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We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we like to compare lists in our team chat room and then share them with you.

Here are the latest tools and services we've come to love, maybe you'd like to give them a try too.

If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users and more usefulness for features loved by loyal early adopters.

Twitter has acquired two other companies so far, that we know of. Search engine and sentiment analysis service Summize became Twitter's own search engine and Values of N sold its assets so engineer Rael Dornfest could be brought into the company. Here are ten other startups we think that Twitter should consider acquiring next. Which kind of company would you most like to see become part of Twitter itself? We've got a poll below.

A few weeks ago, we wrote about Twimailer, a third-party Twitter tool similar to Topify, that aims to make Twitter's email notifications more useful. Now, however, we read that Twimailer was quietly sold and acquired early last month, and that the current owner is already trying to sell the service. According to Topify's Arik Fraimovich and Ouriel Ohayon, the new owner approached Topify, but the company turned down the offer to acquire its competitor, not in the least because Twimailer's own Twitter account has been closed, and because a lot of users have been complaining about the service.

Beta service Topify hopes to make managing your Twitter contacts easier both by enhancing your new follower emails with additional information, and enabling email direct message replies. Similar to another service we reported on last week, Topify distinguishes itself by taking a multi-pronged approach to making email your new Twitter control center.

Getting to the crux of Streamy, a very new beta startup, has proven to be more difficult than several prominent bloggers originally thought. I have been testing the development since Friday and awoke today to the news that Streamy is everything from a Digg competitor to a doomed social networking site. I was working late Friday, when the founders of Streamy Jonathan Gray and Donald Mosites messaged me to demo their innovation. Streamy is a beautifully designed site with an intuitive Web 2.0 interface. Streamy users can share, view, filter and drag-and-drop news stories, while communicating via a very slick chat module. On the surface, Streamy appears to be a "next generation" news networking site - but is it?