Yahoo Pipes Pipes is a web service that allows users to easily build web-based applications from aggregated web feeds, web pages and other sources of content. The drag-and-drop user interface makes it dead simple to quickly create useful applications from various data sources. Some examples below: Content Keyword RSS This pipe will search news sources [...]
(via caribbeannetnews.com/)  Guyana’s ministry of health has called on residents to remain alert as a result of 12 confirmed cases of dengue fever in region nine, Lethem, close to the Guyana-Brazil border. Health minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said over the past month there have been a number of reported cases of fever in the region [...]
TheCommon.org The Common is a sort of match-making site for non-profits and socially minded organizations needing help and looking to help others. Once you sign up, you can either join a “Community” or add your own. By community, they mean non-profits, churches and activist groups. From there you are supposed to invite people you know [...]
From NPR – At college commencement time, some graduates explore Peace Corps opportunities. For nearly 50 years, the agency has been sending Americans all over the world. Scott Simon talks with Robert Strauss, former country director of the Peace Corps in Cameroon. Strauss says that the Peace Corps has lost its edge for assisting developing [...]
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Flickr Video This week, Flickr introduced the ability to upload video to their website. The point isn’t to compete with YouTube but to allow users to upload short clips taken with a digital camera or cell phone. The limit for each file is 90 seconds in length and up to 10 megs. Is this useful? [...]
You’re doing it wrong Twitter is extremely useful beyond the “I had a ham sandwich for lunch” or the “I’m watching Sanford & Son” tweets. There’s a lot you can do with 140 characters of text. Lifehack.org has a few suggestions. Quick Human Answers – Ask folks on your friend’s list which digital camera to [...]
(via friendsofdaniel.blogspot.com) The Peace Corps website last week, on the Peace Corps Response page, quietly posted a historical job description. It describes the first vacancy for a PC Volunteer in 19 years. Peace Corps Response is the new name for the agency’s short-term volunteer program, formerly known as the Crisis Corps. At the request of [...]
(via stabroeknews.com) Guyana is seeking further assistance from the Indian Government in such areas as training, bio-fuel and agricultural development, food security and health and the two have begun crafting their work programme for bilateral co-operation over the next two years. The two sides met yesterday for the fourth Session of the Guyana–India joint commission [...]
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