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• Rapportive | Making Excellent Service Scale
  Firefox extension that replaces the ads in Gmail with profile information based on the email address of your respondent.
  "Where does Rapportive get its data from?
  We combine information from several sources; at the moment, these are Rapleaf, Gravatar and Twitter. In the future we will offer integration with many more data sources, both public (e.g. social networking sites) and private (CRM).
  We make a clear distinction between:
  * Public data, which is information that users have chosen to make public on the internet, and which anyone could find on one of the major search engines. We aggregate public data, take into account corrections and feedback, and show this information to everyone who uses Rapportive.
  * Private data, which is privileged information to which only you have access. In order to provide the Rapportive service, we may need to process this data behind the scenes; however, private data will never be shown or disclosed to any other Rapportive user or any third party"
• Google Reader - Play
  Looks like Google has introduced a Stumbleupon clone...
• EntityCube
  People search/profile aggregator by Microsoft.
  "research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence"
  - "generates summaries of Web entities from billions of public Web pages that contain information about people, locations, and organizations, and allows for exploration of their relationships"
  - "known potential problems:
  * currently only contains information extracted from 3 billion Web pages, therefore it is possible that some information for people with a substantial Web presence is still missing in our index;
  * Some names and relationships could be incorrect, and the information may not be update-to-date;
  * Name disambiguation is still largely unsolved
  * Some of the summarization features are currently only available for people. We are currently working on these for other entities."
• BlueMailCentral.com | Send a real letter the BlueMailCentral way.
  Service that lets you send any document to a printer driver, extracts the mailing address and has the paper version of the document printed, stamped and sent.
  Price range per item sent around €1 (Via @kpellegr)
• WordPress › Search Regex « WordPress Plugins
  "Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP's regular expressions at your disposal.
  
  The driving force behind this plugin is to aid in website migration and upgrading. If you've ever done either of these then you know the pain of having to go back through all your data, changing URL paths and fixing things. With this plugin you can reduce this work to a search and replace pattern and the job is finished in seconds.
  
  Why would you want this? The primary reason for the plugin was to aid in relocating directories. It's a real pain to manually go through every post and change image directory names. With this plugin all that was required was a simple search and replace pattern, and the job was finished in a few seconds."
• WordPress › Autolink URI « WordPress Plugins
  Simple but handy: "The Autolink URI plugin for WordPress automatically converts urls to hyperlinked urls"
• A browsable, searchable archive of tweets | stopdesign
  Use the RSS version of Tweetbackup.com, and import it into Wordpress (via the RSS importer).
  Then use the Twitter Tools plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/ to grab consequent tweets.
• Twitter Backup | TweetBackup
  Simple service to backup your tweets.
  Is of course limited to 3200 Tweets by Twitter api limitation.
  Other services like BackupMyTweets.com and backupify.com require registration and are more pushy towards their paid versions.
  Make sure to choose the RSS download option, as it provides a richer data format.
• Turn an Email Address into a Social Profile. / Flowtown
  Like Rapleaf, Flowtown extracts information from social networking sites based on email address (probably via screenscraping).
  They let you enrich (customer) databases with social media information - according to this podcast interview http://web20show.com/2010/03/episode-70-flowtown-ethan-bloch/ they were "profitable from day one".
• How Companies Are Using Your Social Media Data
  On companies datamining your social media output and social graph for marketing and even credit rating:
  “I don’t think there’s anything scary about it,” she said. “Why wouldn’t they look at it? It’s public.”
  Point is that lots of people are not aware that it's public... and that they are not even in control of what is public or not...