You can also create your own irc channel and use the new Widget to embed a chatroom on your own website. It allows your visitors to easily interact with your content and each other through discussion right on your webpage. See the Mibbit embed example here.

Mibbit features:

• Connect to multiple servers, multiple channels and PMs.
• Works on major browsers, iPhone, wii, etc
• Full UTF-8 support
• Recent chat - When you join a channel, you get some recent chat! Magic!
• Typing notify - Now you know when someone is done explaining something
• On the fly language translation - Now you’re multi-lingual!
• Auto image URL thumbnailing - You get nice thumbnails in the chat
• Integrated pastebin - No more having to find a pastebin
• Parsing of smilies, links, channels, nicks, mIRC color
• Extended whois information with user profiles
• Supports SSL IRC connections
• Setup auto connects to join your favorite channels
• Tab complete on nicknames
• Input history for each tab (up/down)

To get started, read the Mibbit Quick Start Guide.

It is easy to use, just enter your search term and Lexisum will search Wikipedia while you type and return only Wikipedia summary, not the whole article. To read more, click on the “Read Full Article..” link at the bottom of the article summary. You can customize your article summary to A4, A4 Small, A5, A5 Small, A6, Black & White, Antique and Mix formats. You can also change the mode from visual to print mode.

Check out Lexisum at http://lexisum.com/. It is available in 9 languages and requires no registration.

SpellJax can detect and ignore URL, email address and HTML tags. Too bad it can only spell check your text in English.

To use it, simply visit http://www.spelljax.com, copy and paste your text or whole document into the text field. Click “check spelling” to check and correct it online. Then copy the corrected text back into your original document.

Stixy helps users organize their world on flexible, shareable Web-based bulletin boards called Stixyboards. Unlike most personal productivity or project management software, Stixy doesn’t dictate how users should organize their information. Users can create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to them. Then they can share Stixyboards with friends, family, and colleagues.

With Stixyboards, you can easily organize information such as your schedule, photos, notes, to-do list or to share and collaborate with your friends. You can create as many Stixyboards as you like.

Stixyboards is very easy to use, simply add photos, notes, reminders, and documents with the drag & drop widgets, and customize the color, text, and font. You can then name, tag, save and share your boards with your friends, family or your colleagues.

Stixyboards is useful for gathering, organizing, publishing, and sharing information. It is currently in a private beta phase, you can sign up and try it yourself.

yPen is just like a online clipboard where you can write notes or copy and paste regular used text. Most clipboard contents will be cleared when a user logs out or reboots his or her system, but yPen will automatically save what you have type even though there is no Save button. You can access your text notes via a unique URL.The notes content are stored with JavaScript on client-side, and this make loading very fast when switching between notes.

yPen is still very new and there will be some more features to improve user experience soon. Feel free to suggest features and report bugs on yPen Blog.

MindMeister is a well-designed application and provides more than just simple mapping capabilities. With MindMeister, you can:

• Change topic color and add symbols/icons to map branches
• Add notes on ideas
• Cut, copy and paste map elements
• Undo and redo buttons in the application’s toolbar
• Freely move map branches from one location to another
• Share dialog with drag & drop
• Use the insert key to add new branches and the delete key to remove them, just like on many desktop mind mapping software programs
• View recent revisions to your map, and perform “roll backs” on them - especially useful when collaborating with others!
• Export your maps to a Rich Text File (RTF) outline or a GIF image file
• Import maps from Freemind and Mindjet MindManager
• Export maps in FreeMind and Mindjet Mindmanager format
• Include maps in blogs/websites
• Invite others to collaborate on or simply view your map
• Full SSL encryption
• Integrates with Skype
• Get notifications on map changes by email and text message via Twitter
• and more…

With MindMeister, you can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. MindMeister integrates with Skype so that IM or VoIP chat can be conducted while collaboratively editing a map.

MindMeister has a clean and simple interface and comes with some neat features. MindMeister basic account is free, you can sign up from here. For more info on how to use it, visit the MindMeister Help page.

SaneBull Widgets are embeddable pieces of Market Monitor platform that will continually update whenever the market is open. You can change the quote in real time by pressing the switch button next to the symbol. Their most useful widget is for registered users, and will display your portfolio on your personal website or blog, and your MySpace, hi5 and Piczo profiles.

The widget types include:

• Simple - just shows a stock and it’s current price
• Medium - has all of the latest information about a stock (price, volume, trade, etc.)
• Full - this is the same as the medium plus a graph of stock price
• Portfolio - displays the portfolio you setup at SaneBull

For more information, visit ideAjax’s exclusive launch post at centernetworks.

Use the sliders below to choose a primary color. The preview occurs in real-time. When adjusting the color scheme, you immediately see your changes on the available samples.

If you’d like to change a generated color into the primary color, click on it. You will then be given the matching HTML color code for you to use in your web site or export to Photoshop or Illustrator.

Color Match is a web-based tool, visit Color Match and create your harmonious color combinations. With this great color matching tool, you can easily find the best matching colors for your design.

mon.itor.us provides 24 x 7 network and website monitoring service with personalized interactive interface, where you can add server performance and availability tests, get uptime reports, track visitors, check CPU, memory and other systems resources, add contacts to get the alert notifications.

mon.itor.us can monitor both inside and outside of your network firewall. End-user availability tests will be performed from geographically distributed servers as well from customer locations.

mon.itor.us is free and does not require downloads or software to install. mon.itor.us runs your tests at specific intervals 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year to insure that your customers and users can reach your website. If mon.itor.us detects a failure, an email alert is sent to you. When your website is active again, you are notified as well. mon.itor.us tracks failures and logs a report of the uptime/downtime of your website per day/week/month.

mon.itor.us has an excellent user interface and charting. The Chart view is an Ajax component which draws the chart right within the client’s browser, and due to it the filtering/re-drawing and view change processes are fast.

Benefits of Mon.itor.us:

• mon.itor.us lets you know when your site is not available
• we monitor your site from the web, so we check what you user actually will see (services that run on your server, which can give you a false sense of security).
• mon.itor.us identifies the problems before your customers even notice it
• mon.itor.us test your site performance from different geographic locations
• mon.itor.us build upon fault tolerant architecture so we guarantee high availability of our service
• you can use mon.itor.us to report service level uptime to your customers
• you can do real-time monitoring using personalize screens
• you can check you site performance at any particular day
• for every test, we maintain a log of all failures and notifications, which you can view anytime
• you will get web application advantages (no installation, high security) with desktop application user experience (fast response, customization, real time notification)
• we provide historical performance trends also available for download as pdf or CSV
• we provide multiple online views - chart, table, calendar, preview.
• we can monitor HTTP, E-Mail (SMTP or POP3), FTP and any other protocols using industry proven Nagios monitoring tool
• instantly available use - no even signup needed
• monitoring on 24/7 basis
• we provide server problems report also as RSS feeds
• If you are looking for a reliable hosting company you find a few pages hosted by your potential host, and check their uptime with our monitoring tool.

I’ve been looking for a free service like this for a while now. Most hosting companies provide network monitoring to check that web server is up, but they would not check if your application is really functioning. Currently mon.itor.us is on beta release and support only email alert, but future releases will support SMS as well as IM types of alert. I’m really looking forward to it.

For more information on how to use this mon.itor.us, visit the Help page or watch the Video Tour.

What makes AfterVote different from other search engine is the ranking system they use. AfterVote rank their results according to Alexa Rank, Google PR, StumbleUpon, Yahoo, MSN Live and many more.

AfterVote(Younanimous) is a new twist on a old idea. For years now, sites have existed as “meta search engines” which would search Google, Yahoo and MSN. The problem with these search engines is that they were unbearably slow, as they had to query Google, Yahoo, and MSN before they had anything to display.

Enter AfterVote(Younanimous): With an AJAX backbone, YOU Search Google, MSN, and Yahoo and let us know what you found and then we rank them for you, while providing additional detail about each result such as Alexa ranking, Google Pagerank, domain age and much more.

There are 3 search levels of AfterVote:

1. Beginner Level
2. Intermediate Level
3. Advanced Level

AfterVote will remember your “level” the next time you visit the site. You can select “Search Level” at any time and pick another option.

You can see how AfterVote’s results compare to Google, Yahoo or MSN by clicking their respective icons and instantly see how their results would be displayed.

Search results can be upvoted (or bookmarked) or downvoted (or blacklisted) for future searches. Within the search results page you can submit the result directly to Digg or del.icio.us, email the result, translate the page, view BugMeNot login details for sites, or use the WayBack machine on a result. You can automatically see its page ranking on the various search engines and its Alexa ranking.

This is a great way to find what you are looking for with so many more tools and so much more precision than the basic search engine. For more information on AfterVote, you can read about it here.