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CNET Launches At Work Section

CNET has announced its new At Work section. Edited by technology journalist Rafe Needleman, CNET At Work is a collection of editorial and community features designed to help small business owners and individuals. CNET At Work offers reviews and product comparisons, advice, buying guides, office designs, tech news, ask the editors and a how-to video library.

Posted on March 31, 2005
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Consumerpedia.org Launches User Built Consumer Resource

Consumerpedia.org has launched as a "consumer information resource everyone can help build." The site, which looks like a cross between Wikipedia and Epinions, allows users to rate and discuss topics -- and also to create and define the relationships between the different topics. Currently, new users are suggesting topics on the site like "carpet" and "HDTV." The website is still in its infancy, but it already has a blog to keep bloggers and users up-to-date on its progress. First reported by Joho the Blog and Micropersuasion.com

Posted on March 29, 2005
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New Media Storage Website Launches

Ourmedia.org has launched as a provider of free storage and free bandwidth for videos, audio files, photos, text and software. Visitors to the site can also browse the available media. The site's developers have an interesting strategy for developing the website: "Instead of taking a year or more to produce a polished site, we decided to plant a flag in the ground, open our doors and say: Come help us build it."

Posted on March 28, 2005
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Mozilla Launches Camino Browser for Macs

The Mozilla Organization, the developers of the Firefox browser, have now launched an open-source browser called Camino for Mac users. Features include download manager, tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, keyboard codes and more. CNet's John Rizzo already has good things to say about the new rowser: "Camino offers top-notch performance, elegant tabbed browsing, and an easy way to view and hide histories and bookmarks."

Posted on March 25, 2005
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Gnomz.com Lets Members Create Comics

Gnomz.com is a new online community that lets you create, publish and vote from comics. Boing Boing notes that the service was offered in French before this new English version launched. On the French version 20,000 comics were created in the last year alone.

Posted on March 24, 2005
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Yahoo Launches Small Business Resource

Yahoo! Inc. has launched the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center, which offers approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources. Yahoo! has transformed the resource center on its website to an information hub for entrepreneurs. The articles include business-related content created by Yahoo! and additional content from small business news sources and information sites including Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur.com, AllBusiness.com, BuyerZone.com and Nolo.

Posted on March 22, 2005
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Screenwriting Veteran Launches Movie Review Website

Hollywood screenwriting veteran Alan Trustman, writer of award-winning films The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs and more, has launched MoviesWorthWatching.com. The site offers up current reviews on notable films as well as features on what script elements make a screenplay commercially successful. Unlike other film sites, MoviesWorthWatching.com focuses on providing reliable recommendations, as opposed to assigning a "thumbs up, thumbs down" or star-based rating system. Trustman says you won't find any mean and nasty reviews on his movie website.

On the website Trustman says, "If you are looking for murderous, scathing, sarcastic, negative reviews, you will not find them here. If I do not think a movie is worth seeing, I don't review it. Most movies that fail have cost a lot of money and absorbed the time, energy, hopes and dreams of numerous talented people, many of whose careers will have been shattered by the movie's failure. I wish them better success next time out and I sympathize with their disappointment and misery."

Posted on March 21, 2005
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The Return of Netscape?

Netscape has launched version 8.0, a beta test release of the once popular browser. MSNBC.com says the new browser is nothing like the old Nestcape and that it combines the best elements of Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser offers Firefox's tabbed browsing and it enters into a green shield state when it recognizes a "safe" website and runs more IE components. Netscape 8.0 also provides an interesting multi-bar feature which condenses tool bars into single buttons. The MSNBC reviewer said the downside of the Netscape browser is it tends to focus on AOL content and web services and some third-party tools and plug-ins might not (yet) be compatible with Netscape 8.0.

Posted on March 18, 2005
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European Union Information Portal Launches

The Register reports that the European Union has launched a new website to provide information to businesses interested in trading with European countries. The website helps business owners find information on certifying products in Europe, finding business partners in the EU, bidding on public contracts and extending business activities in an EU country. In addition to information the website also provides links to resources and services. The website also has an information section for EU citizens to learn about their rights and opportunities.

Posted on March 16, 2005
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AFFECT Launches Fairterms.org

AFFECT, the Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transaction, has launched Fairterms.org, a website that aims to inform web users about the digital terms they agree to when they download software or click an online agreement. AFFECT says the agreements sometimes contain "unexpected and often unfair digital product terms." The website currently offers information, ways to take action and promises an upcoming weblog. Fairterms.org is part of AFFECT's Stop Before You Click campaign. Infoworld.com has an informative article about the new website and campaign.

Posted on March 15, 2005
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Track iTunes

TunesTracker, a tool that alerts you when the iTunes Music Store has new music of interest to you, has added new features including composer and title searches, rss feeds and artist information. TunesTracker has also added a News Roundup page which gathers headlines from several iTunes-related blogs, news sources, and software sites.

Posted on March 10, 2005
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Global Opinion Website Launches

GlobalOpEd.us (GOE) is now online, offering readers an opportunity to contribute on important issues. The website says it offers news and opinions "fair and square" plus links to newspapers, government resources and research sources. Dennis Mullin, GOE's Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, is a former Chief White House, State Department and Foreign Correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. The current page includes: Implications of "The Tsunami Undertow" as international civil servants eye the plunder, Deja (Dien Bien) Phu on the continuing fallout of the Vietnam War, an exclusive interview with football great Jim Brown on "Leadership, Gangs, Nurturing and Changing Lives," Revisiting the Passion of Christ and Does the US Really Practice Free Trade.

Posted on March 9, 2005
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IDG Launches GamerHelp.com

IDG Entertainment has launched GamerHelp.com, a resource for gamers who want more information on popular games and who seek assistance in beating them. Carrying the tagline "Gamers Helping Gamers" the website supported primarily by member-submitted content, such as member-created FAQs. To encourage submissions that are most useful to the gaming community, GamerHelp.com a rewards program offers prizes for the most sought-after FAQs.

Posted on March 7, 2005
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New Electronic Imaging Site Launches

Advancedimagingpro.com is a new website for electronic imaging news, products and solutions. The site was launched during Photonics West 2005. The website was launched by Cygnus Business Media's, publisher of Advanced Imaging (AI) magazine. Publisher Dave Brambert and Editor-in-Chief Larry Adams will participate in the production and editorial direction of the site working alongside Cygnus Interactive's Director of Content Jeff Copeland and Advancedimagingpro.com Site Manager Dallas Shelby. Advancedimagingpro.com also offers online polls, a user forum and a Q & A section.

Posted on March 4, 2005
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Macy's Launches Teen Website

Macy's has launched ThisIt.com, a an interactive flash website targeted at teens. The site offers new videos from up-and-coming artists, interviews with top artists like Lindsay Lohan, a flash fashion show, prizes, and a trends section where real girls (ages 16-22) undergo complete makeovers for hair, makeup and clothing.

Posted on March 3, 2005
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Firefox Growth Slows

A study finds that the growth of Firefox has slowed since it grew rapidly after Microsoft's Internet Explorer was plagued with a series of security breaches and warnings. But Microsoft's browser dominance continues to fall despite the slowdown in Firefox growth. News.com reports that two recent browser tracking surveys found that people using Microsoft browsers had dropped below 90%. Firefox is around 4-5%, Netscape around 2% and the remained ias made up by Safari and Opera. The News.com article also discusses how browser usage varies in different countries.

Posted on March 1, 2005
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