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Best Cool Web Tools of 2009, Part 2

Part 1 of the best cool web tools for 2009 presented tools for sharing presentations online, consolidating social networking accounts, generating word-of-mouth referrals and using social media for research. This post includes tools for social search, social media monitoring, Twitter management, competitive research, real-time chat, job hunting, video sharing, time management and more.

Social Media Tools

HowSociable?

An extremely cool tool. What Website Grader does for website SEO analysis, HowSociable? does for a brand’s presence in social media: it evaluates a variety of sites to produce a combined “social media presence” score. Even better, it allows you to drill into the social media mentions of a brand behind the metrics.

Filtrbox

A real-time social media monitoring platform for PR, marketing, and brand pros. Get real-time alerts, trending and analysis for news, blogs, twitter and more.

KnowEm

Protecting your brand online is critical. This tool lets you instantly search more than 350 social media sites for your brand as a user name, so you can reserve it and keep it out of the hands of competitors, name squatters or potential detractors.

TwiPing

An inexpensive utility that helps efficiently create Twitter lists, find relevant people to follow, identify inactive Twitter followers and more.

CloudProfile: Social Media Optimization for Small Business by Mashable

Mashable reviews CloudProfile, a social profile / SEO / social media monitoring tool for small businesses. Sounds interesting, but is it worth $50 per month?

The Internet more positive about PPC than SEO by Searchcowboys

A review of whatdoestheinternetthink, a social sentiment tool. Enter any term and this tool will show you percentages of positive, negative and “don’t care” social media sentiment regarding the topic or brand.

Own Your Domain Name & Aggregate All of Your Social Accounts with Chi.mp by How-To Geek

A review of Chi.mp, a free service that enables you to register a personal/unique domain name, domain name, then blog, create photo albums, and aggregate all of your social accounts in one place.

Real-Time Chat Tools

Meebo Me

A widget that lets you install real-time chat capabilities on any web page.

Olark Is A Dead Simple Chat Widget For Site Owners by TechCrunch

TechCrunch review of Olark, a live chat widget alternative to Meebo.

Enhanced Search Tools

5 Ways to Add a Search Sidebar to Google SERPs by Search Engine Journal

Ann Smarty reviews WebMynd, Unified Search and three other tools that extend the search capabilities of Google in various ways to produce more relevant and/or comprehensive results.

Search Engine LeapFish Merges Real-Time Data And Social Content by MediaPost Online Media Daily

Review of LeapFish, a meta-search engine that combines traditional and real-time results from social media and news sites.

Wowd

A real-time search tool for discovering current opinion and news coverage of hot topics.

Scoopler

Another real-time search tool.

Google Squared – A Simple Tutorial by SEM Nook

A quick tutorial on how to use Google Squared to get customized, focused search results.

SimilarWeb

A downloadable tool that helps instantly find sites similar to the one you are currently browsing.

MyLife

A powerful people search tool for finding online information about individuals.

Hunch

A human-powered recommendation engine that provides guidance on a wide range of topics and questions, from which computer you should buy to which vegetables are the most  nutritious.

Other Cool Web Tools

Clip2Net

A tool that allows you to capture and upload video, images, text, files, even an area of your desktop to the web.

Hey!Spread

An online video distribution and analytics service to promote video content, somewhat along the lines of TubeMogul.

9 new marketing tools you need by iMedia Connection

Doug Schumacher reviews nine cool apps and plugins for marketers, including Skitch (for web page markup), OmniGraffle (diagramming), ColorZilla (online color management for design) and Hootsuite (Twitter management dashboard).

Find Competitor’s Top Performing Keywords & Use Them To Your Advantage by PPC Hero

Tips on how to use Compete.com to find your competitors’ top keywords, site traffic patterns, unique visitors and other information.

Xtranormal

A tool that lets you create funky animated movies from a text file.

Favicon

A tool for creating website favicons, similar to the DeGraeve favicon tool or the Dynamic Drive FavIcon generator.

Krunchd

A URL shortener that enables you to combine multiple URLs into one shortened link for collaboration or sharing.

Indeed

Job hunting? Indeed instantly searches job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages for jobs based on title/keywords and location.

100+ Resources for Getting Things Done by Readaloo

A fabulous list of time management apps for calendars, task lists, collaboration, organization, taking notes, bookmarking, mind-mapping and more.

Tags: Chi.mp, Clip2Net, CloudProfile, ColorZilla, Cool Web Tools, Filtrbox, HowSociable, Hunch, KnowEm, Krunchd, LeapFish, Meebo, Olark, Scoopler, Skitch, social media monitoring, social search, TwiPing, WebMynd, whatdoestheinternetthink, Wowd, Xtranormal

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