Surfing one the web, I found this great web 2.0 style project called WETPAINT, it’s a new free wiki hosting service where you can build you own wiki, similar to wikipedia, without needing to deal with hard mysql, php and server stuff. Within three simple steps you can have your wiki working, build your community, and start sharing some knowledge.
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Are you like me, who uploads almost every photo you take to your Flickr Account? Right now, I’ve uploaded 6,472 photos. What if the hard drive where all your precious pictures are stop working? What would you do, start downloading your pictures from Flickr one by one, no way right?
Toilet Paper for those who love or hate Linux! Funny!
From SenhorCoxinha
Eletrocity - This is a SimCity game but in smaller scale and with a good lesson to learn, sustainability. The game teaches the many different ways you can save energy, in a simple and nice looking game. You need to evolve, earn money, the population grown, till you get a big metropole without any pollution. Make as mush as you can in 120 turns. Each turn, you can build whatever you want, and the next turns, the constructions evolve.
It isn’t hard, nor easy, but this game can make you spend some more hours in front of the screen…
If you would like to create your own social network, Ning is made for you. With this powerful tool you can create networks with its own URL, detailed members control, even a photo and video upload system. In the configuration tool, you can make blogs, forums and RSS for your community.
I’ve created a Digg Network Community, please join here to see what happens.
For those who needs quality photos for free, I’ve made a list of StockPhotos websites where you can get high-resolution pictures without spending 1$, enjoy! And If you know any other site that isn’t on the list, please let me know.
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Today I just got an beta invitation to MindMeister, a very nice mind mapping web-tool that helps you to create your personal map. A MindMap is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
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ReviewMe is a new service that have a different way for advertisers to show their product, and bloggers to get some extra cash. It uses the massive power of blogs to spread some product, by paying bloggers to write about it. But not everyone will make money, because when creating an account and setting your site url, it will analyze things like Technorati rank , Alexa rank and numbers of RSS subscribers to see if you passes the minimum requirements and will set a price for your reviews.
If you have a flickr account, here is a nice way for showing to everyone what your photos are all about!!!
Very simple yet nice:
This is mine:
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One interesting week news is that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. It is now called Dwarf Planet. But what it have to do with technology? Well, while in Wikipedia, the article of the ex-planet was modified some hours after the official announcement made by IAU, normal school books will only be updated just in… 2008.