Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Original Signal, Farecast, KeepVid, YouRipper, UberGizmo

Welcome to the new and improved weekly mashup! Every week I scour the World Wide Web looking for geeky-hip-goodness to share with you at the end of the work week. Hope you've got your clicking finger ready!

Web 2.0 Sites:

• Vidspedia - A collection of the best Google and YouTube videos, submitted and rated by users
• Original Signal - Aggregates the 15 most popular Web 2.0 sites
• Typetester - Compare screen type
• Yotophoto - A search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images
• mTextbox - Take your reading wherever you go on your mobile phone
• Farecast - Airfare predictions from over 75 cities
• KeepVid - Download videos DIRECT from most video sites
• NEooWS - An online RSS aggregator and reader
• Qloud - A people powered music search engine
• Podzinger - A powerful audio and video search engine and online advertising network

Freeware Feature of the Week: YouRipper - Download videos from the YouTube and Google Video websites

Wallpaper of the Week: Trick or Treat

The Week in Geek News:

• BitTorrent to Appear in Electronics - BetaNews
• Diebold Source Code Disks Mailed to Maryland Democrat - BetaNews
• Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0 - The Washington Post
• Opera Launches Mini Browser for BlackBerry, Treo - PC Magazine
• Hacker claims to have cracked iPod restrictions - CNN
• 12GB Hard Drive Mini-Roundup: US Modular Monstor, Plus a Couple of Others - Gizmodo
• OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans - PC Magazine
• Novell Announces PCs Preloaded with SUSE Linux - PC Magazine
• Headgear Shows Images in 360-Degree View - ABC News
• Report: Serious Bug Delays Vista RTM - BetaNews

Flickr Image of the Week: by kousik

Top Blog Picks:

• Good News Blog - Real positive news
• bDigitalCameras - A blog about digital camera technology
• Ubergizmo - news and reviews of gizmos and gadgets
• The Daily WTF - Curious perversions in Information Technology
• Camera Toss - A showcase photo-blog for the "best of" Flickr's Camera Toss

Article of the Week: Spacecraft to make 3D Sun movies - Jonathan Amos, BBC News

Art Site of the Week: Official Bluesfear Worm - At 79.16 ft, could this be the longest page on the Internet?

Video of the Week: The Life and Death of a Pumpkin

Geek Tip: Did you know that you can quickly insert the current time into any cell that is selected in Excel? Just press CTRL+Shift+; (semicolon)

That's it for this week, folks! For a compiled list of links from past articles, visit the Weekly Mashup Archive. My thanks goes out to Rahul and Jody for recommending a few great sites this week! If you have any comments or suggestions for future mashups, just click Discuss this Article below.