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Many of us know about StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit. But here are 12 other social networking sites that are very useful and powerful.

At the start of this year, I sat down to write the "Errors and Debugging" chapter of Simply JavaScript. I cracked my fingers, dove into the landscape of JavaScript debugging tools, and emerged very disappointed several hours later. At the time, Firefox was the only browser with a JavaScript debugging tool worth writing about: Firebug. Less than a year later, the landscape has changed dramatically. Every major browser has introduced new development tools that make it easier to diagnose problems with your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code right inside the browser in question. But can any of these tools stack up against the slick and effortlessly powerful tools provided by Firebug? Let's take a look.

Facebook is a wonderful example of the network effect, in which the value of a network to a user is exponentially proportional to the number of other users that network has. Facebook's power derives from what Jeff Rothschild, its vice president of technology, calls the "social graph"--the sum of the wildly various connections between the site's users and their friends; between people and events; between events and photos; between photos and people; and between a huge number of discrete objects linked by metadata describing them and their connections.

Optimus-is a microformats transformer. Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats. Now your web site could really be your API with goodness of microformats and power of Optimus.

i read it's more powerful than powerpoint. I want to believe.

FotoFlexer is the most powerful online photo editor in existence. It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.

Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications.

MOO.RD - A lightweight Mootools extension

moo.rd is a super lightweight javascript (object oriented) library based on the MooTools framework. It is designed to give many useful and powerful functionalities to the developers, like a lot of effects, customizable standards, utility native functions, table management, virtual boxes and many more. In addiction moo.rd is modular, flexible, and completely compatible with all MooTools plug-in.

Get more from FeedBurner than just burning your feed. Take advantage of all of the free promotional opportunities as well.

How to use news aggregators to get your messages out to many potential readers or clients.

a custom search portal around the topic of your choice powered by your community

Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available - tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

Dabble DB helps you create online databases on the web. It's easy to use yet extremely flexible and powerful.

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.

This is the newest video from amaya demont... i have waited so0o00o0 long to see this video.... and i tell you it doesn't let you down... her voice is so sultry and powerful.. i really think she is going to be the next big star. if you don't know about her you've definitely been stuck under a rock or something!!!

The recent and dramatic growth of Web 2.0 and social software fundamentally changes the way that organizations must interact with information, and with those who produce, analyze, and consume that information. Government is no exception. The landscape of wikis, blogs, video sharing, and other social media has evolved and grown so rapidly that government policy has not kept up. The power of Web 2.0 and social software, if properly managed, can have a tremendously positive effect on the way the government interacts with the public, interacts with its employees, and conducts its own business. 

Unlike the slow moving behemoths of old, start-ups have the ability to rapidly change direction and adapt to newly minted consumer demands. Young companies now have access to a plethora of new tools that utilize the internet to minimize costs and maximize efficiency.

Today, email holds critical importance for every business to stay a step ahead of competitors. It would not be wrong to say that a proper email management is a backbone of most companies' daily activities. This underlines a need a growing need to secure emails against computer viruses, software failures, power failures, hard drive failures, or human errors. These threats can destroy the data including documents, pictures, emails and other files.

This is a video of a talk that Lawrence Lessig (Professor, Stanford Law School) gave for an unnamed organization. In his talk, Lessig provides a powerful and piercing analysis on the impact that legal restrictions on the re/use of media resources has on creativity and cultural production. During his talk, Lessig shows some remarkably creative mash-up videos on YouTube to exemplify the kind of creativity/cultural production that is possible through ubiquitous digital media, yet is considered copyright violation, for example, in the eyes of Warner Brothers Music Group. Ironically, the organization that hosted the talk received a notice from Warner Bros Music after posting a video of the Lessig's talk on YouTube, which, according to Lessig's blog, "objected to its being posted on copyright grounds." Warner Brother Music Group has implemented content-id algorithms (i.e., technology that detects the digital "fingerprint" of corporate-"owned" copyrighted works) through media hosting services, including YouTube, FaceBook, and others. When the video of Lessig's talk was posted, it was 'dusted' for fingerprints of WBMG copyrighted works. The detection system identified the soundtracks in the YouTube videos Lessig showed, as materials to which they held copyright. Both the video of Lessig's talk and the blog conversation regarding WBMG's objection are must-see resources.