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Have you ever tried to hunt down a great steakhouse in Dallas that also spins hip hop?  How about a hotel in Miami that only uses red sheets and has a 13th floor?  Well, Circos may just help you find a restaurant or hotel that caters to your bazaar requests.    Circos is a “me-centric” search engine that lets you choose every last detail that’s important to you in a restaurant or hotel.  You can request everything from the type of food to the ambiance.  Circos will crawl the web to find the perfect match.  It searches through blog posts, review sites, and forums and presents you with a list of results – each one having a “report card” grading how well each term you chose is matched.  You can compare each result to find one in a specific neighborhood or within your price range.  Circos is currently only available in 16 major cities but does have plans to expand beyond restaurants and hotels in the future.  Here’s my screencast tour of Circos:

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SproutBuilder helps you create a slick flash widget, called a Sprout, that you can publish on almost any web page.  These Sprouts can be pages and pages long and include things like YouTube videos, Feed Readers, music, photos, Yahoo! Maps, almost anything you can think of.  You can link various items on your Sprout to different URLs and anyone that views it, can publish it too.  Any time you update your Sprout it will automatically update – no matter where it is.  I’m telling you, it’s exciting.  It took up a lot of my evening last night and some of my morning today.  To see an example of a Sprout, check out Marshall’s post here.  To see how to make one, check out my screencast tour of SproutBuilder here:

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