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Readers Read Launches Classic Literature Resource
ReadersRead.com has launched a Literary Classics Resource. The website provides the top links for over fifty authors of classic literary works. Some of the authors included are Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexandre Dumas, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Plato, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf. The resource makes it easy to find high quality links that provide information about these well-known authors.Posted on July 31, 2006
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StumbleUpon Now Available for IE
StumpleUpon, the popular Firefox tool for discovering and sharing new websites, is now available for the Internet Explorer. TechCrunch believes StumpleUpon will now explode in popularity.
The wildly popular Firefox extension StumbleUpon released this morning a toolbar for Internet Explorer users. The service lets you browse around web sites that have been recommended by friends and other users with interests similar to your own. Users can also write reviews of sites. The end result is a very compelling user experience that's likely to explode now that it’s working with the market dominant browser.StumpleUpon users share websites by downloading the StumpleUpon toolbar and then clicking on "I Like It" when they find a website they enjoy. StumpleUpon saves members reactions and reviews of each website on a special page that shows the users icon and lists reviews of the website. For example, here is the StumpleUpon pages for this website. This page shows some of the top stumblers.
Posted on July 24, 2006
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Firefox's Browser Marketshare Grows to 15% in US
OneStat.com reports that Firefox has grown to a 15% marketshare in the U.S. browser market.- Microsoft IE: 79.78%
- Mozilla Firefox: 15.82%
- Apple Safari: 3.28%
- Opera: 0.81%
- Netscape: 0.20%
Posted on July 21, 2006
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Guruza Enters Crowded Expert Market
There is a new question answering service called Guruza. TechCrunch explains Guruza's set-your-price system.
Here's how it works. You ask a question and set a price you'll pay for an answer that satisfies you. Users can scan the list of questions, leave their replies and the person who posed the question decides which if any answer they like best. That person receives the financial reward, transactions performed in PayPal. Guruza takes 20% when you cash out with the money you make answering questions.If you don't like Guruza there are plenty of competitors: Yahoo Answers, Ask.Metafilter, Google Answers, Oyogi and Qunu. Still more fee-based answer services can be found here.
How do you know people will pay? Each person who poses a question has the number of questions they've asked and the number of answers they’ve paid on displayed below their name. How simple is that? It's an active little community already, with most but not all questions being about software development.
The best part is AIM, GTalk or Jabber IM notification when users you're watching come online or when some one wants to discuss your question. You get a link to an inline chat sent via your IM client. All the answers and discussions are viewable by users even after the question is closed, so there’s a lot of potential for building a cool public knowledge base here.
Posted on July 14, 2006
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Da Vinci Code Resources
Our sister site, The Internet Writing Journal, has compiled some of the top Da Vinci Code resources on the Internet. The IWJ's Da Vinci Code Links Page includes links to resources as well as configured Da Vinci Code searches.
Denounced as heresy by the Catholic Church and hailed by feminists and others who believe that Mary Magdalene was never given her due as a co-founder of Christianity, the book was recently made into a feature film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou which has broken box office records around the world. The book and the feature film release of The Da Vinci Code have raised questions about the history of religion and of the Catholic Church. The book also has made people curious about ancient symbols and mythology and inspired people to learn more about history and study art. In addition to all the controversy, The Da Vinci Code is great fun: it's a thriller that holds the readers' interest, as its protagonists jet around the world hoping to solve an ancient puzzle.In addition to Da Vinci Code resources the special section also includes links to resources about Leonardo Da Vinci, Mary Magdalene, the Knights Templar, ancient code and symbols. Resources to articles and websites critical of the Da Vinci Code are also provided. If you are interested in surfing the Web for more information about subjects covered in the Da Vinci Code the IWJ's resource is a great starting point.
Posted on July 10, 2006
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Google Debuts Government Search
Posted on July 6, 2006
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Study Finds MSN Most Relevant Search Engine
A new search study from Intralink has found that MSN Search has the most relative search results. Intralink also believes MSN will gain the most in the second quarter of 2006.n terms of relevance MSN came out on top for the second quarter in a row. Google however performed much better this quarter due to the huge increase in the number of search terms analyzed and less emphasis on major metropolitan area business searches.Intralink's research team evaluated more than 25,000 pages and performed over 4000 searches. You can see the Search Engine Relevancy Report here. An executive summary of the report is located here.
The study also found that the majority of web sites are not properly constructed to allow search engines to find them and relate content to searches. This is allowing smaller directory sites to exploit the gaps with advertising related pages and very little real content.
Posted on July 5, 2006
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