Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

When I will say that ReadBurner has introduced a new service called BurnURL that shorten URLs, you might think that there is already a plethora of such services already. But it’s just a tick different. Of course it makes sharing content, favorite pages across IMs, Twitter, etc easier but it gives another advantage, a share bar that includes links to share various social networks like Facebook, Digg, etc. It shows the number of times the page has been visited and how much it has been liked. I liked this new service.

Are you worried that your friend on Twitter is barely found online when you have something to converse about? Then try Tweetoclock. The startup lets you know the best time it is to send a tweet to a person. This is done by analyzing user habits, when they are most active on Twitter. Of course this isn’t something for the addicts who spent loads of time online using Twitter.

While there are a countless places to share your thoughts, opinions, etc with people around the globe and many others dedicated to the cause of helping academics, Mendeley is one of them. It’s a software that helps one manage and share research papers apart from searching and connecting with those related to the academics. I personally like the idea of providing a dedicated platform/service for those in academics easing the task of sharing and collaborating with fellow. It has been busy with updates and recently launched support for translations and raising a healthy $2 million recently. In time Mendeley might just live up to its dream of becoming the Last.fm for academics. You can tour the site here to learn more.

If you are tired of using the traditional start pages of iGoogle, Yahoo homepage, etc and feel like having the same thing with a new name, try stHrt [pron. start [stahrt]. The site lets you put up all your frequently pages on a single one, providing you a one stop access to them all. Works pretty much like the countless we have already but as I always point out there are too many people on the web who won’t mind getting their hands on another. stHrt is another one in the race with tough challenge to gain a place in the market and it’s going to take time. The interface is pretty simple and  it lets users have multiple homepages for work and home, plus it lets you make the page more interactive with widgets. What I personally liked using it was the feature of layered browsing, made it easier to check out my favorite pages without leaving my homepage.