If you just want to feel like you learned something new today, check it out. You will understand a perspective that might have never occurred to you otherwise. It combines what will be the norm in a few years: TV style news and interviews with quality of newspaper articles. The coverage is often light-hearted in tone where appropriate, but hard-hitting in terms of content.

The TV function is good. You don’t get this cheaply done stuff with a washed up presenter, bad graphic effects and stolen clips from NBC. They get exclusive pieces and access to press events that actually mean something within their respective genre. For example, when I reviewed the site they had stories about 9/11 and Google’s CEO discussing geothermal energy.

If you have a Facebook account then you can log in using that instead of registering to make comments etc… To view videos, read articles or just browse it’s completely free and there is no need to register.

This is a very useful site and best of all, it works great on the iPhone for when you’re on the move.

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Check out FORA.TV @ www.fora.tv (by Dean Sherwin)

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You can view what they have voted on (motions, amendments, resolutions etc.), browse news mentions in online media sources (newspapers, blogs, magazines, YouTube videos) and follow their Twitter updates. Moreover, you may browse representatives for different US states and add them to a Watch List to track their latest online activity in one place. No registration needed.

Features:

• Track online activity (news mentions, twitter updates, videos etc.) of US congressmen and senators in one place.
• Search for a legislator from a search bar or browse representative from each state on a map.
• Add politicians to your Watch List.

Check out Legistalker @ www.legistalker.org

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You could either directly select politicians from US, Canada, India and UK or select the custom option from the drop down menu and type in the name of your favorite politicians whose quotes you’d like to compare. Considering the current US election season, this tool has the potential to become a blockbuster tool at least in the US.

When selecting a topic to get quotes on you can either type something out your head or just choose a couple from hot topics list.

Check out In Quotes @ labs.google.com/inquotes ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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