Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (21-05-2010)
May 21st, 2010 by Andy Merchant
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. Copy Gater. “This is a free service designed to monitor your RSS feed and find where your content has been republished in the blogosphere. We automatically notify you when a new post is copied to another feed, we also build an overview page you can view to see how/when/where your content is being duplicated, quoted or plagiarised. This is an entirely free service and is powered by the feed spidering power of ://URLFAN. Learn more on how the CopyGator does what he does. or view an example of our content overview page for Gizmodo.com”
2. Default Icon are a set a free simple icons you can use in your blog or next PPT, they are under creative commons license so do acknowledge Default if you use them.
3. Bloop is a free service that lets you add events to its directory. You then sign into that event via a social profile, and start chatting to attendees or those interested in the event.
4. Favitt is a search engine that you can personalise. Currently you can only upload a background image but they claim more personalisation features are coming soon.
5.GT Metrix. GTmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides actionable recommendations to fix these issues.
SEO post of the week: The Landing Page Design Toolbox: 100 Tools, Tips and Resources
More of the same next week.
Check out previous issues of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’
Tags: social media news, social media review, social media sites, social media tools
