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GrandCentral doesn’t replace your phones; we just link them together and help them do more. How do we do that? We give people One Number…for Life^TM - a number that’s not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to you.

With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.

Natuba gives you a way to create a single page from all of your sites around the Internet. With Natuba’s simple interface you just drag and drop the sites you want, tell us your username, and we pull everything you have posted into your Natuba page. You can continue to update the other sites as often as you like, and everything will show up on your Natuba page. Best of all, there is no software to download or install, everything works right through your web browser!

Gleamd is a place to highlight interesting people doing interesting things on the Internet. Users write a short biography or find publicly available information on a person they find to be interesting and submit it to gleamd by clicking “add person” on the menu bar. If others also find that person to be interesting, they can vote on it. First they’ll make it to the recently popular queue, then the top 3 if they’re really cool!

In 1967 the social psychologist Stanley Milgram suggested that all people on earth know about six degrees. He tried to approve this statement with a postcard experiment. 40 years later openPeople wants to try this experiment by using current communication technologies to link friends and acquaintances on the net. Join our experiment, invite your friends and be surprised about the bulk of people in your extended contact network.

Yumondo is a community site that makes it possible for members to make new friends, share pictures, and find things to do in the city they live in or are planning to visit. It gives users the possibility to write reviews

We have added a new interactive feature to our site. ClickComments allow you to add a quick comment about the material posted here. You will notice a row of round icons below this post. Hover over the icons to see what each image represents. After choosing one that suits your choice, click it and your quick and easy comment will be added. Of course, if you would like to add a detailed comments, you can do so by clicking on the Comments link. (Side note: to all of our regular readers who comment on this site, your words of encouragement and feedback is greatly appreciated!)

Another interactive feature is the Spotback rating system. Use the slider to rate the post (social media tip: slide towards the right as far as possible), a small window is then displayed that helps you to email the post to your friends, then tag the post for added Web 2.0 goodness.

Still feel like sharing? Click on the ‘Share this’ link. A drop-down window will display with links to popular social networking sites to add your favorite post. Check out the ‘Email’ tab, another useful feature to email a link to your friends and family.

Now here comes the fun part. To really immerse yourself in the social media arena, you should explore the wonders of clicking on the ‘Stumble it!’, ‘digg it’ and ’submit’ links. For those of you familiar with Twitter, we have included a ‘Twit This!’ feature. We want to interact with our readers, so please use these tools. You can contact us for more details, to drop a message, to ask questions or to let us know what you would like to see on IslamCrunch.

 I have 3 invites to Pownce, thanks to my friend and brother, Muhammad Saleem. As with our previous invites, show a little love and you will get an invite. Post an article about IslamCrunch, link to us on your blog or website, blast our URL to a variety of forums or any other creative ways you can think of. If you have already shown us some love, do something that goes beyond that.

 What is it? “Pownce is a great way to send stuff to people you know. Add friends, then send them big files, invite them to upcoming events, share great links, and whip off a note to anyone, everyone, or just a few people.” For more reviews, check out: Mashable.com (and another), Solution Watch, Mapping the Web, CenterNetworks (with a video tutorial, see below), WebWare and Jeremiah Owyang has a list of categorized reviews.

 You can see my Pownce page here: Pownce : islamcrunch.