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SpaceTime has innovated its proprietary 3D technology to make surfing the Web a multidimensional and visually rich experience. The SpaceTime application allows anyone to navigate the Web in a 3D environment as they browse, search and shop using Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, eBay and more. SpaceTime , Inc. is based in New York, New York. SpaceTime revolutionizes the process of Web searching with three key functionalities: 3D Search, 3D eBay Search, and 3D Tabbed Browsing.

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In April 2007, I stumbled upon this neat web 2.0 site Greatschool.net . And in June 2007 it won the peoples choice webby award. Yahoo education website and Yahoo Real Estate website use greatschool to power their search A subscription based website - neighborhoodscout helps you find homes in good public school district. SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders. Read more Find School, Libraries & College from - The National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES ), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

The software giant announced today at the D5 conference that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.

EVERETT, Wash., May 21, 2007 -- Final assembly of the all-new Boeing [NYSE: BA] 787 Dreamliner began today with a ceremony in Everett, Wash. "Today we begin assembling the first airplane of a new generation," said Scott Strode, 787 vice president of Airplane Definition and Production. "The 787 not only will revolutionize air travel, it represents a new way of building airplanes." With 568 firm orders from 44 airlines, the 787 is the fastest-selling new airplane in aviation history. The 787 production system was designed using Lean manufacturing techniques in a simplified final assembly process. "The 787 production system is the culmination of the lessons we've learned building previous airplanes," said Steve Westby, 787 vice president of Manufacturing and Quality. "Using composites on the 787 airframe has a number of manufacturing advantages. We are able to build huge structure in just one piece, which means we essentially have six major end items...

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Merisant lawyer Gregg LoCascio said in his closing argument Thursday that Splenda's makers chose not to use the phrase “does not contain sugar” on packaging, because “it was good for business.” He says Equal unfairly lost millions in sales and profits... read more More from AP -- Settlement talks began after jurors asked the judge for a calculator and expert reports from both sides on how to determine damages. Lawyers rushed to the judge's office to try to delay the jury's announcement and then huddled in a courthouse meeting room. McNeil's own consultants said its slogan confused potential customers, some of whom thought that Splenda was sugar without the calories, Merisant's attorneys said. McNeil rejected a plan to add the phrase "does not contain sugar" to the front of Splenda's yellow box, which might have cleared up the confusion, Merisant said.

2010 update on text-to-speech read more here There aren't may text-to-speech application available online. It would be great if it could read you the complete webpage. NPR does it by allowing your to stream content of each page one after another (but then they are a radio station). So why not have website that will read you all the article in the page without having to buy any software. Bluegrind and new web 2.0 website in beta stage (serious beta stage!) will read you a news article, blog and they claim its like having a personal news anchor reading the news to you every day. It doesn't just stop at your computer, you can take it with you wherever you go. What are the other Text-to-Speech (TTS) web application out there? Not many but we have found some cool research sites that let you read text. The best of them all AT&T research website . Yes AT&T. This application will read in 15 voices/language, there is a 300 character limit to ...

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing as your guide, you’ll discover how to make investing a winner’s game: Why business reality—dividend yields and earnings growth—is more important than market expectations How to overcome the powerful impact of investment costs, taxes, and inflation How the magic of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs What expert investors and brilliant academics—from Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul Samuelson and Burton Malkiel—have to say about index investing More Links Search at ugenie for the lowest price (ISBN: 0470102101). Read more about it at Amazon . Read more about it at other blogs - ValueBlogReview & SeekingAlpha . Also listen to or read the transcript to John Bogle 's interview at marketplace money .

Searching for the best deal on books especially textbooks? Well there are quite a few sites that you can go to search for books. Recently an new website ugenie (still in BETA) claims that it not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a 'bundle'.To do so ugenie has developed an algorith m that searches about 40 web sites for information about prices of books, movies, music, and games to come up with the cheapest bundles that consumers can buy from these shopping sites. To search for textbook on Ugenie click here . Other Books search website The book search engine that allows you to comparison shop more than 40 online bookstores including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. You can expect the most complete book search and the best price Internet-wide when you use AddAl CampusBooks searches dozens of bookstores, thousands of sellers, and millions of new and used textbooks to find you the lowest textbook prices on the Internet. ...

Heard on NPR ... California Institute of Technology sophomore Dvin Adalian and junior Ricky Jones, about their successful olive oil production, from olives collected from the campus's trees. hear more... From LA Times ...In October, the ripening crop snagged the attention of students Ricky Jones and Dvin Adalian. They began an exercise that might date to Socrates' pupils in ancient Greece: whacking olive trees with a stick (in this case, a plastic pipe) and collecting what falls.... Heard on Campus ...Caltech students and grounds maintenance crews got a lesson in olive cultivation recently, when Craig Makela, the president of the Santa Barbara Olive Company, came to campus. His visit was part of the Institute's new sustainability venture to turn dozens of its ornamental olive trees into a cash crop of fruit-bearing olive trees. The Institute plans to hold an olive harvest festival in the fall, which the Caltech community will be invited to participate in. After the olives...

Here I am going to list few shopping website that don't make sense at any level other than being well packaged and meeting some VC's (Venture Capitalist - as my good friend would call it poor S@#K$r) checklist for a Shopping web 2.0 site. Have we reached a web 2.0 bubble? These website would validate it - excess supply of money chasing few good ideas and irrational exuberance (anything social networking gets money). Here is my WhatTheHell list 1) Stylefeeder 2) This Next 3) Yub 4) Crowd Storm (Winner of WhatTheHell Award)

Pandora is a site for music lover. You enter songs 0r artists that you like and it streams out similar songs to you. Is a great way to find new music for free Also read about the bill to save Internet Radio . Pandora is for US listening due to the licensing restriction. If you are outside use you could use finetune . Finetune is similar to Pandora which allows you to create your own playlist and share it too.

Price optimization software now making it possible to price product based on customers behavior, sales history, competitors' price, product mix and the fact that people are hard-wired to love sales - when we see good deal (mark down), a different part of the brain lights up than with a loss (price rise) Read more about it in this AP article - Software helps some stores decide when the price is right Some results of price-optimization software: Like many national companies, one electronics retailer priced batteries the same all over — until SAP's Khimetrics software showed that consumers in Dallas were generally willing to pay more for batteries than people in Boston. The data revealed another twist: The battery that had the highest "price sensitivity" in Dallas had the lowest price sensitivity in Boston. In other words, while Texans would buy this particular battery only within a narrow price range, Bostonians were far less picky. The store altered its prices accordin...

Whats different about Netvibes? How does it stack up against say a rss reader or my.msn.com or my.yahoo.com? For one Netvibes users will two (2) pages for every account: a private page, where you subscribe to all the content for your personal, everyday use, and a public page, where you can allow others to access your favorite content -- everything that you love on the web. Here is one more thing you will like about it if you have a widescreen monitor it will fill it up end to end plus no annoying google ad or flashy ads. Netvibes is about having web the way you want it. Exactly the way you want it. Delivered to you. So check out it out for yourself: Netvibes Also check out Moby's Netvibe page. To read more about guy behind Netvibes read it article in business 2.0 "Web users feel the 'Vibes' List of similar web services Pageflakes Protopage Google Homepage Start My Yahoo My MSN

Want to know who owns a particular Brand? Find Owner Search allows you to: Find the owner of a brand name Find all the brands owned by an individual or company Find brands in a given area/category. To start your brand search Click here . Find Owner Search can be very helpful for: Advertising agencies to track companies, their brands and competing brands for purposes of gaining new business and/or naming new products and services. Marketing and Media companies to track all the companies and/or Brands in one category. Consumers for quickly learning the address and other brands owned by any company for purposes of buying new products and services, complaining to senior management, or seeking a job at a particular company.

MSN Money -Zogby customer-service survey. Read more about it click on the article below The Customer Service Hall of Shame How companies were ranked Here's a look at our full results: "Poor" "Fair" "Good" "Excellent" Bottom 10 Sprint Nextel 40% 28% 25% 7% Bank of America 30% 25% 32% 13% Comcast 30% 33% 28% 10% Time Warner Cable 29% 35% 28% 8% AT&T 26% 36% 31% 7% Citibank 24% 34% 35% 8% Wal-Mart 23% 32% 32% 13% Verizon 22% 31% 36% 11% Wells Fargo 21% 27% 38% 14% DirecTV 20% 29% 33% 17% Dishonorable mentions Dell 19% 26% 40% 15% Circuit City 19% 35% 39% 8% Best Buy 14% 31% 42% 13% Home Depot 13% 29% 43% 14% Sears 12% 33% 45% 10% Macy's 10% 30% 47% 13%

World Time by moving your cursor over it Website : QClock Locate the cellphone towers Click on the picture Locate the area covered by a zipcode area of your county and more. check out this mashup website usnaviguide

STEVEN WRIGHT - When The Leaves Blow Away. More of Steven Wright Quotes: 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. On the other hand, you have different fingers. -- Steven Wright I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?" -- Steven Wright My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. -- Steven Wright Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." -- Steven Wright Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. -- Steven Wright I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. -- Steven Wright If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright "Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes." -- Steven Wright My dental hygienist is c...

And the winner is FlashEarth . Very smooth navigation, enhances microsoft Aerial map really makes MS aerial map look like cool Web2.0 app! What next an mashup app to make msn search work??? FlashEarth lets you view maps from 8 different site, it does not include google earth... Check it out FlashEarth

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Read on PhysOrg.com The most controversial idea in the plan ( NYC Plan 2030 ), from the mayor's Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability , is a proposal to charge motorists for driving into Manhattan below 86th Street on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Trucks would be charged $21 a day and cars would be charged $8, on top of the city's already expensive parking. It is similar to a system that London (Congestion Charge) has used since 2003, and officials there say it has significantly reduced congestion. The scheme applauded by environmentalists and alternative transportation groups , but is politically tricky for New York City because it would have to be enacted by the state Legislature , and many lawmakers from outer boroughs and the suburbs may not support it. Read Full speech hear -- Click here

meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free! meebo launched in September 2005 and received funding from Sequoia Capital in December 2005 and Draper Fisher Jurvetson in January 2007. Today, our users exchange over 80 million instant messages daily. We (the meebo team) are just a fun bunch of people trying to bring IM to the web! Check out their other products Meebo Me Meebo repeater

As per PC Mag FunnyOrDie also features user-generated comedy videos, allowing anyone to upload their clips. But unlike YouTube and other popular user-generated sites, the viewers' ratings for the videos determine their fate—thus the name of the site—with only the highly rated staying on. Those with negative reviews are banished to the "Crypt" section of the site. Sources said FunnyOrDie.com has been in the works for months, following an overture by venture capital firm Sequoia Partners to Creative Artists Agency, which represents Gary Sanchez Prods., the company run by Ferrell and McKay. Sequoia knows a thing or two about successful user-generated website having provided early rounds of funding to YouTube. The company also delivered venture capital for YouTube's parent, Google, as well as Yahoo! PayPal, and Meebo . Sequoia also was one of the first investors in Cisco Systems, Oracle and Apple. Want to watch the Video click on the picture or click here

Interesting article about on Time Mag about Einstein's view on faith. For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. For Einstein it was the absence of miracles that reflected divine providence. The fact that the world was comprehensible, that it followed laws, was worthy of awe. Also on a related note here is a link to page where you can find out more about Einstein ...was he slow learner as a child?..Did Einstein believe in God? ..Did Einstein think in pictures rather than words?..

New York Times has this interesting article about how companies are mining through travel data to find travel deal. Sifting Data to Uncover Travel Deals sites the following website. Farecast.com airfarewatchdog.com ( to find deals that include companies that don't share data) Flightstats.com (if you wanted to see which flightsare most prone to problems/delays) milemaven.com (best mileage programs) pointmaven.com (earn the most hotel points) update 4/22 read more about at consumerist . Cheaptickets.com sidestep.com

On my way back from work I was listening the radio the other day and I come across an interesting commentary about lying in the workplace . It's a commentary by Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times and can be heard on marketplace.org . Here are a few things that caught my attention. "Workplaces are hierarchies. That means we kiss up and kick down ...stretching the truth..." Most insightful comment "...the most dangerous people in business are the ones who believe their own lies." very true! A survey by careerbuilder.com concludes that one in five workers lie and Nineteen percent of workers admitted they tell lies at the office at least once a week This article also states the following The most common lies workers say they have told at the office include: I don't know how that happened (20 percent) I have another call to take or I'll call you right back (16 percent) I've been out of town or out sick (10 percent) I like your outfit or you ...

Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish indie rock band, formed in Stockholm in 1999. The current members are Peter Morén on vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Björn Yttling on vocals, bass and keyboards; and John Eriksson on drums, percussion, and vocals. To date they are best known for the 2006 single "Young Folks". What their music videos

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First thing first, while i was trying to update this blog using (of course) Internet Explore 7, IE 7 crashed and I had to switch over the firefox and finish the update. I hate IE 7!!!!! Add to that my brand new PC crash 4 times (Frist week of Feb 2007) in its first 2 day. Why did I buy a PC? I was kind of eying the 20" iMac Thats said here are some videos.

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The world's most expensive coffee is the Kope Luwak coffee or (Civet Coffee). Recently, on ABC's NEWS money section, the price quoted for a cup of Kope Luwak coffee was $10 (2007). It's expensive because of limited supply primarily due to symbiotic nature of its manufacturing process. I think yo u can call it symbiotic because you need a palm civet (found in Southeast Asian country) to finish off the coffee beans. On Truthorfiction.com , they say that the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat's intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers. USA Today had an article about kope luwak click here Forbes list of the most expensive coffee click here Where to buy Kope Luwak Coffee read this discussion board

In 25 years of interviews with his hometown paper that could only be released upon his death, former President Ford once called Jimmy Carter a "disaster" who ranked alongside Warren Harding, and said Ronald Reagan received far too much credit for ending the Cold War. "It makes me very irritated when Reagan's people pound their chests and say that because we had this big military buildup, the Kremlin collapsed," Ford told The Grand Rapids Press. Ford contended his own negotiation of the Helsinki accords on human rights did more to win the Cold War than Reagan's military buildup. The best president of his lifetime, Ford said, was a more moderate Republican: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Harry Truman "would get very high marks" for his handling of foreign crises, Ford said. He also praised Richard Nixon as a foreign policy master, despite the Watergate scandal that drove him from office. Ford considered John F. Kennedy overrated and Bill Clinton average....

A currency dealer displays euro banknotes in 2002. Irish researchers found traces of cocaine on every single banknote contained in a random sample tested in a study of drug contamination of currency, Dublin City University (DCU) has said, not wonder they need vacations