Mashable has several interesting stories up today so we’re just going to run them down for you.
Billshare Lets You & Roomies Track Spending
Google Maps Adds Rush-Hour Time Estimates for Driving Directions
Mosio Launches Mobile Q&A
Footnote Providing Free Genealogy Records Online
Google Making a Free, Mobile GPhone?
Shoeboxed Handles Your Online Shopping Docs
Similpedia is a new search engine that searches Wikipedia exclusively. You have to enter a url or a paragraph of information for it to work; just a phrase won’t do it. I’d rather it search for any thing including a single term, but it could still have its uses.
Read the Mashbable review.
Postful offers a way to send snailmail letters without ever leaving your computer. Starting at $.99 a letter, it seems to be for the lazy to me, but here you go: Postful. Read/Write Web has a review up.
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Information Architects Japan provides 
a diagram of “the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective” with their Web Trend Map. It’s available for download as a wallpaper or as a clickable online version. The clickable version is quite nice.
Major webcasters of music around the…uh…web have gone silent today “in a unified effort to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country’s Internet radio industry.”
Looking for more applications to enhance your Web 2.0 life? Simple Spark is a good place to start. This new website provides a breakdown of web applications in the following categories: Media, Living, Office, Organization, Travel, Marketplace, and Finance.
Webware, a CNET site, has announced the results of their poll to determine the “top 100 Webware sites for 2007.”
I didn’t participate in the poll but thought I would take a quick look to see which of these sites/tools I use.
So obviously there is a lot more stuff out there that I should check out. And of course, there is other stuff I am using that didn’t make the top of the list. We’ll be talking about all of that in the days ahead. So what are you using?
Mashable
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