Our friend and brother, Muhammad Saleem, has just released a new website, StumbleRank. As the name suggests, the top ranking StumbleUpon users are showcased on the site.

As the introductory text on the site mentions, this site was done for the fun and social aspects of StumbleUpon. It is also an excellent way to make friends with the top users. This will allow you to see what is being stumbled, what the latest stories are and what is happening on the Net.

We think this is a good indication of the next generation of the Web gaining new ground. As Mashable mentions, StumbleRank is an unofficial list of top StumbleUpon users. Muhammad is an exemplary model of how the next generation of web users will display their talents and creative ideas. Taking a well-known social media platform and developing an idea that plays off the original. This is way beyond Web 2.0. Let’s see how this ignites the web.

Don’t forget to add Muhammad and IslamCrunch to your StumbleUpon friend list. Check out Muhammad’s post about StumbleRank here.

UPDATE: Just noticed our friend, Korayem, is also on the StumbleRank list. Please add him as well.

FriendFeed makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. The site is currently in a private beta-testing period. However, ISLAMCRUNCH has invites for you!

For this invite, we will make it a little more challenging. Click on the FriendFeed logo below and choose a social network or service to share this article. If you don’t belong to any social networks, you can send an email to all your friends about this article. Once that is done, drop a comment here and share with us which social network or channel you chose.

From FriendFeed - About Us: 

“Our goal is to make content on the Web more useful and discoverable by taking advantage of your social connections. FriendFeed is a simple tool that scratches the surface of that goal by making it easier to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet.

With FriendFeed, you list the people you want to keep in touch with. They let us know what services they use (e.g., Flickr or Facebook or Picasa Web Albums), and you get a personalized feed of what they are up to. So, if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. You don’t need to install anything to use FriendFeed — our crawling technology automatically picks up all the stuff you do on the web sites you already use with no additional effort on your part.”

Side note: For those who are using YouTube, IslamCrunch highly recommends Muxlim.tv for user-generated video media.

We would like to thank Scott, our Pownce friend for sending us the invite.

A new addition to the social networking scene with a Islamic twist appeared today. Ummah5 was developed by Ayoob Syed based on the Ning architecture. Ayoob is a fellow San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley) resident. He sent me an invite this morning and I was more than happy to jump in (I am member #7!). I am honored that he asked me for my feedback and any critiques of the network. Showing my Shafi’i pride, I immediately asked for a prayer time widget according to the Shafi’i madhhab (Ayoob already set up a Hanafi widget).

According to their main page:

“ummah5 is a humble attempt to provide resources and organization to our Muslim community. We are attempting to bring together everyone who considers him/herself a Muslim and wants to do something to raise the condition of our Ummah.”

What’s on the inside:

• your own blog
• a comment wall
• photo album
• video album
• post your favorite RSS feed on your profile
• forum
• start your own group
• member directory
• 50+ themes to personalize your page
• advanced customization of the themes
• personal ummah5 box - use it to promote yourself, your business, service, product or whatever you want

At the moment, ummah5 is closed to the public. You need an invite to get in. If you would like an invite, add a comment to this post with a link to your favorite IslamCrunch article.

More invites! Not as new as our Yahoo! Mash invites but we didn’t see too many Muslims taking advantage of this online productivity social network. So, if you would like an invite to 8apps, drop a comment here with a link to your favorite IslamCrunch post.

8apps is an ongoing, evolving social network project run by Jonkenpon. It aims to be a collection of 8 indispensable online applications designed to help you work better. Currently there are 3 apps within 8apps. Handshake is the glue that ties everything together. It is a professional social network in which you can vote on your contacts’ abilities, send mails, write comments and style your profile page to your liking. Blueprint is a brainstorming board that you and your Handshake contacts can use to get projects quickly and colourfully out of the ideas phase. Orchestrate is a multi-pane task manager that allows you to view as many lists on screen as you like, and of course, you can share lists with your Handshake contacts.

We have invites to Yahoo’s new social network: Mash. Much thanks to our brother Muhammad Saleem for the Yahoo Mash invite. Following Muhammad’s footsteps (literally and prophetically), please drop us a comment and we will create a Mash profile for you, insha’Allah. To read more about Mash, check out Brother Mu’s post. Once you are on Mash, add us: http://mash.yahoo.com/islamcrunch