Nirvino.com is a collection of wine reviews and wine ratings from certified wine critics around the world.

Nirvino.com is a collection of wine reviews and wine ratings from certified wine critics around the world. We attempt to catalog every review and rating available for the wines in our database. These reviews and ratings are then calculated into an overall score, The Nirvino Rating, for each wine. In addition Nirvino provides relevant information on appellations, grapes, vineyards, vintages, winemakers, wineries, wine stores, and other terroir.

What is the Nirvino Rating?
The Nirvino Rating is a representation of whether wine critics overall liked or disliked a particular wine. A wine is considered GOOD when 60% or more of the reviews for a wine are positive and BAD when lower than 60% are positive. To calculate whether an individual review is positive or not, each type of wine scoring system is taken into account:

Who are certified wine critics?
Certified wine critics are individuals or oganizations accredited by the wine industry or with the experience and number of reviews necessary to meet our guidelines. Please contact us for more information on our critic guidelines. To synopsize, the Nirvino Rating is calculated from an experienced and unbiased set of wine critics.

What are some of the other features at Nirvino?
- There are over 4802 wines and 469 reviews in our database.
- Detailed information on each wine from alcohol content to winemaker's notes.
- Standardized naming convention and label graphics for each wine.
- Google search of all our wines and other information.
- Browse for wines in our db by rating, price, region (appellation), grape (varietal), winery, winemaker, vintage, vineyard, and wine stores
- Ability to sort wines by rating, price, winery, title, and vintage.
- Wine critics pages with review and ratings history plus biographical information.
- Information on how often critics agree with each other.
- Detailed information on thousands of wineries, regions (appellations), vintages, grapes (varietals), winemakers, wine stores, and other terroir.

Reporters Without Borders : produces handbook for bloggers

Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.

Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

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Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
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Are you tired of questions and answers?

Are you tired of questions and answers?

There are lots of question and answer sites out there- Yahoo Answers, Microsoft QnA, Askville, Answerbag, Yedda, and soon to be Uclue. All of these sites try to do roughly the same thing- questions and answers.

YcantI.net is my humorous take on Q&A- "Q w/o A". Questions without Answers. Anyone can ask a question, no one can provide an answer.Did you ever wish you could ask a question and have no one answer it? . This website won't help you get answers, but it will let you, ask the question- why can't I?.

This site is now in beta, we will post new updates later on.

100 Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators

This guide provides K12 educators with a number of ways to use Web 2.0 in their classrooms. (By Quentin D'Souza)

Global knowledge base built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone.

Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons. Freebase.com is enabled by the technology of Metaweb, which is described at www.metaweb.com.

Freebase is still in alpha with a limited number of users as we get things tidied up. With our Beta launch, Freebase will be open for general read with no registration required.

Freebase.com allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data, through either the Freebase.com web site or through application program interfaces (APIs). Freebase makes it easy put data in and pull data out for any commercial or non-commercial purpose.

How is Freebase related to Metaweb?
Freebase was built by the team at Metaweb using technology they developed to allow extremely large volumes of data to be collected, organized, connected and modified by a community of contributors, developers, publishers, and people who just plain like data. It's also a great example of what's possible using Metaweb's technology.

Maximize contextual linking between websites across the web.

LinkedWords.com™ is a new approach to contextually organize the information on the web. Through its innovative contextual platform it provides web publishers with a unique way to do grammatical, meaningful and contextual hyper-linking of words, phrases and whole sentences within their content. Doing contextual hyper-linked words across millions of web pages, documents and content areas we help common users contextually find the information they look for at the right time and place, just on demand.

LinkedWords.com™ is unique concept built upon an innovative and intuitively WEB 2.0 functional yet powerful web-based contextual platform. It helps both sides of the web -- the common users find and the publishers manage the information on the web easier and simpler on a contextual basis. The platform is community driven, expandable on demand, ever evolving huge directory tree-like architecture where anyone can create unlimited number of contextual listings, suggest and immediately create main categories, sub-categories and as many words-, phrases- and sentences-based pages as necessary, dynamically change the position of listings by voting, all this in real time, yet monitored by hundreds of experienced content editors.

A professional, fast, and inexpensive research service.

uclue is a professional, fast, and inexpensive research service.

How does it work?
Post a question, and set the fee that you are willing to pay for an answer.

The team of uclue researchers will look it over, and one of them will likely 'lock' it, and get to work on an answer. If a researcher needs more information, or if the fee isn't quite right for the amount of work involved, the researcher will post a Clarification Request, and you will be notified by email that your input is being sought.

When should I use uclue?

* When you're too busy to research a topic yourself.
* When you don't know where to look.
* When you don't know enough about the research area in question.
* When you need a credible, reliable, professional, high-quality answer to an important question.

Who will answer my question?
Your question will be answered by a uclue researcher, who receives 75% of your question price (the uclue service receives the remaining 25%).

A free instant access to property valuations, real estate professionals and additional services.

eppraisal.com is a free service that allows anyone to quickly and easily take the first step to buying, selling, or refinancing a home by providing instant access to property valuations, real estate professionals and additional services.

eppraisal.com pulls together public record data from over 70 million homes to quickly and easily give you an estimated value range. This value range is just the first step; let our team of selected real estate professionals assist you with the next phase.

Is Spotplex a Better Digg?

Spotplex provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count.

In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles read most in a given timeframe.

Bloggers can track and analyze their blog traffic with a simple Spotplex code or widget. Not just how many people visit the blog, they can even find which articles people read most and how many people read them. Whenever an article of the blog is read, it will show up at Spotplex in real-time and get noticed by Spotplex users.

1. A blogger inserts a Spotplex code into their blog.
2. Whenever an article in the blog is read, the code reports Spotplex server that the article is read.
3. The article shows up on Spotplex and the view counter reflects the change.

WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.

You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article abstracts and their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Because WorldCat libraries serve diverse communities in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages.

Healthline Networks : The successful online medical resource site

Healthline Networks offers the easiest way for consumers to quickly and easily find consistently excellent health information on the Web. By utilizing its robust search and navigation platform, Healthline is focused on becoming the global leader in intelligent health information services, enabling consumers to make more confident, informed decisions about their health.

Healthline's taxonomy-driven Medically Guided Search platform provides consumers and business partners with a powerful portfolio of online health search, content, and navigation services. This "semantic taxonomy" - the only one of its kind currently in existence - is built from multiple medical databases and uniquely connects interrelated concepts to provide a semantic organization and contextual presentation of health-related information.

Global Voices Online : a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by Harvard Law School.

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.

A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs.

SoftLaw Citator is the software offering Kenyan legislation and its amendments electronically

SoftLaw Citator is the first software of its kind, offering Kenyan legislation and its amendments electronically. Citator runs on an Intranet and allows users of an organisation to quickly access the Laws of Kenya over their local network. Users benefit from a periodic amendment service that ensures their Laws are always up-to-date.
oftLaw Limited, a fully Kenyan-owned company, was formally incorporated in 2003. The vision of the founders is to provide our consumers with products that create easier, faster, and cheaper ways of doing business.

SoftLaw is progressively growing to establish itself as the leader in the provision of business support services. Being relatively new to the industry and young, we are more committed, we try harder, and we care more for our clients and our partners. Our motto “inspired” defines the driving force of our ideas and the client reaction we desire for those ideas.

afriziki : a Media technology company providing digital distribution

Media technology company providing digital distribution solutions and services to African themed businesses. ...

ICTvillage.com is an industry-driven online portal and business lobby to make Kenya the ICT hub of Africa.

ICTvillage.com is an industry-driven online portal and business lobby to make Kenya the ICT hub of Africa. Our goal is to bring the ICT industry in Kenya (from small enterprises to large multinationals) together to fulfill the following goals by 2010:
• US$10 billion revenues.
• 1 million direct ICT jobs.
• 3.5 million computers in Kenya.
• 7 million internet users in Kenya.
• US$100 million ICT venture fund.
• US$1 billion ICT Equity Fund.
• #1 outsourcing destination in Africa.
We believe that the ICT industry in Kenya should be at the forefront of proactively implementing all the various ICT-related development and investment initiatives that have been initiated by the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Information & Communications, such as:
• Fibre Connectivity,
• Technology Parks,
• Digitization Campaign,
• Outsourcing Destination,
• ICT Venture Funds,
• ICT Skills Set Database.

WallStPoP is a site which enables to search the latest information on stock market news

WallStPoP is a Web2.0 style site which enables to search the latest information on stock market news and blog articles and to comment on that news. WallStPoP has the following features.
Powerful RSS Search Engine

You can get the latest news and blog articles from pre-selected high quality stock information site. Using the helpful tags, you can access to information quickly and efficiently.
Hottest Comment Sharing

You can share your comment on the stock news and blog articles. Seeing WallStPoP Comment, you will be able to feel the current bull or bear atmosphere.
Sophisticated RSS Reader

You can use our web based RSS Reader to track the latest market news. Our featured personalized WallStPoP My Page is very useful to read the full story about the particular news.

neighborrow.com identifies and tracks individually owned items and pools them into a collection

neighborrow.com identifies and tracks individually owned items and automatically pools them into one giant collection for a group of people living in a concentrated area. Once an item is added to the system, it is visible to every member of the group immediately. Each neighborrowhood is transformed into a perpetually growing, completely transparent, collectively owned, FREE library that is open (theoretically) 24 hours a day. Using an apartment building as an example, the building is the library and the library is the building. What could be more convenient than that? In addition to apartment buildings, neighborrow works any place on earth where there are people and things (and the Internet)! All you need to do is list and lend; then borrow, trade and share anything in the library.

All you need to participate is:

1.
Internet connection
2.
Doorman
A doorman, or a similar "third party enabler" that can serve as a trusted vehicle through which the transaction can be completed (this not required for private groups and public members who are willing to trade directly with each other in person or through trackable mail).
3.
Some items that you are willing to lend to others in your neighborrowhood
Simply set up an account with some basic personal information and neighborrow.com takes the simplistic and traditional act of borrowing from your neighbor, and applies it to the information age.

Sigly's creates a standard method for legally collecting e-signatures online.

Brought to you by the folks at Numly, Sigly's purpose is to create a standard method for legally collecting e-signatures online. Using Numly's time stamping and verification services and Vouchor's identity 2.0 services as an optional measure of additional proof, Sigly can produce a non-reputable electronic signature service online.
How Does It Work?

Sigly links Numly numbered documents to e-signature transactions. It's simple to get started:

1) Register a document with Numly.
2) Click Request Signature to invite your signers.
3) Sigly will send out email invitations for signatures and record their time stamps with unique Numly Numbers upon signing. You will receive emails from Numly as signatures are registered. You will also be able to manage the signatures from your Numly portal.

PBwiki is the world's largest consumer wiki farm

PBwiki is the world's largest consumer wiki farm.
Wikis are simple Web pages that let you collaborate with others.

We launched PBwiki in June 2005. Within 48 hours, we had over 1000 wikis created. Today we have over 100,000 wikis and close to a million pages of user-created content. From university professors to gamers, fashionistas to entrepreneurs, PBwiki users are creating the future of sharing information and creating communities. PBwiki is a part of Coceve, a privately held company in the Bay area, and is run by 3 Stanford graduates.

Congoo : a uniquely valuable tool for staying current on anything.

Congoo News is a uniquely valuable tool for staying current on anything. Congoo News features news stories from over 25,000 free and subscription content sources across hundreds of topics categorized and updated every 15 minutes! Congoo’s news channel focuses on providing real time information across hundreds of broad and niche topics with a special focus on industry news and information.

Many of the Web’s most valuable news stories are locked away behind subscription barriers and only available to paying subscribers. This is why many news aggregators don’t feature premium information in their news headlines. In addition to the news channel, features like Industry Briefings and keyword alerts keep you informed about important news spanning the free and invisible Web. Millions of professionals are now using Congoo to keep their finger on the pulse of their industry. Don’t limit your view to the free Web; use Congoo’s patented technology to unlock these valuable resources!