Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Meetup, SkillsFeed, SwapTree, Koolwire, Tubes, Foobar...

Web 2.0 Sites:

• Meetup - Find others who share the same interest or cause, and form lasting, influential, local community groups that regularly meet face-to-face
• SkillsFeed - Create your own e-learning site and share knowledge with your friends, workmates and people around the world!
• TerraClues - An online puzzle game that makes use of the popular Google Maps technology
• YouTorials - Users submit video tutorials that teach skills to others
• myDataBus - Free online file storage, file share and more
• Swaptree - A place where you can freely trade books, music, dvds or video games that you own for thousands of items that you want
• Tubes - Instantly share photos, music, video and documents with everyone you know and have them share their stuff with you through the same tube
• Koolwire - A free file conversion service via e-mail
• Easy School Search - A browsable database of over 130,000 US public and private elementary and secondary schools with grades kindergarten through twelve
• Chesspark - An exciting new community for online chess

Freeware of the Week: Foobar2000 - An advanced audio player for the Windows platform that offers tabbed playlists, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and tagging capabilities. Foobar2000 supports these audio formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.

Wallpaper of the Week: Pixelgirl Presents - Visual Scientific Integration

The Week in Geek News:

• The man who owns the Internet - CNNMoney
• Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong? - CBS News
• Latest Skype worm infects ICQ, MSN, and other IM services - Webware
• Microsoft, Novell defend partnership, promise details - Computerworld
• Google goes multi-lingual - Australian IT
• Intel Unveils World's Thinnest Laptop, Almost Skinny as a RAZR - Gizmodo
• Net taxes could arrive by this fall - CNET News
• Microsoft too busy to name Linux patents - The Register
• Dell plans to sell its PCs at Wal-Mart - MSNBC
• The 100 Best Products of 2007 - PC World

Flickr Image of the Week: byDeparture Lounge

Top Blog Picks:

• QUEST Science Blog
• Cupcake Bakeshop
• Brotherhood 2.0
• Laptopping
• Matt Vapor's Blog

Article of the Week: Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online - Wired News

Art Site of the Week: One Thousand Paintings - One thousand numbers = one thousand paintings. All beautifully painted on canvas. Each number is unique - the number and the demand define the price. An experiment of art & mathematics, on the web, the first of its kind.

Video of the Week: Welcome to New Technology

Hey, thanks for stopping by and checking out another weekly mashup! You can find an archive of past articles here. If you know of a great site that's worth sharing, or if you have any comments or suggestions, I'd love to hear from you! Send an email to sreed@tucows.com with "Weekly Mashup" in the subject line. Have a great weekend! Hope to see you again next week!