"PASADENA, California -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Drawing on observations from NASA's Mars missions, the "Be a Martian" Web site will enable the public to participate as citizen scientists to improve Martian maps, take part in research tasks, and assist Mars science teams studying data about the Red Planet...." ☺☼☺ ( Mars.Jpl.Nasa.gov)

"Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos...." ☺☼☺ ( Clicker.com)

"Their set of easy-to-use, customizable online greeting cards has just gotten bigger with 3 new additions of Christmas cards, a huge selection of characters and background music to choose from plus of course the option to include personalized messages. One of its latest cards is Christmas With The Stars. Appropriately imitating and spoofing Hollywood icons and legends, this animated card allows you to transform you and your friends into dancing celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley. Another is the techno-inspired Dancing Christmas Toys. This card is set up in a Santa’s workshop where familiar entertainment figures are showcased and spoofed. The user will get the chance to be Captain Jack Sparrow, Betty Boop, Wonder Woman, Spiderman or Anakin Skywalker after uploading his/her photo. Last one is the Wild West Christmas. Having the Great Plains as a backdrop, the user can have a lot fun having his/her headshot placed on dancing cowboy or cowgirl to the tune of a very funky music..." ☺☼☺ ( CardFunk.com)

"Share you photos - see the world. It's free to use unlimited space. User Accounts will be enabled back soon..." ☺☼☺( ImageVat.com)

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages."What Image Swirl does is it really organizes automatically image search results into groups and sub-groups," Google product manager Aparna Chennapragada told AFP."It's not just the face, the color, the visual features of the images; we look inside the image and ask how they relate to each other on a pixel level." Swirl uses algorithms, metadata, and facial recognition software to distinguish between structures, places, people, and even time of day in digital images." ☺☼☺ ( Google.com)

"Olivier Otten is behalve multimediaal ontwerper bij Holland Interactive en Toxit, ook veejay bij Major League en docent aan de Willem de Kooning Academie. Een greep uit de projecten waarbij hij was of is betrokken: selfcontrolfreak.com, de Viewmaster van VPRO’s 3voor12, de (on)geloofstest van Villa Achterwerk, visual-power.com en Raise It Up, een educatief architectuurproject." ☺☼☺( DigiDicht.nl) + ( Oli4.com)

"22tracks is a jukebox consisting of 22 playlists in different genres, each filled with 22 tracks, selected by specialized DJ's from Amsterdam....." ☺☼☺ ( 22Tracks.nl) + Venz.org & Venour.com

"Met een enthousiaste redactie, gastschrijvers en trendspotters in het buitenland voorzien wij jou iedere dag van inspirerende en informerende artikelen waarbij een kritische blik zeker niet wordt geschuwd! Het resultaat is het leukste online magazine op het gebied van interieur, design en lifestyle...." ☺☼☺ ( Gimmii.nl)

"A problem facing the regular Internet user today is how to keep track of information and bits of information found on the Internet. Current solutions such as (social) bookmarks do provide only partial and unsatisfactory solutions. Example: The bookmarked URL is no longer valid. Our system, called memonic.com, helps you to remember the relevant parts of information you come across: The tool lets you easily collect all the important pieces of information during your day/work. Once collected you are able to access your knowledge in a natural, contextual and visual way anywhere and anytime on any device. You may easily organize your items and either import them effortlessly to a number of other applications or simply distribute and share them with your colleagues/friends...." ☺☼☺ ( Memonic.com)

"London-based toon shop 12foot6, founded by Dave Anderson and Tom Mortimer, is gearing up to bring more howling entertainment to fans who were won over by their viral Virgin Mobile campaign, Dog Judo, by hosting a new series of shorts online at www.dogjudo.com......" ☺☼☺ ( AnimationMagazine.net)