Yahoo has just launched a new section of its website dedicated to promoting green causes and fighting global warming. The company promoted the new website by presenting New York City’s cab association with 10 hybrid vehicles. The website is meant to be a source that has everything that you will need to fight global warming. There is an interative Green House on the website where you can walk through the house and see how you can save energy and resources.
MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.
Skyblog is a massive French social network and blogging platform that’s growing at a tremendous rate. The site launched in 2002 and currently has 5.4 million blogs, with more than 12,000 being created so far today. Bearing in mind that the total French population is around 60 million, those are impressive figures. Skyrock and Skyblog also reported good growth during the riots of November 2005, when the French youth began to use Skyblog as a political tool.
The easiest way to download videos from YouTube I think is to use one of available free software products out there. I have discovered Ares Tube - free software which is pretty simple and works well. With help of Ares Tube you can download videos not only from YouTube, but also from Metacafe, Google Video, Blip TV, Daily Motion and MySpace. Another great feature is video converter who lets you to convert downloaded video file directly into iTunes and next time, when you plug in your iPod, video will be automatically transfered to it.
The monotony of Facebook and MySpace brought these University computer science students, founders of MochaSoft, LLC, to develop something mixing the enormously successful massive multiplayer online gaming market with the social appeal of networking Web sites.
“You don’t just want to be another Facebook or MySpace knock off,” Yang said. “It’s this entire Sim City-like world online.”
The site may feel just like a day with a Sim family, but it goes much deeper.
Yang’s character, or “MiniMe”, walked across the white linoleum floor to his full size, leopard-print bed. His virtual apartment, nicknamed “Zamland,” is a perfect representation of his actual apartment on the corner of Sixth and Stoughton streets. MiniMe’s are fully customizable, from clothes to hair colors and styles.
