Social Bookmarking in Plain English

We made this video because we want people to see the power of social bookmarking and how it makes web pages easy to remember, organize and share.

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The Nokia 888: “Form follows you”

It uses liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover which lets it understand and adjust to the environment. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations.

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How to surprise mom on mother's day?

Mother Day is an extremely popular festival. Kids across the world celebrate Mother's Day by expressing love for mom and by sending her gifts, flowers, cards and some cool mother’s day SMS.

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A new StumbleUpon Alerter Tool to make one more active than just now!

StumbleUpon Alerter is a small tool that keeps an eye on all of your 'discoveries' on StumbleUpon. It monitors activities and play sounds against them like when your stumble is 'thumbed' or reviewed, and keeps track of key statistics regarding your discoveries.

Introducing the StumbleUpon Alerter. Slick and sleak, this tool can be extremely useful for those trying to crack into the enigmatic SU elite status. As mysterious as Digg, Reddit, and the “pure” social media sites are, StumbleUpon has always had the most difficult algorithm to understand along with the fewest tracking tools available. It’s unique format and the sheer difficulty of classifying it (is it really a social media site?) make this tool an invaluable add to every stumbler’s system tray.

Here’s what it does, straight from the site:

• Plays a sound whenever a person reviews your discoveries
• Plays a sound when one of your discoveries is liked
• Displays a list of your discoveries on StumbleUpon
• Shows a list of people who have rated your sites
• Lists all of the reviews for your discoveries
• Ranks your friends in order of most reviews
• Made with the same interface as StumbleUpon

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The World's First Blue Rose

It took 14 years of study with Japanese and Australian researchers to create the world’s first blue rose...

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Simple and Sustainable Clay-Fired Desert Architecture

Imagine a sustainable building system that requires only the skills of a potter to complete. A basic earthen structure is formed and finished by traditional clay-firing processes. This remarkable building process culminates in baking every room from the inside, for up to an entire day at up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. The end product is vernacular yet avante garde, traditional but sustainable.

Essentially, the various bricks that compose a building created by using this Geltaftan system are fused into a solid whole after being assembled. The firing process is essentially the same as that which is used in a kiln to finish pottery. Interior furniture (tables, benches and so on) can be fired with the building. The Iranian architect who developed this process first created buildings in Iran but now teaches others who wish to learn his methods in the United States.

The result is inexpensive, durable and homey. Modifications to the process have been developed to improve the resistance to weather, seismic and other natural forces. This process is particularly applicable in desert landscapes where thick packed-Earth structures can reduce internal heat gain during the day and heat loss and night and where land is more abundant than stone, trees or other building materials.