A new social networking site called Twine is the brainchild of technology guru Nova Spivak. It looks like a cross between Facebook and Wikipedia, but its engine room is powered by “semantic understanding”, where the website actively learns about you and your interests. The technology gets to know you, learns what you love & what you hate, then suggests new info, twines and contacts through personalized recommendations.
www.twine.com

Last.fm is my favourite place for finding new music. The site is now bigger and better with lots more features. http://www.last.fm

I’ve recently rediscovered the social networking site Twitter, and I’m now totally addicted.

It seems a lot of people have still not heard of Twitter, so just to explain, it’s a micro-blogging network where each post is only allowed a limited number of words. So each post needs to be short, sweet and to the point.

It’s ideal for updating your friends on what you are doing at this present moment, sharing ideas and web links.

If you want to follow my thoughts, and what I am up to, then the brand-new, shiny WiseCat on Twitter is now online. It would be nice if you would sign up and add me as a follower.

www.twitter.com/wisecat2

This free online scanner will check your system for viruses, spyware and system vulnerabilities.

The big difference between this service and other online scanners is that HouseCall will actually fix the infections for you. Just click the Clean Now button! I found the scanner didn’t work with FireFox, but worked fine using Internet Explorer.

SearchMe.com is an exciting new visual search engine with a really cool interface that lets you see what you’re searching for.

As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you’ll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. The results are shown as screenshots of each site, which you can quickly flip through like a book. Clicking on a screenshot will take you to the site.

Searchme is different from other search engines like Google because it’s visual, playful and enjoyable. It’s also blazingly fast, which is impressive for a site which uses so many visuals.

Lefora is an easy to use service that allows even the least technically minded people to start their own online community forum.

It takes just a few clicks to get any discussion started with their free forum hosting service. You can also embed photos and videos.

Check out this example forum to see what it looks like in action.

Humyo is the latest online storage service to hit the Web, where you can access and share all of your files from anywhere in the world on a computer or mobile phone. It’s very user-friendly and offers a massive 30GB of free storage.

All files are encrypted and stored on servers located in a former gold bullion vault, so your data should be nice a secure! You can watch and listen to your media files directly with Humyo and automatically embed a media player for your content in emails and in social networking sites like Facebook.

You can also access your Humyo storage space as a drive on your computer – The Humyo Desktop Client makes real-time backups of your files and keeps your PC folders synchronised.

Virtual Desktops are the latest cool thing to hit the Web. By having an online desktop, you can always have access to all your contacts, documents, music, videos, photos, etc. on any computer. And since all of your data is stored centrally, it’s also generally easier to share and collaborate with others.

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