Edit: collecta.com has closed their service. According to mashable.com, they are aiming at developing other applications and pursuing new markets.

CEO Gerry Campbell stresses the rise of a new trend; applications replacing websites. People would stop accessing a website to use a service, and instead hope to find it integrated in a platform, eg. their smartphones.

“First, there is a huge need for real-time information,” he said. “Second, a destination site is not the correct vehicle for reaching people. Third, new behaviors, specifically with Facebook and mobile, are growing.

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You can get the bleeding edge of what is happening write now on the wwweb with collecta.com.

Different kinds of user generated content are perused, so you can have an idea of people are saying about a certain topic. Collecta goes through Stories (blog posts and articles), Comments (on blog posts), Updates (that’s twitter and identi.ca, the place I got this link from), Photos and Videos (from your all familiar sources).

If you’re out of ideas, query for Empathy, a ever trending and fresh topic.