Thoora – Curate and publish beautiful, authoritative, topical pages on the subjects you care most about. Leverage Thoora’s powerful aggregation engine to discover and deliver a relevant stream of high quality content; then use powerful curation tools to refine pages to your liking. Share them with your friends.

Plnnr – Plnnr automatically generates your free personalized ready-to-use itinerary in split seconds. Including scheduled daily routes, navigating directions, hotel price comparison, attractions info. Tell Plnnr about your preferences and likings and it will tailor a trip matching your every whim.

Plnnr automatically takes into account working days, opening hours, attraction distances and travel time to ensure a smooth travel experience.

InternMatch – Search and find your next internship in the largest database of college internships online. Then use their internship resources including resume samples, cover letter samples, and tips to help get prepared.

Are You Watching This -Are You Watching This?! guarantees that no sports fan ever misses an Instant Classic.

Using patent-pending algorithms that process in-game statistics for games around the globe and television listings across the U.S. and Canada in real-time, you (and your DVR) will know when it’s time to hustle to the couch.

Pinterest – Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.

Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

Jig – Jig is a website, one that helps you with your needs– by making it easy to share them with people who can help solve them.

The Tweeted Times – The Tweeted Times aggregates news in your Twitter stream and ranks them by popularity among your friends. Never miss any important news! You can create a newspaper for any topic of your interest. Topical newspapers are based on streams produced by Twitter Lists or Twitter search.

Springwise – Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation.

Springwise headquarters is in close contact with more than 15,000 Springspotters in over 150 countries worldwide, who provide them with details of the latest innovations in their countries. These are compiled and assessed by the editorial team, and the best examples are published to provide entrepreneurial inspiration to our readers around the world!

Demotix – Demotix is the award-winning newswire where YOU tell the stories. We put photos and video from ordinary people and freelance photographers into the international news media.

Got photos the world needs to see? Upload them to Demotix and they will push them out to their hundreds of buyers. Earn money for your photos and network with photographers and clients.

HardlyWork – The name couldn’t have been a more appropriate choice of words. HardlyWork offers all the perks of checking in on your Facebook friends -on Facebook- but with the false appearance of a 100% work oriented spreadsheet. Simply sign in via Facebook log in button and see the magic happen before your eyes – away from your bosses’. Here’s what the Facebook spreadsheet looks like:

As you can see, the Excel formula bar is actually where you search for friends names. Hovering your mouse above likes and comments shows you their content and the person who made them and, if you need to log out, simply hit the X sign you usually click to close windows. It’s so simple and cunning we should expect an overwhelming expansion of hard working spreadsheet employees all over the country in no time…

Do Lectures – The Do Network believes that people who Do things -meaningful and life changing things- can inspire others to change the world. Every year, the Do Network invites inspiring Doers to come and tell their story in the hope of motivating you to go out and Do as well. These are the Do Lectures.

If Do Lectures reminds you of TED, that’s not a coincidence. Both aim to inspire people to do things and bring positive change by sharing amazing stories. An example of a fascinating Do Lecture is the one below by Phil Parker, talking about pursuing the impossible or, Why the Words You Say to Yourself Matter (click the image to go to the video).

Codeacademy – HTML, CSS anyone? The bewildering world of programming seems so far fetched to most non-engineers, including myself. But I do know programming brings magic in terms of website appearance and infrastructure. Codeacademy is here to make the frightening and peculiar world of coding a simpler topic to learn. It offers “a better, more interactive way to learn how to program.” Thanks to Codeacademy creators Ryan Bubinski and Zach Sims, learning to code is now more accessible -and fun- than ever.

The lesson framework in Codeacademy is a step by step process that ensures high retention rates and increases your chances of learning while having fun! Although these lessons are quite basic they meant the world to me, a common Java illiterate! And look, I managed to code an alert message as you can see below.

Start with Codecademy’s eight lesson plan, and then sign up to online courses to maintain and perfect your training. You know, I never thought I’d ever say this but programming is fun!