Pictarine – Storing and sharing photos these days is possible via Google’s Picasa, Facebook, Flickr and other photo hosting sites. The obvious question is how come there isn’t a single venue online that allows you to import all of your photos from various social networks and other locations to a single place? One that is easy to use, doesn’t require monthly payments to store your albums? Say hello to Pictarine, the site that invites you to “manage and share all your photos, whether they are on Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Twitter, Instagram, your computer, your camera, and even your mobile. You can finally enjoy and share your photos the way you want in one place.”

In addition to storing and sharing photos, Pictarine offers a sociability feature whereby users can create ‘zests’ – a sort of a photo-based status update that friends can comment on and add their own photo to. Pictarine takes the chaotic world of dispersed online photo storage locations, and brings these all together to make it better and more organized.

Punchfork – Another look & click recipe site, Punchfork collects the Web’s best recipes in virtually any category you can think of, and showcases them elegantly on the homepage. Moreover, Punchfork uses social media channels to find out what’s hot in the cooking world right now, and shares that on their site. Punchfork’s visual approach is, as I’m sure you would agree, much more rewarding and helpful in recipe search online.

Search recipes by ingredients, or by user ratings, and Punchfork’s browsing filters can adjust your search to include blogs, trends, recently added recipes and more. To see what a chosen recipe page looks like, here’s one that is perfect for these hot summer days: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream by Serious Eats. Each recipe page allows you to go to the original site or blog’s recipe post.

CardMunch – Networking is an absolute must these days, but it comes with an inevitable nuisance: storing all those business cards we are constantly accumulating can be a hassle, not to mention the time wasted when searching for a specific contact from the stack. CardMunch is a time and tree-saving app that makes business card management a breeze. Using your mobile phone’s camera, CardMunch -powered by LinkedIn- takes a snapshot of the business card, and automatically extracts and stores the person’s contact info right into your mobile device. It doesn’t get any easier than this.

In addition to its business card storage functionality, CardMunch automatically saves the business card image, and offers instant invite to that CEO or important gatekeeper you just met and exchanged cards with to maximize the networking opportunity. And if you’re worried about accidentally deleting an important contact, don’t worry. CardMunch backs up all the contacts you’ve added with the app on your Web account. Simply log in and recover all of your contacts.

Card Munch is currently available for the iPhone for free, and will be offered to Blackberry users soon.

In today’s high-speed, multitasking life the Web is becoming an ever-present part of our life, a fact which entails benefits but also downsides. One of the most obvious examples of the latter is the wealth of information generated from different resources. The chaotic nature of dispersed resources can lead to confusion and disorientation rather than productivity. Business professionals, already having their hands (and minds) full with to-do’s, deadlines and company budgets, could use a single, easy to use venue where they can find all of the information they require or are interested in.

Memrise – This vocabulary builder is unlike anything I’ve seen online thus far. I visited Memrise thinking I will use it to freshen up the advanced French vocabulary I learned back in college, but I soon found myself learning Mandarin. Memrise is a fast, easy and above all, enjoyable way to learn a new language and to enhance the ones you already speak.

What’s so special about Memrise? The team behind this innovative tool has mastered the science of new knowledge acquisition (especially the kind that’s involved in learning new words) to ensure long-term retention stays above 90%. How? Contributing users fluent enough in a given language give word association tips, and share their way of remembering what words mean. Association, according to science, is the best knowledge and memory retention method. Here’s a solid example of Memrise’s magic, showing how to remember the Mandarin word for Man.

The Memrise magic doesn’t stop there. By using a Farmville-like seed planting and greenhouse growing bait, the system gives you incentives to come back later and practice what you’ve learned. Even the quiz questions are built in a way that helps you remember the new vocab words better. I seriously believe Memrise is a must in every classroom across the country. Well done, Memrise team!

Loosecubes – Looking for an inspiring workspace or seeking to rent out your extra studio or desk? Loosecubes is an inventive community that pairs people who own extra work space with those who need it, and has thus far connected people in 357 cities in 48 different countries.

All community members must follow the oh-so-reasonable guidelines, just like the ones you would find on the global accommodation community AirBnb.com. Connecting to Loosecubes via Facebook means you get recommendations for work spaces from people you know. Moreover, the site’s system takes care of the entire reservation and payment process so you don’t have to worry about it. Loosecubes is a personal favorite and comes highly recommended! Here’s a gorgeous looking space available for coworking in East Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York (NY). To learn more about how Loosecubes works, click here.

Worldtime Buddy – A most productive web-based app, Worldtime Buddy is particularly helpful to business professionals communicating with different cities and countries in different time zones. With Worldtime Buddy you can easily and painlessly schedule meetings between Los Angeles, Sydney and Paris without forcing anyone in these locations to stay late at the office, or worse, wake up super early, to attend that video conference call.

To make a time zone conversion or to set up a meeting between different zones, pick your desired locations, pick a date and time and save it via Gmail, Google Calendar, add to Clipboard or add it to an existing meeting. It’s simple, easy to use and does the job!

Dragon Dictation – This iPhone app by Nuance Communications is a dream come true to many busy professionals, and there’s no wonder why it’s currently one of the most recommended (and free) apps by major tech blogs and news sites. With Dragon Dictation you simply say whatever you need done, whether it’s an email, a Facebook status update, text message, a to-do task or a call to someone. The app will do it for you, fast. This app was created by a “voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text content.”

Dragon Dictation is revolutionary in its field, and it offers an easy solution to busy businessmen and women on the go, with the added hands-free bonus. Currently free for Apple mobile products, available at the App Store. This is amazing stuff!

About.Me – We all have multiple accounts scattered all over the Web. There’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, video sites, blogs and others. About.Me offers you an elegant and sophisticated yet simple way to show yourself off to the world online, whether for personal reasons, professional, or both.

Create your personalized About.Me page and use it to lure people into your provided links. Throw in some nice pics, well-written bio and other content you feel is important, and voila, you have it all in one pretty page. See Sean Duffy’s About.Me page as an example (click the image to see the entire profile).

It looks amazing, doesn’t it? For many other profiles go here. To start creating your own sexy profile that shows you off, sign up to About.Me right now. To learn more about the About.Me service, watch this video.

TravelStormer – Group travel is fun and exciting, except for those annoying decision making moments when the group becomes frustratingly divided. TravelStormer is a great tool for planning group trips without the nuisance of coalition-opposition scenarios.

Prizes.org – Sign up with your Facebook or Twitter account, post a question or a task and offer whatever reward you feel is fair. Prizes is a peer-to-peer Q&A platform where users post inquiry contests others take part in, which means both sides have to gain from this cool service. This site offers an upgraded version of the answers concept, which is why I believe Prizes.org has a serious chance of exceeding Yahoo Answers in terms of honest assistance (as opposed to “lol” and such answers you usually get in such places).

Pixlr – For those of you working in the graphic design and photography fields, Pixlr is a bliss. The company calls itself “an online cloud-based image tools and utilities” provider serving “both non-professionals and professional users with editing needs…”

Pixlr offers a wide collection of services, all centered around photo editing including the classic photo editor, and the Pixlr-O-Matic Facebook app that turns your Facebook photos into retro snaps. These are but two features Pixlr offers. Finally there’s a free alternative to the costly Photoshop software (although limited in features compared to the latter).