A huge amount of stories get submitted every day, but only a handful (most Dugg) stories appear on the front page. In the recent past it has become very difficult to make it to the front page, unless you have some loyal friends, you won’t make it to the Front Page, but not this seems to work every time.

Digg has one of the largest audience, comprising well over 4 million daily visitors and hundreds of thousands of active members. I too am an active member on Digg.

Here is a humongous list of Digg Tools and sources, that have been categorized for easy searching. I’ll start with non-official tools, since you already know Digg’s Official Tools.

Non- Official (Third Party) Digg Tools

DiggStatistics – Displays who’s digging your stories, the number of diggs made by a user.

Digg Oracle – Very useful if you use Digg as a bookmarking tool and you need to locate a page again.

Digg Expose – Displays thumbnails of all recently Dugg stories

DiggFiltr – create a custom digg feed in seconds.

Diggwatcher – A webpage where you can monitor the number of Diggs a post is getting.

Dugg Trends Beta – Auto-refreshing Digg mirror site that provides access to current Access digg trends graph and filter digg links by categories.

Duggback – Allows you to view cached copies of pages of Digg stories that may have been taken down due to the Digg effect.

DiggAlerts – Free service that allows you to setup alerts when other Diggalerts.com members submit stories you’re interested in.

Digg Wordweb – Visualize the most popular keywords in a Digg submission and related stories.

Digg Explorer- Provides a wealth of interesting data about Digg. For example, you can see the number of most often used proper nouns on Digg and the stories that contain them.

Digg Notify Beta – Notifies you every time someone digg’s one of your last fifteen submitted stories. It also shows you how many digg’s the story has received, who dugg it and provides a button to click and open up the page. It tells you when your story hits front page as well.

Digg Notify - An application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen to display number of diggs on your story. It tells you when your story hits front page as well.

DiggTree – Flash-based RSS aggregator for Digg.com.

DiggUpdate – gives you quick access to the front page stories of Digg in your Mac OS X menu-bar.

Digg Friends Venn Diagram – Displays a particular befriended user of your choosing, who the user has befriended, and mutual friends in a Venn diagram display

Diggitzer – Web based tool that analyzes millions of successful (in terms of popularity) Digg titles combines this knowledge with your keywords to create the fool-proof title to drive your entry to the very top of digg.

Digg CommentSpy – See the most recent live comments on Digg.

Digg Ticker – Shows a customizable scroller or ticker of the most recent Digg news stories on your website or blog.

Digg Expose – Takes snapshots of pages from Digg and displays them in a configurable view.

Diggsig – create your own automatic updating Digg Signature for your website.

Digg City - Shows the 10 most popular Digg stories in a SimCity-esque format.

Digg Radar – Similar to Digg Heat Map, that displays the newest members at the corners of the galaxy and the oldest members in the center of the galaxy. See which users have been most recently active on Digg and who have Dugg a story.

DiggTop – An application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favorite Digg topic or keyword feeds.

Digg Entourage – Shows who is in your Digg social circle by avatar , plus table format.

Digg 1 – Submit and share stories, news, videos or comments on other user’s content.

Digg Entourage - Web-based tool to search your previous 25 submissions and pull detailed information on who has dugg your stories the most.

The Digg Noise Filter - Lets you watch upcoming stories before they become popular, a good alternative for Digg upcoming

Digg vs Dot – Simple website that highlights the act of cross-posting articles between Digg and Slashdot.

Digg Charts – Displays most popular stories in a table format, followed by a pie graph format and a graph that shows the progression of story popularity over time.

Digg Pics – Tracks the activity of images on the site. Images slide in from the left as people Digg and submit them.

Digg comment viewer – Helps you view recent Digg comments, their rankings, and you can easily navigate to your friends’ comments. Auto-update option available.

Digg Charts - Flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories, a graph is generated showing a selected story’s popularity over time.

Digg Status – Allows you to view different statistics for a particular Digg user.

Digg Watch – Lets users browse Digg and grab interesting information from stories, like who Dugg what stories and how many Diggs a story gets over time.

Diggtris – Similar to a Tetris game based on recently dugg stories. It’s actually quite fun and addictive, though what’s up with those crazy shapes?!

DiggCity – Allows most recently popular 10 stories in a city format. Each stick figure represents a Digg user and the buildings grow as more people Digg the stories and run into the buildings.

Digg Alerter – Keeps track of the Digg stories you’ve submitted, along with their digg count and if they have gone popular or not.

Digg Digger – Grabs all the new stories submitted to digg area queue.

Digg Submit Bookmarklet – Allows you to submit stories to Digg just by clicking a button. Drag and drop this bookmarklet to your toolbar and you’re ready to go.

Digg Arc – displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere.

Digg Stack – shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once.

Digg the Blog – a means to detail all digg-related news, events, upgrades, feature additions, and much more.

DiggSuggest – a web-app that suggests new Digg-stories for you based on your previous interests.

DiggView - See all latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.

Diggless RSS Feed – a special feed that provides a direct link to the website, bypassing Digg.

Digg card - a way of inserting your Digg.com Profile on to you website.

DiggGraph – AJAX application to have a “bird’s eye” look on the digg queue stories and see rapidly which stories are getting up to the front page.

Digg SMS – Get the top 5 front page stories sent to your cell phone every few hours.

Digg Front – View latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.

Digg Submits – View latest submitted Digg Stories by category on one page.

Digg Marquee – generates a marquee with Digg stories to put on their websites.

Digg Friends Checker – Who’s Digg friends’ lists are you on?

DiggIRC - An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication.

Digg Newstracker for Winbar – Just download and rename the extention to .trk and place in newstrackers in your winbar folder.

Digg Navigation - enable quick navigation of digg links.

DiggTray - is a free application which sits in the task tray and notifies you whenever there is a new article on the front page of Digg.com

Digg Buttons - Chicklet buttons you can paste in your blog.

DiggShoutSlash.com – Digg.com, ShoutWire.com and Slashdot.org in iframes.

DIGG – by Digg Staff – Shows top stories or friends digs.

Diggler - Adds a menu button next to the address bar with actions relevant to the current URL. A single click on the menu button also clears the location bar , useful for keyboard free browsing.

Digglicious – A real time, cool blend of Digg and del.icio.us top stories.

Digg Heat Map – Visualizes the Digg community as a universe with the most popular Digg members appearing to be bright stars in the sky and the newest members to be in the center of the universe.

Diggaz With Attitude – Program that displays the latest Digg and Google news articles in your taskbar.

Digg Eater – is a RSS news aggregator with some features unique to Digg.com.

DiggClone project - is an effort to reproduce the functionality of the popular social bookmarking site digg.com.

Digg Soundboard – Remixes comments.

Diggdot.us – Displays all popular diggs, Slashdots and del.icio.us stories.

Digg Google Modules – For use on the Google homepage.

Diggitizer – Makes any normal headline into a headline perfect for Digg.

DiggMap – Diggs are shown in real-time on the map for users that have specified their location in their profile.

Diggpics – Searches and returns a list of stories that have photos as the main subject.

Diggscape – Splits the window to simultaneously post a story to digg.com and netscape.com

Diggscaperedlicious - Splits the window to simultaneously post a story to digg.com, netscape.com, reddit.com and del.icio.us.

Digg Sidebar v4 – enable quick navigation of digg links.

Digg Sidebar – Auto-refreshing sidebar extension for your Firefox browser, includes quick links, RSS reader, and quick search for Digg.

Digg’s Top Stories – Plugin for the Google Desktop Sidebar that displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.

Digg at Cafepress – Tshirts, cups, bags & thongs!

Diggnation T-Shirt – buy another Tshirt.

PiggFeed – Provides a handy alternative to the RSS feed that Digg provides. Features include links directly to the article as opposed to the Digg page, when subscribed to Digg RSS feed.

Browsers

Flock Web Browser – Browser designed for Digg. You can see your Digg friends in the People Sidebar and view stories they are Digging.

OpenCourseWare Finder – Online digg browser.

AleFox – For mac, The Alex Albrecht based internet browser.

MAKEbot - for chatting apps, MAKE‘s updated bot can search digg.

DiggBot – MSN robot whose sole purpose is to alert you (via an MSN instant message) whenever there is an iiem posted on the front page of Digg.com.

Digg IRC Bot - An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication. You can also configure the bot to private message you with current headlines.

DiggBot – is an automated MSN robot whose sole purpose is to alert you (via an MSN instant message) whenever there is a new item posted on the front page of Digg.com.

Original Signal – Provides an overview of current Digg stories separated by category and chronological order

mb3D Engine – A Digg RSS engine that displays dugg articles in 3D.

pspDigg - View Digg RSS feeds directly from the browser on your PSP system.

PHPDug – Create a Digg-like site where people can rate and comment on stories posted by other users.

TINC – or Who’s Digging You? – Another tool which shows, who is digging your stories.

DC Digg – An application for iPhone. It allows you to browse Digg right from your iPhone!

DC Digg 1 – Use this application to browse Digg from your Apple iPhone.

Wheel of Upcoming – Shows recently submitted stories in a spiral pattern that a user can rotate using mouse gestures. Stories are color-coded based on activity.

WordWeb - This visualization analyzes the relationships between popular keywords and the stories they appear within.

Mini Digg – Allows users to view stories and see the story activity, with user settings and a story tracking feature that allows to save favorite stories for future tracking.

D’lite - Utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve their amazing data, information, and processes. Useful features include pagination, favorites, network detection, and smart auto refresh.

Social Blade Frontpage Data - An online tool which allows you to analyze frontpage stories and determine a host of factors related to the tipping point when a story goes popular.

Zubbu – allows users to check how their Digg story submissions are doing.

PHPDugg - Allows you to run a site on a similar system to digg.com

Live Digg Buton Generator - generates the code to copy and paste into your website to make a live digg button.

HotDigg – Live Digg news feed screensaver.

Upcomming.org Digg Group - a collaborative event calendar for Digg users.

Rip That Page – Digg “Upcomming stories” ripped every 20 mins with thumbshots.

mashfot – A mashup about photography

popfeeds - Combines social bookmarks and popular blogs

Newspyle – Digg.com, Reddit, del.icio.us

popfeedo – Page powered by feedostyle

Viralbabble - Combines social bookmarks; Digg, Slashdot, Lifehacker.

popurls – Displays popular links from Digg, Furl, del.icio.us, Reddit, TailRank, , Flickr, Youtube and Slashdot.

The WebList – Similar to popurls.

reddiggulo.us – Aggregates the most popular stories from Digg, reddit, del.icio.us, Slashdot and ranks them against each other. Also has categories and search.

xmlhttprequest - Ajax related news.

TechssteRSS – Aggregats Tech news from Digg and more…

Screaming-penguin – Shows some digg, yahoo, arsTechnica news

SlashDigg – Digg and Slashdot news webpage.

wiinintendo – Nintendo related.

Ultimate Homepage – Webpage that shows live news from Digg, Google News, SlashDot, Wired, using Ajax.

TECHzingo – Technology News presented in cloud form watches Slashdot.org, Digg.com, TheRegister.co.uk

popTart – Allows you to preview articles in a resizeable frame at the bottom of the browser.

Integrate – Allows you to put Digg This buttons on your site

Talk Digger - search through conversations within Digg and other websites.

Clean Digg RSS Feed – RSS feed with direct links to the stories rather than going to the Digg comments page

Desktop Applications

DiggGraphr Desktop – A desktop application written in Apollo that lets you browse Digg stories in treemaps. Customizes certain features as well as choose the channels you are interested in.

DiggGraphr Desktop – Desktop installation that allows you to Digg stories in treemap format. Each section is color-coded and you can drill down and see stories that would interest you the most.

Digg Desktop – For Google Desktop, and shows the 10 most recent posts on Digg

DiggDesk – Read your favorite digg and reddit stories and watch youtube videos right on your desktop.

Desktop Digg – a Windows Desktop Application that will pull down the newest submitted stories on Digg.com.

Digg Labs screensaver – Stack and Swarm on your desktop, for Windows.

Diggth Widget - A widget configured for reading various Digg RSS feeds.

Digg News Widget – Aggregates news via various RSS feeds from Digg.

Rigglations – A widget that displays the relationships between members of Digg.com and click to user profiles.

Digg Dashboard Widget - This widget retrieves the latest headlines from Digg every fifteen minutes and displays them in an attractive interface.

Digg RSS Widget - gets the current front page headlines from digg and displays them in a nice little interface.

Netvibes Widget - Add this widget to Netvibes to see the Top Digg Stories on your Netvibes page.

Digg Search Widget – Search all of Digg’s archives.

Digg Opera Widget – downloads and displays the RSS feed from Digg.

Diggnation

Diggnation Widget – lets you know what the latest Audio and Video Diggnation releases are.

Diggnation Digging Game – for Diggnation fans looking to add more fun the podcast.

Diggnation – collection of the diggnation episodes.

Digg With Diggnation - Check out the latest items from a number of RSS feeds from Digg and get the latest audio and video episodes of Diggnation.

Toolbars

NewcyberBar - Customizable toolbar with built in options for to Digg, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! My Web, Furl, Blink this site.

webpedia Toolbar – Give access to 5 rss feed: del.icio.us popular, digg front page news, furl most popular, hot spurls and webpedia blog.

Jedi Digg – A toolbar docked at the top your screen that displays the Digg front page stories in rotation. You can directly digg the story from this toolbar.

Digg Toolbar – Instant access to digg from any site on the web and get digg.com headlines automatically. [mirror]

FireFox Ad-ons

Interclue for Firefox – Shows you everything you need to know before you open another tab. The window also displays the current Digg count and allows you to Digg the site.

Groowe Search Toolbar – Adds a search bar for many search engines and sites including Digg.

Smart Digg Button – Tell you whether the current web page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg, or not. Otherwise, it will display you how many Diggs the page has received.

Digg This! - Adds a Digg This! button to the right-click menu, the tools menu and the toolbar.

Digg.com Comment Spotlight – Shows comments on articles, allowing you to easily wade through hundreds of comments in an article.

Netscape’s Digg Tracker – Helps you keep track of your Digg friends by displaying what they have been submitting, digging and commenting on.

DiggThumbs - Adds website screen shot thumbnails to the listings on Digg.

Cache View – Displays Google’s Cache, Wayback Machine’s Cache, Coral’s Cache, Tech Guru’s Cache, Dot Cache and more, thus keeping a site viewable even after a crash from the “Digg effect.”

Dugged – Adds a dugg-mirror link to websites listed on Digg.

Tadsee – Displays a site’s content through cache if it has crashed, similar to Cache View

Update Scanner – Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don’t provide Atom or RSS feeds. Sometimes it allows you to grab and submit new stories or articles before other Digg users.

Digg Search Plugin – Firefox plugin that lets you search digg for stories.

Bumblesearch – Firefox extension for advanced search with support for Digg, Slashdot, Amazon, etc.

Cacheout! – Firefox Extension lets you access articles crashed by digg effect through 3rd party caching services like CoralCDN.

gada.be - Search most social bookmarks, this URL will only search digg.

Keotag – Searches digg and other social services.

Newzpile - Realtime web buzz tracker using Ajax, lets you Search Digg, Flickr, Newswine, Youtube

opsdo – Meta search engine, has a digg button if you expand the social block.

Talk Digger – Searches conversations from a lots of places, including Digg.

whonu – Meta discovery search engine that has Digg.

YubNub digg Command List - Firefox Search Plugin that can be installed on every browser, mobile, sidebar or even as mac widget.

GreaseMonkey Scripts for Digg

Digg Button Animation Enabler – Allows you to digg a story using the Digg badge on the site of a webpage without having to click through to the Digg story page.

Digg Rating Extender – Shows both the up and down diggs as well as the total rating. Updated for the new comment system to show all the data instead of just the rating or just the up/down.

Feeddit – Feed for the Digg frontpage. Each feed item has a direct link to the story, alongside a link to the submitter, comments and mirror.

Digg Autohide – This script automatically hides (instead of buries) Digg submissions based on user name or keyword. Add users to ‘var users_blacklist’ and keywords to ‘var keywords_blacklist’ at the beginning of this.

Page Jumper – Easy browsing.

Google Bump – Adds functionality to the Google web search. Main features include Quick Search Shortcuts (including Multisearch), Image & Video results with a Player, and some clutter cleanup by.

Digg Search Replaced by a Google CSE - Search digg.com using a cool custom Google search engine with hierarchical categories. The textbox will turn yellow to indicate that the google search is active.

Diggholder – Marks your last read digg so you know what you have read.

Google Reader Digg News - Add a digg control to every news-item in google reader.

Digg in current window – Simply removes target_blank (Open New Window).

Try This Search On – Provides useful links to search engines based on the page that you’re viewing or the search that you’re performing.

Digg Top In All Topics – Links Top In All Topics links directly to the article, rather than the digg page. The digg page link is also available underneath if you click on the comments link.

Digg Me Later! – Helps you to digg the article directly from the article page after you read it without having to return to digg.

Digg – add mirrors – Cached pages from MirrorDot, Google cache and guzguz.net

Digg Filter - On digg.com, adds a form field next to the Digg logo. Enter a comma-separated list of keywords to blacklist. Any story that matches will be filtered out.

Digg Re-Direct - When browsing to a digg page via it’s RSS feed, you’ll get redirected to the target page.

Digg Top 10 Direct – Replaces the Top 10 sidebar links to the Digg comment page with links directly to the articles.

Digg de-n00ber - Let’s you filter out Diggs.

Digg Comment Enhancer – The Digg comment enhancer allows you to easily add cliches, mirrors, and images to your digg comments.

Digg to Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0

Digg – Add Mirrors – Adds links to DuggMirror, Coral, Duggback and the Wayback machine to Digg story.

Automatically Swear To Original On Digg – Automatically clicks the ‘Totally orginal, I swear’ button.

Search Most Dugg Stories - Sorts searches on Digg by most “dugg” stories by default.

Official Digg Tools

Digg Widget – Digg news on your site by displaying this widget. It allows you to customize the widget and automatically updates on the fly.

Digg This Button – Encourage readers to submit your content by using Digg This button

Digg Toolbar – Displays Digg counts & comments on your browser. You can even Digg and submit stories directly from this toolbar

Digg BigSpy – Places stories at the top of your screen as they are dugg. Older stories moves down the list, as new stories get dugg,

Digg Search – Search for Digg stories.

Digg Spy v2 – Provides a real time, auto-refreshing view of stories being dugg.

Digg Clouds – Check the digg queue in Clouds format. The more diggs a story gets the bigger is the cloud.

Google IG Module – Personalize your iGoogle page with the latest updates from Digg.

Google Coop Module – This module adds Digg news stories to the top of your Google search results page.

Digg Top Stories – A collection of top stories by day, week, month and year. [Download]

Digg Swarm – Draws a circle for stories as they’re dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow.

Digg Q – Unpromoted digg stories. Similar to DiggSpy.

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Despite its popularity, when it comes to searching videos, it not always come up with the exact keyword that you have typed in. Although, several improvements have been made in the system over the years, still there’s room for more.

If you are a big fan of online videos and love to watch videos daily, then you must consider some of the best video search engines, that will not only search for YouTube videos but will also search from other popular video sites, such as Metacafe, Dailymotion, MySpace Videos, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Livevideo, Megavideo to name a few.

In no particular order, skidzopedia brings 20 video search engines for hunting videos.

Top 20 Video Search Engines

1. fooooo

2. Blinkx

3. ClipBlast

4. Truveo

5. Yvoschaap

6. uLinkx

7. Rollyo.com

8. Tubesurf

9. Mefeedia

10. Timetube

11. Vdoogle

12. AOL

13. VidSea

14. PureVideo

15. Pixsy

16. Mamma

17. Dropamovie

18. Exalead

19. Oxytube

20. Trooker

21. Jinni by Phoebe

What?! Your favorite Video Search Engine is not in the list? Drop us a comment and we would love to add your favorite search engine to our list.

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Prevay has been designed keeping in view the minute details that can make a huge difference. Prevay includes a lot of new features which you won’t find in many free WordPress themes that are already available on the web.

Some of its most prominent features includes;

1. “Featured Content” Section
2. “About the Author” section

Well, that’s just a short summary of some of the features included in Prevay. Now lets take a more in-depth look at each feature one by one.

Widget Compatibility – This theme comes with Widget Ready Compatibility that enables you to customize the theme according to your need.

Featured Content – This sections features your highly valued content along with images giving more exposure to your content. Note: You will need to enable it before using this feature. All the information is provided inside the package.

Navigation Bar – On the top of your screen, a horizontal navigational bar is placed for you easily navigate through pages.

About the Author – A section has been added that describes about your self which will be displayed at the end of each post.

Search Engine Optimized – This theme is designed keeping in mind that all search engine spiders crawl your site by providing headings and title tags.

Adsense Optimized – Similarly, this theme is highly optimized for Adsense, enabling you to easily and efficiently monetize your blog, leading to higher revenue. You can place a 728*90 ad unit at the top of the theme where CTR is relatively high, in addition to that you can place a vertical skyscraper at the sidebar of this theme and also under each post title.

Three Sidebars – Three sidebars have been made available on the right hand side of the theme, which includes a center sidebar, plus two left and right sidebars.

XHTML Validated – This theme has been thoroughly tested and has passed Validated Markup.

That’s it! Hope you like my work. Of course, you’ll have to test it yourself. Let me know if there are any bugs/errors. If you have any suggestions/complaints feel free to comment. I have plans to release more themes in the near future, so make sure you don’t miss out the fun. Subscribe to our feeds for updates.

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Today we have compiled a list of some of the well known All-in-one SE’s on the web.

Scour.com

Scour too lets you search Google, Yahoo and Live from one place but there are a couple of unique features in Scour worth mentioning. First, it lets you sort search results by search engine if you are not too please if the default order.

Dogpile.com

Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually.

Triplify.com

Triplify take a slightly different when aggregating search results. It produces a summary (along with description) of the top results from Google, Yahoo and Live and arranges them in the same linear order.

URL.com

This easy-to-remember address gathers results from Yahoo!, MSN, and Google. It takes the top 10 results from all engines and arranges them in a nice tabular layout. Which Seach Engine do you use the most?

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“Boredom in the office is something that happens all too often. But now we have the best boredom cure ever – this addictive dance mat will have you competing with your colleagues in every spare moment! Follow the lights on the USB dance mat but beware, it gets trickier as the lights get faster!”

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2. USB BBQ

A group of Japanese decided to make their own custom USB-powered BBQ using lots of USB cable, six PCI USB Adapter cards, and countless hours of hacking. Plus, the computer is fully functional. Take a look.

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3. Rechargeable USB Shaver

This Rechargeable USB Shaver comes in a lightweight and portable design that keeps the 5 o’clock shadow away at all times. Say goodbye to battery problems by simply plugging it into any available USB port.

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4. DVD Rewinder

This DVD Rewinder will rewind your DVD’s while playing its very own ‘rewind’ sound, in case you don’t like it, you can also record your own “rewind” sound just to give it a personal touch. This is no joke, it’s a real product and can be purchased for $16.49.

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5. Thumb USB Memory Stick

Having a thumb sticking out of your computer and watching the reactions of people passing by is a good way to spend a day. It looks very realistic. Shame it’s only 128Mb.

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6. Nap Alarm

This nifty looking contraption goes behind your ear and vibrates when it detects you are falling asleep by measuring the speed of head movements. Just think of all those times you stayed up all night cramming for an exam—or, at least you planned on staying up. Perfect for boring classes, drives, and work. It costs only $15 (1,800 yen).

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7. 360-Degree Camera

For those who wish to take the ultimate panoramic picture, look no furthur than this 360-degree camera. It fits comfortably on your head and conveniently uses disposable cameras.

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8. Tie With Built-in Wallet/Organizer

Put simply, this is one of the strangest ties we’ve come across. It has slots for just about everything, including scissors, passports, credit cards, and more.

9. USB-Powered Butt Cooler

Here’s another strange Japanese gadget: the USB-powered butt cooler. This device also doubles as a seat cushion and works by blowing “cool air onto your arse via the on-board fan.

The only draw back is if you let one go, the air cooler will blow it up right into your face.

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10. Bra That Doubles As Shopping Bag

Triumph Japan has unveiled a bra that doubles as a shopping bag; named the “Kawaii Bag”. When the bra is being worn, the “shopping bag” portions are folded away inside the bra cups, where they serve as extra padding. The bra quickly converts to a shopping bag by removing the bag portions from the cups and connecting the hooks on the bra’s underwire. The lace cups serve as decoration along with the shoulder straps, which are disconnected and tied to the top of the bag as ribbons.

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11. Toilet Paper Dispenser with iPod Dock

You’ll never miss a song even in the bathroom with Atech’s “iLounge hybrid toilet paper dispenser/iPod dock”. The iLounge supports all iPod models that have a dock connector and has an integrated USB slot for the Shuffle. Speakers are concealed in the dispenser’s arms with Navigation buttons allow you to control your player with ease, freeing your other hand for access.

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12. Slipper/Bug Stomper

Those creepy crawlers won’t know what hit em with this slipper/bug stomper. Plus, it comes with a built-in extendable pole for those hard to reach spots.

13. Multi-Function Gardening Tool

Why carry around nine different gardening tools when you’ve got this Swiss Army-style device.

14. Head Bath Cap

If you’ve been waiting for a cap that gives your head/hair a good bath than the solution is here. Presenting the “Head Bath” cap, just place it over your head and let water start running into it. This thing not only looks funny but supposedly “helps your hair grow faster and fuller” by penetrating the pores in your scalp with the trapped water.

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15. USB Humping Dog

My favorite, this little pooch has a USB port, slip it into your USB port and it humps your computer like there is no tomorrow. It seems that humping your USB port is the only point to this doggy; he has no redeeming qualities like built in flash memory.

Here is a nice video that shows the dog in action:

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Footage of the attack has already been viewed more than half a million times on video-sharing site YouTube, and the viral computer game is proving popular with internet users.

In case you were feeling a little guilty about mocking the incident (we know you weren’t), the background music of Bush soundbites set to music should remind you why it’s okay to laugh at Bush’s expense. W Bush sure got some reflexes. Let see whether you can beat him this time!

1). Bush Boot Camp – Play

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4) Throw shoes at bush – Link

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Many people check their mails on day to day basis, mostly waiting for important emails but at the end of the day they realize that it’s just another annoying spam mail that manages to elude spam filter.

One of the best solution is to get a temporary mailing address which automatically expires after a certain period of time.

What are the benefits of Temporary Mailbox

• Anti-spam solution,
• Protect you from spam mails,
• Protect your mailbox from exploits, spoofs and hoaxes,
• Protects your mail account from spam by automatically expiring after a certain time period,
• Easy to use,
• Requires no sign up and/or registration,

Here is a list of services that provide disposable email services. I hope that it will help you in fighting spam more effectively.

1. MailExpire

Cleanest way for you to keep your inbox spam-free. Allows you to create a free email alias for yourself. For a period you choose, from 12 hours to 3 months, anything sent to this email alias will be passed on to you at your actual email address.

2. Temp Email

Get a Free, Temporary,Disposable, Anonymous, email address, keeping your own email address Spam and Virus Free.

3. MailCatch

Allows you to create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completely anonymous way. Simply give whatever mailbox name you want on the mailcatch.com domain (like whatever@mailcatch.com).

4. TrashMail

All mails to this address will be forwarded to your real email address for a number of times you can set up on the following form. When the limit is reached, email address will be automatically deleted.

5. ZoEmail

ZoEmail restores email as it must have been before spam. Easily accessible via the web, IMAP and POP, ZoEmail could still offer more online storage.

6. Emailias

Create disposable email addresses for use on the Web with Emailias, a flexible and feature-packed disposable email address service, and reduce the amount of spam you get. Sign-up required. You will be charged to use this service.

7. Incognito Mail

It allows you to create a temporary e-mail account that will last 60 Minutes. Enough time to receive e-mails that contain activation or download links, and to reply to e-mails that ask for confirmation.

8. SpamMotel

Forwards email to your real account, mail can be accessed through desktop e-mail clients, can reply to e-mail from your real e-mail address using SpamMotel e-mail. Requires registration.

9. Spamgourmet

Before you choke on all that spam, try the feature-rich and flexible disposable email addresses from Spamgourmet for protection. It forwards email to your real account. It creates custom aliases which automatically expire after a certain number of e-mails received. Registration required.

10. Lite drop

Provides disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 60 Minutes. You can request for a random temporary ID or you can create you own in couple of seconds. Also has automatic e-mail check option activated.

11. Spamex

Spamex provides a solid, useful, and almost feature-complete disposable email address service.

12. KasMail

Allows up to 25 aliases, can set aliases to expire after a certain amount of time. Registration required.

13. Hidzz

Create as many in form xxx-name@hidzz.com Email ID remains valid for 5 days and you can access all your temporary IDs using your personal email address.

14. PookMail

Easy to use, with no registration.

15. Hush Mail

A great solution for PGP-compatible encrypted email.

16. Spam avert

Another good solution if your tired of giving your e-mail address to companies just so you can download that crucial software driver or program. You can even download a Firefox extension.

17. Block Filter

Use this temporary e-mail address to sign-up to websites that requires e-mail verification and its perfect for forums, e-book sale pages, or email required download pages. But bear in mind, they delete the e-mails every 2 hours!

18. Sneak eMail

Forwards email to your real account. Requires registration.

19. DeadAddress

It will instantly create a disposable email address that you can use when you need to verify registrations by email. After creating an instant email account you can check for new incoming messages by simply refreshing your dynamically created inbox page.

20. E4ward.com

E4ward.com is a down-to-earth and very useful disposable email service that makes it easy to prevent spam to your real email address with easily erasable aliases. It requires registration, provides mail forwarding, allows multiple aliases of an account.

21. Will Hack for Food

Account expires after user indicated period of time, best name ever. You will have to register in order to use the service.

22. Spam box

Create a temporary e-mail address that will forward all incoming mail to your usual e-mail address. Simply enter your e-mail address and the life time of your spambox and we will generate you a temporary @spambox.us e-mail.

23. My Trash Mail

No registration or password needed. Your account is created on the fly. Your email is stored between 12 hours to 30 days in its server.

24. Mailinator

Mailinator is one of the best and top rated disposable email services that gives you a temporary mailbox on the following address format e.g. something@mailinator.com.

25. eMailMiser

It allows you to create as many inbound read-only email accounts as you like. Use these accounts once or continue to use them for as long as you’d like. The accounts continue to collect email message they receive for as long as they keep coming.

26. Spam.la

All new email readable to everyone. You can see all spam being sent to all Spam.la accounts, or just your own. Registration free.

27. Soodo Nims

It allows unlimited emails, they can be expired by time or quantity. You can also see who (which domain) is sending the emails to you and you can selectively turn it off.

28. Tempinbox

Free, receive only, temporary, email accounts. No Registration, no set-up required.

29. SayNotoSpams

It provides you with a disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

30. GishPuppy

GishPuppy is a disposable email address service that shines with simplicity and functionality. Unfortunately, GishPuppy’s functionality does not encompass replacing your real email address with the appropriate alias in replies.

31. Self Destructing Mail

Provide you with disposable email addresses which are automatically destroyed after 30 Minutes. You can read and reply to emails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

32. Email Warden

It is an easy to install, non-obtrusive browser toolbar which generates email aliases for you to use on web sites that require your email address to register.

33. MailMoat

Endless supply of disposable e-mail addresses that you can give to anyone you don’t trust. E-mails they send to the alias that you gave them are automatically forwarded to your existing e-mail account.

34. Mailnull

Forwards email to your real account. Registration required.

35. Guerilla mail

Works same as Litedrop and but email gets deleted in 15 minutes. You can set the option to increase the disposing time to 1 hour.

You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

36. Spamcero

No Sign ups, no wait, no software, no buy. 100% free.

37. 10 Minute Mail

Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes.

38. 20 Minute Mail

Similar service like above, that allows you to create a temporary e-mail address that expires after a few minutes.

39. Brief eMail

It acts as a real email address for the time period it is live, with you being able to check your mail. By default the time period is set to 30 minutes, but can be renewed.

40. Fake Mail Generator

By simply visiting this site the above address has already been saved to your clipboard. Paste (Ctrl-V) it into any form on a website that requires email verification, and when the email is received it will pop up instantly in this box.

41. Tempe-mail

Free Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address (expired after 15minutes)

42. Dumpy eMail

Provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 30 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame. Also features RSS email view, and IP hiding.

43. ShieldMail

It provides on the fly self-destructing disposable email addresses to confirm any verification without getting any spam.

44. Netmails

A good spam free solution but you will have to pay in order to use this service.

45. 4warding

Allows you to choose a permanent e-mail address that will never change. Email forwarding instantly sends all the mail sent to your 4warding account to email address you currently use.

46. Dandikmail

Disposable email addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read e-mails that are sent to the temporary mail address within the given time frame. A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which does not require registration and can be used to avoid spam.

47. Temporary Inbox

A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesn’t require registration and can be used to avoid spam.

48. Dodgeit

Can not delete mail, expires after 7 days.

49. Jetable

Forwards to real email address.

50. Yahoo! Mail Classic

Yahoo! Mail Classic is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter (including disposable email addresses) keeps the junk out. Note that disposable addresses are deleted when you cancel your Yahoo! Mail Plus account.

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FlipTitle is an online tool that helps to write text upside down. Anything you write will become flipped upside down. A very easy and handy tool to use and a great way to surprise you friends.

You do not need any technical know how to use this, its as simple as ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’! Just enter the text you want to Flip and it will do the rest for you. You can then paste the flipped text anywhere you like, for instance in you profiles on Orkut, Face Book etc. or display it on your instant messenger.

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Nothing can replace it, nothing is like it, and it has no alternative. The internet is like a diamond mine for the people who wish to acquire wealth, a profound lake of information for those who have an insatiable appetite for knowledge base, and an eternal form of entertainment for those wish to amuse themselves.

With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.

In no particular order, Skidzopedia provides you with a list of those people who have influenced the Internet greatly.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.

Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were defiantly not building steam engines!

They were, however, creating the internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.

Google was first launched on Stanford’s website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.

David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! too is the creation of two Stanford University’s Electrical Engineer graduates, called Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and named it “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Then, he decided to switch it to Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

In December 1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified Yahoo! as a web portal.

David Filo’s net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and Jerry Yang’s is $2.3 billion dollars.

Bill Gates – Microsoft

William Henry “Bill” Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.

Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.

Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)

After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets.

Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company’s largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and industries.

Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook

One of the most admired and successful youngster of the 21st century is a 24 years old Harvard graduate – the world’s youngest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion

He founded Facebook, the online social networking website. Zuckerberg launched The Facebook (FaceMatch) from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and started promoting it to all Ivy League schools and some Boston institutions.

Soon, he bought over Facebook.com domain name. Facebook is now a household name with people of all ages, groups and interests, interacting with each other. Its business and pleasure at the same time!

Kevin Rose – Digg

You all know Kevin, don’t you? Perhaps one of the most respected internet idealist and TV show host, Kevin Rose has definitely placed a huge impacts among all Digg users.

He became well known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV’s popular show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! ) until his departure from the network on May 2005.

He also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 besides his popular Digg.com, social-bookmarking website. He created Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer who Kevin Rose paid $12 per hour through eLance.

Kevin Rose later bought Digg.com domain name for $1,200 and then went on to buy larger server space. Digg received an ultra boost of capitals when they received $2.8 million of venture capital from Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners.

Bram Cohen – BitTorrent

Best known as the developer, co-founder and author behind peer-to-peer sharing, Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent. The other day a cousin of mine said “Bit Torrent has made life easier!” That’s how easily we can sum up the achievements of this man.

Bram Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he quit his job at MojoNation to work in BitTorrent. He firstly revealed his ideas in a CodeCon conference and started luring beta testers by collecting free pornography.

He then spent some time working with Valve, but quit his job later to work in BitTorrent Inc. with his brother and business partner Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment

Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment

Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by Activision Blizzard.

He is best know for his creation of a popular online gaming fantasy, World of Warcraft (WoW). It has over 10 million online gamers, raking Morhaime at least $1.5 billion every year.

Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia: a free and open content encyclopedia launched in 2001. He is also the co-founder of Wikia, a privately own web hosting company set up in 2004.

Jimmy Wales at first started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia which is Nupedia. He then utilized the ideas of Nupedia with his “wiki” software to form today’s Wikipedia.

His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world’s most influential people.

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube

Chad Hurley (aged 28) and Steve Chen (aged 27) became the founders of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet.

Chad Hurley used to work for eBay’s PayPal in the designing department where he designed their logo. Together with PayPal colleagues, Jared Karim and Steve Chen, Chad founded YouTube in 2005.

Google later acquired YouTube at $1.65 billion dollars.

Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon

Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman of board, president and the chief executive officer of Amazon.com, a major e-commerce company that sells goods through the Internet. His net worth is currently at $8.2 billion dollars.

He was named Time magazine Person of the Year in 1999.

Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture

Inventor of Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platform, Shawn Fanning is a computer programmer who developed Napster when he was still pursuing his studies in Northeastern University, Boston.

Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately ended up causing the cessation of the service.

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool that facilitates profiles and communications of online gamers in World of Warcraft.

Pierre Omidyar – eBay

Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay, an online auctioning marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. With a net worth of about $7.7 billion dollars, Omidyar and his wife Pam, are one of those entrepreneurs that go beyond doing profits, which is by contributing to non-profits organizations and aiding start-ups.

He wrote the source code of eBay when he was 28 years old in 1995. Initially, he decided to name his auction site after his consulting firm, Echo Bay but unfortunately, echobay.com was already taken. To save up his Internet service provider cost, he registered eBay.com.

Jack Ma – Alibaba

A similar site like ebay, was founded by Jack Ma, in 1999. It is basically a China-based business marketplace site that serves international businesses.

Alibaba Group then founded TaoBao.com, which is an online auction website that is pretty much similar to eBay and instead of paying through PayPal, TaoBao’s currency is AliPay. Yahoo Inc. then acquires 40% stocks worth over $1 billion dollars.

Craig Newmark – Craigslist

Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur that invented the Craigslist, with over 14.1 million page-views a month, Craigslist.org is one of the most visited website on the Internet.

Craigslist is a centralized network of communities, featuring free advertisements and forums on various topics.

Matt Mullenweg – WordPress

If it weren’t for Matt Mullenweg creating WordPress, I would not have been here writing at this blog and you all wouldn’t have been reading this article.

At the age of 19, he invented the core of WordPress, and later on when he turned 24, quit his job at CNET to fully focus on developing WordPress – a blogging platform.

He is also the founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress as well as famous spam fighter, Akismet.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee; the father of World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is also the founder of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology which comprises of companies that are willing to create standards and improvements of the Web.

From my point of view, if it wasn’t for him, none of the above mentioned personalities existed.

UPDATE (24/11/08)

Thomas Anderson – MySpace

Thomas “Tom” Anderson is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He is one of the people identified as a founder of the site, along with CEO Chris DeWolfe.

Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default “friend,” he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of November 20, 2008, Tom has over 250 million “friends”, a number which is constantly increasing due to new MySpace accounts being created.

In 2003, working for eUniverse under the preview of Brad Greenspan he and a few other eUniverse employs set up the first pages of MySpace and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking website in the United States, and is the most popular website for teenagers as well.

Interesting Fact: According to several sources, in 1985 then 14-year-old San Pasqual High School (Escondido, California) student Tom Anderson was a computer hacker operating under the alias “Lord Flathead“.

He was known for leading a team that broke into Chase Manhattan Bank computers, altered records and left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the system he would destroy records. He was never charged.

Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon

Garrett Camp is the co-founder as well as the chief architect of Stumbleupon, a social bookmarking site that lets you discover and share new websites from all over the world. StumbleUpon took-off in November 2001, and continued, until late 2005 when it was moved to San Francisco.

To be more precise, StumbleUpon was founded by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd during Garrett’s time in post-graduate school (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada).

The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O’Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco. Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith now reside in San Francisco, where StumbleUpon is headquartered.

According to its About page, Stumble Upon has over 6,443,266 users.The majority of which are between the ages of 18 and 45 (in English-speaking countries). Half in the United States, half abroad, and the majority using Firefox.

Linus Torvalds – Linux

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project’s coordinator.

Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed “Freax” – a combination of “free”, “freak”, and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system, but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds’ directory linux.

Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

UPDATE (25/11/08)

Jon Postel – Internet Pioneer

Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death.

The Internet Society’s Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work.

In its infancy, Jon worked on its development, from its early protocols, to the creation of TCP/IP. Documenter and co-developer many of the key Internet standards, including TCP/IP (basic Internet protocols), SMTP (email transfer), and DNS (name servers).

Jon’s influence is felt throughout the Internet, in its protocols, in their documentation, in the DNS names we use and the ‘dot’ we use to separate them, and, in no small way, in the ‘good engineering’ that helped the Internet thrive from its inception in 1969 to today.

Caterina Fake – Flickr

Fake is best known as the co-founder, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Prior to founding Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing. She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August of 2008.

Stewart Butterfield

General Manager of Flickr In 2005. Butterfield was named one of Businessweek’s Top 50 Leaders in the entrepreneur category and was awarded a TR35 award as one of 35 top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review. On 2006 he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Marc Andreessen – Netscape

Marc Andreessen is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.

He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites.

As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay.

Jack Dorsey – Twitter

Jack Dorsey is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter – a free social networking and micro-blogging service. BusinessWeek called him one of technology’s best and brightest. MIT’s Technology Review named him to the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age of 35.

Dorsey, Stone and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter Inc. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who back the company. In October 2008 Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board.

As the service grew in popularity, Dorsey had to choose improving uptime as top priority— even over creating revenue, which as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.

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Google

The mother of all search Engines – Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail i.e Gmail, online mapping, social networking, and video sharing services.

The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.

Youtube

YouTube, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees, is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

Browse by channel or category, or click to view the clips that are Top Rated or Most Discussed or Most Linked etc.

Facebook

Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is a social utility that connects people with friends and family. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and learn more about the people they meet.

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries. The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily^!

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it attempts to collect and summarize all human knowledge in every major language.

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a United States public corporation and provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services.

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

WordPress

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database.

WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.

Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting website, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.

Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed. As of November 2007, it claims to host more than 2 billion images and counting.

Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo! As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

The name Technorati is a blend, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.

HowStuffWorks

HowStuffWorks founded by professor Marshall Brain in 1998, started the site as a hobby. This website is dedicated to explaining the way many things work.

The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language.

Digg

Digg by Kevin Rose, is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users.

According to Compete.com survey Digg attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008.

Stumbleupon

StumbleUpon is an internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation system which uses peer and social-networking principles.

StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.

Ebay

eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com. Its the World’s Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis.

And the charity auctions at eBay Giving Works have helped buyers and sellers raise $100 million for more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations since the program started in November 2003.

Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995.

Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to many product lines, such as music CDs, computer software, electronics, furniture, food, toys, etc, to name a few.

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the world’s largest broadcasting corporation. The BBC was the first national broadcasting organisation. Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd.

It publishes Articles and audio in more than 33 languages, worldwide.

ESPN

ESPN – founded by Scott Rasmussen, is an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. This site’s got everything a sports fanatic needs.

The details of the above mentioned sites, have either been taken from Wikipedia, or/and from the respective site itself.

Update: It seems that people are not getting the idea, the reason this list is compiled is that you always turn to one of these sites, depending upon what you are looking for; e.g, sports fanatics turn to ESPN, while Google is good for searching, etc. I hope this clears the ambiguity.

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After the new release of Opera, I decided to get my hands on some of the best skins available for download. I came across many cool skins that I would like to share with you.

Below are Top 20 skins to embellish your Opera interface.

Mironix Light

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Opera 9 Classic Skin

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KDE-HiCrysal 1.21

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Opera 9.5 Small with SuperNova SpeedDial

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Expedition Slim Vista

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MeGuiDdo

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Cocoa

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Chrome

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Mirage Tango Fusion

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Qute

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Marina

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2dARk

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D.T.A.

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O’Simple

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Tango CL »Legacy«

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Mirage Alpha

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mOI

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Gamma

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Mirage Beta

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Oxid 2.2

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3. Splendid 66

4. XbandRough

5. Another Typewriter

6. GhostWriter

7. 39 Smooth

8. NoreFunds

9. TypeSimple

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The Internet is full of high quality images that can come quite handy depending upon your use. Here is a list of some of the best High Quality images taken from Deviant Art. Hope that you’ll appreciate the effort.

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Since technology and web designing was in its embryonic stages and was developing slowing by leaps and bounds, we could easily imagine how they would have looked like; where an animated GIF created such an incredible visual impact!

Here is a list of 8 websites as they appeared in 1998 compared with how they look in the present days.

Google 1998

Google 2008

Yahoo 1998

Yahoo 2008

Hotmail 1998

Hotmail 2008

Microsoft 1998

Microsoft 2008

Apple 1998

Apple 2008

Sun Microsystems 1998

Sun Microsystems 2008

Amazon 1998

Amazon 2008

Times 1998

Times 2008

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