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WhatPercent: Polls for Everything

WhatPercent is a website dedicated in bringing you a clean web environment where you can voice out your opinions on a range of issues. They also provide a social network feature that allows you to follow other members. Through this you can create your polls and reviews which can subsequently be voted for or against by the general public. The statistics of these votes will be calculated and displayed in real-time.

This site was made as both a learning experience for our employees as well as a free service to net users everywhere. As an international company, with employees from all over the world, we realize the importance of having your voice heard and allowing the expression of viewpoints from a variety of perspectives.

Registering for a personal account will give you access in creating and voting on reviews and polls ranging from pertinent, real-world issues, to the most outrageous topics. The comment system will allow each member to clarify why they voted the way they did and exchange opinions with other users/members regarding the issue at hand.

If you’re in need of statistics and information on a particular topic, WhatPercent can be a useful tool in getting opinions made by real people all over the world. The real-time stat calculation provides a quick and easy way of gathering data on a given topic or issue.

Tags: Polls. Reviews, Statistics, What Percent

TwitCritics: A Twitter Powered Movie Review Site

TwitCritics is a website that provides real-time movie reviews and ratings directly from Twitter. It collects tweets about movies written by people on Twitter and determines if they are positive or negative. The reviews will count as soon as they are shared on Twitter.

What makes TwitCritics a valuable source of movie reviews is that it shows you the opinions of real people and not just professional movie critics. You can easily distinguish if a tweet or a comment made on a particular movie is positive by checking out the thumb up (green) or thumb down (red) rating. The main page shows you the overall rating for each movie which is distinguishable by color. The rating is the percentage of tweets that are positive.

If you can’t decide what movie you want to go see or if you are having second thoughts about seeing a particular movie, you can simply head over to TwitCritics and read about what real people are saying about the movie. TwitCritics is also a great place to visit if you are looking for instant movie review on its first day of showing.

Tags: Movie Reviews, Real-Time Search, TwitCritics, twitter

BuddyFuse Integrates Twitter and Google Talk into Windows Live Messenger

BuddyFuse is a tool that you can download to enhance your Windows Live Messenger by integrating Twitter and Google Talk into it. If you are generally a Windows Messenger user, you’ll find the enhancement quite convenient. You’ll be able to see your Google Talk contacts and update your Twitter account through your Live Messenger.

To use the tool, simply download the enhancement (exe file) and install it on your Windows powered machine. The next step is to associate your Google Talk and Twitter account with your Windows Live Messenger. Once logged-in, you can chat with your Google Talk contacts and make Twitter updates without accessing their browser based apps.

Buddy Fuse is an alternative way of integrating several chat service and social networking sites into a single chat client. The tool only supports Google Talk and Twitter as of this moment. Hopefully, it will support other chat networks such as Yahoo and Facebook in the future.

Watch the demo video below

You can also use other alternative software that let you access several chat services and social networks into a single chat client. I use Pidgin to access several Google accounts together with Yahoo accounts. I also use to get Plurk and Twitter updates. There’s also Digsby and other multi-protocol chat clients that you can use.

Tags: BuddyFuse, Digsby, google talk, Pidgin, twitter, Windows Live Messenger

LocaFollow: Location and Bio Based Twitter User Search

LocaFollow is a Twitter app that allows you find local based Twitter users. What makes this different from other Twitter users search tools is that instead of just searching for the location, you can also search using the Twitter bio. It will further refine your search and give you better results if you are looking for people with similar interest as yours or someone who is involved in a particular field.

You can search users near your location or on a particular place by providing the Bio and the location of the user that you are looking for. Each search result provides you with Twitter information about the user. You’ll find the name and Twitter username, web address, bio, most recent tweet, and the follower/following stats. You’ll also be able to follow other users that appeared on your LocaFollow search results provided that you allow it to access your Twitter account. If you find the search tool useful, then it would be a good idea to let it access your account so you can instantly connect with other Twitter users that you find using the search.

LocaFollow is a great tool that can be used to easily locate and connect with people if you require a certain bio or location. If you’re looking for a blogger near your location, you can use the tool to easily find them. Since most bloggers are also Twitter users, there’s a high probability that you’ll find someone to connect with right away using LocaFollow.

Tags: follow, LocaFollow, Local Follow, Local Twitter Users, twitter

Speaking Faces: First Impression Feedback Tool

Speaking Faces is a service that allows you get feedback on that all important first impression of people have of you. If you want to make a first impression on a job interview or a date, you can use the service to get comments and suggestions from people other than your friends or family members. This way, you’ll get hard facts about the first impression that you make without any sugarcoating or biased comments.

To get a feedback using Speaking Faces, all you need to do is upload a photo of yourself, suitable attired for the relevant situation and let other users offer their opinions followed by constructive comments or criticisms. To properly send the message you desire, you must give out the right impression through your appearance. You will receive realistic, objective opinions from people you have never met before based on the thing people notice first, your appearance. You can review the comments and make the proper adjustments if needed.

Speaking Faces is a way of preparing yourself and make the proper adjustments so that you can convey the right message. It will give you an added advantage knowing that you will make a good first impression. Having that knowledge will boost your confidence when you are meeting someone for the first time.

Tags: Feedbacks, First Impressions, Speaking Faces

Enhance Your Website With a Flash 3D Slider using Cu3er

Cu3er is an image slider that you can use to visually enhance your website and grab user’s attention. The slider was initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides. It turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in different areas with regards to web design. You can use Cu3er as a content slider, feature slider or as an image and banner rotator.

To use Cu3er, you don’t need to be an expert web designer but you do need a limited knowledge in web authoring. You can set it up and have it running if you are quite familiar with Flash Player 9, XML Basics, Embedding .swf files into web pages using SWFObject.js and has some experience in image editing such as creating and exporting slides. If you wish to run your own 3D slider but worried that your knowledge on the mentioned web authoring tools is not sufficient, you can start by reading basic tutorials that are related to the ones needed to run Cu3er. You can also read the quickstart and user’s guide pages provided by the Cu3er team and get a step-by-step guide in customizing and setting up Cu3er in your website.

You can use Cu3er free of charge for your personal and/or commercial projects. You won’t have to worry about getting in trouble for using it on your website. If you can customize it, you may do so to your heart’s content.

Cu2er notes that it is not always the best solution for your website. In some cases, there are more appropriate answers to your needs. Not all visual needs can be answered by the slider.

The user always comes first! Therefore, identify your target audience, analyze the content people are expecting to find, recognize the potential effects of the solution you’d like to implement! Once you’ve experienced the magic of CU3ER, you’ll hardly want to go back to anything known before!

Tags: 3D Slider, Content Slider, Cu3er, Feature Slider, Image Slider, Web Design