| Service: | Blog Search, Analysis, Tracker, and More |
| Website: | http://www.blogpulse.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | BlogPulse.com is a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere. BlogPulse.com features include a Search Engine for blogs, a set of Buzz-Tracking tools, a look at real-world Trends as reflected through blogs, Daily blog stats that measure activity in the world of blogging, a Trend Search that allows you to create trend charts comparing buzz in the blogosphere on up to three specific topics, a Conversation Tracker that follows and captures the discussion, or conversation, that emanates and spreads from individual blogs or individual blog posts, and Blogger Profiles that identify top-ranked blogs and analyze their blog presence, activity and relative influence in the blogging world. BlogPulse is brought to the world by Nielsen and is completely free. |
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Social Mention
| Service: | Social Media Search and Analysis |
| Website: | http://socialmention.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information. It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc. Social Mention currently provides a point-in-time social media search and analysis service, daily social media alerts, and API. |




(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)Wikimedia Commons
| Service: | Repository of Freely-Licensed Media |
| Website: | http://commons.wikimedia.org |
| Freesource Notes: | Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers. |




(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Social Media Governance
| Service: | Resources & Examples on Corporate Social Media Usage |
| Website: | http://socialmediagovernance.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Social Media Governance helps companies clarify and manage social media priorities, coordinate shared investments (such as information security and compliance), and define meaningful metrics to hold stakeholders accountable for performance of social media and social application investments. On Social Media Governance you”ll find a database of over 100 actual corporate social media policies that make great examples of SM policies and what they’re about. |




(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)Google Checkout
| Service: | Checkout Tool for Buyers & Sellers |
| Website: | http://checkout.google.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | With Google Checkout, shoppers can stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. Google Checkoutâ„¢ let’s you quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place. For Sellers, Google Checkout helps attract new leads and convert more sales. Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge, meaning more traffic to your site AND the fast, convenient checkout process helps Checkout users convert 40% more than shoppers who have not used Checkout before. |




(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Creative Commons
| Service: | Free Search Engine and Licensing Tool |
| Website: | http://creativecommons.org/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. |




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