Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Sprout, 1AVCenter, Addictomatic, Konnects, Mixwit...
| Published: | May 16, 2008 | |||
| Author: | Stacy Reed | |||
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Web 2.0 Sites:
- ProQuo - Helps you to remove your name and personal information from thousands of marketing lists, data brokers and other organizations that send you unsolicited mail
- Konnects - An online business networking platform designed to give the power of online social networking to business professionals
- Classroom 2.0 - The social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education
- Addictomatic - Search for for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images
- Mixwit - Create mix cassette tapes of your favorite tunes, add a skin or use your own image and post to your site or blog
Freeware Feature of the Week: MediaCoder - A free universal batch media transcoder that integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution
Shareware Feature of the Week: 1AVCenter - Record your entire screen or part of it directly to AVI or WMV, capture screenshots, share your screen over the internet, monitor your webcam or desktop remotely, broadcast your webcam, record audio from any source into WAV, WMA or MP3, capture video from your tv tuner card, or external devices, record video from inside web browsers and media players, share your media files on your own personal web site, send media files by e-mail, or upload them via FTP
Wallpaper of the Week: Piano by Clix
The Week in Geek News:
- HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion - Network World
- Hackers create their own social network - Computerworld
- Zoho No Longer Requires Accounts. Sign In With Your Yahoo Or Google ID - TechCrunch
- Google blurs faces in street view map pictures - Yahoo! News
- Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista - Business Week
Flickr Image of the Week: by The Flooz
Top Blog Picks:
Article of the Week: Mario Kart Wii Unlocking Guide! - MapWii
Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: The Free Library - A free, searchable archive that provides access to a daily-updated collection of 4 million articles from classic works of literature and leading periodicals
Art Site of the Week:
CENSUS of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known in the Renaissance
The Weekly Widget: Sprout - The quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more
Free Game of the Week: Bounce - Use the arrow keys to keep your ball bouncing. The challenge is to change all the red bars to green to move on to the next level.
Video of the Week:
Abrasion Holography
Geek Weekly: This week's geek tip comes from Twister MC - How to create a Firefox Theme
Suggestions? Comments?
About Stacy Reed
Software librarian and acclaimed artist seeks knowledge and entertainment via Internet. Stacy Reed is an advocate for free information, software and services. She began reviewing software for Tucows in 2000. She's naturally curious with interests in a wide array of subjects including science and technology, software, the arts, and open education.
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