Archive for: September, 2008

GoodReads gives you the chance to get together online with people who are reading the same books you are. It’s social networking for book lovers. Like other social networking sites, on GoodReads you can create and edit a profile to show your interests, add friends, send them messages, join groups and participate in discussions. There are some active groups on the site, and there are also other fun features such as book trivia questions and ...

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HubPages is based on the principle that online publishing should be easy and rewarding, and it lives up to that concept. It takes just a few minutes to produce a content-rich web page which includes photos, feeds and revenue modules. (more…)

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Iminta asks the question ‘what are you inta?’. It’s another lifestreaming site, which means that it helps you to collect the information you post on a host of other sites around the Internet. If you post status updates on Twitter or Facebook, add books to Library Thing or save links on Digg or Delicious, then you can include these in your Iminta profile. Iminta supports a wide range of sites for applications, books, discussions, events, ...

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LibraryThing is a great site for anyone who loves books. It takes just seconds to sign up and start adding books to your own personal shelf. LibraryThing collects book data from almost 700 library sources, so when you search for a snippet of the title you want to enter, it soon finds your book and all the cataloging data. There are many ways to add books so it’s practical to use LibraryThing to manage your ...

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Five years ago, when newscasters and journalists began talking regularly about something called the “blog-o-sphere,” it wasn’t always easy to find the blogs you might enjoy reading. You might love getting the scoop on environmentalism and education, but aside from Googling these topics and hoping that one of the listings among the articles, commercial sites, and personal pages was a blog or online newspaper on the right topic, there might be no easy way to ...

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How much is your house worth? Is it worth as much as the neighbor’s house? How does it compare to houses across town – or the hot pink duplex at the end of the block that seems to have had a ‘for sale’ sign in the lawn for the past six months? Whether you’re planning on selling your home, buying your first home, or just curious about the status of the house down the street, ...

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