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New version of the great Share This plugin for WordPress (amongst other platforms). It allows users to send links to their favourite social network or bookmarking site; or indeed to email or IM them to friends.

Buzzword is an extremely nice looking online word processor, recently acquired by Adobe, according to Mashable. Not as feature rich as Google Docs, Zoho et al, but a great example of just how attractive web apps can be.

Great tutorial from Mahalo on how to employ Google Analytics on your site. GA is an astonishingly powerful free website stats tool, which provides sophisticated metrics on who is accessing your site, from where, and what they are interested in.

Tangler is a host of discussion forums with a difference – it acts more like an instant messaging platform than a traditional forum. Looks a cool way of getting discussion groups together quickly.

HiveLive is another service to use to create your own social network. Very useful for creating niche or sector specific online communities. There are a growing number of these available, keeping a track of them, and which is best for which situation, is g

Great little interview between Beth Kanter and Heather Cronk, who is involved with Pledgebank, a MySociety project which aims to pull people together to achieve social goals.