If you’ve had to collaborate with a group of people on a document via email, you know how difficult and cumbersome this task can be. Edits tend to come in from a variety of people at once making the reconciliation process between different document versions complex and error prone. Writewith is a webapp that offers a central location for your working team to review the latest drafts, make real-time edits, see past revisions, and save a local copy in a variety of formats. The interface is simple, sign-up takes under a minute, and there is no cost to use Writewith.

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Shopping can be the ultimate let down. If you’re lucky, you might guess correctly and buy a product that performs well, holds up over time and is backed by great customer service. Then again, you might not. Wize.com provides a wealth of product information, user reviews, and comparison pricing all in a single location. Like many similar sites, Wize aggregates customer ratings and reviews from a variety of sites such as Amazon.com and presents the information in a uniform 0-100 color-coded rating system making it easy to spot potential winners. Wize also applies several calculations to make the ratings more valid such as weighting “expert reviews” a bit higher than feedback from average folks. Screenshots and full review

Regardless of your profession, we all at times find ourselves in a situation where it would be helpful to have an “in” with a particular individual or company. LinkedIn fills this need quite nicely with a huge network of more than 17 million people willing (at some level) to open doors using their own personal and business connections, share their expertise, and expand their social network. Screenshots and full review