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JustKidCostumes.com Launches Redesigned Kids Halloween Costumes Site

JustKidCostumes.com Launches Redesigned Kids Halloween Costumes Site

www.JustKidCostumes.com, the leading online destination for kids Halloween costumes has launched a totally redesigned website that provides a greatly updated look and feel to better deliver on their vision of providing the best selection of kids costumes at the best prices.

According to JustKidCostumes CEO Mike Weimar, “our new site has a really appealing look and feel that will appeal to kids, Mom’s and Grandparents alike.  Unlike most of our competitors who focus on the adult costume market, our site is unique in its singular focus on kids costumes.  This allows us to create a very kid-friendly site that you aren’t afraid to show to your kids.  Our goal is to allow kids and parents to browse our site together and have fun looking at costumes, without fear of seeing something inappropriate.  With competitors’ costume sites you can easily stumble on x-rated costumes.  With JustKidCostumes.com you’re assured that your kids or grandkids won’t see anything you don’t want them to see.”

The new website features a new logo, new color themes, larger graphics and enhanced images, and an enhanced product view that makes it easier for customers to quickly find the right kids costumes for Halloween, school plays, dress-up days, or whatever else they may be looking for.  The site also includes a new easy zoom feature, and a display of related accessories for each costume (magic wands, shoes, tiaras, swords, shields, and more)...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 9/1/10
 

Snapjackwireless.com offers Refurbished Wireless Devices at Affordable Prices
Snapjackwireless.com offers Refurbished Wireless Devices at Affordable Prices

Snapjack Wireless has announced the launch of snapjackwireless.com, an online store that provides cell phone users with a better way to purchase used and refurbished mobile phones and new accessories.  Customers enjoy significant savings on quality brand-name devices without the requirement of lengthy cell phone contracts.

"With the growing number of cell phones that are being discarded and reprocessed each year - and the long-term carrier contracts that users are tied into, we knew there was an opportunity to meet consumers’ needs while also helping the environment.” said Brent Oliver, president of Snapjack Wireless.

SnapjackWireless.com immediately becomes an essential online resource for consumers looking to purchase mobile devices and accessories. From their initial visit to Snapjackwireless.com, customers will find brand-name devices, competitive pricing, and a high-quality user experience.  The site enables consumers to replace their cellular phone or other wireless device without signing an extended or new long-term contract.  The new accessories offered by Snapjack Wireless include everything from cases and chargers to batteries and headsets – and everything in between...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 8/26/10

WileyOnlineLibrary.com Now Live, Replaces Wiley InterScience

WileyOnlineLibrary.com Now Live, Replaces Wiley InterScience

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has launched Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), which will connect the global scholarly community to one of the world's most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources. Wiley Online Library offers integrated access to more than 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, 9,000 books, and hundreds of reference works and databases. Built on the latest technology, Wiley Online Library is an entirely new service that enhances discoverability and fosters collaboration by offering:

-- An easy-to-use interface, developed in consultation with users, providing intuitive navigation and fast access to online content.

-- Research tools to enable the discovery of available resources and help pinpoint information.

-- Support for authors and researchers with integrated reference links and multiple options for exporting citations.

-- Personalization options to keep up-to-date on the latest research with content alerts and RSS feeds and the ability to save key publications and articles for future reference.

-- Customizable product home pages that allow journal and society communities to highlight key features and share news and information

For a full features and benefits list and more information visit the information Web site at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/info...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 8/10/10

KnowYourOptions.com Launched By Fannie Mae To Help Homeowners

KnowYourOptions.com Launched By Fannie Mae To Help Homeowners

Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) today announced the launch of KnowYourOptions.com, a new consumer education Web site that outlines the choices available to homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage payments, and provides guidance on how they can contact and work with their mortgage company to find solutions.

The online resource, which offers reliable and easy-to-understand information in both English and Spanish, expands on Fannie Mae's ongoing efforts to help struggling borrowers find alternatives to foreclosure.

“Through foreclosure prevention programs, borrower outreach, underwriting guidelines and servicer engagement, Fannie Mae is taking a comprehensive approach to helping struggling borrowers,” said Jeff Hayward, Senior Vice President, Fannie Mae's National Servicing Organization. “Identifying accurate resources and finding the right answers can be a difficult challenge for borrowers facing hardship and a flurry of disparate, incomplete and sometimes fraudulent information. Know Your Options™ is the company's newest effort to reach distressed homeowners and is designed to bring the best information and guidance together in one place so that struggling borrowers can focus on finding solutions that work for their particular circumstances.”...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 8/3/10
 

Curriki.org Provides Peer Reviewed Open Source Educational Learning Materials
Curriki is an online community for creating and sharing K–12 open source curricula, a resource that can help provide a low-cost and innovative solution to many of our teaching and learning challenges in districts and schools.

Curriki is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education worldwide.  The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula and powerful online collaboration tools.  Curriki has nearly 100,000 registered members and more than 400 groups with access to more than 32,000 free, open source learning assets. Curriki logs more than 175,000 unique visitors per month from teachers representing more than 200 countries/territories around the world. Curriki's impact is measured by the global usage of its instructional resources, which are currently being used to teach more than an estimated 4.7 million students around the world.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about Curriki, please check out their website at www.curriki.org...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 8/2/10
 

TreeHugger.com, Discovery News, Planet Green and Daylife Launch Oil Spill Topic Site
Green sites TreeHugger.com, Discovery News  and Planet Green partnered this week to launch a new Daylife-powered Gulf Oil Spill topic page featuring real-time coverage of the environmental disaster from their own sites and across the web.

Using Daylife SmartTopics, the hub highlights manually curated editors' picks from TreeHugger, Planet Green and Discovery News, and provides a real-time feed of proprietary blog posts, articles and videos from the three environmentalist outlets. In addition, the site tracks Twitter mentions of the oil spill, the latest high quality Getty Images photos of the crisis, and relevant links from selected green sources across the web...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 7/21/10

IntoWine.com Offers Wine Enthusiasts Unique Content, Features
The world has literally millions of wine enthusiasts, each with a unique perspective and palate. At IntoWine.com they have made it their goal to aggregate the collective knowledge and experience of the wine community on one site, a site geared purely for those people who are into wine. They have contributors from nearly all walks of "wine life" including sommeliers, chefs, bartenders, waiters, wine industry professionals, wine producers, as well as a gaggle of super enthusiasts. 

IntoWine is for the wine curious. That is, people who have discovered they love wine and want to learn more about it, the regions from where it comes, the food with which it pairs well, and the grapes from which it derives. 

On IntoWine.com you will find several features

Interactive Map of Napa and Sonoma (see: http://www.intowine.com/region-map/sonoma)
A Google maps mash-up of all the (open to the public) wineries in Napa and Sonoma. They have scouted out approx two thirds of the wineries and profiled the good and not so good about each one. Ex: Larson Family Winery: http://www.intowine.com/wineries/larson-family-winery

IntoWineTV
Our panel of wine experts taste and discuss wines of various themes. Past themes include Celebrity Wines, Wines from Sideways, F@#$ Sideways! Merlots that Rock, Wines From Strange Places, "Underdog" Wines, Great Port Wines, Sparkling Wines, Piedmont Reds, Italian Whites, Italian "Island" Wines, Super Tuscans, Women & Wine, and Organic Wines Under $30. 

Wine & Food Pairing Tool
IntoWine.com identified about 150 different food dishes and offer a wine pairing suggestion for both a type of wine that pairs well with that dish as well as a specific bottle...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 7/8/10
 

CostRefuge.com Provides Editorially Aggregated Personal Finance & Money News for Consumers
CostRefuge.com provides the cost-conscious consumer with the day's most topical news & opinion pieces affecting their economic landscape onto one easy-to-read page. Stories are selected based on merit and are compiled daily with updates throughout the day from the best of the blogosphere & mainstream financial publications. The site brands itself as “your local paper's Money Section produced for the web” and covers all of the issues impacting your financial life, from personal finance news & tips, to breaking economic news, to money-related stories in sports, entertainment & more.

"With the sheer abundance of financial content available today, readers need a front page destination able to cut through the noise and provide the most relevant information in an easy-to-read format." says Blair MacGregor, Founder & Chief  Editor. “While there are a number of sites out there that cater to professional investors & day traders, none of these appeal to the average consumer & investor; what stories affect their money and financial well-being in today's economy. We fill that void by providing a manually curated, continually updated list of the most pertinent financial-related content so that readers can catch up with the day’s news without having to manually browse through the hundreds of sites that we cover. We try and cover any subject that might impact a consumer's financial world, not just standard personal finance and economic news but also relevant stories in tech, travel, real estate, entertainment & countless other topics.”

CostRefuge.com has also joined forces with AOL's WalletPop to produce a weekly roundup column covering the best stories from the week in personal finance. The column is featured each Monday in WalletPop's "Economizer" Section...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 7/6/10
 

As US Soccer Team Advances to Sweet 16, World Cup Betting in America Surges
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup entering the first elimination round this Saturday, matches are about to get all the more intense. Thanks to a thrilling last minute goal, the American team has advanced to the World Cup equivalent of the “sweet 16” round, where they will play Ghana. Though the average Joe isn’t bringing his Vuvuzela horn to the office just yet, American fans are more excited than ever about the tournament.  In addition to Team USA’s success, the possibility of winning money has been adding to the football fervor, as fans have been betting on the World Cup in record numbers.

Betting on soccer matches has typically been a European pastime, but thanks to new offers from American sports betting website BetUS.com, stateside fans are starting to see the light. New World Cup betting customers will receive $250 free with a $500 deposit and will score a free World Cup jersey if they recruit 3 of their soccer mates to get in on the action.

“With World Cup coming only once every 4 years we want to make it special. Our clients have been extremely pleased with the jersey promotion”, said BetUS spokesman Reed Richards, citing that “our sportsbook was busier before the USA vs England match than some of the NBA finals games this year. A lot of our clients are betting on European Football for the first time but have been taking home some cash as well.”...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 6/25/10

California Watch Launches PoliticsVerbatim.org

PoliticsVerbatim.org is a new site from California Watch and Chase Davis. The site will attempt to track every quote, promise and statement made by our two major candidates for governor in California – Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman.

The search tool allows readers to sort candidate statements by nine different categories – including promises, attacks and vague policy points. If they dodge an issue or a subject, there’s a search category for that, too. Readers can also sort by geography to see where the candidates have been appearing – and what parts of the state they’ve been ignoring.

The site also will include blog posts from Davis, Senior Editor Robert Salladay and Sacramento-based reporter Timothy Sandoval.

The candidates’ statements are sorted by 26 topics – from abortion to welfare.

PoliticsVerbatim launches with about 300 documents and 1,000 excerpts. The site will be adding content daily, scouring news and campaign sites and Twitter and Facebook feeds. They are also encouraging crowd-sourcing from other journalists and readers, and hope to soon create easy ways for readers to upload video and audio files from public campaign events. ...see the site now
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Posted by Eric Ward on 6/24/10
 

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I created URLwire in 1994 after a discussion with Jeff Bezos, who was looking for methods to promote Amazon.com. Mission accomplished.

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