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Miscellaneous Tools - this is a pretty extensive list of some other tools

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Feedback welcome on any of these tools....

Statistics Packages

• Sitemeter

• Google Analytics

• My Blog Log

• WebAnalyse

• Performancing Metrics

• AWStats

• Mint

• Extreme

• Webalizer

• Stat Counter

• Measure Map

• Slim Stat

Blog Editors

• Ecto for Mac and Windows

• Qumana

• BlogJet

• Zoundry

• w.bloggar

• Blog Desk

• Post2Blog

• Performancing for Firefox

• Mars Edit

News Aggregators and News Sourcing Tools

• Bloglines

• FeedDemon

• Technorati

• Google Reader

• Website Watcher

• BlogPulse

• Blogarithm

• Topix

• Blog Bridge

• Grazr

• Rojo

• Memeorandum

• NewsGator Online

• Net News Wire

Email Subscription and Newsletter Services

• FeedBlitz

• Zookoda

• Aweber

• Yutter

• RssFwd

• Feedburner’s Email Subscription Service

Blog Poll Tools

• Blog Polls.com

• Vizu

• Free Blog Poll

• Blog Poll

• Blog Flux Polls

• WP Polls

Other Tools

• Pingoat – pinging service

• Pingomatic – another pinging service

• AudioBlogger – audio post to your blog via phone

• BlogRolling – a service to manage your blog roll

• Creative Commons – copyright protections service

• Feedburner – RSS tool that adds a variety of features to your blog’s RSS feed

• Picasa – find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC

• Flickr – Store and share your images - good way of hosting images if you don’t have a stand alone blog on your own domain.

• Flock – A browser that enables sharing and blogging from within it

• Copyscape – allows you to track down other sites that are stealing your content

• TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join conversations evolving on the Internet.’

• Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and Directory

• Backpack It – A place to organise your to do lists, notes, files, reminders and more - all online

• Basecamp – Like Backpack it (same people behind it) but great for collaboration on projects.

• Ice Rocket – Blog Search

• coComment – Keep track of the comments you leave on different blogs in a central place

• co.mments – Similar name to coComment but not to be confused with it - a way of bookmarking and following comment threads via RSS

• Gabbly – Add live chat to our blog posts (like real time comments combined with IRC)

• Del.icio.us – Social Bookmarking site - good for sourcing stories but also great if you get linked to on it to get traffic

• Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site

• Only Wire – a bookmarklet that submits posts to multiple social bookmarking sites at once

• Odeo – a tool for recording and sharing audio/podcasting

• TagCloud – produces Tag Clouds for your blog from RSS feeds

• Indie Karma – a micropayment system for bloggers

• Tiny URL – Turns long URLs into tiny manageable ones

• Swicki – a new type of search engine that harnesses the power of a web community - sort of like a search engine and wiki combined

Filmloop – photo sharing

• Stock.xchng – Free Stock Photos

• Favicon Maker – allows you to make a favicon from a photo

• YouTube – a tool for putting video on your blog

• blip.tv – another video uploading tool

Social Bookmarking Chincklet Stubs

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Other

Alexea: Alexa URL check Blog ranking and information.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=<$BlogURL$>

del.icio.us: See who bookmarked at del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/url?v=2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

FeedWipe: Subscribe to this page!

http://feedwhip.com/feed/whip/?url= <$BlogItemTitle$>&name=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

IceRocket: Track with IceRocket

http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

Sphere: Sphere it!

http://www.sphere.com/search?q= sphereit:<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

TalkDigger: Find conversations with TalkDigger

http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php? surl=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

Technorati: Add this post to Technorati Favorites
(Or the hole blog using <$BlogURL$>)

http://technorati.com/faves?add=<$BlogURL$>

Technorati: show posts that link here

http://www.technorati.com/search/ <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

Forret Ping: You can put this between conditional tags so it'll be only visible to you. Ping

http://www.forret.com/tools/trackback.asp? title=<$BlogItemTitle$>&blog_name=<$BlogTitle$>

Whonu: Track with Whonu will generate a list to different services like Alexea, PubSub and much more.

http://www.whonu.com/url_results.php?q=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

Zaptxt: Alert me! (filtered notification)

http://zaptxt.com/alert/discover?feed=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>

BlogSiteFeedUrl should be replaced with your RSS feed link
Please remove the line breaks and add the tooltips (ex: title="This will bookmark this post at...")

Note: If your going to use javascript(location.href, document.title), have a look at their bookmarklets which can do more, like integrate selected text, but remember that it has browser compatibility issues and that the user requires to have javascript enabled. See links below.

Is your bookmark service not listed? Not all the services have the possibility to make a button, but still try leaving a comment. Between the readers help and me we might be able to do something(?)

You may also want to see:

Alltagz Blog buttons: German SBM, has many choices.
Law Favorites: For blogs related to law and legal issues. (You can use their bookmarklet as a blog button.)
Social Bookmarking Buttons you can Hotlink
Social Bookmark Tools: There are more buttons and button code generators here.
zerbit.de has listed the code the german Social Bookmarks.
Which Social Bookmark Button To Add?
ALL Social that CAN bookmark: A list showing pagerank and more.
WordPress Templates Code reference
Movable Type Template Tag Reference

Category: Add-ons Blogger Blog Social bookmarks Tools
Tags: Blogging, Bookmarks Bookmarking Buttons Code digg del.icio.us Footer Social

Labels: blogger beta, blogging, button, code, list, social bookmarks

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Other Blog & Website Tools?

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Everyday new cool tools are being invented and made available on the web, if you know of a widget, website service or third party tool that I might want to review on this blog please place a comment on this post.

Happy Blogging!!