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Sneakerpedia: Online Destination For Sneaker Enthusiasts

abhijeet — Sun, 22 May 2011 17:01:05 +0000

Sneakerpedia is a new site launched by Foot Locker, the popular online retailer for shoes and other footwear. As the name suggests, the site focuses on the segment of Foot Locker’s audience that’s passionate about sneakers (believe me, there are a lot of such people out there). Users can post pictures of their sneakers, details like brand, size, color, release date, personal product insights and suggestions they might have, and also stories where their sneakers had a role to play. You can also search for all kinds of sneakers while applying filters like brand, type, material, color etc on the site.

Currently, the sneaker photos on the site appear to be added by the site owners, and not a lot of user submitted content can be found. I am guessing this will change as word spreads about this new site.

Features

Website for sneaker lovers.
Upload your sneaker photos and other details.

Check out Sneakerpedia @ www.sneakerpedia.com (via SocialTimes By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Qwiki: An Interactive Knowledge Wiki For Students & Teachers

Israel Nicolas — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:01:34 +0000

Wikipedia, the mother of all knowledge wikis, is unmatched in the breadth and depth of articles that it has published. However, if you want to have an awesome experience with knowledge-based wikis, then you should check out Qwiki. This a new website provides an interactive wiki experience with the help of a slick interface and audio-visual presentations for all its entries.

To start using Qwiki, just enter any topic in its search bar. Qwiki finds the most relevant page where you can listen to the text-to-speech generated audio and picture slides. You can also click the content tab to read the short transcribed description, find pictures of the subject, and view related qwikis. Hover your mouse over the the images in the presentation to enlarge and click through them. While you can’t change the text like in normal wikis, you can still improve an entry by suggesting a picture, YouTube video, or providing feedback to the audio quality.

Qwiki is a very useful tool for teachers looking for an interactive medium to teach grade school students. The way the audio, video, image, and text are packaged makes it one of the most effective learning tools online.

For more info watch the video below:

Features:

Cool interactive wiki online.
Improve Qwiki entries by suggesting photo and videos.
Watch presentations with photo slides.
Hover each photo to learn more about them.
View related Qwikis.
Similar tools: Ten Word Wiki, gdgt, Fotopedia, Navify and AgainButSlower.

Check out Qwiki @ www.qwiki.com

WikiCards: Store & Organize Your Data Online

Umar — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:01:20 +0000

Normally we store a lot of information on our computers. We create and store to-do lists, shopping lists, documents, and a lot of other things. If you are looking for a tool that better organizes all these files, then WikiCards is where your search ends.

WikiCards lets you sort your data via virtual cards. When a new card is formed it contains only a title and description. Later on you can attach a document or an image to it. Each card can be also extended with additional fields. Fields are labeled values that can be text, a date, a number, or a user. Once you have the cards, you can organize them into groups or apply tags to them. Cards can be edited anytime; they can also be batch edited.

Using WikiCards you can make your lists mobile by accessing your lists on the site through your smartphone.

Features:

Organize and store data online and access anywhere.
Lets you manage data via cards.
Cards can hold text, documents, and images.
Cards can be organized and edited.
You can access the site through a smartphone and access your lists remotely.
Similar tools: Knowcase, Spark App, ListaMania, Scribbly, Stickr, NoteForLater, Wrttn and LessMemories.
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Check out WikiCards @ www.info.wikicards.net/index.html (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Wikipedia Book Creator: Create eBooks From Wikipedia Pages

Sharninder — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:01:43 +0000

Wikipedia is a great source of information. There is a page on almost any topic under the sun, but the only problem with Wikipedia is that it really doesn’t lend itself well to offline reading. If you’re the kind of person who likes to print lengthy Wikipedia articles to read offline at leisure, you should give the Wikipedia Book Creator a try.

The Book Creator is a new feature from Wikipedia that lets you select one or more pages from the online encyclopedia and add them to a PDF eBook that you can then download and read offline at your leisure. You can even get a printed book delivered to your doorstep, for a small fee.

If you would like to make some changes to the pages that you just saved, you can even download the eBook in the OpenDocument Text format.

Features:

Wikipedia ebook creator.
Free to use and doesn’t require registration.
Easiest way to read wikipedia articles offline.
Supported PDF and the OpenDocument Text format for output.
You can even get, for a small fee, your selected articles in a printed book.

Check out the Wikipedia Book Creator @ www.en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator

Mashpedia: A Real-Time Encyclopedia

Israel Nicolas — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:01:21 +0000

When we search for information online, we usually read wikis, search results, watch videos, read news and blogs, and sort through social network streams. But wouldn’t it be nice if all of these were located on one seamless page?

Enter Mashpedia, a real-time encyclopedia that aggregates multiple live web feeds about a specific topic and converts them into a structured and easily readable layout.

To start using Mashpedia, just enter any topic in the search field. Then the app can bring you to the exact page or give you a list of results for your search terms. Each entry provides a definition of terms, videos, Twitter feeds, and more. Mashpedia also offers semantic connections between articles.

You can toggle each box in the entry to show/hide them. There are also individual settings available for each section to allow you to customize the article. The Twitter stream for the topic is very useful since you can find real live updates alongside the wiki content. This provides a nice combination of time-context that complements the content that you are reading. You can also post and add comments to contribute relevant information.

Mashpedia is a great web tool for those who want to learn something new every day, or for people who want to stay on top of any topic.

Features:

Aggregates multiple web feeds about a topic.
Get information from Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, and more.
Fast and seamless.
Free; no sign up required.
View and post comments for each entry.

Check out Mashpedia @ www.mashpedia.com

Ten Word Wiki: Wikipedia For The Twitter Generation

Sharninder — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:01:05 +0000

Wikipedia is great for finding information from around the world. They have detailed articles running into hundreds of words on almost any topic under the sun. That, in my opinion, is also one of the problems with Wikipedia.

If you only need to know a quick fact about a place, thing or topic, Wikipedia is probably not the right place for you. It is this niche that Ten Word Wiki aims to fill.

Ten Word Wiki is to Wikipedia what Twitter is to blogging. Instead of writing hundreds of words on a single topic, Ten Word Wiki aims to describe each topic in less than 10 words. For example, this page describing a bicycle on Wikipedia will easily fill 2-4 pages of a book, whereas Ten Word Wiki defines a bicycle as :

A human powered two wheeled vehicle, normally with pedals.

The authors at Ten Word Wiki aren’t always serious like the ones at Wikipedia. They also have a funny side as can be seen in their definition of Twitter:

A trendy virtual social network service with incredibly wordy posts.

Features:

Free to use, edit and create entries.
Can be used as a good reference if you’re short of time.

Check out Ten Word Wiki @ http://www.tenwordwiki.com

Fullwiki: Wikipedia and Google Maps Combined

jpot — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:01:41 +0000

Your standard Wikipedia article mentions a lot of places. Google Maps knows where they all are. Fullwiki aims to utilize Wikipedia’s textual content in a new way, it combines Wikipedia and Google Maps so that the precise location of anything mentioned is only a click away. For example, if a city is mentioned in an article, that city is given a link; click that link and you’re taken to its Google Map result.

The aim here is to supplement the textual information in Wikipedia with helpful maps; the result is often is a mess. Several articles on Wikipedia contain references to hundreds of locations, meaning the map you see is a world map so crowded with locations as to be useless.

Still, Fullwiki represents a new way to check out Wikipedia articles, and is a great supplement if you want a better geographic understanding of a particular article.

Features:

Wikipedia’s articles combined with Google Maps.
Click icon to locate any location mentioned in article.
No pictures on articles that feature maps.
Wikipedia content used legally as per Wikipedia’s license.

Check out Fullwiki.

intodit: Create a Wiki For Anything

Kaly — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:26:31 +0000

Intodit is a free and flexible hosted Wiki service that allows you to create your own wikis online. Each created wiki will have its own URL and can be easily shared with others. You can add all sorts of content (text, graphics, images and video) to your wiki, and collaborate on it across the net.

The interface of the site is quite clean and getting started takes less than a minute.

To create a wiki first you need to register on the website and complete quick wiki setup process. Upon completion of the wiki you will be redirected to your wiki home page.

Each wiki comes with an intuitive control panel from where wiki administrators can edit, mange and customize it the way they want it.

In addition to creating new wikis, intodit lets you browse through existing wikis on a wide range of topics (food, hobbies, movies… etc). To get a better idea about how people use intodit wikis check out the hottest wikis on the website.

Features:

Create your own wiki online.
Create as many wikis as you like.
Add & collaborate on all sorts of content (text, graphics, images and video).
Easily edit, manage and customize wikis online.
Create an RSS feed for your wiki.
Search and browse wikis created by other users.
Check out newest and hottest groups.
Free and simple to use.
Similar sites: PBwiki, ScribleWiki, PikoWiki and MediaWiki.

Check out intodit @ www.intodit.com

Wiki: Search Only Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Type Websites

azim — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:11:04 +0000

Online encyclopedias are great place to get a structured, factual and complete information on pretty much any topic. It’s better than using search engines. Now at Custom Google Search based Wiki.com, you can search only encyclopedias and Wikipedia type websites. The search engine scans most of the big online encyclopedias like Britannica, Encarta, InfoPlease, Wikipedia etc., as well as other smaller independent wikis.

While users can search all sources at the same time, there are also options to limit search to Wikipedia online, all online wikis, or search only on conventional online encyclopedias.

Features:

Searche for information on online encyclopedias.
Sources include popular online encyclopedias like Encarta, Britannica, Wikipedia and several others.
Similar sites: Wikiwix.

Check out Wiki.com @ www.wiki.com

TrendingTopics: View Hot Wikipedia Topics & Trends

Kaly — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:29:02 +0000

TrendingTopics displays popular and hot Wikipedia entries. The home page shows “Trending” topics for last 30 days and “Rising” topics that have been gaining momentum in the last 24 hours. You can also search for any topic of your interest and view its trends over a period of time. The data related to each Wikipedia entry is nicely presented on a clean interface and includes interactive charts.

Features:

Shows popular Wikipedia articles.
Search and view trends for the Wikipedia topic of your interest.
See trend changes for the a period of time.
Check out “Trending” topics for last 30 days.
See popular topics in the last 24 hours.
Latest news related to the topic is also displayed.
Similar tools: Wikirank and Wikirage.

Check out Trending Topics @ www.trendingtopics.org