A revisit to a post that I wrote in May this year which entitled, “Tools: Tweet Your Photos,” urged me to check whether there is any new and yet good third-party photo solution for Twitter, and I’ve came across this img.ly.

On the front page, in fact we can see the user acceptance of tweeters toward this img.ly as there is a photo shared to Twitter within every five (5) minute. At the time of my writing, there are a total number of 43,911 pictures uploaded, and the users have been amounted to 8,252.

img.ly, a Web app developed by 9elements, a Rails developer based in Bochum, Germany, has made it easy for tweeters to tweet the photo directly from its user interface. To do that is very simple, you must log in with your Twitter credentials, choose the image file to be uploaded, then align the image file to the left or right, and enter 122 characters or less, hit the upload and submit button. That is all there is to it.

Likewise, you also can send your image via email, and each account has been given a designated email address that you can send the attached image to it. For every picture you uploaded, you’ll have a basic total view in addition to the date of posted.

For most startups, one of the apparent problems is to gauge the user feedback as it may seemed simplistic, but the implementation is not easy. In real life, if you’re a small startup owner with the funding issue, and do not have the ability to hire a dedicated online Community Manager, then you might need to check out this SuggestionBox.

In fact, I came across this Web-based suggestion tool for quite some time, and until today, I still believe it is a noteworthy app to create for the sake of building a good relationship with the customers, as well as the employees. Starting to use it, there is a premium version for a monthly fee of $49.50 for company and a full-fledged suggestion management system will be in place to use in the commercial sector. However, individual users are allowed to sign-up for free and make the sound suggestions as they actually are, whether it is to extend the service’s functionality or report the bug for a software when they used for instance.

On the SuggestionBox, you won’t find many visible suggestions as most of them are hidden for the internal use by the relevant company. But a second look at the Closet Couture page on SuggestionBox allows me to get a basic grasp of which feature to be solved would be most useful to its users. In the other end, there is a dashboard for users where they can find the status of their suggestions submitted, in the range from “New,” “Under Review” to “Implemented.”

Which features do you consider essential for the services you use and you want them to hear? Try SuggestionBox.

The economy may be in the way of recovery, and if you’re looking for a new job, or your company is hunting for a talent and willing to employ the social media tool to recruit the best and brightest talent, then TwitHire might be a site that you should check out for.

TwitHire, as the name implies, is a free job listing service for Twitter. It’s akin to any other job board on the Web, but only featuring job related URL’s for a variety of positions mainly the design and programming jobs via the tweets. Take a closer look of the job postings, each job posting are split up in the nice manner by TwitHire, which includes the tweeter’s username, job URL, location and date of posting.

For the employers/recruiters, to post a job tweet on TwitHire is very easy. There is a “New Job” page where you can fill up the job details in order to generate the job tweet and tweet key, and then posting the job tweet with a reply to @TwitHire, and it’s done. On the other end, for the job seekers that finding the design and programming jobs, TwitHire definitely is another site to help you in your job search if you’ve been laid off, or you’re in the middle of finding your next job.

Software Tribes is a newly launched social network that allows software engineers to collaborate with each other through a Twitter-like interface by posting an update, i.e. “What’s up?”

Currently in public beta, which mean software professionals can register an account with a professional purpose. Since Software Tribes is dubbed as a micro-blogging network for software professionals, therefore provided a place that enable this niche group of software professionals to meetup with each other, find projects, share knowledge and also join the groups in their area of interests or specialties. In the meantime, there are many groups be created, but the top group TIBCO, created for the discussion of TIBCO Software Inc., a company that specialize in helping companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success apparently has only less than 20 members.

On the public timeline of Software Tribes, there aren’t many users engage in the threaded conversations as the number of active users on Software Tribes is still relatively small. For the time being, most of the users are based in India as the creator is from Hyderabad, India as well. However, it would be interested to come back to this new micro blogging service and check the growth rate of its user base when it slowly expand to other countries.

To many Twitter users, Twitter is indeed so simple to use, posting updates, follow and un-follow other tweeters. But what if you have inadvertently follow some tweeters that used be the spammers. Now, with a third-party Twitter tool called Tweet Blocker, you’re not only can filter, but also catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter as well.

Developed by Hashrocket, a Ruby on Rails developer has found a way to identify spammers in the Twitterverse. From a security threat standpoint, Tweet Blocker shows you a spam report which lists all the tweeters that followed you, and most important, your own grade according to this Tweet Blocker.

On the spam report, you’ll find the succinct list (if you’ve many Twitter followers) of the numerical score as well as an A to F grade letter. On top of that, it will be very pleased if your own personal grade is A+, making it obvious that you’re a genuine tweeter and you used Twitter to share something good for the community as a whole.

In fact, there are three (3) main features to the Tweet Blocker interface – check your score, check other tweeters’ scores, and report or block the spammers if necessary. To avoid you from inadvertently block or report the spammers, Tweet Blocker also has a feature whereby you can mouse over to any tweeter in your dashboard and view his / her recent tweets.

However, if there is an instance where your own grade is low, or you know that a tweeter is genuine, but his / her score is also low as well, it’s probably based on the following reasons: The user has not been around for a long time, nor active and does not have a balanced ratio of friends and followers. In other words, if you following a lot of tweeters and you get a small number of followers in return, you’ll get a low grade. Overall, these criteria has somewhat make or break the usefulness of this Twitter tool as I perceived.

Currently in private beta, StatsMix is a new Web-based analytics that count the page views of your multiple sites so that you can understand better the user behavior of all of your sites in a single chart view. Although there is no shortage of the Web-based analytics software appeared on the Web, but StatsMix offers the ability to track stats relating to traffic measuring, blog traffic and RSS subscribers. And the support is includes the popular Google Analytics and FeedBurner, so it will save you from the hassle to log in from one analytics to another analytics for the insights into how the Web traffic spread across the Web.

At first glance, StatsMix is an noteworthy alternative to many Web-based analytics package featuring daily traffic reporting. It provides daily report via email, measures the popularity of your tweets or feeds that currently Twitter and FriendFeed that didn’t offer, and a dashboard built-in so you get to know how your sites stack up against the competitors. For instance, StatsMix provides report on what cause your sites go up or down, in other words, the relative popularity of your sites and apparently based on the number of your sites mentioned on the Web.