I’ve been continuing my research into social networking and the role of blogs in building up web sites. What I’ve found so far is, there are a lot of tools and widgets for blog sites like this one, and some of them are very cool. I’d put them all together under the category of “Cool Tools.”

Probably the coolest tool among the tools I have discovered, and you may have noticed them literally “popping up” all over the site, is a link preview widget from Snap.com called “Snap Shots™“. This Cool Tool, (as you’ll see by running your mouse over the link,) offers a quick “sneak-peek” at the site you’re about to browse to.
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