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News & Information

At times i find cool ideas that i like to bring to my readers both here and on twitter that really does not seem to work as a single site review. So I build a neat little list up that may be twitter based or any other topic that really is beneficial. So today i [...]

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Busuu.com is an online community for learning languages in a social networking setting. Users can learn English, Spanish, German or French using the site, which uses social networking to enhance the learning experience. Courses are organized into units that contain more than 100 different topics, such as Welcome, In the Restaurant, Job Interview, etc.
Each topic [...]

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FeedMingle is a rss aggregator that pulls 2 or more feeds from RSS/Atom into one easy to use and read rss feed. This allows readers a way to grab news from many different sources on a subject and have them in one feed instead of dotting your favorite homepage with all of these feeds.
This means [...]

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Slashdot is an online community news site which is powered completely by user’s submissions. This means that users are free to write their own posts and submit them to the site. It’s free to sign up and the ability of users to create their own stories means that the information often has a unique perspective. [...]

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Flixster is a social networking platform that’s designed and aimed specifically at film fans. Anyone who registers on the site can create their own profile, invite their friends, rate movies, rate actors and write their own reviews for certain movies. All of the content is written by other users which means that it’s a very [...]

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Streamy is downright awesome. When our own Leena Rao wrote a review following their launch two months ago, she nailed it when she wrote it was essentially a ‘personalized news service and social network that combines elements of Google Reader with FriendFeed’. That’s exactly what it is, and it just became even more than that.
I’ve [...]

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BallHype is a sports aggregator which pulls in information from thousands of sports blogs and also allows users to create their own content. Users can then vote for popular content in a very similar way to sites like Digg. The site was created because there are literally thousands of sports blogs out there on the [...]

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A Spin On Where We as a Web Society Are and Going

by Charles Young on April 16, 2009

Alright, I was cruising some of my favorite haunts (techcrunch) and came across this video. (after the break) I realized that perhaps he has a point.  We review sites daily here, sites that are small, medium, and large and we also use social networks to get our point across as well as communicate with many [...]

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Predictify.com is a site where users can predict the outcome of events and gain a reputation based on their accuracy. Users can earn money by correctly predicting sponsored predictions. All users are ranked according to their accuracy and earnings.
Users may also post predictions by asking a multiple-choice question and providing possible outcomes. An example prediction [...]

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MeeHive.com to help build your own personal newspaper

by Charles Young on March 11, 2009

MeeHive is a new service launching today that is looking to give users a custom-tailored newspaper composed of stories from sources spanning a vast number of blogs and news sites. The site leverages the power of Kosmix, a universal search engine that pulls data from a variety of sources to produce comprehensive topic pages.
Upon entering [...]

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