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(Burlington Times) Just in time for the week of July 4, Alamance County has officially launched the Online War Memorial. Included on the online memorial are: Photographs of all of the names of the men and women who died in the service of their country. We’ve also typed out the names so that users who may use assistance software will be able to “see” the names with their screen readers. Brief histories of all of the conflicts represented on the wall. A “virtual” war memorial – a flash-based online viewer that allows viewers to use a “magnifying glass” to see the names on the memorial.
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(ABC News) Whether it’s your own personal life or the latest celebrity gossip, it’s no secret that everyone likes to talk. The advent of the Internet — along with blogs, instant messenger programs and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace — has made doing just that even easier.
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I can’t believe that it’s been a month since our debut at Next Web in Amsterdam. The time has flown past and the site is evolving into a home for many of us.
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It would appear that Neopets, has started selling virtual items on their website. Neopets is the busiest gaming site on the internet with 12 million visitors a month, and it is mostly aimed at the tween market.
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(Winston-Salem Journal) Strangers all over the world felt Jacob’s death. They were connected through the Web site that Heather Duckworth started through CaringBridge a few months after Jacob’s diagnosis. She wrote of doctor visits, hospital stays, endless treatments and hopeful months of remission. She posted family photos, Bible verses, personal reflections. Keyboard therapy, she called it. Thousands responded. They wrote notes of encouragement, offered prayers and shared challenges of their own in the site’s guestbook. Even after Jacob died, the posts continued. The site had become a meeting place of hope, then grief, then healing.
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