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When I wrote about Amazon price tracker Tracktor, commenter Accounts pointedly remarked, "camelcamelcamel.com blows this site out of the water." Boy, he was right.

Despite its odd name, camelcamelcamel is a serious-looking Amazon price tracker, with a Firefox add-on and a Chrome add-on. The site uses a chart format similar to Tracktor's (I don't know who's imitating who here, though).

They track other vendors, too. There's camelbuy for Best Buy, camelegg for Newegg, and a couple of other sites.

The homepage offers four tabs that feature products with recent price drops. You can see Top Daily Drops in absolute numbers (USD) or by percentage. The same goes for Top Weekly Drops (absolute or percentage).

They also support local Amazon subsites: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. They also provide something they call "Camel Concierge," which is a fancy name for a Twitter client that DMs you when items you want drop in price. That feature comes in handy if you prefer Twitter to RSS. However, you can also subscribe to a per product RSS feed that shows recent price changes in the product you're interested in.

Thanks for the tip, Accounts! If any of you know of better options, leave a comment!

Stock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They've even developed their own shorthand; a stock symbol is typically prefaced with a dollar sign, such as $MSFT, and tweets that discuss stocks often end with two dollar signs.

Stock Tweet App has taken these conventions and used them to build a custom interface for viewing Twitter with a scrolling live stream of all stock-related tweets. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Stock List option to type in the symbol for a few stocks you're interested in tracking, and only tweets concerning those stocks will be shown.

We've previously covered StockTwits in this space, and while they cover the same ground functionally, the styles of the two sites are very different. Of the two, I prefer Stock Tweet App, but there's a sneak peek of a new beta version of StockTwits available which is worth checking out.

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