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Next time your building an app or coding a wordpress theme, think about including this Timestamp solution from Timeago.

Timestamps like “4 minutes ago” are common on social networking sites and apps that have comments.  But these timestamps could come in handy in a whole range of applications.

Timeago is a jquery plugin that will automatically update a timestamp without having to reload the page.

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Thanks to this months sponsor of iDezy – Sitelok from Vibralogix!

WIth Sitelok you to protect php and html pages within your site.  You can now create a members area or multiple member only areas on your website without any programming knowledge.

The tool comes with plenty of features including PayPal integration, membership expiration and a built in mailing tool.

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Chat rooms may have dies with the start of web 2.0 but we still think they have a place on the intertubes.  Webby Chat has created a fresh approach to web chat with a slick new app.  With just a few lines of copy and pasted code you can display a chat box across your website that allows your visitors to chat to one another.

We have added it to iDezy for testing – take a look and why not test it out.

The app is very unobtusive and sits hidden until the user wishes to expand it out.

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MapMyPage is without a doubt the fastest way to add Google maps to any webpage.  The very lightweight tool automatically detects locations in webpages and will display a map.

All it takes to add this tool to your webpage is simply copy and pasting a few lines of javascript – and thats it! We love it.

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Its seems like the cool kids have discovered Squarespace – the slick, hosted, blogging solution.

Kevin Rose is calling “Typepad and Wordpress on crack”.  What do we think?  It’s slick, feature rich and provides plenty of customization option.  And no, you don’t need to know anything about design or html.

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Twingr allows you to build your very own micro-blogging network (aka Twitter).  This hosted solution is free and allows you to create a network of like-minded people.

Great for groups, community organisations and even for building a network around your blog.  We setup a test account at idezy.twingr.com

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ClickHeat is a free self-hosted heatmap script.  This app will give you a visual representation of clicks on a webpage, showing what’s hot and what’s not.

This is a great tool to see how effective a design is and how users are interacting with your site.  Its free and very easy to setup on your server.

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Here are two more social network scripts:

The first is Lovd By Less – an open source script built using Ruby on Rails.  Its fairly basic, lacking the range of features that you will find in a commercial solution – but its elegant and looks good!

Next up is SocialEngine.  This script isn’t free but is feature rich, includes great support and you will have a profitable social network up and running in no time at all.