BloomSpot is an online magazine that features the best restaurants, hotels & spas in SF, NY and LA. BloomSpot is free to join and members enjoy amazing offers to live life better. BloomSpot works with top merchants to exclusive access to limited inventory at a special price to its members.

Within BloomSpot, members have the option to join a “Community Circle” for a specific cause to help raise money for non-profit organizations while they shop online. As Community Circle members purchase BoomSpot offers, BloomSpot donates a portion of all proceeds back to their cause. An organization can easily create a Community Circle on BloomSpot and invite anyone to join.

Trendwatching.com: StreetSpark allows users to connect with people nearby who share their interests. The users set up profiles detailing themselves and the type of people they want to meet. When a match appears nearby, they will see a photo and some basic information. If both users signal their interest by pressing ‘ignite’, they can see more information about each other and chat.

Mass Mingling [Trendwatching.com]

Online video is the fastest-growing medium in history, with 72% of U.S. Web users watching clips online. This fact was a guiding force in the creation of a new online video review shopping site, TheNextBigZing.com, offering consumers a visual and audio experience as they watch reviews of the most innovative products on the market. Since the majority of consumers prefer peer-reviewed products, according to a study by Marketing Sherpa, each “Next Big Zing” product is sought out, tested and recommended by “real” people that have used and advocate the product.

From fashion, home, health and art, to green, children and pet products, The Next Big Zing’s user friendly website allows consumers to discover new items by category and view a 2-3 minute video review of each product. The process is simple. If a consumer likes what they see they can just click on a link and make a purchase – it’s that easy.

Eventzilla is an online event management system that helps to make the process of managing your event from concept to fulfillment, a breeze. It allows you to import your contacts to get started and offers an avenue that enables you to sell on your website, box office and phone seamlessly and track the same real time. Customers can buy your tickets easily with credit cards and PayPal. You can even promote your events with early-bird discounts, coupon codes, and group discounts. The pricing structure is such that you pay only when you sell a ticket using Eventzilla. With Eventzilla, you have everything you need to manage your event in the one place so you can spend more time in the market, focusing on making your event a success.

Raffle Dog is a website that offers free online prizes sponsored by companies. Its main goal is to give users a free prize without any strings attached and to recreate the sense of excitement similar to the raffles in the old days (or the 80’s). Raffle Dog is currently offering different raffles every week for local and national companies. The winner of each raffle is picked live online from a fishbowl filled with raffle tickets. Raffle prizes are then mailed out directly to the raffle winners.

Food2Dorm was started by a former college student at the University of Kentucky who saw firsthand how little time students have and how hard it can be for students to shop off campus. There wasn’t a quick, easy and affordable way for both college students and parents to shop for food, school supplies, care packages, dorm accessories and more. The solution to the problem was clear and Food2Dorm began in the fall of 2009.

The user-friendly website allows students to quickly go online pick out everything they need and checkout without ever having to leave their room. This can be very appealing to students who don’t have a car on campus or do not live within walking distance to a supermarket. Food2Dorm started off servicing just a few schools in the Midwest, but the world spread quickly and now they are servicing over 1600 schools nationwide.

The site boasts several great features that appeal to both the parent and the student. One being, after students have created their personal account, parents have the ability to create an account where they can deposit money into their student’s account which can only be used on the Food2Dorm website. Parents also have the ability to see what their student is purchasing and even create and save shopping lists for future orders.

Springwise: Fiverr lets anyone sell a service of virtually any type for $5. Those “gigs,” as they’re called, of which there are more than 20,000 already listed on the site, span the spectrum in focus and practicality. Many are much like what one might find on ShortTask—writing positive product reviews on a website, for example—but others venture into much less pragmatic territory, such as furnishing “7 hours, 53 minutes of vacuum cleaner sounds.” Categories on the site include “Fun & Bizarre” and “Silly Stuff” along with the more staid classics such as “Graphics” and “Social Marketing.” For each task sold, the seller receives $4; Fiverr keeps the rest. Both buyers and sellers remain anonymous, while a feedback system enables participant ratings.

Online marketplace for $5 tasks [Springwise]

TrendCentral: The nuts and bolts of your latest romp can be recorded at Bedpost, a free site whose tagline is “Ever wonder how often you get busy?”. Bedpost is a personal web application that will give you some insight into your sex life. Users enter in details about their latest sexual encounter – when it started, how long it lasted, who it was with, a brief description of it – and rate it on a scale of one to five. The site then generates a map of sexual activity, as well as statistics tracking averages.

Feel Like Makin’ Love [TrendCentral]

Iconoculture: Product reviews on Amazon.com? They’re fine and all, but today’s consumers aren’t one-site shoppers. To meet their multi-site shopping needs, there’s Giddi, an aggregator site that pulls together reviews and recommendations from multiple e-retailers. Giddi lists more than 600,000 products in upwards of 250 categories. Over 1.6 million reviews, pulled from e-commerce and media sources, are collected so consumers can search products by brand, popularity, product age and overall “Giddi Rating.”

More concerned with price? Giddi’s got that, too; the site lets shoppers compare product prices against multiple retailers, and provides enough comparisons to make anyone, well, giddy.

Springwise: Shortomatic is a California-based company that invites consumers to upload their own art for a truly customised swim. All they need do is indicate their waist size and then upload the graphics they have in mind. They then position and size the art, choose their colours and add text for use on the waistband. Next, voilà! A unique pair of California-made boardshorts that’s customised for them.

Design your own swim shorts, earn up to $1,000 [Springwise]

A BookChat Experience on Readeo from Readeo on Vimeo.

A BookChat is when two people share storytime through Readeo. In a BookChat, you’ll be able to see and hear each other as you read the book, and either party can turn pages and select books to read.

Member Accounts have access to all of the books in the Readeo Library for reading solo or BookChatting with other Members or Guests. All Member Accounts come with a 14-day risk-free trial.

Thread.com in less than a minute from Thread.com on Vimeo.

Iconoculture: Lonely hearts looking for love online, but tired of registration-heavy dating sites and wary of total strangers, can tug on Thread for a Facebook-friend-vetted flame-finding alternative. Launched in September 2009 and currently in beta, the currently free Facebook Connect-powered service only requires users to fill out a bare-bones questionnaire to get started. Once up and running, users can easily browse other Threadsters sorted by degrees of separation from themselves. If someone looks appealing, users can ask a mutual friend for an intro or be gutsy and send the possible paramour a Facebook message directly.

Thread couples online singles via mutual Facebook friends [Iconoculture]

Iconoculture: Teens love to buy virtual goods from videogames, but if they don’t have access to Mom’s plastic, they’re often out of luck. That could change dramatically, now that Kwedit has launched. It’s a sophisticated honor system that allows anyone over age 13 to buy virtual goods with a promise to pay later. How will they pay later? By taking cash to any IRL Kwedit partner, such as 7-Eleven.

And if they don’t cough up the dough? It’ll reflect poorly on their Kwedit Score, which is similar to other commonly used credit scores, but dedicated to the Kwedit payment system. Lower Kwedit scores due to a poor payment history will make less Kwedit available.

Play now, pay later: Kwedit is a unique new honor system for buying virtual goods [Iconoculture]