Have you been depriving yourself to log onto Twitter and post a dozen of tweets because you want to explain in more details and the very thought of a tweet, i.e. 140 characters are not enough?

Or

You’re unsure of how to reword your tweet to becoming shorter than 140 characters that imposed by Twitter?

Now you do not need to settle for all these and a newly launched Twitter third-party app is offering a service that tend to solve the above issues.

I recently stumbled onto a site called Twitlonger, without much explanation in detail, you know the domain and its service offering is to help you to twit (tweet) longer than the usual tweet. Currently in beta phase, and in order to use it, you’ll need to log onto this service with your existing Twitter username and password. After you logging onto this service, you can tweet what you want beyond 140 characters. The tweet that finally appeared on your public Twitter profile will be compressed and shortened by a URL shortening service provider called is.gd. So whenever your Twitter followers click on the is.gd link, it will be redirected them to the original tweet you posted on Twitlonger. At the bottom of your Twitlonger’s tweet, you’ll find a Google AdSense advertisement, and this is the known business model of Twitlonger at this moment.

Source: available at http://www.twitlonger.com/show.php?message=b34da2ef8ca0d099d830b513852f9699, accessed 28 December 2008

As the festive season is nearly over and we are embracing the new year 2009, we knew that we must spend wisely on everything that count since the world is entering global recession now. In respond to the global recession, how we as the end consumers in leveraging the Internet, especially Web 2.0 sites to align with our own shopping and consuming habits.

There is a saying, “Marketing isn’t marketing unless people are buying from you,” but there is another saying too, “Shopping isn’t shopping unless we do the comparison shopping.” Perhaps it’s true, and though there are a plethora of comparison shopping engines available on the Web, and if you are always shopping for the technological related goods, this Shopnics may be the right site for you.

Shopnics, at my first glance, doesn’t as comprehensive as it should be in the first place and there appears to be mostly focused on IT products so far, this include camera, camcorder, laptop, cellphone (mobile phone), GPS, MP3 player, printer and wireless router. So if you are on this site and checking out Apple products, other than you get the itemized search results of the Apple products, you also can get a visually comparison graph in which X-axis represent price sensitivity and Y-axis represent decision making. Better still, for the itemized Apple products, click on any one of them will present you with the specifications, review, price and video (if any) of the particular product you click on. See the product you have compared and felt that it is the right time to buy, click on the link and it will redirect you to the destination site such as MacMall, PCConnection, Best Buy, Plaza mall Depot, Ecom Electronics and etc, depending on the product you clicked on.

In fact, the whole idea of developing this site, as I play around, is to speed up your online shopping experience. In Shopnics’ three (3) steps comparison shopping formula, i.e. search, decide, and buy, it is hoping to lure in more end consumers to do comparison shopping with the ultimate aim of increase the conversion rate. I think the future is bright for them since the products its compared is a big niche, and if you, the end user ends up buying the product after you thoroughly compared the product on the site, they will make some affiliate income.

Want to learn new words everyday, check out Addictionary. In fact, all of the new words of Addictionary were all submitted by its users, like a Digg-like sites whereby newly listed words can be voted up and buried down by other users in the Addictionary community.

On Addictionary, you’ll find the so-called “The word of the day” and today’s word is hollydaze. With this “The word of the day,” it definitely gives you the best way you could learn a new word, or a new language everyday, if your mother tongue is not English. Part of the learning process, it also gives the Internet marketers or the domainers to spot the next hip name that could make them million of money if the word is excellent or worthwhile and they manage to grab the new word as the next multi-million domain name.

Honestly, I almost hate to see people that go to this Addictionary and not learning the new English word, but to snag the new English word as the next multi-million virtual real-estate, i.e. the domain name. I know I’m not the one who has thought of this, since the Addictionary’s word of today, i.e. hollydaze.com and hollydaze.net are registered after the word is listed on the site. Another example is Twitterbation, while I saw it on Addictionary five (5) days ago once it is submitted, this Twitterbation.com is available, but now it’s gone.

However, there is one of those rare instances when the word is submitted and it served as a typical example for others to learn a new English lesson. Neva Vu, as a new word submitted eight (8) days ago, supposedly to be the opposite word of Deja Vu, but I learned that the correct word is Jamais Vu from the comment submitted. However, be warned that this wrong word will be grabbed by a domainer who thought of this nevavu.com is much worth than the correct jamaisvu.com. Sigh!

Obviously, it’s a good idea to develop something that enable a Twitter user to send someone money directly from the Twitter account since Twitter is extremely popular nowadays. We knew that we can pay for our online shopping goods using our credit cards, a normal practice ya! We also can send money using methods such as PayPal, Skype, or using some instant messenger services, so it won’t really that strange as we’re able to send and receive money via tweets now.

Twitpay, a newly created application at the Atlanta Startup Weekend 2, is enabling you to send and receive money directly via tweets. To send someone money is simple here, just follow the instruction with some Twitter sense, i.e. with the @symbol as well as state the monetary amount and reason, you’re on your way to send the recipient with the dollar amount of money.

For your Twitpay account, there will be a debit and credit column with the amount of money your Twitter friends owed you, the balance available or the amount you owes someone so that you can get a full view of where your money come from and go in an easy interface as possible. However, for every transaction you tweet someone your money, there is a minimum $0.05 charge by Twitpay. Meanwhile, you also allowed to cancel a pending payment, but the transaction will be appeared on the recipient’s Twitpay account as a grey color canceled transaction, and the embarrassment will be last as long as the Twitpay account shown on the Web. So, remember about it before you cancel the payment.

Currently, the balance once exceed $10 can only be used for limited stuff from Twitpay or Amazon, it seems that Twitpay will not able to generate the same kind of wide-spread adoption as PayPal received across the Web. This is also due to the idea of creating this app was originally purposed for a Twitter add-on service, rather acted as another new player to take on the global online payment industry.

I recently stumbled onto a site called Web Valuer. It is a Web service which allows you to value any Web site that you want to know. Its service is very similar to some domain tools that could allowed a user to do some domain appraisal, check search engine traffic as well as the ranking across the Web.

Web Valuer, as you type a domain name into its search bar, will generate a monetary estimate worth of the domain name you entered. Other details such as daily pageviews, visitors, ads revenue, domain trackbacks also available for visible. For some instances, if you want to check some Web sites, which are still in the parking mode, and Web Valuer couldn’t retrieve any information from its original appraisal sources such as statcounter, compete or Google Analytics, it will redirect you to the Web Valuer home page.

Of course, if Web Valuer generate a very good, though roughly estimate, you the Web site holder would very much be keen to sell it to the interested party. But let me remind you, the estimated worth of a domain name or a Web site might be wrong at the first place while you enter it to these type of services, ask the professional domainers, they can tell you a lot of these stories.

There are a plethora of new Twitter applications across the Web right now, though all these apps are all specifically for certain functionality each, but very few are able to show to the individual users that they should try them out, one of them is Tweetag. Tweetag is a newly released Twitter mashup that show promise that it can helps users to search the Twittosphere via tag. Created by Commentag, which developed a WordPress plugin that used to tag comments automatically, now developing a Twitter search tool that allowed users to browse through tags in the Twittosphere.

On the Tweetag site, you’ll find the popular tags in the Twittosphere in the form of tag cloud. Though you can enter your own search term, however the form of tag cloud definitely will be a better and more efficient layout for those who want to stay on top of the latest topics without having to enter a single keyword search. From the tags appeared on the front page, the general idea is that the biggest the tag font size is, the more popular this tag is as compare to the others. Nevertheless, I still very much prefer the live tag cloud, as rendered by Twitscoop, where I can see the tags are growing or shrinking in real time on its front page.