Check out this awesome dictionary of sniglets - words that are not in the dictionary but should be. That’s a great source of inspiration to brainstorm new link-bait or a domain name!

A sniglet is a word that should be in the dictionary but isn’t. Sniglets are the brainchild of comedian Rich Hall who, with a little help from his friends, wrote a series of books containing sniglets in the mid-eighties. While Rich Hall invented the word “sniglet” itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to define things or concepts that have no “official” definitions.

Also check out this cool list of worst 100 nonexistent words of all time.

Dooblet is a new search engine that offers to find the best alternative for anything:”car model, software name, music group, technology name, philosophy term, medicine, company, … “

Here is the suggested alternatives for “apple” (note: all I meant was the fruit:)):

[Post credit: FriedBeef.com] Even if you never publish your email address online, you can still receive spam because you use this email address to sign up for various newsletters or membership-only services. One of the methods to avoid that I’ve been using so far was to keep a separate free email account for all sign-ups. But this way you can miss some important alerts from the service you have registered with.

An excellent post “How To Sign Up And Avoid Email Spam” offers a geekier approach to registering online and I thought it should definitely be shared with my readers.

And here is another great free no-registration service for that: Mailinator.com that creates temporal account for you to check the site you are going to sign up.

Post image: “hooray, no spam here!“

I for one am going to show it to each web developer I will be partnering in the future. And besides, it can be a good reference material for an HTML newbie.

Basically, Tabbloid does nothig more than conerts the RSS feed you submit into a pretty two-column magazine-style PDF file - but congrats to the guys for a clever linkbaiting idea.

Acronym dictionary gives a nice collection of modern funny acronyms (you can check Urban Dictionary for more user-generated ones).

Here are just a few of them:

• AKK = Asleep at the keyboard
• BIL = Boss is listening
• BTDTGTTSAWIO = Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and wore it out, etc

Here is how the heatmap of SEOsmarty.com looks:

According to their FAQ:

The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at.

Simply put, the algo is based on:

• color;
• orientation;
• density, contrast;
• intensity;
• size;
• closure;
• curve.

The tool is also claimed to be 70% as accurate as Eye and Mouse Tracking.

I never did any eye-tracking research for SEOsmarty.com, so I can’t compare but clicking through their recent submissions, I do find the tool worth checking.

SayTweet allows to create a huge Twitter badge using any image you upload:

• find a cute image (best if it has a face and mouth to speak);
• give your / anyone else’s twitter account name;
• you are done; now this twitter account’s updates will appear in the image:

The tool also allows each badge embed.

The site is searchable by Twitter name and keyword / badge tag.

The site seems a bit slow at times but still worth the time

Last week I posted about URL shrinkers summing up Jane’s awesome overview of URL shorteners. Today I stumbled upon a service that could be particularly useful for SEO bloggers:

Look.fo is designed to shorten URLs of Google search results.

The process is amazingly simple: you upload an image and the system finds similar ones available on the web.

The site admits their database is small already but out of 7 images I uploaded, they found 2 and were accurate and correct.

I guess, this is a huge step forward to a new era of search. Soon it will be much easier to look for people infringing your copyrights and using your images.