Happy Leap Day! Cool tools for the week

Many Eyes - A data visualization tool create by IBM. Upload your data set and turn into one of a number of charts and graphs. Or, find a data set from a user and create. Great tool for marketers.

Chains - This tool is designed to help you keep your commitment to developing better habits one day at a time. The way it motivates is strangely appealing.

Quiver - Pen holder for Moleskin notebooks. I'm a huge Moleskin notebook user and this little add on just makes me smile!

4 Reasons Why Videos Go Viral?

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4 Reasons Why Videos Go Viral?

4 Reasons Why Videos Go Viral?

4 reasons why videos go viral?

4 reasons why videos go viral?

4 reasons why videos go viral?

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Cool Tools this week

OneLoad - Simplified way to distribute video to multiple sites. Since Tube Mogul changed their focus I've been looking for a new tool to do this. Great stats too.

Automate Your Dropbox - If you're a Dropbox user then you'll love what this tool can do. Easily create all kinds of automated action based on rules you set. For example you can tell it to automatically convert any file you upload to a certain folder to PDF or resize and upload any picture your upload to a certain folder to a specific Facebook photo album.

Alternion - Get all of your social data in one place by connecting up to 220 social networks and watch all your updates come to one place.

Cool Tools for You

Freedom - Pretty interesting tool that allows you to block yourself from the Internet for a determined period of time. The only way around it is to reboot. Great tool for when you need to focus on something like writing instead of wasting time on Twitter.

KissInsights - Free tool that allows you to ask your website visitors one simple question and instant feedback on design, what works, what's missing, or how they heard about you.

moShare - Tool that allows you to send an video, article, or image that you find on the web to a mobile device via text. You must have a verify a mobile phone as well so it's really just an easy way to text content to someone. There's a bookmarklet and website button.

Cool Tools this week

Tools, links and services we found this week

Quipol - Easily create and embed social polls that are very easy to use and very good looking.

Transcribe - Free online tool that makes it much easier to transcribe an audio - type and listen in the same place and keyboard shortcuts let you slow the audio down and skip around.

SocialBro - Great piece of software that allows you analyze and manage your Twitter following, including the best times to Tweet when your following are on Twitter.