Zeke Franco

urlShort is released as an open source project on SourceForge.net, Google Code, and Freshmeat. urlShort a simple PHP/MySQL script for creating shortened URLs similar to TinyURL.

The Knot (http://www.theknot.com) is the Internet’s most-trafficked one-stop wedding planning solution. Founded in 1996 to offer a much-needed alternative to the white-gloved, outdated advice of the available etiquette experts, The Knot has quickly become America's leading wedding brand reaching out to millions of engaged couples each year through our award-winning website, books, magazines, and broadcast offerings.

The brand’s trademark fresh voice and real-world sensibility can be found everywher...

Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

Manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success. HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter® toolbox.

Keep in touch with family and friends with your own free Web site you can create in minutes. Share your photos, adventures, and lists with friends near and far.

Experience the thrill of music discovery. OurStage gives you the power to decide who should top the charts in 50+ music genres, from Rock to Electronic, Rap to Country. Your tastes will not just generate exciting new music for you to discover, it will also help take deserving artists to the next level of their careers. So go ahead and let your ears decide tomorrow's hit-makers today.

ClaimID is a free and easy way to set yourself up with an OpenID.

ow.ly is a URL-shortener-Service.

Zune Social is the online component of Microsoft's Zune initiative. It is a social networking website that displays a user's most-played artists, favorite and recently played songs, and a list of the users friends, in addition to any comments about them. It has been compared to iLike and Last.fm in that it tracks and displays, or "scrobbles," songs that the user has played.

Posterous is a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.

SocialToo is your companion to the social Web. SocialToo can help you become a social power user, by complementing your social experience, giving you all the tools you need to harness the potential of your network. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and get daily updates. Send surveys to your followers and more!

Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.

Listal is a social network based around entertainment including Movies, TV shows, Games, DVDs, Music and Books, Actors & Actresses, Music Artists, Authors and Directors. Listal allows you to list your owned, watched, read or played items and share with friends. You can rate items and add reviews, tags, images, videos & lists. With Listal you can rrganise your Movie/TV, Music, Game or Book collections and view statistics about what you have added.

Shares your images/videos on twitter. Those can be uploaded from your computer on posted on an URL.

Hunch is a decision-making site that gets smarter the more it's used.

After asking you 10 questions or fewer, Hunch will propose a concrete and customized result for hundreds of decisions of every kind: What kind of car should I buy? Should I switch to a Mac? Should I dump my boyfriend? Where should I go on vacation? Should I get a tattoo?

Hunch uses machine learning to get smarter in two ways: User contributions train Hunch to be smarter overall. Contributions can take many forms, fro...

Spokeo is a social-network-based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search for one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people, usually those that contained within a user's webmail address book. Spokeo looks for social network accounts for each person by performing deep Web searches across various networks.

Jamendo a platform for free and legal music downloads. Available in seven languages, it offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it's an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships.

Goodreads is a privately run social cataloging website. The website permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists.

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.

Hacker News is the social news source of startup news for entrepreneurs.