Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Search millions of conversations from social networks, blogs and other social media channels with BackType.com. You’ll also see what’s currently popular and being talked about on the web. This is not the only search engine for social media websites, but one more useful tool when it comes to tracking trends and brands.

Create your own social news website with the free service at SlinkSet.com. Add feeds from your favorite blogs (or your own website) and allow people to add their own items as well. You get a custom URL and within your settings you can decide to make the site public or private, who gets to post and have admin privileges and more. You can also ustomize layout and colors to your liking, add a logo and off you go!

Track your website’s keywords throughout the social media world with SamePoint. It pulls up results from user generated content such as blogs, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Wikipedia, Simpy, Digg, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Use this site to see what people are publishing in real-time and what’s trending. What makes this different from simply going to the usual search engines for results, is that these results are in real time. Even though the major search engines are also adding real time results, their main results still come from data bases. SamePoints’ results are not just useful for marketers, but also for finding new sites for back links and to track what people are saying about your brand.

Submit the lamest, stupidest, funniest or weirdest posts you come across on Facebook to Lamebook. Nervous about your own posts showing up? Don’t worry, images are blurred and links are not clickable Lameness is rated by the lamemeter up to 5 thumbs down.

It’s hard to keep up with all your social media accounts every day. Make it easier on yourself and sign up with Ping.fm to simultaneously update all your accounts. Ping.fm supports Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Myspace, LinkedIn, Bebo and dozens more.

Access all your web apps from one place and switch easily between them at SimpleSpark. You can also submit your web app for review and inclusion.

Traditional search engines search documents and pages, Topsy searches current conversations on social media sites like Twitter, blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities for your search term. It displays search results based on influence of the source.

On Digg Labs, visualize all Digg activity, newly submitted stories and most popular stories.

Find funding and investors, post jobs, network with others and get advice.

Find local business events, seminars, other entrepreneurs in your area. This is not a site to post your resume, but to collaborate and share ideas and establish business relationships.