Google Introduces Google Sidewiki

What if everyone, from a local expert to a renowned doctor, had an easy way of sharing their insights with you about any page on the web? What if you could add your own insights for others who are passing through?Now you can. Today, [Google is] launching Google Sidewiki, which allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page.

Free Software Giveaway

Giveaway of the day is a win-win solution for both publishers and clients. The idea behind this initiative is that many sites and publishers offer trial downloads; but only we offer giveaway downloads. What does that mean?
Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means – not a trial, not a limited version – but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors.
For game giveaways check out Game Giveaway of the Day.

Lifemee: Your Life Online

Record, manage and share your life online. LIFEmee not only creates an accurate timeline for your important life events, but also provides organizational tools and support in all aspects of your life.

Free Conference Calls

Freeconferencecall.com lets you make, record, playback conference calls for your business or organization for free. It is available 24/7 for teleconferencing.

Hard Times Resource Guide

The Washington State Library has a good website for help in this economic downturn. The Hard Times Resource Guide gives quick access to resources to help you get through these hard times.

BBC Languages

Learn a foreign language for free at BBC Languages. Languages include French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and others.

Scratch Programming Language

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Scratch is available free of charge: go to Download.Currently available for Mac OSX and Windows (see system requirements)

Historical Voices: voices from the past

A substantial portion of our cultural heritage from the 20th century is recorded in enormous collections of spoken-word materials. Yet much of it may be lost or remain hidden away in archives and private collections, making the voices inaccessible to students, teachers, scholars, and the general public. The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind.

WorldImages

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.

Google News Timeline

Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.

Google Hot Trends

Google Hot Trends shows what people are currently searching for on Google. Google Trends provides insights into broad search patterns on Google and can help show what people are interested in on an hourly basis. (Google Trends are updated hourly)

Learn to Type for Free

TypingWeb is a free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for typists of all ages. All skill levels will benefit from TypingWeb's free keyboarding lessons.

Atlas Obscura : a Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities and Esoterica

The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them.

The Mannahatta Project

Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? The Mannahatta Project lets you explore New York in the year 1609.

It turns out that the concrete jungle of New York City was once a vast deciduous forest, home to bears, wolves, songbirds, and salamanders, with clear, clean waters jumping with fish. In fact, with over 55 different ecological communities, Mannahatta’s biodiversity per acre rivaled that of national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains!

id this

id•this is human powered identification of anything or anyone. Just snap a photo of something you'd like identified (like a breed of dog, a type of car, that weird gelatinous blob sitting on your plate, or even that celebrity sitting next to you that you can't remember their name, etc...) and then send it to be identified.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Also check out PLoS Currents, a new and experimental website for the rapid communication of research results and ideas. The first PLoS Currents topic is Influenza in response to the H1N1 flu outbreak