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Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Jaman, YouTomb, GetRight, bab.la, Amie St...

This week in geek, Lieberman seeks to silence YouTube terrorists, Google questioned over privacy practices, and Microsoft wants to pay you to use their search engine. Get linked to blogs, services, freeware, games, video and multimedia in this week's mashup!
Published: May 23, 2008
Author: Stacy Reed
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Web 2.0 Sites:

  • Google Earth Outreach - Explore and learn about the impacts of climate change and find out how you can make a difference
  • Jaman - Download and stream award-winning films in better than DVD quality
  • YouTomb - A research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation
  • Amie Street - Discover new independent music
  • Google Friend Connect - Grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website


Freeware Feature of the Week: Tor - A freeware project that helps defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.


Shareware Feature of the Week: GetRight - Extends your file-downloading power by resuming broken downloads and accelerating them to make them faster and more flexible. GetRight easily manages all your downloads, making it easy to find what you have in progress, and track files you've finished so they don't get lost.


Wallpaper of the Week: Gates of Gold


The Week in Geek News:


Flickr Image of the Week: by fernando


Top Blog Picks:


Article of the Week: A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow


Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: bab.la - A free collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and a language forum featuring user-generated content

Art Site of the Week: Doodle 4 Google - Google asked US students in grades K-12 to design a Google logo around the theme 'What if...?'


The Weekly Widget: Schmap Widgets - Brighten up your website or blog with one of these useful, cool and stylish widgets, combining maps with content and event schedules for travel, sports, concert tours and more

Free Game of the Week: Bloxorz - Can you get a rectangular cube into a square hole?

Video of the Week: This week's video is also the Geek Tip which comes from PCWizKid's TechTalk Windows XP TIP - Unlock Hidden Options



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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