We found a fun site called Tupalo that "is a social word of mouth recommendations network for fans of local culture, mom and pop boutiques and things that make you go "hmm"."

It also turns out that they are well up the web 2.0 curve and have integrated to Twitter . You can Tweet from within a location page on their site now..

"Heading out to lunch and want to let your Twitter friends know where to meet you? Now you can simply visit a location page to quickly and easily send a tweet to your friends list. Simply find the location you're heading to on Tupalo, click the "Twitter It" button, enter your username and password and off you go. We'll pre-fill a simple message, which you can easily edit and send. All of your friends on Twitter will receive a nice little tweet from you with the name and URL of the location you're heading to. Look below to see a screenshot of our hot little Twitter form, simple no?"

Here is a new startup web service that monitors your website uptime and response time for serving we pages. The service is free. Here is a description from the MoniTwitter website :

"A global community couple of servers answering one simple question: What's your website doing? Receive answers on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

• Receive notifications when your website goes down.
• Keep track of how long it takes your website to load.

MoniTwitter (Monitor + Twitter) was created by Jared Cosulich (CommunityWalk and Wedding Mapper) and Pivotal Labs as an innovative and useful way to leverage the communication network that Obvious Corp has built with Twitter."

As of 8 hours ago they claim to be monitoring 59 websites. 

Watch tweets rendered into cartoon style!

Find new friends on Twitter based on similarities in tweet history

Twitku allows you to monitor both Jaiku and Twitter at the same time from one page