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http://www.bing.com

What is Bing?

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine.  Bing is an intuitive search engine that tries to assist you in better searching.  It does this by offering suggestive terms and providing you content preview of your search results to help you refine your search of content on the internet.

What you may not know about Bing

Bing has multiple search features to not only search for articles and news related content.  Bing features an extensive search for multimedia such as images and video.  Bing has a collection of search refining tools for images and video.  For instance, you can search images and filter out images of people only by head shots.  Or hover your mouse over video results to see a preview of the video.  Bing is putting up a strong effort towards Google and their domination of finding content for users on the internet.

Here’s a quick video on Bing:

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http://www.slideshare.net

What is Slideshare?

Slideshare allows its users to upload, share and collaborate on powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents.  Many times speakers at differente events and seminars put up their presentations on Slideshare to share with its viewers.  This means you can search thousands upon thousands of powerpoint presentations from many popular events and seminars held worldwide.

What you may not know about Slideshare

Not only can you find powerpoint slides and Word documents, you can favorite and tag them to quickly create your own library of presentations.  Furthermore, on the right side of the presentation is the option to view related presentations to further your learning.  So stop using Google and Wikipedia as your only news source and start being more intuitive on your content learning.  Download powerpoint presentations on your topics and continue to broaden your knowledge presented by others.

Here’s a quick video on Slideshare:

URL:

http://www.wikipedia.org

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia.  This means that all of the content on Wikipedia is written and updated by it’s users.  Virtually anyone can add/remove/change content on Wikipedia.   Having this kind of power with collaborative content.  The contents of Wikipedia is very large and continously expanding, quickly.  You can find virtually anything about nearly any topic on Wikipedia.

What you may not know about Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a feature for logged in users called My Watchlist.  This allows you to monitor different pages on any subjest you want.  Since content about different topics on Wikipedia is updated so frequently and fast, its possible to use Wikipedia as a news source.  So by adding your favorite topics to your Watchlist and monitoring the changes, you can get the newest knowledge about a topic your interested in, directly from the authors of Wikipedia, millions.

Here’s a quick video of Wikipedia:

URL:

http://www.recipematcher.com

What is RecipeMatcher?

RecipeMatcher is a recipe website based off of the idea of revese recipe lookup.  What this mean is you first create a pantry of ingredients that you have in your home and then find recipes of things you can make without grocery shopping.  Even if you wanted to make something that you may not have all the ingredients, you’ll be quickly given the missing ingredients to add to your grocery list.

What you may not know about RecipeMatcher

RecipeMatcher gives you the option to add your own recipes to their library as well as favorite the ones you like the most.  This allows you to create a recipe book of your own that you can quickly go to to see what you can make from your current pantry. It also allows you to expand on the recipe library giving the community of RecipeMatcher users more options with their iPantry.

Here’s a quick video on RecipeMatcher:

URL:

http://www.amiestreet.com

What is AmieStreet?

AmieStreet is a website to discover new music.  If you’re one for being ahead of the curve on discovering new music, you get rewarded.  For less popular songs, downloads are really cheap or even free!  So discover new music quickly and don’t pay for them to legitimately download the MP3’s.  As songs become more popular the price of the song goes up.  Regardless its very easy that you’ll be able to purchase songs less than those of iTunes.

What you may not know about AmieStreet

AmieStreet has a great recommendation engine.  Easily import your iTunes library, Pandora playlist or Last.FM account and quickly discover new music based off of the music you are already listening too. So here’s a jumpstart to finding new music and download cheap and free MP3’s.

Here’s a video of AmieStreet:

URL:

http://www.brusheezy.com

What is Brusheezy?

Brusheezy is a gallery of community submitted free Photoshop brushes.  As any Photoshop designer would know, the use of Photoshop brushes is key to many graphic designs.  Use and manipulate your images with unique Photoshop brushes and you’re quickly on your way to designing professional looking graphics.

What you may not know about Brusheezy

Brusheezy has a couple sister sites, Vectoreezy and Flasheezy that have vector graphics and flashy files also available for free download.  Just a couple more elements to add to your graphic design arsenal.

Here’s a quick video on Brusheezy:

URL:

http://www.teamsnap.com

What is TeamSnap?

TeamSnap is a tool to help manage your sports team online.  Whether you’re looking to manage your kids soccer team or your adult hockey team, TeamSnap makes it each to keep track of player availability, team and player stats, schedule, whose paid up and more.  Even capture pictures and highlights and post them to your teams TeamSnap page.

What you need to know about TeamSnap

TeamSnap allows you to customize your team’s page.  This is a great way to give your page its own unique look and feel, to match your team’s logo and colors.  Create custom user fields such as nicknames to give your TeamSnap page an even more unique approach.

Here’s a quick video on TeamSnap:

URL:

http://www.priceprotectr.com

What is PriceProtectr?

Use Price Protectr to track prices of things you’re thinking about buying, and save money even after you buy. There are lots of stores out there that offer price protection policies when the price drops on an item you’ve purchased, they’ll refund you the difference. But there’s a catch… it’s up to you to watch prices.  Price Protectr makes it simple to watch prices, keep track of your purchases, and get rebates off price drops.

What you may not know about PriceProtectr

PriceProtectr allows you to monitor a type of product and not just a specific, for great deals.  Click on Deals at the top, enter some keywords for the product you are looking to purchase and get email notifications when different deals come out for your type of product.  Shop smart, without all the hassles.

Here’s a quick video on PriceProtectr:

URL:

http://www.quicksprout.com

What is QuickSprout?

QuickSprout is a blog written by Neil Patel whom has started to largely growing website analytics tools, CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics.   The blog has internet business tips that Neil has accumulated over the past few years and his work online.  He shares his secrets and tricks on blogging and how to make money and generate traffic to your business’ site and/or blog.  A must read blog for any internet entreprenuer out there.

Here’s a quick overview video of QuickSprout

URL:

http://www.youtube.com

What is Youtube?

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Youtube

If you may not know already, Youtube users are currently limited to 10 minute video uploads, but using a few Youtube techniques you can add videos longer than 10 minutes.  In short, crop you video into 10 minute segments, upload them, create a Youtube playlist of your videos, then create a custom video player which plays your playlist, embed the video to your website or blog, voila, you have a Youtube video player that plays a video larger than 10 minutes.

Here’s a video on how to do this :