Cool things from Mashable.com today

http://creator.zoho.com/index.jsp?targetURL=%2Fhome.do
Zoho database creator.  “Create Online DAtabase Applications in minutes”.  Looks pretty cool.  See a demo video:

http://co.mments.com/  co.mments – track your conversations on multiple sites.

http://www.openads.org/  OpenAds – an open source ad server.

http://www.foonz.com/
“Start a group call, anytime, from any phone, for free!”  – Sounds like something worth checking out.

C# – Creating a stream from a string

Ok.  I’m a .net newbie (have been for the past few years.)  But now I’m going to get passed all that, buckle down and learn it inside out.

One of the challenges that I have is some things require a “stream”.  So, you have a value in a variable but you can’t use it because it isn’t a stream. 

Well, finally got the solution to the problem:

StringReader strReader = new StringReader(stringVal);

Simple enough.  StringReader is a stream, and it takes a string value.

I got this solution from: http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/09/23/233535.aspx

Need to check out TED.com

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It started out as a yearly conference back in 1984. It is a place for thinkers to get together, some of which are selected to give up to a 18 minute speech. You had to actually attend the conference before, but now you can watch the shows on ted.com

 Here are some speechs that I have watched that I think are worth watching:

Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight (video)

Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child (video)

Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let’s build a health care system in Rwanda (video)

Ben Saunders: Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole (video)

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