About Author: Xavier Lur

If you're a Twitterer, I'm sure that you've came across Twitterholic before. Well, if you don't, it's actually a robot which scans Twitter's public timeline and ranks the users based on the number of followers they have. Besides that, it even offers rankings based on several categories which includes location, number of friends and updates. On the other hand, TwitterScore, a web app that tells users how well they score for their profile out of 10, has also released a similar ranking as Twitterholic. But in this case, it has made use of an algorithm that calculates the popularity of each Twitter user based on several factors and rank them according to their locations. According to TwitterScore, United States tops the list of "Top Users By Locations" with an astounding 63.21% of the entire Twitter population and the average score is 3.94 out of a maximum 10. The top Twitter users in the United States are CNN, Britney Spears and Barack Obama. All have managed to clinch the maximum score of 10." title="TwitterScore Challenge Twitterholic By Releasing A New Feature: Top Users by Location" />

The problem which most of us faced while making a search query on the Internet is that Google usually repeats its search results especially for popular search terms. While browsing through the first page of search results, you'd find that you've to keep clicking on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page in order to find what you really want or need. This has resulted in time wasting. If you're a frequent Googler, you'd have noticed that for most of its results, there is a link which says "Similar Pages". This useful feature enables users to search for web pages that have similar content to a given site. However, there are some downsides of these feature. This is when SimilGoogle comes in handy. Dubbed as a way to "Discover A New Web", Similgoogle is a newly-launched search engine that make use of Google's Similar Pages to help Internet users to enhance their search experience on the net." title="SimilGoogle: “The Search Engine Which Can Change The World. Bye-bye Google-web!”" />

Forget about the Twitter's "boring" public timeline which is filled with text. You can now easily visualize tweets using Flittr.cc. A mash up of the two social platforms - Twitter and Flickr, Flittr was developed by James Harton in March 2009 and it's powered by Rails. Bascially, what this interesting app does is that it grabs the latest tweet from the public timeline and fiddles with text to generate the sixteen most suitable pictures related to the tweet on Flickr. It will then displays them as a mosaic." title="Twitter + Flickr = Flittr" />