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Want to know what people are talking about on Twitter without actually bothering to go to Twitter? Check out a Twitter-focused search engine. Summize and Twitscoop can both help you answer questions like “does the new Will Smith motion picture stink?” or “is Nancy Pelosi really trying to ban Twitter from Congress?” But this week Twitscoop rolled out a nifty new feature that makes it even easier to see what people are speaking about without typing anything at all in the search box: a tag cloud that’s updated in real-time.

The video above should give you an idea of what the tag cloud looks like, but the video capture software slowed our personal down a bit, so imagine the whole thing sped up a bit. As more and more Twitter users enter keywords in their messages, the tag cloud is updated.

Twitscoop’s tag cloud should make for interesting reading during a major news event like a presidential debate. But even on slower news days, Twitscoop provides an overview of the conversations taking place among Twitter users. Sure, they’re probably not representative of the public at huge, but they’re certainly representative of something… early adopters maybe?

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PlanetEye is a new travel site that uses Microsoft technology and partnerships with third celebration services like OpenTable and Travelocity to provide a ton of information about in one place. Just enter a destination and PlanetEye will bring up a map with a bunch of dots representing points of interest. Click on a dot to see shared photos from that location.

You can also click on the hotels, restaurants, or attractions buttons in the sidebar to switch from the picture view to something a bit more useful. Or you can turn off the map and click on the City Guide to bring up a list of places to eat, sleep, and visit.

If you’ve registered for a free account, you can save information you find on the site to a “travel pack” which you can share with other users or just use as a tool for planning your own vacation.

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Ever did something that you wish you could take back? Maybe you snuck out of the convenience store without paying for that pack of gum or never returned that past due library book. Whatever the case maybe, why not voice it to the world and get it off your chest with i4Giveu.

i4Giveu is not just a sounding board, its members judge your confessions, rate them and ultimately decide if your confession is worthy of forgiveness. Of course, you too can dish out a bowl of moral soup if you’re feeling a bit high and mighty.

Oh, Internet… is there anything you can’t do?

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