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Entries from December 2007

Create Your Own Social Network at OneDomus

A first look you’d think that OneDumus is just another one of them social networks in the likes of Friendster, mySpace and Facebook. But when you subscribe and become a member of OneDomus, you’d soon find out that there is more to it than just being an ordinary social network.
OneDomus is a fairly new [...]

Learn About Your DNA, Online and Off

So much of the Web focuses on meeting other people. From romance to friendship - many of us are constantly expanding our network. What ever happened to self-discovery? I’m talking about using the Internet to find out what we’re made of. 23andMe hopes to do just that - literally.

Faith-Based Social Community Godkut Launches

Are all those provocative photos posted on MySpace and Facebook one big sin? I’ll leave that up to you and your moral conscience to figure out. I guess God didn’t want to wait for you to make a decision so he has “created” a faith-based community Web site for the religiously-inclined, Godkut.
Timing is [...]

Wikia Brings Wikis to the Mainstream

Wikia is the new free Web-hosting site dedicated to giving growing wiki communities a place to share whatever they are passionate about. They currently support 4,700 communities in more than 70 languages and use open source MediaWiki software. What makes Wikia unique is that it allows all users to edit any Wikia web page for [...]

Hire a Helper for Cheap Day Labor

Ever wish you can have people bid on taking care of projects that you don’t want to tend to? From mowing the lawn to cleaning your house to laying linoleum tiles, Hire a Helper is like Craigslist with a verification system.

Dump All Your Web Content into One Hub with Onaswarm

Ever wanted to collect all your web content under one web hub or portal? Is Yahoo Pipes too complicated for you and you want a simple way of gathering your web contents from weblogs, social networking sites and bookmarks? Onaswarm is the best solution I’ve encountered so far.
Onaswarm is a new web service which [...]

Safe Web Browsing for Kids With Pikluk

Most parents are concerned to let their children use computers over the fear that they’ll either stumble across something their innocent eyes shouldn’t see or they’ll find a way to render your computer useless.  Pikluk helps restrict your child’s online exploration and keeps the rest of your computer applications safe and sound.
Upon download, the Pikluk [...]

Yahoo Wants to Award Everyone With BravoNation

Yahoo continues to add Web sites as the year winds down. Their latest effort, currently in “rough draft” is BravoNation, a community where it’s all about praise.With only a limited number of invitations being handed out, we’ve yet to get a firsthand account of the site, however, the concept seems pretty clear; Electronic awards [...]

Encouraging Teens to Read through mySpace-HarperTeen

As a trained librarian by profession, it is my duty to promote the cultivation of reading habits among kids, teens and older people alike. That’s why I felt glad to know that HarperCollins, one of the major and well known book publisher is in a way encouraging teeners not to take for granted the importance [...]

Product Clash Helps Online Shoppers Pick Products

Product comparisons get a twist as items go head-to-head on Product Clash.These days it’s impossible for me to buy anything - especially consumer electronics - without scouring the Web for other people’s opinions. The problem that has occurred over the past few years is the flood of information. Basically, too many product [...]

A Whole New Way to Organize your Virtual Library with Shelfari

For those into social networking via virtual book collection, Shefari just introduced some new features into the way it organizes your book collection. If you have been using Shelfari, you would notice that your virtual shelf in Shelfari is now sporting a new look. A wooden virtual shelf where you can fill in with [...]

Photology Organizes Photos for a Fee

Earlier in the year a bunch of us went out for drinks and ended up at an underground karaoke bar. I remember singing (ok, yelling) a magnificent version of Pearl Jam’s Jeremy. The rest of the details from that night are blurry at best. I do, however, recall wearing a gray baseball [...]