Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Evite, is an event planning service that let users know about the details of the event(s) on their cell phone. It is a great way to get yourself updated about the latest events. Now it has included a voice activated directions service (now you have to be at the party on time, no excuses).

To use the feature, you don’t need any kind of registration or GPS, all you need to have is a cell phone. If you are a guest, you  just have to go to the Evite event details text message and click on the ‘directions’ link. Once done, the voice activated service will be launched. After that just say the start of address/intersection and get the driving directions from the service through SMS, now that is cool, isn’t it?

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Soungle is a must have bookmark for any DJ, musician or music freak out there. It is a search engine that lets you search for free sound FX and musical instrument samples from their huge database. It lets you search, preview and download them.

Although it might sound weird to search for sound FX using text, it does work well. Searches are keyword based and upto 10 results are displayed per page. Every search result shows a play icon which previews that particular search result. The download button instantly starts downloading the sound effect. Each search result is accompanied by some details such as short description, frame rate, duration and bit rate.

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Widexplorer is a meta search engine that uses the vertical scrolling capability of your browser to show you search results in a very productive and practical way. It shows you websites in their full glory , which is somewhat like SearchMe, although it uses its own search engine, where as Widexplorer opens up the websites of Google, Wikipedia, Live Search, Youtube and the likes to show you their search results.

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Google Earth has recently added a layer in Google Earth’s Gallery. GPS tracks have been enabled and due to it various other information are also available now. Hundreds and thousands of tracks have been aggregated by Wikiloc, which is a Spanish company. The GPS tracks are usually provided by the community of Wikiloc.

Other than allowing GPS tracks to be displayed in Google Earth, the layer also lets you provide some other information such as  the distance covered, the elevation maxima, your own description of the trip along with the snaps taken by the user. This will help others understand the place better and also you can tell your friends about the trip in a better manner.

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Have you ever been in a social gathering that has got you stuck and is utterly boring or a date that you would like to escape for the more you look at the person next to you the more you feel like cursing yourself for taking such a stupid step? Must have happened many times and we still have a bit of humanity that even if we want to make a run off, we just don’t, for we cant hurt the person or for any other reason. What to do then? How good it would be if someone calls you up and gives you a chance to wave goodbye. Getmooh is your ever wanted helper. How?

Getmooh is an automated call back service designed specifically to help you escape situations of the sort. This lets you set a time at which you want the call to be made; the recording that is played can either end up torturing those nearby or make them feel like you are attending a really important call.

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Quarkbase is a very useful tool to find out a huge variety of information on any website. It mashes up over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering  information on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people etc. One of the best things about it is that it’s free and doesn’t have any advertisements. Although it does use Alexa to show the traffic history which is already broken and also been declared dead by ‘Dr.’ Allen Stern.

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I have avoided using sites and services offering weather reporting primarily to the fact that they flood out a whole lot of useless information that ranges from super loaded maps, forecasts for travel and crap when all a user needs is a simple weather report.

SimpleWeather is as simple as the name sounds with nothing that takes you away from the track of knowing what the day is going to be like in your locality. All this or should I say only this by entering the zip code for the city you need to find the forecast. Hosted by Media Temple, the service generates the weather information from data provided by CustomWeather Inc.

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IAC (InterActiveCorp) has turned out to be a more online specific company since its split-up into five different units. With this strategy, they are now concentrating more on startups. Taking further the vision, the IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller is now launching ZwinkyCuties which is a virtual world for kids. The launch is expected on September 16th.

ZwinkyCuties is a sequel of Zwinky which is thought to be directly targeting the Club Penguin of Disney. The later is aimed at the smaller age group of girls i.e. 6-12 years old. As the service is very attractive for young girls, a lot of kids who don’t meet the age criteria, try to join in but they are turned away.

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YouTube has been dominant in the online Video business but somehow it hasn’t capitalized on this value it has; we are talking about monetizing and minting cash on its present value, putting to use the gargantuan userbase it has to generate revenue. It has somehow realized what it had been missing all this time and in a bid to overcome all this YouTube now appears different.

Different doesn’t mean we are talking about a change in layout, but seeing (finally) some sponsors making it up with their ads. Google had been trying to squeeze out some cash by putting up ads in the videos being watch (start, middle, end and where not) but the idea of giving space to sponsors on the homepage makes revenue generation easier and worth while.

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MeGlobe is a multi-language instant messenger which lets users from various language backgrounds to chat with each other. We reviewed the startup couple of months ago. The idea of providing the instant messenger in various languages is great as it is innovative. Though the idea was great, we pointed out some flaws in the website, most of them are now fixed.

Earlier you couldn’t update snap on your profile, now you can do it easily and the best thing about it is that the snap is uploaded instantly. The size of the photo which can be uploaded is 100 kb. Google AdSense which were appearing at the bottom of the site, have been removed and now the messenger is more visible. A drop-down menu, which we suggested earlier, has been added in the searching section making it more feasible.

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