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Sputnik: Simplifying Search for the Best Online Tools and Applications

Sputnik is a website that aims to deliver you the best of the web in the simplest manner possible. It defines itself as the first Online System. It is a system that organizes and selects the best online tools and application while delivering them to you in very few clicks possible.

The free service divides the selected applications into the most popular categories. The system’s search tool allows you to make fast and targeted search. You’ll be able to take advantage of 50 search engines divided into different categories (between the other web, images, videos, music, download, encyclopedias, maps, etc). The results that Sputnik provides are the results that are provided by the best search engines available on the web.

Listed are the rest of Sputnik’s features

Communication: connects you to the most popular e-mail providers, Instant Messaging services, social networks, SMS, fax… all for free.

Music: listen to 24 hours/24h music, watch live concerts in streaming… and all the best music services in one click.

Movies: offers a list of movies (divided by genre) which can be viewed in streaming (that means without need to download).

TV: provides a selection of free online TV channels.

News: allows to read the daily news and to access to the best national and international newpapers online.

Games: allows to play games online, also in real time with other users.

Language Tools: provides translating services, dictionaries, language lessons and applications which allow other user, in the dialogue with the selected language.

Apps: allows the access to the best online applications without need to download (from text elaboration to the photo editing from the file transfer to SMS sending…)

All the services found in Sputnik are completely free and does not require you to download. All you need is your browser and you can enjoy free online tools and applications.

Tags: Online System, search, search tool, search-engine, Sputnik

WhosTalkin: Find Out Whos Talking About Who and Where

WhosTalkin is a social media search engine/tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that you most care about. You can search for any topic or person. It can be you or your company brand or a favorite celebrity or even your blog. Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most.

Our search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. We take this data and display it to you through our carefully designed interface that harnesses the power of AJAX to give you a seamlessly well organized user experience.

With social media sites popping out everywhere, it’s getting harder and harder to browse around those sites just to get a scoop of what you are into. WhosTalkin is a great tool for getting updated on a particular topic posted on Social Medias without actually going through each site and doing a search. It’s also a great way to find out who’s talking about your site or blog. You can get updated through RSS. You can also save the search result in the form of

Further development of WhosTalkin includes being able to be updated on a particular search word through RSS, being able to save the search result and other tools such as WordPress plugin, Firefox Toolbar and iGoogle Gadget.

Tags: search tool, search-engine, social media, whostalkin

Kallout Embeds your Applications with Online Search Tools

Kallout is a Windows based program which integrates itself to other applications so that you can do searches from within those applications. This way you can easily get search results without leaving the application and opening your browser. They are calling this a “Selection-based search” system.

All you need is just to highlight a portion of the context you want to search and mouseover on a tool tip which will appear whenever text is highlighted. Choose a service you want to use and you can easily get the result you want without opening a browser. KallOuts offer fast access to Google Maps, Wikipedia Articles, YouTube Videos, Flickr Photos, Amazon Products, Yahoo News and a lot more web services.

Kallout is a great addition to Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe Adobe Acrobat. You can easily get word meanings from dictionary.com or search Wikipedia for related topics. It also works on Internet Explorer and Firefox which makes it a great search add-on to the browsers if you are not doing heavy searches. It will also minimize tab usage. You don’t have to open another tab or type from your keyboard to search for locations and other stuff related to your keyword. Just highlight a text and click and search results will be available to you in just a few seconds.

Tags: application, kallout, search tool, Windows