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Crowd Science is a survey tool, which helps you gather more information about your visitors than any other traffic stats gathering tool. Crowd Science does this be providing your visitors with short, inline surveys, the results of which can be viewed in their very detailed interface along with comprehensive reports. It claims to be as polite and non-intrusive as possible, as it would not want to drive away your visitors.

The set up is very simple. You just have to sign up, add your site, tag your pages and you are done. Then you can chose between four types of survey invitations, customize their colors and include your branding and invitation text. Only a small number of people will be shown the survey invitation prompt, and the survey questions are chosen carefully to be useful to both publishers and and advertisers alike.

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Open Source PHP is an easy to browse gallery for open source PHP projects. PHP is one of the most popular web languages in the world. Facebook is an example of the capabilities of PHP. Anyone can submit or download the PHP projects from this site. So it’s really open in terms of downloading as well as contribution.

The website is divided into two parts, gallery and upcoming. The projects are showing in thumbnails, which show a screenshot of the respective projects. These projects can be rated out of 5 stars. If you sign up for Open Source PHP, you can also bookmark any project you want. Users can comment on the projects, view screenshots and download the code as well. There are also links for Direct Demos of some projects which makes it easier for you to try it out before downloading it and setting it up. Anyone can uploaded screenshots of the projects, hence making it sort of a Wiki. The project and license details are also available in the sidebar when you open up any project’s page. The projects featured on Open Source PHP are great too, which range from bookmarking websites to webmail.

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With the ‘Hurricane Gustav’ approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast, a lot of precaution measures are being taken. Google Earth has also come up with a special folder by the name of ‘Hurricane Gustav’. You can find the new folder under the ‘Weather’ folder in Google Earth.

To find more about the precaution measures or advisory from National Hurricane Center, you can have a look at the forecast track. Furthermore a number of webcams have been set around Louisiana which were provided by Weather Bonk. With the change in situation, the folder is expected to be updated by the Google Earth team.

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Net Applications market share came out with stats  for the usage trend for Apple’s iPhone for the month of August showing a rapid growth in the web browsing share after the initial slump on its launch. The share had peaked up on the usage and touching the peak at 0.48% before it finally sloped downwards in the ending week of August.

There was no reason put up for the slump during the closing week of August but the peaking of usage share was given full credit to the much hyped launch of the iPhone 3G. This shouldn’t be surprising as the iPhone has always put up a better show. As is reported that Apple’s iPhone was responsible for generating around 0.4% of the total browsers’ traffic on the Internet, given their limited numbers.

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If you’re an online junkie, looking to get known for the content you publish MyID is just the right service for you. The service is a one-stop Digital Identity certification platform which allows people to certify their content over the Internet. MyID.is allows users to manage their digital life on blogs, websites, comments, and also on social forums.

You need to have a valid e-mail address and a credit card to access MyID.is. There’s a small fee for this service which is a one-time-only thing that grants a lifetime of access. You will be able to certify yourself over the Internet with several kinds of Badges. This will also enable you to build complete widgets, useful and relevant to your work.

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Although Google is the best in U.S., it certainly doesn’t means that it has outclassed Yahoo everywhere. In the Japanese online market, Yahoo has succeeded in keeping the top spot for the month of June, 2008. Google has maintained the next spot followed by Google and Rakuten. Yahoo’s total number of visitors in June were 46.1 million, where as Google’s visitors were around 35.8 million and Rakuten Inc’s visitors were 30.8 million.

Yahoo and Livedoor has seen an increment of 2% in growth as compared to May, 2008. Google, Rakuten, FC2 and Wikipedia has improved 1% as compared to the previous month. GMO Internet Group’s stats were slightly changed where as Microsoft and NTT group has lost 1% each.

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It appears that Microsoft is nibbling some sense; after biting dust all the time as Apple made a head run with its iPhone and the App Store as well as Google creating the hype with reports of launching its Android any time soon. All this must have made Microsoft feel lagging behind the market and of course the trends set by its competitors might just have made the Windows Mobile division  kicking some dirt off their heads to create something to call their own.

The current news or should I say rumor revolves around a message in relation to third party unity and they have aimed high (like always), calling their stew; Skymarket. The words just out as reported, but we aren’t sure as to what exactly is this about but Microsoft is already on a head hunt for the Senior product manager and product manager. Perhaps it is to bring a one stop shop for the Windows Mobile users who find the worst quality scattered all across the globe compared to Apple’s single App Store with the good to bad application ratio far better than that of Windows mobile.

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Poetry lovers have yet another site to push in their verses for others to read and to add more; work out on their poetic ideas and amalgamate them into an exciting and more lively format  by bringing combined talents of poets, actors and motion graphic artists at one place.

The idea behind PoetryVisualized is plain and simple; hop in to show off your creative talents. The idea is to bring about something way better than just an online collection of short films; which is to combine various short visual poetry/short films into one as a full length movie and promoting it in various festivals, selling it on the website, in short bringing up a global distribution of the something that has been tailored in creativity.

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OurExplorer provides you with the opportunity to uniquely discover your next travel destination! Through a simple method you can book your tourist guide and get ready to wander your travel destination more deeply and richly. The service allows making good use of those holidays or business trips by not only traveling, but exploring more.

OurExplorer is a ambitious service aimed at travelers with the zest to have an adventurous travel experience. By their list of tourist guides options, you can make your selection and look forward to enjoying an insight into local cultures.

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For those of us who value fitness over any and everything else, demands for services that provide them a check on all their activities remains number one priority. They would grab on whatever they find worth having their hands at in order to watch out on the ‘ah so important fitness routine’. I am myself one of those head eaters, and had always felt a need to chart out how much I run, walk during the course of the day and like many couldn’t keep a check on it. Using a stopwatch and recording sounds so prehistoric in the present age.

It is here I get my eyes at the Runkeeper; a service, as the name suggests Keeps your Runs save; which means using this runners now have an application to record details like, speed, duration per mile, distance etc onto this website. Satellite keeping an eye on you? Not exactly, but they have build up an application for the favorite gadget; your iPhone.

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