Tagza : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.
• Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.
• Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.
• Thinkpocket : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites
• Thoof : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about.
• Totalpad : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions
• Urlex : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking
• Uvouch : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.
• Vmark : An online bookmark and online favorites manager.
• Voteboat : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.
• Votelists : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!
• Vuju : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.
• WeTogether : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.
• Whitelinks : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet,:
• Wink : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).:
• Wirefan : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.:
• Xilinus : Organize and manage bookmarks online.:
• Xlmark : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site:
• Yahoo! Bookmarks: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer.
• Yattle: Bookmark Management and Mini-Blogging Service.
• Zlitt: Zlitt is a social bookmarking system which gives users the opportunity to share and tag favorite news, images and videos.
• Zurpy: Saves bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place

Social Wall Of Fame – PeepWall.com

An interesting new website has popped up online this week called PeepWall.com “The Social Wall Of Fame”. The website allows individuals to purchase 1 or more of 625 total blocks on the homepage where you can upload an image and link it to your social profile site (Like Twitter), blog, or website. Each spot is only $10.00 and will become a permanent fixture on the website and archived in internet history. The website itself has no other purpose other than featuring those that are listed on the home page.

The site gives “advertisers” an affordable opportunity to gain some internet fame by being 1 of only 625 people allowed on the website. The site has the feel of the famous MillionDollarHomePage that was created and launched in 2005 by Alex Tew a student that wanted to earn money to pay his way through school. The MillionDollarHomePage received worldwide attention and actually sold $1,000,000.00 worth of ad space over a short period of time.

The MillionDollarHomePage was geared toward businesses to promote their company. PeepWall is geared toward individuals to promote themselves and their social presence. Businesses can still buy a block but must upload an image of an individual if possible.

PeepWall.com does not stand to make 1 Million Dollars, but hopes that the project will offer a little fun and PR for social media addicts and a small profit at the same time. The sites revenue is limited to $6,250.00 which is a far cry from 1 million. The creators of PeepWall, 2 Roanoke VA based web promoters and entrepreneurs say that all they want to take home from this project is the fun and sense of accomplishment.

A portion of the money earned will be donated to a local charity to be announced later. They are thinking of donating some of the funds to a local homeless shelter or support agency for the homeless. “We see our fair share of homeless and less fortunate people since our office is downtown” says Nick one of the creators. He wanted to make it clear that only a portion of the revenue will go a charity and the rest will be saved to cover costs associated with building, hosting, maintaining, and promoting the website. Advertising on the site is not tax deductible and the site is not a non-profit agency.

Purchasing a “block” on the website is easy. Simply click on the space (block) you wish to purchase and follow the payment process. After your image and link attached are approved your “Block” will go live for the world to see!

For more information on PeepWall.com visit them online.

The extremely popular and mostly loathed rip off report website has been having some type of technical issues over the past week or so. The website RipOffReport.com is an online complaint site that allows ANYONE to file online complaints against businesses and as of lately a lot of individuals. The website has been under fire over the past few years because of their “business” model. The major beef most people and businesses have with rip off report is they allow people to post ANYTHING on the site without verification of identity, and legitimacy.

There has been a little web chatter about the website being down for the past 10 days. The website is not actually down for everyone, but is running extremely slow. One can only speculate what the issue is. It could be an attempt by an enemy of rip off reports to put a hurting on their ad revenue and complaint flow, or it could be that rip off report is under going some sort of maintenance.

Rip off report has been featured on all sorts of blogs, news stations, newspapers, and websites because of the controversy that surrounds the website and its owner Ed Magedson. The website even has an entire industry that partially revolves around it called “Online Reputation Management”. One company called Reputation Armor offers to “remove rip off reports” although the website claims to never remove rip off reports even if the original author requests it. Reputation Armor took a moment to explain that removing a rip off report refers to removing the rip off report links from the top of search results, not actually from the internet completely.

Some people are saying they hope the website goes down for good, and others say they like the power and visibility that ripoffreport.com gives them. Apparently the owner of rip off report is smarter than some think he is. He continues to operate one of the most hated and popular websites on the internet, even when all odds are stacked against him.

What do you think about RipOffReport.com? Is it a fair system?

When looking for ways to develop your business or even to keep it pertinent, there comes a instant when you realize that everyone is talking about social media.  Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, these have all gone from being simple names of websites to actual verbs that have become a part of the ordinary lingo.  Today, a hefty percentage of major businesses, organizations, and companies make use of social media as a way to advertise, create brand recognition, and update consumers.  When wondering if this may be right for your business, the truth is that it is hard to imagine a situation where it wouldn’t be.

Today’s culture is based largely around the notion of instant gratification.  If I want information, I expect to get it now, and if I want to learn about a company or business, I want the most relevant information possible rather than a website that has been the same for six months or more.   Customers no longer want to glance at your standard advertisement; they want to know what your business is up to right now, what your present offers are, and how you can meet their instant needs.  Social media is both the cause of and the solution to these needs.

When interacting through social media, you are creating a distinctive form of advertisement.  Every time you gain a follower and make a post or comment on their page, it is seen by all of their friends.  When these friends in turn add you to see your most recent postings, they are seen by each individual’s network of friends again, and the process branches out until a few posts are reaching thousands of people at once.  The use of a slogan or simple phrase on a network like Twitter that gains attention offers you the chance for your company name to quickly go viral, and the character limits ensure readers that they will never be subjected to drawn out advertisements.

For a few years now, it has been suggested that social media would be the marketing tool of the future.  While the trend is surely apt to continue to mature and expand, it is safe to say that this predicted future has already arrived.  Social media is the marketing wave of the present and has become a staple of success for thousands of companies. 

If your company has yet to create a strong presence on these type of social media networks, the time is now.

1. Analyst Twitter Directory. This is a directory of industry analysts that tweet. Big list and regularly updated.
2. First Issue. This is a directory of book publishers and others in the book trade who are using Twitter.
3. Geo Follow. GeoFollow allows you to list yourself geographically and categorically.
4. GovTwit Directory. The GovTwit directory includes all facets of government on Twitter: state and local, federal, contractors, reporters, academics, judicial branch and more.
5. Hashtags .Directory of hashtag users on Twitter.
6. Just Tweet It. A directory of Twitter users sorted by categories. Good way to find new people to follow or list your name to let people find you.
7. Legal Birds. List of legal professionals on Twitter such as lawyers, law librarians and academics.
8. Tweeple Rank. This website tracks a number of hashtags that are used to recommend people on Twitter, specifically #FollowFriday, #TweepleTuesday and #MrTweet. Easy to find best ranking twitterers.
9. Tweet Top. Tweet Top is the latest and greatest from Twitter people on popular topics. All the top tweets all the time.
10. TweetFind. Free Twitter yellow and white pages directory. Created to help people find new twitters to follow and a place where people can add their own Twitter accounts to a Twitter directory for free.
11. Tweetminster. TweetMinster is a service that makes it easier to connect the public with politicians using Twitter. TweetMinster helps you track UK politics in real time and to find and follow Members of Parliament and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates.
12. TweetWorks. Do you have favorite conversation topics? Start or join a group and connect with others who share your enthusiasm.
13. Twellow. The Twitter yellow pages. Browse through Twitter users to follow them or list yourself to get followers.
14. Twibs. The place to find businesses on Twitter.
15. Twitter Groups. Create or join a group of people with similar interests.
16. Twitter Link Up. Another directory of Twitter users.
17. Twitter Passion. Directory to grow your business, meet new friends, and network with like minded people! You can search by category and submit yourself as well.
18. Twitterectory. You’ve guessed it. It’s another Twitter directory where Twitter users will be offered the opportunity to include their names in the list under a particular category making it easier for people to find them.
19. TwitterPacks. A site where the community recommends fellow Twitter users by topic of interest or geographical area.
20. WeFollow. A user powered Twitter directory. It displays and categorizes Twitter users according to tags and lists users based on the number of followers they have. ‘

According to Amit Singhal of Google (responsible for Google search algorithms), “Light can travel around the world in 1/10th of a second, and we won’t rest until the speed of light is the only barrier to getting good search results to you.”

How to use the Google Real-Time Search Feature:

Matt Cutts said in his blog that Google processes billions of documents per day for their real time search. Google has really enhanced considerably in speeding up the crawling and indexing procedure, which is exceptional even with the already-enormous and mounting size of the web.

Step 1: Go to www.google.com

Step 2: Type your query and press “search.”

Step 3: When the results load completely, find “Show options” under the search box. Click it.

Step 4: Under “Any time,” click “Latest.” This will let Google give the latest results (real-time search results).

It is very extraordinary that Google is still able to grant updates as early as “1 minute ago.” This is very fast, and is really “real-time.” You can even observe that Google regularly adds updates even when the browser is not refreshed as indicated: “New results will appear below as they become available.”

One feature I noticed that was neat was the Twitter updates included in the Real-Time Search Results as seen below:

To stop receiving frequent updates, you can click “pause.”