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Badoo is a place to meet singles online create a multilog, or a “multimedia log”. To get started, you need to answer profile questions and then you can start uploading videos or photos and writing blog posts. Every time you add something to your multilog you’re given the option to send out notifications to friends and family about your new post and you can set strict privacy levels to each post. Uploading one of my screencasts only took about 2 minutes and I like that I can keep certain posts password protected. There’s another side to Badoo, though. When you click on your contacts, your immediately shown a list of every person that has viewed your profile. When you view someone’s profile, they’ll know it. You can immediately start chatting with these freaks other community members and they’ll expect you to give them your email address and they may tell you repeatedly how beautiful you are. You can also search for people on Badoo and narrow it down to find singles in your area with a specific body type and hair color. Is it a social network, a place to blog, or a dating service? I suppose you’ll have to decide how you want to use Badoo, should you decide to do so. Update: Upon further investigation of the site, I found that you can rate members photos (basically if you think they’re hot or not) and I had a ton of disturbing IM’s waiting for me. I’m sure there are plenty of people who’ll flock to Badoo for these reasons alone, but I won’t be back. I think they’re sneakily misrepresenting themselves. Here’s my screencast tour of Badoo:

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(source: Go2Web20)

Hopefully if you’ve decided to take on the task of preparing a Thanksgiving feast for your nearest and dearest, you’ve already planned out your menu.  But if you have someone like me in your family (a pain in the ass vegetarian) or if you’ve been asked to bring a side dish or dessert, you may need some ideas on what to prepare.

FamilyOven is a great place to start your search.  It indexes recipes from popular sites like Allrecipes and RecipeZaar and includes recipes submitted by the FamilyOven community.  You can browse by category, popular tag, or ingredient.  There’s a Digg-like feature called “chomp it” which basically means that you like the recipe.  When something is “chomped” it gets placed higher up on the result pages.  You can create a custom URL for your profile so your friends and family can easily find all of the recipes you submit and store.  At first glance, FamilyOven may look just like an ordinary recipe sharing and discovery site, but it really is a one stop spot to find and compare recipes from all of the best sites.  Here’s my screencast tour of FamilyOven:

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