NoDiamonds

Buying the rights to use photos on your site can be an expensive proposition, starting from dozens of dollars and going into the hundreds per photo. Luckily, there are a lot of websites out there cataloguing photos that can be used for free. The official term is royalty free photos, and usually there are some …

Almost every week there seems to be a great new application of technology on the Internet. Here are some recent examples to do with uses of an Internet wonder in its own right, Google Maps:
forest fire in Louisiana
Google Sightseeing: blog made up of photos of the Google Satellite site, with detailed aerial views of the …

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The Wikipedia is a free web-based encyclopedia with content written by an army of volunteers. It's a fabulous resource and gives me hope for humanity. Wired magazine reports:
In 2005, the nonprofit venture is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. Wikipedia offers 500,000 articles in English – compared with Britannica's 80,000 and Encarta's 4,500 – fashioned …