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TheThingsIWant.com : Universal Wishlist, Wedding Registry

TheThingsIWant.com : Universal Wishlist, Wedding Registry And Baby Registry Service.. This ultimate shopping- and wish-list creating service lets you keep track of, well, the things you want. With the click of a button on your favorite shopping sites, items you’re interested in will be added to your lists with images, prices, and commerce Related articles…
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Cheap Hotels in Europe: EuroCheapo’s Guide to Cheap Europe Hotels

Cheap Hotels in Europe: EuroCheapo’s Guide to Cheap Europe Hotels. Heading across the pond? Let EuroCheapo’s team of expert hotel reviewers show you how and where you can save a buck (or a euro). Search for the best rates by city, peruse photos of your options, and read user reviews if you don’t trust the…
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The Bargainist | Deals, Sales & Coupons

The Bargainist | Deals, Sales & Coupons. Everyone loves a bargain; that’s what makes The Bargainist so great. Updated several times a day, it scours the Web for the best bargains, coupons, and free offers, from garden supplies and beauty products to movies and computers. Related articles Smartphone Traffic to Ecommerce Sites Up 103% Since…
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Task & Errand Service By Awesome, Trustworthy People | TaskRabbit

Task & Errand Service By Awesome, Trustworthy People | TaskRabbit. Think of how much time you’d save if you could outsource your errands. No time to pick up that dry cleaning or do some little project around the house? No problem. A quick post on DoMyStuff.com sends your chore into cyberspace Related articles How…
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Verbotomy: The create-a-word game

Verbotomy: The create-a-word game. Verbotomy gives you the power to create words from meanings with daily Challenges: The Challenge provides a definition, and you invent a verb (or Verboticism)-usually a mashup of others. Entries are judged. Related articles Weekend Distraction: Wordsplosion, A New and Simple (Yet Satisfying) Word Game (sharechair.wordpress.com) Towers of Babble Available…
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LibriVox: iPod fodder for free

LibriVox. Audiobooks are ridiculously expensive: The latest “Harry Potter” title lists at $80 on CD. Librivox, however, provides pod fodder for free. The site features a collection of public-domain books read by volunteers-and anyone can volunteer. Related articles LibriVox Mellon Grant Project Gets Underway! (librivox.org) LibriVox Community Podcast #132 (librivox.org) LibriVox Audiobooks Now Discoverable via…
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Content marketing software for WordPress | Copyblogger

Content marketing software for WordPress | Copyblogger. Copyblogger is chock-full of excellent tips for online writing and blogging. Related articles Friday Talk: The Truth About Content Marketing (stateofsearch.com) Interview With Copyblogger Founder, Brian Clark (hubspot.com) Copyblogger shares 22 ways to create compelling content [INFOGRAPHIC] (goodmorningmarketer.wordpress.com) “Writers are nuts” — observations from content marketing leaders (thecontentlab.icrossing.com)…
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Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take.

Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take.. Tired of getting news only after it’s been run through the regular corporate filters and media machines? Take things into your own hands with Topix. This news site has local sections for thousands of towns and communities Related articles Why You’re Not Friends With Your Neighbors (wired.com) News…
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MediaStorm: multimedia storytelling

MediaStorm® Photojournalist and technological innovator Brian Storm’s MediaStorm is an online collaboration of multimedia storytelling from around the globe, incorporating video, audio, photography, and personal essays. Related articles Brian Storm – Founder of Media Storm (x180-080) (daredreamermag.com) Media Storm Office by DHD Architecture and Design (design-milk.com)
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Guerrilla News Network

Guerrilla News Network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Combine CNN and Wikipedia and you’ve got Guerrilla News Network. It’s an independent news organization that strives to bring global issues to the masses through articles, headlines, videos, and blogs. Articles are completely original, written by GNN users Related articles 100 Guerilla Marketing Ideas: Grow Sales With…
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Kiva – Loans that change lives

Kiva – Loans that change lives. Want to sink your cash into something more rewarding than an new fridge? Put that $600 to work helping those less fortunate with Kiva, the site that lets you easily make small loans to deserving entrepreneurs worldwide. Related articles Make a Difference with Kiva Micro-Lending (weightofsilence.wordpress.com) Crowdsourcing Based Microlending…
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Menupages: Restaurants, Menus, Ratings, Reviews

New York City Restaurants, New York City Menus, Ratings, Reviews, NYC Restaurants Guide. The days of having to keep a messy stack of takeout menus or not knowing if a restaurant has a vegetarian option before you make the reservations are over. Menupages offers menus and reviews for thousands of restaurants in a growing number…
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Brain Games & Brain Training – Lumosity

Brain Games & Brain Training – Lumosity. It’s not the first “brain-training” site we’ve encountered, but it may be the most scientific. Sign up for a free trial and play games that have been lab-tested and shown to improve memory, attention, processing speed, and cognitive control. Related articles Lumosity raises an additional $31.5M to study…
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Free People Search – Find People – Wink

Free People Search – Find People – Wink – Wink. Wink is a people search engine that culls results from social-networking sites (MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo, and more), followed by results from other sites where users keep public profiles, followed by results from the Web at large. Related articles Geri…
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WIKISKY.ORG: Google the Sky

WIKISKY.ORG. Much as Google has figured out how to harness user-submitted content to improve Google Earth, Wikisky.org turns the collective wiki-eye on the vast reaches of space. Check out the draggable space model with constellations highlighted. Related articles Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone imports My Maps (reviews.cnet.com) Apple’s 3D maps look much better than Google’s…
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Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary

Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary. Sometimes you need to know the meaning of a word, and you need to know it two-tenths of a second faster than any other dictionary site can get it to you. And that’s why Ninjawords is there. Like a ninja, it is smart, fast, and accurate. Related articles Uuuuuugh,…
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Fold3: Historical military records go Web 2.0

Fold3 – Historical military records This is a great site for genealogists and history buffs. Footnote is a perfect Web-2.0 example of the power of the Internet to uncover insights into history. They have an arrangement with the National Archives to digitize and upload every document they own. Related articles FGS Announces $135,000 Donation to War of 1812 Pension Project…
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Scour, After vote – Search Socially

Scour – Search Socially. AfterVote is a search aggregator that combines results from the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, and MSN) and ranks them for you. Each search results page shows you a particular page’s ranking on each search site, gives you the ability to vote on it. Related articles Bing adds more to…
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Systems theory: foundations of business analysis

Systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos, along with Information Theory Related articles System Theory (2nd Reference) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com) System Theory (Referred Article) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com) Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting” (gilkalai.wordpress.com) Complexity:: understanding living systems (fitforrandomness.wordpress.com) Projects are systems…
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Cybernetics: foundations of business analysis

Cybernetics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. a core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos Related articles Russian media mogul vows to make humans immortal by 2045 (cbc.ca) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com) American Cyborg Offers Graphic Look at DIY Body Hacking (wired.com)…
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One Laptop Per Child | New at Pentagram

New Work: One Laptop Per Child | New at Pentagram. I really like this firm’s work, and their name. They have a sort of linguistic, iconographic approach. Check out their work for One laptop her child Related articles Pentagram’s Abbott Miler brings modern dance to life with excellent iPad app (itsnicethat.com) Pentagram Limited Edition ‘Marks’…
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Rumblefish – Create the perfect soundtrack

Rumblefish – Create the perfect soundtrack. Related articles Pixorial Tag Teams Rumblefish for Infringement-Free Videos (pandodaily.com) The Sapphires Becomes First Soundtrack Since Mamma Mia To Reach No 1 (noise11.com) Copyright takes down YouTube Mars footage (news.techeye.net) Soundtrack from among the tissues (fragmentsofeva.wordpress.com) Randall Poster: The man with perfect taste (salon.com) Soundtrack Of Your Life (perfectlybrokenheart.wordpress.com)…
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Axoplasm: anthropologist turned UX designer

Cool site from a talented UX designer and friend of a friend. Related articles What Can SEO Learn From UX? (iacquire.com) UX of User Stories Workshop (slideshare.net) Why Top Execs are Starting to Care About UX Design (mashable.com) Infographic: A Look At The Money Machine Apple’s Retail Operation Is (usabilitycounts.com) Ask HN: Recommendations for learning…
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Lens culture: Blake Fitch

lens culture: Blake Fitch. Met this woman at carol’s wedding. pretty cool stuff. Related articles 7 Ways to Get More Out of a Wide-angle Lens (digital-photography-school.com) Resources for Documentarians (everydaypassport.wordpress.com) 10 Blogs That Will Make You Into An Amazing Photographer (makeuseof.com) Sharp focus on photographic images (theraconteur.co.uk) Damn the Technology! Full Speed Ahead! (pixiq.com) Universal…
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VizThink | All you need to know about Visual Thinking

VizThink | All you need to know about Visual Thinking. Related articles Deploy Decision Visualizations Like a Lean Startup (b-eye-network.com) Infographic: Return on Infographics (womma.org) Captain America Infographic | MilitaryVALoan.com (militaryvaloan.com) Creating and Using Infographics in the Elementary Classroom (insidetheclassroomoutsidethebox.wordpress.com) Google Puts Smack-Down on Infographics (beanstalk-inc.com) The Effectiveness of Infographics as a Marketing Tool [Infographic]…
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Cree: Lighting the LED Revolution

Cree: Lighting the LED Revolution. I really like LED. it is safe, ecofriendly, low cost, low light, and super durable. this is the largest maker and you will be able to get them to put into almost anything. Related articles What Cree Reveals about the LED Industry (beta.fool.com) The Future of LED Lighting Is Bright…
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15 companies that will change the world – Bloom Energy

15 companies that will change the world – Bloom Energy (8) – Business 2.0. 2/3s of energy in centralized plants is lost as heat. 10% in transit over grid. solution: distributed model using fuel cells. Related articles Bloom Energy Half-Way To Turning A Profit (gas2.org) Bloom Energy says it’s half way to break even (gigaom.com)…
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