Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a site specific trust assessment; and a list of all available promotions. Compete Tools make it easier for users to bring the power of Compete Site Analytics to their desktops. Designed for both Internet Explorer and Firefox, the tools provide users real-time access to the same information found on Compete Site Analytics.

Alexa provides the statistics for all of the Internet. It lets you compare your blog to another one. Alexa provides thumbnail images of sites and site information balloons, both of which help you to make quick decisions about which results are useful to you and which are not.

Hitwise online competitive intelligence service provides daily insights on how 25 million people interact with over 1 million web sites in 160+ industries. Its unique, global network of Internet usage data is integrated into the user friendly service, helping you better plan, implement and report on your online branding, search marketing, content strategies and online partnerships.

Nielsen//NetRatings offers web analytics package for you to be able to compare your site with others in your industry. Produces widely followed research reports in dozens of different Web verticals.

Web Traffic Visualization

ClickTracks offers intuitive, insightful analysis of your web site. It shows you campaigns, site navigation patterns, PPC, SEO and ROI stats instantly. It is a web analytics program that uses a radically different architecture, making it easy for marketers to perform desktop datamining activities that are difficult or impossible to implement using traditional web analysis methods. Clicktracks includes overlaid navigation view, PDF and Excel report export, parameter and cookie stats, tabular campaign report, internal search analysis, visitor segmentation with labels, keyword ranking report, E-mail campaign tracking, geographic location report, and more.

Crazy Egg is a tool to supplement your analytics with stunning visuals and actionable data. This program is for people who want more ad revenue, for those who care what visitors do, or need to make improvements. With this program you can create tests to figure out what people are doing on your website. Get a picture of where people clicked on your site. find out where people click based upon the things like: Top 15 Referrers, Search Terms, Operating System, Browser, etc. Share data with people who matter to you. Clients, bosses, imaginary friends, and people you are trying to sell ad space to.

Indextools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts, thereby helping them to increase sales, reduce marketing costs and provide a higher level of service to their customers and partners. IndexTools specializes in delivering on-demand web analytics solutions to the enterprise and SME market.

VisitorVille applies video game principles to help you easily visualize and better understand your web site traffic statistics.

Intellitracker is the smart way to drive your business. It redefines web analytics and delivers interactive business intelligence to the heart of your business.

Blog and RSS Feed Analysis

Technorati is a site that measures the popularity of blogs based on the number of people that have “favorited” them using the service.

Feedburner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Its Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

Performancing is a home for professional bloggers. A place where those that want to make money from their blogs can learn, and perfect the art of making a living from weblogging.

Pheedo’s FeedPowered advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers. Pheedo retrieves your RSS feed several times an hour and updates your FeedPowered advertisements with any newly published items. Great for time-sensitive content and frequently updated offers.

Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.

MeasureMap helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.

Analytics Software

Google Analytics helps you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. It makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting web sites. Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners.

imWare tools suite is a software-as-a-service package that helps instantly add interactivity and web analytics to content rich web sites. Hundreds of customers have simplified interactivity and web analytics on their sites by deploying imWare. It is comprised of four tools and an accompanying web analytics package. All tools are hosted by Clickability and are simple to deploy.

StatCounter is a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyze and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time.

iPerceptions provides analytic solutions looking at customer behavior both online and off. It helps you discover the issues that matter most to the customers.You will know: what changes to the site will enhance your visitor’s level of satisfaction , strengths and weaknesses of your visitor’s experience, who, when, and why visitors are coming to your site.

Site Meter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With the detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

Hitslink offers a Professional and Enterprise version of their web-based real-time reporting package. It offers a conversion tracking of pay-per-click campaigns. You can track user definable events, such as, promotions and downloads as well on your site.

Omniture provides organizations with actionable, real-time intelligence regarding their online strategies and marketing initiatives. Omniture helps organizations quickly identify and understand the most profitable paths through their Web sites, where visitors are dropping off, what’s driving critical success events, and how different segments of visitors interact with the Web site.

WebSTAT makes Web analytics easy and cost-effective. Its hosted analytics software tracks and stores web statistics for businesses and non-profit organizations of all sizes. You don’t need thousands of dollars to get a good web traffic analysis package.

WebTrends enables you to provide your visitors with the most engaging experience possible. Measure and test all aspects of the online experience from marketing to site content and usability—all of which increase visitor engagement and conversion rates. With functional reporting for each department, from marketing to merchandising to business analysis, you can answer the questions that are most important to the overall business as well as each department.

SPSS offers software and solutions that help organizations direct and automate decisions to meet their goals and achieve measurable competitive advantage.

Coremetrics a company that provides most accurate and complete record of visitor behavior—capturing every click of every visitor over time, and storing them in Coremetrics’ LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles secure database.

Optimal IQ offers a low cost, no hassle profit center that measures campaign and website effectiveness.

OneStat.com -provides different web analytic solutuions. With instant access to dozens of live interactive reports, it helps to improve the effectiveness of your online and offline marketing initiatives.

Fireclick makes Web analytics easy through a hosted application service that automatically gathers and stores data for online businesses. No set-up fee. No training fee. No expensive consulting required. To report, present, and share the analysis of data, Fireclick provides a comprehensive suite of tools unmatched in the industry. Fireclick provides integration of Web analytics with paid search engines, e-mail providers, affiliate programs and more in order to provide a consolidated view of all site activity.

Quova protects your business against online fraud by verifying user locations. It increases your revenues and improves user experience with geographically targeted online marketing.

Maximine’s High-Performance Site Analytics(HPSA) solution is explicitly designed to address the demanding challenges of today’s mission critical web environments. As sites become increasingly large, complex and dynamic, compounded by accelerating growth in the number of user-contributors, MAXAMINE produces the solution that delivers all three performance imperatives required for enterprise business success: coherent solution that provides maximum cost-efficiency, flexibility and analytic capacity; fast implementation and rapid customization with dynamic on-the-fly search and query capabilities, quality control and reporting.

DeepMetrix provides a web analytics solution. Get campaign tracking, conversion, ROI, visitor segmentation and commerce, plus powerhouse features like CRM, data mining and A/B testing.
For end-to-end website tracking, LiveSTATS.BIZ delivers more for less. The proof is in the feature set, and the price will have you wondering why other solutions cost so much.

MetriServe provides all the web statistics and web analytics tools you need to find out in real-time who your visitors are, where they are coming from and how they are using your web site. Use this valuable knowledge to sell more products and services and to improve your advertising campaigns.

Clickfox’s patented, proven software enables companies to transform existing customer data into true, objective insight by showing customers’ step-by-step behavior within interactive systems and across the enterprise. ClickFox can translate interactions from multiple service touchpoints into an intuitive, visual map, revealing quickly and easily what customers actually do and why, so that companies can align customer needs with their business objectives.

Clickstream is a fully featured ASP delivered web analytics solution provided by Clickstream in conjunction with its partners. The automation and elimination of tagging inherent in the Datasherpa Platform enables the delivery of enterprise analytics out of the box with virtually no setup or maintenance costs. For the first time hosting providers are able to deliver enterprise level functionality at a minimal cost, thereby creating a significant new revenue stream.
Datasherpa Web Analytics can be configured for different levels of service depending on the hosting provider’s needs and customer segmentation. The solution can be deployed virtually or on premise.

SiteClarity translates complex data into a clear and actionable format that presents multiple layers of insight into online customer behavior. As an enterprise tracking and reporting solution, SiteClarity delivers a centralized solution across all operational areas including marketing, site optimization, and customer retention. Unlike other solutions, SiteClarity tailors its reports and services to meet your specific business needs. Focused reporting packages and power administration tools provide a deeper understanding of online customers to re-define and optimize online strategies.

WebtraffIQ is a web analytics agency, providing a complete campaign tracking platform. This enables our clients to see how various online and offline marketing techniques are working, in effect creating a rich picture of a web site’s activities.

Moniforce‘ s webSensor Enterprise is a high-quality web analytics solution that provides insight into your website visitors’ behaviour. You can immediately work with the results from webSensor Enterprise. You know exactly where to make changes that will attract more visitors, make sure visitors return more often,increase the conversion rate from visitor to customer , improve the effect of online marketing campaigns.

Nedstat enable you to improve the effectiveness and profitability of your online communication and business. It makes website analytics straightforward and accessible. Nedstat offers a wide range of reporting possibilities on campaigns, content and conversion.

With WebAbacus software, you can find out which areas of your site are the most productive; understand the true effectiveness of your marketing campaigns; work out which products are most attractive to different customer segments or discover who is reading your information and what they’re doing with it. More importantly you can also find out out what isn’t working, together with the best way to put it right.

Omea is a free and easy to use RSS reader, NNTP news reader, and web bookmark manager. It’s fast, it aggregates, and it keeps you organized. Check out the additional features: lightning-fast desktop search, flexible information organizer, contextual access, and quick extensibility for developers who want more.

Particls helps you track your favourite sites, topics and apps by displaying desktop alerts for important changes. general information can be displayed on a great looking desktop sidebar, important stuff might appear on a popup alert and urgent information coul d be SMS’d to your phone. It’s absolutely free.

Snarfer is fast reliable and free. It provides a new approach to RSS feed aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Using Snarfer people can become functional RSS users within seconds of installing it. Snarfer has a strong community of loyal users providing feedback, features requests and enhancements which allows the Snarfware team to bring out an enhanced version about every 45 days.

Mozilla Thunderbird allows to set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests.

Opera provides a fully featured RSS reader.

HappyFish allows multiple simultaneous downloads, improved user interface with movable, autohiding panels, tabbed browsing windows in the embedded browser, embedded browser autodetects whether a site has a feed and lets you subscribe with a single click.

Awasu is a state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded with features for both casual personal use and professional. It uses a familiar Windows interface that can be adjusted to suit your preferences. Channels that have new stories are highlighted in the left-hand pane of the main window. Each channel opens in its own window with an integrated browser. Stories that you have not read yet are highlighted in each channel. Awasu Personal Edition is for casual RSS users, for personal use only. Awasu Advanced Edition is designed for power users. Licensed for personal use only. Price: $ 29. Purchases of Awasu include 12 months of free upgrades.

GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across RSS feeds, optimized for fast reading. So you can skim through pages in seconds, and pick interesting ones to dig in. GreatNews is extremely fast. Even with hundreds of rss feed subscriptions, GreatNews’s response is always instantaneous. GreatNews Beta is  free. No adware and spyware.

Feed Amasser is a free, light weight Rss Feed Reader let’s you store your feed channel’s with some descriptive label’s and collect the Feeds as you like. This is an optimized tool for reading RSS Feeds only. ATOM Feeds are not supported.

FeedDemon provides a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop. With FeedDemon you can get your news and information instantly, customize the way you read and organize feeds, download podcasts to your iPod or Windows Media Player. FeedDemon provides many layout and display options to get the reading experience that’s just right for you. Free trial. Price $ 29.95.

Attensa RSS feed readers are designed for business and provide knowledge workers with easy to use, secure tools that help them track and monitor constantly changing business information without having to search or request it. Built on a common platform and designed with a consistent user interface, Attensa Feed readers use AttenstionStream™ technology to cut through information overload and provide seemless synchronization so subscriptions and articles are kept up to date no matter where they are accessed.

Briz RSS Reader is a simple easy-to-use news reader for MS Windows. It allows you to subscribe to, download and read desired RSS/Atom feeds. News feeds can be aggregated to display all the items in the one news line. Briz RSS Reader is available for free evaluation. If you wish to use it after evaluation period, you should purchase a registration key. Price: $19.95.

RSS Bandit is an RSS/Atom aggregator for your desktop written with the .NET Framework.

IntraVNews is a feed reader and RSS aggregator for Outlook. With the powerful interface of intraVnews you get total control over your feed subscriptions on the Internet and your intranet. Automatically download linked HTML content for offline reading or archiving. intraVnews relies on the default security mechanisms in Outlook for protection against viruses or otherwise potentially malicious code. Free trial. Price: $ 24.95.

SharpReader is a free RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows. You will need to install the .NET Framework, version 2.0 or version 1.1 SP1.

Active RSS Reader is a free web feed reader that supports RSS 0.9x, 1.x and 2.x feed formats. It is a lightning fast RSS reader that takes up only 1MB on your PC. Add all your favorite RSS feeds to keep yourself updated. In addition to RSS feeds, you can also bookmark web pages. Active Web Reader will then monitor these web pages and notify you when they change. It can also highlight the changes on a web page, since your last visit.

FeedExpress is a freeware and OpenSource RSS feed reader. It basically lets you subscribe to several RSS/RDF sources, known as Subscriptions in FeedExpress, in the same way that Outlook Express lets you subscribe to several news groups. FeedExpress caches and indexes all the feeds for each RSS subscription, making it easy to overview all your feeds.

RSS Readers for Mac OS X

NetNewsWire is the first RSS reader to use animation to alert you to news and convey meaning. Watch your feeds and groups swoop around as news streams in. NewsFire takes feed organization to the next level, letting you create smart feeds that match whatever criteria you want. It lets you group and label your feeds, so you control the news reading experience.

Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.

NewsLife is an easy to use RSS news reader for your Mac. If you have not heard of RSS before, it’s a technology for syndicating news headlines and a huge number of websites support it. By adding a website’s RSS news feed to NewsLife you can keep up with all the latest news without actually having to visit the website until you see something you want to read. Just like your with your email client, NewsLife keeps track of which news stories you have read and which you haven’t, lets you search and sort stories just the way you want.

PixelNews makes it easy to add your favorite feeds. In addition to simply selecting “Add Feed”, you can also search and add feeds from the PixelNews Database or even add a feed by dragging and dropping the valid RSS or Atom URL onto PixelNews. PixelNews allows you to organize your feeds in Channels that are quickly accessible in the sidebar. Clicking on a Channel will reveal all the feeds in that Channel making it easy to view all your favorite PhotoBlogs in one Channel, World News in another, Movie review feeds in another, etc. PixelNews is $25 Shareware. However, there’s a 2 week trial.

Shrook is a free news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom.

RSS Readers for Linux

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for Gtk/Gnome.

Straw is a feed reader aimed for users using the GNOME desktop. You subscribe to news, blogs, and podcast feeds and read the feeds in the comfort of your desktop, with or without online access. The goal of Straw is to be an easy-to-use feed reader and one that is integrated with the rest of your desktop. It should support the capabilities provided by the desktop as well as not being hard to users when it comes to usability and in terms of providing functionality.

Akregator is a news feed reader for the KDE desktop. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news sources conveniently. It comes with Konqueror integration for adding news feeds and with an internal browser for easy news reading.

AgileRSS is a desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed
It also allows you to keep up-to-date with all your preferred sources of information that support the RSS protocol. Internet syndication and aggregation software, that runs on any java enabled operating system.

Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins.

Cross Platform RSS Readers

BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom) written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on Linux x86, (also FreeBSD), PowerPC Linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE 4), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X (PPC, intel), AIX, SGI Irix, HP-UX, and Solaris (SPARC and x86). It provides full support for CSS, including user defined CSS. View news in 3 pane or 2 pane modes. Subscribe to any RSS or Atom format in use.

RSSOwl is an applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or “aggregators.” RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It’s easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It’s platform-independent.

BlogBridge is a free, open source blog and feed reader.  It runs on Mac, Windows AND Linux. It allows to manage your hundreds and hundreds of RSS subscriptions with an elegance and style, build rivers of news, perform complex queries — all of this is and many more is delivered to your very fingertips.

Web Based RSS Readers

Bloglines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install — simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device.

Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Use Google Reader’s built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

iGoogle allows you to include RSS feeds as part of your custom start page.

My Yahoo! allows you to add RSS feeds alongside your weather, stock quotes, and news.

My Netscape includes the ability to add RSS feeds as content modules.

Netvibes is a personal homepage provider includes hundreds of “modules” you can add to your page from Hotmail to your Flickr photos. You can create your own modules by simply entering an RSS feed URL.

Pageflakes is a personalized homepage provider,that lets you select from pre-made modules or create your own by adding an RSS feed.

Rojo is a web-based reader that combines RSS aggregation with a community of sorts, showing what people are reading on their homepage.

Newsgator’s RSS reader allows you to organize your feeds in Windows-style folders that can be expanded and collapsed.

Fwicki is an RSS mashup application with a customizable online feed reader. This patent pending RSS mashup application gives everyone a personal feed reader with RSS mashup capabilities. The fwicki application gives publishers a unique RSS toolset that can enhance their blog or web site. The free fwicki toolset includes the following features designed to enhance your RSS experience

NewsAlloy is a free Web based feed reader for discovering, reading, and sharing news and information. It lets you view information from a wide variety of news sources, special interest publications and blogs via RSS and Atom in an easy to use and manageable way via Web Based AJAX Driven GUI and Mobile/PDA enabled service.

Feed Directories

Technorati – indexes blogs based on tags and authority.

Icerocket is a blog search engine.

Weblogs.com automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog.

blogdigger uses RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests.

WeBlogALot is a blog directory. Blog Directory is organized by category, offers a large collection of the best blogs online. Find and search blogs. Promote your weblog and increase blog traffic with blog submission! Publish blog site with submit & ping a blog rss and have your blog listed.

Syndic8 is the place to come to find RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety of topics. There is a lot here:  a community-driven effort to gather syndicated news headlines, a readable master list of syndicated news content, quality of server measurement of all feeds, and more.

2rss.com – a categorized blog directory and search engine with about 10,000 feeds indexed.

blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. You can even put the list on your site.

Blogstreet – places feeds into different directory categories and also has a Digg-like homepage powered by user rankings.

RSS to Email Converters

Feedblitz is the unique service that enables professional publishers, marketers and bloggers to quickly and easily reach all their subscribers. Automating the email newsletter publication, delivery and subscription processes, FeedBlitz simplifies newsletter generation, delivery and operations. Not only can you save time and money, now FeedBlitz enables you to earn money from your mailing lists with our unique, opt-in email ad network.

ZapTXT lets you create custom keyword searches to track your favorite RSS-enabled websites via email, instant messenger or mobile device.

R|Mail makes reading feeds as easy as reading email. It helps you organize and send your favorite web content straight to your mailbox.

RSS Feed Validators

Feed Validator is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds. To use it, simply enter the address of your feed and click Validate. If the validator finds any problems in your feed, it will give you messages for each type of problem and highlight where the problem first occurs in your feed. If you’re unsure what a message means, click the “help” link next to the message for a fuller explanation.

RSS 1.0 Validator produces a simple HTML report listing the errors, as well as copy of the original RSS 1.0 file.

Redland RSS 1.0 Validator & Viewer offers a variety of display options for checking your feeds.

RSS Managers

FeedPass is a way for you to make RSS easy for anyone. If you’ve got a blog or feed, then you need a feedpass. It automatically creates a subscription page that allows your readers to subscribe using RSS readers, browsers, or by email.

Feedburner offers a huge set of features, including detailed analytics, chicklets, feed optimization and ad insertion.

RSS Mixers

Yahoo! Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs: combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it, geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map, grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.

Google Mashup Editor (GME) is an AJAX development framework and a set of tools that enable developers to quickly and easily create simple web applications and mashups with Google services like Google Maps and Google Base. Google Mashup Editor is a great tool for grabbing information from feeds and letting users see and manipulate it.

RSSMesh is a script which is used to merge multiple RSS feeds into a single RSS feed. It allows you to produce an RSS feed by taking the latest items from multiple feeds. The RSSmesh configuration is controlled by a configuration file for each feed to be produced.

Feedblendr takes the feeds you give it, pulls the individual entries from each of them, attempts to sort them in date order (combined across all feeds) and then provides you with a new, blended feed of all entries.

xFruits is a free online service offering to every user the possibility of enlarging your blog’s functionalities, creating your information system from the RSS feed. XFruits makes possible the Mashup RSS creation in a very simple way thanks to the Composer. You can assemble the bricks together so as to build your own feed-based service. “xFruiter” service’s users are referenced.

Feedcombine is a script to combine multiple RSS feeds into one. You can set up as many combined feeds as you want, either using the predefined links or by entering your own favorites. Once you’re ready, click the “Generate” button, then bookmark the page that comes up – whether it’s a special Live Bookmarks folder in Firefox or a feed in Safari, ready for use in the Apple screensaver.

Feedbite allos to combine as many feeds as you want into groups called bundles and filter by keywords. You can share the bundles and allow other people of like interest to add new relevant feeds. With this unique model, the FeedBite community will help you create and maintain bundles of content relevant to the topic you are looking to follow.

Blogsieve is a free tool that creates new feeds from existing feeds. Use BlogSieve to filter, merge, sort and strip any valid feeds into a new feed in any format you choose.

FeedRinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren’t interested in. It’s like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.

BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. BitTorrent provides a better digital entertainment experience for the community of over 150 million users. With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want.

BTSharp is the easiest way to integrate highly scalable peer-to-peer content distribution into your .NET application. It is a .NET library that allows you to seamlessly integrate native peer-to-peer support for scalable content distribution into your applications. BTSharp includes: a BTClient that supports P2P scalable content distribution; a stand-alone tracker for private file transfers, support for reliable file transfers provided by Seeder Servers.

bt.etree.org is provided for sharing the live concert recordings of trade friendly artists.

tlm-project.org represents the Linux Mirror Project, helping spread the alternative operating system.

Ibiblo.org is the torrent distribution site of ibiblo content.

LegitTorrents.info is a torrent tracker for only legal torrents.

LinuxTracker.org is a free linux download resource.

Revision3.com is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, and user-generated video sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating and producing its own original, broadcast quality shows.

Star Trek: New Voyages fan-produced Star Trek episodes, distributed with torrents.

Vuze.com hosts free and pay-for content, all delivered via torrents.

Torrent Clients

Acquisition is torrent client, which allows to share files with tens of millions of Mac and Windows users around the planet. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Opera is the fastest, and most secure free Web browser available. You don’t need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.

Arctic Torrent is an Open Source minimal BitTorrent client. It won’t have all the pretty features that other Torrent apps have, but focuses on low memory and cpu usage. Because it was written in C++, you dont get the high memory requirements of Java or high CPU usage of Python. Arctic is tested on Windows XP and should work on 2000, XP, and 2003 in 32-bit and 64-bit. It uses Unicode and thus will not run on Windows 9x.

Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users. Runs on all operating systems.

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely free. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 – 10 times faster, or more. Runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Windows 98/Me can use the ZIP version.

Torrent Swapper is an open source sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the Bittorrent protocol that is ideal for high-speed distribution of large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Torrent Swapper supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Works with Linux, OS X and Windows.

BitLord is a powerful C++ BitTorrent Client. BitLord is a p2p file-sharing freeware program fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.Works with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003.

BitPump is a simple to use, fast, low memory overhead implementation of the extremely popular BitTorrent protocol. Supports all versions of Windows.

BitSpirit is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, UPNP port-maping, NAT traversal(UDP transport), select downloads from multiple files torrent package, disk cache, chatting with other peers, torrent market,ip-filter, etc. Runs on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003.

BitTornado is a BitTorrent client. Works on Windows, Linux, OS X, BSD.

BitTorrent for Windows brings together BitTorrent’s proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client.

BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. Works with Linux, OS X, and Windows.

ABC Client is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution. ABC is based on BitTornado which extended from from Original Bittorrent Core System , coded by Bram Cohen. Operating System: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux (Beta).

Deluge is a bittorrent client for Linux and other Unix-Like operating systems. It was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. The code is 100% open to the public.

FlashGet is a leading download manager and has the highest amount of users on the Internet. It uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features. FlashGet is a freeware without any adware or spyware.

FoxTorrent is the open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.

Halite is a C++ BitTorrent client based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The program also relies on the Boost libraries and in the future on my own libHTTP for the still to be implemented remote control interface from Java enabled (MIDP 1.0) mobile phones.

KTorrent is a BitTorrent program for KDE. Runs on Linux and OS X.

qBittorent project was created with the idea of developping a new Bittorrent client for Linux that would be easy to use, good looking, featureful but lightweight. qBittorrent is a free software. For Linux and OS X.

rTorrent is a a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

sharktorrent is a free Bittorrent P2P client coded in C++ / Qt4. It is based on the libtorrent library written by Arvid Norberg. Works with Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Unix

Tomato Torrent is a Macintosh BitTorrent client.

Bits On Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client for the Macintosh.It is completely written in Objective-C and Cocoa. Bits on Wheels is currently a Freeware. It is not Open Source nor public domain.

Transmission a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Available for Linux and OS X.

Turbo Torrent is a P2P file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular P2P protocol designed for high-speed distribution of large files. Turbo Torrent is also a feature rich Bittorrent client. It aims to provide a gross amount of statistical and network data in a visually empowered format.

μTorrent is a BitTorrent client that includes bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Windows only.

WizBit is a BitTorrent client for Symbian S60 smartphones (such as the Nokia 6680, 7610, 6600, N70, N80, N91 or many more). It uses Python, which is available for free.

QTorrent is a BitTorrent client that uses the Qt widget-set. It allows you to have several torrents open at the same time from within the same program window, offering you easy overview, access and management through a list-mode. Every torrent also has it’s own page where you can control things like upload speed and upload slots. A page that shows some statistics of all open torrents is also available.

Enhanced cTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick. Enhanced CTorrent is intended to run on any Unix-like system, including FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.

Torrent Information

Brian’s BitTorrent FAQ clears up a lot of commonly asked questions about BitTorrent.

Slyck.com provides Web File-Sharing and Tech news.

TorrentFreak.com is a weblog dedicated to bringing the latest news about BitTorrent and everything that is closely related to this popular filesharing protocol. TorrentFreak aims to be a credible news source.

Video Tutorial shows you how to use BitTorrent, so you can get and share music, TV programs and any other kind of file (only use for legal file-sharing).

Vlad44.com FAQ is a BitTorrent FAQ that covers questions about torrents such as BitTorrent errors, how to make your own torrents, how to configure web server for .torrent files, and others.

Wikipedia entry on BitTorrent explains how BitTorrent works, creating and publishing torrents, some of the history, legal issues, and other.

Magoo’s Guide To BitTorrent is a complete instruction. \here you can find answers to the following topics: how to install and use BitTorrent, common problems downloading with BitTorrent, and others.

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. It works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives.

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.

GParted Live CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted Live CD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel. The CD also offers the following programs: parted and fdisk vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Terminal and Midnight Commander.

System Information for Windows is a tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. It can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Software and Hardware Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management).

USB PC Repair Kit is a list of programs. The programs are loaded onto a USB Pen Drive to help fix your computer. The Kit contains the programs that can tell you if you really need to reboot after installing a program or permanently erase sensitive data from your hard drive that may still exist after using the windows delete feature.

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

FSBackup is a shell script that automates the execution of backups using the tar archiving utility. It is designed for use by technically knowledgeable users (programmers, system administrators, or other power users), for backing up a small network or individual computers.

SuperDuper is a program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs. It is an indispensable tool, specially if your hard drive starts making that horrible clicking noise, your most important day-to-day application isn’t working with the system update you just applied, or you need to restore a stable copy of your system, but don’t want to lose what you’ve been working on, or other similar cases.

Corruption Corrector is a program designed for fixing corrupt files. It is for situations when you have (downloaded) many copies of the same file, but all of the copies are a bit corrupt. If the corruptions are in different parts of the file, it is possible to combine the good bytes from each file and get an uncorrupted copy of the file.

The Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office 97, Office XP, and Office 2003.

myrescue is a program to rescue the still-readable data from a damaged hard disk. It is similar in purpose to dd_rescue, but it tries to quickly get out of damaged areas to first handle the not yet damaged part of the disk and return later.

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.

Relax and Recover is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems, but can be easily extended to other UNIX alike systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored via the network, local on hard disks or USB devices, DVD/CD-R, tape, etc. The result is also a bootable image that is capable of booting via PXE, DVD/CD and tape (OBDR).

The Ultimate Boot CD will be of great help if you want to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives, consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD. Now you can run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices.

Flickr is certainly one the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. It helps people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. Flickr gets photos into and out of the system in as many ways as possible: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos. It enables new ways of organizing photos. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos – not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. With Flickr you can create prints, calling cards, photo-books, slideshow-DVDs, postage stamps, and much more.

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos, share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web. It is fast, easy and free.

SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web.

Snappages is a collection of online tools designed to make your life easier. You can quickly organize and share your life with friends and family, and do it all online. This service is free.

Zooomr is a site where you can share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online.

Zoom and Go is about inspiring travelers about where to go, what to see, what to do and where to stay based on the experiences of other travelers or on the recommendations from locals around the world. It is a place where people submit pictures, reviews. Zoom and Go members put themselves on video as guides to the world for the places they live or the places they’ve visited.

Photorgy -is the online photo site . You can use it to post your photos, upload entire folders, link any photo from your blog or MySpace, get photos in a shared album, and more.

Clickfriends makes it easy to upload, organize and share your photos online. Create your free account and join the photo-sharing fun. It offers to create unlimited albums, upload you photos to each album, add titles, caption and description to your photos.

DPhoto lets you easily share your photos with family and friends in your own online gallery, while also creating a secure backup of all your photos. A free account allows you to store 100 photos. For $7 per month you can store an unlimited number of photos.

Photo Search

Pixsy – is an image search engine that provides PixsyPower, a custom video and photo search for your own site.

Google Image Search remains one of the best ways to find images of any kind on the web.

PicSearch – image search with special options – you can choose to search only black and white or color photos.

YotoFoto indexes images in the public domain or available for free usage under various forms of copy left licensing.

EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos. It is aimed to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better, easier access to license-specific media on the web.

Free Photo Hosting

SmugMug is a photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in one. It keeps 4 backup copies of each photo in 3 states. Retrieve them anytime. It offers unlimited storage. Your friends can see your photos without registering, and without spam. No Ads.

Photobucket is the most popular site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos, and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video. Photobucket also offers free tools for making slide shows of photos, videos with music. You can share your photos and videos with friends by email, IM and mobile phone.

ImageShack is an intuitive and easy-to-use free media hosting service. It can be used to upload images, flash files, and movies, and share them with friends using any imaginable means.

TheImageHosting allows to upload multiple pictures at one time, link your photos in web sites, email, blogs, register an account to manage your files, create online photo galleries for free, and more.

ImageVenue is a free image hosting solution. It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions.

Online Photo Editors

Phixr.com allows you to edit your pictures and directly upload them to Flickr, Fotopic, Livejournal, Photobucket, Fotolog.com, and others.

With Pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser. You can apply functions like saturation, colorfx, blur and sharpen, brightness and contrast.

Fauxto – image editing application which allows you to free-transform beautiful, anti-aliased text within a layer, and then apply a multi-colored radial gradient with a variable focal point in another. You’ll be quite surprised with what you can do within Fauxto.

SnipShot is a browser based image editor. It enables to save pictures as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF. It has basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize, and basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue. There is unlimited undo and redo.

MyImager – is free online image editor. Upload or call images from anywhere on the web and edit them freely with the the dozens of tools and filters that myImager.com offers.

OnlinePhotoTool allows you to edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. The following functions are possible: resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepia, black and white.

Pixenate is online photo editing software that you can use stand-alone or integrate into an existing photo-sharing or photo-printing website. If you provide a photo-based web service, Pixenate can significantly enhance the ’stickiness’ of your website by offering an easy-to-use integrated photo editor that doesn’t require your users to download and install additional software.

With XMG Image you can host, edit, organize, and share your images with ease. XMG Image gives you the ability to manipulate your images in any way possible. Do simple functions like, crop, rotate, resize, and constrain images with 1-click. More advanced features include, advanced effects, image enhancing and more.

Photo Mixing and Slide Shows

Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching more than 134 million unique global viewers. It helps people express themselves and tell stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or desktop.

RockYou offers free services, including slide show creation, photo hosting, photo enhancement and more. RockYou is free.

Mixercast allows to create professional multimedia experiences by mixing your images, video, and sound easily with our unique templates and share across the web in one click.

Flektor hosts your photos, videos, and music. You can make customized slide shows, polls, text, or direct and edit your own movie with hundreds of effects and next generation glitter graphics all online. You can record or even broadcast yourself live on a webcam. When you’re done, post them on MySpace profile layout and comments, Facebook, Blogger, Digg, Photobucket…or any other website of your choice.

Photo Printing and Book Creation

Snapfish -is a leading online photo service with more than 40 million members and one billion unique photos stored online. It enables the members to share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices – online or off. Snapfish offers professionally-developed digital camera prints as low as 10¢, film developing for just $2.99 per roll, free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage, free editing tools and software, wireless imaging services, and more than 80 personalized photo products, ranging from calendars, mugs and mouse pads, to boxer shorts, and dog leashes.

Moo can help you turn your virtual contents into excellent print products. You can make note cards and mini cards from your photos and design. These can be used for promotional materials or business cards.

Use Shutterfly for free to organize and edit your pictures. You can get 2 Web addresses to showcase your pictures. Save with Shutterfly Studio -4×6 prints for 12¢ each.

Fotki provides free unlimited photo hosting for sites, blogs, auctions and emails. Enjoy the best prices: 9 cent pro quality prints! Besides, you can participate in photo contests.

Photography Blogs

Chromasia a blog where you can find photographs in a wide range of subjects and topics in a unique and contemporary style: scenes from the Fylde Coast (in and around Blackpool), items washed up on the shore, portraits of children and adults, a range of abstract things and scenes, and a variety of other topics.

Thomas Hawk – Zooomr’s Thomas Hawk on photography, Zooomr, Flickr and general tech news.

PhotoCritic – an excellent DIY photography Web blog.

Stuck In Customs – blog by one of the greatest HDR photographers on the net.

Black and White Photography is a great photo blog focusing on black and white photos.

Shutterlog - a photo blog designed and fed by Stéphane Alaimo.

DPreview is a place where you can find all the latest digital photography and imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, the most active discussion forums, a large selection of sample galleries, a digital camera database and buyers guide and the most comprehensive database of digital camera features and specifications.