Now Tubalr plans to combine the two in an effort to resurrect both.

Like Pandora for music videos, the site generates lists comprised either entirely of your favorite band’s videos or a mish-mash of artists with the same musical qualities.

Last.fm’s infrastructure provides every group’s autobiographical information along with the ability to listen to entire genres in the hopes of stumbling onto a new favorite band.

But where the site really shines is live performances. For example, we created a playlist of our favorite videos from the genius site La Blogotheque, which films guerilla concerts from the likes of Arcade Fire (in an elevator) and Bon Iver (in an abandoned apartment).

There’s no sign up necessary to use Tubalr, but creating an account enables you to sock away favorites and share playlists of your own.

Music videos. What a novel idea.

Seems a bit high.

But if you really want to take advantage of it, you can start using Giftiki. The new site is the digital equivalent of “going in on a gift.” Except you don’t have to pick anything out. You don’t have to collect money. And the contributors are everyone you know on Facebook.

Here’s how it works: Log in online or with the iPhone app and see a list of Facebook friends’ upcoming birthdays. Pick a pal and choose an amount you’re willing to chip in (ranging from one buck to a ten spot) then loop in mutual Facebook friends to do the same.

Several small, though generous donations later you have an impressive fund, which the recipient can convert into a gift card right through Giftiki.

It’s no hundy billion, but luckily it’s the thought that counts.

Or something like that.

In any event, that song was onto something. And curating an Internet-wide wish list is easy with Wantworthy’s handy bookmarklet, which adds items from any web shop to your dream haul with a simple click.

Categorize picks by type and add them to a collection: “Basics,” “Favorites,” and our personal favorite, “When I’m Rich.”

You can also add to your anthology from Want Worthy’s selection of Monthly Picks like the Splurge and Save, which features nearly identical items form opposite ends of the price spectrum.

The hardest choice? Deciding what to actually buy.

But like that other song says, “Shoppin‘ ain’t easy.”

Joining the two is ParkatmyHouse. The service – which has helped over 40,000 Brits rent out their precious paved real estate – is now taking applications for its stateside operation.

ParkatmyHouse gives driveway owners access to its online booking system, where you can set availability or enable Instant Bookings (making your space a veritable parking meter).

Drivers looking for convenient spots can enter the location they need to park near and see a map of available spots comparing cost, proximity, even reviews from previous users (“Nice landscaping!”).

For now, those looking to list their driveway can see the estimated value of their driveway, while drivers eager to find spots can sign up to be notified when the service launches in their ‘hood.

Until then, we recommend circling the block one more time.

But enough about politicians. (Ba-dum-bum.)

For those looking to get serious, Google recently released their Politics & Elections hub for Republicans and Democrats alike. Easily track the candidates’ trending habits, color-coded election results, and breaking news sorted geographically for your convenience.

Browse articles by popular issues like the economy (you may have heard of it), healthcare, and immigration. A dedicated YouTube hub highlights each day’s top five videos.

Feeling not-so-bi-partisan? The On the Ground section features crowd-sourced content of citizens confronting politicians and ralliers getting rallied up.

Which reminds us, did you hear about the candidate who owned a bagel shop?

He was running a real schmear campaign.

We’ve been banned from all electronic stores in a 15-mile radius.

To make finding cell phones, tablets, TVs, laptops, or cameras incredibly easy, Sortable only displays the best matches to your specifications for the amount you’re willing to spend.

Not sure what you’re looking for? Easily compare top-rated devices (you might be surprised to see four tablets ranked higher than the iPad2) and narrow down your list by must-have features and sacrifices you’re willing to make.

There’s also a standalone comparison method to see how the new goody you’re eyeing stacks up.

Registered users have a Wikipedia-like ability to update and edit device specifications, and Sortable is currently accepting suggestions on which product category they should branch out to next.

Our local car dealership will be happy to hear it.

Leave it to Bloomspot, purveyors of exclusive discounts in cities nationwide, to devise a simple solution: Let them pick up the tab.

Sign up for Bloomspot now and you’ll be entered to win an all expense paid trip for two to New York. The posh package features Bloomspot’s favorite Manhattan haunts: a room at the storied Mercer Hotel, dinner at Michelin-rated Jean Georges, drinks at mixology haven Pegu Club, and shopping at Bloomingdale’s.

What exactly are you signing up for? Well, savings. Lots of them. Every Bloomspot email contains impressive discounted offers at restaurants, spas, bars, and other undiscovered gems in cities across the U.S.

The site’s Concierge feature lets you personalize the experience with deal categories, email frequency, and geotargeted savings. And the Encore program earns you site credit for redeeming your offers and referring friends.

Speaking of referrals, you’d be wise to share this contest with your pals. After all, the grand prize is for two.

Bonus certainty: that you’ve got a jam.

And now you can share it with This Is My Jam, a refreshingly simple site with a refreshingly simple purpose – to let everyone know what song you can’t get out of your head right now.

Log in using Facebook or Twitter then search for your tune. The site pulls content from HypeMachine and Youtube; you can also connect a SoundCloud account or upload your own files.

This is My Jam will add the cover art and post your jam to Facebook or Twitter. Your song will be available for everyone to enjoy for exactly one week; after that, send out your latest favorite to keep your friends’ headphones fresher than Georgia peach preserves in May.

Another jam we highly recommend.

On the minus side, the Internet has introduced you to scores of people you wouldn’t have met otherwise.

Separating the good from the bad is Neiio. The site pulls contacts from Facebook, Linked In, Outlook, and Gmail and allows you to sort them into custom groups. Once built, those groups can be exported and uploaded to email accounts, cell phones, and address books.

If creating groups is too much work, use the site’s Clever Groups tool to automatically sort contacts based on the links between them (think family, college friends, co-workers, etc.).

Neiio is still in beta, so expect Google+ integration and other features to be added as the year goes on.

For now we’re just happy we met them.

Also known as One Size Larger Pants season, Constant Sugar High season, and Awkward Glances from Co-workers season.

So this time around we’re shooting for moderation with the help of RoutineTap. It’s an incredibly versatile progress-tracking site offering customizable daily questions and answers that automatically generate charts and graphs to quantify your entire life.

In our case, we set up measures to track cookie consumption (in the hope that 43 boxes will last a whole year), weight gained, and hours lying awake in bed at night.

The less cookie-obsessed can use RoutineTap to curb, encourage, or simply track everything from spending habits to hours in the gym. Set up multiple questionnaires to see the correlation of your habits, like the effect of four cocktails on your Facebook activity.

The important thing to remember is to not try to steal our Thin Mints — we know exactly how many we have left.

Who are these people and where are they finding these videos?

Nowhere is this query more pressing than at Shelby.tv, where every video your friends are currently sharing on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook is queued up for your viewing pleasure. (Netted’s current feed includes Shit New Yorkers Say, movie characters singing Lionel Richie’s “Hello”, and the trailer for FDR: American Badass, which is surprisingly NSFW.)

If you agree with a friend’s choice, repost it right from Shelby or click the heart button to save it to your favorites list. When browsing videos elsewhere, Shelby’s bookmarklet can add that video right to your favorites, making for a perpetually up-to-date playlist of sheer excellence.

After all, it’s an art, not a science.

But thanks to IM Creator, designing your own site is no longer a mystery.

The turnkey service offers surprisingly handsome prefab templates, each of which can easily be tailored to the most granular level. No feature has been overlooked, from SEO optimization and Google Analytics tracking to social media buttons and embedded Google maps. Sites are optimized for all browsers, both mobile and stationary.

Generic URLs are available for free; custom domains (which include ten personalized email accounts backed by Google) cost extra. But IM Creator has generously offered to give away a lifetime supply of domain hosting to one lucky Netted reader. To be in the running, send your name and contact info to contests@netted.net by midnight tonight. We’ll throw a dart at our inbox and contact the winner tomorrow.

Then we can finally put the age of questionably designed websites behind us.

See also: ouch.

Here with a much-needed remedy is Manilla, a blissfully free service that wrangles all of your bills into one place and keeps track of due dates so you don’t have to.

The site pulls your accounts – including credit cards, cell phones, utilities, and loans – into a clean, easy-to-use interface that shows you what’s due when. Electronic copies of your bills are available for viewing, and Manilla even archives them for future reference.

And since the service only requires one password (which uses bank-level protection), gone are the days of logging into a dozen different sites just to check in on your finances.

The kicker? Manilla even tracks rewards programs (you know, the ones you’ve totally lost track of) as well as deal sites like LivingSocial and Groupon to assemble a comprehensive list of your coupons.

Which is the definition of convenience.

Then, iTunes.

Everyone’s Mixtape takes us back to the glory days. Virtual mixes are restricted to 60, 90, or 120 minutes (fantastically old school), though you can add any song from YouTube, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with a simple drag and drop (decidedly new school).

Add songs to a tape until the site tells you it’s full, rearrange the play order for optimal impact (track #3 is most important, obviously), and then share it with the world via Facebook and Twitter, or with a single person via email.

Sure, it’s not as personal as handing it to them, but it’s a heck of a lot more convenient.

Unless you’re trying to do it with a bunch of passwords you’ve forgotten.

We’ve been test-driving a solution for just that problem called Dashlane, a free download that uses one super strong master password to store the sign up information for every site you visit.

Upon returning, you’re automatically logged in. When registering for new sites, it can even generate and save random passwords so you don’t have to.

The service works for all types of sites, from email and social networks to bills and banking. But where Dashlane really shines is shopping: It keeps multiple credit cards on file, stores screenshots of purchased items, and records how much you’ve spent per card.

Dashlane is still in beta, but since we love you so much, we’ve secured invites for Netted subscribers. You don’t even need a secret password.

But who needs a gun when there’s Trapit?

Freshly out of private beta, the site lets you set “traps” to gather breaking news for specific topics – like Google Alerts meets RSS feeds meets Pandora (as you thumb up or thumb down articles, Trapit learns and tailors its results accordingly).

Of course, the amount of content surfacing depends upon the relevancy of your filters: “GOP Presidential Race” is understandably hot right now, while “Water-Skiing Squirrels” is not.

Your everyday Web search of, say, “Esquire magazine” will result in three pages of the most-clicked links from SEO-tastic sites. But a trap for Esquire produces fresh content from the magazine itself comingled with indiscriminate mentions from sites big and small.

All of which should make surfing for the good stuff a whole lot easier.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t jump the shark.

Sadly, we totally get it.

But all those whims add up, spreading your personal information faster than a Bieber tweet. So it’s probably time to take stock of who knows your what and why.

My Permissions is basically a collection of bookmarks to all the apps permission pages buried deep in your social media accounts – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more.

The idea isn’t to purge your accounts of all their sharing ability (Princess and Mr. Ed still need their dinner, after all); it’s simply a reminder to check in and make sure your intel is going only to places you want it to go.

Because it’s all fun and games until someone loses a social security number.

We went with a different broker.

But to give the doofus his due, finding worthy listings is no easy feat. The novel solution created by ApartmentList involves a map, your Facebook account, and some extraneous multiple choice questions. (Bear with us here.)

Start by mapping your desired city or zip then add the usual criteria (number of bedrooms, price, pet policy, etc.). When prompted, log in with Facebook. ApartmentList won’t post anything without your permission; the site simply uses information you’ve made public in order to tailor recommendations.

And those nonsensical trivia questions in the upper right? You may not think how many books you read or your favorite 80’s sitcom will help find an apartment, but lo and behold, answer away and your results are scaled back accordingly.

If only there was a service like this for brokers.

So let’s not wait 363 days to do it again.

Our resolution: Break up 2012 into a bunch of intermittent countdowns – and do it on our phones.

For iPhone there’s Timenotes, a $0.99 app that tracks the days, hours, and minutes remaining before an important event. Creating an entry is simple and straightforward; the only flourish is an optional pop-up reminder for up to two days prior.

Android users can download the Days Left Widget, which lets you pin windows to your wallpaper in three different sizes. Important entries can get prime real estate on your home screen, while lesser ones (like ho-hum Tax Day) can be relegated to screens one or two swipes over.

Both Timenotes and the Days Left Widget can be used to track days since an event as well as days to, which is handy for monitoring resolutions. For example, it’s been three days since we counted down to anything.

We’re already slacking.

Reason #766 to love the Internet: because with Turtlecalls you can enlist a professional turtle impersonator to phone your friends and have a delightful conversation with them – as a turtle. Reason #767: because you can upgrade to the turtle-impersonating-Don-Cheadle package.

Irrefutable: There is something mesmerizing about a clip of James Van Der Beek finger wagging playing on a loop. That (and so many other imminently watchable .GIFs) are on full display at Gif.tv, perhaps the most mindlessly addictive site on the Web.

Nothing wrong with a little competition, right? Download the Capture the Flag app and every time you snap a picture of one of your favorite destinations you help your team claim it as their own. Better capture your favorite bar before someone else does.

The only thing worse than trolling Facebook at work is getting caught trolling Facebook at work. Hardlywork.in converts your Facebook page into a spreadsheet, disguising your wall as just another boring expense report and allowing you to browse at will.

Just because a breakfast cereal claims it’s healthy (with an exclamation point!) doesn’t mean it is. With Fooducate, you can scan barcodes to see product highlights (both good and bad) as well as comparisons with similar alternatives.

Your health is nothing to toy with. Or is it? Health Month makes a game out of your fitness regimen, letting users create monthly “rules” they’d like to live by and applying some gentle social pressure to help you meet your goals.

Chances are Yahoo! Answers readers didn’t go to med school. Medify lets you search published studies from professionals, breaking down results into categories like top treatments, potential causes, and other conditions associated with your ailment.

Ten out of ten cranky people agree: A good night’s sleep is important. The Pzizz app for iPhone and Android generates a unique audio soundtrack made up of billions of sounds that facilitates napping during the day or conking out at night.

It took you long enough, Internet. Finally, a site capable of locating doctors of all stripes, from Allergists to OB-GYNs. Use ZocDoc to narrow down results by insurance carrier; read patient reviews; and even book your next appointment online.

Travelstormer
Group vacations ain’t easy. With Travelstormer, the entire gang can suggest locations, vote on the itinerary, and, once a consensus is reached, coordinate plans. Plus, you can track and split expenses fairly, so everyone stays happy.

Hipmunk
Some of us are visual thinkers. Hipmunk makes finding the right hotel a map-based exercise, with color-coded sorting and heatmaps for nearby attractions. Our favorite feature? The Walk Score, which ranks the strolling convenience of each location.

Gtrot
What better way to experience a city than by following advice from people who have been there, eaten that? Gtrot syncs with your Facebook and Twitter accounts to give you recommendations based on places your pals have posted and tweeted about.

OnTheWay
Time honored truism: Getting there is half the fun. Using a combination of Google Maps and Foursquare check-ins, OnTheWay not only plots the shortest route between destinations but also shows you popular stopping points along the way.

Unless you’re playing Buy the Best Tickets at the Lowest Price, in which case winning isn’t everything – it’s the only thing.

Consider SeatGeek your secret weapon for victory. Dubbed a “ticket decision engine” by co-founders Jack Groetzinger and Russ D’Souza, the site aggregates listings for concerts and sporting events from sites like StubHub, RazorGator, TicketsNow, even eBay.

The results are plotted on a floor plan of the venue using a color-coding system that ranks entries on a scale of “ok deal” to “best deal.” Scroll over each dot and up pops a photo showing the view from that seat.

On top of that, there’s a forecast tool that uses loads of data (historical sales, teams’ records, popularity of venue, etc.) plus a fancy algorithm to suggest whether you should pull the trigger now or hold out for a lower price.

Because in the end, it’s not whether they win or lose: It’s how much you paid for the game.

Now consider SkillShare’s position: What the heck are you waiting for?

The site – which thinks it’s a damn shame you don’t know how to screen print a t-shirt – is a virtual registrar’s office, pairing eager students with willing teachers. The difference between this and school? Anyone can be a student, and anyone can be a teacher.

Class topics run the gamut from refinancing mortgages to patenting inventions. And while a private Photoshop tutor may charge $100 an hour, a three-hour long class here is a mere 25 bucks.

Posting a class to teach is a simple Craigslist-style effort, whether hosting six people in your kitchen for a bread-baking lesson or gathering 50 at a nearby park to explain The Wire.

All that matters is that you’re sharing the educational wealth.

Or do none of the above and use GiftRocket, a nifty little service that disguises your cash as a gift card good at the business of your choosing.

So instead of sending your sister a $50 bill (or a $50 gift card to Applebee’s) you can choose a business you know she loves and buy her an e-certificate there in the amount of your choosing.

When she’s ready to redeem it, GiftRocket will transmit the amount via PayPal, electronic bank transfer, or old-fashioned paper check.

Of course there’s no telling what she does with the money after that. But at least you know she’ll like what she gets.

And then progress in the note-taking department kind of stopped.

Two plucky tech guys out of Ann Arbor are attempting to change that with Fetchnotes. The service works two ways: If you’re at your computer, go to the site and jot down your thought. If you’re on the go, send a text message to your account (even easier if your phone has voice-to-text).

With a Twitter-like functionality, Fetchnotes compiles and categorizes your jottings according to hashtags (think #giftlist, #todo, #hookedupwithatholidayparty). Notes with similar tags are lumped together for easy organization.

Right now, the site is in beta. Deep beta. So deep that the group functionality (using Twitter-reminiscent @ mentions to loop in other list participants) isn’t finished yet. Nevertheless, we’ve secured invite codes for Netted readers so you can watch as Fetchnotes continues to get even more awesome.

Write it down: You heard it here first.

The good news: This problem is curable.

After the Deadline is a browser plugin that finds spelling and grammar mistakes in text boxes all across the Internet. Facebook posts, tweets, emails, blog comments – type as you normally would, click the small icon, and your errors are underlined and correctable with a few clicks.

There is a Firefox add-on and a Chrome extension; other browsers can use a simple drag and drop bookmarklet. For larger chunks of text, paste the selection into the online tool and clean it up in a jiff.

In the fight for proper diction and syntax, call it modern warfare.

Until you get lost. And hungry. And someone needs a bathroom.

Using a combination of Google Maps and Foursquare check-ins, OnTheWay not only plots the shortest route between destinations but also shows you popular stopping points along the way.

Find restaurants with local flavor (instead of local McDonald’s with no flavor) and take minor detours for gawk-worthy attractions like the world’s largest twine ball or a house made of beer cans.

In no rush? Add some tangents to your itinerary and soak up the scenery before reaching your final stop.

Just be sure to pack light and say hello to cousin Eddie for us.

For the Aficionado
Impress even the most experienced wine buff with a bottle of Caymus “Special Selection” Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, a Wine Spectator 93-point powerhouse.

For the Gourmand
A Francophile’s dream, this package pairs artisanal snacks from The Girl & The Fig (a New York Times Top Wine Country pick) with a 91-point rated Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

For the Social Butterfly
Modus operandi: bubbly. Execute that plan to perfection with a half-case of Crémant de Bourgogne — a producer specializing in méthode champenoise since1877 — at a value that competes with one bottle of bubbles at your favorite restaurant.

Netted readers get immediate access, plus a $10 credit to start using today. Cheers to that.

Instead of telling Mom what she needs to do, show her with join.me. The simple-to-use tool allows you to take control of someone else’s computer or have them watch while you navigate your own.

All the basics you’ll need are free. You can invite multiple viewers for a group thang and alternate who has control (handy if you’re collaborating on a project, like editing a video or Photoshopping mustaches on cats). The site even provides a phone number for everyone to dial in and chat together.

That way Mom won’t get upset that you never call anymore.

Since management didn’t respond to our suggestions, we took matters into our own hands and joined Fitocracy. The site gamifies your sweat regimen, letting you earn points for every completed routine with the ability to move up in levels.

Fitocracy’s mobile site lets you track workouts as they happen and easily flaunt your achievements on Twitter and Facebook. Embark on preset Quests (drop and give us a lot more than 20) to win bonus points and ensure you stay ahead of your friends on the leaderboard.

The site is still in beta, but we love you guys so much that we secured invite codes for Netted readers.

Finally, our gym visits are as enjoyable as our workout playlist.*

* It’s just “Ground Theme” on repeat.

Really complicated.

Hatch, a new social coordination app, is streamlining the process of getting you and your pals in the same place at the same time.

Create an entry with the basic details: who and what (e.g you and your college buddies having happy hour drinks). Once a plan is hatched, the app distributes invites via email or text message; your mates (well, the cool ones) respond to let you know “they’re in.”

You can include a time and place to get things started; your friends have the ability to make suggestions and put ideas up for a vote. Once the details are set (don’t worry, you can edit them any time), users can save the date to their calendars.

And just like that, a great plan is born.

Our doctor also tells us we’ve been shaking too many sticks.

With Matcha, we get recommendations tailored to our taste culled directly from our Hulu and Netflix playlists as well as our friends’ Facebook likes. So instead of just following the generic ratings board (Two and a Half Men, really?), we can stream bespoke entertainment without wasting precious couch time.

You can sort content by the what’s newest, most popular, highly recommended (based on what programs you mark with a thumbs-up), or what your friends are watching. Once you’ve found what you’d like to stream, Matcha provides links to begin watching immediately.

So you can stick a fork in watching lame movies and TV: It’s done.

1. Hypnotize them into sharing your taste in socks.

2. In the card, write “Like it…or else.”

3. Have them make you a list.

Always a fan of the path of least resistance, we found two handy services that do number 3 in inventive, tasteful ways.

Kids will love Santa’s Hideout, a site that lets you play St. Nick without blowing your cover. Create an account and attach a budget. Your tykes receive an email from Santa asking them to browse a gallery of gifts (all culled from Amazon and within your budget) and add their favorites to a wish list.

You can edit their picks if necessary then distribute the virtual registry to friends and relatives. A checklist function ensures your little ones get only one of everything they want.

For grown-ups, take more initiative while still reducing risk with Wantful. It suggests an array of thoughtful gifts based on information you provide about the recipient – everything from age and relationship status to how often they cook and their level of neatness.

Designate a price range and the site generates a list of sixteen gift options. Send the personalized catalogue as a virtual or physical booklet; the recipient makes their pick without ever knowing the price.

No hypnosis required.

And when the sun set on that GIF-bearing page, hearts everywhere broke.

Finally, Gimme Bar (the self-proclaimed “5th greatest invention of all time”) is here to offer stability in an instable cyber world, archiving any piece of content from the Web – forever.

Click the Gimme Bar bookmarklet and a thin bar pops up at the bottom of the page showing your public and private folders. Drag and drop photos and links, and poof: They’re saved. Highlight a portion of text or scroll over a video and you are offered the option to stash that away, too.

Collections are archived back at your Gimme Bar account, all easily accessible with the help of handy thumbnails and a search feature. The service even lets you back up accounts you already have (including Delicious and Twitter).

All the power feels like witnessing the dawn of a new age of the Internet.

So now when we have sensitive intel, we send it using One Time Secret. Enter your clandestine content in the site’s text box and with the click of a button you’ll generate a one-use-only link to your secret message.

Send the link to whomever you please; once it is opened and read, it disappears forever. If no one opens it within seven days, the link dies (your message along with it). For even more security, add a password that the recipient will need to know in order to access the self-destructing message.

This way you’ll never get caught with your pants down.

If you are Streaky Mastering – a London-based digital finishing studio that transmits entire albums to clients like The White Stripes, Kate Nash, and Usher – you create your own tool (and name it after yourself, obviously).

Streaky allows users two options for sharing large files. The basic method has you landing on the homepage backed with music-themed wallpapers and completing the simplest of tasks: Choose as many files as you want (up to two gigabytes total), then enter your recipients email address. Streaky automatically sends the download link.

Option B is where things get interesting. Download the free Streaky desktop app and send files directly from your computer to anyone else who has the app installed – no size limit, no waiting. The app even files away your transfers into sent and received folders where you can keep tabs on your work.

Frankly, it’s music to our ears.

We’ll wait for you to stop laughing.

Okay, seriously now. It’s called Nestio, and it’s revolutionary. Wayfaring co-founders Caren Maio, Matt Raoul, and Mike O’Toole created the site as an elegant solution to common apartment hunting setbacks (think lost phone numbers, missed opportunities, even accidentally viewing the same apartment twice).

To use the service, simply create an account and add the Nestio icon to your browser toolbar. When you find a promising listing on a rental site (Craigslist, brokerages, etc.), click the Nestio icon, add some notes (“Nice toilet!”), and save the listing.

Back on Nestio’s site you’ll find all your apartments, sortable by date added, neighborhood, and price. Click individual listings and find a treasure trove of intel, including maps, photos, square footage, and broker contact info; mark your favorites, schedule appointments, and track your progress all in one place.

Still not impressed? Hit the “compare” button and view multiple listings side by side to evaluate the goods. If you need a second opinion, you can invite others to collaborate.

No joke.

Oh, and enter to win a new bike, too.

Give up? Clearly you’re not subscribed to Blood, Sweat & Cheers. Designed specifically for people who think their couch is just a place for friends to crash, the free daily email covers physical competitions, new workouts, crazy events (zombie obstacle course, anyone?), and myriad ways to celebrate your triumphs.

The national edition includes events across the country (co-ed, of course), along with online games and innovative workout gear. New Yorkers can sign up to receive info on city-specific competitions (of the drinking and non-drinking variety).

Signup is free for everyone, with only one hard and fast rule: No quitters allowed.

Wait, why are the holidays so great again?

Probably because of things like the Give-a-Toy Store, a joint collaboration between eBay and Toys for Tots that makes being selfless almost selfishly fun.

Featuring two brick-and-mortar outposts (one in New York, one in San Francisco), the interactive shop lets passers-by purchase gifts ranging from $2-$25 simply by scanning items in the window using eBay’s mobile app.

Each of the five price tiers corresponds to a type of gift – $25 buys a pre-teen an MP3 player while $5 supplies a piece of sports gear to an underprivileged kid.

If you don’t happen to reside in NYC or San Fran, you can easily click to donate a gift at eBay’s virtual window shop.

And rest assured: 100% of your purchase goes to charity, meaning there won’t be any leftovers here.

But this year ING DIRECT is turning the tables, and the customers are the ones getting the cash. Simply open an Electric Orange checking account and receive a $107 deposit.

Even without the sweet signing bonus, ING DIRECT is an impressive deal. Accounts are easy to open (it’s all done online); they have no fees and a free debit card; and the company actually pays you interest (that’s cash, cold and hard) on the money sitting in your checking account.

The offers run today through 11:59 p.m. EST this Sunday, November 27. And just to be clear, there are no strings attached.

Unless you count the gift bow.

Yeah, we didn’t think so.

Contrary to your pals’ opinions, it (along with your other amateur films) is totally salvageable using Magisto. The new site offers a simple three-step process for turning videos of any length into veritable highlight reels.

Upload your file, give the project a title, and add some background music (either your own or Magisto’s stock tunes). Then sit back and let the algorithms go to work. The software automatically cuts less interesting parts and combines what’s left into a montage of scenes seamlessly woven together using cuts, fades, and other fancy editing tricks.

As a serious tool, Magisto rocks. As a vehicle of artistic expression, it may rock even harder. (Our downloaded tornado chaser video backed by Adele was eerily poignant.)

Either way, your films will be memorable.

Here with a better way to spread real news is n0tice.

A brainchild of The Guardian, n0tice acts as a virtual version of an IRL bulletin board. Hone in on your immediate area (between a one and 50 mile radius) and get an up-to-date compilation of nearby news, items for sale, and community group activity. Add your own link, image, or classified on any board to get in on the action.

Indeed, the site’s strongest showings are currently in England, but users on this side of the pond now have the ability to create their own noticeboards. And since we love you as much as we love breaking local news, we’ve secured some invite codes especially for Netted readers.

We feel like more grounded citizens already.

The even worse news: You totally zoned out when the doctor explained what sinusitis is.

Before trusting your health to a Google search, head to Medify. The database contains over 1.5 million published studies from professional medical researchers, all searchable by condition or treatment.

The results page is broken down into helpful categories like top treatments, potential causes, and other conditions associated with your ailment. Delve into research from top-rated institutions, or look to the masses in the community section for crowd-sourced information and recommendations.

No illness is too big or small, from the common cold to diagnoses straight out of an episode of House (it’s probably autoimmune).

In your case, good news: Sinusitis is only a sinus infection.

Now about that Attention Deficit Disorder…

Helping to manage your time wisely is The Weekend Map, a recently launched website that aggregates Friday-through-Sunday activities in 27 cities across America.

Choose your location and all of the upcoming weekend’s activities are displayed on a map color-coded for popularity. Adding restrictions for date and type (say, a concert on Saturday) makes the selection process a whole lot simpler.

Listings provide all the pertinent information along with the ability to R.S.V.P. and go directly to the event’s website for complete details, so you can fill your weekend in a matter of clicks.

Just remember to leave room for an episode or two of Dexter.