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Alefo.com - A New StartPage Aims to Out Do iGoogle

Israeli based Alefo is a news/personal aggregator that is taking on iGoogle and Netvibes. The site allows users to compile their favorite RSS feeds, Widgets and what they dub ‘site shots’ which basically consist of parts of other websites, to paste onto a personal homepage. You can add Site shots, by taking a screenshot of any webpage and selecting the parts you want to see; they open up as moveable small windows on your homepage. The top tool bar features a recycle bin along with tabs. Widgets can be manually added, or you can select from a few they have on offer, such as YouTube’s...  read more

ShowcaseYourMusic.com - Professional MySpace

Do you remember what MySpace used to be like before the teenagers and glitter people found about it? The good old times where aspiring bands used it to create a profile and play their songs are gone for MySpace and they are almost certainly not coming back, but you can get the same service you could get back then from this site, only there is a higher chance representatives will learn about you if you choose this site over social network platforms. ShowcaseYourMusic.com is a super basic profiling system to where users (bands or soloists) can upload a brief comment about themselves, plus unlimi...  read more

BuckeyeTraffic.org - OH Transportation Info System

Murphy Law is one mighty law, and though it clearly states that when in doubt you will always choose the road that has slower traffic or is closed due to weather conditions, you can try this site to minimize the horrid dictums of the nasty Mr. Murphy. Powered by Ohio’s Department of Transportation, this site features an interactive map where you can check out which roads are closed, being repaired or are experiencing slow traffic: you can see all restrictions or apply filters to check out what particular blockage problem is going on in different parts of the state. Using the site is dummy-pr...  read more

MountainX.com - Asheville And Western NC News

There is an unsaid law in web design that states that local newspaper sites have to present boring stories on their homepages and have uninteresting looks to them, but once in a while some sites manage to escape that logic, and MountainX.com is one of them. With a nice layout to its credit, this site has managed to organize news in a way that make it easy to understand the hierarchy and relevance of the information on display, with a big plus to it: since the number of comments on each story is shown in a little bubble next to it, just by taking a look one can manage to figure out what the hot...  read more

12dt.com - Kentucky High School Sports Scoreboards

High school sports can be so much fun! But they can also be quite hard to keep track of, especially if you like more than one sport or more than one team. Thus, if you are a Kentucky fan, you can get all the dirt on girls and boys’ soccer, football, basketball, volley, baseball and softball, dating back to 1998, and most of the categories feature updated content as well. Using the site is very simple, as you have to choose a sport and a year, and then you’ll get the results (and upcoming games if you are checking out 2008). Also cool is that you can take a look at how past tournaments have...  read more

GryffindorGazette.com - For Harry Potter Fans

It doesn’t matter that there are no more Harry Potter books to come; there isn’t a sequel to Shakespeare and people go on reading (and writing about) it, so there is no reason why Harry Potter shouldn’t get a site scrutinizing the books, the movies done and being done on it, and this is one of the many, many sites that look into those topics and aggregate content from different sources dealing with them. By visiting GryffindorGazette.com, users will be able to read about the books, the movies, J.K. Rowling, the actors in the movies, enter contests, download fonts, learn about related boo...  read more

GastroMD.com - CO Center For Digestive Disorders

This site is home for Dr. Jensen’s practice, a gastroenterologist working in Longmont, Colorado. Though it desperately needs some work in the design area, this site is extremely useful for this doctor’s patients and for any other person who is concerned about their digestive system health, as you can read a very comprehensive glossary of medical terms and explanations of procedures, written in a language that is fit even for schoolchildren to understand. With all the discussion about the health system and medical error, this initiative seems really interesting, as it allows patients and th...  read more

AMDcompare.com - Compare AMD Processor Specs

As home for AMD, one of the largest and more widespread computer processor and video card manufacturers, this site allows users to explore the complete catalogue of the company’s products in order to compare their capabilities and features. Though it is clear that you must be computer savvy in order to take advantage of the site, people who thoroughly research their computers before buying them will be delighted to hear about this site’s search features, which allow users to find a processor based on their specific needs, like cache size, frequency, socket and other relevant guidelines. If...  read more

WelcomeHomeRoscoeJenkins.com - The Movie's Site

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is the beginning line of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy’s probably best known novel, and the founding statement of “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins”, a comedy released early this year featuring Martin Jenkins as a successful Hollywood presenter with a wacky family –not unhappy, really, but plain eccentric. By visiting this site, users will be able to take a look at the trailer, meet the characters (and the actors), watch selected scenes from the movie and enjoy a variety of multimedia games and quizzes; you can ...  read more

GeekBooks.com - A Blog For Multitasking Geeks

Popped up collars and jockdom are so passé; by now it’s an acknowledged truth that geeks rule the world, to the extent that we are not even getting prom movies any more: we got indie music and cinema! So, stop trying to forget the bad hair decade when you were a social outcast, embrace and indulge in your geekdom and find an appropriate blog to read daily, like this one. At the present time they are raving about DIY sheds by providing a variety of guides and plans to help you build your own, but if you are more of the computer-kind, don’t be discouraged, as they provide very insightful g...  read more

Grida.no - Environmental Knowledge For Change

Sadly, we are only starting to realize the depth and urgency of the planet and environment crisis, and though desperate times do call for desperate measures, it’s also true that in order to generate a true and meaningful change, more and better information is needed on these topics. Searching for a completely objective source of data is the epistemological chimera, but by visiting this site at least you can read what the UN’s specialized agency is saying: as a part of the UN’s Environment Program (UNEP), this site targets the general public and policy makers and provides extensive inform...  read more

GrabStreet.com - Meta Search Engine

Though at first glance this site might look as a parked site, it’s actually not: it’s a meta search engine with less than perfect understanding of how to differentiate itself from the myriad of sites with similar typefaces and color schemes. GrabStreet.com combines in one same page the top ten search results for two of the largest search engines: Msn.com and Yahoo.com, which allows users to view simultaneously what is getting the first positions in each of them without opening several tabs, and will definitely be of use for people working with SEO. Interestingly, you can look for any term ...  read more

MavenAutoFinance.com - Apply For Auto Credit

Most of the sites that offer consumer or cheap credit products don’t offer much information on how they work, but MavenAutoFinance.com goes one step further: when you are filling in your information online, you have not the faintest idea who will be looking at that data, whether it is a group of finance companies or just one, or maybe some other party who will get to find out about your credit history, which explains precisely why this site has the traffic data it has. On the large picture, one can deduct that what the company does is to contact prospective clients with institutions that wil...  read more

DeclareYourself.com - Registering Young Voters

The presidential campaign is everywhere you look, online or off, and this site is a part of it, only it really doesn’t have anything to do with speeches, candidates or polls: Declare Yourself is non-profit organization which is trying to get young people to enroll to vote. By visiting this site, users will be able to take a look at the many interesting initiatives and ways which are being used to engage younger audiences in having a say about political issues. As is obvious, the most relevant bit of the site is the online registrar and the voting calendar, but the information and articles av...  read more

HassleFreeClipart.com - A Wealth Of Free Images

Aren’t PPT’s clipart characters just absurd? Somebody should put the stickman scratching his geometrically wrong head next to the word ‘tacky’ in the dictionary. Though I acknowledge that my feeling towards Windows graphics packs might be a bit extreme, I also know that I’m not alone: there’s a silent crowd out there who just craves to stop having their eyes vexed by bad, bad graphics each time they have to endure a boring presentation. Listen up, crowd person, HassleFreeClipart.com is part of your political agenda from now on: you can use it to right-click download clipart in many...  read more