Happy New Year -2011

 Happy New Year -2011. 

Its Happy New Year time. Time to enjoy, celebrate, have a feast, meet friends &wellwishers. Wishing all my Friends,clients and well-wishers.

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -2011. 

Its Merry Christmas and Happy New Year time. Time to enjoy, celebrate, have a feast, meet friends &wellwishers. Wishing all my Friends,clients and well-wishers.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -2011

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -2011.

Its Merry Christmas and Happy New Year time. Time to enjoy, celebrate, have a feast, meet friends &wellwishers. Wishing all my Friends,clients and well-wishers.

What Is Cloud Computing?

What is cloud computing? Everyone in the technology world is talking about it… and a lot of people in the business world are asking the same question, “What is cloud computing, and what does it mean for my business?”
Cloud computing platforms are growing in popularity, but why? What unique advantages does a cloud computing architecture offer to companies in today’s economic climate? And what just what is cloud computing, anyway?” Let’s explore the cloud computing infrastructure and its impact on critically important areas to IT, like security, infrastructure investments, business application development, and more.

Most IT departments are forced to spend a significant portion of their time on frustrating implementation, maintenance, and upgrade projects that too often don’t add significant value to the company’s bottom line. Increasingly, IT teams are turning to cloud computing technology to minimize the time spent on lower-value activities and allow IT to focus on strategic activities with greater impact on the business.

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The fundamental cloud computing infrastructure has won over the CIOs of some of the world’s largest organizations—these once-skeptical executives never looked back after experiencing first-hand the host of benefits delivered by cloud computing technology.

• Proven Web-services integration. By their very nature, cloud computing technology is much easier and quicker to integrate with your other enterprise applications (both traditional software and cloud computing infrastructure-based), whether third-party or homegrown.

• World-class service delivery. Cloud computing infrastructures offer much greater scalability, complete disaster recovery, and impressive uptime numbers.

• No hardware or software to install: a 100% cloud computing infrastructure. The beauty of cloud computing technology is its simplicity… and in the fact that it requires significantly fewer capital expenditures to get up and running.

• Faster and lower-risk deployment. You can get up and running in a fraction of the time with a cloud computing infrastructure. No more waiting months or years and spending millions of dollars before anyone gets to log into your new solution. Your cloud computing technology applications are live in a matter of weeks or months, even with extensive customization or integration.

• Support for deep customizations. Some IT professionals mistakenly think that cloud computing technology is difficult or impossible to customize extensively, and therefore is not a good choice for complex enterprises. The cloud computing infrastructure not only allows deep customization and application configuration, it preserves all those customizations even during upgrades. And even better, cloud computing technology is ideal for application development to support your organization’s evolving needs.

• Empowered business users. Cloud computing technology allows on-the-fly, point-and-click customization and report generation for business users, so IT doesn’t spend half its time making minor changes and running reports.

• Automatic upgrades that don’t impact IT resources. Cloud computing infrastructures put an end to a huge IT dilemma: If we upgrade to the latest-and-greatest version of the application, we’ll be forced to spend time and resources (that we don’t have) to rebuild our customizations and integrations. Cloud computing technology doesn’t force you to decide between upgrading and preserving all your hard work, because those customizations and integrations are automatically preserved during an upgrade.

• Pre-built, pre-integrated apps for cloud computing technology. The Force.com AppExchange features hundreds of applications built for cloud computing infrastructure, pre-integrated with your Salesforce CRM application or your other application development work on Force.com.

A Cloud Computing Infrastructure: What’s the Value?

Cloud computing infrastructures and salesforce.com’s Force.com platform have won over the CIOs of some of the world’s largest organizations. These forward-thinking (yet extremely security-conscious) tech executives fully vetted Force.com and realized the value cloud computing technology offers.
Salesforce.com frees companies from traditional software and its hidden costs, high failure rates, unacceptable risks, and protracted implementations. All while providing a comprehensive, flexible platform that meets the needs of businesses of every size, from the world's largest enterprises to small and mid-sized companies everywhere.
Salesforce.com minimizes the risk involved in application development and implementation. After all, technology should solve your business problems, not create more headaches. With salesforce.com and the Force.com cloud computing technology, you'll be free to focus on solving strategic problems instead of worrying about infrastructure requirements, maintenance, and upgrades.
The cloud computing infrastructure also promises significant savings in administrative costs—more than 50 percent in comparison to client/server software. The areas in which cloud computing saves administrative costs include:

• Basic customization. The Force.com cloud computing technology’s point-and-click tools empower administrators and business users to perform basic customizations themselves.
• Real-time reporting. Easy wizards step users through report and dashboard creation, so IT’s queue is free of report requests.
• Security and sharing models. The sharing model built into the Force.com cloud computing infrastructure protects sensitive data while making the management of security profiles much less time-consuming.
• Multiple languages and currencies. Included support for 13 languages and all currencies make managing a global application easier.

No wonder so many CIOs are restructuring their companies around a cloud computing infrastructure.

Cloud Computing Technology & Application Development

Cloud computing technology is sparking a huge change in application development circles. Just like the changes that moved publishing technology from paper to bits, making it possible for us to have information about anything in the world right at our fingertips in a flash, the move to a cloud computing infrastructure for application development is making it possible to build robust, enterprise-class applications in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost.
The Force.com platform ushers in a new era of applications in the cloud that bring the power and success of Salesforce CRM to your whole company—not just sales, service, and marketing. New types of application innovation are now possible through a combination of “no programming” point-and-click wizards, toolkits for the most popular development languages for creating client-side applications, and Apex Code, salesforce.com’s programming language for our Force.com platform. Because the resulting applications will run natively on Force.com, developers gain many advantages.

• Cloud computing technology boasts all the benefits of multitenancy, including built-in security, reliability, upgradeability, and ease of use.
• Out-of-the-box features such as analytics, offline access, and mobile deployment speed application development.
• There’s no need to worry about managing and maintaining any server infrastructure, even as applications scale to thousands of users.
• You can join a community of thousands of developers also focused on business application development for cloud computing infrastructures.
• The Force.com AppExchange marketplace provides an outlet for all your business application development and access to tens of thousands of salesforce.com customers.

By eliminating the problems of traditional application development, cloud computing technology frees you to focus on developing business applications that deliver true value to your business (or your customers). The Force.com platform lets IT innovate while avoiding the costs and headaches associated with servers, individual software solutions, middleware or point-to-point connections, upgrades—and the staff needed to manage it all.


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What is Google Hotpot ?

 

Think of it this way – As we travel through a new type of landscape we are guided by signs as always. But the source of the signs and information is much different. Travelers are creating the guidelines and providing directions for the inquiring traveler. This is what happens with Google Profile. Users rate/review businesses, restaurants and service providers based on their experience. If you are in a neighborhood that is popular with you and your circle of friends you can use Hotpot to find restaurants, bookstores, business offices etc. that will include the locations that are popular with your friends.
Here’s the recipe:
Add an ingredient with a decidedly local flavor to an icon of the Internet world and what do you get? Google Hotpot, a new dish that is seemingly a combination of Places and Profiles. What does this new menu item do for us, the user?
It helps us find local destinations, like businesses and restaurants.
This creates a large database of information in Places, of course. But it also helps the Internet behemoth with another task – making suggestions to users in the future. Add the “friend” touch and you have a referral and suggested destination business model called Hotpot that guides you to physical locations in your area.
How it Looks
A quick look reveals an uncluttered, almost simplistic, design – just what you would expect from Google. Hey, it works!!
Sign in and start rating, that’s all there is to it.
Obviously, you can do your rating and searching on your computer. But these actions are also available on the Android 1.6+ phone with the Google Maps 4.7 update.
At this point the emphasis is on good places to eat and drink – you know, restaurants and cafes. But Google Hotpot isn’t limited to consumption of food and beverages. Users can review any retail site, schools, libraries, even a nice park for a bit of quality time outdoors. A recent count by Google indicated that users have already placed millions of reviews on the service.
For example, one of the icons of Southern Illinois and the St. Louis Metro-East area is the Brooks Catsup bottle. This huge landmark is atop a tower in the town of Collinsville. Want to find this unusual site? It’s on Google Hotpot, complete with a color photograph and address.
Simply click on the number next to the average rating (five star system) and you can read the individual comments and reviews. Choose the business name – the live link at the top – and you are taken to a page with a map, address and review information. You may even get another photo.
Why Hotpot Now?
Most of the early reviews of Hotpot emphasize that this is a way for Google to take on such social sites as Facebook, Yelp and others. The focus is local. But there is supposed to be a significant difference with Hotpot. Reviews and information come only from people that are brought into your network.
The product manager for Google wrote, “With Hotpot, we’re making local search results for places on Google more personal, relevant and trustworthy.”

The idea is not particularly cutting-edge because there are several other ways to connect with friends and recommend places to spend time and money. For example, a user can select Yelp for the closest city and find all sorts of information about restaurants and other businesses.

But This is Google!
That will capture a lot of attention. Throw in the Android access and Google Hotpot is coming into this market at a time when the Internet and World Wide Web are about “apps,” not searching. We are gradually moving into an electronic world that won’t require much searching. Some say we are there already.
We mentioned the key word “local” a bit earlier but we should have mentioned another key word in this scenario – “social.”
Social networking is far from new. In fact, we could argue that the Internet and the Web have been “social” for years. But with Hotpot, the world’s fastest-growing company, Google, is making a statement – We are more social. We are more local.
As one Hotpot review stated, this is the way things work now.
The Google LatLong Blog says Hotpot makes about 50 million locations available, as indicated on Google Places. Users step into the process to share their recommendations with friends, based on individual tastes and interests. When the iPhone Places app comes online Hotpot will add thousands more mobile users.
If all of this doesn’t seem earth-shaking, consider the one ingredient Google has that even the other social platforms don’t have. It’s called “consumer reach,” according to http://www.trusstechnosofts.com
Does this mean that Yelp and Foursquare will gradually wither and die on the vine? Probably not, at least for the very near future. But it is possible that Google Hotpot could be the killer app when it comes to navigating the local scene.

On a technical basis, Hotpot is, for the most part, a free-standing service. But if Google and its users decide to do some serious “mashing” and combining, Google Hotpot might stand next to “GPS” as the way to find your way around.
The merging of services hasn’t happened yet. Users still have to work with Hotpot on its own turf. But this will probably change sooner rather than later.
Some veteran industry observers are less than enamored of Google Hotpot. It’s nothing new or particularly useful, they say. What will the world say?
Stay tuned.

Google Wonder Wheel – What’s that all about? who it help to seo's

On May 2009 Google released a new feature called “Google Wonder Wheel” . Google Wonder Wheel is a wheel (of wonder) which shows related search terms to the current searched query and thus enable you to explore relevant search terms which might be the ones you originally wanted to search for, or simply give you more options to gain more information.

Google wonder wheel by definition is a wheel display of relevant search terms. Clicking on one of the search terms will open a new wheel of relevant search terms and so on.

The wheel was not invented by the Google Wonder Wheel  as related search terms always and still appear at the bottom of the search screen but this is definitely a nice way to display the results and refine your search to find exactly what it is you are looking for.

This website is intended to explain how to use the Google Wonder Wheel and supply some information related to it.

Whether you are a student, a webmaster or just need to find something online, this tool is relevant for any of us and enable us to navigate the jungle of the Internet more easily.

The wonder wheel is meant to provide a more visual display of relevant search terms and keywords for the user. If from some reason the google wonder wheel is not yet available in your local google search, give it some more time as development in other languages is taking place.

Did you say mind mapper? This tool is a built in mind mapper with the intention to sort out search results in a logical way of relevancy creating a visual wheel of terms that can make your searching enjoyable and time effective at the same time.

Don’t attempt to build your website and plan your next school project without taking a look at the terms relevant to the ones you intended to use.

We hope this website will help you better understand and use this tool and we appreciate and comments or feedback (and of course corrections if necessary).

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The Best Of Windows Software

The Best Of: Windows Software

On this page you will find the best 90 free Windows programs for all your needs. We’ve taken the effort to categorize the apps and picked only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you.

Anti- Virus Softwares

avast! Free Antivirus Expect great all-around protection against viruses and trojans. Download	AntiVir Free Version Lightweight and solid. Good ratings. Worth looking into. Download	AVG Antivirus Free Edition Not as good as Avast or Avira but with considerably less bloat. The most popular free antivirus. Download
Microsoft Security Essentials Simple, lightweight and competent protection suite. Download	Comodo Internet Security Free security suite, includes both a firewall and anti-virus protection. Download

Malware/ Spyware Removal

Spybot S&D Detects and removes spyware. Compliments anti-virus apps. Download

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Download

IObit Security 360 Free Advanced malware & spyware removal utility. Download

Firewall Applications

PC Tools Firewall Plus 6 Powerful firewall capable of providing excellent protection. Download	Comodo Firewall (standalone) Long been considered one of the best free firewall tools available. Download	ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Provides the best overall firewall protection for advanced users. Download
Online Armor Free All of the normal features of a firewall and more. Download	Ashampoo FireWall Free Very easy to use and navigate. For intermediate users. Download

Defragmenters

Auslogics Disk Defrag Simple, reliable and quite fast. A must-have free PC tool. Considered no.1 by many. Download

Defraggler Another excellent defrag tool. Portable. From the same guys behind hugely popular CCleaner. Download

IObit Smart Defrag Extremely easy to use. Works continuously in the background. Download

File Recovery

Recuva Very effective in restoring deleted files. Extremely popular. Download

FreeUndelete No frills, just focused on the zen of file recovery. Download

ADRC Data Recovery Software The Renaissance Man of free data recovery. Not as popular as Recuva but still has its own fans. Download

Uninstallers

Revo Uninstaller Free Fast and very effective at uninstalling just about anything. Popular choice for the purpose. Download

IObit Uninstaller New kid on the block. Gaining popularity. Boasts a bunch of features not found on other uninstallers. Download

Absolute Uninstaller Less popular than the other two but probably the simplest to use one. Download

BackUp

Mozy Incredibly smart, highly secure, set-it-and-forget-it backup solution. Backups data to web. Download	FBackup Backup files and documents, personal settings and plugins. Download	Todo Backup Able to backup the entire operating system, program settings, browser data, emails and other data. Download
Clonezilla Live CD to completely clone your hard drive. Download	SyncBack Freeware Selective synchronisation, local and remote backup to an FTP server. Download

System Maintenance

Glary Utilities Includes over 15 useful tools. Been recommended by MakeUseOf several times! Download

CCleaner Scores high points all around. The most popular choice at the moment. Not as many features as in others. Download

IObit Toolbox The amount of system maintenance tools included in this free app is truly staggering. Download

Browesers

Google Chrome The fastest, minimal design browser now with extension support. Download	Firefox More than 6,000 add-ons for every possible feature. The most customisable browser to date. Download	Safari Designed to emphasize browsing. Also features extensions. Download
Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. Download

Email Client

Thunderbird Increasingly popular. One of the best email clients for Windows. Download

Postbox Express A simple, yet powerful, new email application for Windows. Download

Google Notifier Alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. Download

Communication

Skype The most popular cross-platform VoIP application. Must-have for everyone online. Download

Pidgin Easy-to-use, cross-platform, multi-protocol chat client. Supports all major chat programs. Download

Digsby An alternative multi-protocol instant messaging app. Cross-platform. Extremely popular. Download

Photos/Images

Paint.NET Strong candidate as a potential substitute for Photoshop for beginner/intermediate users. Download	FastStone Image Viewer One of the best image viewer, converter & editor bundles. Download	IrfanView The Swiss Army knife of image viewers/editors. Extremely popular. Download
Google Picasa Powerful photo manager software from Google. Includes 1-click photo retouching features. Easy online photo sharing. Download	GIMP Very capable graphic editor with Photoshop-like features. Often labeled as free Photoshop alternative. Download	PhotoScape Another good free photo editing application. Download

Audio

foobar2000 Highly customisable advanced audio player for Windows. Download	Songbird A popular music player based on Mozilla’s code. Includes plugins. Download	Audacity Very popular open source software for recording and editing sounds. Download
iTunes Music player and video library organiser. Hosts the iTunes Store. Download	MediaMonkey Full-featured music player and music collection organiser. Download	Winamp Well-know, lightweight, small-footprint media player. Download
CopyTrans Manager Alternative iPod manager app. Sync and transfer music & files to iPod, iPhone, iPad. Download

Video Tools

VLC Media Player Extremely popular cross-platform app that plays almost any video file. Download	Handbrake Open source, cross-platform, multithreaded video transcoder and converter. Download	VirtualDub Open-source and portable video editor. Download
Media Player Classic Replica of WM Player. Includes only the most basic controls. Plays many formats. Download	Freemake Free video converter & DVD burner that’s easy to use. Download

Documents

OpenOffice A popular free alternative to Microsoft Office. Download	Dropbox Must-have for everyone. Sync folder with docs to web or other PCs / Macs. Share documents. Download	Notepad++ Popular open source text editor. Favoured by many, including programmers. Download
FoxIt Reader Really light alternative to Adobe Reader. Open PDF files. Download	doPDF Easily convert documents and pictures to PDF from any Windows program with two clicks. Download

Productivity

Fences Provides rectangular containers for your desktop to visually organize your icons. Handy! Download	Rainlender Very easy to use and lightweight calendar for your Windows desktop. Download	Evernote Save your ideas on the go and instantly take notes. Access notes from anywhere. Highly recommended! Download
VirtuaWin Gives you multiple virtual desktops to organize your workflow. Highly customisable. Download	Launchy A powerful keystroke based program launcher. Replaces the Start button. Download

Archive Managers

7-zip Takes care of most of your extracting/compression needs. Download

Universal Extractor With over 50 supported file formats, Universal Extractor is superb. Download

IZArc One archive utility to rule them all. Supports almost all formats. Download

CD/DVD tools

ImgBurn CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application. Also, lets you create image files from CDs and DVDs. Download	CDBurnerXP The most popular free alternative to Nero Burning ROM. Burn CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. Download	bitRipper Back-up your DVDs as AVI files or Mpeg to your hard drive. Excellent backup tool for DVDs. Download
CDex Open-source digital audio CD extractor. Saves CD tracks as MP3’s. Download	DuBaron CD2ISO A great tool to extract ISO images from CDs or DVDs. Very simple and easy to use. Download	Virtual CloneDrive Mount a virtual drive to open and playback ISO image files (CD/DVD images). Download
DVDShrink The easiest and one of the better free DVD ripping and backup tools. Download

Downloads

uTorrent Speedy, efficient, and free. The most popular BitTorrent client. Download

Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download

YouTube Downloader HD Downloads YouTube videos with just a few clicks of the mouse button. Download

Others

LastPass Secure plugin to store and synchronise passwords across browsers. Download

Unlocker Kills or unlocks unresponsive programs or system processes. Download

Soluto Speed up Windows boot time by removing unnecessary apps from startup. Very effective. Download

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Facebook Introduce new Profile Look. How to get it ?

Facebook now Introduce new Profile pages for give more stunning looks to profiles. It’s really awesome too. Now you can have quick look about that person just at the top of profile. There are many other options which shows your profile in cool manner.

Notable new things are as follows :

• New Introduction style at the top of Profile which gives quick overview about that person
• Now you can Featured your Friends, Family and Team mates too.
• Discover common Interest.
• Now you can Socially manage your Professional profile on Facebook.

Check snapshot of my Profile here.

If you want have Profile like this then go to http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/ and Click on “ Get  The new Profile”. You can even check Facebook official announcement for new Profile. Check this fecebook Official Video too for details.

10 Specialized Social Networks For You To Join

The way we communicate has changed and social networks are now the center of our daily lives. We update our friends about our whereabouts, discuss what we had for dinner and post updates on events and cool articles we’ve read (feel free to share this one too).

But after using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and the fading MySpace, how else can we use this amazing new phenomenon to our benefit? That’s where specialized social networks can be handy. Crazy about cooking? Would love to know what other people are buying?  Want to help poor people worldwide but can’t afford to do it alone? There is a network for all of these and many, many more.

BakeSpace

BakeSpace was launched in August 2006 by media producer Babette Pepaj and seems to have taken many hints from MySpace (besides the name). It allows you to upload videos and images, post a blog, and have your friends and recipes side by side. It also allows you to build and customize features with clever names, such as your own “online kitchen” and raid the “virtual pantry” (forums).  A great place for those who share a passion for cooking.

Blippy

Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. It works by posting purchases you’ve made to selected stores to their stream in a way that’s similar to Twitter, but with products. It can be surprisingly addictive to read what your friends and family are buying, or just browse the choices others have made.

Kiva

Want to join your friends and family and make a huge difference in someone’s life? That’s why Kiva was created. The idea is to use the power of community and social networking to help someone out of poverty by lending poor people all over the world enough money to start a business or improve their standard of living.

The minimum loan is $25, which gets added to the donations from other lenders to help fund someone’s dream in the poorest parts of places like Africa or South America. The reason it’s called a loan and not a donation is because they are partnered with organizations around the world to try to ensure that you get your money back. You create your lender’s page, pick who you want to lend to, invite your friends, share messages and sponsor people together.

You may also join one of the existing Kiva groups such as “The Beholders Group – Body, Mind and Spirit” (full disclosure, I run this one), “Team Yoga” or “Give Green – Environmental Loans“, among many others. Or better yet, you can create your own group and get everyone involved.

Patients Like Me

It seems strange to create a specialized social network that focuses on being sick, but if you think about it, the need for connection and understanding from others who are sharing the same experience can make “Patients Like Me” a very healing activity.

The site allows people who are going through treatment or have just found out they have a life changing condition find information, post their profile, discuss doctor visits and find emotional support. It can also be a great source of comfort to the family and friends of those who are going through any kind of health related crisis.

Baby Center Community

The Baby Center website has been around since 1997 and in 2008 they decided to launch their Baby Center Community, which is a social network for parents with young children of all ages to share their experiences, doubts and proud moments.

Virtual Tourist

With about 1 million members, Virtual Tourist is a great resource for those who love traveling and want to learn from and share experiences with fellow world explorers. It allows you to create your own travel map, shares images and activities and get a lot of information. They also have a very persuading way of ensuring you will add your personal pictures to the site. Their default profile picture is a sheep wearing a cap!!!

Digital Verse

A social network that is not as robust as your usual Facebook-like networks, but has the advantage of bringing a very targeted group of people together to share their poems and expose them to the world. Call yourself a poet? This site is for you.

deviantART

The deviantART site is one of the largest art websites in the world with 100 million original works of art and over 12 million members from 190 countries. It’s a great way to expose your art, which can be paintings, crafts, digital art and even Manga, and also allows you to sell it on the deviantART Shop.

Pingsta

So, geeks of the world (and I say that lovingly, since I am one of those geeks), you can now unite, but there is a catch. You must actually be accepted into this very private world of internet engineers by explaining your expertise and uploading your resume in the hopes of being granted an invitation. You may also prove yourself by answering 20 questions posted on their site or by getting an invitation from one of the members. Not for amateur geeks.

Flixter

Do you love movies? Love talking about them, learning about them and sharing comments about them? Then Flixter is for you. Even though it’s not even 3 years old, Flixter already is one of the largest movie sites on the web with over 15 million unique visitors and almost 2 billion movie ratings.

No one is ever truly alone. There are always groups of people who think like we do, share the same concerns or are excited by the same things we are. Now the web has given us thousands of ways to find those people. What specialized social networks do you belong to?

2 Great Sites To Track & Review All The Things You Love

As we move more and more of our daily activities online, we are generating a lot of data about ourselves. The things we watch, listen to, play, rent, and buy all say something about us, and if you were to gather all that information into one place it could be pretty useful.

To whom, you ask? Our trusted friends and family, for starters. I don’t know about you, but I would much rather get a book recommendation from a close friend than from a system, regardless of how accurate the system’s algorithm is. The data we create is perfect for this.

In this article, I’ll show you two great websites that connect to your existing accounts and allow you to take the things you’ve consumed, review them, and share that information with others.

Blippy

Blippy is a popular website – or specialized social network - that lets you share your purchases and see what your friends are buying online and in real life. You can communicate about and share your reviewed purchases with friends by syncing your e-commerce accounts on sites like iTunes, Netflix, Woot, eBay, etc.

To start utilizing Blippy, just log in with your Facebook account. You’ll be prompted to enter your email address and pick a username to create your account. Then you’ll be set to start linking some accounts. If you’re worried about security, Blippy states that their page is “secure and protected with bank-level data security”.

Just so you know, Blippy will confirm with you which purchases you want everybody to see. Once it finds your purchases, you can begin writing reviews that will help your friends/family find things they may be interested in, but never knew about.

Why would you want to share your purchases with friends? Rather than trying to answer that with some random example or creative metaphor, I’ll let Blippy do the explaining:

Blippr

While Blippr may look and sound a lot like Blippy, I assure you it’s a completely different animal. Blippr revolves around media, like movies, books, and music. It’s a way to find media that you will like fast.

How many times have you asked a friend for a book recommendation, or for what she thought of the movie she saw last weekend? How about the last time you found a great new band through a colleague? We do it, all the time. So, we thought, how can we make it better?

Blippr learns about your tastes, both as you use it and through the people you connect to. Wecovered the site back in July of ’09 originally, but the information is a bit dated, so let me fresh your memory.

Finding apps, books, games, movies, and music you’ll love can be a lot easier if you didn’t have to sift through those long reviews written by people you don’t even know. Blippr allows you to connect your existing accounts with Netflix, Last.fm, Steam, and more. They’ll automatically collect the media you consume and place it in an easy-to-manage library where you can keep track of it.

You can begin by connecting through your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Share your opinions through reviews of your content and get your friends’ opinions in return. Then, you’ll start getting personalized recommendations based on all of your likes.

If you’re looking for a similar site/community, I also recommend you check out GetGlue.

Conclusion

See what I mean? Now you can take all of that data you’ve created online and put it to good use. Let it work for you and make it easier to find things you’ll love, as well as help those you care about find the things they love. By all means, this isn’t homework. Don’t think you have to write lots of in-depth reviews to get your point across. Treat them like tweets, 140 characters or less.

What do you think of these services? Will you be making use of the data you create?