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Many non-profit organizations around the world desperately need basic things like pencils or cleaning supplies. Many of these cannot rely on government or NGO support. StuffYourRucksack.com aims to connect travelers with organizations like these. A non-profit can register at the site and create a list of needed supplies. Travelers can select their destination and search for a group in the area who needs their help. Where are you traveling next? How will you stuff your rucksack? URL: StuffYourRucksack.com.

Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor your small businesses cash. Organize income by companies and projects, income and expenses with categories. Integrates with Basecamp project collaboration tool. Reports company income history, recurring income and expenses. Supports multiple user (to share with investors, co-workers, etc...). Tracks potential sales/income. The best part is that it's free to use. URL: Pulse.

A service that provides mobile-efficient access to Basecamp on your smartphone. See more of the most important things on screen quickly and easily. Switching between projects takes seconds with just a few button presses and the whole application takes advantage of touch screens, scroll wheels, 5-way controls, back buttons and keyboards for navigation and data entry. URL: TrailGuide.

Give your ideas their own space with Wirdea. Wirdea gives you a place to store and organize your ideas that you can access from anywhere. Categorize your ideas, create pages around similar ideas, and collaborate on ideas with friends, Also unique to Wirdea is the IdeaRain feature that provides a whole new way of viewing your ideas. Wirdea is in open public beta. URL: Wirdea.

Give your ideas their own space with Wridea. Wridea gives you a place to store and organize your ideas that you can access from anywhere. Categorize your ideas, create pages around similar ideas, and collaborate on ideas with friends, Also unique to Wridea is the IdeaRain feature that provides a whole new way of viewing your ideas. Wridea is in open public beta. URL: Wridea.

An online music experience that lets you and your friends collaborate to create great music mixes you can stream from anywhere on the Web. It's a fun way to make mixes that play back all the hottest tracks, in their entirety, for free. Think of BoomShuffle as an Internet radio station where you and your friends are the DJs. You all choose the songs that make up the mix. URL: BoomShuffle.

Share your WiFi with others in a safe and secure way, and in return, get free WiFi everywhere. Whisher is compatible with any WiFi access point or router and its free software application works irrespective of the hardware in place (obviously you must have a WiFi access point or router, any kind will do) for this to work. [Beta] URL: Whisher.

Broadcast quality TV for your mind. body, and soul. BeYOU.tv is a subscription-based community built around high quality, full length videos that focus on health. Video topics range from yoga to cardio to Chinese cooking. There is a 7 day free trial membership during the open beta period. URL: beYOU.tv.

A multiplayer word association online game. URL: Human Brain Cloud.

Want your website visitors to really notice some new feature? Have a short message you want all your visitors to see? Add a virtual ribbon to the upper corner of your site with QuickRibbon.com. This free tool lets you customize your ribbon's text and colors and then spits out a bit of javascript to add to your website. (QuickRibbon.com does not work with Wordpress.com free hosted blogs.) URL: QuickRibbon.com.

A professional networking site dedicated specifically for students, alumni and entry level professionals. [Invite only Beta] URL: NetHooks.

Recently, I was given an awesome guided tour of personal finance application, SpendView. Nikhil Roy and Nikunj Somaiya have taken SpendView from concept to fully functioning closed beta in the space of about nine months. I was honestly pretty nonplussed about looking at yet another personal finance app. (This might have something to do with the shape my finances are in, maybe...) By the time we were done, I was totally excited by what I saw!

A time management app that allows you to see and understand how you spend your computer time. Many of the upcoming features are a bit more social, including group time management analytics, lifestreaming, etc. URL: RescueTime.

Be part of an online community built around mobile games. Playyoo is a social community where you can download free games for your mobile phone, build your own mobile games that can be downloaded, and challenge other community members. Playyoo caters to the casual mobile gamer who doesn't want to read a manual to spend a few free minutes on a game. And they promise to make downloading games just as simple. For those who want to do a bit of development, Playyoo provides support for community members to upload games made using Adobe's Flash editors. Playyoo is advertising-supported and requires a phone which supports Flash Lite. Currently the site is in preview mode, with launch set for December. URL: Playyoo.

A site that was created by professional web developers in an attempt to build a community for sharing and discussing topics related to AJAX, Web 2.0 and other interesting web technologies. URL: Ajaxonomy.

Share large files easily over the web and without providing any personal information. Just upload your file and get a unique URL for it. You can then send that URL to others so that they can download your files. URL: FileUrls.

An internet community that aims to grow into the strongest investment consortium through the power of united internet users. The community owns equities in companies, start-ups, single projects and even standard investment products every community member can buy stakes from (callled "Asset Slips"). [Beta] URL: Couch Tycoon.

Instantly create an mp3 file from any text that you type or paste, or allow your website visitors to listen to the text on your site with VozMe. The VozMe site offers up a simple text box that will create a downloadable mp3 file of any text you enter. Copy long articles to your mp3 player for your morning commute or listen to a school paper out loud. For bloggers and webmasters, VozMe also makes available plugins and javascript snippets that you can add to your site or blog allowing visitors to select text and have it read to them or listen to an entire post. Also available in Spanish. URL: VozMe.

A service that lets you post to your Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Tumblr, and other microblogging sites at one time. URL: HelloTxt.

Providing a free platform for climbers, Bouldr lets you share advice, problems, and local expertise related to climbing. You may be looking for a climb that's known only by a few, or you may have done a climb that you'd like to share with other dedicated climbers. Bouldr aims to be a site specific bouldering guide, place where you can talk about your experiences on the crag, and a community where you can find a climbing partner or two. URL: Bouldr.

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Emily Chang is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of ideacodes.com, a web design consultancy in San Francisco. Emily writes about strategic design and web at her professional blog emilychang.com and is the creator of eHub, a popular resource list that focuses on next generation web applications. She also has an artblog at artcodes.com [This is Emily Chang's experimental SuprGlu page, pulling in feeds from her various sites and web activity.]

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