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Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Skobee, Flagr, Swivel, Rainlendar, Naymz...

Come find out what's hip this week as Stacy links you to the best web sites, blogs, media and more!
Published: Sep 13, 2007
Author: Stacy Reed
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Web Sites:

  • DailyHub - Social content for business geeks
  • Active Allowance - Helps you create a thoughtful and sustainable allowance and responsibilities system for your kids
  • Tutorom - Access thousands of lessons or use our tools to create and control access to your own courses, collaborate with colleagues and much more
  • GirlGeeks - An online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing
  • Swivel - Upload and explore data
  • Stoptextbully - here to help you make a text bully stop
  • Skobee - Make plans with people and find out what your friends are doing
  • Flagr - Share cool places, create maps, explore your area and more
  • Yelp - A fun and easy way to find out what's great and not so great in your area
  • Naymz - Maximize your professional opportunities by promoting your good name


Freeware Feature of the Week: Rainlender Lite - A free customizable desktop calendar for Windows and Linux


Wallpaper of the Week: Sound Energies


Flickr Image of the Week: 911 Observance


Top Blog Picks:


Article of the Week: Comcast Installs Cable with Extreme Incompetence - The Consumerist


Art Site of the Week: Block Posters - Create any size wall posters from any size images


Video of the Week: Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action



Well, that wraps it up! If you're interested, you can find an archive of past articles here. Do you know of a great site that's worth sharing? Do you have any comments or suggestions? I'm anxious to hear from you! Just send an email to sreed@tucows.com and say hello!


About Stacy Reed

Stacy Reed is Tucows' resident software librarian and editor. She has been reviewing PC and mobile software as well as web services for over a decade. Helping developers improve and promote their products is only one of her areas of expertise. Stacy is also an advocate for Open Source, Creative Commons and freeware, taking special interest in educational resources, social media, cloud sharing, and mobile technology.

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