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Category: Knowledge Management

Google Product Search

Google Product Search. It’s a shopper’s dream come truea centralized product search that lets you enter a product name or description and then shows you all the sites that sell what you’re looking for, so you can easily compare prices and customer ratings. Related articles New Google Options: ‘I’m Feeling Trendy’? (newser.com) Product Reviews Gaining…
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ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses. Related articles ThinkGeek unveils new Star Wars gear (slashgear.com) ThinkGeek’s Awesome Case Turns You iPad Into a 1984 Macintosh (cultofmac.com) ThinkGeek offers retro Padintosh Case for iPad (tuaw.com) ThinkGeek Announces Exclusive Star Wars Merch at Celebration VI! Brilliant New Products from a Galaxy Far Far Away (paramuspost.com) Make Your…
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Reviews of Hotels, Flights and Vacation Rentals – TripAdvisor

Reviews of Hotels, Flights and Vacation Rentals – TripAdvisor. Who do you trust more, the travel agent who’s never left his/her desk, or someone who’s already traveled where you want to go? TripAdvisor’s all about user-to-user communication on what works and what doesn’t when you’re out and about. Related articles Ahead of the Bell: TripAdvisor…
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PodcastAlley.com — The place to find Podcasts

PodcastAlley.com — The place to find Podcasts. The “podcast lovers’ portal,” indeed. This alley is teeming with so much homebrewed programming you never need go a minute without listening ever again. Related articles 40 Awesome Podcasting Tools (bloggingtips.com) New Google HammondCast with recently tweaked algorithm change (hammondcast.typepad.com) Cornell Dupree R.I.P. guitar here with Jon Hammond…
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Project Gutenberg – free ebooks

Project Gutenberg – free ebooks. Project Gutenberg is the foremost online source for public-domain literature, with over 20,000 books available. Even better, titles from the entirely free eBook collection are downloadable to your PC or PDA, and searchable by author or by title. Related articles Project Gutenberg Hits 40,000 Titles! + Launch of Gutenberg Self-Publishing…
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McSweeney’s book of lists

McSweeney’s. When the hipster literati take over (it’s in the Old Testament, trust us), concepts like good Web design will be eschewed in favor of short comedic lists and Thomas Pynchon references. Related articles McSweeney’s Column Contest (themillions.com) In Which Buzzfeed Answers a McSweeney’s Parody of Their Site with Aplomb (observer.com) McSweeney’s Internet…
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Library of Congress: a place for every Tweet

Library of Congress Home. The online rolodex of the Library of Congress, this site houses numerous reference materials, digitized collections, filmsbasically any content you’d ever want to find. Related articles E-learning at the Library of Congress: An Excellent Digital Education Source (educationminute.wordpress.com) Library of Congress still planning to archive all public Twitter posts (teleread.com) The…
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Fool.com: Stock Investing Advice | Stock Research

Fool.com: Stock Investing Advice | Stock Research. The Motley Fool‘s credo is “To Educate, Amuse, and Enrich,” and they mean “enrich” literally. The site is packed with financial advice on every topic and for every level of investor, and most of it is entertaining even if you don’t have cash to drop on ne Related…
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Internal Revenue Service

Internal Revenue Service. Why do we include the Web site of the government’s most reviled agency? Because if you have to fork over your hard-earned cash, the least the Internal Revenue Service can do is make it easy. The tax code doesn’t, but the Web site does. Related articles Tea Parties Across the Nation –…
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The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. The New York Times’ Web site is what you’d expect from the number one newspaper in America. Chock-full of video, photo, and traditional print media content, this site continues the paper’s century-and-a-half-long tradition of in-depth coverage Related articles Shooting at Empire State Building Shows…
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USA.gov: The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal

USA.gov: The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal. It’s the homepage for the Land of the Free! But besides that, for U.S. citizens, businesses, government employees, and foreign visitors, USA.gov offers governmental information and services, from health-care info and U.S. history to tax guides Related articles USA.gov (ilovehistoryandresearch.wordpress.com) Did the U.S. Government Really Say That? How…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world

Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world. Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking out for you. Founded in 1990, the organization is devoted to defending the civil rights of citizens as they pertain to technology. Related articles Electronic Frontier Foundation Tackles News Nazi (blogs.lawyers.com)…
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