Crazy Things Parents Text – Moms and Dads Getting Hilariously Creative in Texting

Crazy Things Parents Text – Being embarrassed by our parents is an inevitable shame we all must come to terms with, and what a better way to deal with it than by making fun of their texting creativity? Crazy Things Parents Text is here to make fun of moms and dads’ self expression in the digital era, particularly when texting. The result is a hilarious blog of funny and surprising things parents text, and you can vote for your fave ones. Here are a couple of the most popular posts:

Chuckville – Celebrating Chuck Norris and His Online Reputation

Chuckville – One of the leading meme threads online these past couple of years was the buzz around Chuck Norris’ capabilities and unbeatable power, presented as short aphoristic -and funny as hell- statements about legendary Chuck. T-Mobile, together with Symbio, took advantage of the online buzz surrounding Norris’ formidable fame (one example claims Chuck Norris’ tears can cure cancer, but he never cries) to create this fun and hilarious promotional site.

Chuckville includes all the factors that make a website a sweet success: the design is beautiful and creative, the background music is amazing and the interactivity of this site offers an enjoyable user experience. For the ultimate Chuck Norris adventure try to beat the Kong-Fu legend himself at Chuck-Lin. Search for it as you stroll around Chuckville.

Weekly App: InToNow – Making TV Shows the Focus of Social Interaction

InToNow – This cool iPhone app is all about fun friendly interactions centered around your favorite TV shows. Show your friends what show you’re currently watching using InToNow’s smart instant recognition system (it will even show your friends what episode your’re watching), and see what your friends have to say. As with most social apps, InToNow also offers sharing your real-time show viewing info with friends on Twitter and Facebook. InToNow is available on iTunes’ App Store. So what are you watching now? Here’s what the app looks like on the iPhone.

AllMyFaves.ru – Offering the Best Homepage to Russian Users

All My Faves Russia – It took us a lot of work and research, but the Russian homepage we’ve been working on is now live! As with our other non-US homepages, the allmyfaves.ru serves as the ultimate homepage for Russian users, both domestic and international.

The page includes the most popular categories Russian users look for and visit on a daily basis. These include the obvious email, video, news and entertainment categories, but also interesting categories such as Books, Finance and Travel, just to name a few. All My Faves’ homepage for Russia marks a special milestone in our country-specific homepages list and we’re very pleased to be able to offer the best of the Web to the Russian community worldwide!

WMSIWT – No-Nonsense Movie Recommendations

What Movie Should I Watch Tonight? – This unique movie recommendation site is so simple and effective I’m surprised no one has done it before. Simply go to the WMSIWT homepage, pick a movie genre on the left menu and the site will start showing you relevant movie trailers. That’s how I came to find the one shown below by picking ‘Dramatics.”

Once you’re done watching the trailer, you’ll have a film summary including the name of the movie, date of release, participating actors, and the name of the Director. WMSIWT uses full screen viewing by default, and you can add some preferences such as RSS, HD videos, exit full screen mode and other settings.

Here’s the brief info view of the movie trailer I saw (picture above), Blue Valentine.

Toy Design Served – Gorgeously Designed, Innovative Toys

Toy Design Served – Another beautiful creation by Behance Network, Toy Design Served focuses on the amazing and captivating design of, well, toys -for both kids and child-at-heart adults. The focus here is on gorgeous design and innovation, and you will find these two characteristics in abundance on Toy Design Served.

Explore the gallery and vote for your favorite designs. Here are two examples of what I wish I had had as a kid.

Glueless Paper Toys by Claudiu Stefan

Luli Bunny’s Momiji Book Club dolls

GraphJam – The Funny Side of Statistics

GraphJam – One of the Cheezburger network blogs, GraphJam is not new, but its hilarious posts most certainly deserve a Weekly Fave spot (it’s a Weekly Blog winner as well). You will find yourself laughing at these pie and table stats (the source of which comes from users submitting graphs) and you’ll identify with most of these. Here a couple of examples:

To submit your own funny graph go to the Upload tab or click here.

Wovox – Be Inspired By and Share Awesome Work Spaces

Wovox – Are you curious to see the offices of Google, Facebook or other cool companies? Wovox is here to make workplaces transparent, meaning anyone can see other companies’ offices but also share their own. The idea is to be inspired by and share cool working environments. Although the big social network firms are the most popular here on Wovox, many international users have shared their offices for you to see. Here are both Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and the lesser known yet just as cool, Pearls and Caviar in Abu Dabi.

Klowdz – Revisit Your Childhood Imagination

Klowdz – Remember the cloud game we used to play as kids? Imagining animals and other objects in the skies, in the form of clouds is all about that nostalgic childhood creativity. Now with Klowdz you can, for old times’ sake, tap into the cloud-form game and let your imagination run wild. Once you enter the site you’ll be asked to pick out a cloud (there are eight pages to choose from). Next you pick out your sketching tool and start drawing whatever you see ‘hiding’ in the cloud. Here’s my creation, titled Happy Worms.

Weekly App: What’s App Messenger – Free Mobile SMS and Chat

What’s App – This cash saving mobile application lets you send and receive messages for free as long as there is an Internet or Wi-Fi connection available. The What’s App Messenger service works on and between various mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Nokia. This means you and your friends don’t need to have the same device to use this service as is the case with many other free SMS apps; it’s a cross-platform tool that gives you lots of freedom and productivity. Another cool option What’s App offers is sending images and videos as part of the chat/SMS platform (available only to iPhone, Android and Blackberry users). In short, if you haven’t downloaded this super cool app, you should. Right now.

Clay Yourself – Surprising Avatar Creation

Clay Yourself – This super cute feature by Hotels.com invites users to create their very own clay avatar, and up until recently, users could pitch their hardened creation to the Hotels.com contest – chosen winner will star in Hotels.com’s advertisement. Although the Clay Yourself contest has ended you can still use this tool to see just how you would look in clay form.

To create your own clay avatar, simply hit Get Started and follow the different steps of choosing your facial features, dress and accessories. If you’ve played the Wii game before, it’s just like creating your character there. When you’re done don’t forget to share your new you with friends! This is a lot of fun – look at my clay avatar. What a looker missed out on the contest!

Weekly App: Instagram – The Best Free Photo App for the iPhone

Instagram – Taking pictures with the iPhone is fun in and of itself, but there’s a free app that takes creating and sharing photos to a whole new level: Instagram. Even if you’re not too keen on sharing your photos, Instagram will open new photographic horizons for you.

Once you’ve signed up, take any picture. Next is where the Instagram magic lies; choose from a variety of photo filters to see how your seemingly ordinary photo is immediately upgraded. If you want to instantly share your photos, you can via Facebook and Twitter. See the picture below, Tweeting in the Rain by our team member and AMF Co-founder Roy Pessis, using one of Instagram’s retro-like filters. Looks like a postcard, doesn’t it?