Residual Income Home Business Opportunity DirectoryYou are here » Residual Income Home Business Opportunity » Links Directory » Home » Consumer Information (0)
Consumer Information RSS FeedsGoogle Allows for Refining Searches by Location - I think I was about five years off. Several years ago I was thinking about the potential for location-based searching, and I thought it would be a big deal Real Soon Now. But it’s only really taken off in the last couple of years, and it’s only now that Google’s overtly introducing it into the [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com New York Times Congress API: Version 3 - Oh, New York Times, how you irritate me with your constant talk of a paywall (I don’t care if you institute it, I’m just tired of hearing the endless coy reveal and discussion. Paywall or get off the pot.) But no matter how much the NYT gets on my nerves, I always forgive it [ ]... Searching Google Buzz and More - Rafe Needleman had an article on CNET about a new search engine, Buzzzy (note the three z’s), which searches Google Buzz. But it searches other sources, too, and divides them out in interesting ways.
Buzzzy lives at http://buzzzy.com/ with a simple keyword search on its front page. I did a search for Toyota.
You might notice [ ]... Peer 2 Peer University Starts Round Two - Thanks to Creative Commons for the heads-up about Peer 2 Peer University, which has announced its second round of free and open online courses. Read this and sign up quick, because the registration deadline is February 28…
What the heck is P2PU? The tagline for the site is “Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything,” [ ]... Twitter and Yahoo Team Up - Yahoo! and Twitter have recently announced a partnership. (See Yahoo’s announcement here) and Twitter’s announcement here.) Twitter notes that Yahoo will be getting the “firehose” — the full feed of public tweets. Since Twitter users post 600 Tweets per second that’s a huge amount of data. And judging from the Twitter growth curve, I think [ ]... Large Site for Canadian Documentaries and Other Content, Viewable Free - CBC News has noted a new site from Hot Docs, which it describes as “the largest documentary festival in North America.” The new Hot Docs site has well over 150 documentaries from Canadian filmmakers (along with some other content) and it’s all available online for free. The site is available at http://hotdocslibrary.ca/en/ (that’s the English, [ ]... kgb Turns Answers Service Into Giant Database - If you watch commercials on American TV you know what kgb is. The company’s commercials are weird enough that they kind of burn into the brain. If you’ve missed it, here’s a quick overview: kgb is a text answer service. Text a question to 542542 and get an answer. Of course, the answer costs you [ ]... Site Helps You Find and Learn More About Craft Beer - What is it with all the beer sites I’ve been finding lately? I don’t even drink beer. Maybe one day I’ll find a site that covers Craft Root Beer. Anyway, the Brewers Association has put together a Web site to highlight a great deal of information about Craft Beer. It’s called Craft Beer, strangely enough, [ ]... Michael Fagan Wants You to Get Quizzy With It - Michael Fagan, ex-Microsoft guy and all around Nice Young Man, has revamped and re-released a tool he developed quite a while ago. Quizify, at http://quizify.com/, allows you to either enter a term list or link to a list of terms, then get a flashcard-type quiz that tests you on those terms.
The site has several [ ]... Web Site for New York History - Are you interested in the history of New York? You might want to check out a new site which is a collaborative project between nine Reference and Research Library Resources Councils in New York State. The site is called New York Heritage and it’s available at http://www.newyorkheritage.org.
The site contains information from over 160 collections [ ]... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
