neoK12 – Fun Learning
One look at this site and you will know that ‘learning can be fun’. This online resource is a really good addition to the edutainment market. Targeting K-12 school kids, this site provides information disguised as video clips. Subjects range from physical sciences to life sciences to maths to human body and social studies besides others.
This service is free to use. No registration hassles whatsoever. Besides the ease with which children can find categories listed on the main page, search for a specific topic can also be performed. The video hosting service is YouTube.
The site is certified to be kid safe.
Zooity – Profiles Directory
So you have accounts on all the major social networking sites; you have several blogs and you keep tabs on Flickr. In short, you have a plethora of sites to keep a lookout for. If you feel that keeping them in order is getting difficult and you want everything organized in an easy way, zooity is the place you should go to.
This resource allows you to manage all your profiles from a single place. According to them, you can call zooity a centralized public profile resource. The benefit is that all you have to give is the zooity profile link and everyone can see all the sites where you have profiles listed on the zooity page ready to be visited. I am sure the site will grow bigger once you see the benefits of its services and the ease of management which it provides.
FilesOverMiles – Innovative File Sharing
When I stumbled on this website, my first impression was that this would be another one of those sites which allow you to share files over the Internet. Three minutes later, I was staring intently at the site and, well, gawking.
Looks like filesovermiles.com may be the next phenomenon in the file sharing community. This one works totally differently. Open the site in your browser, pick a file to share and the site will generate a URL to be distributed. Pass this URL along with optional password protection and people can use it to download your file. The transfer is P2P, encrypted and no intermediate servers are involved during file transfer.
But like any other innovation, being in beta, there are some problems. You must keep your browser open during the transfer (the transfer takes place using Flash technology, besides this isn’t really a bug), and you cannot transfer really large files. I bet, once these issues are resolved, this service will be worth keeping an eye on.