links for 2007-10-31

• FreeRice
  Fantastic vocabulary building site that donates ten grains of ric for every word you get correct. If you look at the totals per day it is really scaling.
  (tags: trends education games activism)
• Web Marketing to a Segment Too Big to Be a Niche
  very interesting looking site aimed at the 50 million plus disabled in the US
  (tags: social_media advertising)
• Flying Cart - Create an online store that promotes itself! eCommerce Web Site Development
  A colleague at iVillage started this storefront company and is now leaving to run it. Looks like nice easy to open e-commerce with some social elements.
  (tags: shopping startup)
• Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments
  Several startups vying to replace the comments functions on MT, Wordpress, etc. Soc nets, etc
  (tags: social_media blogging)
• Brijit - Great content in 100 words or less
  A site that abridges articles from the New Yorker, The Economist. I was going to start something a few years ago in newsletter form that did something like this. Wanted to give people the ability to seem brighter than they were at cocktail parties. Need to think about whether I would seek this site out. Still think I'd prefer a newsletter digest.
  (tags: blogging business journalism)
• Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook - New York Times
  I like the name Open Social
  (tags: social_media facebook google)