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If you have children under the age of 12 and you’re always concerned that they’re going to accidentally access some sleazy website, then Glubble may be the answer you’ve been looking for.

Glubble is a Firefox extension that allows you to create separate accounts for you and all of your children to use while browsing the Internet. When your child logs in they’ll have their own Glubbleworld to protect them from the nonsense that sometimes finds its way onto your home computer. While you have free reign, your kids can only access pre-approved sites. If there’s a site that they think you’d let them visit then they can send you a quick request and the next time you log onto Firefox you can approve or deny their request.

Let me just add that this really is for kids under the age of 12. A lot of the sites are something a 12 year old would probably laugh at and kids are getting wiser by the minute – why not just pull up IE? BUT, I do think that it’s something that will be useful to someone who has youngsters that like to play around on harmless sites and you won’t have to worry about them clicking on something you don’t want them to see. Here’s my screencast tour of Glubble:

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Mashable.com, a popular social networking news blog, has launched their own social network.  Features include profile customization, the ability to add links to other social networks you belong to, browsing by photos and tags, and more.  It’s still in its early stages but this article notes that “soon we’ll give you a reason to stick around”.  As an avid reader of Mashable I decided to give it a spin last week and today I thought I’d share it with the rest of you.  Here’s my screencast tour of the Mashable social network:

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Fliva gives you a way to share your personality, in the form of a Q&A widget, on your blog or favorite social networking site. It’s seriously easy to use and looks pretty too. All you need to do is sign up and answer whatever questions you want to share. Fliva gives you the code and a link for your widget. That’s all there is to it. Here’s my screencast tour of Fliva:

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(source: Mashable)

Chime.tv gives you a place to watch a stream of videos on channels “hand picked by humans”. You can also search chime.tv for videos on YouTube, Veoh, Metacafe, and more and create channels to store your favorites. There’s also a chime.tv bookmarklet which allows you to instantly watch any video on another site on chime.tv. You can share your videos with friends but they have to be registered with chime.tv in order for that to happen – and that’s really the only thing I didn’t like. Here’s my screencast tour of chime.tv:

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(source:  TechCrunch)

ThumbStrip is a Firefox extension that, while enabled, takes screenshots of the web pages you visit. They’re displayed as a thumbnail slideshow at the bottom of your browser but you can easily hide it and ThumbStrip will continue to take screenshots without getting in your way. You can save your ThumbStrips into sets and browse through ThumbStrips that have been made public. Here’s my screencast tour of ThumbStrip:

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(source:  Download Squad)

Yahoo! Photos is closing their doors on Sept. 20, 2007.  After that, any photos that haven’t been moved will be deleted.  They have some suggestions on how and where to relocate your photos and this screencast sums it up for you:

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GoSasa helps you search for online classified listings, from multiple sites, in one place. I couldn’t find a list of the sites that GoSasa grabs results from but when I entered in my search it said it was searching through millions of listings. I would like the option to opt out of certain sites though. GoSasa also provides you with statistics about your search using SasaIndex. If you sign up for an account you can save your searches and set up an alert system and be emailed daily about listings that meet your search criteria. Here’s my screencast tour of GoSasa:

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Sk*rt is a place to discover and share news and links with other women. Yes, it’s Digg for the ladies. Oh, and according to their tagline, “And for the guys who want to get in their heads”. I decided to have a look at sk*rt yesterday and found myself finding some useful information. I also noticed it sucked me in with stories titled, “Find jeans that fit! (No, Really!)”. I didn’t find sk*rt to be too “girly” for me and I think some of you guys may actually benefit from reading some of the articles . Here’s my screencast tour of sk*rt:

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Do you have a favorite place to get breakfast or are your searching for a great record store in your neighborhood?  Well, with Tupalo, you can share these “spots” or find new spots in your area.  Once you create an account, which includes your location, you can add spots that you’d like to share, submit reviews, and even twitter a spot to your friends.

Tupalo is currently limited as far as cities and reviews but if you happen to live in Vienna, where I believe Tupalo is based, they’ve got a nice list of spots going right now.  Here’s my screencast tour of Tupalo:

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It kind of sounds like there should be an “Attack of the…” in front of PodcastPeople.  Wouldn’t that make a great B movie?  But alas, PodcastPeople is a web-based service that lets anyone create their own podcast or video shows.  You can upload your own media or use their online recording studio to create your show.  People can comment on your episodes and if you’re a paid member you can share in ad revenue.  There’s also a free account, which I signed up for, which gives you 100MB of storage a month.  Here’s my screencast tour of PodcastPeople:

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