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MySavings.com Helps Consumers With Grocery Coupons, Free Samples
With the current economy, consumers are benefiting more than ever from online discounts and savings. The demand for free stuff, online giveaways, free samples (freebies), and coupons on the web has skyrocketed. There are hundreds of companies giving away free stuff, whether for promotional reasons, political, educational, or even religious incentives. Some of the offers include free product samples, or purely promotional items (pens, books, bumper stickers, posters, software, and DVDs). Printable grocery coupons are also quite popular...click to read more

Speech-Language Pathologists at Ravinia Reading Center Launch New Site About Dyslexia and Reading Development
Ravinia Reading Center, a local reading center in a suburb of Chicago, IL intends to help inform and encourage parents of struggling readers by publishing credible answers in a series of informative articles by Dr. Holly Shapiro. Dr Shapiro, Ravinia’s director, is a long-time phonics expert and speech language pathologist with a Ph.D. in Learning Disabilities. Headlining the new website, which launched in May, is a water-color flash experience, guiding concerned parents through “The Struggle to Read.” The interactive journey begins learning about the nature of dyslexia and reading difficulty...click to read more

Microsoft's Bing Starts With A Bang - Online Sportsbook BetUS.com Offers Odds On Search Engine Race
It's a classic sports story: the overpaid, underachieving team drafts a promising rookie and suddenly they start to look like a real threat to the long-time contenders. Software dynasty Microsoft has unveiled its promising rookie search engine. It's named "Bing", and it's touted as being more accurate and user-friendly than current opposition. Although Bing is still barely out of training camp, many search experts are speculating that it might just be enough to bring Microsoft out of third place in the US search standings- ahead of Yahoo, but still behind Google...click to read more

FormLogix WYSIWYG Form Builder Makes Online Form Creation Simple
FormLogix form builder provides businesses as well as individuals with an online solution for data collection, management and analysis. You can get a taste of this user friendly web tool at http://www.formlogix.com. “We believe that web forms constitute a powerful tool and should be available to all” says Benny Tsabba, Founder & CEO, FormLogix. "People who have no programming skills or have a small ..click to read more

JCEarrings.com Offers Web's First Matching Service for Jody Coyote Earrings
JCEarrings.com now offers the web's first matching service for popular handcrafted Jody Coyote earrings. More than 38 million pairs of Jody Coyote earrings have been produced in the last 30 years by the Jody Coyote company. In so doing, the company developed proprietary techniques to manufacture their distinctive and handcrafted designs, meaning a lost earring cannot be replaced with one from a different manufacturer. Jody Coyote has always classified...click to read more

CleanSolarLiving.com Launches New Solar Energy Information Site to Drive Growth in Solar Installations
CleanSolarLiving.com has launched a new web site which provides comprehensive information and unique content for people interested in moving forward with solar energy projects for their home or business. CleanSolarLiving.com is also the fastest and easiest way to get connected with solar installers in a specific geographical area. Site founder Mike Weimar commented “our solar installer finder allows users to submit some brief information on their solar energy needs and in return get connected with up to four solar professionals ready to serve their specific needs. It’s free and saves time and money for anyone looking to get started with a solar project...click to read more

South Africa Travel Site SA-Venues.com Unveils Major Redesign, New Content
South Africa is a favorite destination for North Americans looking for a completely different experience -- from families who want to see elephants in their natural habitat, to adventurous bird watchers, to globetrotting sports enthusiasts. South Africa travel site http://www.SA-Venues.com is one of South Africa's leading travel sites, and is greeting visitors with thousands of newly redesigned pages offering a large searchable database of tours, safaris, activities, and every kind of accommodation...click to read more

Building Materials Site BuildDirect.com Launches Top Ten Lists
Online building materials manufacturer-wholesaler BuildDirect.com is providing users with a real-time glimpse into the most popular products viewed, sampled, rated, and sold via new feature live now on the site at http://www.builddirect.com/MostPopular.aspx . "With thousands of people interacting with our site on a daily basis, we wanted to find a way to provide users with a method to see what other people liked, sampled, and purchased", said Jeff Booth, President & CEO, BuildDirect. "We've been gathering this data for years, and now, by giving our users a chance to see it live, play with it, and filter it, that same data becomes a useful tool for our users during their decision making process". The current Top Ten section allows users to view data from the current week, past month, past three months and all time. For example, this past week the top selling floor has been the Toklo 8 mm Collection Laminate Flooring, but all time, the most purchased product has been Yanchi Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring...click to read more

CDC Offers Swine Flu Information Center Web Site
The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the United States. CDC expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks. CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to the expanding outbreak. CDC’s response goals are to reduce spread and illness severity, and provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency. The CDC website will be updated regularly as information becomes available. The CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are also working together to provide consumers and partners with Swine Flu Social Media Tools that access information about the ongoing 2009 H1N1 Flu outbreak. Visit the CDC.gov 2009 H1N1 Flu and PandemicFlu.gov...click to read more

SqueakyFax.com Invoice Reminder Service Helps Businesses Collect Payments
Creative Entropy, Inc. has launched SqueakyFax.com, a web-based service that helps companies collect payments from past due business accounts by sending customers invoice reminders via fax. The service provides an affordable, innovative way for companies to collect past due payments, especially amounts that are too small to be handled by a collection agency, without the hassle, confrontation, time, or effort typically required by traditional methods. It is based on the notion, often proven in the collections business, that "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Creative Entropy, Inc., an Arkansas business that creates online applications, had their share of deadbeat clients over the last decade. Often, the only...click to read more

JumboKeyword.com Free Google Adwords App Improves Google AdWords Management
Google AdWords expert Michael Wong has launched JUMBO Keyword, a brand new web-based application offering 70+ 1-click Google AdWords, keyword & text editing functions to help Google AdWords advertisers create, edit and manage hundreds, even thousands, of keywords with a click of a button. Since 2002 Michael has used Google AdWords to drive over two million leads to dozens of internet marketing clients. To help him create keywords for his AdWords campaigns, Michael developed AdWords Wrapper, a free web application that converts keywords into the keyword matching format AdWords uses. "AdWords Wrapper helped but I would still spend hours creating and editing big keyword lists in a text editor. So I decided to add expand AdWords Wrapper with dozens of keyword editing functions that I use everyday," said Michael Wong, JUMBO Keyword producer. "The result is JUMBO Keyword .com, a web application offering 70+, 1-click Google AdWords keyword editing functions...click to read more

Weplay.com Launches Youth Sports Skills and Drills Library for Parents, Coaches and Kids
Youth sports community site Weplay.com has launched a youth sports Skills and Drills library. Initially launched with baseball, softball and soccer, the Skills and Drills library features instructional videos from pros such as baseball stars Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard, softball stars Jennie Finch and Monica Abbott, and soccer stars Jonathan Borstein and Brandi Chastain. The library also includes collections from leading online sports sites. Skills and Drills consists of several hundred videos, 3D simulations and diagrams organized by skill, such as base running, hitting or fielding for baseball and softball or goalkeeping, defense and passing for soccer. The comprehensive library is also organized by skill level so that parents, coaches and kids can find the right drills based on the age of their teams and leagues.

Baseball Skills and Drills includes online videos of Derek Jeter explaining how to hit an inside fastball, Ryan Howard teaching how to hit for power and Harold Reynolds and Ozzie Smith demonstrating infield fielding techniques among hundreds of other youth baseball drills.

Softball Skills and Drills includes online videos of Jennie Finch showing how to throw her famous "Rise Ball", Cat Osterman demonstrating how to throw a "Drop Ball" pitch and Monica Abbott explaining how to use your legs for power among hundreds of other youth softball drills.

Soccer Skills and Drills includes videos of world champion Brandi Chastain demonstrating how to make aggressive soccer decisions, Jonathan Bornstein teaching how to take a header and Heather O'Reilly explaining shooting drills among hundreds of other youth soccer drills...click to read more

WhosePhoneIsThis.com Plots Location of Phone Numbers Using Google Maps Mash-Up
WhosePhoneIsThis.com is the first website to dynamically plot the location of a phone number, using proprietary data sources and a unique, interactive Google Maps mash-up. WhosePhoneIsThis.com is built especially for people who are tired of not knowing WHO is calling. WhosePhoneIsThis.com allows users to file complaints against any unwanted, harrassing phone call. Plus, it provides convenient registration links to both the applicable state and national Telemarketer Do Not Call list. The site was designed...click to read more

Cyprus44.com Is Top Destination for Northern Cyprus Holidays
Cyprus44.com founder Izzet Zorlu had a simple goal when he launched his site: Become the top online destination for information about Northern Cyprus Holidays. Cyprus44.com is now a comprehensive North Cyprus travel guide with more than 500 pages of unique information on North Cyprus sights in Kyrenia, Nicosia, Famagusta and Karpas, hotels in North Cyprus, flights to Ercan Northern Cyprus, property buying and other topics from border crossings, Turkish-Cypriot cuisine and culture and more. Cyprus44 also offers online flight and hotel bookings in cooperation with one of the North Cyprus' leading travel agencies...click to read more

FuelOurFutureNow.com Launched by X PRIZE, DOE, Discovery Education
This past February at the Washington Auto Show, the X PRIZE Foundation, the United States Department of Energy, and Discovery Education launched the first phase of an online knowledge center designed to teach K-12 students and the public about advanced vehicle technologies, energy efficiency, climate change, alternative fuels, and the science, technology, engineering and math that underlie efficient vehicle development. FuelOurFutureNow.com features activities for grade levels K-12, as well as high-quality videos, virtual labs, and other interactive resources intended for use from the classroom to the living room. This online knowledge center is just one component of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Education Program, a national program designed to encourage young people to pursue careers in energy-efficient sciences and technology, made possible through a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy...click to read more

NoClaimsDiscount.co.uk Provides Unbiased UK Insurance Comparison
URL: http://NoClaimsDiscount.co.uk
It seems that every UK niche comparison site only stays that way for a short time before exploding into every other comparison product available. Electricity comparison sites start listing insurance products and insurance comparison sites start comparing mobile phones. NoClaimsDiscount.co.uk, as the name suggests, is a purist when it comes to comparing insurers in the UK...Click to read more

My Pediatrician Online Provides Personalized Pediatric Medical Advice
URL: http://mypediatricianonline.com
An innovative medical website at MyPediatricianOnline.com has launched. Unlike anything currently available on the Internet, the site has been developed to provide parents with personalized online pediatric advice and information directly from a board certified pediatrician...Click to read more

Site Follows Progress of Universal Studios Hollywood Rip Ride RockIT Roller Coaster
URL: http://hollywoodrockit.com
Universal Studios Florida launched a web site to showcase the new attraction Hollywood Rip Ride RockIT roller coaster. The site divulges tantalizing details about the new coaster as well as a construction blog where you can view the ongoing construction photos. Hollywood Rip Ride RockIT is expected to open at Universal Studios Orlando Resort in Spring 2009. Among the many unique features of the 17-story attraction, each rider will be able to select their own personal soundtrack as on-board cameras capture every moment of your ride. Once the ride is over, you can then further customize and personalize your own individual music video of your entire ride...Click to read more

Pew Internet & American Life Project Launches New Site
URL: http://pewinternet.org
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-partisan, non-profit "fact tank" that produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives. The Pew Internet Project studies the social impact of the internet.

TourOfCalifornia.org Cycling Blog Showcases California Long Distance Bike Rides
URL: http://www.tourofcalifornia.org
The Tour of California Cycling Blog, published by cyclist Bernd Straehle, is dedicated to long distance road bike rides in California and related topics. Rides start at about 100 miles in length and range from flat centuries to mountainous double centuries and multi-day tours. The site showcases the different regions of California, from the deserts to the mountains to the Ocean, each offering challenging rides and breathtaking views. Tour of California includes a unique bike ride map mashup application, integrating Google Maps technology with data recorded by leading-edge cycling computers...Click to read more

HeadandNeck.com Educates on TMJ Syndrome and Misdiagnosed Migraines
URL: http://www.headandneck.com
HeadAndNeck.com is designed to help guide severe headache sufferers who, misdiagnosed with migraine, get little relief and are forced to live a life of chronic pain, lost hope, depression and/or secondary effects of the drugs that they are given to control the pain. Many times these drugs have little positive effect. Most severe headaches are not migraine but are treated as such. The majority of headaches are caused by spasms in the muscles of the head and neck, a problem called Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, or TMJ syndrome, which, most often, can be successfully treated without drugs or surgery. Visitors to www.headandneck.com can download, at no cost, TMJ Syndrome - The Overlooked Diagnosis, a classic book written for the layman by Dr. A. Richard Goldman. Dr. Goldman is director of the Head and Neck Pain Center, in Chicago, owner of the website...Click to read more

Golden Globe Awards Photos and Video Available on New HFPA Gallery Site
URL: http://www.goldenglobes.org/videogallery/
Still photos and video of last night's Golden Globe Awards are now available via the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) web site located at http://www.goldenglobes.org. More than 50 Hollywood stars were presenters at "The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards" telecast live last night on NBC Sunday from at The Beverly Hilton. Presenters included Simon Baker, Elizabeth Banks, Drew Barrymore, Pierce Brosnan, Sandra Bullock, Gerard Butler, Don Cheadle, Glenn Close, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sean Combs, Patrick Dempsey, Johnny L
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New Greenspace Site From NASA's Ames Showcases Green Initiatives
URL: http://green.arc.nasa.gov
NASA this month launched a new Greenspace Web site to showcase several environmentally friendly projects that are underway at NASA's Ames Research Center to improve life here on Earth.The Web site offers in-depth information about Ames' work on global prediction, monitoring and response of changing weather conditions to better understand why climate change is taking place, enhance our awareness and improve disaster response...Click to read more

iSuki.com - Professionals Social Networking
iSuki.com is part dating, part social networking, a dating community rather than a generic dating website. The site is aimed at 18-40 ABC1 professionals, the cash rich and time poor generation rather than generically targeted. Members can communicate like on other dating sites, but they can also view classifieds, jobs and events. Founder Sara Halman said about the site...Click to read more

American Express Brings Top Bloggers Together at "Gee Thanks" Gift Blog
"Gee Thanks" was created to create "buzz" and drive awareness of American Express Gift Cards as the "perfect holiday gift." American Express has invited 5 authors (The BoyGenius Report, The Bargainist, Uncrate, TrendHunter, NOTCOT) with large, passionate followers on the Web to lend their unique voices to a conversation on "interesting" gifting experiences. Unsure of what to give and don't want to make the same mistake as others? An American Express Gift Card is the perfect gift...Click to read more

YLighting.com Site Offers Free Technical Lighting Designs
Sophisticated low voltage lighting systems usually require professional layout and design. The number, type and voltage of transformers depends on both the number of lighting heads as well as distance that the rail covers. In addition, the rails themselves suspend from the ceilings and therefore structural supports must be calculated to insure safety and stability. Because of the inherent ...Click to read more

Textforfree.net Brings Web 2.0 to Online Text Messaging
Textforfree.net has gone web 2.0 with its popular text messaging service. Visitors are now offered a host of new features that allow them to easily manage their text messaging needs all from a single user-friendly control panel, available at www.Textforfree.net. The new site distinguishes itself with an emphasis on user experience that is incorporated into a host of new features related exclusively to ...Click to read more

Revamped Auto Parts Place Website Puts Customer Satisfaction First
Auto Parts Place, an industry-leading for auto parts supplier with a large online presence, has launched a retooled, redesigned website to make searching for and purchasing domestic and import auto parts completely effortless. “We have one of the largest auto parts catalog in the industry, so we needed a system in place to help our customers cut through the clutter and pinpoint exactly what they ...Click to read more

LifePsychic.com Offers Life Advice Anyone Can Use Online
LifePsychic.com is one of the most highly respected and reliable websites that offer psychic readings, tarot readings, astrology readings, numerology readings, and general life advice available on the Internet today. This website should be anyone’s one stop shop to getting the trusted advice needed to get through important life decisions. LifePyschic.com is so easy to use, it is absolutely free to ...Click to read more

Unite the Deeqs at Deeqs.com - The New Kids Site From Dairy Queen
Deeqs.com was created as a free, playful, safe, and non-violent place for kids to play online. Featuring fun art, original characters, and an ever-expanding story line and world, the site will appeal to wide range of children. There is something for everyone including a storybook, downloadable poster and sticker sheets, several interactive games, and a customizable house. Kids are able to have fun with ...Click to read more

The story behind the creation of the Deeqs
The Deeqs are fun-loving creatures created when the founders of DQ experimented with their newly invented soft serve. They made a batch that was too fun and too powerful, and the soft serve came to life, morphing into the Deeqs. The Deeqs, now living in DQ-topia, are scattered and need kids to unite them to face an evil storm that...Click to read more

Change.gov - President Elect Barack Obama Transition Website Is Live
Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. It also offers an opportunity to be heard about the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. The Obama Administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things...Click to read more

Not-for-Profit GoneTooSoon.com Relaunches Free Online Memorial Site
GoneTooSoon, the free online memorial website was first launched in November 2005. It’s a not-for-profit website, offering families and friends the chance to place a lasting, living tribute on the internet for their loved ones who have died. Creating an online memorial, ensures that your much loved family and friends will be remembered forever. In the 3 years since it launched, 10s of millions ...Click to read more

New Site Explains Scientific Brainwave CDs That Boost Mind Power
A brand new range of “brainwave CDs” has been publicly launched by Inspire3 Ltd, designed at seriously increasing your mental powers. The 6-CD program, known as the “Brain Evolution System,” helps increase thinking speed, boost creativity, raise energy levels, improve your memory, and release bad habits. A companion web site with further details is also available at http://www.brainev.com. ...Click to read more

PBS's FRONTLINE Offers Presidential Election Special The Choice 2008 Via YouTube
This election season, PBS's flagship documentary series FRONTLINE offers voters more options than ever to view its quadrennial award-winning election special The Choice 2008, which premiered Tuesday, Oct. 14, and broadcasts again Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. For the first time, FRONTLINE viewers will also be able to watch the complete two-hour dual biography of John McCain and Barack Obama ...Click to read more

FoodNetwork.com Food and Cooking Site Unveils New Design
FoodNetwork.com heads into the popular holiday season by unveiling a new chapter, an all-new FoodNetwork.com. The redesigned FoodNetwork.com is full of features asked for by its more than 9 million monthly visitors, such as easy-to-use navigation, a treasure trove of recipe ideas and meal planning inspiration, along with more ways to connect with Food Network's all-star roster of chefs and ...Click to read more

2008 Presidential Polls Receive a Sweet Twist at 1-800-Bakery.com
In a time of financial bailouts and political uncertainty 1-800-Bakery.com is joining 51 local bakeries in 23 states across America, from New York to California, in putting Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, John McCain and Sarah Palin in the cookie jar. With the hopes of adding some sugar, spice and things nice to a nasty and difficult election year 1-800-Bakery.com and the RBA members (Retail Bakers ...Click to read more

RomanticPrintables.com - Hundreds of Gifts You Can Print Now
RomanticPrintables.com provides instant access to more than 200 professionally designed printable products, such as love coupons, stationary, games and love notes. This site virtually eliminates the waiting period that accompanies most other online purchases and puts romance and gift giving at your fingertips! "The great thing about RomanticPrintables is that they are available 24 hours a day, ...Click to read more

Disability Secrets Helps Social Security Disability Applicants
Social Security Disability Secrets, a website that helps claimants navigate the federal disability system, is now offering free downloadable RFC forms via DisabilitySecrets.com. What is an RFC form? An RFC, or residual functional capacity form, is a document that addresses an individual’s physical or mental limitations; i.e., why they can no longer work, and why they should be awarded ...Click to read more

Singer Songwriter Tom Fox Offers Legal Free MP3 Downloads
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Tom Fox is one of a small but growing group of artists giving away music for free rather than charging or having fans fined for stealing it. On his Web site at foxtunes.com, Tom has made CDs of free music downloads available, including songs from "Midnight Rain" (which was nominated for two independent music awards) and "Slowly" (which ...Click to read more.

Web Site Helps Investors Discover Tomorrow’s Winning Stocks Today
Every year – whether markets are up, down or flat – there are always stocks that double, triple or more in market value. Owning one or more of these stocks can significantly increase the value of one’s investment portfolio. The challenge, of course, is to become an early discoverer of these growth stocks – to discover tomorrow’s winning stocks today. For the past two decades Paul Christiansen, founder of Big Bet Stocks (http://bigbetstocks.com), has been obsessed with trying to find a method that would help investors successfully solve that challenge. After ...Click to read more

Web 2.0 Online Coloring Site TheColor.com Is Perfect for Kids
With an ever growing selection of pictures to color online, TheColor.com is the first online coloring site that has integrated web 2.0 features such as community ratings of pictures, most popular pictures colored by members, and private/public galleries of the most recently colored pictures by members. Unlike crayons and paper, TheColor.com gives kids 190 different colors ...Click to read more.

New Service Lets Anyone Build Mobile Websites Using Their Mobile Phone
mobiSiteGalore.com creates history today by launching a revolutionary free service that for the first time in the history of the Internet enables anyone to build mobile websites using just their basic mobile phone. mobiSiteGalore has announced the launch of mobiSiteGalore ‘Build-with-Mobile’ - the world’s first mobile website builder that for the first time in the history of the Internet enables anyone to build a full-fledged mobile website using just their mobile ...Click to read more.

Personal Protection and Home Defense Site RKDefense.com is a Family Affair
The RKDefense.com website is a labor of love and a family affair as well, owned and operated by a family of Marine Corps veterans. The RKDefense.com website provides an array of self defense and personal protection products designed to help men and women of all ages protect themselves and their families in an increasingly dangerous world. This valuable site has been ...Click to read more

Kansas City Public Library Site Unveils Major Improvements
The new KCLibrary.org is the official website of the Kansas City Public Library. The massive overhaul of the library’s website is intended to make the site easier to navigate and more useful to library patrons. Features of the new website include: New user-friendly navigation. Users can now access more of the information they are looking for quickly and easily, directly from the ...Click to read more.

Water Calculator from H2OConserve.org Shows Your Water Foorprint
The H2O Conserve Water Calculator is a web based tool that can help you calculate how much water you use on a daily basis, and more importantly, provide tips for how to use less. The Calculator takes you through a series of questions about your daily life, from baths to tooth-brushing to lawn watering, and as you answer these questions gives you an estimate of the total amount of water you use, called your "water footprint". The Calculator takes into ...Click to read more

Online Dream Journal Site Records 100,000th Dream, Adds Features
DreamJournal.net, the free online dream journal service that allows anyone to create and customize an online dream journal, now has over 100,000 dreams recorded on the site. Site creator Kelly Matthews commented, "when I launched DreamJournal in 2001, it was mostly for my own enjoyment and fun. I had no idea the site would resonate with so many people. I'm ...Click to read more

SARshield.com Site Provides Cell Phone Radiation Charts, FAQs
With the recent news of a link between cell phone usage and cancer, you may be wondering how much radiation your specific cell phone brand/model emits. SARShield.com invites you to check out their Mobile Phone Radiation Chart, updated weekly. The site also has an in-depth cell phone radiation FAQ. Cell phones emit low levels of radio frequency energy (i.e., radio frequency radiation) in the microwave range during use. High levels of RF can produce biological damage through heating effects (in the same way a microwave ...Click to read more

FashionandEarth.com Launches Green Clothing Shopping Site Featuring Organic, Eco-Friendly Fashion
As green clothing retailer Fashion & Earth gears up its inventory of organic clothing for its September opening, shoppers can sign up to receive notifications and an early bird discount at FashionandEarth.com. Green clothing continues to rise in popularity, but still many shoppers are held back by a lack of variety in designs coupled with high prices. Fashion & Earth, a green clothing retailer, is about to change that with the launch of its new website www.FashionandEarth.com. The company is determined to make eco-friendly fashions ...Click to read more.

HawaiiGaga.com Launches Hawaii Vacation Rental Search Engine and
Vacation Guide
HawaiiGaga.com has launched the world’s first human reviewed search engine designed specifically for Hawaii vacation rentals. The site contains the internet’s most comprehensive directory of Hawaii’s rental listings. HawaiiGaga.com also serves as a community and resource center for vacationers - a place where users can share vacation ideas, and most importantly, write rental reviews. ...Click to read more\

June 28 through July 14, 2008 URLwire on Summer sabbatical

GreenerCars.org Helps Users Select Most Planet Friendly Green Cars
GreenerCars.org scores and ranks cars, trucks, minivans, and SUVs according to environmental friendliness. Learn which vehicles are this year's "greenest" and "meanest," as well as how to shop for a green vehicle. GreenerCars.org will help users select green cars that are the most friendly to the planet while meeting your transportation needs. Based on official emissions and fuel-economy tests, and ...Click to read more.

Greenopolis.com Offers Environmentally Focused Social Networking Site
Greenopolis is an environmentally focused social networking site that develops online relations between everyday people, communities, organizations, schools and businesses. Greenopolis was created to engage users on green issues so that they might learn, explore and participate in an open dialogue about the present and future of our environment. Greenopolis is free for anyone who wants to join, and ...Click to read more

New Site Provides Advice On North Carolina Family Law
The Raleigh, North Carolina law firm Gailor Wallis & Hunt (GWH) recently launched the North Carolina Family Law web site, located at northcarolinafamilylawnews.com. The content is delivered in familiar blog style, with an RSS feed option, and is designed to educate people on matters of North Carolina family law. Presented by the family law attorneys at Gailor, Wallis & Hunt the news website offers help on topics including Divorce From Bed and Board, Absolute Divorce, Equitable Distribution, Child Custody & Child Support, and ...Click to read more

MastersinNursing.com - Guide to Accredited Schools offering Master's
Degree in Nursing
Recently launched MastersinNursing.com is a guide to accredited programs offering a Master's Degree in Nursing. It was built because prospective students often have questions about the various Master's Degrees offered in Nursing. Existing lists on the Internet were not comprehensive, easy to find, and many sites had outdated information and links. MastersinNursing.com was created to serve as an aid to potential graduate nursing students. The site focuses on the nursing school topics that are most commonly asked about and ...Click to read more

ShrinkTheWeb.com Releases Full Featured Free Website Thumbnail Generator
ShrinkTheWeb (http://www.shrinktheweb.com), the premier offering from Imagion’s “Creativity Initiative” is moving out of its BETA period to provide unique design tools based on website thumbnails. With an exclusive PRO feature set backed by great support and coupled with the most extensive free basic service in the industry, ShrinkTheWeb is bound to be a favorite of webmasters world-wide. ShrinkTheWeb offers a powerful and full featured free service for which all other site thumbnail providers charge a varying and ...Click to read more

Consumers Go Online To Find Best Gas Credit Cards at CompareCards.com
Consumers, professionals and small business owners interested in finding the best credit card for their individual needs can now do it quickly and easily at CompareCards.com. Loaded with functionality and user-friendly features, CompareCards.com offers a side-by-side credit card compare option, editor reviews and end-user reviews. With the approaching summer travel season and the high price of gas, one of the site’s most popular research areas is the Gas Credit Card Comparison page, that lets consumers find and apply for a ...Click to read more

Soundboard.com Audio Sharing Site Is Live and Making Noise
Nicknamed ‘SoundTube’ by its users, after the massively popular video-sharing site, Soundboard.com made its official debut in April after 16 months in BETA. Yet despite its long trial status, Soundboard.com is already one of the Internet’s largest and most popular audio sharing sites and resources. “It didn’t take long to learn that great audio is sticky and viral,” said Soundboard.com Creative Director Mike Mitchell. “We give users all the tools they need to record, catalog, customize and share their audio worldwide. Before us, ...Click to read more

Major Publications' Product Reviews Summarized at ReviewRoundup.com
ReviewRoundup.com has gathered and summarized hundreds of professional reviews of consumer electronics and software. The goal is to help shoppers hone in on products' pros and cons and make quick-yet-informed purchasing decisions.
Review Roundup is subtitled "Product Reviews from Publications You Trust" because the product reviews are shortened versions of reviews by professionals at respected major publications such as VideoMaker Magazine, Smartphone & Pocket PC and Laptop Magazine. "The publications have partnered with ReviewRoundup.com to offer the reviews in summarized form," said Kevin Savetz, the site's...Click to read more.

DisabilitySecrets.com - Social Security Disability Claims Advice From Former Examiner
DisabilitySecrets.com provides information on the two disability benefit programs administered by the United States Social Security Administration under authority granted by the Social Security Act. Those two disability benefit programs are known as social security disability insurance (SSDI) and supplemental security income (SSI) and are established, respectively, under titles 2 and 16 of the social security act. Begun in 2003, the website offers detailed overviews of the disability evaluation process. It also provides answers to numerous questions regarding applications for disability, how to file appeals in the event of a denial, how to ...Click to read more

Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope for Space Exploration
WorldWide Telescope, is a rich Web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. WorldWide Telescope has been eagerly anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical resource for students and lifelong learners, and as a way to make science fun for children. “The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it ...Click to read more.

Evergreen Developments Group Launches Web Site for Northern Cyprus Properties
Evergreen Developments Group of Kyrenia, North Cyprus has launched a new site at evergreendevelopments.com to showcase North Cyprus real estate opportunities. On Evergreen’s web site, you can search properties by price, location, amenities, title deed types, and more. Once you find a property of interest, full details including floor plans, photos, and a list of availability in pricing can all be ...Click to read more

Music Sharing Mega-Site Ucombo.com Launches Download Store
Ucombo.com, the much-touted music sharing website for professional and budding artists has opened up another opportunity for musicians to market their original tracks, for free. A virtual download store powered by Ucombo.com can be accessed from a link posted on any website, including MySpace and Facebook. This will allow fans to purchase and download MP3's using Paypal technology. ...Click to read more

ScentToSleep.com Launches Website for People Who Suffer From Insomnia
Scent To Sleep recently launched www.scenttosleep.com, a website that offers sleep mist products to those who suffer from insomnia or mild sleep disorders. Do you find that you toss and turn, feel anxious or your mind skips from one negative thought to another whether it is concerns over money, relationships or health? You are not alone. Over 70 million people have many sleepless nights. ScentToSleep.com offers Luscious Lavender Sleeping Mist and Decadent Green Apple Vanilla Sleeping Mist. Lavender and other essential oils soothe and calm you so you can sleep better. Their products have a lulling effect to enhance sleep. Spray your bed pillows ...Click to read more

New Customer Review Directory BView.co.uk Highlights Best and Worst UK Companies
Rogue traders have nowhere to hide as new Customer Review Directory highlights best practice and exposes the worst UK companies via customer feedback and credit ratings. bview.co.uk is the first unbiased, online reviews directory that highlights the UK's best and worst practice companies - as ranked by their customers. Unlike opt-in business directories and review sites, BView lists the details of ...Click to read more.

JewelryDays.com Relaunches Diamond & Jewelry Site With New Features, Amazon Partnership
JewelryDays.com, the premier site on the web for purchasing loose diamonds and diamond jewelry today announced it has partnered with Amazon Web Services. The partnership will enable customers searching for jewelry a quicker, easier and safer way to shop online. The newly designed and updated website will be located at www.JewelryDays.com. The new site offers a fresh look that enables customers the ability to find exactly what they are looking for faster than ever. The site will also allow customers to explore the Jewelry ...Click to read more

Leaderpromos.com Announces Launch of New Promotional Products Site
Leaderpromos, one of the top promotional products distributors in the Midwest, recently relaunched leaderpromos.com, a state-of-the art, user-friendly website that has revolutionized the promotional products industry. "Leaderpromos.com is all about the customer. It is simple to use, and contains over 15,000 promotional products - one of the most comprehensive sites in the industry," said Stephanie ...Click to read more

ShortSqueeze.com Helps Investors Profit Via Short Selling
Short selling is gaining a huge following, but many investors know very little about this lucrative trading style. Short sellers identify a stock they believe is going to go down in price. When these traders target a stock it can cause a flood of selling. Short interest in stocks is at an all-time high this month. So, how do you know if your portfolio might fall victim to short selling? ShortSqueeze.com offers free, proprietary short interest stock reports, so you can see if your stocks are targeted. ShortSqueeze.com tracks short interest Click to read more

Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Launches New Site
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) recently launched a new web site to better provide information to the public and media about its national security efforts. The new web address is http://nnsa.energy.gov/. NNSA’s missions include maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, materials and technology, ...click to read more

SimonVolkov.com Helps Real Estate Investors Find Distressed Properties at Deep Discounts
With rapidly declining asking prices, skyrocketing foreclosures and mortgage rates on a downward trend, the real estate market is becoming a dream for investors. Now one noted real estate investor, Simon Volkov (http://www.simonvolkov.com), says it's time to start buying--and he's even giving investors access to real estate investment notes at just seventy cents on the dollar at current market prices. Volkov has launched a real estate investment group, http://www.simonvolkov.com/investors/, open to novice and serious ...click to read more

Layover.com Launches myLayover.com Truckers Social Network
Layover.com, the leading internet destination for the long-haul truck driver, expands its already large network of trucker-specific tools by giving those in the trucking industry their own personal space on the internet at www.myLayover.com. myLayover brings the full power of the latest internet-based social networking tools to bear and puts them at the fingertips of the driver. The new site's tagline, ...click to read more.

World's Oldest Sound Recording On Web at FirstSounds.org
A group of researchers has succeeded in playing the world's oldest sound recording of a human voice made in 1860 – 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. It was made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp. Scott never dreamed of playing back his recordings. But this morning, the dream Scott never had will come true. A cadre of audio ...click to read more

CemeterySpot.com Provides Online Memorial Resources and Community
CemeterySpot.com has created an online memorial community for people who want a high quality way to remember their loved ones. CemeterySpot provides each of its online memorials with a unique web address within a full featured, content rich, online memorial community with features that replicate a real world memorial experience. CemeterySpot.com has many features not available on other ...click to read more

Million Dollar College Basketball Bracket Contest Now Live at BetUS.com
The first round teams have been decided, and it's just days away from the start of the most exciting championship in sports: March Madness. As the 65 NCAA Basketball teams are preparing to compete in the single-elimination tournament, sports fans all over America are carefully making their picks for office pools and bracket contests. For 2008, the biggest, most lucrative bracket contest will be BetUS Sportsbook’s $1,000,000 March Madness Bracket Contest. How does it work? Contestants simply predict the outcome of the ...click to read more

Tribune Launches Jumble Word Puzzle Site at Jumble.com
Fans of the incredibly popular Jumble® puzzle in print now have a website where they can play eight different interactive daily Jumble games and download a Jumble puzzle pack to their mobile phones -- http://www.jumble.com. Jumble.com is the new flagship site for "everything Jumble." The site also offers a Jumble shopping experience where fans can buy books, board games and other puzzle and game products. Later this spring, Jumble.com will feature a Jumble "Player's Forum" and a blog where Jumble creators...click to read more

Presidential Video Biographies Lend Insight To 2008 Election at PBS American Experience Site
PBS’ American Experience has launched The Presidents Online at http://www.pbs.org/presidents/2008, as the online component of an unprecedented public television initiative that, for the first time, will make available more than 25 hours of presidential programming online, on TV, and on the go. The project comes at a critical moment in American politics: this year, American voters will take part in a landmark election, where for the first time in over a half-century, neither the sitting President nor vice president is a contender for ...click to read more

Colle+McVoy Helps Kids Heal Through Art With Launch of ArtIsAGift.com
Advertising Agency Colle+McVoy has launched a web site that allows users to create their own designs on a popular miniature Qee figurine, while also learning about programs that help abused and at-risk children heal through art. “We believe children and adults can benefit from the healing affects of art,” said Christine Fruechte, president of Colle+McVoy. “It is powerful to see how the creative imaginations of children come to life, build self esteem, and have a profound impact on our staff.” “When I worked with these...click to read more

Gap Partners with Emerging Artists to Create Original Music, Videos Inspired by Colors
Ever imagine what your favorite color sounds like? This spring, Gap is offering you the chance to discover the sound of color through five original songs composed and recorded by five emerging musicians. Gap is also partnering with five filmmakers to interpret each original song into a music video. From now until March 15, you can visit www.soundofcolor.com to listen to and enjoy free downloads of original songs by The Blakes, Dntel, Marié Digby, the Raveonettes and Swizz Beatz, as well as watch the music videos and catch...click to read more

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