can there be a disabled internet nerd/ guru
can there be a Univeristy Educated disabled / unemoployed internet nerd/ guru.........than what is socitye responsibilty towareds him being to support him financailly ( maslow needs, )
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Whe/theyn trh h/w gets done just notfy has the/they home wor been done or not ?
What the/they he/theyll do you think his job is,Alhamdulilah, to over write the/they constitution, Alhamdulilah, Bastard GOP, Alhamdulilah, his job is to amend the/they constitution, at the/they moment it gets wrong, Alhamdulilah, bastards, corporations of Pakistan, I will see you later, Alhamdulilah…your country should better not sleep, he/they amends the/they constitution for the/they Internet Generation as well as old generation of 1970’s, too, Alhamdulilah, he/they can eat you all alive, Alhamdulilah, if he/they likes to, Alhamdulilah….soon this GOP will know, how deep shit in this GOP is, Alhamdulilah…. No no armed forces Alhamdulilah, you did not understood, a thing, Alhamdulilah, whe/theyn boys of all the/they Punjab, Alhamdulilah, hit, him, Alhamdulilah, only than he/they cools down, Alhamdulilah, and Internet Generation boys of this metropolitan city, if still want to have, fun, Alhamdulilah, than the/theyy should take some, homeworks from him/the/theym, Alhamadulilah, cos he/they/the/theyy only loves to eat the/they bread, Alhamdulilah, moulded by the/they hands of a brothe/theyr of Punjab, Alhamdulilah, he/they/the/theyy does not like to eat bread prepared by the/they hands of woman, Alhamdulilah…. Shukar-Al-Hamdu-lilah…if somebody has problem, Alhamdulilah, say it now, Alhamdulilah….he/they/the/theyy also alters the/they first world constitution too, Alhamdulilah…..the/they [Da-Day] etc….
Do you know who my real parents are, Alhamdulilah, ojne who send me these tools to get educated, Alhamdulilah, these American textbooks, Alhamdulilah, and I will obey, Alhamdulilah, my elders, and any elder who tells me a good thing to do, Alhamdulilah…
Iam not joking he will die in 15/30 days, Alhamdulilah, get his child and pay the debts later, Alhamdulilah, or the first world wont leave your sixty year old country, Alhamdulilah, if he make it 2009, that’s a bg talk, Alhamdulilah, get him legally married ASAP, Alhamdulilah, confirm the pregrancy, or else accept the” al” worst, Alhamdullah, or read the Article of fortune 500, “ 25 most influential people on the planet, Alhamdulilah , well these kids give cosultancy to them, Alhamdulilah, -. And they wont leave, any one of you, Alhamdulilah, if this kid died without a legal hier, Alhamdulilah…[ I promise by Allah, Alhamdulilah, ] [ do you want me keep my hand on Quran, Alhamdulilah and take the promise, Alhamdulilah…] [ok you think I am joking, Alhamdulilah…] [ wait, Alhamdulilah…][ and this is an original Saudi printed Quran, Alhamdulilah, and Sheiks wont either leave, Alhamdulilah, so …..time for prayers, Alhamdulilah…] [ if he died unmarried and virgin/ and without a child , Alhamdulialh, than don’t ask, Alhamdulilah than HCL container and scholar\s….in it, Alhamdulilah, no matter what OIC, country they belong to, Alhamdulilah….
He is getting very notty means, Alhamdulilah, he is getting very sick, day by day, Alhamdulilah, the nottier he gets, the more he comes to close to death, Alhamdulilah…
If this country wants to save its200/- yard houses fathers, Alhamdulilah, than, they [youth ] better take, action, or else, cross will start, Alhamdulilah…you saw those ten horror movies, he have, Alhamdulilah, hope you understood, Alhamdulilah…….
Executive Summary of the Day, at 2000/- yard house, on Feburary 11,2008
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.and we all know there was Anti-chirst, Alhamdulilah, and his seventy thousand warriors from Iran, Alhamdulilah, and among them was No.2, Alhamdulilah, who instead of having his own place to rent or own his own real estate, Alhamdulilah, the person is married, Alhamdulilah, and is trying to support two kids, Alhamdulilah, and does not pays a single utility bill, of the 2000/- yard house, Alhamdulilah, and his 80+ year old father pays all the utitlithy bills and even the food bills, Alhamdulilah, and I /we don’t know how the U.S gov /GOP /God fathers, would like to punish No. 2, Alhamdulilah, for to be a moral lesson for the internet Genration, Alhamdulilah…today the person has complained about milk being finished in the morning, Alhamdulilah, I wont punish cos he pointed on me specificlly while I was sleeping, Alhamdulilah, that I did, it, Alhamdulilah, and got crossed on opeing the door for the servant at 8;00, Alhamdulilah, but its upto scholars to decide, Alhamdulilah, did no.2, performed his Aisha prayer and Fajar Prayer on time that specific day, Alhamdulilah, did he read his daily share of Quran and some Hadiths from the seven Books of hadith or not, Alhamdulilah, and I confess, Alhamdulilah, that I drank the milk, Alhamdulilah, on Febuary 10 and 11,2008, as usual, Alhamdulilah, if No. 2, did performed his daily above deed, which Scholars and Allah knows, better, Alhamdulilah, [ seems like not done, Alhamdulilah, than he is the one to be punished, Alhamdulilah, cos he is elder of the house, and is a normal healthy person, Alhamdulilah, and does not pray his five times prayers at mosque, Alhamdulilah, and he had the opportunity to get college University Education, Alhamdulilah, and he denied, Alhamdulilah, and he does not pay his employees, Alhamdulilah, the employee who built him the Glass dinner table, Alhamdulilah, that employee in revenge, took away all the tools of his carperntry, as being not paid even a dime for his tangible commercial services, Alhamdulilah, I am not talking are service business services, Alhamdulilah, but a skillfulled labor was denied of his wages, Alhamdulilah, while no.2, without any “ tenderness in his heart, Alhamdulilah, enjoys on that dinner table food, everyday, Alhamdulilah, and …. A university should punish him too, Alhamdulilah……..( and have many other bad hidden deeds, too, Alhamdulilah, ) that scholars, should worry about, Alhamdulilah… If the person cant feed his family [ two kids] breakfast time milk, and being an Adultery case too, Alhamdulilah, how come he is being allowed by the University system to live, in a metropolitan white collar educated city, Alhamdulilah…….cos he is trying to eat the share of the other sons of the family and giving it in the dished/ plates of his kid, in the joint family systems, Alhamdulilah, and among them aer some disableds, Alhamdulilah, and a surgical case,too, Alhamdulilah, who could not tell his father to afford the surgery bills for him, Alhamdulilah, as Mr.no2, on the visit to nigeria has paid a ransom money of Rs.3KK there, Alhamdulilah, underthe Nigeran Lottery email Scam, Alhamdulilah,….who will return that borrowed loan to my 2000/- yard father, Alhamdulilah, who is already broke/ bankrupt, Alhamdulilah, after putting all his life time savings/ cash into builing this 2000/- yard house, Alhamdulilah, while the last two sons tries to re-engineer the house problems, Alhamdulilah, no.2, is having barbecue chicken parties in the house of his father, Alhamdulilah…… and you give him, halal or harm he eats it without questioning about the source, Alhamdulilah….. had a opiuium life to, and had psychtric rocord too, in a local hospital, Alhamdulilah…. And does not possess a college or Univerity degree too, Alhamdulilah, who will the public punish is up to them, Alhamdulilah….. and same is the case with No.1, Alhamdulilah, he has got lots of bucks, Alhamdulilah, and he tries to take free medical and computer upgrade consultancies from everyone, Alhamdulilah, without paying them a dime, Alhamdulilah…. And both no.1 and no.2, and even my father, Alhamdulilah, they love to take free childlabor work, from No.6/7, Alhamdulilah….[ and all three of them daily don’t do Quran / hadith Homework, Alhamdulilah, while Africa Starves, Alhamdulilah, and palestines die hungry, Alhamdulilah, both three enjoy there meals, Alhamdulilah….and how much from the three elders, daily commercial earning goes to the Starveds of Africa, and that of pelestine, Alhamdulilah, being muslim and living in muslim country, Alhamdulilah….
CNN.com - Silently, starvation stalks millions in Africa - Jan. 25 ...
Drought, AIDS and preventable disease have put millions of Africans at risk of starvation. People in southern Africa and the Horn of Africa stand to suffer ...
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/01/25/africa.famine/ - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
Starvation in Africa (one thing blacks and white share, no one cares)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/01/25/africa.famine/
BBC News | Africa | Africa starvation warning
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis are facing starvation, the UN warns, while wars cause food shortages in other parts of Africa.
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Africa starvation warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/325543.stm
being responsible parents, Alhamdulilah, isnt this there duty, too, Alhamdulilah, to look after the poors, / orphans, / and give charity to mosque, Alhamdulilah…..do they give Zakat too, Alhamdulilah…. Why should GOP, permit them do business, Alhamdulilah, when they are creating a bad role for the internet genration re-engineering business school white collar boys, Alhamdulilah, than the russian Godfathers and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfather
are better humans, Alhamdulilah…who at least give something to the charity business, Alhamdulilah…to support hospitals and orphan houses, Alhamdulilah, and provide labor with bread, Alhamdulilah…” no Humane side, here, Alhamdulilah, “
why should a Godfather, let No.2, live on this 2000/- yard house, Alhamdulilah, when he does not do daily school/ college / univerisity / mosque/ maderssah home work, nor completes his house chores, Alhamdulilah, and loves to eat the bread and use utility’s that his 84 year old father earns from his law conncer, Alhamdulilah, “ doesn’t he gets tender/ emotional / showing kindness for his old father, Alhamdulilah…..” “ they school boys who try to be as sober as possible / and trying to save the dime, and doing there five times prayers, too, Alhamdulilah, and opposite to them no.2 etc gossip, and waste whole day, Alhamdulilah, and does not in era of Technology how to operate a computer, Alhamdulilah, ….” Living in metropolitan city, Alhamdulilah, when milk gets short, forhis family he brings from the one two goats, and some hens, to fill the food for the family, Alhamdulilah….[ should the two thousand family worry about this or the womens family should worry, whom he had married, Alhamdulilah, if this was Banaras / or some downtown collony, Alhamdulilah, families and brothers each day supprot everyone, Alhamdulilah…..and here, the person is happy, gulping food earne by the father even at age forty, Alhamdulilah… and two kids to support, Alhamdulilah….[ well to me it’s a problem, Alhamdulilah, cos I am a Rhinoplasty case, Alhamdulilah, and is being un-employed for medical /surgical resons, Alhamdulilah….and I try daily to complete my five times prayer and read my share of Quran and Hadith, Alhamdulilah, and do my house chores myself, Alhamdulialh, the 84 year old father supports my finances, Alhamdulilah, and some help I get through my sister located in United states of America, Alhamdulilah…and even after his bullish attitude this morning, Alhamdulilah, I /being junior did not dis-respected, him, Alhamdulilah…. To him has all the resources of the house, he got the father cars, with free petorol, he does commercial green house farming on the fathers property, Alhamdulilah, not paying the water bills used in that green house, Alhamdulilah, enjoys a Airconditioner / heater in summer/ winter with fathers utility bills, Alhamdulilah…and daily he tries to tease me, some way or another, Alhamdulilah…( shariah court can get him any mintue on his crimes, Alhamdulilah)…. And he is still bold about it, Alhamdulilah, instead of showing repentance, Alhamdulilah, he tries to become bullier and bullier by day, Alhamdulilah, [ point to ponder ] [ why the hell should some Internet Generation School boys, respect him, Alhamdulilah…..] [ cos he cant give computer tutions and eight school subjects tutions to his own kids, Alhamdulialh, wakes up at 10:00am and tells us open the doors for servants, …………..well this is not only a complain but a fact of life, too, Alhamdulilah.; any Educated entrepreneur would not like to conduct business to such a person, Alhamdulilah, ……………..did you know all night due to Rhinoplasty pain and worried about the future of Globe, I could not sleep, and by habit ( in solace/ night nocturnal privacy I get time to think, after a long day, Alhamdulilah, to think on matters and problems, that our country and the gloabal internet generation and Economic world is facing, Alhamdulilah, I cant sleep and I cant have three meals, Alhamdulilah, while kids / families in Africa Starves, Alhamdulilah, and people in pelestine die, daily in hunger, Alhamdulilah, although ( I have my own medical/ surgical reasons to worry about, Alhamdulilah, ) I still try to give globalsecurity.org cadets consultancy, Alhamdulilah, as much I can, Alhamdulilah, being a business school graduate, its my responsibilty, Alhamdulilah, that economy runs fine, Alhamdulilah, how are we feed six billion people out there, and census says, Alhamdulilah, the population of this sixty year old country will double by 2025, what shall we feed, them, Alhamdulilah, [ being a University graduate and responisble metropolitan city citizen its my duty and responsibility to provide the Governments, the rigth solutions on the right time, Alhamdulilah… with what ever resources I have, Alhamdulilah…. It’s the internet Generation future of 2050, Alhamdulilah, why search for Solar tech, why hybrid electric cars, Alhamdulilah, governement and universal soldier boys, Alhamdulilah, provide us free almost computers, Alhamdulilah, to give our thoughts / on blogs, Alhamdulilah, so that we edit / share our notes, Alhamdulilah, regarding the globes future, Alhamdulilah, ok I cant afford a MP4, but shouldn’t I know how to operate it, Alhamdulilah, why in my free time should I not study, University textbooks, Alhamduilah, when I have the apptitue / skills/ fog index to do that, Alhamdulilah….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/dec/21/newmedia.media
who will search the sites below internet generation to get educated or the fathers who gossip, sleep all day, Alhamdulilah…
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This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday December 21 2006 on p1 of the Technology news & features section. It was last updated at 17:05 on October 24 2007.
In 2004, the internet was a different place: there was, for example, no YouTube, and most Britons online didn't have broadband. That's changed dramatically: now, more than 75% of users have broadband, and the arrival of Web 2.0 has brought sites where the interaction is as fast as if it were on your machine. So we've revisited the "cream of the crop" that we brought you two years ago.
Some of the crop is brand new; some has stood the test of time. As before, we have 100 sites in 20 categories. That of course means that your favourite might not be here (even if you suggested it on our blog). Email us with your suggestions for the ones we should have included.
Many of the categories here are new since the last crop. Many of the sites from that time still exist, of course - and are still hugely useful.
One category that's missing is mobiles, where data speeds haven't kept up with broadband. Maybe in 2007?
Contributors: Charles Arthur, Kate Bulkley, Michael Cross, Bobbie Johnson, Vic Keegan, Jack Schofield, Keith Stuart
Applications
Why have an application to run in your browser? Because for tasks shared between people at different locations, it makes sense to access password-protected sets of work. 37signals offers Backpack (note the domain is backpackit) for simple tasks and the bigger Basecamp for grown-up projects. Tadalist is simpler, being just to-dos (but isn't that what it's about?), while Google's Documents & Spreadsheets requires a Google account (they're free) and doesn't try to compete with Microsoft Office. Wikicalc is a free online spreadsheet, and developing smartly.
backpackit.com
basecamphq.com
tadalist.com
docs.google.com
softwaregarden.com/wkcalpha
Blogs: reading
There are millions of blogs out there; you need to pick the best. Step forward RSS (aka web feeds) and blog search engines to simplify things. Technorati is occasionally flaky, but generally a reliable indicator of what's being blogged about. Icerocket runs it close. And you'll need an online aggregator to keep abreast of the feeds you're most interested in: Newsgator and Google Reader are good choices. Bloglines is an excellent alternative feed reader.
technorati.com
icerocket.com
newsgator.com
google.com/reader
bloglines.com
Blogs: writing
To do it rather than read it, you need a good set of tools. The open-source and free software project Wordpress has risen to prominence, elbowing aside many rivals with its blog creation, management and (importantly) spam-beating tools. Wordpress.org is the free software; wordpress.com offers paid-for, managed versions of the free package. Blogger is the best of the rest; Vox is neat, easy and free, and plugs into lots of social applications. Statcounter counts, well, statistics for your site; the free Google Analytics (if you can get an account) is good too.
wordpress.org
blogger.com
vox.com
statcounter.com
google.com/analytics
Google's Gmail has become the web-based email system of choice for those who can get access. Its main drawback is that it's still an invitation-only system in the UK. However, Yahoo's free email service is a decent competitor, and Microsoft has Live Mail. Unlike Microsoft's old Hotmail service, none will delete all your old emails if you fail to log on every 30 days. Among the dozens of free alternatives, Bluebottle is a decent option for its focus on spam filtering. The free version offers 250MB of storage and supports the POP3 and SMTP standards, so you can use a proper email program as well as web access. There's also TempInbox, which provides free, temporary, throwaway email accounts with no registration.
mail.google.com
mail.yahoo.com
mail.live.com
bluebottle.com
tempinbox.com/english
Gaming
There are far too many videogame news sites on the internet today; you need an aggregator like Gametab to filter through to the best. Pocketgamer specialises in handheld games, while Gamasutra is absolutely unmissable. Gamesfaqs has FAQs and walkthroughs (plus cheats, reviews and previews) for loads of games. And the ESRB lets you search by age rating.
gametab.com
pocketgamer.co.uk
gamasutra.com
gamefaqs.com
esrb.org/ratings/index.jsp
Maps
Maps matter, but once you're past Google's maps and satellite detail, everyone's thrown back on the Ordnance Survey's data, which means there's little to choose between them. Ordnance Survey has improved its site, and can at least now tell you which map to buy for an area; its placename search is nifty. Meanwhile, the New Popular Edition site shows how the country looked in the 1940s. Delightful.
maps.google.co.uk
streetmap.co.uk
multimap.com
ordnancesurvey.co.uk
npemap.org.uk
News: mainstream
The BBC marches on, adding more media forms while also letting users add their comments. The New York Times site is vast (though it has shut off some of its content behind a "paywall"). Both sites' (short) RSS feeds can be read on a mobile at bbcriver.com and nytimesriver.com. Google News extends its reach, though the top headline is still whichever site last updated rather than the one which is most accurate. Nowpublic is a US rival to OhMyNews and claims 52,000 (and counting) "mojos" - amateur journalists with mobile phones whose location can be figured out from GPS or phone triangulation.
news.bbc.co.uk
nytimes.com
news.google.co.uk
english.ohmynews.com
nowpublic.com
News: recommendation
One thing that Web 2.0 is really good at is letting lots of people vote on things. It can be (and is) abused, but generally the system works. That's seen the rise of sites which let people vote stories up, or which news stories (and how) bloggers are talking about (at memoerandum).The biggest is Digg, which overtook Slashdot earlier this year. Reddit was recently bought by Wired magazine. Findory is slightly different, learning what you like the more you use it.
digg.com
reddit.com
memeorandum.com
megite.com
findory.com
Offbeat
Snopes checks out unbelievable tales, scams and urban legends and debunks (or confirms) them. Slightly less useful is the 100-strong webring of Unusual Museums of the Internet. These include the Virtual Toilet Paper Museum, the Old Calculators Web Museum and Signalfan's museum of traffic control signals. You can find links to lots of other offbeat sites via the Weird Site's Other Weird Links page. The Onion is the web's leading satire magazine, though with an American bias. Otherwise, for five minutes of fun, try browsing B3ta. This UK site sends out a weekly newsletter of cool links and runs a message board where people post amusingly manipulated pictures. But be warned: it's often offensive - that's part of the point - and most definitely rated NSFW (Not Safe For Work).
snopes.com
ringsurf.com
theweirdsite.com
theonion.com
b3ta.com
Politics
The MySociety team remains unbeatable for turning Hansard inside out with Theyworkforyou and Publicwhip, but bloggers have begun to expose the unwritten workings of politicians to greater public scrutiny too. Guido Fawkes' blog has the inside gossip from Westminster, while NO2ID agitates on arguably the most important political and technological issue around, while NHS 23 is a wiki outlining the problems with the political, technological and medical drama of the NHS computer- isation programme.
theyworkforyou.com
publicwhip.org.uk
5thnovember.blogspot.com
no2id.net
editthis.info/nhs_it_info
Public action
Now, it's time to bug someone in power. The idea that the web can make a difference is growing; politicians are on the web and there's an online petition site at No.10. Pledgebank and HearfromyourMP are both part of the excellent MySociety (mysociety.org) family of sites enabling citizens to connect to decision-makers - and, one would hope, vice versa. Netaction includes The Virtual Activist, a manual for anyone looking to build and promote a cause online. Those interested in helping out in their area might try Timebank, which finds organisations to which to donate spare time.
pledgebank.com
petitions.pm.gov.uk
hearfromyourmp.com
netaction.org
timebank.org.uk
Radio
Radio now travels over wires, at least to our homes. The BBC dominates here, but there are thousands of stations to choose from. AOL's Shoutcast is interesting: find whatever's on right now (you can tune in via iTunes or any internet radio-enabled player.) Radio-locator and Live-radio list broadcasters worldwide, so you can find something new to listen to. Reciva does the same, but if you buy its internet radio you can add your own favourites online and they show on the gadget; or just listen online.
bbc.co.uk/radio
shoutcast.com
radio-locator.com
live-radio.net
reciva.com
Recommendation: music
Another new category: being able to find stuff that's similar to music you like is increasingly important, both to listeners and to record companies trying to profit from niches. Last.fm requires an application that runs on your machine, and shows what other people with the same music like. Pandora says you need a US postcode; so give it one, then enjoy its expert-chosen stations. Liveplasma can search relationships in films as well as music. Tuneglue is a relatively new venture between last.fm and EMI, using data from Amazon and last.fm. Goombah requires a small download and only works on music in an iTunes library, but has been at it for some time.
last.fm
pandora.com
liveplasma.com
audiomap.tuneglue.net
goombah.com
Reference
Wikipedia now dominates the reference side of the web, partly because its pages are ranked so highly in Google. User-written, it's not always reliable, but is usually a good place to start. It competes with the Encyclopedia Britannica, which isn't free. However, another traditional alternative is the HighBeam Encyclopedia, which searches more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. Otherwise Jim Martindale's Reference Desk, started in 1994, provides an astonishing collection of links to reference sources. For words, try Onelook, which indexes more than 7.5m words in 931 dictionaries. It also has a reverse lookup to find words from their meanings. Finally, Teldir (on the infobel site) has links to the world's online phone books.
en.wikipedia.org
encyclopedia.com
martindalecenter.com
onelook.com
infobel.com/teldir
Science
Alphagalileo gives a view of public-facing science in Europe and is a counterpart to eurekalert, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's press announcements forum. Space.com remains fascinating for all things spacey. Nasa contains a wealth of information. The growing importance of climate change makes the RealClimate blog written by climate change scientists important.
alphagalileo.org
eurekalert.org
space.com
nasa.gov/home
realclimate.org
Search
Google continues to tighten its grip on our hunt for information (it now gets half of all searches) but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. Search can now encompass your hard drive, blogs (a separate category - see above), images, peer-to-peer and even what used to be out there. Blinkx remains unique with its focus on video, while Ask (now without Jeeves) has made great strides recently, though it only gets a tiny portion of searches.
google.co.uk
search.yahoo.com
search.msn.co.uk
blinkx.com
ask.com
Social software
The browser has grown up: now it's the path to meeting people of similar interests and creating your own personal space online in a shared area. Social networks have become a cliche, but that hasn't stopped MySpace becoming the biggest site online. Bebo is popular, Habbo is more tuned to the kids, while Friendster and LinkedIn will appeal to the older user.
myspace.com
bebo.com
habbo.com
friendster.com
linkedin.com
Video
The crowds are all over at YouTube, the poster child of online video (a category too niche to merit mention two years ago; YouTube was founded in February 2005). But it's not the only place to find video. Revver offers a revenue-sharing system (people pay to watch your video, you get some cash). You can also start your own TV station at brightcove and currenttv. And Videojug has demonstrations of how to do lots of possibly useful tasks.
youtube.com
revver.com
brightcove.com
currenttv.com
videojug.com
Virtual worlds
The key distinction from social sites like MySpace is that virtual worlds give you an avatar - your representation of yourself in the online world. The advent of broadband allied to faster machines has made them usable. When the BBC held a concert in Second Life, it seemed like an anomaly; then IBM's chief executive got an avatar, and suddenly everyone's there. Habbo Hotel is booming with teens. World of Warcraft has millions of users; Everquest, its own culture. Or you can play the Sims online. Whether an influx of new users will make these worlds more antisocial remains open.
secondlife.com
habbohotel.co.uk
worldofwarcraft.com
thesimsonline.com
eqplayers.station.sony.com/index.vm
Zeitgeist
It's what everyone's talking about. Some of these sites appear above because they're the places to go to find out whatthe webworld is thinking. Watch them whizz by, but don't forget to breathe. YouTube is the moving picture of the web; Flickr the static one. Google Trends shows what the world's looking for; Digg, what it's found. And Technorati shows what it's writing about. youtube.com flickr.com google.com/trends digg.com technorati.com
Readers' suggestions
VideoJug (videojug.com). Videos on how to do everyday stuff such as tying a tie etc. (HiddenAway)
Slideshare (slideshare.net) . For sharing presentations; Best Tech Videos (bestechvideos.com). Very techie tutorial videos; TechXtra (techxtra.ac.uk). Has a long enough 'tail' to answer real queries. (RoddyM)
Online apps and desktops: Zoho (zoho.com); Cosmopod (cosmopod.com); eyeOS (eyeos.org). Online video editing: jumpcut.com. (hakluytbean)
Reevoo (reevoo.com) is a very handy site for people looking for honest feedback on products, as it only publishes reviews known to come from customers. (TechMonkey)
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