Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis

April 11, 2012 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

Wolfram Alpha the computational knowledge engine announced on its blog today that it will aid in analyzing Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello and other famous works of literature, such as Moby Dick and Great Expectations. Entering a play into Wolfram|Alpha, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, brings up basic information, such as number of acts, scenes, and characters. It also provides more in-depth info like longest word, most frequent words, number of words and sentences, and more. It’s also easy to find more specific information about a particular act or scene with queries like “What is the longest word

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Apptopia – sale of mobile apps, transferring ownership, code, users and revenue

April 10, 2012 |  by  |  Apps, Sites, Video  |  No Comments

There’s no question that mobile apps are a booming business and a new website called Apptopia wants to help developers captilize on this by selling their apps. And we’re not talking about selling an app to users — we’re talking about selling complete ownership of an app, handing over the reigns to a big company or business. Apptopia is a marketplace for developers to sell their mobile apps — including code, users and revenue — after they move on to another great idea , take other responsibilities or just want to make some additional cash. Apptopia is a self-serve platform like

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PrivacyChoice quickly rank websites alerts you to potential privacy risks when using a website

March 18, 2012 |  by  |  Chrome, Firefox, News, Sites  |  No Comments

Most of us use the Internet and assume that we’re protected from our personal information being shared with others. That’s not always the case as we’ve found, especially when it comes to companies tracking our activity to share with advertisers. One can change the privacy settings in our browser or click on the privacy icon that many display ads carry. To find out what is really going on under the pages of many Web sites and the third-party ad networks they work with, however, users would have to take a more difficult route — reading the privacy policy for each Web

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Dot429 – is LinkedIn for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community

February 19, 2012 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

When it comes to networking, there is no shortage of ways to connect with other professionals. LinkedIn has become the most popular professional networking platform, with over 100 million users using the site to post their work experience, look for jobs, and connect with prospective employers. Facebook, too, has its own professional social network in BranchOut. When it comes to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, there traditionally haven’t been many substantial resources for gay professionals to network and make business connections, especially with other gay professionals. Bill Stewart and Richard Klein co-founded dot429 to help address this

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OneShar.es – send confidential data which automatically deletes after recipient views it once

February 19, 2012 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Sites  |  No Comments

Sharing is natural. We share a lot of things in our daily lives whether through social networks, email or IM. The problem arises when we share sensitive information with others. We easily send emails with usernames, passwords or other important information to our friends, co-workers and clients without thinking. Its simple and quick to do and we tend to trust those we share this information with. However, there are always digital traces left behind that we never think about. Consider this for a minute. You just emailed your wife the pin number to your ATM account. Was the emailed deleted or

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BuiltWith reveals technology used by the websites

February 17, 2012 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using? And, what if you want to know what the tech trends are across the 130 million largest sites on the web today? You could just dig through the source code for each site you’re interested in to answer these questions piecemeal, or you could repurpose other web site profilers designed for search engine optimization or other jobs. Or, you could use BuiltWith. Built by one-man team Gary Brewer in

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Shop your clothes online with augmented reality technology from Bodymetrics

January 10, 2012 |  by  |  Concepts, Sites, Video  |  No Comments

Of course we are skeptical when we are buying clothes online cuz we never know just how well those purchases will actually fit. When you walk into a clothing retailer or browse an online fashion site, they have no idea of your body size, shape or style. So online shoppers, please welcome breakthrough piece of augmented reality technology from Bodymetrics. Bodymetrics body-maps you within a few seconds and gets hundreds of accurate measurements and analytics of your shape. Then, it matches data to the exact dimensions of a garment and allow you to virtually try it on your own body

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BrandMyMail – customizing your gmail messages using social media

December 19, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Video  |  No Comments

Brainchild of Shay Rojansky, Limor Schweitzer and Roberto Varela BrandMyMail a new web-based platform for customizing your email messages using social media. The service is designed mainly for businesses, but can be used by anyone who wants to spice up their email with real-time content, including Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, blog posts from WordPress and Tumblr, Quora posts, eBay listings and more. Embed signatures, blog posts, Facebook and Twitter updates, pictures, videos and more in your emails, send beautiful, rich emails for business or fun, directly from your Gmail account. BrandMyMail is a service that stands between you and

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Watch all of Wikipedia activity in real-time

December 18, 2011 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what’s happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it’s impossible to even see what’s going on. It uses node.js, socket.io and redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime. You don’t really have an idea of how much content gets tweaked on Wikipedia

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