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We have got sponsors funding almost everything that they think might appeal to the people and more importantly generate healthy profits as well. This has been up with a countless online services and platforms crawling on the floors of the Web. ReelChanges however, comes up as a non-profit organization that comes with an objective to enrich the media scene by facilitating the creation and distribution oh high-quality documentaries.

The company as already told provides micro-financing for documentaries that are worth putting the money in and since it’s non-profit, it relies upon the donations that are made to the documentary projects (that doesn’t exempt anyone from ‘tax deductions’).

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It rarely happens when you hear that Google acquires something and it ends up biting dust; but the case has been quite different with Jaiku. Ever since its acquisition by Google the service has been put aside and neglected for overtime the service has primarily become useless.

MG Siegler reports of Jaiku getting a CPR to breathe life into it. The site presently reads a pretty hopeful message that the service might very well come back to life:

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What is it that people would want to see in the new Kindle if Amazon comes out with it anytime soon? An mp3 player integrated into it or some transformation to cellular phone; people might speculate at Amazon bringing out some replica of iPhone or a competitor to Google’s Android. Whatever we speculate for the new Kindle to be sources at Amazon put it to be the same e-book reader with a much more improved interface and operating controls.

Tim Bueneman puts the new Kindle to target the vast market it has amongst college students. He stated:

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Now here’s a website you can make use of – deepmemo a social quotation service, allows you to save everything interesting, easily and quickly, that you come across over the Internet.

Deepmemo uses tags so you can easily organize your quotes and notes, find the information you need, among all the rest that you saved. The systematic approach of deepmemo allows sharing the most interesting stuff with your friends instantly. It will also, help find new friends and like-minded people on the basis of what and where from your saved quotes.

Download and install deepmemo’s toolbar to use all the features,

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72photos is an amazing website that provides you an online space to store photos. You can have a repository of your memories and can access it from anywhere without paying a single penny. It allows you to edit photos without software installation.

Features like Flickr, Facebook and Picasa importing makes it all more interesting. Thus, you can also import photos from your accounts if you don’t feel like uploading them. Explore new images by browsing through popular tags or have a glance at people’s choice through ‘top picks’.

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Access, protect and share sounds so repeated with a new service popping up to offer them. Things that make them stand apart from each other the first time you see them are logos, the names and the layouts. One wonders what happens when the user eventually gets caught in the web of these one-stop services as well. VeriSign’s PIP: Personal Identity Portal offers the same; managing your online identity without compromising your privacy.

PIP uses OpenID to enable secure interactions that are done online amongst various accounts, relieving the user of the need to keep track of the many passwords and other login details they have amassed over time. Using various authentication types PIP makes sure things get easy and highly secure for its users and for that it uses SSL encryption plus controlling your interactions with identity agent of your choice.

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With the advent of internet in mobiles, the trend of accessing internet have changed. With the huge level of popularity, investors are also concentrating this area. MoFuse, an online mobile site, has also joined the race and has raised an investment in the first round of funding.

The Providence, Rhode Island based company which started in August 2007, provide bloggers the ability to publish their stuff online using mobiles. The service is not specific to bloggers which means that anyone can create a mobile website using the MoFuse platform.

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The word ‘universal’ is always acceptable to the large number of people and the need o have the word associated with everything they have. We have had quite a man services turning into one stop solution to everything and social networking, emails, etc are no exception. NutshellMail a web based service; makes its way with the helpful method of transforming your primary mail account into a universal one enabling you to access, manage and monitor all your email and social networking accounts.

Still in beta testing after being found by David Lyman and Mark Shmulen quite some time back, the service offers a lot to everyone, from saving time and the task of hitting in and remembering passwords for various accounts scattered all across the web to accessing external messaging accounts. This comes in handy, as quite a lot of organizations restrict employees from accessing various services, like Orkut etc, with this they can have access to the restricted services without breaking the rules of their organization.

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With only a few weeks to go for the U.S. presidential elections 2008, there are a lot of speculations going on regarding it and people are curious about the latest developments. With the race of providing the fastest news heating up, Google Mobile has also entered the arena. Now you can stay up to date with the latest election updates.

All you have to do is to go to the following link, Election 2008 latest updates. Here you will find following resources:

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Refocus Imaging, Inc., a California based startup has raised $250,000 in Series B funding ventured by Greylock. According to VentureBeat, the site has already raised an undisclosed first round funding in 2007. The revolutionized site is dedicated to the art of photography where you can edit your image by refocusing it.

Refocus Image offers a striking feature that are lacking in the other Photo services and sites. Number of Image editing tools allows you to alter image, but you cannot fix out the photo that is badly taken or can say is focused-out by photographer. But the technology allows you to redefine image with a special lens and captures the entire light field entering the lens. Thus you can alter depth-of-field after taking photo by adjusting slider for the image.

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