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Pretweeting.com - Trading Words On Twitter

This is one for these Twitter users that also are attached to virtual stocks. In a nutshell, on this site they will be able to employ a virtual currency in order to sell and buy the most popular words on Twitter, or rather, the words that they think have the potential for becoming top trending terms...  read more

Artwiculate.com - Build Up Your Vocabulary

Are you looking into a fast and enjoyable way of expanding your vocabulary? If that is indeed the case, chances are giving this new service a try will set you going down the right track. Essentially, Artwiculate is something akin to a word of the day competition that revolves around Twitter. The ide...  read more

Tweeterview.com - Have A Real Time Interview

At first, this was quite an intriguing Twitter application to me. In essence, Tweeterview was specially created with the intention to provide users that do not feel comfortable with non-interactive emails usually sent in order to perform remote interviews, with an appealing and efficient alternative...  read more

Yebol.com - Carry Out Semantic Searches

The past two months have done wonders for the field of search engines. Either the market is opening up and going above and beyond or some guy spread the word that it is a goose about to lay a golden egg of mythical proportions. Any way or the other, we can not complain about the many services that h...  read more

VocabSushi.com - Build Up Your Vocabulary

In an nutshell, this is a young resource that will let you build your vocabulary by playing games that take into account real-world usage and which adapt to your skill and expertise as you go on.

This approach attempts to replace the flash cards most of us grew and dealt with, to the point ...  read more

Wordnik.com - All About Words

As any other linguist, I am fascinated by words. Something that has me thinking constantly is the actual number of words an English speaker employs habitually. Experts say that English speakers nowadays have a repertoire of words that amounts to 2,000 – 3,000 at best. Now, compare it with the numb...  read more

WordSift.com - Visualize Words And Their Connections

WordSift can be accurately defined as a new tool that was created in order to help teachers to accomplish many of their goals. This solution will be useful in order to get and display the vocabulary structure of a wide variety of texts right away. In this way many users will have the chance to talk ...  read more

InURL.ws - Shortening URLs With Ease

Imagine that this is your URL’s length: http://www.switched.com/2009/04/08/tapulous-releases-new-coldplay-tap-tap-game-hands-on-review/. I do not know what would you think about it, but what I would say to my self would be something like “Oh my God, are you kidding me?

That is what ma...  read more

Lexipedia.com - Where Words Have Meaning

Lexipedia is a new online dictionary that has taken a visual approach to the whole premise. That is, whenever you key in a word you are presented with related words in a graphical manner, reminiscent of a grid that highlights connections. This includes verbs, adverbs, synonyms and antonyms along wit...  read more

LyricsTracker.com - Find Lyrics to any Soundtrack

A big part of what makes a movie good is the soundtrack. The songs in a movie bring out the emotion in us, whether they magnify a feeling of joy or sadness. Everyone has a favorite flick and a lot of the time part of the appeal is the soundtrack. If you’ve ever wanted to know the lyrics to your fa...  read more

Tagatum.com - Associating Tags And Words

Over at Tagatum.com, you’ll find a very ambitious project. They’re trying to figure out the connection between what people write and what tags they use to describe these posts. This will allow them to make a more accurate search engine than we’ve ever seen before. You can use tags to find blog...  read more

TypoBuddy.com - Take Advantage Of Typos

Do you know what happens when people misspell eBay listings? It appears that if someone misspells the name of the item they’re trying to sell, when you search for it, it won’t show up. This means that possibly thousands of auctions are virtually invisible. If you’re looking to save some bucks ...  read more

ReadingTest.Sytes.org - Interesting Site Viewer

Did you ever get that chain email that claimed that as long as the first and last letter of a word are on the same place, you can still read the word with the other letters scrambled? Even if you didn’t get it, you should still enjoy Readingtest.sytes.org. This site will allow you to take that ema...  read more

Cymbolism.com - Linking Words, Colors, Mood, and Design

Cymbolism is a funky, insightful online tool that links colors, emotions, and design. Colors compliment feelings that are derived from words. Designers can take advantage of this effect by jumping onto the Cymbolism site and finding out which colors convey the emotions that they desire certain wor...  read more