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Organized Wisdom

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I came across an interesting site that I thought my readers might enjoy.

It’s called Organized Wisdom. It’s goal is to have people visit and either share a health tip, or information regarding a health concern; or for people to visit and read the health library and others peoples stories of shared wisdom.

This seems like a great way to get information about health problems and to see how others deal with their health related issues. You can even read some inspirational stories there too.

Now, I know that some of my readers have health issues, back pain, and even arthritis – why don’t you Help others by sharing 1 piece of health wisdom at OrganizedWisdom.com. Your story might end up helping someone else.






Get your Newgie News

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I’ve been using a new site to view news lately. You’re going to love the name – It’s called Newgie.com. I’ve been using the site to stay on top of the news that I’m interested in hearing about.

It’s very easy to register on the site and once you are a member (free) you can start selecting news categories that you want to see when you first visit your Newgie page. The site ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown. Which means that when you log in you have the hottest stories of the day literally right before your very eyes.

Newgie is very easy to use. You can navigate in two major ways. You can go to your My Newgie page and if you’ve already set up your preferences all the stories from the topics and categories that you selected will be there for you to browse through. Otherwise, you can click on your My account page and set up your preferences there, see the stories that you’ve viewed most recently, and manage your categories, RSS feeds and communities.

It was easy to start selecting categories that I was interested in. You can do all of this from your account page. Just scroll down to the categories section on your account page, then click on “Manage my categories”, from there you can see which ones you’ve subscribed to already or add more categories. Once you’ve selected the types of categories that you like you can adjust the options for each one- such as how many articles it will show you, their rank, and whether it will show you the full article or just a summary to begin with.

You can pick articles that you’ve read and rate them – just hover over the title of the article and description pops up – when you see the pop up you can add the article to your favorites, rate it, recommend it for other Newgies, or discuss it.

Before trying out this news site I used to visit Yahoo News quite often. What is different about Newgie is that when you log on you see the most popular articles of the day in your categories, where as on Yahoo News you get a mix of everything and they’re not always the top stories that you are hoping to find. I think I might like Newgie better than the Yahoo News site.

Newgie also lets you submit your own RRS feed to the site. If it’s approved you can create a Newgie chicklet so that others can add your feed to their newgie account.

Megaglobe Search Engine

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I just discovered a brand new search engine that’s about to start up. It’s called Megaglobe – New International Search Engine. Right now it’s spidering the web collecting websites for it’s search engine. Of course I listed 6 of my sites as soon as I saw that it was asking for url submissions. Why not?

I read a few press releases for Megaglobe and they plan to implement tools that will help put a stop to click fraud. They’re calling it “Zero Click Fraud” technology and they state it will be able to detect false clicks. This will be beneficial to advertisers and websites that place pay per click types of advertising on their sites.

Here’s an actual quote from one of the press releases:

A new search engine to be released in June will offer faster and better quality internet searches as well as providing unique protection against expensive “click through fraud” for companies who advertise in its advertisements section.

Megaglobe will be available in 45 languages thus enabling it to service the whole world. It sounds like it will be an amazing search engine as it will operate from over 300 individual country-specific URL’s, will be translated into hundreds of languages, and it will employ a unique and sophisticated algorithm to improve the quality of Internet searching. Looks like it’s setting up to rival google.

I can’t wait to fully explore Megaglobe when it starts up. It sounds good and it looks like it will be offering some kind of ad system. I’m not sure if will offer a way for website owners to make money on their websites through the use of their ads or if the ads will just be on the megaglobe pages. That’s one thing I will be checking out when it starts up. In the mean time why don’t you visit megaglobe and get your site listed too?

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