Jott

Created with busy people in mind, Jott is a voice-to-text-enabled online service that lets you create memos, set reminders and send emails simply by dialing a toll-free number from your cell phone and reading out your message! Sounds too good to be true, but seriously, it's there for real. Read on

Membership: Basic, Jott ($4/mo) and Pro ($13/mo)

Category: Organizers

Picnik

Picnik is a photo editing service that lets you fix minor imperfections in your pictures without resorting to the heavy artillery like Adobe Photoshop. Thanks to its seamless integration with many popular photo storage-enabled websites: Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Webshots, Facebook and others, Picnic is an ideal tool for people on the go working from mobile devices, internet cafes and other peculiar places. So what exactly can you do with Picnik? Read on

Membership: Basic (free) and Premium

Category: Multimedia » Photo

Netlog

Netlog is a very large and fast-growing social network, unlike what you might have thought it to be judging by its rather techie name. It unites almost 40 million people worldwide and is rapidly growing! Now you may be scratching your head: if it's so big, how come you've never heard of it before? Read on

Membership: Free

Category: Social Networks

Fotolia

Fotolia is one of the largest providers of stock photography with a community of over 800,000 photo enthusiasts from all over the world who submit thousands of pictures every day. Fotolia specializes in selling lower-end images at prices starting at just $1 a picture. But make no mistake: in an area as subjective as visual arts, lower-end does not necessarily mean low quality! Read on

Membership: Credits-based accounts

Review: 1

Category: Multimedia » Photo

MeGlobe

Have you ever found yourself in desperate need of talking things over with someone who does not speak your language? Chances are you have, and if you think those situations can't be helped, be prepared for the good news and meet MeGlobe - the instant messaging service with an automatic translation system built into its core! Read on

Membership: Free

Category: Communication

Yappr

Yappr is a place to learn English as a second language by watching video. Studying aside, it seems like the guys behind Yappr are onto something really big. Here's what happens. Read on

Membership: Free

Review: 1

Category: Education

Last.fm

Last.fm is a social network built around people's love for music. As you play your favorite songs via Last.fm's downloadable players for the desktop and iPhone, the system learns about your music preferences, and by matching that data against other users' profiles comes up with recommendations you are likely to enjoy. Already intrigued? Read on

Membership: Free and pay accounts

Category: Multimedia » Music

FriendFeed

FriendFeed is a service that helps people organize their online life by providing a single, consolidated view of all of the activity on the social networking websites where the user is involved. Sounds obscure? Well, the idea is actually pretty simple. Read on

Membership: Free

Category: Communication

Truveo

Truveo is a search engine that specializes in video content. It crawls all over the Internet to find and index millions of new web videos every day. But it's not the size of the database alone that makes Truveo big. Read on

Review: 1

Category: Multimedia » Video

Twitter

Twitter is a messaging service that allows its users to post quick updates and exchange short text messages (analogous to SMS, but limited to 140 characters) using any of the available interfaces: the website itself, email, cellphone, or through numerous third-party tools and widgets that speak Twitter. So what do people use Twitter for? Read on

Membership: Free

Category: Communication