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Well it’s actually $10 for you and another $10 for the charity of your choice, but it still totals $20. So please visit RentYourSoul.com today and get some ROI on your most underutilized asset.  Especially if you’re in Marketing.

If you’ve ever been tempted to trade your soul for fame, fortune, or other significant gains, you’re in good company: Homer and Bart Simpson, Dr. Faustus, Charlie Daniels’ violin-wielding “Johnny,” and any number of blues players have risked perdition with the Prince of Darkness. One CNET News.com staffer claims to have sold her soul in exchange for her almost supernatural Guitar Hero skillz.

Instead of skirting the fiery pit of eternal damnation, why not simply lease your soul for a good cause? It only takes a few minutes to post a photo of yourself, and if Ayotte displays it on the home page, you’re soul-free for a week and 10 dollars richer afterward. No, you can’t have hordes of dancing girls and wealth beyond your wildest dreams in exchange. But you can have the satisfaction of a deed well done for the good of others.

What’s the risk? It’s an asset almost all of us possess, and chances are, you’re not using yours anyway.

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Want to learn how to build your own Ruby on Rails web applications? SitePoint is now giving away a Full Copy of Patrick Lenz’s Ruby on Rails beginners’ book for FREE. That’s right, Free.

This offer is available for limited time only. So grab your copy now before they’re gone.

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Another product that aims to simplify your digital lifestyle is launching today. Give Fuser access to your email and social networking accounts, and the website will organize all of the messages from those accounts in one place so you don’t have to bounce back and forth between multiple interfaces to handle them.

Not only can you view messages from all of your accounts together, you can also reply to them as with a normal webmail client. If you want to reply to a Facebook wall post, you can hit reply and either leave a note on your friend’s wall or send them a Facebook message. It’s quite surprising how much of Facebook’s functionality Fuser has been able to extract out of that social network’s website.

Beyond organizing all of your messages in one place, Fuser plays around with the social network data to add a little functionality. You can view a “leaderboard” of your social network friends to see who communicates with you most frequently. Friends are ranked according to how many times they have sent you messages or posted on your wall, and you can view rankings according to certain time periods. Nothing terribly revolutionary, but their attempts demonstrate how it is still possible to mash up Facebook data from outside of the developer platform.

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from Mashable.com. Here are some examples.

AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.

Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.

Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.

asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.

Codebox – Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.

Crossroads – Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.

FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.

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AdPerk.com is a great new Web 2.0 site that currently offers Free Subscriptions to Popular Science Magazine and a 50% discount on dwell Magazine in exchange for watching short (30 to 120 second) advertisements on their site. Some of the advertisements were actually funny () and others were quite interesting () so the return on time investment here is great. Highly Recommended, especially as AdPerks adds additional Magazine Subscriptions (and other premiums?) to their offering.

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