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Month: November, 2008

Where the wind blows

22 November, 2008 (17:50) | Sports, Travels | By: pooq

(Screenshot of http://www.windfinder.com)

There are many weather forecasts in the Internet, which give general information of a region. Windfinder (http://www.windfinder.com) provides data of single meteriological stations and is specialized on wind data.
With the simple search options it is easy to find the spot of choice quickly. There is are several datsets for a single region in [...]

The knowledge of the masses

2 November, 2008 (14:13) | Internet | By: pooq

(Screenshot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) is an online encyclopedia where each reader might act like an editor or author at the same time. This lead to Wikipedia having a very large portfolio of recent articles which are offered to the visitors.
The principle Wikipedia uses is practicable in the Internet only: concentrating the knowledge of many people [...]