Two Mad Geeks

The web site is dedicated to identifying areas within the United States and Canada where cellular phone calls are frequently dropped or where cell phone service is not available. The “Wikimap” of cell phone coverage complaints.

Link: Dead Cell Zones

Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade. According to Comscore, for every page viewed on Brittanica.com, 184 pages are viewed on Wikipedia (3.8 billion v. 21 million pave views per month).

And now, you can get access to the online version for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a “web publisher.” The definition of a web publisher is rather squishy: “This program is intended for people who publish with some regularity on the Internet, be they bloggers, webmasters, or writers. We reserve the right to deny participation to anyone who in our judgment doesn’t qualify.” Basically, you sign up, tell them about your site URL and a description, and they review it and decide if you’ll get in.

Link: Tech Crunch

HTML Playground is an online service where you can create XHTML and CSS. Select a tag with your mouse. Check description of the selected tag. Select a tag from the sample code. Modify the attributes. Check the code result. It’s that easy.

Link: HTML Playground

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Link: Amazon