My Dots for Friday, June 01, 2007

Gizmoz Launches - Create Your Talking 3D Avatar

These are animated, talking, 3D images that can be embedded on any website.

Quoted: I first wrote about Israeli widget site Gizmoz in December 2006. At the time, the company hadn't launched its product to create personalized ...

[tags: widget, voicemail]

geniteam's bookmarks on del.icio.us

[tags: geni, genealogy]

The Geni Blog

[tags: geni, genealogy]

Talking about your family tree on Geni | ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers

David Sacks, co-founder & CEO of Geni, talks with me about genealogy and how software is enabling a new (and more social) way of keeping in touch with your family members and learning about your family's past. Don't know who David Sacks is? He's a co-founder of PayPal too.

[tags: genealogy, geni]

Demo of Geni: more social genealogy service | ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers

Here, David Sacks, co-founder and CEO of Geni, demonstrates a new kind of genealogy software that lets you stay in touch with your family tree in a new way.

[tags: genealogy, geni]

Techcrunch Database - Geni

Geni is a family-oriented social networking platform organized around geneology that wil help families share both historic information and current events with one another.

[tags: genealogy, geni]

Finally, Music Videos To Appear on YouTube

Quoted: Finally - users will be able to see music videos on YouTube. :-) Ok, well, now at least it's more legal. EMI Music ...

[tags: music, video]

Social Search - Sproose

Sproose provides user generated search results to give the power of search ranking to you, the user.

[tags: search]

Google Announces Feedburner Deal; Look For AdWords Integration

Quoted: Google announced the acquisition of Feedburner today on their corporate blog. Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo confirms it as well on the Feedburner blog. ...

[tags: google]

widgetQube.com

widgetQube is an interactive virtual desktop accessory that makes it easy to view news from all of your favorite websites and blogs.

[tags: rss, widget]

Crock pot recipes, salsa recipes, barbecue recipes and more

Quoted: RecipeMatcher provides its users with a unique recipe searching experience. Enter the items you already have in your kitchen and within minutes you can search ...

[tags: recipes]

Lumosity - Program : Why Brain Fitness

Quoted: The brain needs care just like the body New research shows that we can improve the health and function of our brains by flexing our ...

[tags: attention, brain fitness]

Get Smart, Play Lumosity

Quoted: Lumosity is a brain fitness program from Lumos Labs which is designed to improve cognitive function through a series of web-based games and ...

[tags: brain fitness]

incuby - something is being born

[tags: investing, innovations]

web desktop, Jaxtop - home of the web desktop

Quoted: The web desktop manages your photos, bookmarks, news and other online content right from your computer desktop without the hassles of downloads or plugins!

[tags: windows, web desktop]

Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information

ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.

[tags: science]

Auto Racing Daily : Air Car Powered Entirely by an Engine Filled With Compressed Air

Quoted: The car has got some amazing technology behind it and is developed by Guy Nègre (an ex-Formula One engineer) for Luxembourg-based MDI. India’s largest automaker will be producing 6000 zero-emission Air Cars in August of 2008 for the Indian streets (when they say India is up and coming this takes things to another level).

[tags: MDI, automotive]

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My Dots for Thursday, May 31, 2007

Pesticides: A Link to Parkinson's?

Quoted: New studies add to the evidence implicating pesticide exposure and repeated head trauma as likely contributors to Parkinson's disease and related degenerative brain disorders.

[tags: health, pd]

Google Gears Released

... an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality

[tags: google, offline]

New 'Google Gears' Allows Offline Web Apps - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Quoted: Google Inc. said on Wednesday it had created Web software that runs both online, and offline, marking a sea change for the Internet industry by letting users work on planes, trains, spotty connections and even in the most remote locations.

[tags: google, software, offline]

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My Dots for Wednesday, May 30, 2007

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Final Days of Google | PBS

Google is an amazing entrepreneurial petri dish. Yet at the same time, it is doomed to disappoint nearly every entrepreneurial type who works there. This is key: Google is sowing the seeds of its own eventual destruction. It can't help doing so.

[tags: google, future]

How I Learned French in One Year || kuro5hin.org

[tags: language, france, education, learning]

Aga

Quoted: Bienvenue sur le site des cuisinières légendaires Aga. Icône reconnue dans le monde entier grâce à son design intemporel, l’Aga est bien plus que cela, ...

[tags: home, cooking, aga, france]

TasteTV - Life Never Tasted So Good

Quoted: TasteTV brings to food lovers exciting & delicious videos of cooking shows, recipe demos by top chefs, chocolate & wine tastings, and restaurant reviews

[tags: video, online, recipes]

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My Dots for Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Attention Ticker Particls Enters Public Beta

Quoted: Particls is an alerts platform that conveys attention data. Particls evaluates incoming information and ranks it based on “Personal Relevance”. Particls then uses an “Output ...

[tags: rss, news, attention data]

Microsoft Live Takes New York 3D

Quoted: Microsoft has announced the launch of new functionality for Microsoft Live Search Maps; three-dimensional, photo-realistic maps covering New York City and 8 other ...

[tags: microsoft, maps]

Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing: Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities.

Microsoft® Live Search Maps will today begin offering three-dimensional, photo-realistic views of New York City buildings and landscapes, with perspectives that few people — apart from Superman — have ever seen.

[tags: maps, microsoft]

Steekr : your secured online space

With steekr you can store, view and distribute your files simply by using an internet browser or the free client software for Windows or Mac OS.

[tags: online, storage, sharing]

Livelook.com - Organizing your favorite webcams

Livelook is a service dedicated to improving access to outdoor-view live cams on the internet. Current cam listing sites are often incomplete and have lots of broken links. Current methods to organize include desktop widgets, desktop software, lists of browser favorites. All are pretty rudimentary compared to other web organization tools.

[tags: webcams]

FAROO - Peer-to-peer web search technology

FAROO is a program, that implements web search based on Peer-to-peer technology.

After the program is downloaded and installed, the searcher becomes part of a world wide distributed search engine.

Every web page visited is automatically included in the index of the search engine.

The ranking of search results is based on a a distributed usage statistics of the web pages visited by FAROO users.

[tags: search, p2p, search engine technology]

Lala.com: Trade CDs for $1, Listen to great music

[tags: music]

Google Bringing Anti-Virus Tools to Google Desktop?

Quoted: Google has continued on its acquisition blitzkrieg with news that Google has acquired Mountain View neighbor GreenBorder for an undisclosed sum. GreenBorder launched ...

[tags: google, antivirus, security]

Google Maps Now with 360 Streetside Views

Quoted: Google has will be announcing a new 360 streetside view for Google maps at Where 2.0 today, says O'Reily Radar. The 360 views ...

[tags: google, maps]

Bitty Browser -- Picture-in-Picture for the Web

Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites — it's like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.

[tags: browser]

Create an invoice quickly, simply - simplybill

Quoted: User friendly online invoice management tool - track your invoices for free. Create attractive invoices in minutes.

[tags: finance, invoice, billing, online]

SnapPages

Quoted: SnapPages is a collection of online tools created to make your life easier. Tools for blogging, photo sharing, calendars and much more are being developed. You simply sign up for a free account and you will be given access to all of these great tools.

[tags: photos, calendars, sharing]

» Dell’s Ubuntu-powered line | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Dell’s finally lifted the lid on the Ubuntu line. Here are the details:

[tags: dell, linux, ubuntu]

Weazl's Revenge

Not gonna stop 'til democracy returns . . .

[tags: us, news, blog, history, politics]

Weazl's Revenge: Riddles in Stone: The Secret Architecture of Washington DC

[tags: US, WashingtonDC, video, history, freemasons]

Wiki | Wetpaint.com - Create a free wiki - Wetpaint

Browse most popular Wetpaint Wikis.

Quoted: Wetpaint.com: free wiki, free website. Start a free wiki in 3 easy steps. Great for families, hobbies, causes, fan sites, and anything in between. Wetpaint combines the best elements of wikis, blogs, and social networks in a single application.

[tags: wetpaint, wiki]

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My Dots for Monday, May 28, 2007

YouTube - Google is better than Limewire for downloading Music

Quoted: download mp3 mp4 and video files using this old google hack.

[tags: music, Google]

The Barack Obama Wiki - Barack Obama

Quoted: Barack Obama Wiki: The official wiki for Senator Barack Obama. Read Barack's Biography, Watch Barack Videos and discuss Barack's potential run for Presidency in 2008.

[tags: Barack Obama]

Wetpaint | Wiki - Create a free wiki. Many looks. No code required.

Quoted: Great for families, hobbies, causes, fan sites, and anything in between. Wetpaint combines the best elements of wikis, blogs, and social networks.

[tags: wikis, wetpaint]

Tata Group | Tata Motors | Media reports | Tata Motors, French company to make engines powered by air

Quoted: Tata Motors, French company to make engines powered by air

[tags: technology, compressed air, MDI, Tata]

Indian air-powered City Cat car prepares for production run - Engadget

The first commercial car to be powered by compressed air could be about to hit the production lines, as Indian automaker Tata Motors prepares to build ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre's design.

[tags: automotive, compressed air, environment, MDI, Tata]

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My Dots for Sunday, May 27, 2007

Mat Dokument Ostron-EM 2005 Tasteline.com

Quoted: Steg-för-steg: Så öppnar du ett ostron!

[tags: recipes, sweden]

Mat Dokument Kökshemligheter: Prinsesstårta Tasteline.com

Quoted: matrecept och praktisk vardagsinspiration Tasteline.com

Bildextra: Steg för steg

Så gör du din egen prinsesstårta

[tags: recipes, sweden]

NDTV.com: Climate change: US opposes G8 timetable

Quoted: All Ndtv news on India:Climate change: US opposes G8 timetable - Ahead of the crucial climate change summit of the G8 in Germany, the United States seem to have put a spanner in the works.

[tags: environment, climate change]

Alternative Energy Headlines

Quoted: The latest alternative and renewable energy news headlines, syndicated by rss from a variety of clean energy news sources.

[tags: news, solar, EnergyTechnologies]

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My Dots for Saturday, May 26, 2007

Main Page - PESWiki

Quoted: The community-built resource that focuses on

alternative, clean, practical, renewable energy solutions.

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, Environment, wiki, directory]

Directory:Concentrated Solar Power - PESWiki

Methods of concentrating solar energy to increase conversion effeciency.

[tags: solar, news, directory]

Ancestry.com - Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records online

Quoted: Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials

[tags: genealogy]

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