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Twitter Connect is a feature which would let third party services to allow you to use your Twitter ID as a Log In ID much like how Digg.com uses Facebook Connect. Going by Twitter’s exponential growth, this would be the right thing to do. Such a feature would be useful as it lets a visitor to use his Twitter Account instead of going through the rigorous process of creating a new profile.

This would let you tweet about whatever you are doing on the site. Twitter has quite a firece competition from Facebook, which also has a quite a lot of features. So why would one choose twitter over facebook? One reason is the simplicity which twitter offers. When compared with Facebook, Twitter is very simple and it is one of the prime reasons for its huge growth.

Twitter lacks behind a lot in terms of the number of users and that might be the only disadvantage now as developeres might opt for the service with a greater number of users.

Facebook has announced that it is testing a new option using which users can choose who can see their updates and posts. This facility though is still in testing stage, it is expected to be released for general use quite soon.Right now, it is available only to those who had earlier set their status updates and privacy setting to be visible to everyone.

Now it would be easy for Facebook users to post updates which is not just visible to their friends but also to the entire world. It provides the option to choose between Everyone, Friends, Friends of Friends, Friends and Network or Custom (where you can selectively choose your friends).

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site is famous primarily because of its updates visible to everyone and this new step taken by Facebook is obviously aimed at Twitter. The main advantage which facebook now has is the per-item privacy control which twitter lacks. If a user wishes to post a public update like an interesting link or comments about a movie, he can do it in the public domain and if it is personal information he can choose it to be private.

It must be noted that facebook recently released an option using which users can select their own vanity urls. This would help Facebook a lot in Google search results.

Firefox Add-on

Twitterbar is a Firefox extension which allows you to post to twitter from Firefox Browser’s address bar. It enables you to post to twitter very easily. Though it doesn’t have the functionality to get tweets and display it is a great toolfor posting twitter updates.

Posting to Twitter

You can type your 140 character message in the address bar and then you can either type ‘–post’ or click on the twitter icon to post it to twitter. If you wish to tweet the URL of the page you are viewing then you can just click on the twitter icon and it gets posted along with a small message which you can edit in the settings of the add-on.

Real Time Search

This add-on comes with the ability to search in real time. You just type in your query and type ‘–search’ and you get OneRiot’s real time search results in your browser.

You can download the Twitterbar add-on for Firefox. You can visit the Official Homepage of Twitterbar if you have any doubts or queries.

It is a free flash game which enables you to play with what is called crayon physics.It enables the user to create shapes and lines with a mouse each of which would have some mass and everything is subject to the laws of gravity.It is surely an interesting game for those who love basic physics involving shapes.

The goal of the game is to vollect all rotating circles with the black ball. You can move the ball by drawing shapes with mouse. The ways of completing a level is only limited by your imagination. It consists of 24 levels of varying difficulty.

You can play the game at its official website. It is also available in various other sites.

If you are unable to find out the way to complete a level there are two videos (this and this) available in Youtube which would guide you in completing that.

A side which fell just short of the World Title in 2007, a side which has been under trouble a lot in the last year because of internal struggles, a side whose matches were cancelled, postponed and lacked much practice, has now been been able to lift the Trophy. It has won the ICC World Twenty20 by 8 wickets remaining.

Its a great moment for Pakistan cricket and will remain etched in Cricket history forever. Sri-Lanka performed well throughout the tournament but let it slip away in the last moment. All credit goes to the Pakistani Players who have done extremely well under pressure situations.

I feel the Indian team missed out due to too much of cricket. Yes. I now feel that the IPL has taken its toll on the players. Though it was a good tournament, it has made many of the players unfit for the world cup, which was a far more important tournament for them being the defending champion.

BillMonk is a free service offered by Obopay Inc. It is a way of recording bills shared by you and your friends. It makes life a lot easier, relieving you from making tough calculations on who owes you how much. Instead, you just have to enter the bill amount along with who paid how much and who is going to share the bill. BillMonk does the rest and shows you calculations. You can collect or payback the money as and when required.

Let me explain you with an example… If I owe you (assume you are my friend) $20, you can ask me to pay for your lunch tomorrow. This flow is founded on trust, and is not a legally binding guarantee. I pay today and record it in billmonk. You pay tomorrow and record that amount in billmonk. And once in a while, we can settle the difference with each other.

Money usually stresses friendships. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” BillMonk is here to defuse the financial tension between friends by providing us with a tool which manages money in a way that is easy and fair. If you need to track the money that you have borrowed from someone or the money which you owe to someone else, use Bill Monk and make it easier.

For more details about the site and the services they offer, you can check out their blog.

Bugatti Veyron

Cost: $1,700,000

This is the Most Expensive Car available in the market. It is the fastest accelerating car in production, reaching 100kmph in 2.5 seconds. Its fastest speed is 408.5 kmph (average).

If you are out of town on a business trip and your mobile balance is exhausted, you can now recharge your pre-paid number using a website. The site that I’m talking about is RechargeItNow.

You can make all your recharges 24×7 from any location using this site. This instant pre-paid recharge station can be used for different mobile operators. Those currently available are Aircel, Idea, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, BSNL, Reliance, Tata Indicom and Loop. Services for Airtel are said to be started soon.

You can start by signing up on the website to become a registered user which would include E-Mail and Mobile Verification. You select your operator and click on Rechare It Now and you will be redirected to your respective operator and circle page, where all available plans will be displayed. Once you select a suitable plan, you can proceed to pay.

You can make the payment by your credit card, debit card, internet banking account or cash card.The payment is completely secure as your payment details are entered directly on the secure site of the payment gateway you choose.

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Omegle is a site which pairs you up with a random person accessing the website for an one-on-one chat. Chats are completely anonymous, though there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details. You are assigned the handle – ‘You’ and the other person is referred to as ‘Stranger’.

Once you click on the ‘Start a Chat’ button on the home page you enter the chat room where you are joined by another person with whom you can chat about anything you like. You can share information and tell whatever you feel like. You can either make a new friends or frustrate a stranger. At any point of time during the conversation you can choose to stop the conversation.

Though the site gives you something to pass your time for a while, it wastes most of your time. At the end of a chat there is nothing left of it.  All it does is to eat away your time. You can use the time spent on that site to do something more productive. If you are still interested click here to visit the site.

This is yet another third party Twitter app which helps you find out info about your friends, followers and fans. Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out here!

All you need to do is enter the name of a tweeter and find out who his ‘friends’, ‘fans’ and ‘following’ are. What do these three words signify? Here it is:

• Following : this signifies those people whom you are following but they do not follow you. You may be following them to get updates and alerts.

• Fans : This refers to those who follow you but you do not. These are people who like your updates and follow you for that.

• Friends : This refers to the group of people who are your followers and you are theirs as well. This is a two-way following.

Friendorfollow.com is a site where it filters twitter account into the above mentioned three categories. It is a bit easy for you to understand about your followers and following using this site.

You can also view the Top 100 most followed users and Top 100 most following users.