Writing can be a lonely occupation especially when you do it on a freelance basis and from the confines of your home office. The old ego needs massaging occasionally too but that requires seeking out like-minded people who will read your work and give appropriate feedback. Read more
Have you ever wished you had a fairy Godmother to help guide you through the steps of how to do something properly? It could be something as simple as finding out how to restart your mobile phone or even how to tie your shoelaces. StepStation is an education knowledge share tool that has the answers to many common problems and guides you through them with a simple step-by-step interaction. StepStation is a resource that gives people a place to come and find out how to do things properly. It's focus is to instruct users how to complete tasks and ... Read more
There are a number of sites around giving budding writers the opportunity to get published on the web and earn a few royalties in return. This one invites photographers as well and the window to the world for accepted work of either category is via AOL’s 80 or so websites covering topics such as music, TV, tech, finance and many more. Read more
Don't you love those westerns where the guy walks into town and announces that there's a new sheriff in town? It brings out the Machiavellian spirit in the best of us. MayorVille is a revolutionary free social networking game site with a difference. It allows users in particular cities to connect and share in a Facebook kinda way while, all the time, building their community. MayorVille is a new revolution in social networking based on cities instead of the individual, it allows users to connect and share while building and offering low cost advertising to their cities’communities. With a ... Read more
Second Life is an online virtual world developed in 2003 that has about a million active users. A number of free client programs, or Viewers enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. It's a phenomenon amongst a lot of people. Many of the game's users create elaborate avatars of their character in the game. 2ndMe offers a free real time service that transforms your simple photograph into a fully functioning 3D avatar to impress your gaming friends. 2ndMe (or Second Me) is an online service offering a real-time transformation of your simple photograph ... Read more
ilustrum is an online competitive and fun knowledge game that awards you free daily 'coins' which you can useto 'buy' trivia questions. When you answer a question correctly you can win up to three of the coveted ilustrums (or photos) depending on how quick on the draw you were when you answered the question. The point of the game is to collect all of the ilustrums into an album. ilustrum is a really cool and very competitive trivia game for you and your friends. Every day you connect you will get paid some sestertius (ilustrum currency). The higher your ... Read more
It's a great way to start your day. To open up your emails and find something that stimulates you, inspires you and gets your mind going first thing in the morning. QuoteSecret is an inspirational and fun knowledge app that sends out daily emails with uplifting and thought provoking epithets from some of the wisest people in the world. There are plenty of inspirational quotes sites out there but QuoteSecret differs from the others. To help you comprehend the true meaning behind the words of wisdom QuoteSecret includes an inspiring question that will help you to understand it better. ... Read more
Here’s a crowdsourcing advice site that seems to have every possible charging opportunity covered. Read more
I’m sure there is a great feeling to be had when you unclutter your life and get some organization back into your world. The amount of stuff we all accumulate over the years is staggering and most of it suffers the same fate as your CD collection. If I had a dollar for every time I said “right, I’m going to put you in alphabetical order by artist and at the same time catalogue you”, I’d be able to pay someone else to do it! Read more
If you’re looking at making credit card and bank account comparisons outside of your own country then you’ll know that the web has historically been a little lacking in its ability to provide this information. Read more