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Twitter is gaining popularity and thousands of new users are joining every day. With a large audience to cater to, web applications, standalone desktop applications, Adobe AIR applications and Firefox addons are being made.

TwitBin is one such Firefox addon for Twitter. Residing on Firefox as a sidebar, TwitBin can be used to send tweets, read tweets and view public timeline. There is an option to view only public tweets, friends’ tweets, direct messages or replies.

AdSense allows custom styling and various other tidbits for premium publishers who get enormous amount of traffic every month. Most large portals are premium publishers and get such advantages.

Custom Ad unit as seen on Digital Inspiration

However, I recently noticed custom ads on Digital Inspiration, written by Amit Aggarwal, a popular problogger from India. His blogs (on WordPress and previously on Blogspot) receives ~2 million hits per month, and sports custom AdSense units. What caught my fancy was that the traffic levels to his blog are not large enough for a premium account.

Quotably is a newly-launched site that shows you Twitter conversations in a threaded format. Messages are reformatted Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it effortless to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.

Quotably Homepage

Digg is a powerful social bookmarking website, and many users rely on larger sites like Digg to catch up with news. With the proliferation of RSS feeds, Digg(which is heavily technology-inclined) also provides an RSS feed to catch up with stories. There are different feeds for each section of Digg, accessible with an RSS icon towards the top-right corner.

Photo by schnauzer

Flickr is a wonderful place online for professional photographers, enthusiasts, bloggers looking for beautiful pictures for blog posts, or someone wanting to browse through scores of pictures. Among other features, Flickr includes tagging which you can use to describe your pictures. This can also help during searches, when tags are used to determine the relevance of search results.